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Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
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This video is shallowing while resisting shallowing.
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So many golfers working on the shallowing movements and trying to get the club to kind of
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fall during transition do so actively and it can cause some problems.
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Let me share kind of a little analogy.
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Imagine I'm playing football and I've got a blocker coming at me just like this.
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So I'm going to put my hand out and he's going to come in towards me and I'm pushing
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against him but he's stronger than me or he's got momentum so for a little while he's
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going to push my hand even though I'm pushing that way but then I'm going to overcome
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it and be able to continue pushing that way and get it to move.
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Similarly what should happen in transition is when this club is shallowing it's not that
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I'm pulling it this way and then pulling it that way that would take a lot of brain activity.
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Feeling like I'm going to be pushing that way but I'm doing so very subtly at first so
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at a rate less than the weight of the club had falling until I get down into that delivery
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position and then I can kind of go at it a little bit more full force.
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So during that early phase when you're getting the club to shallow it's not that you're
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actively pulling it down when you're when you're first learning it and first kind of
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experiencing the the weight of the club shallowing you may have to actively help it a little bit
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but ideally you'll be resisting it shallowing even though it's shallowing until you get down closer
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to the release and then you can actively oppose that shallowing force. So if you've struggled with
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kind of the timing and you feel like it's more of a pull one way push the other try to
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feel the subtlety of you resisting the shallowing as you're doing the shallowing and that'll
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help it blend into the zorromoves and help you blend into the release timing. So you can do the
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little pump drills and kind of exaggerate it by standing the club up vertically kind of like so
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and just get a feel of stopping the club from falling. Then what you'll do is you'll go up to
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the top of your swing, you're going to feel like it's gonna fall and you're just going to
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resist that falling. So I'm going to feel like it falls and I'm going to resist that following.
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I'm going to feel like it falls and resist and then I can go ahead and swing through. Now I
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didn't actually set up to the golf ball so we'll try one more. So if you get up to the top
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feel like it falls and resist, feel like it falls and resist and then feel like it falls and go ahead
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and continue this swing as you get down into the release. That should help you with the timing
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and the feeling of this falling movement during your transition.
