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In this video, we're going to take a look at the Wush Progressions.

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And we're going to watch a couple of students troubleshoot what it's like to use the

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Wush Progressions to figure out what a good path looks like.

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And then struggle with how do I organize the club face to a good path?

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Because if you're struggling with either the outside in or overly inside out, there's

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a good chance that you're faced the path of relationship is off during transition or down

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near the bottom during the release.

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And what you'll see with this Wush Progression is it can be a great diagnostic to see if

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it's really a face problem or a path problem.

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Let's take a look at a couple of golfers going through the Wush Progressions to see how the

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Wush drill can also be a little bit of a path to face diagnostic.

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So here we have a golfer on the left going through the Wush Progressions.

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And basically what you'll see is first, he's just trying to get the club to Wush from

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impact as I demonstrate in the drill.

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And you'll see that there's a fairly fluid amount of lead arm rotation and trail arm extension.

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For all intent purposes, this looks like a very good path and release associated with that

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path.

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Now over here on the left, he's going to take the club back to delivery position and then

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try to go through that same pattern.

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And what you'll see is there's a very good amount of body turn.

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There's a almost excessive amount of shaft lean.

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There's a very good amount of shaft lean.

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And then you'll see a similar looking fluid release in terms of trail arm extension and

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lead arm rotation.

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Okay, so we'll move that one over onto the left and on the right we'll now have him

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trying to do the exact same thing but with a club.

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So he gripped it in his normal way and he's just walking through this Wush Progression,

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trying to get the club to Wush.

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And what you'll find is that when the club would have made contact with the golf ball,

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it would be pointing roughly 30 degrees out to the right.

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This is a very common pattern among amateur golfers, which is basically if they had a

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very good path, which the Wush drill almost requires you to have a good path in order

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to get it to Wush.

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If he had a good path, he does not know how to organize the face for that path.

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And so what you would see is when he goes back to trying to hit a real golf ball, you'll

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see that he would dump the angles and kind of use the early release and the casting movement

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in order to get that club face more close.

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So this is a clear example of where face control and face education have to be a big

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part of how this person is going to reprogram their path.

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So now let's take a look at another golfer going through the same progression.

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And you'll see another example of where face and path and balancing the two is a big part

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of the solution for fixing most amateur swing issues.

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So here he is doing the Wush progression and you'll see again even almost excessive

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shaft lean in order to get the Wush after the golf ball, but a very fluid amount of lead

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arm rotation and trail arm extension.

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So now if we take him up to the top of the swing, you'll see him making good looking

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transition, building up that speed and then in order to get that Wush, you can see again

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a very fluid amount of trail arm extension and lead arm rotation.

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And you'll see that while his trail arm is extending, it doesn't reach, you know, the body

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has used a very good path in order to delay that extension of the arms.

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So again good looking release.

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Now let's see what happens when he switches the club right side up.

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So over on the right, now he has the club head and just for comparison sake, I'll take

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the just the shaft and put it to roughly where the golf ball would have been.

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So somewhere just passed there or just before there.

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So now with a club face, whether it's the weight of the club or the orientation of the

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face, you can see that there are already some changes going on in order to get that club

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face pointed in a similar direction of the target.

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So unlike the first golfer, the first golfer actually did roughly the same thing when

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he turned the club upside down, but as a result, the club was pointed well open.

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The second golfer, if we take him back up to the top of the swing, if you look at the

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trail arm, if you look at kind of the amount of angle of the shaft, you can see that

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the second golfer has released the club much sooner and he has created a little bit more

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space with that trail arm working kind of out in a way.

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He's done so in order to get the face pointed at the target.

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So while he still has a little bit more shaft lane than he normally does, this is falling

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into his usual pattern of using that trail arm early.

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And then as he comes through the ball, it no longer has that kind of fluid look of trail

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arm extension.

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It now has a little bit more of the shoulder internal rotation and kind of forearm rotation

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to take the club through the ball.

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But those two movements do not build a very consistent and repeatable arc with, which

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is what he's demonstrating here in that wish progression.

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So the wish drill can be a great diagnostic to see if you have more of a path problem or

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more of a face problem or basically if we give you a good path, then what happens with

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the face.

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Very often, golfers who have face issues will feel a benefit and experiencing what a good

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path is like from either doing something like the wish drill or using a trainer such

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as the orange whip or momentous.

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Any of those heavy or long clubs, almost guaranteed that you will have a good path.

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And then if your brain can figure out how to make a good face relationship to that path,

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you can overall succeed or succeed in changing your face and path pattern.

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So if you're an early extender or a caster or an early release type player, figuring

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out whether it's more of a face or a path problem can help you figure out the fastest way

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for you to improve it.