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In this concept video, we're going to break down thin contact.

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So oftentimes when you're building your swing, you'll get to a point where you

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have a predominant

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miss.

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It could be a direction miss like right left or a contact miss like fat thin.

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In this video, we're going to discuss what you should look for on your own

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video or with

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your feedback if you're primarily struggling with thin shots.

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So a thin shot is when the club or when the ball is hit more towards the bottom

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of the

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club.

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Oftentimes, this is either with no divot or a divot that could be a little bit

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behind

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the ball.

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But potentially, it can happen with a divot that is slightly ahead of the golf

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ball.

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So we're going to talk about the most common reasons.

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This probably won't cover absolutely every scenario, but it'll cover the big

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buckets

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and the most common ones that you'll struggle with.

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In general, when you're looking at a contact miss, you want to start with

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impact and work

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backwards.

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So if our goal impact wise is to have the hands somewhat forward like this,

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thin contact

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is typically going to happen from a result of a couple different things or a

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few things.

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Two from the body, one from the arms, one from your general sequencing.

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So the two body causes are probably the most common, which would either be

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something with

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your upper body is moving away from the golf ball, so more of an early

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extension pattern.

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So now I can't physically reach underneath the golf ball.

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Something is causing my upper body to be back.

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This could be tilted more back, which is more common or everything more back,

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kind of like

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a hangback more like that.

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So my body could be too far up, my body could be too far back, or my arms could

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be shortening.

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So my arms could be coming in.

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This could either be done from the arms bending and pulling in, causing the

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club not to be

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able to reach far enough down.

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Or this could be done more at the wrist level where the club head is passing

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the hands too

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quickly, like this, and therefore the club is coming up as opposed to

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continuing to go

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down.

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Now, the last piece is more of a sequencing issue.

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So if you look at your video, and you're down, and you're forward, and your

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arms are

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pretty straight, and you're still hitting it thin, usually what you'll see is

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the club

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is passing a little too soon because I haven't rotated my body and got the

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bottom of the

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swing out far enough forward.

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If you have your body turn, you're maintaining your posture or your upper body

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distance from

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the golf ball, your hands are in front instead of too far back, and those arms

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are straightening.

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If you get into that position, it becomes really difficult to hit the ball thin

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So I would start there, look at your impact, and look if it's more of a body

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problem or

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more of an arm problem or more of a sequencing problem.

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The sequencing problem usually gets cleaned up with the body problems, but

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sometimes it's

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the kind of the last remaining thing that you have to work on.

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This becomes, hitting thin shots becomes more common on golfers who used to be

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over the

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top and are working on getting more, more shallow, oftentimes they'll do it by

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having

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their body back and closed, or as a result of getting the arms a little bit

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more shallow,

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the club is passing too soon, and they fail to get the bottom swing forward.

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But if you're struggling with a lot of thin contact, you'll be able to

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associate the drills

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that will help you either get your body into a better position or your arms

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into a better

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position or work on your sequencing.

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So again, real quick summary, the two main causes from the body for thin

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contact are either

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the body is up or the body is back, the arms are pulling in instead of leng

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thening, either

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at the wrist or at the elbow shoulder, or I don't have enough sequencing, so

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everything's

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bottoming out kind of right at the golf ball instead of ahead of it.

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If you use that hierarchy, you'll quickly be able to identify why you're

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struggling with

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thin contact.

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So if we get into a little preset impact there, today it feels like I have to

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have my upper

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body a little bit more down.

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Do that and you won't have too many thin shots.