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0:00hey everybody danny mod here thanks for
0:02joining us have you ever found yourself
0:03out on a golf course and you've hit a
0:05few decent shots and then you hit a few
0:06dodgy shots with what you feel is
0:08exactly the same swing now you think you
0:11know what it might be so you try a few
0:13different things they don't work and you
0:15end up down a rabbit hole of just lots
0:17try this try that and it becomes very
0:19very inconsistent well in this video i
0:21want to give you a framework that will
0:23help you diagnose what's going on in
0:26your swing so that you can start to fix
0:28your problems much much quicker
0:30whilst you're out playing on a golf
0:31course and look you won't have to
0:33remember a thing i will put a free
0:34download or practice guide in the
0:36description box below
0:38okay great so what we're going to do in
0:39this diagnostic is we're going to cover
0:41three phases the first thing we're going
0:43to focus on is basically are you aware
0:46that the club needs to travel on an arc
0:48or more importantly is your club
0:51traveling on an arc the second thing is
0:53a body thing it's a structure thing is
0:55your body supporting this arc and third
0:58and finally the third down note is is
1:01are you controlling the club face or is
1:02the club face all over the place
1:04arriving open arriving closed those kind
1:06of things now we'll cover them one by
1:08one and i'll show you how to feel each
1:11individual stage so the first thing is
1:13this when you're taking us
1:15your setup
1:16we know that the club needs to travel on
1:19an arc the club doesn't go straight back
1:21up here and straight through it works on
1:24an arc a roughly if you look at this
1:26here not up there not around there
1:28roughly about 45 degrees around the body
1:31so
1:32as simple as it sounds make some swings
1:34with each individual arm drawing the
1:37shape of your swing
1:39back
1:40around and up
1:42back down to the golf ball and then look
1:44back around i know that sounds basic but
1:47you know what most of the time when
1:48people are swinging all over the place
1:50it's because their club is literally
1:52moving all over the place without them
1:54realizing do it with both hands your
1:56lead hand
1:58back here and back around into impact
2:01then through
2:02even during that simple exercise you may
2:05start to feel wow that feels a bit
2:06different my club's normally around here
2:08or my club's up there somewhere so just
2:10make some motions and join the hands
2:12together okay and just picturing the arc
2:15of the swing going backwards and
2:17forwards on roughly this 45 degree plane
2:21simple as that but
2:23is it simple
2:24second phase of this process you can
2:26just spend some time doing that the
2:27second phase is this your body needs to
2:30control this it needs to support this
2:32structure so what do i mean by that well
2:34look the next thing is is when you're on
2:36the golf course you're struggling is it
2:37because your body is moving all over the
2:39place and not supporting this beautiful
2:42arc so an example with this take a club
2:46put it under your lead arm like this
2:48hold the club face like this and what
2:51we're going to do now is this if you
2:53don't move your body correctly so let's
2:54say for instance i turn my shoulders
2:56very flat very level where is that going
2:59to send the club around if i tilt them
3:02too much or slide here whereas that's in
3:04the club this way we want to get the
3:06club where working up this way on the
3:08this arc so as i move this club
3:11backwards here i'm at my body structure
3:14and my movement is supporting this
3:16motion can you see that my shoulders are
3:18naturally tilting here more importantly
3:21i'm actually look moving this lead side
3:25because what i often see when people are
3:26really messing up on a golf course is
3:28they don't support this arc with their
3:31torso what they do
3:33is they do it look
3:34with their arms this exercise here where
3:37you put the club on your arm here is a
3:39great exercise to sense how the whole
3:42body needs to support the club working
3:44back not just the arm you can do exactly
3:47the same look with your trail arm too
3:49leave it in there
3:50backwards and forwards and notice this
3:52i'm not rolling the club face we'll come
3:54back to that in a second i'm literally
3:56controlling the whole motion
3:58with my torso once you've got that
4:01sensation you can simply start to make
4:03some swings just imagine the same thing
4:05that my whole torso look is supporting
4:08the motion all the way back here all the
4:10way back to the ball
4:12and then all the way through now once
4:14you've got that those first two feelings
4:17in play what you can do is you can now
4:19start to diagnose the first part now a
4:21recent student of mine lear who has
4:23sliced the golf ball quite badly he was
4:25able to identify that these lower bodies
4:29body weren't supporting this act they
4:30were actually rigid they were very very
4:32still which meant all he did was
4:33literally hit with the arms so he
4:36started to allow his body to support the
4:39arc on the way back his ankles his knees
4:41his hips all start to work to support
4:43their arc on the way back and
4:45on the way through yeah another client
4:48hooked the golf ball he slid on the way
4:51through right and then when he slid on
4:53the way through does that support the
4:55club coming back around on the act no it
4:57doesn't yeah so
4:59starting with those first two feel the
5:01arc first of all
5:02then ask yourself is your body
5:05helping to support the arc all the way
5:08back on all the way through if you're
5:10moving around all
5:11the way up all over the place you'll
5:13probably identify that it isn't but
5:15that's great now you can practice
5:17and just finishing on this section
5:19before moving on to step three
