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Gerald Video is an anti-slice station with the swing mate.

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So I got a new product sent to me and I think it's pretty cool.

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I'm going to show you one of my favorite ways for using it.

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I'm a big fan of creating visuals to help build your feels.

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If you have visuals as well as feels, then what can happen is some days your

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feels are

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great and some days they need to be more calibrated and some days you have a

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hard time with the

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feels and you need more of a visual.

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I played well with times where I got set up on tea boxes and I would just put

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the ball

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right next to a tea marker because I had a visual of where I wanted to swing

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the club.

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Other times where I don't really need the tea marker, you can put me anywhere,

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put the

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ball in the middle of the tea and I can just feel what I would need to do.

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But because it's a little bit day to day, sometimes having a station that you

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can use

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to dial in either the look or the feel can be really helpful.

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If you're struggling with slicing the ball, we know that you're struggling with

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the club

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getting a little bit outside or out towards the target line in this space here

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and it's

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coming across the ball like this with a face that is open to the path.

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So what I've got here is one of my newer training aids that I like to use.

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This is called the swing mate.

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I've got a few bars that you can put in that help with some visual alignment so

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I've got

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a good one here.

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The red stick is pointing in the direction of the target and the blue one is

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more for

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my stance line.

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But then it has two independent arms that you could create a corridor here for

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swinging

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the swing plane.

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Or what I like to do is this where I have the pool noodle going at 90 degrees.

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So the old inside approach was a great training aid for training the swing

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plane not to be

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over the top.

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But classically, I've got another video on the site where you just put a stick

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in the

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ground at an angle and as long as you come underneath it, you're not going to

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be coming

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over the top.

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Over the top is coming more from this kind of high to low or outside to in.

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So one of the classic stations for working on your slice is having this swing

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kind of

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noodle like the inside approach up above the golf ball.

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Another classic one is putting a shaft in the ground at the angle of the golf

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club.

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Like I have this pink noodle here, you bring it back and about in line with

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your hand.

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So then your goal is to swing in line with that second stick or you can put it

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further

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out.

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Like I sometimes will have this out towards the purple noodle there.

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So if you could imagine if I moved this station so it was kind of more like

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this, now I can

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see coming from this inside and having the path down there at the bottom.

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But the key here is I love versatile products that I can do a lot with and this

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one kind

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of allows you to customize this station to give you a couple of good visuals.

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So as an anti slice station, I like to have this one and then I like to have

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the pool

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noodle kind of exaggerating more on the inside and more on the flatter path.

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So the goal is to try to feel like you're following that pink noodle all the

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way down

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into the golf ball staying underneath the blue.

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If you're an over the top swing or this is very intimidating.

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If you have a more kind of traditional swing, then it's not too bad.

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It's just giving you some visuals for dialing stuff in.

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So just a quick demonstration.

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You can, I've also used this station for golfers who tend to have a little bit

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too much arm

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dominance in their takeaway kind of more of a lift.

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This can encourage some body rotation, but you can adjust and customize how you

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want

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these pool noodles and visuals to match up.

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So on this one, I'm just going to try to follow that pink stick on the way down

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And we'll get a little bit more into the wind a little bit, had a little bit

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more of almost

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a pull draw, but definitely not a slice, not fitting into the slice category.

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If I was to come over the top, I would hit this thing pretty hard.

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So one more.

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This is one of my kind of favorite visual stations.

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If you have a at home, you know, indoor mat that you like to use, this works

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really well

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because you don't have to put the stations in the ground collapses pretty

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easily.

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And when you need it, it can really help you dial in your path kind of like

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that one.

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So if you're struggling with kind of creating some visuals, this is a good

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combo one that

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will help you with a lot of the downswing visuals.

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I've done a whole lot with it on the follow through side, but potentially we'll

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come up

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with some stuff for that.

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So if you're struggling with your slice, you can either just use some alignment

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sticks

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or this cool training aid.

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The swing mate can help you dial in exactly where you want the club to swing in

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order to

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get a little bit more inside out path, allowing you to get more shaft lean,

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allowing you to

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get some more compression and hit the ball that's a little bit more satisfying

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than that

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outside in glancing slice below.