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This video is solving the slide.

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So I know some golfers have taken many lessons and the thing that always shows up is

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they've got this sliding buckle where the knee gets to the outside of foot, the hip gets

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way outside and they kind of see this kind of diving down finish and they hate it.

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Most golfers who I've worked with who have that pattern complain that's the number one

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thing that they want to get away from.

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You'll see that I don't have a ton of videos on the slide because I believe that the slide

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is a compliment to a certain release style.

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So if you're going to fix your slide you've absolutely got to fix your release or you'll

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never get rid of the slide.

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The slide accompanies the flip or the trail arm going more into a kind of bending or flexing

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pattern on the way through like this where you could see that if I do that,

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if I do that movement that's going to move the bottom of the swing more away from the golf

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ball like this and it doesn't have a whole lot of shaft rotation.

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So if I had shaft lean and hit it early the club face would be pointing to the right.

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So in order to give myself more time to close the club face or more space to close the club

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face and to get the path going more out to the right what I'll do is I will slide my body

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ahead which moves the bottom of the swing forward moves the path more out to the right

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and gives me room to hopefully close the club face.

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We still kind of see more of a chunk or picking pattern with these slide flipers but in my

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experience you cannot fix the slide without fixing the release first because if let's say

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I've got a stick here and I've set it up in place so that I can make sure that my body stays

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more behind kind of like this. If I have that same release pattern then the ball goes way off to

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the right and you can see I'm going to do my best to keep the same release. I'm giving myself

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a little bit more wiggle room. I'm going to do my best to keep the same release

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and I'm going to slide forward and you see that I can get that to go straight.

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Now I wasn't able to do that with a whole lot of power so what I'll do next is I will

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move this a little bit out of the way. I will slide forward get that scoop release and then

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really let that right side come through after the slide. Now I have a little knee issue for

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issue so I'm going to turn my foot out to make that easier but I'm going to

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slide kind of jump and you'll see I can hit it fairly solid I have pretty high ball flight

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comes up a little bit shorter. So now if I'm going to break that habit if I'm going to get myself

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out of this slide I'm going to have to change the release pattern where else if I just stay centered

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that club face is going to be open and I'm going to hit fat because the bottom swing is going to

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be behind and the club face hasn't rotated enough. So I need to get more of the white movement

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or the arms more across my body or back out in front of my chest and I need to get more of that

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kind of trail arm cover that palm strike or finger release feeling where I get the handle out in front

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and kind of de-loft or cover. Now once I've got a good feeling of what to do with the release then

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I'm welcome to use a stick as a slide kind of feedback tool just to give myself some

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spatial awareness and I'll show you two different ways that I like to use it. One would be putting

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it just outside you don't want to put it outside the heel you want to put it outside the edge

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of the midfoot. So basically you're going to put it outside where the kind of the point of your

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picky toe sticks out. So if the difference would be if I have my foot turned out like this and I get

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my knee over the center of my foot I would still hit the stick if it was by my heel but if it's

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in line with my midfoot then I'm not going to hit the stick so it serves as a better feedback.

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So I've got that in line with that midfoot far enough behind me so that I would hit it with this

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but not so far forward that I would hit it with my hands. Now in order to solve it I have to get

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more the white movement and those arms in front so now I can stay behind and still get the

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bottom of the swing far enough out in front. Kind of like that pulled it a little bit to make

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sure that I or because I was making sure that I stayed way behind the stick. So option number one

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was on the outside of the knee or outside of the foot. Option number two is on the inside. This is

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similar to the adductor merry-go-round and basically what I'm going to do is I'm going to feel

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I'm going to do some nine to threes and I'm going to feel like this left leg is going to stay

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closer to that stick. It's not going to stay up against it so I'm not going to actually bring the

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thigh back. It's just to serve as a reference that I don't want to get my right leg sliding way over there.

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So I'm going to end what you'll find is you have to do shorter shots because at some point

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this will get in the way and prevent me from getting to a full finish. So we're going to do a little

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bit more of a nine to three feeling and I'm going to feel you're all we'll kind of exaggerate one

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on get a little bit of tension. So kind of staying more in contact and you'll see towards the end of

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that nine to three my thigh did come up against it so it's more for just kind of feeling that

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initial transition move or all the way through until the end of kind of the arm extension but then

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once the body rotates through it's a little bit limiting. So you can play around with doing shorter

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shots with it on the inside which I really like or longer shots where you have the stick on the outside

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just to give you a little bit more spatial awareness. But remember that the way that you're really

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going to solve your flip is by getting more of that white or sorry the way you're going to fix your

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slide is by getting more of that white movement with the arms through the release.