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This content video is rhythm path training.

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So many golfers, especially beginning golfers, need to have a better understanding of what

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the path of the club is going to look like.

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And so when I'm training them, I'll usually take one of our little safety ribbons and attach

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it to the club head just like so.

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And then I'll take some swings and let them see basically where the ribbon is moving throughout

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the swing.

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And then I might have them take some swings and we'll put it on video and you can get

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some pretty clear ideas as far as the overall shape of the swing a little bit easier

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when you have the comet tail or basically the ribbon path.

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Now it's pretty easy to see from the down the line whether it's coming, whether it's

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coming too much from the inside or too much outside or pretty straight down there at

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the bottom kind of like that.

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But the view that is often misbiemateurs is looking at it more from the face on.

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So from the face on, I like to see a circle with the wedges and a ellipse with the

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driver and I'll show them what that looks like.

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If I stayed tall and just kind of swing my arms like this, you can see that I've got

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a pretty good path but you can see that the overall shape of the ribbon is very much circular

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and the bottom of it is right underneath me and then it starts coming up pretty quickly.

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What the better golfers tend to do is by having a little bit of some body sequencing,

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a little bit of lag and arm shallowing, they'll tend to get more of a look where it's

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flat down at the bottom instead of a pure circle.

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And that flatness down at the bottom helps give you a little bit of margin of air for

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increase repeatability.

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So if you're not quite sure what your swing looks like and you're having a hard time

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seeing your path, especially if you don't have, let's say really high speed video, then

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tying a ribbon to your club can often be very helpful for understanding and visualizing

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overall path of the club.

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Now there are three main priorities that's swinging golf club.

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One is the path which we cover here but this single training aid doesn't discuss or doesn't

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focus on either the face control or how you're creating speed.

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And the face control could show up as if you could do this really good path and the ball

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is curving or flying all over the place, then it means that you probably have more of

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a face control problem than a path problem.

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So this can serve as a diagnostic as well or as well as clarifying the overall image of

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what you want the swing to look like.

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It does become hard to hit golf balls with this but it is possible.

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So I'll try and demonstrate one for you.

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The ribbon and the tape will disrupt a little bit and oftentimes this is a one and

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done.

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Sometimes hitting the golf ball will cause it to go flying and sometimes the ribbon

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getting caught around you can be pretty disruptive.

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So be a little bit patient with yourself.

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In order to swing it you have to make sure that it kind of has a nice that it's not tangled

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at the beginning as well.

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So here we'll try demonstrating one.

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So again, not always easy to make the most centered contact but if you look at that on video,

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it can often help you to see your overall path tendencies.

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Here are a couple quick examples of how I use the ribbon path and video in the force

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square drill to help train a junior golfers path.

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So I usually put the force square down on the ground and do a few things just to kind

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of give them some visuals and then let them see on video either with the slow motion here

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or with the overhead camera to see where the path of the club is actually coming.

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And I find that most golfers are able to make the path corrections relatively quickly.

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So here's what you may experience when you're working through this.

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We can see that this golfer has some club face issues and so this golfer tends to swing

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more from box two to box four in order to get the club face pointing at the target.

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So we looked at on video and decided to work on the path first and then the second half of the

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lesson working on the face.

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So this was him kind of going through in slow motion just kind of guiding the club through

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roughly where it needs to swing.

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Now he's putting a little bit more of a fluid motion through there.

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You can see it's still kind of thinking he's thinking his way through the motion.

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Then with a few more swings now we're getting a little bit more dynamic movement with a path

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going through the gate or through box one to box three.

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After that we did a little grip change and worked on some club face and he was proud that

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he was able to hit some very straight shots.

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So the ribbon path training can be very helpful for golfers of all ages to learn path,

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but I find it especially helpful for juniors.