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This is the anti-slide drill with a folding chair, so often times golfers who

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are coming

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from more of a slide flip pattern will benefit from redefining the space or

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getting used

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to where they need to be.

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Often times these golfers will feel like in order to look right and stay in

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place like

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there's no Jackson 5, there's no slide or bump whatsoever, they feel like they

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're just

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turning.

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Instead of guessing what they're going to feel like, I like to help them figure

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out

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the space.

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So what we're going to do, I've got a folding chair here.

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I want you to get set up so that the folding chair is about even with your hip.

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One common problem I see is that golfers will put a stick in the ground

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basically even with

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the toes and what you'll see is from the down the line, if I were to do that,

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basically

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my hands would make contact with the chair if I made a good swing.

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So often times golfers will start kind of like throwing the club too much in

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the out

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and they'll get too much shallownness happening from that arm release instead

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of from a proper

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owner deviation and extension movement.

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So we're going to make sure that this is even with our hip more like this.

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And now when I take my practice wing, if I'm doing this with an iron, I want to

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basically

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have my upper body or my left shoulder as well as the hip even with this left

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foot.

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And when I come through, when I make contact, I want my hands to basically be

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even with that

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as well.

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So it can be helpful for working on low point control with the irons.

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It's a little trickier with the driver because you are going to, while your

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hips are over

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the foot just like so, you want to make sure that your upper body is about a

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hands width

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or so behind or your head is about four to six inches behind the golf ball kind

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of like

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that.

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So since I've got a iron here, we'll do more the iron version, which is making

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sure that

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I finish a little bit more stacked up.

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And when I start my downswing, it's going to feel like more rotation or that's

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at least

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what it's going to feel like to me.

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You're just going to make sure that you don't make contact with the chair.

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Sometimes it's helpful to put something on it so that it's a little bit more

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stable

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because some golfers will kind of like just hit the chair and not actually feel

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it.

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I'll ask them afterward, "Hey, did you hit the chair on that one?"

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They'll say, "No."

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And I'll show them on video that they did.

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So just make sure that you are not going into that space.

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Now this will also help you.

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I don't want your foot to be dead square like this.

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And you don't want the chair touching the heel because that would actually

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prevent you

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from getting the normal amount of lateral shift.

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So you basically want it out on the edge of your pinky toe kind of like that.

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So I've got the line there so I can figure it out.

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And I recommend putting some tees in the ground just to help you have a

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consistent ball position.

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I see some golfers put the chair and then they're moving around a few inches

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each time.

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So the chair is really only useful for a couple of those shots, not all.

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So that's the basic setup.

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And then I'm going to go ahead and do some 9 to 3 or some 10 to 2.

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If when I put this chair here, I tend to, let's get that a little bit better,

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good.

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If when I put this chair here, I tend to bottom out, then that is a sign that

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my arms are

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more behind and I'm lacking some of this white movement.

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So this can be a good combo drill for feeling like my arms, I make sure that my

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arms get

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in front of my body and I'm getting the low point forward more with my upper

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body rotation

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and with the arm movement, so the white movement, as opposed to doing it with

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that lower body

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slide.

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This is really common for a lot of juniors and female golfers who tend to use

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more of

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that lower body slide as a way to move the low point forward.

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Okay, so now we've got the golf ball in place, kind of like so and we're going

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to start

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with just a real simple little 9 to 3, so bringing it back and then making sure

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that

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I kind of triangle drill it, keep those arms straight and make sure that I

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finish in a

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pretty good solid position.

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That's pretty good.

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So then next little progression we'll move up to is a 10 to 2, but obviously

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you would

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do a number of those until you felt comfortable with it, got that in line with

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the pinky toe

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and then we'll do the 10 to 2, kind of like that.

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I don't think I hit the chair, but only the video tape will show me for sure.

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And then lastly, we'll do a full swing, so get my pinky toe up against, make

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sure the

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ball position is still pretty good, and then rehearse getting into that impact

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position

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without too much slide.

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If you feel too much slide, you can start to identify is it more of that left

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foot, kind

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of knee diving forward, or is it more of a too strong of a push laterally off

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that trail

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foot instead of a rotation?

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There should be a little bit of bump, but if you are striking the chair, then

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you're

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doing it excessively and pretty much with all of these movements, too much of a

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good

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thing can become a bad thing.

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So that's why we like to use video so that we can monitor, you know, if we're

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falling

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too far outside of the range.

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All right, so now full swing, trying to make good contact, and I like that.

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And if you, one possible thing that you will start to notice is if you are one

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of these

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golfers who struggles with more of a slide, then by staying more centered,

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either the face

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is going to get more left open and you'll hit kind of a push, or the path is

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going to

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get a little steeper and you'll hit more of a fade.

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That tells you that the slide is kind of helping you get the path into out and

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create some

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more space so you can throw the club a little bit and close the face.

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So this can be a good little diagnostic tool, it can be a good little spatial

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awareness tool

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just for helping dial in how much lower body movement you have, especially if

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you struggle

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with the classic contact issues that are associated with having too much

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lateral lower body movement

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or if you're sliding towards the target during the downswing.