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In this drill video, we're going to talk about practicing swing plane or the functional

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swing plane, which is basically the path of the club from waist height to waist height.

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Now I like to have a little bit of visual feedback whenever I'm working on swing plane

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when my players.

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So I've got two different versions here.

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The first prototype was with a pillowcase.

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You basically take the pillowcase and cut little holes all the way down and then just

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thread a alignment stick through it, same thing on the other side and then you put it in

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the ground with a little bit of tension and it kind of holds a little bit of a plane.

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It's nowhere near as good as version two.

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This is the one that I really like.

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This is just a collapsible sunshade.

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You can get them at target for about $7.

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Did the same thing just kind of cut holes and then place the alignment sticks and it just pops

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up right into place and then we've got an adjustable swing plane.

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So when we look at video, if the camera is positioned correctly, what you'll see is from

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about waist height to waist height, the grip and the hazzle will follow this line or if we

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connect all those dots, it'll follow this imaginary plane.

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Well this takes the imaginary and makes it look a little bit more real.

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So what you can do is you can set up just off of the swing plane so that it's at about

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the same angle as your club.

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This is a little steeper so I'll drop it down just slightly.

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Good.

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So now that's about the same angle as my club and what that'll do is that'll give me kind

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of a visual of how I want the club to swing between this waist height and waist height.

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If you tend to get stuck or come too much from the inside, you'd hit the swing plane there

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and you'd have a lot of space on the way through.

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You'll feel like you swing a little bit more to the left.

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If you're in the more typical or the high handy capper, you're going to swing probably

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more outside and you'll have a lot of space there and this would get in the way on the

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way through.

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Now the great thing about the swing plane, there's the at home swing plane trainer.

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I don't have a great name for it.

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But the ways that you can use it are you can set up with a golf ball just on the other

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side and you can either take full swings or do nine to three working on coming through

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with the club pretty close to parallel to the swing plane the whole time or you can slide

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it underneath.

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If you're an over the top swinger, this will be very scary because that's going to take

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up all the space that I normally see the club coming in and then I can practice taking

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those swings hitting those nine to three.

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They don't like when I hit them in the weeds but the swing plane or it's very collapsible

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fits in your bag.

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Just get a collapsible sun shade, thread some needles and this will help you work on the

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path aspect and then all you really have to practice is controlling the face using

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things like the motorcycle or the screwdriver move or whatever drills that I pointed

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you to this isolates path and then you can work exclusively on the face because most players

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when they adjust one tend to adjust the other this helps you isolate.