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This driver video is looking at path check points for the driver so path

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check points is basically looking at if I'm making some swings looking at shaft

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parallel when it's down the line and shaft parallel in the follow-through. Now

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when we're looking at specifically for the driver we want to have compared to

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this checkpoint if we'll say neutral is just inside my hands kind of like so

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well because I'm gonna have a little bit wider stance and a little bit more

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tilt you can see that that is going to or I should say that lower body a

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little bit more ahead of the lower of the upper body you can see that that by

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itself moves the hands a little bit more towards the inside and then if I let

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them swing that would naturally move the club a little bit outside the hands if

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you're checking that follow-through and you tend to see the club in line with

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your hands then you're gonna be a little bit more neutral than you're looking

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for for the driver because I'm swinging slightly low to high I need to have the

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path even more in out in order to have that the the club had actually moving at

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the target so you can use the the checkpoints of shaft parallel and

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regardless of what you're trying to do you can just monitor well where if the

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club is way out here I know I'm gonna be in trouble if it's too much in there

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maybe I just haven't turned as much with the driver you want to air on having

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it

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more inside than than less the one caveat is in order to get it more inside a

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lot

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of golfers fall into early extension and that's when it becomes a major problem

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similarly I want to have my arms kind of lifting a little bit or working more

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high in a way so the club will be slightly outside there if I tend to get

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the club which is good for an iron going way low left that's gonna tend to

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cause

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angle of attack issues so I can focus on those two ends of the spectrum and

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just

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make sure it's going slightly inside to slightly outside as it relates to the

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driver

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To help clarify the idea of the path checkpoints we're gonna take a look at

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my own swing looking at an iron and a driver from down the line so here we can

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see at the top of the swing overall mostly the same you can see that there's a

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little bit more body turn you can see that the arms are on a little flatter

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plane and there's a little bit less of the left side tilt but most of the

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interesting stuff is gonna happen on the downswing so the first path checkpoint

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we're gonna take a look at is when I get the roughly the shaft parallel to the

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ground so the camera is in the same place and I set up more or less with my

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hands

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on the pretty much over the the stick here or just on the inside of it that was

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my goal anyway that's the target line so as you can see the hands compared to

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this stick are relatively close I mean the one over here on the left with the

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driver is just slightly inside the stick but compared to where the hands are

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you

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can see that with the driver there are a few things that are different one the

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club is a little bit more inside my hands and I actually believe that that

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would be the true shaft parallel frame where you'll see that it's even more

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slightly inside my hands but the club faces in a similar position so it just

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shows that the path with the driver is coming a little bit more from a shallow

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position now as you know from the steeps and shallows the more that you rotate

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your body the more that that's going to tend to bring the club on a steep path

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but if you look at the orientation of my chest and my hips you can see that I

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have more body rotation here on the left you can also see that my foot is more

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off the ground because I'm powering this a little bit more with my body and

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unfortunately had a little bit of early extension now as I continue down and

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take it to impact you can see that the result of those path checkpoints is that

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in the one over on the left because it was coming more from the inside I've

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gone into a little bit more extension my upper body is closer to the camera it

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's

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actually a little bit behind my lower body or a fair amount behind my lower

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body as a result I've got more body rotation and more side bend and my trail

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arm or my right arm is a little bit more bent now as I go through you'll see

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those arms extend and the the club will roughly get slightly outside my hands

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as it approaches that waist height position now over on the right with the

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iron because my upper body is a little bit more on top of my lower body it I

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still have a little bit more flex the club is going to be working more low and

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left so when it gets in that kind of same position you can see that it is

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working in line with my hands wherever on the right it is working a little bit

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more outside of my hands so if you're struggling with your driver hopefully

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this little video and demonstration helps you visualize what we want to do

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with the driver between shaft parallel in the downswing and shaft parallel in

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the follow through but using those two checkpoints can unlock a lot of path

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problems and help you with your overall consistency.