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This drill is making brushing your home base.

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So I use this concept in a variety of different ways.

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And I've been reading a book that I really like

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called Taming Your Gremlin.

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And it talks about kind of finding your inner piece

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with breathing and making that your home base.

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And if you do that first thing in the morning or

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sometime early in the day, then if you start to feel

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yourself, whether it's getting stressed out, depressed, anxious,

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you can always use that feeling of getting back to home base

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as a way to kind of dial things in.

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So I like to use brushing the ground and how the club is

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interacting with the ground as your home base.

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So anytime you're applying a new movement,

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the general sequencing that you want to do is you're going to

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practice that movement in isolation.

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Then you're going to practice that movement while getting the club

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to brush the ground in the right kind of gentle fashion

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as well as in the right location.

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And then you make a swing trying to brush the ground and just

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let the ball get in the way.

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If you stick to that process of isolate the movement

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brush the ground, let the ball get in the way,

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it makes it a lot easier for you to find your swinging

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in if you start to get lost.

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Because what you'll tend to see is that the brush pattern

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is going to change.

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Either it's going to move backward, it's going to move steeper.

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It's going to move shallower.

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We're basically you're not brushing the ground at all.

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But the general tendency is you will feel that the contact with the

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ground is going to change when your swing gets a little bit off.

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And so having this consistent kind of feeling to

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re-hone in your swing and re-establish home base will make it

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that much easier when you're trying to add any type of swing change,

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any type of swing movement.

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So if you then go to work on a transition move and you're

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saying trying to shallow the club, but then I can't do that in brush the

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ground, then you're probably not really ready to progress on a golf

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ball.

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So use mirror use video.

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See why you're having trouble brushing the ground is it that I'm

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getting my transition to steep or my shallowing with too much of my

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body and so now the club can't make it all the way to the ground.

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It really serves as a good diagnostic tool if I have if I can

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if I make any type of swing change and it makes it so that I can't brush

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the ground in the same way or even in a better way than I know that this

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is probably not going to work when a golf ball gets in the way.

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What I find with my students is there's too much guests in check.

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So they'll say, all right, I'm just going to try feeling the club a little

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bit more outside and I'll say that's great.

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But what is that going to do for your contact for your low point for your

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wide point or for this brush location?

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So from a practical standpoint, if I can make a swing and get the club to

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brush the ground in a way that I feel works, you know, I like the way it

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feels.

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I can practice it enough.

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I can tell where the club faces probably going to be.

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Then all I have to do is step up and try to get the club to brush the

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ground in exactly the same way and the ball is just going to get in the

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way.

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A lot of golfers get very ball focused and it tends to change a lot of their

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sequencing, changes a lot of their firing patterns.

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But if you train yourself to be more how the club brushes the ground focused,

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it'll make it that much easier to do any change when the ball gets in the way.