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This concept video is defining steeps and shallows.

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Steep and shallow is a common way of looking at the path of the club as it relates to the golf ball.

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One of the early examples that I learned was from Jim Hardy talking about landing a plane.

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So if you imagine this is the runway, you would want the plane to come on a gradual landing into the ground or into the runway.

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It was coming down to steep, it would have to pull up and it would have a bouncy landing and if it was going to shallow, it would miss the runway.

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

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There are two major influences to steep and shallow.

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One is how narrow is the circle or the radius, and two is how horizontal is the path.

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I'm going to use a couple different circular objects to mimic that.

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So imagine the path of the club swinging around me in a rough circle.

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We're going to represent that with a Hula hoop and with a range basket.

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Now I've got a piece of blue tape to help just kind of zero in on one part of the Hulu.

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Now if I have both of these circular objects, we'll do it.

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Oops, we'll do it like so.

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So if I have both of these circular objects with about the same low point,

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you can see that the smaller circle has a steeper path.

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You can see that the wider circle is coming in much more gradually or has a flatter bottom,

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and the narrower circle has a more acute bottom.

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So that's version one.

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Anything that narrow is my arc is going to steep in my path and anything that widenes my arc is going to shallow it.

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That's part of the reason why one of the big shallowing moves is

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straightening the arms or casting or standing up because that helps widen the arc,

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which helps shallow the path.

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

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

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The more that I get this vertical, you can see that there's a certain amount of distance

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between the bottom of the Hulu hoop back here and the bucket or the ground.

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Now as I start lowering and lowering and lowering and get this closer to horizontal,

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that part down there comes in on a more gradual path.

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

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

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compared to the golf ball. So if I have a golf ball right here,

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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,

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but there's the same amount of height. If there's the same height and less distance,

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it's going to decrease distance more rapidly. So it's going to come in steep.

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If it was more behind me or what would look shallow or underplane,

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then there's a greater distance even though it's the same height.

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Greater distance, same height, it's going to be coming in on a more gradual path.

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So that's how we get these definitions of outside and steep or inside and shallow.

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And you'll, but the 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 that makes it more vertical

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is going to make it steeper, anything that makes it more horizontal is going to make it shallower.

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I have a lot of videos helping explain the different combinations of steep and shallows,

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but it helps you understand general concepts and principles,

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such as when you're in the rough, you generally want a steeper swing.

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That helps minimize the amount of grasp between the club face and the golf ball.

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Many golfers will either lunge in front, which steepens it 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 is they'll choke

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up a bit. And just by choking up it narrows the circle, which makes it a few degree steeper,

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which may be enough to give you all you need in order to perform out of the rough.

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So by understanding these two definitions, hopefully it helps you understand general concepts

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and troubleshoot what you need to do if you need to shallow out the club or if you need to

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steep in the club, this helps you understand how these different options actually show up in the swing.