Tips and advice from Katie Dawkins on how to improve your swing by practicing these drills.
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00:02 Let's talk about getting your swing on plane.
00:07 What does that even mean?
00:08 What is swing plane?
00:09 Well, the swing plane is the angle
00:11 at which your club swings around your body.
00:15 And this is generally determined by your spine angle
00:17 initially in the first place.
00:19 It can vary.
00:20 Some people go up on one swing plane and down on another.
00:24 But that's not a very efficient way of swinging.
00:26 So if my posture's really good
00:28 and I'm ready to run somewhere,
00:30 I will swing the club up and down
00:32 on a pretty decent swing plane
00:34 that should end up with me hitting good shots.
00:37 If I haven't tipped myself over,
00:38 so my posture's poor and I'm almost sat down,
00:41 I'm gonna swing the club flatter around my body
00:44 as a natural swing path.
00:46 But my swing plane here
00:48 is never gonna get back down to the ground.
00:51 So I'm gonna have to start making
00:52 some pretty juicy compensatory moves
00:55 to get back to the ball.
00:56 And this is where a lot of faults start to stem.
00:59 Someone who's tipped over way too much,
01:01 we don't see this as much,
01:02 will swing it up and down too steep
01:04 and therefore have to stand up and out of their shot
01:07 so they don't dig a great big hole down to Sydney.
01:10 It is really important
01:12 that you get your fundamentals right to start off with.
01:15 So that's your number one priority
01:16 if you're trying to swing the club on plane.
01:19 A couple of things that you can do
01:20 to ensure that your swing stays on plane
01:23 or goes up and down on a pretty decent plane
01:25 is to first of all check your takeaway.
01:27 So check that very first part of your swing.
01:29 So where the club travels to
01:31 in the first part of your swing
01:32 usually dictates where it goes on the way back.
01:35 So a club that whips on the inside
01:37 will either keep going end up flat
01:39 or you'll learn how to compensate
01:40 and end up lifting up
01:41 and sending the club across the line at the top.
01:44 If a club goes too far on the outside,
01:46 sometimes it can carry on going up quite steep.
01:49 So it's important you get that first little bit right.
01:52 So you can do a little bit of mirror work at home,
01:54 setting yourself up to an imaginary ball on the floor,
01:57 just taking the club to your takeaway point
02:00 and then checking it.
02:01 You do wanna make sure that club head
02:02 stays in front a little bit.
02:05 So that's where you wanna be.
02:06 If you're someone who whips it on the inside too much,
02:08 feel like you go out a bit
02:09 and that should set you in a pretty decent direction
02:12 on the way back.
02:13 Getting your swing more on plane
02:15 can be really down to building
02:17 a nice bit of natural momentum.
02:19 There's a couple of ways that you can do this.
02:21 There are some fantastic gadgets out at the moment.
02:24 Orange whip is one of them.
02:25 This will pretty much swing the golf club for you
02:28 up and down the line that you should be swinging it on.
02:30 But if you don't happen to have one of those
02:32 in your golf bag,
02:33 get your seven and your eight iron,
02:35 hold them as best you can, a bit like a hammer.
02:37 So you've got your two clubs.
02:38 Settle yourself into a decent posture,
02:41 hovering the clubs just above the ground
02:43 and just start to build that basic momentum
02:46 back and through.
02:48 What that'll do from a swing plane point of view
02:50 is start to get you a little bit more on line,
02:54 up and down.
02:56 So it takes a bit of the effort out of it
02:59 and stops you trying to force the issue.
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