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In this drill video we're going to use pens to help us feel face rotation.

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So I've got a sharpie that's taped down or that's rubber banded down there.

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Basically what you do is you're going to take the rubber band like so, wrap it

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underneath

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and then around the other side and then position these two pens so that they're

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parallel to

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each other and both of them are roughly perpendicular to the face.

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So that's a little off but it doesn't have to be perfect.

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Alright, now we're going to go through the drill, that's the easy setup.

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Let's go through the drill on how to use this.

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So for the sake of working on face rotation or understanding face rotation,

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sometimes it's

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complicated and hard to see exactly where the face is pointed.

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Even if you have one of those fancy little alignment things, it's not very

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visually attractive

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or visually specific.

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So what I like to do is take pens and rubber band them to the shaft.

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And so now if I'm facing this way you can see that the pens are parallel.

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I'm no longer thinking about the club face, I'm just thinking about the pens.

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If I were to go back, that's still parallel, that's still parallel.

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Well the face rotation of the golf swing would be this would point a little bit

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up and then

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it's gradually going to point until this looks a little bit down.

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Or from the down the line view, it would go to parallel to pointing roughly 30,

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40 degrees

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behind me.

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I'll do that in the direction of the target.

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So it goes roughly to parallel with just natural rotation.

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With natural rotation these are pointing 30, 40 degrees down towards the ground

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If you're a slicer, I tend to want you to try to get these pointed almost

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vertically,

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pointed straight down at the ground because that will ensure that the club

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rotation is

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happening soon enough that the club face will be pointed in the direction of

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the target

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or take away your slice.

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Because if you do the motorcycle move or the screwdriver move, it is impossible

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to slice

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the ball.

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Now a lot of golfers think that they do the motorcycle move and so they say, "

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Yeah, I'm

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working on it but I'm still slicing the ball."

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And I will tell them you're not actually doing it.

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You think you're doing it but you need more feedback because you're not able to

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pay attention

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to it.

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The pins provide a little bit more of this feedback and depending on how

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tightly you

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have the rubber bands on you can actually hit balls and take a look.

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Now the torque of the shaft you can see that they no longer line up perfectly

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but this

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one didn't change a whole lot and it is now pointed down to the ground.

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This one moved because there's a lot more things happening down at the club

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head end

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of the golf club when you go through impact.

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So you can use pins to give you some visual feedback as far as how to

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understand and practice

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this face rotation.