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This concept video is monitoring club path in the backswing.

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So kind of an old school way of working on your swings consistency was trying

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to get

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the club to be perfectly on plane during different points during the swing.

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And one of the ways that we would set that up or one of the ways that it was

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classically

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worked on is putting a shaft or an alignment stick in the ground so you could

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kind of monitor

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your swing plane.

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It's rare that the swing will be perfectly on plane but as a visual this can be

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a really

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helpful at home or at the range station where you can work on when your swing

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gets way out

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of position.

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So classically I'll show you a couple different setups but the classic one is

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you basically

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want to get the shaft so that it would basically be sticking just inside where

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your club would

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be kind of like this but back here so that essentially when I bring it back if

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I had

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a good kind of on plane swing I have a little bit of a buffer kind of like that

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So the way that I usually would set it up is I would put it on the ground kind

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of like

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this I would transpose it back maybe about three or four inches or so and then

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I would

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bring it so that it was basically parallel to the target line kind of like that

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Now and we'll see you want it to be at about the angle of the club that you're

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using.

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I would air on being a little bit flatter rather than steep but that right

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there is

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pretty good.

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If I was to bring it well inside this would hit it and just to make it easier

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for it to

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show up on camera I will put a pool noodle and because I'm going to put a pool

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noodle

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I'll adjust it give myself a little extra half inch or so.

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Okay so now essentially I can work on the backswing by dividing it into the

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takeaway

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and the setting the club phase.

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During the takeaway I would want to try to avoid having the club come way

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inside and

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I wouldn't want to try to avoid having the club come way outside.

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I have different videos kind of highlighting how to work on the pieces but if

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it's coming

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way inside I want to figure out is it because my body is turning to level and

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kind of staying

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down this way as opposed to having some good side bend and extension or is it

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because my

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arms or wrists are pulling the club inside.

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So I want to break down my takeaway to figure out is it more of a body driven

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issue is it

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more of a arm driven issue.

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One piece would be looking at more the second half or the setting the club so I

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've gotten

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the momentum there and then from there to the top of the swing I want to have

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some of

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this jazzy Jeff movement or top corner of the strike zone where I have a little

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bit more

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kind of arm lift with rotation while finishing the pivot.

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But by having this here it can let me kind of intuitively work on just kind of

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feeling

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the space where I want the club to swing.

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Now the one thing you want to watch out for is some people when they have a

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barrier there

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they will tend to get so focused that they lose some of their body sequencing.

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I think it's important that you've worked on that at some level so that you can

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feel

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like your body is still powering the swing and you're just using this as more

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of a guide.

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Now it also doesn't have to be a physical barrier.

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I could move farther along so if I was to tee the ball up here now I just have

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this as

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a visual barrier which I think for a lot of golfers actually works as a better

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training

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station than having it as a physical barrier but if you get really good or if

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you're like

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in your mind you think that having that physical barrier would be really

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helpful you can either

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set this up.

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There's lots of different kind of devices you can use for setting it up at home

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I have one on a tripod they have ones that kind of stick in the ground or you

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can use

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an alignment stick or old shaft if you're practicing outside but this can be a

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very helpful visual

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station for figuring out why you might be getting into a pattern.

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Either you're getting way inside and then coming outside or way inside and then

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coming

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inside but this can help you kind of categorize your swing and figure out which

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phase you

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want to work on.

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Ultimately it will help you get a little bit closer to what will hit a more

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neutral or

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straighter ball flight.

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So the classic demo, again just kind of feeling where this is in space but I'll

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show you a

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couple other setups that can be very helpful especially if you're using this as

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more of

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a path trainer to avoid getting too much into outer out to in during some part

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of your swing.

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For some people a little bit more aggressive visual is creating more of a gate

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like this

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so I have two alignments sticks and that just gives me kind of a window for

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feeling where

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I want to swing the club.

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Like I said for that for some people having that window helps to find the space

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better

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especially if you tend to kind of like really suck the club inside you can feel

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like you

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try to hit the the pink pool noodle knowing that it's going to be virtually

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impossible

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or you hit the outer one in this case it's pink kind of like that.

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Show you one more option that can be very helpful okay this kind of falls more

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in the

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category of a downswing trainer but I can still see these two I've got this

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angle in

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my head and this is for the classic I come over the top and then I would swing

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left of

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it I've basically got this so that it's just out or you know gives me a little

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bit of buffer

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if I get into a good follow through position kind of like this if I was to

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swing kind of

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low left I would hit it although it's a little bit further away so it's more of

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a visual

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barrier and this can give me more of a feeling of where I need to take the club

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kind of on

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the way through trying to avoid over the top line you're more of a way inside

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early extender

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we can set these up in the opposite direction but these are some classic visual

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feedbacks

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that might help you while you're working on some of your movements or some of

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your feels.