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Every tool can be useful, or harmful, if applied in the wrong way or at the wrong time. In this video, I explain how to use video to get a rough idea about how you create power, how you control the path, and how you control the face during your stock full swing. It is better to go to video as a way to identify your pattern, to monitor progress on a movement, or to look for a specific timing to an issue that you already know exists. Learn how to recognize the phases of movement in this short video.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Member Question, Intermediate
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this insight is looking at how I use
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video I frequently get the question from
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students can you take a look at the vid
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my recent video and I'll usually respond
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ok what's going on you know what are you
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hoping to accomplish from looking at the
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video usually it's because they're just
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lost then they're not really sure what
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they want to do but I try to train my
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students so that they can ultimately
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have a reason for doing anything that
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they're trying to do so the times when
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you want to use video absolutely when
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you feel lost when you don't know what
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pattern you've fallen into when you when
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you're kind of just getting started and
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you don't know how you create speed how
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you control the face how you control the
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path or if you've developed kind of a
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new series of misses and you're just
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your your your drills that have worked
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in the past aren't really solving the
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issue anymore
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you can now use video so in general I
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use video more when things are going bad
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when things are going good so if a
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student tells me hey everything's great
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but I I'm including a video where you
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take a look at it I'll say that's
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probably not the best use of our time -
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to nitpick and figure out hey something
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doesn't look right
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unless it's related to a contact a
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direction and like a performance issue
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that's what I want to use video so when
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when I do get a video and I'm we've
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decided hey I want to look at it and
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identify the pattern there's three major
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areas that I'm going to look at I'm
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gonna look for power I'm gonna look for
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a path and I'm going to look for a face
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so power typically shows up in both the
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face on in the down-the-line camera view
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power is going to show up by about there
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so the movements that the body is making
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to get the club roughly to delivery
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position give me a great idea of how
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this golfer wants to create speed how
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this golfer is going to ultimately
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create power so then we can move on to
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path and path I think is the fun one
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because path kind of blends both ends
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and both camera views so I want to look
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at path foremost base on
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down the line and path is really going
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to show up to me from about delivery
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position to that follow-through position
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between those two I can see what
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movements you're going to use to
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ultimately organize how this club path
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is swinging now club face is the the
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tricky one you're primarily going to
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want to look at down the line and
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clubface is largely going to be from
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right about here so just after
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transition to right about here just
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after delivery position you can see for
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the most part what that golfer is doing
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from the down-the-line camera angle what
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they're doing with their clubface and
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then oftentimes a lot of these things
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that you'll see at impact that kind of
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look odd are really a compensation for
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either a face or a path that's out of
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position or a reaction to how that
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golfer created power so real quick power
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is kind of that first little phase face
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is going to be that middle phase and
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then path is going to be that late phase
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kind of through there the only other
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time that I like to use video is when
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I'm hitting the ball the best that I've
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ever hit it and then I'm not going to
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analyze it I'm just going to capture it
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and save it for that next rainy day when
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my game isn't quite where I wanted to
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and I can use this now as my benchmark
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so don't get obsessed with trying to hit
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perfect positions perfect lines use
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video to get a picture of your overall
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pattern and then use contact and the
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feedback on the range and on the course
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to see if you're actually progressing as
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opposed to looking at video which may
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mask the subtle changes that are really
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critical for the difference between your
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good and your bad shots within any
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pattern