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In this contact video, we're gonna discuss the primary

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causes of heel contact.

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Um, so in this kind of contact series,

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we're gonna talk about the major issues associated

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with hitting it on different

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parts of the club or the ground.

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In this one we're gonna talk about heel contact.

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In general, heel contact comes from wherever I got set up.

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The club is going

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to be further away from me than where I set up.

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Um, this either means that I set up in a good position

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and then the club moved too far away,

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or I set up too close to the golf ball.

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Um, so let's rule out that first one

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where I set up too close to the golf ball

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and then the club comes back to a good spot.

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Um, typically that will show up where

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my body stays relatively balanced.

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We'll talk about the body causes here in a second.

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Um, but my body stays relatively balanced in the same space

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away, uh, from the golf ball,

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but from the down the line camera angle,

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when I'm getting set up,

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my hands are a little bit too close.

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They're inside of, um, the front of my shoulders

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or the middle of my neck.

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Ideally, a good setup position is going

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to be a little bit more in front of the shoulders.

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Um, if they're too close, then what will happen

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is simply making a normal swing.

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The club will get pulled further away

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and kind of in line with the shoulders and the golf ball.

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But because I started too close, it moves, uh, too far away

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and you hit it on the heel causes shank number one.

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So let's assume that you look from the down the line

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and your setup position is good.

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Now, there's a couple main causes.

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The main causes are gonna come from the body.

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Um, the body has the biggest influence on, uh, low point,

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especially the forward backward and the height location.

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Um, but the arms can contribute if the body

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is still in a good position.

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So primarily from the body, the two main causes

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of heel contact are going to be moving too far down,

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basically moving into the ground

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or into the golf ball like this or moving in.

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So moving more from my heels into my toes,

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but basically the center of my body is moving,

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uh, into the golf ball.

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The down one confuses people, uh, often they think

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that you would just hit it fat, not on the heel, but

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because the club is a fixed length, what often happens is

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as um, I'm applying some of this, uh, downward motion

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of my body in order to not slam the club into the ground,

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it ends up moving further away, kind of like that.

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So in my experience, trying to get the center of the body

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or the bottom of the rib cage, kind of this space here, uh,

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to move a little bit away

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and up, um, that helps control the space

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and has a big impact on our, um, our contact location.

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If you're moving down into it, then often happens,

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you'll hit it, you'll hit a lot of good shots,

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but then you'll hit, you'll get into a phase

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where you're hitting a bunch of shanks, um,

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and you may hit more diggy shots.

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Uh, the main causes of the body moving down

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and into the golf ball are either going to be the,

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the rib cage, kind of staying more in extension

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and moving down kind of like this as opposed to getting into

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that crunch or that turtle shell.

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Um, the weight distribution moving into your toes

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and kind of staying there

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during the downswing rather than moving towards the heels

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during the release or towards the, the left cuboid.

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Um, to be a little bit more specific,

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that kind of maintains the space.

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Um, and potentially these can be good.

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And what'll happen is if I'm really kind

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of like using my upper body

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and my shoulders to, to swing the club

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and I get kind of rounded that pulls my upper body down

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and gets me closer to the golf ball,

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that can also cause, cause the shank.

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Now, if the body isn't too far off,

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the arms can cause the shank.

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If they have a tendency to go more to out,

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they have a tendency to kind of really go out that way.

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That often will happen when the arms get pulled

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behind the body in transition.

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And then as they're catching up, uh, the club tends

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to get thrown out that way, um, or into out.

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If that's the case, then typically your good shots will have

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a pretty big draw to them.

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Um, and then your bad shots can be on

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the heel or even the shank.

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Um, but primarily I would look at the body first.

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That's the number one contributing factor

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or cause of hitting it too much on the heel.

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If that's not the case, then I'd look at the,

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uh, arm location.

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If you use this rubric

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and you kind of, I use a logical process

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of looking at impact

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and looking at your low point control,

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you'll quickly be able to identify the cause

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of your heel contact.

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Um, and then it's just a matter of picking a few drills

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that help you dial in new fields to correct the part

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of your body that is causing your primary contact issue.

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So here I've got kind of a little setup station.

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So we'll, we'll do the one where if I'm too close to it,

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that will cause me to hit it on the heel

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if I'm appropriate distance.

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Uh, but I'm sitting on my heels

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and then I simply move into my toes.

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That also causes me to hit it on the heel.

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And if my weight distribution is okay,

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but then during the swing, I have a tendency

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to move down into the golf ball,

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that will also cause me to hit it on the heel.

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Those are the primary causes of getting heel contact.

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Fix those and you'll have a different miss that you have

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to work on, but at least it won't be the heel contact,

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which is one of the most problematic.