Adam Scott | 1 Key For Consistency - 2 For Speed
Adam Scott | 1 Key For Consistency - 2 For Speed
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Description
In this video, I'll show you the importance of having proper ball position in the swing. I will also show you a great impact position and a great way to start adding more speed to your driver.
Video Practice Points
- Stack the lead side for perfect ball striking
- Ball position off your left ear.
- Widen base and stay balanced for speed.
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Hey, welcome back Rotary Spin Golfers to
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this week's tour analysis. I'm your
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instructor, Chris Tyler. And this week we
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have back on the block Adam Scott, who
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just picked up his second victory of the
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year. Back-to-back fashion at Doral at
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the WGC. So congratulations to Adam.
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This week, we're going to be focusing in
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on one key move for consistency and two
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key moves for speed. And you might be
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shocked when I start talking about ball
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position. Let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay, so we see Adam Scott catching fire
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this season, picking up his second
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victory of the year at the WGC this past
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weekend, so congratulations to him. And I
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was going through his stats this morning
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and I was looking at his driving stats
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from his distances versus his accuracy.
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And was was really surprised to see how
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poor he's done in the accuracy
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department. Off the tee since 2003, all
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the way up to 2016. I think the best I
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saw him finish was right around 2014 he
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was 80th on the PGA Tour in accuracy
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where he was all the way up to 174th up
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to 185th at one point but you can always
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see on the flip side of that that he's
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way up there in distance and that's a
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that's obviously become a big factor in
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the PGA Tour is being able to hit the
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golf ball a long long ways you know he's
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been as good as fourth and been as high
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as 37th over that that time frame from
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2003 to 2016 so you know distance does
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help out but even more so on the flip
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side of that I was looking at his greens
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and regulation percentage and that's
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pretty impressive so I'm going to show
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you guys
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what is the key for him hitting a lot of
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greens and what's the key for him
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generating a lot of speed in his golf
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swing so let's go ahead and take a look
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at things here both face on with an iron
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swing and a driver swing and this is the
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one question that we get asked all the
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time and that's ball position
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ball position ball position ball position
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where is it supposed to be we've heard
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for years people talk about the ball
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position should be in the middle of our
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stance the ball should be underneath our
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sternum and then progressively we move it
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forward with the flatter the golf club
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Adam Scott has got this figured out and
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he's one of many players now that I
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haven't figured out is that the ball
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position should be off of the left ear
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regardless if it's a three iron or if
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it's a driver if we're swinging in a
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stock shot format we want to make sure
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the ball position stays exactly in the
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same area okay there are some other
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adjustments in some cases we will tell
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you to move the ball forward with a
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driver but if you're swinging a stock
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shot meaning you're making just a full
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swing whether it be a seven iron or just
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a full driver swing and you're not trying
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to have add anything sort of special to
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the move where you're trying to flight it
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higher or flight it lower you're just
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trying to make a stock swing you want the
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ball position to remain constant and I've
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got a great article that will start to
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uncover a lot of the myths about this and
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that article is called the surprising
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facts about ball position and its effects
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so take a look at that article it'll be
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underneath the video player on the
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website if you're on the YouTube channel
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it'll be underneath in the description
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below so definitely take a look at that
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article and we go through a lot of the
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sciences behind where the bottom of the
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swing arc is and why it is where it is so
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really critical for you guys to
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understand that ball position needs to
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remain constant from one club to the next
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all right so there is an adjustment
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though that Adam made in his golf swing
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you can see that he's gone to a little
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bit wider of a base over here with a
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driver's swing now this wider base is
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going to promote two things it's going to
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promote stability number one because
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we're going to be creating a lot more
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momentum and a lot more inertia so we
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need to have a little bit more stable
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base and number two it's also going to
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promote what we call secondary axis tilt
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and let's talk a little bit about what
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secondary axis tilt is so you can see at
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the address position here this is the
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tilt that the spine is on okay this is
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really critical for amateur golfers to
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make sure that you have axis tilt at the
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address position now when we get down
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into the hitting area what we're going to
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be looking for with an iron swing is
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we're going to be looking for this angle
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to increase just slightly to where it
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would be just outside the lead knee
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because if you were to shift your pelvis
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and keep your head really quiet right
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from a static address position you would
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notice that that tilt would start to
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increase with a driver's swing we want to
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have this tilt increased pretty
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drastically now what that secondary axis
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tilt is going to do is it's going to help
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shallow the golf swing out it's going to
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help create more of an ascending blow
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rather than a descending blow so you're
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going to see that the differences between
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these two golf swings is not ball
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position it's just a little bit of a
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widened stance here which is going to
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help promote more stability and it's
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going to help promote more secondary axis
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tilt so let's go ahead and take a look at
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what the impact positions look like so
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you can see what i'm talking about here
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so here we are down at the bottom this is
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pretty much textbook as far as impact
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positions are concerned so if you really
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want to become a great ball striker this
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is a great impact position to mirror here
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and what we're looking for is we want to
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have the lead shoulder
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the lead hip socket and the lead knee and
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the lead ankle right on top of each other
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and he's done a remarkable job about
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getting that into a perfect spot here
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okay so now going back to that secondary
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axis tilt that i was talking about you
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can see here that he has increased it to
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where it's just pointed outside of his
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lead knee very very good looking impact
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position you can see that the position of
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his lead wrist is flat maybe even
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slightly a little bit bowed here might be
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trying to flight it down
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but you can definitely see that the lead
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side of his body is nice and stacked and
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the tilt to his spine is just outside of
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his lead knee so pretty much textbook
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here now as far as the driver swing is
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concerned because we're promoting with
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the width of our stance we're promoting
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more secondary axis tilt
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you're going to see that the lead
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shoulder doesn't get quite stacked up on
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top of the lead ankle here so if i were
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to draw that same line straight up you're
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going to see that the lead shoulders hung
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back quite a bit here notice the
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difference in the spine tilt too so this
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is where he's shallowed his golf swing
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out and he's created more of an ascending
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blow rather than a descending blow which
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a lot of these modern day drivers all of
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these modern day drivers are set up for
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very high launch conditions and very low
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ball spin so if you want to start to add
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more speed to your golf swing
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do it by not changing anything
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drastically in your move you want to
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still stay in balance you want to make
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sure and adam actually talked about this
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before as well he says when he's trying
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to get the golf ball to go further off of
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the tee he's really working to maintain
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as much balance in his golf swing as
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possible and work to a finished position
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not swinging all over the place so i'd
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encourage you to make sure that you just
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widen your base just a little bit keep
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your ball position the same don't try to
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overdo things at first still continue to
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work on your movements within the body as
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you were with a seven iron or an eight
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iron and then in turn make sure that you
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have a good release and you'll see that
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you'll start to have tons of speed in it
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and tons of control then as far as
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getting your lead side stacked up make
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sure that you understand where you're
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going first impact alignments face on
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video is a perfect clear picture or clear
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map for you to be able to see okay this
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is what my impact position needs to look
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like and then get yourself an impact bag
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and slowly start to work from the top of
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your swing down shifting your weight into
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your lead side making sure that your body
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line your left side of your body looks
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nice and stacked up and you've got proper
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secondary axis tilt and i guarantee it
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you'll become a better ball striker this
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season
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