>> I use video more than any other teaching aid or instructional element. Alright, Brandon, so today is I want to talk about some of the things that I saw. For me as an instructor, using the V1 golf app, it's very intuitive. So this was face-on. It's important for me because I can slow down the swing and I can see the elements that I'm most interested in. This is called "M" Line, so it's going to be where your clubhead would interact with the ground. In an ideal world, we'd want the shaft to line up with your left hip and your left shoulder. And so then I'm able to draw in lines and show people, you know, what needs to be changed, what's going wrong in the swing, and it makes it much easier for them to visualize what's happening.
So, your lower body gets way out ahead of your upper body, and then you get a little flippy at impact there. We have a saying in golf — "Feel isn't real." Half of the time, people don't believe that they're doing exactly what they're doing, and so if you can see it on camera, then you can start to change it. So I think that would be a good place to work. One, reducing the slide and potentially thinking about getting your arms to start a little bit earlier to catch up so we can get that bottom cleaned up a little bit more. I would say, for most people, the golf swing isn't intuitive, There are some specific mechanical movements, and I think instruction is imperative to getting better. So I've drawn in two lines. So there's the shaft-plane line, and also one on your backside. I can look at a video, but if I don't have anything to reference the movements to, then you're kind of missing out on a whole host of learning opportunities.
So as you go back, you go a little bit underneath the plane, to the inside. You drop it back down nicely. And then I would say it just kind of stays underneath that line a little too long. So that results in some low point-control problems there. So just managing that and trying to get that more on plane a little bit sooner coming down, you know, potentially reducing your slide or starting your rotation a little bit earlier would help with that. So we looked at the shaft-plane line in the golf swing. We looked at the early extension line, which was the vertical line behind the backside. And then we also drew in a circle on the head. So, as you swing back, we're going to see a little bit of head movement to the right.
Drawing in the lines, drawing in the circles on the V1 golf app is incredibly simple. Monitoring this while you're swinging is going to be something that will be really beneficial to your game. It's something you can do on your own. I recommend for all of my students to use the V1 golf app in their own practice. I think it's really important to monitor your practice. If they're drawing in the lines and they're seeing that they're making some of the same mistakes they can send me the video, I can look at it and help them, Or they can just send me a video and show me their progress. But I think regardless of your skill level, you can still really benefit from instruction and using an app that really helps you understand what you're doing in the golf swing.
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