5:21you can imagine an almost like an axis
5:23here running right down the center of
5:24your body if you're moving all over the
5:26place it's going to be hard to maintain
5:28an arc
5:30around that central point here all right
5:32so your center there working back
5:34working it back around look at this here
5:36there's my axis one
5:39two looking after my spine all the way
5:42i'm not moving up and down all over the
5:44place yeah these kind of things here
5:46simple things a great way to diagnose
5:48whether you are making some errors now
5:50before i get into three which is super
5:52super important i did notice that 60 of
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6:04going into step number three
6:07you're controlling the arc you're
6:09controlling it with a body structure
6:11fantastic the third thing to consider if
6:14that's all working good but you're still
6:16not hitting a good shot are you
6:18controlling the club face and the club
6:20face is super simple
6:22you've got to make sure that you have a
6:24pressure on the face pressure on the ark
6:27let me show you what i mean by that a
6:29lot of players when you're swinging here
6:31are literally taking the pressure off
6:33they're rolling the face away i'll
6:35probably show you with a tennis racket
6:36as a better visual here
6:39put a tennis racket against my club here
6:41i want this club face look to keep
6:43completely under control i've controlled
6:45it i'm not rolling it around if i put my
6:47hand here i've got a pressure down on
6:50that face now what i'm going to do here
6:52look i'm going to literally
6:54keep that pressure on all the way to the
6:56top so my palm of my hand here i've got
6:59pressure going this way still a pressure
7:01still a pressure still a pressure i'm
7:02supporting the club face all the way to
7:05the top
7:06on the way down look i'm going to keep
7:08the pressure on that club face all the
7:11way down to the bottom imagine if i did
7:14this which so often people doing
7:17take the pressure off
7:18now i end up kind of chopping at it what
7:21do you notice about my hand it's there's
7:22no pressure on the face i am literally
7:25dragging it down as i'm dragging it down
7:27the clubface look
7:29is wide open what am i going to do here
7:32i'm going to probably slice across it
7:34that's your slice all right last minute
7:36oh my god
7:37flip it so the hands have to suddenly
7:40rotate so how can you feel this
7:43just imagine here
7:46take my grip here make sure the hands
7:48you've got decent grip this top hand is
7:50nicely on the the club face not
7:52underneath here can't put pressure on
7:54the shaft that way
7:55literally keep it on the shaft all the
7:58way back pressure
8:00still got it look pressure as the palm
8:02this is the important the palm is moving
8:03to the ceiling as the palm moves to the
8:06ceiling what's happening to the butt end
8:07of this golf club it's going out towards
8:10you
8:11this is super important why because i'm
8:13moving my pants to the ceiling this is
8:15helping me look get the structure of the
8:17body too to support this motion if i
8:21didn't get the palm going to the ceiling
8:22and i just did this
8:25can you see how this becomes just handsy
8:28arms immersion i am not supporting this
8:31beautiful arc on the way back now again
8:34just if you see any of the top players
8:36on tv you'll see them doing all kind of
8:37weird stuff with the wristlet almost we
8:39call it bowing on the way down why are
8:41they doing that why because look
8:44they are putting a pressure on the shaft
8:46look at that face now
8:48it's pressure
8:49down onto the golf ball if i didn't have
8:51this and i did this
8:53the face is wide open now what i'm gonna
8:55have to do
8:56flip it or if i don't flip it i come
8:59across it and i get a big slice so
9:02play around with this get yourself set
9:04here whether it's your lead hand or your
9:05top hand doesn't matter feel at some
9:07stage
9:08you have that pressure on that shaft
9:10still got the pressure on the shaft all
9:12the way down into impact then start
9:15hitting a few shots from there
9:24so in summary
9:25you know you've got three things to
9:26diagnose when you're out playing you
9:28know is it just a conceptual thing have
9:30you got an arc with the club simple as
9:33that is it going on a knack or is it
9:34looping around spend some time feeling
9:37it yeah
9:38if you've got the feel of it then ask
9:39yourself is your body supporting that
9:42structure the whole thing so your feet
9:44your knees your torso are you working it
9:46around on this arc here
9:49are you jumping ahead you know that's
9:50going to shift it off there is your body
9:52supporting it just learn to get a sense
9:54of what your body's doing most of the
9:57time i love the visual it's just a
9:58simple axis running straight down the
10:00spine visualizing this motion going
10:02right and left super super simple but
10:06what can throw all of that off is the
10:08club face if your club face is
10:10approaching open you're gonna have to do
10:13weird stuff with the body so sometimes
10:15what i do is i go to the club face first
10:18club face simple remember keep the
10:19pressure on the face
10:22simple exercise palm to the floor here
10:24work it to the sky you'll notice when i
10:26do this by the way my
10:28palms go into the sky here this elbow is
10:30going outwards it's not going inwards
10:32this is the problem here yeah palm to
10:34the sky look after that face
10:37then you know keep that pressure on the
10:39best players even get the almost the
10:41wrist bowing here why because they're
10:42putting pressure on that face on the way
10:45down from there just simply rip straight
10:47into
10:48that golf ball okay spend some time
10:51working on these things and they will
10:53help you start to diagnose what specific
10:55areas you need to focus on and therefore
10:57improve so i hope you did enjoy the
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