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This series is visual training with the foam noodles so on the site I have lots

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of detailed field drills and frequently golfers are able to overcome their

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barriers by finally feeling what a key part of their body is supposed to do

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during a key phase of the swing but some golfers are not too in tune with their

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feel so if you have a hard time paying attention to your feel you've got to

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use a different system of feedback until you can get that feel.

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Frequently I'll use foam noodles to use visual feedback to help ensure that a

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golfer is kind of doing it correctly and give them a chance to kind of

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spatially create the image of what they think it should look like in their mind

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Once they've done that for let's say a week, two weeks, typically what happens

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is then they'll be able to finally feel the difference between the good and the

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bad. So if you struggle with creating feels or you try to make changes and

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they don't really show up on video because you're just trying you haven't

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confirmed a feel that can actually create the change then experiment with

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using some of the visual feedback whether it's a foam noodle or a

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position checkpoint to make sure that you're doing it correctly. In this foam

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noodle drill we're going to look at the bottom of the swing or impact so

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frequently what I'll do especially early on with a student I'll ask a few

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questions as far as what do you think the club should be doing down near the

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bottom of the swing. So basically if you have a golf ball should the golf club

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kind of have a path or less like this where it's bottoming out right at the

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golf ball should it hit the ground just before the golf ball should it hit the

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golf ball then the ground we'll try to figure out kind of what's going on. Well

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in this format with the the online learning site I'm just going to have to

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show you the answers but ask yourself and kind of take a second to think about

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what do you think is happening down at the bottom. Hopefully you actually took

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second and kind of thought about what you think the club should be doing down

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at the bottom. There are roughly three different possible answers right I'm

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going to use this foam noodle to represent the path of the club head so

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imagine that the club is following whatever path this foam noodle is

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following. So from the face on camera there's three different options either I

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could hit the ground slightly before the ball. I could hit the ground and the

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ball roughly at the same time where I could hit the ball then the ground. The

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key is figuring out which one you want to do. Also we can use a foam noodle to

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imagine what it's gonna look like from down the line. So from down the line

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should

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it look pretty straight like this should it look into out like that or should

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look out to in kind of like that. Again these are for a right-hand golfer. Well

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answer time ideally what we're trying to do is we're trying to create this flat

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spot just after the golf ball. So it'll have a look a little bit more like this

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not a true arc at least when we're talking about the longer clubs. When we're

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talking about the wedges they will probably follow more of a kind of

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consistent arc something like this. That usually shows up in the arc with

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graphs

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under 3D. From the down the line the more because I'm gonna hit slightly down

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the golf ball that naturally moves the path a little bit more to the right. So

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hit the ball straight with an iron you would want a slightly left path kind of

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like this but with the bottom of the swing ahead of the golf ball. If we

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compare

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that to with the driver we might want the path going a little bit more out to

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right because we're gonna hit slightly up on it. So it would look something

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similar to that. Now what you can do is once you figure out roughly what you

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want it to look like is you can put this in a training station or you can put

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this

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in place so that you can kind of mirror it with the golf club. So that's what

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I'll set up now and I'll show you how to do that. So if you're setting up a

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visual training station with the pool noodles it's easiest to do if you

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impale the pool noodle with three alignment rods and that way you can kind

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of create some of the variances in curve. So if we're looking at what the club

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head does at the bottom of the swing I'm going to have the golf ball kind of

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right around where this is first making contact and then the path of the club

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staying low to the ground there and a little bit higher more on this side. So

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now what I can try to do is I can try to recreate that look. Now I'll come on

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this side even though I normally wouldn't take the practice swings on this side

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but that way you'll be able to see the path of the club. What many golfers do

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they're used to getting the club low so you can see how I'm underneath the path

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there and then coming up very high on the way through. So practicing getting

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the

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club to feel a little bit higher and then lower on the way through helps create

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some of that flat spot. Now I'm not a huge fan of taking swings where you're

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actually having the foam roll or the pool noodle get in the way. What I

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prefer is use this as a little visual training station so I'm going to take

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some swings kind of getting a look of that nice and slow motion and then I'll

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move the ball a few feet away so I can kind of see it out of the corner out of

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my eye or out of my peripheral vision and I'm just going to try to recreate in

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slow motion the look and that visual that I created when I was in that

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station and you can go back and forth creating reps but I find that that's

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better than just getting into a station because you almost fall into an

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automatic pattern where your brain is not really having to do anything. It's

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better to work on visualizing and trying to create it and then try to

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recreate it and check it by going back and forth. So this one here where it's

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higher and slightly curved kind of like this is a good one for helping you

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visualize the path of the club down at the bottom of the swing. Now from the

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down the line it'll have a little bit of a curve going this way so again if I

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take a golf ball and kind of set it up just inside here. Now I may be used to

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assuming I'm hitting straight down away from the camera I may be used to

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getting the club looking like it's going out in there so now I'm going to

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try to get it high and coming a little bit from the inside and then following

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that slightly lower leftward path. I'm not going to hit that way because that's

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actually one of the holes here but you can kind of see the down the line

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version of what I was just showing you. By creating at home hopefully it'll

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help

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you overcome some of the club head awareness things as they relate to this

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impact position that you may be training with some of these key movements here

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in the impact section.