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This concept video is hands-forward, hands up and out.

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So this is connecting shaft lean and ulnar deviation, a lot of golfers who

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struggle with

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getting shaft lean also struggle with getting ulnar deviation.

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And it's kind of working on your balance of steeps and shallows as it relates

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to the

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moment of impact.

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So it kind of ties together a few different kind of subcategories for us.

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So if you're working on getting shaft lean, one thing that I emphasize a lot is

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if you

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from the down the line camera, if I just move the grip across the shaft, so if

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I just move

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it straight forward like this, it feels like it gets really low and I feel like

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I'm going

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to get diggy there.

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What would actually feel more comfortable is if as it goes across, it also goes

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up and

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a little bit more out.

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So the trajectory is kind of creating more space like this as it's getting

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ahead.

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From the steep shallow standpoint, when the hands go down that creates more of

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a steep

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and when the hands go backward that creates more of a shallow.

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The opposite would be as the hands go forward that creates more of a steep and

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then as the

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hands go up that creates more of a shallow.

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So if I just get my hands way forward, the club would have a tendency to really

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dig into

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the ground.

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But as my hands get more up and out as they get forward, I get shaft lean

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without getting

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really diggy contact, so I'm able to still get a shallow bottom of the swing

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just with

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the low point being a little bit more forward.

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Another way to think of this is as we're relating this to the low point, low

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point can

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be thought of as width as well.

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In order to have the club head traveling downward through impact, I want to

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have the

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club working away from me.

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As the club is working back up towards me, it's going to have a tendency to

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come away

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from the ground.

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So in order to have the club continually working away from me, I'm going to

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have the club reaching

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its widest point.

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Well, when this is hinged down like this, that is nowhere near as wide as if I

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have the club

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further away from me like this.

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So if I think of, let's say, if I just think of this kind of ulnar deviation

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timing, perhaps

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this is impact and as it's going through, it's continuing to work away.

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If I was to bring my hands just straight across, then what would happen is I'm

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not actually

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increasing that, the club's not working away, it's just working across more

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like that.

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So I tie this together a lot with kind of an impact fix type feel, so more of

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an at home

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visual where getting into this kind of impact position where the hands have

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gone forward

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and that left arm has kind of gone more up.

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That helps with getting the alignment of the forearms to be a little bit more

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shallow.

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If it just goes across, oftentimes this right arm gets really on top and I

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start getting

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into an impact position there.

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So that impact position is going to be more diggy, more pull bias, more toe

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bias and actually

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what happens is when you're in that position and the club passes, you'll look

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up video

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and you'll say, wow, I don't really have any more shaft lean where if you're

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trying to

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get it up but staying down in your posture, that kind of creates some of the

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slack to

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be able to get that shaft lean on impact.

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So two major causes of creating shaft lean, one is proper release hand motion

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and then

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two is kind of having your body in more of its impact line or covering the ball

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So if you're struggling with shaft lean but your body is on top, perhaps this

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will give

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you some ideas.

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You can work it into any of your nine to three or any of your follow through

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drills where basically

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you're working on that feeling of up, out and forward and that will help keep

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the arm extension

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longer into the follow through where if this is going down, you will tend to

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pass the club

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a little bit quicker and you will tend to have more of this narrow finish, not

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ideal for controlling

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low point with your full swing.

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All right, so quick little demo, we'll do this as more of an impact fixed style

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So I'm going to go impact or set up and then I'm going to go impact.

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And now I'm going to freeze my body in impact and I'm going to try to make a

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swing getting

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back into that position.

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Now don't be discouraged if you have trouble making contact from that preset.

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I actually usually have a lot of trouble getting back to that position if I

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start there.

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So oftentimes what I'll do is here's set up, this is where I want to get to an

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impact back

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to set up and then try to get back to there and that felt a little bit more

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kind of natural.

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So if you're really struggling with shaft lean, more of a scoop style release,

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don't

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just think hands forward, think a little bit more hands up and out, that'll get

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the shaft

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feeling like it's more vertical, but that more vertical shaft is really just

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widening

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the radius, which helps you move the low point forward.