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This drill is unhinged training with the pool noodle, so if you tend to get

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steep

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down towards the bottom of the swing, so let's say or in transition, but

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because

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of what's going on in the bottom of the swing, then what will happen is

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typically

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the club will get outside here. Now we have a couple different visual ways that

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you can work on being aware of the path of the club, but I find that having a

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perpendicular pool noodle like this can be quite helpful or effective for

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helping train that spatial awareness. So all I've done is I took an old tripod

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and stuck half a pool noodle on it, so now I've got a nice soft barrier if I

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were

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to make contact. Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get set up or I'm gonna

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position the club so that I'm set up and then basically I'm going to bring the

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pool noodle so that it just gives me a very small margin of error from the

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down the line. I'm going to be tough here to make myself swing a little bit

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more

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from the inside. Now to help myself make sure that I stay at about the same

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distance in line with the pool noodle, I'm just going to put a couple teas so

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that

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I know that the golf ball is roughly in between those teas. Now I can do nine

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to

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three training or I could do full swing training and I will be able to have a

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little bit of a extra spatial awareness. If I were to maintain that hinge and

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not

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get the club down to the ground through there, then the club would hit into the

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pool noodle. So as long as I have a pretty good pivot and the club swings

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more from the inside there, then I know that I did a good job of owner dev

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iating

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or unhinging. Now if I tend to do this movement and what commonly happens the

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first few times I'll have students try this if they're used to doing more of a

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you know steep move or radial deviation move or it's getting on top more like

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this, then what'll happen is the first few times that they get under it'll go

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like that and the ball will go 30 yards off to the right even on a little half

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shot. So then what that's telling us is that a large reason why you are getting

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on top of it is to close the face and so then you may need to work on that

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combo

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of owner deviation and the motorcycle move. So you may need to work on getting

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the club face a little bit more square so that when you then owner deviate and

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come through the club face it or the ball goes straight even though you swung

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from the inside. So this can be a very useful tool for training your path

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instead

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of necessarily trying to always feel the perfect movements. You can use

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spatial awareness like this to help calibrate the movements. This can be very

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helpful for training that owner deviation path and if you tend to get more

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of steep or pulls or slices there's a good chance that you might need to do

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some

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owner deviation training and putting a little pool noodle right here in line is

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a great way to establish a good spatial awareness and make sure that you're

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doing it correctly. So now I've done a few nine to threes let's do a little bit

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more of a full swing. So pretty good there didn't quite get the club face

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around. Steeping it a little bit because I'm now hitting out of the divots from

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those nine to three drills. One downside with station training is unless you're

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using a tee you're gonna end up hitting out of divots.

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That's a little bit better there. So use this little spatial awareness from

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down

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the line to help train the path of the club from the early part of the release

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into impact.