okay in today's video we're talking
shaft lean or shaft lag and how we get that and there's a missing element that
makes it so difficult and nobody's talking about it and we're gonna go over
that right now okay so in case you didn't know my name is Matt I'm here to
help your game and if you haven't subscribed to the channel already please
consider doing that now thanks so much today we're working on shaft lean shap
leg and the missing piece of why this particular style of technique is so
impossible watch we're gonna be using our wedge today I'm gonna use my 54
degree Titleist sm7 Voki wedge and this one just has 14 degrees of Bounce it's
the F grind just so you know case you're interested in that kind of thing to
really understand shaft lean we have to kind of go over a little kind of
technical piece of it so check it out watch okay this is very important to
understand and hopefully you'll get it as we as we go but nobody really talks
about this and it's critical if you're going to understand shaft lag alright
here is us here's us at setup okay as you say it's pretty neutral setup perfect now we want some shaft lean as
we make contact with the ball so I'm just gonna I'm gonna leave the face
right where it is I'm gonna get we're gonna get shaft lag let's mark here
so here's I said setup and here's us at impact we notice what this is us at setup and this is us at
impact that might not seem like a a big difference but we're a good inch lower
so why is that important okay so it's important to understand the fact that we
must get lower so as our hands come forward that Club comes off we have to
do something to get lower which it's going to come from our knees it's going
to come from our right lateral bend it's gonna come from our rotation a little
bit and the the lower we go the farther we can actually have shap lean but
there's another critical element that we have to understand or we're in huge
trouble watch okay this is one this is really super important um watch this and
you'll see this it is probably the reason you're having a lot of problems
and you're missing a lot of shots way right as that shaft leans forward that
Club opens man if you swing now you're in big trouble so what do we do watch
this okay so we know that when we shaft lag we have to lower ourselves but we
also know that when we shaft lag that face opens so we have to shut the face
again right so shaft legs here shut the face now just set up again and the face
is totally closed so why is that important because you're gonna need to
feel like that Club is totally shut when you're hitting this ball the farther
your hands come forward the more close you're gonna have to feel at impact but
it's really gonna be square impact position normal grip setup push this
hand forward Club open now square the face then bring it back here like oh
that's what it's gonna have to feel like like I'm here like it's it's a really
odd but when you put your hands forward it's
totally square and a good way to even check that is just to come back here
push it against your mat put your hands forward and you'll see that face open
and then square it up and get lowered and turn and that's where you want to be
an impact right here lower and now we can begin the drill we want to set up
push your hands forward square to the face
lower our body turn now here's our drill from here we're going to take it back
and hit that little shot hands forward square the face lower your body turn
that's your impact position might looking a little exaggerated but we're
trying to get as close to that as possible on our real swing do the drill we just have to understand all the
pieces so it makes sense so that when we can then put it all together on the real
swing hands forward square the face lower the body turn that's a feeling feel that on the real swing it's totally gonna feel like you're
shutting the face like you're way close but because those hands are forward that
face is square even though it feels shut that's where we get that that bowed
wrist that's what everybody says that bowed wrist this is where it comes from
because when your hands go forward and you square it up you're bowing that
wrist here cuz there's your hands the floor of that face opens both at wrist
squares the face again set up shop like shop leg square the face lower your body
turn short a little swing just to get that feeling you should start hearing a
nice crisp ball sound and the ball should be flying a little bit lower than
normal then on my full swing I want to recreate that feeling through impact so
just feel shut turn lower that's what I want to feel when I hit this ball now hopefully you kind of understand
where it all comes from and why shaft lag is so difficult because we don't
want to shut the face we feel like we're gonna hook the ball but when you're hit
when that shaft comes forward you realize oh you have to feel way close in
order to be in the correct position to get that shaft lag to get that better
ball flight you get more control more bite more spin on the ball okay that's
all the technical aspects really of shaft lag and why it's so challenging to
pull off because most of time we just don't understand every little piece of
it which is critical otherwise you're gonna miss wait ride you just gonna have
a lot of problems pulling this shot off and it's a crucial shop for really
lowering your scores and getting better at this game so hope this helps I'll
also put a link right up here for a video I did on shaft lag which really
helps us with our muscle strength and memory so check that out as well thanks
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