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This drill video is the shank gate. The shank gate is a really quick and easy

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way for you to help yourself get reconnected to where this clubhead is

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swinging and if you're battling the shanks possibly just as part of your

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swing because you early extend straighten that trail arm too early get the club

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face too open for whatever reason or if you're working on some shallowing

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pieces and getting out of these patterns sometimes the shanks can creep in so

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this is a very simple way that you can do it either on the course or on the

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range just to reconnect with where the club is and help you find kind of a

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band-aid to get through it until you can reassess why you're having trouble

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with

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the shank. So the shank gate is much easier to do outside but I'll show you

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that you can do it indoors as well. Basically I put two teas in the ground and

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I can make this as challenging or as easy as I want and if I was doing this

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outside I would probably put these teas a little bit further into the ground

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but

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basically I'm putting them about a half inch outside of the hosel and the one

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on

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the inside I'm putting on the kind of the hosel angle or the lie angle and then

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the wooden tee on the outside is straight up and down and it's about a

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half inch away. So basically what I can do is I can practice as slow as I want

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and kind of start building up speed getting the club to swing and brush the

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ground in the middle of the gate. So hopefully I can take some full swings and

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get the club to brush right through the middle. If I am shanking the ball then

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or

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if I'm having shanks when I'm taking my swings what it means is that quite

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simply the club is moving out towards this wooden tee or the one further away

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for me. So if I had a golf ball here in the middle just like so and I moved out

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like so I would shank the ball and I would just clip that wooden tee. So a

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couple things you can do is once you've got you know four or five swings where

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you're right in the middle of the gate then you can actually try and

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purposefully hit the inside tee. So can I set up here and then hit the inside

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tee?

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Can I set up here get hit the inside tee? Once I make it past that challenge I

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'm

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going to put a club or I'm going to put a golf ball in the middle of the the

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two

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tees and now I'm going to try and do my best to not focus on the golf ball and

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just try and make it through this gate. So if you do it right it should be just

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like the practice swings that you have been working on and you shouldn't hit

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either of these two tees. Now again you can challenge it and you can start

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yourself setting up closer to this wooden tee. So we'll put the ball close to

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the

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pink tee and I'm going to set up close to the wooden tee. All I'm trying to do

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is

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get used to what it's like to have these arms or have the club even or

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slightly closer to me than where it started. So even though my arms are

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extending through the shot I need to make sure that I'm not swinging the club

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too much out which is part of what drives this hosel shot or the shank. So if

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you

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have to play right away this is one that you can do on the course you can just

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put up two tees assuming you're not playing in a tournament or if you're on

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the range this is a really quick and easy way to see where the where your path

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is going and get you a temporary solution to fix your shanks.