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Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
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Swinging with your feet together has been a successful drill used to help lots of players. Usually it is prescribed to help "tempo", but in this video, I show you how swinging with your feet together can be a great way to train the proper alignment of your forearms. If you have an overly steep arm movement in the release, you can use your body to shallow it back out, but in this drill, you don't have that option.
Tags: Release, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill is feet together shallowing.
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So if you have trouble shallowing the arms, especially down during the release section,
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what frequently will happen is if you get really steep with your arms, you'll air on
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more of a wide stance and kind of use your body to really help shallow out the club.
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So a good way to challenge that is if you put your feet together, now I'm very limited
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in my body shallowing.
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The only one, because if I side bend, I'm going to tend to lose my base of support where
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I might fall.
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So the only one I'd have left is to kind of stand up, which is also hard to do with this
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feet together.
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So in the feet together, kind of builds off that don't break my arm.
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I want to still be able to see that right elbow almost underneath the left, as opposed
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to if that right elbow gets on top, you'll be able to observe the different kind of
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leading edge contact that I'm going to get.
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So by putting my feet together, it forces me to get that shallowness purely from the arms.
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That was okay.
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I got a little steep on top of that one.
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So that one was even better.
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Managed to keep this down had really, really solid contact even though my feet were
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together.
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If you struggle with getting a lot of left rotation or not enough unhing, either of the
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two major steepening movements of the arms down in this release zone, then hitting balls
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with your feet together, just a little 9-3 kind of just like that, will help you build
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that awareness of where your arms should be in space compared to the golf ball, and then
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you can try and take that awareness and move it to your full swing where you start to add
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body speed.
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Hopefully by adding body speed, it's not going to cause you to get out of position,
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but if it does, it reveals that it's less about the arm control and more about the engine
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or how you're powering your swing, and ultimately figuring out why you're having the
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specific issue you're having will point you in the right direction on how to solve it.
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So then if I move to just standard full swings, I can try and create that same forearm
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alignment while now adding that body speed.
