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This concept is looking at delofting versus closing the face-to-path.

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So many golfers have got a flip-style release where the shaft is pretty

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vertical at impact

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and they always want to get more shaft lean because shaft lean is going to help

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with compressing

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the golf ball.

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It's going to help with solidness of contact by moving the bottom of the swing

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forward.

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It does a lot of really good things.

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But it's referred to as just delofting and I'm going to show you what you

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really have

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to do in order to move the grip from here to there.

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So I've got the trusty hula hoop out because if we're swinging the club around

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and we

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imagine that the club head was like a sparkler, you could see kind of the path

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of the club

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head as it went through impact.

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It would either follow kind of a circular shape more like this or ideally it

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would have

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a little bit more of this squished kind of ellipse look to it.

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So if our goal is to get the shaft leaning forward like that at impact but we

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're used

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to hitting it with the shaft fairly vertical, I've got news for you, you're

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going to have

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to rotate the club face more closed because basically what happens is if the

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club is

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swinging around me or around this circle when it's straight up and down it's

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pointed at

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that general direction over there.

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Well when you add shaft lean you're basically hitting it earlier in the circle

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and so you

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can see that that club face is now pointed a good 10, 15 degrees off to the

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right.

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So if all I did was shift this forward and squish it down which is what it

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would take

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to create that shaft lean well then the club face is pointed over there.

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So I would have to rotate the club to still have shaft lean and get it pointed

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at the

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target.

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So one way to think of this whole shaft lean idea is the more that I close the

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face to

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the path, the earlier I can hit it in the circle or along it's path and still

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have it

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pointed at the target.

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If you hit the ball with the shaft straight up and down so you scoop and all

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you hit it

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or pull so it never starts where you're aiming, it always starts left and it

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always hooks

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then you could just get shaft lean and it would straighten it out.

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So that also tells you that when you're working on trying to get shaft lean the

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skill prior

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to getting shaft lean is learning to rotate the face more close to the path.

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So basically getting the face to rotate like this in space.

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If you also then scoop you should hit more shots left.

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So if you're working out of a scoop pattern or a flip pattern and you're

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working on getting

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some of this shaft rotation then what you'll do is you'll work on getting shaft

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rotation

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when you flip it'll go straight or sorry it'll go left or overdraw.

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So then you can use the body rotating to hit it earlier in the circle which

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would take

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that shaft rotation and now point it right so that the ball lunches a little

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right and

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potentially has a little bit of a draw to it.

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Alright so now working through it we're going to do I'll walk you through what

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are the normal

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stages for someone working out of this pattern.

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So if you're used to hitting it straight kind of more like that with a vertical

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shaft

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not taking a whole lot of divots then what'll happen is the first step you need

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to do is

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getting the shaft to rotate.

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And if you have the same impact to release same impact timing but all you do is

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release

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the shaft then or release the club then what should happen is it will tend to

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be too close

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when I make contact with it it'll launch 20, 30 degrees left or so and overdraw

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It may even launch more than that.

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Now to fix it what I'm going to do is I need to have that same amount of shaft

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rotation

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but I'm also going to have body rotation so I hit it earlier in the arc

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basically right

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around there is what I was used to feeling it impact.

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Now it's going to happen after impact so impact is going to feel like it's

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happening

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earlier.

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I'm going to take it back rotate and that should make it launch a little bit

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more right

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and depending on how much I rotate the shaft it'll either go pretty straight

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like that one

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or it might even have a bit of a draw depending on the face to path

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relationship.

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But that's the normal pattern for learning to deloft the club you've got to

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close the

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face and then get the shaft leaning forward by hitting it earlier in the arc.

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If you do that you will hit it with less loft but a club face that's still

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pointing at

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the target which is all really a delofted club actually is trying to apply it

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to a full

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swing.