Visualizing face and path

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All right, in this concept video, we're going to look how swing path and club

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face are somewhat

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related.

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So I've got the giant clubface to make it a little bit easier to visualize this

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.

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So now we're going to revisit that look of the hula hoop and we're going to

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factor in

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that clubface control.

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So if the clubface stays square to the arc, it would look something like this.

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Well, the problem with that is that's going to only be pointing at the target

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when the

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club is straight up and down.

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If I then create some shaft lean, you can see how shaft lean causes the face to

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point a

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little bit further that way.

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So if my goal is to have 10 to 20 degrees of shaft lean and have the club in a

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position

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like this, I have to twist it in order to square it.

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Now I don't want to wait until the very last minute.

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I don't want to be coming into the golf ball like this and then try to twist it

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last minute

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because then I'm going to have too much timing or too much control issues.

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So instead, what I want to do is I want to do that motorcycle movement so that

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then as

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it comes down, it's already pointing because the bottom of the swing is a

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little bit ahead

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of the golf ball and I've twisted the club.

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It's going to look something like this where I have my shaft lean, but the club

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face is still

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pointing in the direction of the target and it's just going to have this

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gradual rotation

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as it comes through.

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Now I wanted to revisit this hula hoop to show because of the weighting of the

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club,

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because the clubhead is not in the exact same plane as the clubface, it's going

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to tend

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to have a little bit of clubface rotation as it moves down the plane.

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So the earlier I hit it in the arc, the more the clubface is going to be open

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and the later

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I hit it in the arc, the more the clubface is going to be closed.

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So a lot of golfers get the clubface square by hitting it really late in the

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arc.

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Problem is that with that is the later I hit it in the arc, the harder it is to

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get the

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low point forward.

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So hopefully this little visual helps you see, all right, that's not going to

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work because

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yes, I got the clubface pointing at the target, but the shaft is leaning

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backward and the

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club was coming up into the golf ball.

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Here's the visual I want you to have, I'm going to have the hand slightly

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forward, but

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the clubface turned.

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So that's going to deal off the club a little bit, which is going to help me

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compress the

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golf ball kind of like this, can help me hit golf ball first, all these things

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that really

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help with solid contact as well as clubface control.

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So if you're struggling with low point, double check the clubface and how it

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relates to

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the path, that may be the reason why you're struggling with contact or why you

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're struggling

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with direction.

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They usually go hand in hand.