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This concept video is using the turtle shell to fix heel contact.

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So heel contact or shanking the ball is one of the most unplayable misses.

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It can ruin your hole or your round and kill your confidence very quickly.

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So we need to have a good plan for being able to address heel contact.

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The main causes of heel contact are moving into the golf ball or starting too

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close to it

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so that then when you swing and your arms naturally kind of line up with your

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shoulders

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they move a little bit further out.

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But basically it's from you set up at a certain point and then when you make

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contact the club

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as move further away from you where most good players tend to bring the club

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slightly closer

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to them.

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There have been lots of good ball strikers who have set up on the heel and then

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hit it

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in the center but I've yet to see anyone who is really good ball striker who

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set up all

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the way on the toe and then moved outward.

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There are some reasons for that with what the body is doing.

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When we swing really fast the club is going to be pulling out towards the golf

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ball or

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away from us and so we need something to pull away from the golf ball to

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balance that out.

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The turtle shell or using your abs doing a little bit more of this pelvic tilt

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or crunch

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can be one of the best ways for getting you out of heel contact.

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I find that a lot of golfers who struggle with shaking in heel contact either

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never crunch

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their abs or come out very late.

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So from the down the line camera what you'll see is from the top of the swing

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the ribcage

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and everything is moving down and in closer to the golf ball.

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If I did this and I just kind of shift forward you'd see that the club will

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tend to move

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further away along the ground.

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So one of the easiest ways to get your weight more into your heels and help

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control getting

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too much contact on the heel of the golf club is by doing this little crunch

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and moving away.

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Now if I do this little crunch and move this away what I'm going to find is

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that that's

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naturally going to move my weight more into my heels.

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So I often find when I tell golfers to get into their heels it's a really back

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dominant

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and they have a hard time with this turtle shell move then what happens is they

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move

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the weight into the heels by bending like this as opposed to this is a much

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easier way

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to move the weight into the heels and it engages the core.

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So the first version we're going to do is we're just going to feel like we do

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the turtle

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shell move where we tighten our core and move our belly button that way almost

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like I'm

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falling backwards towards my heels and at the same time I'm going to feel like

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I extend

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my arms outward.

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Now if you do this you'll probably surprise yourself on video.

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If you are someone who moves more into your toes and your rib cage moves down

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and into

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the golf ball then what will happen is when you do this little movement and you

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're just

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moving away you're going to feel like you have a whole lot of space and when

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you look

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on the video you're going to say oh my gosh I'm actually staying put like I'm

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staying in

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the middle of my feet I'm not falling backward like I feel.

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So I've had a number of golfers who are prone to shanks use this move as the

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easiest way

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to get away from heel contact.

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Once you've done a couple of these where you're feeling like you're moving that

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way

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then we can start to add a little bit of rotation and build up length of swing.

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Often times this back dominant move in towards the golf ball is a power

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movement it's a feeling

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of kind of like bringing the club straight down at the golf ball where I'm back

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here

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and I'm using my back and kind of pulling down this way so it will feel a

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little awkward

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at first where your power move is now almost going this way away from the golf

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ball as

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the rotation is bringing the golf club to the golf ball as opposed to your body

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shifting

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in towards the golf ball.

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So I promise if you're struggling with heel contact this is one of the moves to

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investigate

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it is one of the fastest ways to improve the depth of your swing as well as the

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club getting

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too far away from you and it has a really good benefit in smoothing out

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sequencing.

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So I highly recommend it especially if you struggle with heel contact.

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Okay so quick little demo of the progression so we're going to get set up if

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anything a

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little bit closer we're just going to preset some of that move and now we're

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going to feel

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like we do the turtle shell with some arm extension and you'll see from the

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down the

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line it's impossible to have zero rotation and do this move so it's actually

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going to

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look maybe a little throwy but it's going to look like I have some rotation.

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So now second step is I'm going to go a little bit bigger and I'm going to feel

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like I'm

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going to move this way but I'm also going to rotate at the same time.

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So oftentimes this is where swings kind of start to break down because some

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golfers get

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more of their rotation their rotation feel from kind of using the back like

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this as opposed

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to just turning the pelvis so it's more of an upper body and kind of shoulder

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dominant

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rotation move where we're trying to train more of the pelvis in the lower body

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to do

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the rotation.

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So let's do that one more time we're going to do that little turtle shell move

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with some

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rotation that was pretty nice there and then the neat thing about if you're

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practicing

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these shorter swings as long as you're not taking your arm up above parallel

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you can

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start that movement right away because timing wise that's about in the swing

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where the turtle

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shell move or the vertical movement and the ab activity gets involved.

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Right around here through impact that's where I'm doing this kind of vertical

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movement of

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tucking my pelvis and using my abs.

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So the last step as of this progression is now when I take a full swing I'm

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going to

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just wait a little second so I'm going to go up to the top I'm going to wait

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until I get

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to about here before I get into that turtle shell movement.

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I have to be really careful if I'm used to using my back I'm probably going to

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just fly

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through the part that transition part where I'm supposed to be going into that

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ab movement.

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So I'm going to do a full length swing but I'm going to swing pretty easy more

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of like

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a tai chi style so I'm going to go up and then turtle shell movement kind of

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early in

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the downswing.

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Let's do a couple of those.

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So up to the top of the swing and then as right around there I'm going to start

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going

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into that turtle shell with rotation movement so up kind of like that so some

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slower length

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swings or some slower speed but full length and now we're going to ratchet up

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both.

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So we got a feeling of the timing last one we're going to do is more of a

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regular swing

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where we're going to feel this turtle move.

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Potentially this is where a feeling of like effortless power where the ball

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just feels

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like it jumps.

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It's a common description that a lot of my students will give me when they're

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working

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through this movement so full swing good little compact jump good strike right

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there.

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Turtle shell to fix your heel contact.