Discussing the 3 Consistency Keys

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this video is discussing the three consistency keys so virtually every golfer

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I've ever worked with expresses the desire to be more consistent right we

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all want to hit our more or good shots more often but oftentimes when I ask

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them

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well what does a consistent golf swing look like they they give me kind of a I

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don't know look and they'll start talking about their grip or their setup or

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their

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backswing or whatever so in this video I'm going to try to share with you the

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three keys that I look for when I'm looking at consistency and I'll try to

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tie in a few of the the big movements and how they relate to consistency as

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well

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as some of the kind of older old-school versions or old-school tips the golfers

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have used in order to develop more consistency and what it actually changes

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so the three keys in my mind to consistency are looking at a swing plane

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looking at low point control and looking at face-to-path relationship

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throughout the swing if you can master those three keys swing plane low point

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face-to-path you can usually develop a swing that produces relatively straight

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shots relatively solid contact relatively little curve and really that's the

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easiest shot or that's the most repeatable pattern that I found when most of my

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golfers golfers who struggle with either their swing plane or their low point

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control or their face control tend to be less consistent golfers who struggle

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with all three of those tend to be really inconsistent and tend to have very

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poor misses so in this video we'll just jump into each of those three keys the

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first one would be looking at swing plane so if we're looking from the down the

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line camera angle we're basically looking at from about waist height through

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waist height where is this club swinging is it swinging more along a path going

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out to the right like this is it swinging more along a path going out to in

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like

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that is it swinging along a path that's very vertical and up and down is it

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swinging along a path that's more shallow or more horizontal so all those

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factor

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into ideally what we're trying to create with our swing plane now I can't just

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stand here and give you a recipe like okay set up to the club and draw a line

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up the shaft that's exactly where you want it because that's not really how it

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works but it's important to understand that if you have a swing plane that's

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coming massively into out massively out to in is extremely flat on the way

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through

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or extremely upright on the way through unless you're hitting a club where you

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want that path it's gonna lead to inconsistency so somewhere around if you

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were to if you put the camera so that it's in line with the back of your hand

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from this down the line view and then you were to draw a plane there it'll

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typically be a little higher than where it was it set up and you can use that

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as

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a reference from about waist height through to about waist height if it

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follows pretty close to that path you'll tend to have straighter shots you'll

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try you'll tend to have less dramatic misses okay so that helps with more of

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the shape of the curve but that doesn't really help with solidness of contact

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especially with your second shots so you could be dead on plane and shoot a

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million because you hit a foot and a half behind the golf ball or you top the

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ball so that's where looking at the face on camera and looking at low point

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control is a big issue so from the face on camera now we're looking at low

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point

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control so now we're looking at the width of this circle along whatever path

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it's swinging on so I'm looking at is the circle centered here is the circle

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centered here is the circle centered here is it more of a squished circle like

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an ellipse or is it have a very pronounced kind of high to low contact a lot of

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golfers struggle with either getting the club to swing up really quickly or

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getting the club to swing very narrow on the way through golfers who tend to be

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more consistent with their long game tend to have a wider look through the

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follow through the component I measure on 3d is arc width and I find there's a

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high correlation between the arc width graph and a golfers perceived level of

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consistency so if I look at this face on view and it's got kind of a nice flat

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shallow bottom to the swing out in front of the golf ball and it's really wide

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and the down the line has a look that's pretty much on plane I'm probably going

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to be pretty consistent in terms of my solidness of contact now as far as the

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last look or last piece which is looking at more direction we're going to look

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at the face-to-path relationship so golfers who tend to be more consistent with

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their longer game tend to have a little bit faster closing the clubface early

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then a little bit slower or more gradual closing of the clubface late golfers

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who tend to struggle with start line so even if it looks like they're on plane

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and face on view isn't too bad then typically what will happen is the

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clubface comes in really open and then tries to square up very late the rare

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exception it will come in very closed and then use some type of chicken wing

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hold-off move on the way through to open it back up but that typically will

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show up from the face-on view so if you're if you're really struggling with

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consistency take a look at these three elements so look at swing plane because

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that's absolutely related to consistency of all flight look at low point

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control

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and how the arms are either widening or if they're narrowing and look at the

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clubface control we'll do a little 9 to 3 where we try to focus on face control

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swing plane and wide point so the three keys to consistency I got really good

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turf contact maybe just a slight pull because of maybe an upper body lunge

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but overall that was a really solid strike demonstrating those three keys

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if we did the opposite or if we did a bad version where I'm going to have a

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little bit more of a scoop throw it out an early extend you can see that I

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made solid contact luckily on that one but I struggled with face control

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of the face the way I was controlling the face more with a flip less with the

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motorcycle and I struggled a little bit with toe contact because of the

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narrowness on the way through so as as you can see you can use these two camera

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looks in order to help really dial in what is causing you problems whether it

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be contact whether it be ball flight whether it be start line and now you know

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the three keys to mastering your individual consistency now originally when

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I was designing this video I contemplated adding these last two pieces but they

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're

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a little bit harder to just observe and that would be looking at kind of tempo

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and tension so tempo or sequencing the the more that you use your body early

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the arms late typically that's going to relate to this wide point from the face

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on view or this is going to relate to that low point control from the face on

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view typically golfers who have more early arm action and more aggressive arm

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action will tend to have a little bit more of a flip style or scoop style

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release and now you'll see that a flip style or scoop style release becomes a

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problem because of what it does to low point control and often what it does to

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the face-to-path relationship but you can have a flip style release and still

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be on plane so these golfers typically hit the ball relatively straight but

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complain of contact complain of distance in addition when you have too much

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tension in your arms it's really hard to let the club shallow which is means

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it's really hard to have nice even tempo and nice sequencing and when the club

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tends to steepen in transition it will tend to get shallow late and so it can

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cause a swing path or swing plane that gets shifted way out there or if you

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feel that that's gonna happen then it allows you to have more of a wrist roll

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or kind of more of a swivel style release or flip style release on the

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way through or your hands are doing more flexion extension instead of arm

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extension coupled with a little bit of forearm rotation so what you'll start to

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see is that yes these three things are the three observable ways you can use

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video to look at your consistency but you do also want to factor in some of

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the old school things of tempo and tension because those can impact or have

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a profound impact on either one of these key components to consistency