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this video is discussing shaft lean so I had a member question that I thought

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was

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a pretty good one about shaft lean so like you know what's the what's the deal

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with shaft lean when is it too much when is it good when do I know if I need to

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try to put more in basically what's this whole concept of shaft lean and why do

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we need it okay so this is primarily working on low point control and

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primarily working on hitting the ball in the center of the face so if you if

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you had a club that was straight up and down and the golf ball was sitting on

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the ground kind of like even with the golf with the golf club you would see

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that the golf club would make contact with the golf ball with the bottom two

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grooves that would be a low lower position on the club than the sweet spot so

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one

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of the reasons that we want to have the club leaning forward is so that we can

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make contact in the center of the club that's why you'll tend to feel the ball

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jump off the club or one of the reasons you'll feel the ball jump off the club

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when you have shaft lean is because the golf ball will go we have a little bit

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more energy transfer because you hit it in the middle of the club now the

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problem

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is some people take that too far the normal amount that we're looking for is

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about 10 to 14 degrees if I have a let's say 36 inch club or we'll say 38 like

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this that means that I'm only gonna be about six inches ahead of the golf ball

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in order to have that 10 to 14 degrees and it doesn't necessarily take into

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account the bend of the shaft so it may actually be less than that but if I was

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to just earmark roughly well here's the golf ball then if I go half a pelvis

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that's about six inches in front of the golf ball so now where that's gonna

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come

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from where the shaft lean is going to come from is I'm going to have a bit of

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weight shift and then I'm going to have some body rotation and now you can see

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that the hand is basically in front of my left thigh and I've got some good

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lean

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but I didn't do it by really forcing the hands down and forward and that's

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when it becomes a problem oftentimes in my lessons I'll put my hands on the

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club

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on the grip end and just kind of feel and listen to how the golfer is applying

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force into the golf club oftentimes what I feel is down through here I will

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feel

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like the grip is going down into the golf ball kind of like this and you can

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see from the face on camera how exaggerated that is and there's no way

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that that would work in in producing a nice shallow bottom to the swing club

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would slam into the ground very steeply and I would have to do some major

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shallowing movements last minute couple common ones would be flipping the wrist

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which kills my shaft lean or standing up to then help the wrist flip so most of

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the good late shallowing movements aren't that great solutions instead of

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driving

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the grip down like this we actually want the grip to be coming slightly up so

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the grip coming slightly up happens because the body is rotating and now the

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left shoulder or the left side of my body is higher than the right side of my

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body and that left side is pulled the club up as the arms are extending down

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it's getting pulled up more because of what the body is doing so a better way

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to

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think of that shaft lean is just thinking of getting those hands slightly

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ahead or hitting more forward of the golf ball not so much hitting more down

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if you have a what I find is that golfers who have more of an emphasis of

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really trying to hit down will have more of a look kind of like that as opposed

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to golfers trying to hit forward will tend to make sure that they get their

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body facing which puts them in the right impact position for having shaft lean

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because the main requirements for having shaft lean are the weight shift so the

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pressure in that front foot let's say 30 degrees of rotation and side bend and

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the hands still in front of the chest but the chest pointing more out in front

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of the golf ball to do that the club is going to be slightly behind my body

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instead of straight out in front of it and I'm going to still have some

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extension in that trail wrist and some bend in that trail elbow so I'm

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basically

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coming through like this and it's not that I'm trying to hold my arms back but

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I've turned my body so that impact happened before I finished extending my

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arms closer to when I started extending my arms then it is feel wise to when it

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finishes if you get those couple pieces of the body position and the arm timing

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then you won't really have to force or manufacture the shaft lean the shaft

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lean will simply show up on video and you'll feel a much more solid contact so

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hopefully that clarifies why we're trying to get into the body impact

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position that we are why we need to shallow in transition so that then we

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can keep your body rotating and get into that more steep or open position at

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impact and basically how all of these release movements relate to what the

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club is trying to do you only want 10 to 14 degrees of shaft lean which is

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somewhere around 6 to 8 inches in front of the golf ball if you're really

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forcing

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trying to get the hands down and trying to get the hands a foot in front of the

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golf ball you may be sacrificing some of the consistency pattern or some of the

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shallowness to the bottom of your swing and that's gonna mess up your iron play

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worse than if you didn't have shaft lean but you did it in a better way so

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now we'll do that little impact fix of basically just pre-setting where we're

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trying to get to and then we'll go up and do a little 10 to 2 just trying to

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get back into that impact position if we go through that impact position

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whether it's a short shot or a full shot we'll tend to hit the ball higher up

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on

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the face get more energy chance for that feeling of effortless power in the

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ball jumping and that'll let you know that you have the right amount of shaft

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lean for this shot