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This drill is shallow wall slides so I've got a wall behind me that I'm going

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to use

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to help me with my spatial awareness because my brain is not really going to

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fight that

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there's a wall here but sometimes it gets lost into what shallow might feel

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like.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get set up a little bit away from the

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wall and

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I'm going to go up to the top of my swing and then I'm going to back up so that

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the

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club is up against the wall. So now I know about where I want to stand. I

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recommend

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using an older club just in case you're worried about getting any scratches. If

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you're doing this at home then put some type of cover like a sock or something

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around the club but this this wall is pretty slick enough that the club is

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going to slide on it because I'm going to go up to the top of the swing and

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then

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I'm going to start down until I get to about delivery position and I'm going to

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try to keep the club up against the wall. Now you'll see once I get out past

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delivery position the club would come off the wall. Oh a lot of golfers who

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struggle with steepening in transition either pull their arms down kind of like

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this and the club will come off the wall instantly or they would spin their

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upper body and the club would get more out into this space. So I use this with

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it as a good little spatial awareness station for golfers who kind of lose

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feel of the club early in transition when you can't really see it. So one more

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time I'm going to go up to the top of the swing slide it down. Now you'll

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notice

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as I'm doing this I'm trying to make a good lower body pivot and lower body

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rotation and then from here I'm just going to swing through. Now I have to be

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really careful if I'm a golfer who tends to be kind of more of a type A, really

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aggressive on the way through. It's more likely I'm going to hit the wall on

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the

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follow-through side. So I recommend more of this as a position training or more

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of a Tai Chi type movement but you can actually try and get some ground contact

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You just have to feel comfortable that you are going to stop before you get

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into

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this 9-3 position. Now you may notice this is kind of an exaggeration drill.

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You may

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notice as you're doing this if you're making contact with a mat or ground that

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the path is a little bit more into out. Well the more that I turn my body and

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the

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more that my upper body kind of stays on top the more that that is going to

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help

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balance that out. But again I want to be real careful with not hitting the wall

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in the follow-through. So if you're a golfer who tends to get steep really

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early in transition sometimes this early feeling of keeping the club on the

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wall

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is just enough to help you figure out the space of where you want to keep the

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club during transition. Apply that to the rest of your swing and it'll help

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with

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your overall ground contact and consistency.