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In this concept video, we're going to talk about shanking the ball.

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Now, here's an example of a golfer shanking the ball, and basically what you'll

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see is

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that when they're making contact with it, they're hitting it on the hosel or

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very much

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in the heel, and this causes the ball to shoot way off to the right.

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So the shank is probably one of the most frustrating shots because it literally

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goes almost perpendicular

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to where you're trying to hit.

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It's basically a penalty stroke, they get in your head, they become hard to

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recover from,

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so we need to understand them and we need to understand the movements that are

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going to

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kind of make you more susceptible to them.

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So we'll go through what I think are kind of the four big movements and then

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the one

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thing to look out for as far as setup.

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So the simple answer here is that if I'm setting up to this tee, when I make

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contact with the

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golf ball, the hosel has moved to where the golf ball is making contact with

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the face.

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So something is causing this club to move out that way.

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One of the most common, and the first thing that I look for whenever I hear

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someone complaining

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about shanks is I look at early extension.

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So early extension, we have a whole section about it, but basically the body

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moving in

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towards the golf ball causing everything to look more like so.

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So my lower body's moving in closer, my upper body's coming back.

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Either of those two movements is typically if I don't change anything with my

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arms, you

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can see that that's going to cause the club to swing a little bit further out

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and make

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me susceptible to hitting the club on the heel.

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The next one is going to be the motorcycle.

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And so what I'll show you here is if I were to set up to the golf ball just

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like so or

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to the golf tee, because I want to be even more specific than a golf ball.

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So if I was to simply rotate the face, I'll bring it back a little bit.

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If I was to simply rotate the face open, you can see that now when I get that

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face about

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30 degrees open or so, it's pointing in the general or the hosel is now move

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closer to

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where it's going to make contact with the golf ball.

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This is a common one for golfers who typically haven't had a whole lot of

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rotation and they've

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had a club face that's very open to the path and a path that's kind of coming

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steep like

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so, and then they start to get more of this body rotation and what ends up

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happening

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is that club face gets very, very open early during the downswing.

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And there's just, if you get that body rotation, you're going to have shaft

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lean, which makes

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it harder to close the club face and that's a likely possibility, probably I'm

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pretty much

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going to shank it.

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So in that particular case, I'm going to work on getting the club face to close

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a little

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bit earlier in the downswing, which will allow my body to continue rotating and

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not have

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the face wide open and the hosel exposed.

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So the third piece is going to be looking at this forearm plane.

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Essentially, when I make this good kind of merry-go-round position and get down

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into

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my impact position, if you were to look from a down-the-line view, you'll see

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this form

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is roughly pointing in the general direction of the golf ball.

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It's not very specific, it's not very, I would say, scientific to look at it

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just from camera

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point of view.

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But what you'll see is that often if I early extend or if my thorax backs up or

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if my trail

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leg moves in towards the golf ball, this form will get pointed more shallowly.

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Well, sometimes what'll happen is once I've corrected that lower body, so I'm

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no longer

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early extending, I'll still have this common pattern or I'll have this

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framework of this

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arm working more around my body in this kind of horizontal plane instead of

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down at the

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golf ball.

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And so what can happen is just like so, it gets the club swinging a little bit

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too much

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into out which can cause the hosel to lead and potentially cause the shank.

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It's kind of a good player shank or kind of an elite player shank, I should say

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, as opposed

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to leaving the club face open as kind of more of one of the common ones, but

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typically

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not something you see at the real high levels.

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The fourth one, the next major movement, is going to be getting this trail arm

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straight.

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Now this is usually the golfer who's going to have an outside in shank.

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Frequently the shanks are going to come from getting the club a little bit too

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much under

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a little bit too open and it kind of swings exaggeratingly into out like so

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with a club

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face that's open.

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But it is possible to have an outside in shank and this is usually where I'm

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looking for that.

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So if I go up to the top of the swing and that right arm gets extended very

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soon so

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that it's pretty much straight when I'm making contact with a golf ball, well

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you can see

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that as I bend it, that brings the club closer to me, as I straighten it, that

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takes the

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club away.

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So by straightening that arm too soon, that's in some cases going to cause the

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hosel to

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move out towards the golf ball.

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This tends to be a little bit more common, especially when we're looking at sh

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anks around

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the green, things like that, not so much with the longer irides.

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And then the last one which I think is one of the most commonly promoted but

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for me it's

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kind of the unicorn, it's pretty much the rare one, would be standing too close

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to the

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golf ball.

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Now in general I think that most golfers stand too far away so that's why this

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is rarely

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the solution that I go for.

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Standing too close to the golf ball and hitting shanks is usually a sign that

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well I'm not

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kind of maintaining my spine angle, I'm not keeping my hips away from a ball so

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I'm early

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extending, I'm thrusting with that right side.

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It's one of these other movements that's usually the culprit and a quick fix

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can be standing

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a little bit further away but know that over time what usually happens is you

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start exaggerating

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the actual movement that's causing the shank.

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So just to run through them again, you're going to look at early extension

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which is

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either going to be that trail leg pushing in, the hips going in towards the

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golf ball

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or the upper body backing up, you're going to look at the club face closure so

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is the

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club face getting closed early in transition or is it waiting and being very

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open down

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late?

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You're going to look at the forearm plane and you're going to look at is that

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trail

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arm getting really really straight and then lastly you'll look at well how far

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away from

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the golf ball my standing and use a few pros, use Jim Furek, he's one who

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stands very closely

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golf ball and last I've checked, hasn't had a battle with shanking where there

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are some

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players who stand much further away who have some of those other moves who are

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more prone

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to having the shanks creep in so it's a frustrating problem but as you see

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there are patterns

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to it and once you understand the patterns of the shank you can take away a

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little bit

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of the fear of it and know that if it comes in use that as feedback so that you

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can ultimately

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work on correcting your pattern.