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Swing Plane Simplified - Working with steeps and shallows
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Tags: Fundamentals, Intermediate, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to look at the steep and shallow flow chart.
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So in the steep and shallow flow chart, I basically show you the different movements and
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how they contribute to the path of a club.
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So you'll see that there are every movement that I do is going to create a little bit
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of speed.
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It's going to adjust the face, but one of the big factors is it's going to adjust the
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path of the club.
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If I was to do all these movements, they cause shallow.
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So the major movements that are going to cause shallow are going to be side bending to
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the right, extending my spine or extending my hips or just extending and rotating to the
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right.
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So if I do those three movements during the downswing, so if I side bend to the right and extend
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and rotate to the right, this is what would happen.
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I would end up looking kind of like so.
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Now if we looked at the arm movements, if my arm is going to be getting further away from
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me, if my arms are going to be lifting.
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So my wrist straightening, all these factors are going to get the club further away from
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me, which makes the bottom of the club a little bit more shallow.
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So now if I add those, I go up to the top of the swing and then I side bend to the right,
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I extend and I rotate to the right and then I extend my arms.
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You could see that this would probably be about as in the out as I could swing considering
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I am facing a golf ball like so and I use only shallow movements.
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It would kind of look something like that.
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And I would be so shallow and so far back behind the golf ball.
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The path would be so far in out that I have no chance of actually hitting the golf ball.
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So I'm going to have to add at least a couple of steps.
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Now if we look at the opposite, if I was to make the steep movements, so the steep movements
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for a rain and golfer are going to be bending to the left, they're going to be rotating
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to the left and they're going to be flexing forward like so.
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So now if I set up to the golf ball and I was to make those movements, so this will
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be a little tough to do from the top of the swing.
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But if I was to flex forward, if I was to side bend to the left and then I was to rotate
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like so, you could see that that would cause a club that would come down very, very steep
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in the ground and wait in front of the golf ball.
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Now if I was to then add the arm movements that cause steepening or basically bending
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the arm in, keeping that left wrist flat, keeping that right wrist cut and chopping down
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with my shoulders, so working more down like there we go.
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That's probably a steep in our movement as I can do.
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So now if I was to do all those movements, so I'm going to side bend to the left, rotate
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to the left, flex forward, you can see that's pretty much as steep as I could possibly
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do.
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So now these are obviously too crazy extremes because if I'm trying to hit that golf ball
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there, I'm obviously not going to have the bottom of my swing coming like so and I'm
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not going to have the bottom of my swing coming like so.
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But it's interesting to note that I can make a swing where comfortably I had the club
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working almost perpendicular to the target line this way or perpendicular to the target
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line that way.
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To find my ideal path, I'm going to blend these movements.
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So what's frequently going to happen is during transition, I'm going to side bend slightly
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to the right like so.
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I'm going to slightly flex forward and I'm going to start rotating to the left.
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So that's causing a little bit of a steep movement of my body, right?
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If I was to just from here extend those arms boom, we may contact with the ground like so.
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But at the same time, my arms are going to work in more of a shallow move.
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So they're going to flatten like so and get in a little bit narrower.
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Like that.
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Then during the release, I'm going to side bend to the right.
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I'm going to extend a little bit and I'm going to continue rotating to the left.
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So that's adding a bit of shallow.
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In addition, I am going to extend those arms while not fully extending those wrists until
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just before impact, you know, kind of somewhere in there.
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So that's adding shallow steep.
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Really all these combination of movements are going to blend to give me what I want.
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With the driver, airing more towards shallowness, typically going to help with the wedges,
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airing more towards steepness is typically going to help.
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But ultimately, you have to work on balancing both of them to give you the right path
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for the shot that you're trying to hit.
