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Training different length backswings is more than just shortening a motion. By training different length swings, you'll reveal if you have a barrier to certain ranges of your swing, or if your sequence is off. If your sequence/rhythm is good, then you're swing will be less susceptible to timing changes involved in different length swings.
9 to 3 is useful for training the release, impact location, and building a repeatable recovery shot from the trees.
10 to 2 is useful for training your punch shot, your wedge game, and how centered your pivot is
Full swing is useful for training your maximum power swing
I highly recommend you get in the habit of training all three each practice.
Tags: Poor Contact, Concept
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This video is 93 tend to two full swing.
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So this concept video is just a quick reminder of the progressions you want to work
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through when you're practicing on impact or practicing working on solid contact.
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A lot of golfers just like to try to take full swings and kind of lash at it and go
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at one speed.
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There can be some simplicity in that, but it tends to have less carry over or it tends
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to have less quick improvements compared to if you break it down and take it a little
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bit more in a baby step fashion.
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So the prescription I normally give is we're going to work on swings where we're going
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to do 93 which is bringing you back to about belly button height and then we're going to
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do 10 to 2 which is bringing the hands back to about chest height and then we're going to
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do full swing which is bringing the club up close to parallel or hands up to about shoulder
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height.
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So you can also work with kind of a slow tempo, medium tempo, full tempo if you really
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want to kind of dial it in and give yourself more opportunity.
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Usually what will happen is if you're struggling with low point control, if you're struggling
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with solid contact, a lot of golfers use effort to try to mask technique.
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If you are doing this with pretty good technique then you can do shorter and slower and
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still make solid contact.
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But if you are used to a certain effort, if you're used to swinging hard with your arms
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and balancing it out with the body, if you try to shorten it or slow it down it disrupts
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your timing and you end up making worse contact.
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So a sign that you actually have better technique is that you can either slow it down,
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shorten it and still get the same contact.
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Also being able to practice the different length backswings can be useful on the course.
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Usually the 10 to 2 is more when we're going to hit kind of a flated punch shot.
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We use that on a lot of the shots inside 100 yards and the 9 to 3 can be really useful
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on your punch recovery shots out of the trees because with the shorter swing it will tend
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to hit it low.
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So if you're used to doing that with a 7 iron or 6 iron it won't be too big of a problem
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if you need to hit kind of a low recovery shot that goes about 100 yards out of the
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trees.
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So while you're working through these low point drills I highly recommend that you work
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this length of swing progression into your practice.
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So 10 to 2, 9 to 3, full swing, trying to get the same contact or the same kind of low point
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look on video.
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That'll help you identify where your sequence is breaking down, where you might be kind
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of compensating.
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It can be a really good diagnostic as well as a really good training tool.
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So let's say I'm just working on the merry-go-round so I'm working on impact position.
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Now I'm going to do a 9 to 3 getting into that impact position.
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Now I'm going to do a reminder of that impact position.
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Now we're going to do a little bit bigger swing.
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Pretty close to the same maybe just a tiny bit heavier.
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So perhaps I got a little loss in my backswing or perhaps the longer swing messed up my
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transition.
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Now we'll go fuller swing.
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Working on that preset impact fix, merry-go-round up to close to a full swing.
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So you can see the benefit in working on this progression is I could start to identify.
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Well hey, when I go to the 10 to 2 I start to get in the little bit of trouble.
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That might be the zone that I want to train today.
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So 9 to 3, 10 to 2 full swing.
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If you get in the habit of doing that either with slow or regular speed that'll help serve
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as a really good diagnostic tool as to where your swing is getting off as well as a sequencing drill
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to make sure that you're doing all these movements in unison or in rhythm.