Straight Ball Flight - Advanced Breakdown

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Okay, so now in this class, we're going to cover going through how to hit the

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ball straight

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or how to deliberately curve it the way that you want to with a little bit more

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detail.

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So in the first round as we went through, I give you more just kind of

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awareness drills,

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use a lot of visual stations.

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In this level, we're going to talk a little bit more about the specific

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movements.

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I highly recommend if you're struggling with ball flight, you try one of those

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stations

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first and if you can figure it out, great, remember, the less detail at least

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initially

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that you, the less detail you need to know, the more resilient or the easier it

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'll be

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for it to show up.

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But if you get stuck or if you want to truly master it, having the details

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helps a lot.

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So when it comes to hitting the ball straight, there's really only three

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options.

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If we eliminate the target, then the ball is either going to go straight, which

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would

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happen if the face and path are matching, or it's going to curve off to the

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right, which

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would happen if the face is pointing to the right of the path, or it's going to

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curve

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to the left if the face is pointing to the left of the path.

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How much it curves will have a strong correlation to how much the face is

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either open or close.

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In general, you can either work on the motorcycle movement and in this level,

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we'll look at

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the left hand and how it does the motorcycle early, medium, or late.

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So the whole downswing, how the motorcycle takes place.

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Or you can do it more with the trail, so you got to investigate to figure out

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which arm

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is actually preventing the club face from closing.

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Or if it's closing too much, that is an option.

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You could be closing it too fast as a common problem.

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We can revisit the heel toe same, or heel toe square, basically revisit how

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well can

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I control these three.

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If I'm doing the fun thing about club face control is you really only have a

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couple options.

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You have what are the risks doing and what grip did you set up with.

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So I'll show you a more systematic way to work through your grip changes, how

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to look

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at it on video to decide should I change my grip or should I just work on the

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movements

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in the release.

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And then lastly, the shaft lean or the further you come down the arc or the

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further you are

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up the arc, that's going to have an impact on the club face control as well.

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So if I bring up the hula hoop, the more that the club, let me grab the club

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pad.

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So as the club is coming down the arc, it's naturally going to have a little

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bit of club

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face rotation.

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So the earlier in the arc, the club face is typically going to be pointing a

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little bit

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more to the right or open.

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And as it comes through, it's going to be pointing more to the left or close.

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So as it travels down the arc, you are going to naturally get a little bit more

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closing

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of the face to path relationship.

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In large part because the weight is not in the axis of the shaft.

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And so the earlier I hit it back here, it's going to tend to be more open.

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And so that's how having shaft lean, shaft lean essentially hits it earlier in

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the arc.

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Shaft lean prevents the face from closing or opens it by moving it further back

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along

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the track.

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Having a lack of shaft lean gets the club face to close, but that has a

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negative impact

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on our low point control.

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So you can try out if you're really struggling with dialing in the face just

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from the more

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constraint led or the more exploratory drills that we had in level one, here we

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're going

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to get into a little bit more details of how you can influence the face.

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Okay, so now we're going to revisit the grid and look at the other two

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directions.

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So we were looking in the first, in class number five, when we were looking at

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low point

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control, we were looking at moving it linearly, moving the ground contact this

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way.

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Now we're looking at the diagonals or the path of the club.

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Ultimately, if you have control of the club head and you can get it to move in

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either

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direction forward, backward, you can pretty much master any shot or at least

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get solid

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contact with your iron play.

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And usually with your driver as well, you can master those things relatively to

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a pretty

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good level.

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Nobody's ever totally mastered golf, which you can get really good if you can

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move your

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contact around and move your path around.

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So in this round or in this class, we're going to talk about my favorite ways

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to make the

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path go more into out.

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If you struggle with getting steep, if you struggle with slicing ball, you need

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more

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of these, we'll also talk about how to move more outside in.

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If you struggle with hooking the ball, if you struggle with low point control

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getting

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too far back, you probably need some of these.

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So we'll also revisit the video analysis so that you can identify which pieces

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you need

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the most.

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Okay.

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So the big movements that move the path more to the right are either things

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that are going

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to take the hula hoop and actually shift it this way.

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That makes it go more to the right.

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Or anything that moves the contact location further up on the arc moves it more

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to the

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right.

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That's why the golfers who really slice the ball, they swing outside in, and

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they hit

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it on the way up, those both have an impact for making it move to the left,

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moving the

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path more outside in anyway.

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Okay, so everything that we're going to do to move the path to the right is

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either hitting

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it earlier in the arc or tilting the hula hoop more to the right.

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So the big ones that are going to move the path more to the right are side tilt

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and shoulders

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staying close to the target.

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So side tilt is basically getting more of this axis tilt this way.

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In this case, either doing it just from the spine or doing it from the spine in

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the hips

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will help move the path more into out.

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Remember, that moves the low point backward though, so we don't have to balance

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it.

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Same thing with shoulders close.

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In fact, everything that moves the path more to the right will move the low

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point backward.

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So that's just something to factor in.

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That's why it's a lot of really good drivers of the golf ball swing more into

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out because

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you actually want the low point behind the golf ball.

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Okay, so shoulders closed to the torso.

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So the more that my body is rotated kind of like this as I approach impact,

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that's going

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to tend to help get its swinging in out the more that the upper body is on top

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of or rotated

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past the lower body, that's going to tend to make it swing more out to end.

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So shoulders closed.

