Tilt Station

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This is the tilt station.

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So the tilt station is great for working on axis tilt, your driver versus iron,

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where

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you want your body in space.

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So there are two big masses in your body, your lower body, your pelvis, and you

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got your

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upper body, or your rib cage, or your chest.

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So the tilt station helps you differentiate between a driver, where you want

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your upper

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body tilted behind to an iron where you want your upper body more covering.

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So it's pretty simple to set up.

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I've got some teas on the ground here.

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So I've got the brown tee here, represents where my ball position will be.

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And then I have another tee that's about four to six inches, or about your

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driver head width

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behind.

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And then I've added a 3D spatial awareness element, so I've got this second

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alignment

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stick.

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And normally I would put some soft object on it, just to make it stand out.

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But it's a little windy today.

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So we'll see if it'll cooperate.

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So now I have another tee in line with the ball position, and you can see this

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isn't

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going to work.

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So you will be able to kind of visualize, or you'll see the orange stick.

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But normally I have it extending all the way, so that it's actually physically

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more in my

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field of view.

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So with the driver, I'm going to set up so that my ear is basically in line

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with this

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alignment stick, even though the ball position is going to be in line with my

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left foot.

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So yes, I want your ball position forward, but I want to have a little bit of

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this tilt

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of your upper body behind the ball.

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This helps create more of this flat spot, so that I can sweep the ball off the

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tee rather

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than hit down onto it.

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Now with the iron, I'm going to keep the same ball position, but now I'm going

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to make sure

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that my head is ahead of the stick instead of behind it.

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This will be easier because my stance will be a little bit narrower with the

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iron, rather

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than with the driver.

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So I keep the extra teas there just so when I hit the ball off the tee, it's

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easy to recreate

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or reset up the station.

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And you can either, if you're struggling with one versus the other, you can

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either hit a

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bunch of the one that you're struggling with, or if you're getting more

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proficient, you want

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to work on your skills while you're putting in reps.

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You can go back and forth hitting driver, then iron, working on tilt.

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The most common problems I see with the driver are either A, you lose sight of

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this and everything

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gets on top of it, from a tilt perspective, or B, you keep your upper body

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behind it,

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but your lower body stays behind it as well.

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And when everything stays behind it, you can see as I swing, I tend to cut more

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across

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it and I tend to swing down into the ball.

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So the goal is the lower body at impact is going to be over that front foot

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while the

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upper body is far enough back, just like so.

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With the iron, you're going to want both on top of the lower body or ahead of

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the alignment

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stick.

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Okay, so now we'll demo a couple where we're going kind of back and forth.

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So here I've got my head positioned behind this alignment stick, and then I can

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see it

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out of my peripheral, I'm going to make sure that my upper body stays behind.

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Now first, I'm going to do more of a nine to three version, so I'm just going

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to get

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used to the lower body being forward, the upper body being back as my arms

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extend.

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I actually want the furthest point where my upper body is the most back to be

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in that

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follow through position or at the end of my release.

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So we'll build on it and go into bigger swings, but we'll start with nine to

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three, jump to

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ten to two, and then up to full swing.

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Okay, so now we're going to do the ten to two version.

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So all set up, staying behind, lower body gets forward.

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That was a little bit bigger in the follow through than ten to two, but that

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was pretty

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good to my ten to two backswing or three quarter backswing.

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And I felt like I did a good job of staying back as a release.

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It was a really good sweeping nice ball flight.

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So now that I've done it in the two kind of warm up versions or the two build

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up versions

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of the swing, next we're going to do the full swing.

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So now I'm going to, I'm not necessarily going to swing full, I'm still going

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to stay in kind

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of more of a training like 80% tempo, but I am going to take more of a full

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length back

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swing and focus on, even though I'm going to shift or do a little bit of that

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Jackson

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five bump, I'm going to make sure that my upper body doesn't go past this

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alignment

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six.

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So even with it.

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And so that felt like I stayed behind it.

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I could confirm on video to check and see when I did or to make sure that I did

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.

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What will happen is once I get past this point, the momentum of the club will

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pull me forward.

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And so it can be for golfers who have a tendency to get more of this lunge

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ahead of the golf

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ball and struggle with angle of attack with the driver.

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I find doing the ten to two is where you're going to make sure you stay behind

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the whole

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time is almost more beneficial than when you're doing the full swing.

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Okay.

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So now we're going to go back and forth.

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So we're going to put driver down.

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We're going to keep the same ball position so that the stick works with the

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iron just

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like the driver.

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But now I'm going to try and stay ahead of the stick as I make my nine to three

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or ten

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to two swing.

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So now we'll do a little bit bigger.

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So I had a feeling of staying on top of it.

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Now we're going to go to the driver, tee it up in the same ball position.

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That way this stick will work as the same reference right about there.

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And now I'm going to try and stay behind it.

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So I just did one where I felt like I was on top.

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Now I'm going to do one where I feel like I'm behind, but my lower body is

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still going

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to get forward.

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So I'm going to be pre-setting that mentally, that mental checklist of what I'm

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trying

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to do during this driver swing.

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Tiny bit of toe contact, but pretty good ball flight, felt like I stayed behind

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Maybe didn't quite get the lower body dynamics that I was going for, but

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overall good position

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that definitely would have hit the fairway.

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So if you're struggling with either the dryer or the iron, this tilt station

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can help you

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get aware if the major issue is from your axis tilt, if it's not, then it could

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be related

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more to a pivot issue or more of a sequencing issue, and we'll explore those in

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some other

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video.