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- This drill is make brushing your home base.

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So I use this concept in a variety of different ways

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and I've been reading a book that I really like

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called Taming Your Gremlin and it talks about

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kind of finding your inner peace with breathing

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and making that your home base.

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And if you do that first thing in the morning

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or sometime early in the day, then if you start

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to feel yourself, whether it's getting stressed out,

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to pressed, anxious, you can always use that feeling

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of getting back to home base as a way to kind of

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dial things in.

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So I like to use brushing the ground

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and how the club is interacting with the ground

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as your home base.

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So anytime you're applying a new movement,

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the general sequencing that you wanna do

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is you're going to practice that movement in isolation.

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Then you're gonna practice that movement

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while getting the club to brush the ground

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in the right kind of gentle fashion

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as well as in the right location.

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And then you make a swing trying to brush the ground

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and just let the ball get in the way.

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If you stick to that process of isolate the movement,

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brush the ground, let the ball get in the way,

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it makes it a lot easier for you to find your swing again

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if you start to get lost.

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Because what you'll tend to see is that the brush pattern

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is gonna change, either it's going to move backward,

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it's going to move steeper, it's going to move shallower,

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where basically you're not brushing the ground at all.

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But the general tendency is you will feel

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that the contact with the ground is going to change

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when your swing gets a little bit off.

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And so having this consistent kind of feeling

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to re-hone in your swing and re-establish home base

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will make it that much easier

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when you're trying to add any type of swing change,

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any type of swing movement.

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So if you then go to work on a transition move,

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and you're saying trying to shallow the club,

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but then I can't do that and brush the ground,

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then you're probably not really ready

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to progress on a golf ball.

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So use me or use video,

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see why you're having trouble brushing the ground.

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Is it that I'm getting my transition too steep

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or am I shallowing with too much of my body?

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And so now the club can't make it all the way to the ground.

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It really serves as a good diagnostic tool

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if I make any type of swing change

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and it makes it so that I can't brush the ground

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in the same way or even in a better way,

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then I know that this is probably not going to work

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when a golf ball gets in the way.

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What I find with my students is there's too much

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guess and check.

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So they'll say, all right,

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I'm just going to try feeling the club

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a little bit more outside and they'll say that's great,

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but what is that going to do for your contact,

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for your low point, for your wide point,

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or for this brush location?

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So from a practical standpoint,

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if I can make a swing and get the club

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to brush the ground in a way that I feel works,

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I like the way it feels, I can practice it enough,

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I can tell where the club face is probably going to be,

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then all I have to do is step up

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and try to get the club to brush the ground

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in exactly the same way

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and the ball is just going to get in the way.

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A lot of golfers get very ball focused

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and it tends to change a lot of their sequencing,

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change a lot of their firing patterns,

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but if you train yourself to be more

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how the club brushes the ground focused,

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it'll make it that much easier to do any change

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when the ball gets in the way.