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This concept video is visualizing uneven lives. So in other videos I

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demonstrate what we do on uneven lives but in this video I'm just going to use

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this flat plane here and the hula hoop to show a rough representation of what

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we're trying to do. So if we if we brought the club in or the hula hoop in

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and we assume that we're making a bit of a swing that has a shape kind of like

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this you can see that there's a certain amount of space here as the club's

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coming in from a shallow path and then it's making contact with the ball and

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then there's the low point and then it starts coming up. Well when I have a

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different lie there are some swings where this swing shape would have to be

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adjusted there are others where this would be fine. So here the bottom of the

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swing is behind it just like so. If I had the ball slightly above my feet and I

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didn't change my swing you could see that now the hula hoop is coming too

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steeply into the ground so I want to use my pelvis to angle the swing a little

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bit more with the slope. Let's go back and reset. Here's my normal swing. If I

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was

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to have a ball below my feet you can see that the bottom of the swing now moved

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backward or sorry downhill lie not ball below my feet. The bottom of the swing

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moved backward a few inches behind back over here and now I would hit it in the

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middle of the ball unless I angled my body with the slope and got the low point

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back out in front. Those ones are pretty easy to imagine I just have to use my

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pelvis tilt to kind of control the low point. Now the sometimes the trickier

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ones

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are if the ball gets more above my feet kind of like this now you can see that

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coming from the inside I have a little bit of extra space where if the ball was

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below my feet now the club is on the ground back here or the arc is on the

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ground back here so when the ball is below my feet what you'd want to do is

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have the swing a little bit more outside in just like so and that's part of the

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reason why when the ball is below your feet and outside in is more likely to

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make solid contact with the golf ball and outside in is going to happen largely

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because your upper body is bent a little bit more forward and that outside in

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path is why in addition to what happens to the face when it's below your feet

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that's what causes a little extra fade or what a lot of golfers do when the

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balls below their feet is they hit pulls and that's because when the balls

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below your feet you're naturally going to swing a little bit more outside in

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and

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this little visual helps you understand why when the ball is above your feet

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like

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so it's easier to stand a little bit taller and you can swing a little bit

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more from the inside and still get away with it so essentially when the ball is

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above your feet you can swing more from the inside and you'll have more space

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for the club to come from here because the ground will be out of the way when

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the ball is below your feet if you came from the inside the ground would get in

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your way sooner so you'd want to swing more outside in so if you struggle with

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either the ball below your feet or ball up above your feet you can work on some

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of the concepts in other videos on how to get the path either a little bit more

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outside in or a little bit more outside inside out and recognize that when the

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ball is above and below your feet you're not going to be able to use your legs

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quite as effectively for power so it might be a good idea to not try and hit

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it the normal distance that you would off a flat lie if the ball is uphill or

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if the ball is downhill you're going to use your pelvis to help shift the low

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point but you don't have to change the swing shape if you did want to change

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the swing shape then when the ball is downhill like this you get a little

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extra margin of error if you swing more outside in and if the ball is uphill

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you'll

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get a little bit more margin of error if you swing inside out but those are not

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required for those shots for this one when the ball is uphill and downhill it's

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more about controlling low point so use this little visual anytime you're

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facing a trouble shot where you have a weird lie either around the greens or

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from the fairway it'll help you with visualizing how you're going to make

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solid contact