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This concept video is looking at the overall shape difference between a short

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iron swing

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and a long club swing, so a driver, three wood, something like that.

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So I've got the trusty hula hoop out here and then I just took the pool noodle

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and we

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can imagine that the pool noodle is basically tangent to the path.

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So this will be representing the instantaneous path.

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If I'm hitting down on the ball, you can see that that path of the club is not

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only traveling

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down, it's also going a little bit out to the right.

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And that depends on how much I'm hitting down as well as how much the hula hoop

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is tilted

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up or down.

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The more it's tilted down, like on the driver, that makes it go more out to the

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right.

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The opposite, if I was to hit up on it, like with the driver, you can see that

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that path

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is not only going up, it's going to the left.

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So to get a driver path that is pretty straight, I need to swing a little bit

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more into out

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or shallow.

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To get an iron path where I'm hitting down on it to be straight, I need to have

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a little

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bit more outside in.

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Now the other thing that compounds this just a little bit is the shape of the

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circle from

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the face on view.

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With the driver and the long club, we're going to tend to have a little bit

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more of a look

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of a squished circle kind of like this.

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So if the ball position is right about there, I'm going to squish it down kind

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of like that

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and swing a little bit more into out in order to get that path pretty close to

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straight.

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Now if this was a iron swing, I'm going to hit a little bit more down on it and

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the swing

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shape is going to be more kind of circular.

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And that's partly because of how we're powering this wing more with the upper

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body, less with

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the big lower body and big kind of tore sequence that creates that flat spot

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and the width

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on the other side of the ball that we want for the longer club.

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So now I've got a short iron in the three wood and what you'll see is with the

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three

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wood to account for that, I'm going to have a little bit more of this axis tilt

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.

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Now I create some of that just by having a wider stance at setup.

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That's going to help me stay a little bit more behind the ball and that by

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itself is going

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to get the path to swing a little bit more into out which will balance the fact

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that I'm

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not hitting down on it very much, especially with the driver where I'm hitting

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up on it.

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With the iron, I'll have a narrower stance which prevents me from creating that

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big

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tilt because I want the bottom of the swing closer to where the golf ball is.

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When I get to a wedge the bottom of the swing is very close to where the golf

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ball is.

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So to do that I'm going to try to keep my upper body and my lower body a little

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bit

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more stacked on top of each other and then as a result of having my upper body

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and lower

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body stacked more on top of each other, in order to get down to the golf ball

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and have

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a little bit fuller arm extension which is going to create more of this

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circular shape

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instead of the ellipse or kind of squished egg shape where it's wider on the

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other side

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of the golf ball.

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So the differences are with the short iron, it's going to be a little bit more

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cast and

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slightly more outside in but that primarily comes from having the upper body

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power more

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of the swing and your body being more stacked.

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With the driver it's going to be a little bit flatter and wider or shallower

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and that's

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going to come from having a wider stance and a little bit more of that Jackson

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5 or a little

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bit more of that bracing pattern.

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So if you struggle with one end of the spectrum either hitting the short iron

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or the long

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club there's a good chance that your overall pattern and the overall shape

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matches better

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the other end and you want to work on how you can make simple adjustments to

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change the

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shape to fit the club that you're actually swinging.

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So with the iron you'll see I can still draw the ball hitting down and a little

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bit, slight

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pull but a little bit of draw, staying more tall and hitting down.

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Now to get about the same amount of curve, that one would have looked more like

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this but

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you can see with a three wood that would basically roll along the ground.

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So now I'm going to play it a little bit further or further back.

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If I made that same swing and came in steep I'd probably bottom out behind it

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so now I'm

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going to have to get a little bit more lower body rotation in order to get that

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shallow

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contact so that will look a little bit more like that.

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And both of those, that one actually went fairly straight just a touch draw,

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the other

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one was a little bit of a pull draw but you'll see that the overall patterns

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while the ball

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flight looked about the same in order to do so I had to make adjustments to the

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shape

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of the swing which you've learned early in this video and I recommend that you

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practice

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going from short iron to long club and back and forth as part of your practice

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training

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to help it transfer to the course.