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This concept video is troubleshooting impact.
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Now, there's, again, impact is just a blur within a movement.
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So there's a lot of factors going in, but there are some common things that we can look at.
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There are roughly five common errors that I see with a improper, inefficient impact position.
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One would be, instead of having that weight left,
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you're going to have your weight more centered.
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So if I drew that line straight up from your hip,
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it's not going to touch your pelvis.
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Your pelvis is going to be more in the middle of your body.
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Now, the more that the pelvis is in the middle of the body,
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the more that it's going to have the tendency to move the ball or move the low point of your swing
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further back and shift the path a little bit more to the left.
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So what you would expect to see is as the weight goes back this way,
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you would have a little bit more of a thin contact or more of a pick of the ball.
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Or if you didn't, you would hit it well-fed.
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Also, you would tend to hit the ball a little bit more out on the toe because of the path going
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a little bit more to the left.
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So we'll pay attention to that, make sure that your left leg is getting over that left hip.
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But normally, if you're having a hard time getting here at impact,
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it's usually a transition error more than it is a pure concept error or an error in what you think
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you're supposed to be doing at impact.
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So review the transition section if I pointed to the left hip being an issue.
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The next one would be standing up.
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So if I face this way, imagine I'm hitting the golf ball into the net over there,
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what will happen will be instead of having that lateral bend like so.
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I will tend to stand up with my upper body.
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Now there's a variety of different reasons why you might want to stand up.
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One, it can create power to it prevents me from hitting it fat.
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But some of the big ones would be that it can really help square the club face.
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So if you have a hard time squaring the club face, like if you feel like when you stay down
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and you get your hands ahead, you shank the ball or you hit it way off to the right,
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it's really a sign that you're not comfortable with how to release the club and you're not
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quite sure what the hands should do during transition.
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So you'll get there when you get to the sections or if you've gone through this a second time,
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go back and review the release drills because that's probably a big reason why you're standing
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up.
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Standing up causes a very quick closing of the club face.
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So if a club face is very open after delivery position, standing up does one of the best
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ways of getting it to square.
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Similar to the standing up would be the hands back.
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So just having my hands back like so, more off the right half of the body instead of off
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the left half of the body.
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Again, this is typically a release air and a way for me to get the club face to point at my target
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as opposed to if I get the hands ahead and I'm not quite sure how to square the club with
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just my hands, it will tend to point off to the right.
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So that's usually a good indication when the hands are back right here that either I'm not sure
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how to get from transition to release or I'm not sure how to release the club.
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Now, often those two go together with one exception.
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Like often you will have stand up, wait back, and your hands early released.
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The exception would be if you get wait forward but your upper body goes with it.
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Now if I was to hold on to the angle with my wrist, I would basically slam the club very
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steeply in the ground.
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Often I would top the ball because that I wouldn't have the right shoulder down low enough
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to get me close enough to the golf ball.
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So I would slam it in that way.
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Again, if you're having trouble with getting this right side then it's usually a sign
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that you're not quite sure how to release the club through here and all you can do is have
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the arms extend out towards the ball.
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So your upper body is a great compensator for arms that don't quite know what they're
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supposed to be doing.
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This is part of the reason that we've put so much emphasis on the release in the movement
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section.
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And the last one would be the left arm bending through impact.
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Now this can happen if you stay down pretty well.
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But again this is a way to narrow the arc and get the club to square like so as opposed
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to going in front like this.
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So you'll see that a lot of the impact errors will show up as either a transition problem
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or a release problem but you can train the moment in time as you're working on the movements
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and sometimes help you speed up the learning process.