Steep Early Shallow Late

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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the pattern of steep early

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shallow late.

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So a number of golfers fall in this pattern of steep early shallow late.

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And we'll talk about a couple different kind of variations of it.

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But the steep pattern early shallow late tends to be very frustrating in terms

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of club-based

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control and consistency.

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These golfers tend to complain of having bigger misses than someone who's a

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little bit more

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neutral in both phases.

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So steep early shallow late is referring to golfers who get steep during

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transition and

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then get excessively shallow late.

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And usually that pattern is with the arms.

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The arms have gotten steep early and then they get shallow late.

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So the classic way that this looks is from the down the line video camera.

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Either you'll see the plane get outside or you'll see things get really narrow.

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One way that you can kind of determine if you're falling into this pattern is

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if at

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delivery position the club is on plane but your body is in a very shallow

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position.

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So either really tilted or really closed but the club is on plane.

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Well, compared to my body the club is in a very steep position and it's

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compared to

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the body that really matters what's going to happen more down through the

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release.

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Because when you're in that really steep arm position then what happens is when

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you apply

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the shallowness late it prevents the club from rotating smoothly.

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Instead what it does is it causes the club to not really rotate a lot through

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this phase

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here and then rotate very quickly at the right through impact or very late.

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The other thing that can happen is that shallowness can cause the heel to go

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into the golf ball

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so I can get stuck with some shanks because of this shallow late pattern or

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some golfers

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get really the shallowness more from the body and that tends to throw the club

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path too

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much into out.

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So if you have let's say eight, nine, ten degrees inside out and all you do is

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hit nice

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draws but then on the course under pressure you tend to hit more big blocks or

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big hooks.

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That can happen because you're falling prey to this steep early shallow late

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pattern.

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So again it tends to look more like this like I've pulled down with the arms

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and even if

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the club is close to on plane if the body is overly shallow and I've created

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the power

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more with a steep pull down of the arms then I'm going to tend to have this

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shallow response

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late.

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So when you're working through that you'll want to revisit some of the release

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drills

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where we're focusing on having the arms preset in a more shallow position so a

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little bit

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more of that ulnar deviation or width and when I'm pre-setting in that shallow

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position

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then that allows me to turn my body and be steeper with my body because the

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club is

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in a little bit shallow position so the pattern that tends to be a little bit

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more consistent

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is getting shallow early with the arms and then steeper late with the body as

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opposed

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to getting steep with the arms early and then shallow with the arms or the body

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late.

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Now real quick I don't want to confuse steep in this sense with more outside in

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or over

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the top because sometimes it does happen that way where the steep pattern is

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over the top

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more from like a body spin and the plane gets shifted this way and then you

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have to try

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to shift it back this way down to the bottom.

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But what normally happens is the plane is okay but everything is really narrow

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like this

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and so because it's super narrow I would be steep coming into the ball and then

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I have

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to try to shallow it out late usually with throwing the arms excessive side

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bend or early

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extension those are all common ways that it might show up that you're extra

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shallow

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down at the bottom if that's the case then investigate if you're steep at the

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top.

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Either way I always recommend working through it is get better at a release

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that's from

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a shallow position with more of a body covering or steep body movement through

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the ball and

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then work on shallowing into that position to connect the dots.

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It's hard if you're used to being really shallow at the bottom it's hard to

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then add

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shallowness in transition without it getting too messy or too shallow down to

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the bottom.

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So this is a common pattern there's a few steps to work through the drills in

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this section

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that tend to help work with this pattern but in general we're trying to shallow

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out the

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arms so that we can be a little bit steeper with the body and then through

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impact continue

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the body moving continue the body in a steeper pattern.

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So hopefully this helps you diagnose if your big cause of a two way miss is

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from this common

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good player problem of getting really steep in transition followed by shallow

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late.

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Okay so let's take a quick look at a couple of those so steep to shallow.

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So steep early it's going to feel to me like I have to really from that steep

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position like

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I have to really throw the arms and kind of stand up or stand up or stall a

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little bit

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and you'll see I'm going to struggle a little bit more with my low point

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control.

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Now I'm going to try and reset it so I'm going to try to get a little bit more

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shallower early

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in transition and then feel like I continue rotating through during the release

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.

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So a little bit more shallow followed by good smooth body rotation that'll help

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give you

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a little bit more consistency of club face control as well as ground contact.