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This concept video is using the turtle shell to fix heel contact.

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So heel contact

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or shanking the ball is one of the most unplayable

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misses it can ruin your

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hole or your round and kill your confidence very quickly. So

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we need to have a good plan for being

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able to address heal contact the main

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causes of heel contact are moving into the golf ball

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or starting too close

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to it. So that then when you swing in your

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arms naturally kind of line up with your shoulders, they move a little

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bit further out. But basically it's from you set up

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at a certain point and then when you make contact the club as move further

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away from you where most good players tend

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to bring the club slightly closer to them.

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They're been lots of good ball Strikers. You've set up on the

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heel and then hit it in the center that I've yet to see anyone who

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is really good ball Striker who set up all the way on the

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toe and then moved outward.

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There's some reasons for that with what the body is doing

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when we swing really fast. The club is going to be pulling

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out towards the golf ball or away from

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us. And so we need something to pull away from the golf

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ball to balance that out.

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The turtle shell or using your abs doing a

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little bit more of this pelvic tilt or crunch can be

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one of the best ways for getting you out of heel contact.

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I find that a lot of golfers who struggle with shanking and heel

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contact either never never crunch their

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abs or come out very late. So from the down the line camera what

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you'll see is from the top of the Swing the rib

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cage and everything is moving down and in closer to

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the golf ball, if I did this and I just kind of shift forward

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you'd see that the club will tend to move further away

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Along the ground. So one of

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the easiest ways to get your weight more into your

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heels and help control getting too much

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contact on the heel of the golf club

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is by doing this little Crunch and moving away.

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Now if I do this little Crunch and move

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this away,

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What I'm going to find is that that's naturally going

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to move my weight more into my heels.

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So I often find when when I tell golfers to

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get into their heels. It's a really back dominant. They have a hard

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time with this turtle shell move. Then what happens is they move the

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weight into the heels by bending like

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this as opposed to this is a much easier way

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to move the weight into the heels and it engages

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the core. So for the first version we're gonna do

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is we're just gonna feel like we do the

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turtle shell move where we tighten our

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core and move our belly button that way almost like

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I'm falling backwards towards my heels. And at the same

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time, I'm gonna feel like my extend my arms outward. Now, if

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you do this, you'll probably surprise yourself on video. If

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you are someone who moves more into

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your toes and your ribcage moves down and into

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the golf ball, then what'll happen is when you do this little movement

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and you're just moving away You're Gonna feel like you

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have a whole lot of space and when you look on the video You're gonna

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say, oh my gosh. I'm actually staying put like

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I'm staying in the middle of my feet. I'm not falling back.

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like I feel

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so I've had a number of golfers who

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are prone to Shanks use this move as of the

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easiest way to get.

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Away from heel contact once you've

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done a couple of these where you're feeling like you're

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moving that way then we can start to add a little bit of rotation and

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build up length of Swing oftentimes this

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this back dominant move

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in towards the golf ball is a power movement.

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It's a feeling of kind of like bringing the

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club straight down at the golf ball where I'm

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back here and I'm using my back and kind of pulling down this way. So it

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will

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feel a little awkward at first where your

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power move is now almost going

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this way away from the golf ball as the rotation is

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bringing the the golf club to the

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golf ball as opposed to your body shifting in towards the golf ball. So I

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promise if you're struggling with heel contact,

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this is one of the moves to investigate it is one

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of the fastest ways to improve the depth

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of your swing as well as the club getting too far away from

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you and it has a really good benefit in smoothing

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out sequencing so I highly recommend it especially if

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you struggle with heel contact

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Okay, so quick little demo of the progression. So

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we're gonna get set up if anything a little bit closer.

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We're just going to pre-set some

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of that move and now we're gonna feel like we do the turtle shell

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with some arm extension and you'll

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see from the down the line.

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It's impossible to have zero rotation and

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do this move. So it's actually going to look maybe a little throwy but

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it's going to look like I have some rotation. So now second

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step is I'm going to go a little bit bigger and I'm

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going to feel like I'm going to move this way, but I'm also

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going to rotate at the same time. So oftentimes

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this is where swings

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kind of start to break down because some

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golfers get more of their rotation their rotation

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feel from kind of using the

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back like this as opposed to just turning

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the pelvis. So it's more of an upper body and kind

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of shoulder dominant rotation move where we're trying to train more of the pelvis

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in the lower body to do the rotation. So let's do that one more

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time. We're gonna do that little turtle shell move

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with

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some rotation that was pretty nice there and then

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The neat thing about if you're practicing these

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shorter swings as long as you're not taking your arm up

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above parallel, you can start that movement right away because

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timing wise that's about in the swing where the turtle shell move or

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the vertical movement and the ab activity gets

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involved right around here.

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Through impact that's where I'm doing this kind of

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vertical movement of tucking my pelvis and using my

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abs. So the last step as of this

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progression is now when I take a full swing, I'm going

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to just wait a little second. So I'm gonna

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go up to the top. I'm gonna wait until I get to about here before I

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get into that turtle

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shell movement. I have to be really careful if I'm

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used to using my back. I'm probably gonna

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just fly through the part that transition part

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where I'm supposed to be going into that AB movement. So I'm

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going to do a full length swing but I'm going to

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swing pretty easy more of like a Tai Chi style. So I'm

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gonna go up and then

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turtle shell movement

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kind of early in the downswing

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to a couple of those so

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Up to the top of the swing and then as

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right around there, I'm gonna

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start going into that turtle shell with rotation movement.

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So up.

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Kind of like that. So some slower length wings

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or some slower speed but full length, and

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now we're going to ratchet up both. So we got

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a feeling of the timing last one we're going to do is more of

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a regular swing where we're gonna feel this Turtle move. Potentially. This

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is where a feeling of like effortless power or

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the ball just feels like it jumps. That's a common it's common

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description that a lot of my students will give me when they're working through this

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movement. So full swing good little compact jump

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good strike right there.

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Turtle shell to fix your heel contact.