Controlling Direction - Swing Analysis

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Okay, when it comes to analyzing your video for ball flight, we're primarily

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going to

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look at it from down the line.

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So basically, you're going to have the camera set up behind as if we were

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hitting here into

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the monitor.

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For the contact or solid contact, we were primarily looking at face-on.

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Now we're looking at down the line or DTL.

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If you ever see that on the site, it means down the line.

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We're going to look primarily from P6 to P8 again.

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So basically, from when the club is parallel here in the downswing, to when the

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club is

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parallel here in the follow-through.

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We will have checkpoints for looking at the path based on the club head

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location.

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So is it out there compared to the hands inside or even with where is it here

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in this first

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checkpoint and then where is it in this second checkpoint?

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That will give us a good indicator as far as the rough pattern for the path.

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And then face the path, we can look at where is this club head in space.

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We've got videos to go through a little bit more details there.

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So your first checkpoint is the path and the club face in a good position here

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at P6.

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And then that tells you what was happening, you know, previous to it.

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So did I mess it up in the backswing or in transition?

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If it's in a good position there, but I'm still struggling with getting the

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ball flight

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I want, then it's usually more of a release error happening from there to

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impact.

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And that'll show up primarily between this P6 and P8 position.

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Now the one thing that you can look at from face on view is looking at shaft

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lean.

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And one of the videos you will understand that having the shaft lean back helps

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a lot

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of golfers close the face.

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So if you look at the down the line video and you're trying to understand the

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ball flight,

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you have to understand that having, looking at it from face on, if you see a

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big scoop

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like this, that is going to make the path go more out to end or to the left.

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And that's going to close the face.

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So if you were in a really open position there, but then hit a lot of poles, it

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largely means

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that it's a release error.

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So by using those couple different positions, we can diagnose what's going on.

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Is it more of a path issue or more of a face issue?

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When we circle back to this in the later rounds, we will dig into how to change

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those even

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better, but I want to make sure that you at least understand what kind of

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category you

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fit in and how it fits into the big picture.

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As the quick summary about ball flight training, you've got couple major

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variables, the path

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of the club as well as the face to path.

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The ball starts wherever the face is pointing at impact and then it curves

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based on the

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face to path relationship.

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You want to learn to control each one of those variables in order to master

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ball flight.

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The big factors are if you're trying to control the face, it really comes down

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to how did

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I grip the club and then what type of movements are my arms and my hands doing

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and how much

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shaft lean do I have.

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So those influence where the club face is pointing at impact.

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When it comes to the path, you want to figure out, well, was it more of a

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transition issue

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or was it more of a release issue?

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You can use that by looking at where is the club or club head at P6 as well as

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P8 and

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then kind of factoring in the rest of the swing to how it fits into that

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overall puzzle.

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Now in the next class, we're going to talk about adjusting the swing for the

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driver versus

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iron because you may find that sometimes you're driver great, sometimes you hit

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your

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irons great, but oftentimes it's not on the same day or you might, most days I

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hit my

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irons great, but I don't drive it very well or vice versa.

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So in the next section, we're going to talk about how you have to adjust your

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swing for

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the different clubs and that will help you understand and master this face to

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path as

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well as low pulling control even more.