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Find Your Best Swing Quickly
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Working on your swing can be less painful if you follow this simple 3-step recipe:
- Change the movement in isolation
- Brush the ground while making the new movement combination
- Brush the ground and let the ball get in the way while making the new movement combination.
By following this three step process, you'll have the best chance of noticing why you are struggling to work in a new move. Knowing why a move is challenging for your swing will help you uncover how to improve it if you are sensitve to the timing of the set back. Is it when you swing harder? Is it when you swing softer? If it specific lies or clubs? Can you do it in a 9-3 but not in a full swing? Can you hit the ball solidly in a full swing but not a 9-3?
With good problem solving, you'll be able to make any swing change stick over time and enjoy a higher level of ball striking consistency than you are capable of right now.
Playlists: Find Your Best Swing Quickly, Beginner Program, Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
Tags: Poor Contact, Mental Game, Impact, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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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.
