Visual Impact Training

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This drill is the impact drill for overcoming the visual of impact. So what

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I see a lot is that especially if you played racket sports or something where

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you were used to having alignment kind of straighten out in front of you is

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that a lot of people think that this is a square impact position and it is but

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this is a square impact position with the bottom of my swing right in the

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middle of my stance. You'll see that the club is square to you or straight up

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in

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down and in line with the shaft. Now all these things that we've talked about

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in

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contact and you know the impact other drills the door jam trying to get the

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hands ahead. If I now had the hands ahead in the club face square to that path

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it

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would look like this. Right now if I hit a golf ball like that it would go way

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off to the right. So oftentimes if you're used to standing up flipping having

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the

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bottom of your swing right at the golf ball and you start to learn how to get

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the hands more ahead. Initially the ball may go to the right until you learn to

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overcome this visual obstacle which is square is going to be or impact square

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when my hands ahead are going to be like this. You'll learn that movement in

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the

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transition drill and the release drills but basically see how I got this left

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wrist pretty flat. So I started with the left wrist cup and if I didn't change

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anything and I flattened the left wrist that's what it would do to the club

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face.

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Now that's about 25 degrees close which is a square neutral grip because from

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here if I was to then turn my body so that my hands are ahead now the club

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faces pointed at the target even though my hands are ahead. So oftentimes I'll

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have

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players set up and then just flatten that left wrist cup that right wrist and

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it

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closes down the club face and I'll say when do you feel that in your swing? I

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'll

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say close your eyes when do you feel that in your swing? They'll usually look

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at

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me say never. I said okay I want you to feel that before you hit the golf ball.

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Sometime before you hit the golf ball you're going to try to get there but as

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long as the hands are coming out ahead the golf club is going to be actually

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square when it reaches the bottom of the path which will help you hit a slight

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little draw instead of blocks out to the right. So this is a good little just

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concept drill for you to start playing around with you can look at home but

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basically the hands are going to be trying to close the club face while the

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body is trying to keep it open. Together they match up and you have the bottom

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of

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the swing forward with the square club face.