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This is the tilt station.

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So the tilt station is great for working on access tilt.

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Your driver versus iron, where you want your body in space.

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So there are two big masses in your body.

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Your lower body, your pelvis, and then you got your upper body, or your rib cage, or

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your chest.

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So the tilt station helps you differentiate between a driver, where you want your upper

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body tilted behind to an iron, where you want your upper body more covering.

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So it's pretty simple to set up.

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I've got some teas on the ground here.

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So I've got the brown tea here represents where my ball position will be.

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And then I have another tea that's about 46 inches or about your driver head width behind.

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And then I've added a 3D spatial awareness element.

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So I've got this second alignment stick.

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And normally I would put some soft object on it just to make it stand out.

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But it's a little windy today.

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So we'll see if it will cooperate.

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So now I have another tea in line with the ball position, and you can see this isn't going

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to work.

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You will be able to visualize, or you'll see the orange stick.

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But normally I have it extending all the way so that it's actually physically more

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in my field of view.

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So with the driver, I'm going to set up so that my ear is basically in line with this

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alignment stick, even though the ball position is going to be in line with my left foot.

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So yes, I want your ball position forward, but I want to have a little bit of this tilt

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of your upper body behind the ball.

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This helps create more of this flat spot so that I can sweep the ball off the tea rather

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than hit down onto it.

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Now with the iron, I'm going to keep the same ball position, but now I'm going to make

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sure that my head is ahead of the stick instead of behind it.

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This will be easier because my stance will be a little bit narrower with the iron rather

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than with the driver.

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So I keep the extra teas there just so when I hit the ball off the tea, it's easy to

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recreate or reset up the station.

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And you can either, if you're struggling with one versus the other, you can either hit

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a bunch of the one that you're struggling with, or if you're getting more proficient,

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you want to work on your skills while you're putting in reps.

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You can go back and forth, hitting driver, then iron, working on tilt.

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The most common problems I see with the driver are either a, you lose sight of this

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and everything gets on top of it from a tilt perspective.

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Or b, you keep your upper body behind it, but your lower body stays behind it as well.

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And when everything stays behind it, you can see as I swing, I tend to cut more across

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it and I tend to swing down into the ball.

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So the goal is the lower body at impact is going to be over that front foot while the upper

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body is far enough back, just like so.

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With the iron, you're going to want both on top of the lower body or ahead of the alignment

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stick.

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Now we'll demo a couple where we're going back and forth.

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Here I've got my head positioned behind this alignment stick and then I can see it out of

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my peripheral.

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I'm going to make sure that my upper body stays behind.

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Now first I'm going to do more of a nine to three version.

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So I'm just going to get used to the lower body being forward, the upper body being back

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as my arms extend.

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I actually want the furthest point where my upper body is the most back to be in that

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follow through position or at the end of my release.

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So we'll build on it and go into bigger swings.

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But we'll start with nine to three, jump to ten to two and then up to full swing.

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Okay, so now we're going to do the ten to two version.

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So I'll set up, stay in behind, lower body gets forward.

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That was a little bit bigger in the follow through than ten to two, but that was pretty

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good to my ten to two back swing or three quarter back swing.

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I felt like I did a good job of staying back as a release.

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It was a really good sweeping, nice ball flight.

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So now that I've done it in the two kind of warm up versions or the two build up versions

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of the swing, next we're going to do the full swing.

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So now I'm going to, I'm not necessarily going to full swing full.

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I'm still going to stay in kind of more of a training like 80% tempo, but I am going to

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take more of a full length back swing and focus on even though I'm going to shift or

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do a little bit of that Jackson 5 bump.

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I'm going to make sure that my upper body doesn't go past this alignment section.

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So even with it.

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And so that felt like I stayed behind it.

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I could confirm on video to check and see when I did or to make sure that I did.

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So what will happen is once I get past this point, the momentum of the club will pull

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me forward.

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And so it can be, for golfers who have a tendency to get more of this lunge ahead of the golf

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ball and struggle with angle to tackle with the driver, I find doing the 10 to 2 is where

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you're going to make sure you stay behind the whole time.

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It's almost more beneficial than when you're doing the full swing.

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Okay, so now we're going to go back and forth.

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So we're going to put it driver down.

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We're going to keep the same ball position so that the stick works with the iron just

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like the driver.

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But now I'm going to try and stay ahead of the stick.

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As I make my 9 to 3 or 10 to 2 swing.

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So now we'll do a little bit bigger.

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So I had a feeling of staying on top of it.

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Now we're going to go to the driver to eat up in the same ball position that way this stick

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will work as the same reference.

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Right about there.

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And now I'm going to try and stay behind it.

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So I just did one where I felt like I was on top.

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Now I'm going to do one where I feel like I'm behind.

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But my lower body is still going to get forward.

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So I'm pre-setting that mentally, that mental checklist of what I'm trying to do during

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this driver swing.

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Tiny bit of toe contact, but pretty good ball flight.

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I felt like I stayed behind.

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Maybe didn't quite get the lower body dynamics that I was going for.

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But overall good position that definitely would have hit the fairway.

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So if you're struggling with either the driver or the iron, this tilt station can help

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you get aware if the major issue is from your axis tilt.

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If it's not, then it could be related more to a pivot issue or more of a sequencing issue.

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And we explore those in some other video.