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this insight is comparing your pattern to the model. So one of the important

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concepts on this

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site is that it's not about necessarily having the proper feels. I think that

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many golfers have

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totally drastic or different feels to accomplish the same movement. And so what

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's more important

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is understanding the relationships and understanding the movements that you're

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trying to train. I'll

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give an example from this week. So I had three different golfers all working on

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being a little

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bit more centered in their pivot. For whatever reason, they were each

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struggling with some ground

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contact issues largely related to what was happening with their body. In one

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case, the golfer had a

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bit more of a forward lunge and was getting too much on top of their front foot

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. In another case,

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golfer had more of early extension pattern and their upper body was backing

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away from the golf

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ball contributing to an early arm throw. In the third case, the golfer was

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really shifting off

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the ball with their upper body and having a hard time getting back to a

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appropriate position to

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be able to control low point. So we had three totally different swings, all

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trying to stay a

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little bit more centered. I use the similar drill, kind of customized it for

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each of them, but

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basically had some type of little upper body awareness. So just some visual so

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that they could

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roughly calibrate and feel or see a little bit better where their upper body

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was in space.

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So the golfer who was lunging in front, they walked away from the lesson

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thinking that in order to

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hit the ball, better they had to feel like they were staying behind. The golfer

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who was

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early extending or standing up like this, they had to feel like in order to hit

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the ball well

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that they had to stay more down. And then lastly, the golfer who was swaying

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off the ball,

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or shifting way over here, he had to feel like he was staying on top of that

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front foot in order

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to hit the ball solidly. So regardless of which swing that they were using, we

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were working on

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the same concept. We were working on ground contact. So we were trying to chase

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a skill,

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we were working on ground contact by keeping the upper body a little bit more

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centered.

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But the three of them would have told their buddies, one of them, man, it's

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crazy, I've got to feel

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like I hang back, the other one, I got to feel like I stay forward, and the

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other one, I got to feel

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like I'm kissing the golf ball or staying really bent over. But they were all

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working on the same

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concept and using the same feedback to guide their progress. I get a lot of

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questions about

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what specific moves should feel like, and it really depends on what reference

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you're coming from.

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So I don't want you to get lost chasing specific feels. Use feels to help

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reinforce what you're

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doing, but ultimately you want to use more objective feedback, such as visuals

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or checkpoints,

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so that you know that the feels actually make sense, and that they're actually

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driving your

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swing in the right direction. If you're not checking in on video or with

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stations, there's a good

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chance you're just kind of getting into a good rhythm when you're hitting it

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well, instead of

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making long-term changes towards more of a model that has whatever shot

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characteristics you're looking

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for, whether it's more solid, straighter, further, we understand the patterns

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around those different

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characteristics. As long as you're working towards that pattern, over time you

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'll get there, your swing will improve.