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Solid contact = balanced path.
When you change one part of your swing, such as shallowing your arms, that could make your swing too shallow if you don't also add a new steep. The common transition combo is to work on shallowing the arms and steepening with the left tilt (transition crunch). These two work together to set you up for a powerful transfer in the release.
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Transition, Advanced
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This combo drill is arm shallowing with left tilt.
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Now, oftentimes when you're working on something new,
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you're going to have to combine it with another skill in order for it to work.
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What I mean by that is if you're,
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let's say you've got a really bad over the top swing and the big scoop down at the bottom
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and early extension and standing up.
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Well, you've got a cluster going on there, but you hit good shots, right?
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Occasionally, or maybe not as often as you like,
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but throughout the round, throughout practice, you're going to hit good shots.
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Those good shots come from when your path is more or less balanced.
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Now, the problem is you have these extreme movements that are trying to balance out the path.
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Oftentimes, when you change one movement, it'll really move the path if it was an extreme movement.
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And so you'll have to disrupt or change one of the other movements to get it back to balance.
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Here's a common example.
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Many golfers get steep with their arms and then they slow down their body rotation
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and stand up a little bit.
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So they pull down kind of like this and stand up and they struggle with some contact
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misses, maybe a right path, maybe a left path, but they usually struggle with low point control.
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So oftentimes, we'll work on getting some arm shallowing.
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And what'll happen is if I do that same pivot and I shallow my arms,
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the first time I try it, I may top the ball.
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And the reason would be my body standing up is a big shallower.
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My arm shallowing now is a big shallower.
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I took away the steep.
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So now I've no longer balanced out the swing.
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Oftentimes, you're going to have to work on two things at once in order to totally balance a pattern.
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Common one is this arm shallowing with left tilt or transition crunch.
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Basically, getting my body to stay or to reflex and stay facing the golf ball instead
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of standing up.
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So they're good to work together.
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I'm going to work on that arm shallowing movement, maybe an uphump drill.
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And I'm going to work on that regaining flexion or getting into that left side or regaining
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my posture, however you want to phrase it.
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I like to call it the left tilt because that'll help you from, that'll help you do it more
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from the rib gauge so that the lower body can still lead the downswing.
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Oftentimes I find when golfers just try to regain their flex, they lose their lower body
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completely and they just turn into more of a crunch movement, not really just this increased
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tilt.
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Okay, so if I'm going to try to combo those movements together, let's say I've been practicing
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them for a little while.
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So I know what it feels like to do this left tilt.
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I know what it feels like to do this arm shallowing.
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I'm going to try and combo the two of them together.
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Get a little bit of feel, maybe do a pump drill and then give it a go with the golf ball
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down there.
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And by working on these two together, it should give me kind of a similar flight to the
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stand up as far as a amount of curve, but it'll give me different contact.
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It will give me probably different trajectory.
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This will be a little bit flatter.
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Ultimately, this will be a little bit more consistent.
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So if you're struggling with the arm shallowing, maybe you have to add a little bit of the
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left tilt or the transition crunch.
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If you're struggling with regaining your posture, maybe you're early extending, you might
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have to work on arm shallowing.
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Those two go hand in hand frequently, you need to combo the training of them together.