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In this drill video, we're going to talk about practicing swing plane, or the

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functional

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swing plane, which is basically the path of the club from waist height to waist

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height.

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Now I like to have a little bit of visual feedback whenever I'm working on

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swing plane

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with my players, so I've got two different versions here.

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The first prototype was with a pillowcase.

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You basically take the pillowcase and cut little holes all the way down and

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then just

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thread a alignment stick through it.

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Same thing on the other side and then you put it in the ground with a little

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bit of tension

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and it kind of holds a little bit of a plane.

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It's nowhere near as good as version two.

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This is the one that I really like.

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This is just a collapsible sunshade.

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You can get them at Target for about $7.00.

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Did the same thing, just kind of cut holes and then placed the alignment sticks

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and it

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just pops up right into place and then we've got an adjustable swing plane.

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So when we look at video, if the camera is positioned correctly, what you'll

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see is from

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about waist height to waist height, the grip and the hosel will follow this

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line or if we

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connect all those dots, it will follow this imaginary plane.

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Well this takes the imaginary and makes it look a little bit more real.

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So what you can do is you can set up just off of this swing plane so that it's

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at about

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the same angle as your club.

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This is a little steeper so I'll drop it down just slightly.

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Good.

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So now that's about the same angle as my club and what that'll do is that'll

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give me kind

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of a visual of how I want the club to swing between this waist height and waist

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height.

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If you tend to get stuck or come too much from the inside, you'd hit the swing

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plane

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there and you'd have a lot of space on the way through, you'll feel like you

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swing a

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little bit more to the left.

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If you're the more typical or the high handicapper, you're going to swing

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probably more outside,

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you'll have a lot of space there and this would get in the way on the way

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through.

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Now the great thing about the swing plane, there's, or the at home swing plane

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trainer,

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I don't have a great name for it, but the ways that you can use it are you can

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set up

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with a golf ball just on the other side and you can either take full swings or

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do nine

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to three working on coming through with the club pretty close to parallel to

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the swing

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plane the whole time or you can slide it underneath.

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If you're an over the top swinger, this will be very scary because that's going

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to take

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up all the space that I normally see the club coming in and then I can practice

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taking those

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swings, hitting those nine to three.

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They don't like when I hit them in the weeds, but the swing planer, it's very

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collapsible

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fits in your bag, just get a collapsible sunshade, thread some needles, and

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this will help you

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work on the path aspect and then all you really have to practice is controlling

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the face using

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things like the motorcycle or the screwdriver move or whatever drills that I

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pointed you

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to.

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This isolates path and then you can work exclusively on the face because most

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players when they

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adjust one, tend to adjust the other. This helps you isolate.