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This is the low point bowling alley so the low point of bowling alley is for

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working on low point when we're working on heel toe contact more than fat thin

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contact and so the most common time when I use this is when golfers start

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shanking the ball and I'd say invariably it's I end up facing golfers

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battling shanks at least once or twice a month or so and sometimes that's to my

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own doing because if you look at kind of the classic amateur pattern we're

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gonna

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have the amateur pattern is gonna have more of a stand-up well when I stand up

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that pulls the club head away from the ball or closer to my feet so that can

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make it more toe biased or harder to shank the ball and I'm gonna have more of

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a flip style or release oftentimes the arms are bending on the way through when

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the flip happens and when the arms are bending on the way through you can see

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that it's going to have a tendency to pull the club inside away from the line

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as well so two of the main issues that amateurs do of stand up and flip do make

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it harder to shank the ball so if you work on getting more down in your posture

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and you work on getting a little bit more you know extension through the ball

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instead of before the ball it's possible that you're gonna start hitting it on

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the heel and so when you're hitting it on the heel or shanking the ball this is

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a good little simple feedback station to help you get recalibrated as to where

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the club is bottoming out if I set up here in the middle of the bowling alley

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so

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I have two lines drawn with either paint or the Dr. Scholl's foot spray works

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really well as if you don't have either of those and you're practicing on grass

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you can always just score the ground with a tee so you have just a line but

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basically it's just an indication of where did I start so you'll see as I get

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set up here the club head is basically in the middle of these lines then if I

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take a practice wing I just want to see where is the divot so in this case I

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was

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able to get the divot back in the middle of the two lines what you may find if

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you're shanking the ball is when I just take my normal practice wings I don't

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know if you saw that but I took out most of this far white line if that's the

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case

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then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set up and I'm gonna practice hitting the

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inside line and the first few times that you do this when you try to hit the

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inside line you may actually hit it more in the middle you like you may have

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the

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divot in the middle but of the two lines so this helps you calibrate how am I

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controlling where the club is hitting the ground and what you know where am I

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feeling the weight so when it comes to shanking the ball or hitting more the

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outside line that's the bigger problem because the heel on most full swings is

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a lot less forgiving than the toe so when I set up here and I start shifting

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either my weight or my body in towards the golf ball or if I tend to straighten

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this arm kind of out away all of that is going to cause the club to hit the

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ground further away from me like so so if I focus on staying in my heels and

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keeping the right arm bent a little bit longer there I'm able to hit the ground

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closer to the inside line so what I'll basically tell them is we call this the

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low point bowling alley I want you to hit inside gutter balls so for a while I

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want you if you're shaking the ball I want you to try and hit the ball off the

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toe so I'm gonna try and hit the ground by this inside line so I'm gonna

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set up at the golf ball but I'm going to try and hit the ground by the inside

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line wasn't my greatest swing but did hit it on the toe you'll see from the

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down the line just didn't take a divot so again I'm gonna try and hit the

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inside line kind of like that so you'll see I took out most of the inside line

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and none of the outside line hit that more on the toe so if you're struggling

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with this heel toe contact this is a great way to just figure out the feedback

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now if you work on this and you're still struggling with it then check out some

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of our other videos on the shank including the yoga block or feeling the

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weight of the club head because that can be another common cause for why I

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might have a hard time hitting the ground but this will double as a good

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little visual station so this just helps you get recalibrated the other benefit

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to this is it gets me used to seeing where the club is hitting the ground

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towards away if I'm on the course and I start shanking the ball all I have to

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do is walk over to the edge of the fairway where you've got that the rough line

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and take a few swings like if we imagine that this outside line here is the

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rough well then I can take a swing and if I hit that outside grass I know that

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why I'm shanking the ball at the very least I might find that for the rest of

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the round I just have to set up on the toe and aim at that inside line and if I

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do that I'm able to make solid contact so use this to help calibrate low point

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towards and away especially if you're struggling with shanking the ball