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This concept video, we're going to discuss the member question.

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How do I figure out my matchups?

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So I mentioned a number of times about Jack Nicholice's comment that most good players

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have three to five keys that make their swing work.

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And basically when they're warming up or throughout the season, they're when they're off,

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it's one of those three to five keys.

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In order to figure out your three to five keys, you're going to have to experiment

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with a number of different pieces.

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But I want to give a quick little guide as to how you're likely going to figure them out,

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how I figured out mine and how a lot of my students have figured out theirs.

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So typically, we're going to start with video.

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We want to have a model we want to have a guide as to where we're trying to get to.

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That way we're not just going off of the feel of contact.

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There's sometimes where you'll hit it great, but if the video doesn't change,

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then it's usually not sustainable.

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It's only in the last for a day or round a few balls, who knows.

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But so the video will help guide the overall progress as far as the big pieces that you're

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going to work on.

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And then what you'll typically find is you'll either have areas that consistently

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help solve the same problem of multiple times.

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Or you'll have consistent areas where any time you work on it, you get worse.

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So I'll talk through each of those.

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So the first one is the ones that make it better.

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So let's say you consistently have the same problem.

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Let's say you're hitting it fat because you're getting too much tilt like this.

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And so one day you notice on on video and you set up a pool noodle and you work on your upper body

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covering the ball kind of like this.

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Well, you feel that okay, that upper body covering the ball.

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I hit the ball great that day.

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It was working good for a couple of practices and then I started hitting it fat.

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I looked at it on video and I was falling back into this pattern.

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I quickly remembered, oh, I need to get more on top and I started to hit it well again.

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So when the same issue solves the same problem multiple times in a row.

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Usually, I say at least three times in a row,

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that's usually going to be one of your keys.

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Now what could have all of it with that is maybe the first time I feel like my chest is covering

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my lower body.

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Maybe the second time I feel like my lower body is rotating or staying more centered instead of

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kind of too much tilt or too much slide.

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I might feel like my hips are back.

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I might feel a complimentary piece to it and that can either become one key.

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Like my whole pivot feels this way or two keys.

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Hips back chest forward and I almost never chunk the ball.

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So it solves a specific problem.

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So that would be how you're going to build your keys the first version.

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The second version is sometimes there are things that you consistently see and you try to work on.

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And whenever you work on it, it gets worse.

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That just means that you haven't quite figured out the part and it's so ingrained in your swing

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that if you try to disrupt it, it's going to break some of the other patterns.

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Give you an example of maybe someone who tends to pull down in transition.

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And anytime they work on shallowing, they do it too much with the body or they do it late.

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Like it doesn't actually change the pattern.

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If that's the case, then in the short term, I would say, okay that's part of my pattern.

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I'm not going to be able to change that today.

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I'm going to wait until I have enough time to really work on it.

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So I'm probably going to work on complementary keys.

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If that's the case, I might work on wherever rhythm or timing.

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And that could become one of my three to five keys.

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So I'll tell you, mine for this year have revolved around either using my abs.

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I actually had a hernia surgery two years ago.

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So I've done a bunch of work for getting my core working better.

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And that's freed me up to feel some things that I wasn't able to feel previously.

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So there's a feeling that I get in my abs, especially during transition.

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When I do that, there's a completely different rhythmic feel.

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And it feels like a good feel, like a effortless power type scenario.

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So my key number one this year has been using my abs.

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Part of that revolves around a little bit better, a little bit less slide and a little bit better

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bracing. And then to compliment that, I've had to work a little bit more on the wipe and a little

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bit more on the older deviation. So over the course of this year, most of the weeks when I've

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hit the ball really well and played pretty well in some of the playing lessons, my keys have been

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on one of those three pieces or sometimes two or even all three of those pieces.

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There have been times where it was a blend of abs and release that kind of encompass those three

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keys for me. I've experimented with a number of different things, whether it's a backswing pivot,

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whether it's a loading, whether it's lengthening to try to get a little bit more speed.

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And those are kind of part of the long-term goal, but right now my three keys that help me play the

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ball really well are hit the ball really well, feeling the abs, getting a little bit more of that

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trail arm wipe and then getting that good owner deviation all the way through impact.

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When I do that, it consistently solves my pattern of getting a little bit picky or a little

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thin with my contact and hitting a little bit more of an overdraw. Those go away, I hit the ball

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much more solid and far when I've worked on those keys and they've cycled. I haven't worked on them

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explicitly the entire time. It might be I work on the wipe for a couple of practices. I started

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drifting, I work on the wipe again, I started drifting to something new, I come back to it,

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but what I've noticed is over this year, the times when I hit the ball great, it's root. It's,

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I've had the same problem I was trying to solve, both on video and contact wise, and those three

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keys have been how I've been able to solve it. So when you use video and to dial in your feedback

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and you figure out how to change the picture, those will likely contribute to your keys

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and as you work through them and consistently the same keys, all the same problems,

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you'll become more confident, more durable and more resilient and being able to maintain your

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higher level of ball striking. All right, so let's see if we can throw one together where we get

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all of our keys. So we're going to feel the ab with the the white movement for me and then the

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owner deviation late. So a little bit of the overdraw, didn't quite feel the ab, the way that I

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wanted felt a little bit too much lagging back. So let's do that one more time. This time we're

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going to really focus on the ab feel we had the other day. There we go. So that I covered it a

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little bit more the wind took it late but it came out just the way that I want. So now I can

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challenge it by picking different targets, working on different lengths of swings and tempos,

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changing clubs, but I've got my keys ready to go play. Kind of like that.