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This video is discussing the shank hand path.

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So oftentimes golfers who struggle with the shanks struggle for a couple common

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reasons.

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One pattern can be the lack of the flat spot or trying to extend the grip end

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of the club

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trying to force the grip end of the club down into the golf ball or down and

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out instead

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of from around parallel when the club is right around here having the club

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coming more around

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this way as the club head goes down and out.

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So it's a subtle difference but really powerful for golfers who tend to shank

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the ball.

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So if I demonstrate it again, if I get down into this position and then the

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grip from

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the down the line camera angle continues to move out, I will be much more

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likely to hit

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the ball on the heel or the hosel as opposed to if I get it into that same

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position and

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then turn my body so that the grip is actually coming around this way as the

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club head is

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going down and out.

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So that can happen from a couple of different reasons.

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Like position wise, that will happen if I'm in this position and then I'm

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drifting too

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much into my toes, too much into the golf ball from the body.

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Even if I'm trying to pull in, if my body ends up moving that way, the net

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result is

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the hands are moving out too much that way and gets the hosel too close to the

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golf ball.

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The second and probably even the more common would be hitting it too much with

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the arms,

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especially the trail arm, that trail arm really kind of throwing out away,

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getting overly

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active early and going out that way as opposed to the body bringing my hands

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around as the

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wrist and forearms release as opposed to the shoulder.

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But oftentimes what I'll do is similar to the wall drill, I'll go next to a

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wall.

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So if we can imagine a wall on the outside of the golf ball, I'll have the gol

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fer get

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to this parallel position and then feel like I'll do it vertical first.

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So now even though I'm bringing the grip away from the wall kind of like this,

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you can see

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that the club head is still going out that way.

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That helps kind of squash the fear of how am I going to hit the golf ball if my

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hands

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are moving around this way, moving around my body instead of going out towards

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the golf

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ball.

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Then we'll do it more down, so we'll start up parallel first and then we'll do

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it down

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on the golf plane where the grip compared to this stick is coming around to the

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left

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and I'll just challenge the golfers and say okay, even though the grip is

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coming around

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to the left, I want you to try to hit a straight or even a draw ball flight,

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which means that

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the club would be coming slightly from the inside.

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That happens if the arms are soft enough and I can get some owner deviation and

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then supination

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through the ball, where if I tend to have a lot of tension, then the club head

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in the

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grip will tend to follow the same path or the same direction.

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So if you're struggling with the shanks, you've set up some gates, that's not

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working

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for you.

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Double check this hand path force direction position of what's happening from

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club parallel

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down to impact and make sure that the grip is coming around this way instead of

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going

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out that way.

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That can be one of the powerful aha moments if you're really struggling with

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your heel

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contact.

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So we'll put up that wall, we're going to exaggerate, I'm going to try to get

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it way

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out, to weigh in, it's pretty good.