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This concept video is defining steeps in shallows. Steep in shallow is a common

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way of looking at the path of the club as it relates to the golf ball. One of

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the

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early kind of examples that I learned was from Jim Hardy talking about landing

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plane. Alright so if you imagine this is the runway you would want the plane to

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come on a gradual landing into the ground or into the runway. If it was

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coming down too steep it would have to pull up and it would kind of have a

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bouncy landing and if it was going too shallow it would miss the runway. When

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we

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apply that to golf we're going to look at the path of the club coming into the

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golf ball. There are two major influences to steep and shallow. One is how

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narrow

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is the circle or the radius and two is how horizontal is the path. I'm going to

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use a couple different circular objects to mimic that. So imagine the path of

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the

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club swinging around me in a rough circle. We're going to represent that with a

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hula hoop and with a range basket. Now I've got a piece of blue tape to help

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just

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kind of zero in on one part of the hula hoop. Now if I have both of these

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circular objects we'll do it. Oops we'll do it like so. So if I have both of

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these

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circular objects with about the same low point you can see that the smaller

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circle has a steeper path. Right you can see that the wider circle is coming in

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much more gradually or has a flatter bottom and the narrower circle has a

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more acute bottom. So that's version one. Anything that narrows my arc is going

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to

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steepen my path and anything that widens my arc is going to shallow it. That's

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part of the reason why one of the big shallowing moves is straightening the

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arms or casting or standing up because that helps a wide in the arc which helps

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shallow the path. The other option is looking at how horizontal or vertical the

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swing is. The more if I turn this upside down we'll pretend that this is the

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ground here. The more that I get this vertical you can see that there's a

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certain amount of distance between the bottom of the hula hoop back here and

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the

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bucket or the ground. Now as I start lowering and lowering and lowering and

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get this closer to horizontal that part down there comes in on a more gradual

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path. Now we're used to looking at steep and shallows from down the line and

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basically what we can see is the true definition of steep and shallow would be

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the height of the club compared to the golf ball. So if I have a golf ball

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right

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here then at any given height like on plane if I was to bring it more outside

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now there's less distance between the golf ball and the club but there's the

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same amount of height. If there's the same height and less distance it's going

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to

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decrease distance more rapidly so it's going to come in steep. If it was more

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behind me or what would look shallow or under plane then there's a greater

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distance even though it's the same height. Greater distance, same height it's

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going to be coming in on a more gradual path. So that's how we get these

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definitions of outside and steep or inside and shallow and you'll but the

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two simple ways to look at it or anything that narrows it is going to make it

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steeper anything that widens it is going to make it more shallow anything

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that makes it more vertical is going to make it steeper anything that makes it

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more horizontal is going to make it shallower. I have a lot of videos helping

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explain the different combinations of steep and shallows but it helps you

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understand general concepts and principles such as when you're in the

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rough you generally want a steeper swing. That helps minimize the amount of

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grass between the club face and the golf ball. Many golfers will either

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lunge in front which steepens it by by kind of increasing the angle of attack

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or making it work more vertically but the other thing that they'll commonly do

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is they'll choke up a bit and just by choking up it narrows the circle which

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makes it a few degrees steeper which may be enough to give you all you need in

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order to perform out of the rough. So by understanding these two definitions

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hopefully it helps you understand general concepts and troubleshoot what

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you need to do if you need to shallow out the club or if you need to steep in

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the club this helps you understand how these different options actually show

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up in the swing.