Low Point - Troubleshooting Solid Contact

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All right, so welcome to round three.

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Now we're going to jump into troubleshooting your common problems.

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The first piece that we're going to look at is troubleshooting your low point

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control.

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So hopefully, as you've gone through these drills, your low point control has

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improved

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and you've understood it better, but sometimes you can have some conceptual

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issues that might

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prevent you from mastering it.

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And so in this level, we're going to go through some more drills and some more

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videos to kind

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of help you overcome your issues as well as dialing in or understanding some of

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these

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key concepts.

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So let's just go through a few of the key low point control killers and that'll

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help

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you kind of go into the videos over on the right with a more of a kind of a

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clear concept

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of what we're hoping to achieve.

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If you're struggling with low point, it usually happens from one of two things.

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Either the location is off.

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So the circle is more forward backward or the overall depth is off.

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So you could have, if I had the ball, let's say here, this would be a good shot

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But if I had the low point way down this far into the ground, you could see

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that this would

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have hit the ground maybe way back here.

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Or if I had the depth way up here, I would have topped the ball.

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So in some cases, it's not just looking at the location of where you're making

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contact.

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It's also looking at the depth that the clubhead is going into the ground.

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And that's where looking at the high to low versus low to high or this flat

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spot that we

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talk about where we're getting more of this brushing instead of stabbing can be

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really

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useful.

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Anytime we're struggling with low point, I always start with this impact line

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or the

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low point line to get a simple diagnostic as far as why am I struggling with

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contact.

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If everything looks good and I'm struggling with contact, then it's probably

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more of this

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height relationship.

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But if too many elements are behind the line or if one element is way behind

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the line,

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then that's going to mess up your contact as well.

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So with the advanced, we're still coming back to the same idea.

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It's either a pivot problem or it's an arm release problem.

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Well, with the arm releases, I get a lot out of doing the single arm drills.

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But sometimes you have a hard time making the same pattern in the single arm

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drills that

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you do when you put two hands on.

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So I have some what I call bridge drills, which are kind of filling in the gaps

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So the shadow and the supported drills are kind of getting the hands closer to

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working

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together but not quite intertwining them into your normal grip.

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That can be really helpful if you have like an underlying arm issue or

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especially the

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shadow drills will help if your pivot totally changes when you do those single

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arm drills.

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The rest of them are looking at more what's going on with your body.

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So if you look at video and you are struggling with either early extension or

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too much slide

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or too much hangback, or if the sequence is all arms.

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So we've visited tempo once, we're going to come back to it here in the last

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class.

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But if your sequence is all arms, it becomes hard to get the bottom of the

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swing forward

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and make real solid contact.

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And then the last one that is a really common problem is if the shoulder blades

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allow the

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arms to get more behind your body, then typically when they catch up, you're

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going to have a

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lot of depth issues and you're going to have a lot of club face control issues.

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So if you're struggling with both club face control as well as contact control,

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then it's

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usually related to the arms and the body kind of being connected or being in

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sync.

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If you're struggling with just one, then it's probably one of more of these

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first videos

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that we're going to look at.

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So if you're struggling with low point, watch the video analysis video again to

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learn how

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to diagnose what's going on.

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If you've tried the basic drills, then some of the advanced ones might be the

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key to unlocking

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your specific issues.

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So keep the whole framework in mind, in the next class, we're going to go into

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troubleshooting

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the most common issues for hitting the ball straight or controlling your face

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or controlling

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your path.