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In this video, we're going to use a swing extender to work on shaft rotation.

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So there are, as you know from some of my other videos, there are a couple

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major ways

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to square the face, one being in-plane shaft movement that kind of looks like

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this, and

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the other being shaft rotation or the motorcycle movement, getting the club

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face to twist compared

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to the direction that it's swinging.

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As the more that you want to have kind of lag and shaft lean, the more you need

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shaft

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rotation to square the club face.

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So one way to eliminate using in-plane movement as a way of squaring the club

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face is to use

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a shaft extender.

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Now there are commercial models available that kind of stick in the end of the

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club, or you

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can take an old club and kind of cut a hole so you can stick an alignment stick

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right through

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the bottom, or you can take an old shaft and stick it in, if you use that.

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So I don't use a ton of training aids for a high volume of reps, I kind of like

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to use

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it to get a sensation and then move away from it.

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I like to make my own, I like to buy a whole lot.

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So to make your own shaft extender, you're just going to take an alignment

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stick and you're

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going to put it along the bottom of the grip.

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It'll feel almost like one of those ribbed grips that has kind of more of a

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triangular

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bottom as opposed to a real round grip.

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So what this does is it forces the club to stay outside my body.

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So if I was to use that shaft rotation to try to square the club face, I'm

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going to

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hit myself in the side.

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Now eventually I'm going to hit myself in the side somewhere.

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If we keep the club outside the hands somewhere right around shaft parallel, we

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're going to

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hit ourselves in the side.

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So it really depends on what length of swing you're taking as to if you're

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going to not

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touch yourself at all or if you're going to just kind of barely hit yourself in

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the

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side.

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So using that little shaft extender, so the alignment stick, you take your grip

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and we're

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going to do just a little 9 to 3 movement and trying to get the golf ball to

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start straight

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or left while keeping my upper body in good tilt and behind the golf ball.

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Because if I want to use the shaft in-plane shaft movement in order to get the

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club face

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to square, you saw on that one I hit myself pretty good.

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It would look kind of like that as opposed to if I'm using more of the shaft

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rotation

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to get it to start straight, it'll look kind of like that.

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And I can actually do these shots where it never completely hits me into my

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side.

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Now you see I have another version over there where if you find that this is

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very beneficial

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for you, you can make one that's a little bit more permanent by taking the

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alignment

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stick and hopefully the smaller and the lighter you can find the better.

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And then stick it so that it's about a foot down below the grip and then put

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tape at

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two different places.

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So now it's just going to be a little bit more permanent and stable so that if

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I was

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to hit it, I don't have to like, you know, it's not going to come out of my

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hands or

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anything like that.

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So again, I'm working on getting that face to rotate so that I can hit this

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straight while

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still kind of having my body rotate in good position like that as opposed to

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what a lot

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of people do is use that in-plane shaft movement with their body standing up.

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So they've used these shaft extenders for a long period of time to solve this

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club face

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as it relates to the release problem.

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The main issue I have is you can't take really big swings because as you come

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through eventually

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that is going to hit me when I get past right around here, this is going to hit

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my side.

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So unless I can take a bigger swing and really just stop like that, then I'm

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going to have

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a hard time putting a whole lot of speed and power.

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But for some golfers, this can be really helpful for getting kind of a feeling

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and then you

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can take that feeling.

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And now I know exactly kind of what that feels like.

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I can kind of use that visual and imagine that shaft sticking out of the bottom

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of the grip

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as I work on some of those release movements.

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So now I can go trying to get that same feeling working on that same kind of

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release pattern.

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That was a little better.

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So then if I want to try to get it to start even more to the left, I can really

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rotate

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that club instead of using the in-plane shaft movement.

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So if you're struggling with your release and you tend to have more of a look

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of this

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through impact, you can see if I had that shaft sticking out here, that would

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have to

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go through me.

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This forces you to keep that shaft on the outside.

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And then your goal is to figure out how to make it so that the ball doesn't go

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right.

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And you'll do that by using a good release and rotating the shaft.

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If you find that you do this and you hit a lot of fat shots, then it means that

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you

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probably need to work on the wipe and low point control, not so much the face

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rotation

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aspect.

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So from the face on, you're going to grip it so that the alignment stick sticks

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out about

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a foot lower than the grip, kind of like this, and pretty close to in line with

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the bottom

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of the grip.

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That way, you can see that if I took a swing and if I released it, it's going

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to hit me.

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So a good one would look kind of more like this where it didn't hit me until

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the club

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was at least parallel, and a bad one would look kind of like this where I felt

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it really

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hit my side right at impact.

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So you can either use kind of the handheld version, that way you can quickly

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switch in

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and out, or you could have your training aid kind of already set up and you can

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switch

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clubs pretty quickly.

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So again, taped about in a foot below the grip, just like so, and then trying

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to make

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these movements where it doesn't hit you until pretty close to that follow

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through position.

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And that's why you'll see if I was to take a bigger swing, it's going to hit me

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just

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because I'm going to make it pass that point.

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So this is really only good for doing impact training, really working on kind

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of that feeling

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of the bottom of the swing right through there.

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It doesn't do too well when you're working it into transition.