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Spine extension, when I tend to stand up, that usually causes the club to drop

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a little

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bit more from the inside because it tends to get the club lowering like so.

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It is possible that I could stand up and throw, but those kind of work on

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different movement

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chains so that doesn't happen very often.

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What usually happens is I stand up and the club gets dropped a little bit more.

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So it tends to shallow things out.

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The big ones from the arm, those were mostly from the body.

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The big ones from the arms are going to be arm shallowing or rotation.

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The more that the arms lift, that actually causes the club to drop a little bit

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behind.

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So especially on the way through, golfers who tend to pull down, will tend to

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get outside

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in and steep, and golfers who tend to have a little bit more of this arm lift

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on the way

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through tend to get more shallow.

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Getting the weight forward is one of the ones that can have a double benefit of

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moving the

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swing forward as well as hitting it earlier in the arc.

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The biggest issue I see with golfers who move the weight forward is either they

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're not getting

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enough kind of body shallowing or bracing during the release, or they have a

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hard time

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closing the face to path, and so they end up hitting a lot of shots off to the

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right.

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But that's a big one for improving the path as well as low point.

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And then of course getting more shaft lean, so some of the things that we did

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in the single

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arm drills that helped delay the release of that trail arm helped move the path

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more to

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the right.

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Things that move the path more to the left, again, would be either anything

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that causes

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me to hit later in the arc, so on this part of the hula hoop, on the way up, or

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anything

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that shifts it to the left like so.

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So the big one, or big ones, the arms pulling down more of a chop pattern kind

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of like this.

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So if I get that trail arm rotating and pulling down, or that lead arm pulling

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behind those

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have a huge impact in moving the path outside in and getting steep.

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If I get no shaft lean, so some golfers who kind of hang back or have a really

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big flip,

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it becomes very hard for them to get the width on the other side of the golf

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ball, it becomes

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very hard for them to get the path out inside out.

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So oftentimes they will have more toe contact and bigger slice patterns.

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Upper body spin would be basically not getting enough of this tilt.

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So the more that the upper body kind of catches up and passes the lower body,

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especially if

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it's happening from the shoulder blades and the shoulder griddle like that,

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that tends

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to get things working outside in.

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That can happen either early in transition or down during the release, but

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either way

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it's going to tend to cause the path to be left through the ball.

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And then the one that is actually, hey, we like having some of these, the more

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that the

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upper body stays down, that's going to tend to get the path swinging a little

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bit more

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to the left.

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So if you're looking at yourself on video and you're reading your ball flight

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and you're

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having a hard time getting one side of the equation or the other, this gives

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you a little

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bit more options as you'll, or options of how to solve it.

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Now what you'll see is there's more options to move the path to the right and

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that's because

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in general golfers struggle with having the path more to the left.

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But every golfer is different, so you need to look at your individual feedback

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so that

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you know which one of these to apply.

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But as you try out these drills, you'll see instantly which ones help you the

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most.

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And those are ones you want to write down in your journal as far as these could

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be really

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helpful, really useful patterns for me to work on for my long-term swing

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improvement.

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Okay, so real quick summary of my favorite drills and my favorite ideas for

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working on

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the path moving out to in, into out, my favorite rightward path drills are

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getting delivery

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positions so that the club is far enough behind.

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Working on the arm shallowing, working on the unhinging, those are really

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powerful for

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getting the club to shallow out from a body perspective, getting more of this

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Jackson 5

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or more of the head on the pillow in the follow through, basically staying in

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that side bend

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as you go through, those are huge for moving the path into out.

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If you slice and your body pivot is way out of position, it's really hard to

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get the arms

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to do just enough.

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The other one is making sure that the arms are extending later and a little

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higher as

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opposed to the arms bending and finishing really low.

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For the golfers who struggle with hooking the ball, because the path is too

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rightward

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or if you struggle with your wedges, because the path is too rightward, working

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on eliminating

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your early extension, so maintaining your posture.

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That could be related to how you're squaring the face as you saw in the video,

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or that

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could be just a power source or pattern type thing.

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Getting more body rotation or just continuing the pivot into this good bracing

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position

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into the follow through, those are huge for getting the arm path to work a

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more left instead of swinging way out to the right.

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And then the last one is we'll have a video to help you understand this steep

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early shallow

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late.

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A lot of golfers who get steep early as a powerful movement then have to

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balance it out by shallowing

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late and as they get shallowing late, it becomes really hard to control the

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face and it becomes

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really hard to knock at the path, zooming too much into out.

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Sometimes you'll struggle with kind of a block hook and a lot of thin shots.

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Face the path, I want to kind of master the curve by dialing in the motorcycle,

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getting

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a gradual face closing the whole downswing, happening either from the left or

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the right

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or both.

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I can train that with the heel toe or matched up or heel toe square and if I'm

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working on

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the wrist movements and I just can't get enough of the club face control from

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just the wrist

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movements, then I'm going to work on my grip changes.

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Okay, so as low point control is the key to solid contact, mastering your face

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is the key to mastering the straight shot.

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To train it, you want to use visual stations to help you calibrate and if you

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really struggle

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with overcoming a specific pattern, then you have to dig into some of the

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details of how

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your body is actually doing that pattern.

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So what are the actual movements and the key movements that control this path

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relationship?

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So this is a little bit more detailed for these two.

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In the next round of classes, in the next four classes, we're going to go

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through troubleshooting

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your common problems with low point control, path control, driver versus iron,

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as well

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as sequencing.