Shanks don't need a swing rebuild.
A shank is a strike location problem. The ball is meeting the face about an inch from the centre. You don't need new swing positions to fix that, you need a task that moves your strike pattern back to the middle. That's what the Strike Wedge trains.
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What moving a strike pattern looks like
Off-centre contact loses ball speed and twists the face, so heel strikes come up short and offline even when the swing felt normal. At its worst, the heel miss reaches the hosel: the shank. The gap between the two patterns above is about an inch, and closing it is a skill you can train directly.
Why the middle feels impossible to find
If you've been striking the heel for a while, your feel has recalibrated around it. Your hands have learned that the heel is the middle of the club.
So on the swing where you do find the centre, it feels like you've hit it off the toe. It feels like a mistake, and you steer straight back to the heel on the next one.
That's why swing thoughts rarely fix a shank. You can't think your way out of a miscalibrated feel. You have to retrain it.
The task that retrains it
Attach the side wall to the Strike Wedge and place it on the outside of the ball, exactly as in the video above. Hit the ball, miss the wedge. That's the whole task.
If your strike drifts towards the heel, you clip the soft plastic and feel it straight away. To avoid it, your body organises the club back towards the centre of the face. There are no positions to remember and nothing to think about over the ball.
This is a constraints-led approach, a method from motor learning research: put a physical constraint in the way and let the body solve the movement. The coaching is built into where you place it, and the change sticks because you found the movement yourself.
What to expect when you train it
The first centred strikes will feel wrong, closer to the toe than the middle. That's the old memory updating, not a mistake. Keep going.
It takes reps. Every swing that misses the wedge is one more repetition of a centred pattern, and over sessions the centre starts to feel normal again. You're not learning a new swing, you're relearning what the middle of the club feels like.
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"Probably one of my best buys ever. If you have a tendency to shank it's a game changer for this alone."
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"My biggest issue with irons over the years has been the dreaded shank. Early days but the side wall is helping me achieve a better path with my downswing to address the heel strike."
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"Quite simply the perfect training aid for path, angle of attack and strike location. The walls are great for practising strike location. If you want to improve, you need one of these."
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The side wall is included with every Strike Wedge, along with free access to The Strike System, the training portal with the full how-to video library.
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