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In this video we're going to look at the high level of the slice and what's the

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logical progression that we need to make. So everybody's slice is going to be a

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little bit different but I want you to see kind of the general recipe that I

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tend to use with golfers. If their main goal is getting rid of their slice,

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hitting the ball a little further, this recipe tends to work pretty well. So

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with

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this slice you've got, here's kind of a, let's put target line on this little

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drawing. So we've got a target line like this. To hit a slice the club face is

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pointing slightly left the target line so kind of in that direction over there.

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This is probably closer there. And then the path is going down this way. So the

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difference between those two is going to create the amount of slice curve just

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like that. So to fix the slice we have to get to here where basically the path

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is

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going more in line with the target and the club face is slightly closed which

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will produce a little bit of draw spin. Or if you want to keep it, basically we

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have to get the path in the face a lot closer like it is down here in this

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model.

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But in order to do that, what would have to happen is there's a face-to-path

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relationship and there's a path relationship. I would have to change both

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of those in order to jump from here all the way down to here. So a normal

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natural

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step or the progression that I like is first thing we're going to do is we're

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going to get the face-to-path relationship the same. So when you're

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doing this the only thing you should be monitoring is the amount of curve.

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Anything

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where the ball curves off this way, off to the right for right-handed golfer,

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that

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is going to be a missed opportunity or a bad shot. Even if it's just slight, we

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're

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trying to work on our face-to-path relationship. So we're going to hit a lot

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of pulls and pull draws while we're working in this phase. But then what you

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do is you've learned how to hit a pull and a pull draw. Now we can add some of

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the shallowing movements to then get the path going more in the direction of

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target with this better face-to-path relationship. This one, two, three kind

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of approach tends to work really well for most people. We'll break it down a

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little bit more while I go through kind of the demos of some of the things that

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you might want to watch out for. But this is your overall recipe for the steps

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in

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fixing your slice. Okay, so walking through that progression of what the

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drills are designed to accomplish here from the down-the-line view, the down

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the line will be the easiest way to see some of these path things for fixing

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the

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slice. So overall we're trying to get the club to kind of swing more along this

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way with a face that is somewhat closed to the path, right? So it'll end up

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kind

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of looking like that. And if you're struggling with the slice, then what it

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means is the overall shape of your circle is going more this way and the face

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is

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staying relatively open to that path which is causing the ball to spin over

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that way. So the normal progression is step one would be working on getting the

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club to close. Now if you're coming outside to in like this, you will tend to

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be coming in more of a high to lower steep fashion. So if you just close the

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face, what can happen is the club will just slam into the ground. That's okay,

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do

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that a few times. And then what you'll have to do is now I've got a face that

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looks like this. Now I have to change the hula hoop so that it just kind of

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brushes the ground and shallows out that way. Instead of shallowing it out with

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the club face movement like so. So step one, get the club face close to the

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path.

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You'll end up hitting a bunch of shots that start way over there and go way

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over there. But then now you know how to close the face to the path with things

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like the motorcycle. Now you can start to do movements that will adjust the

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path

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now that you have a good face-to-path relationship which will get the ball to

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start more straight. So that's the normal slice recipe which is you go from

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outside in kind of like this to now still outside in but with a better club

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face. So hitting poles to then better club face and changing the path. That's

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the easiest recipe for figuring out your slice. So you can use down the line

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camera to see if the face is really open here or where the path is and that can

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help you figure out what you where you are in that process. Do I still need to

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work on getting the face closed? Do I still need to work on the path? Where am

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I?

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And then choose some of the drills in this section that can help you either

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close the face or move the path.