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This insight is looking at how I use video.

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I frequently get the question from students,

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"Can you take a look at my recent video?"

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I'll usually respond, "Okay, what's going on?

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What are you hoping to accomplish from looking at the video?"

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Usually, it's because they're just lost and they're not really sure what they

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want to do.

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But I try to train my students so that they can ultimately

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have a reason for doing anything that they're trying to do.

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So, the times when you want to use video,

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absolutely when you feel lost,

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when you don't know what pattern you've fallen into,

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when you're just getting started and you don't know how you create speed,

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how you control the face, how you control the path.

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Or, if you've developed a new series of misses and your drills that have worked

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in the past,

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aren't really solving the issue anymore, you can now use video.

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So, in general, I use video more when things are going bad,

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when things are going good.

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So, if a student tells me, "Hey, everything's great,"

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but I'm including a video where you take a look at it,

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I'll say that's probably not the best use of our time to nitpick and figure out

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"Hey, something doesn't look right,"

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unless it's related to a contact,

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a direction, and like a performance issue,

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that's when I want to use video.

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So, when I do get a video and we've decided,

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"Hey, I want to look at it and identify the pattern,"

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there's three major areas that I'm going to look at.

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I'm going to look for power, I'm going to look for path,

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and I'm going to look for face.

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So, power typically shows up in both the face-on and the down-the-line camera

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view,

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power is going to show up by about there.

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So, the movements that the body is making to get the club roughly to delivery

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position give me a great idea of how this golfer wants to create speed,

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how this golfer is going to, ultimately, create power.

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So, then we can move on to path,

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and path I think is the fun one,

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because path kind of blends both ends and both camera views.

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So, I want to look at path for most face-on and down-the-line,

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and path is really going to show up to me from about delivery position

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to that follow-through position.

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Between those two, I can see what movements you're going to use

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to ultimately organize how this club path is swinging.

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Now, club face is the tricky one.

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You're primarily going to want to look at down-the-line,

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and club face is largely going to be from right about here.

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So, just after transition to right about here,

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just after delivery position.

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You can see, for the most part, what that golfer is doing from the down-the-

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line

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camera angle, what they're doing with their club face,

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and then oftentimes a lot of these things that you'll see at impact that

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kind of look odd, are really a compensation for either a face or a path

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that's out of position, or a reaction to how that golfer created power.

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So, real quick, power is kind of that first little face.

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Face is going to be that middle phase, and then path is going to be

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that late phase kind of through there.

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The only other time that I like to use video is when I'm hitting the ball

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the best that I've ever hit it, and then I'm not going to analyze it.

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I'm just going to capture it and save it for that next rainy day

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when my game isn't quite where I want it to, and I can use this now as my bench

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park.

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So, don't get obsessed with trying to hit perfect positions, perfect lines,

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use video to get a picture of your overall pattern,

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and then use contact and the feedback on the range and on the course

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to see if you're actually progressing, as opposed to looking at video,

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which may mask the subtle changes that are really critical for the

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difference between your good and your bad shots within any pattern.