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Awkward Chest Pass

Typically, when you extend your arms forcefully, you'll also round your spine into a flexed position. But in the golf swing, moving into follow through, your arms are extending while your spine is going into extension. This can only happen if the arms are less dominant and the passive arm movement is being driven from the spine and hips.

Tags: Poor Contact, Follow Through, Release, Drill, Intermediate

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This drill is the awkward chest pass. So this

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is a drill that you can use to work on syncing up

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and working on the mechanics of your release pattern. So the

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awkward chest pass is feeling the

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arms going into extension as your

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body goes into extension if I

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was playing any other Sport and I was going to throw a chest

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pass.

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Kind of like that you would see that my

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upper body would actually round and

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want to go into more of a flexion pattern to

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help my arms and my abs work

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together to to create some of the speed.

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Well in the golf swing.

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if I did that

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that would look more like this and I

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would struggle with too many steepeners the low Point

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control we get really off if my upper body was in that Flex position

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too long as the arms were extending. So instead

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we're gonna do the awkward chess pass. So what we're gonna try

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to do it's gonna feel a little bit more almost like a shot put where I'm

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going to stick my chest out kind of

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feel a stretch in my abs as my arms are

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extending kind of like this now, I'm careful.

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I don't want to be hyper extending it the lower back but

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it's more a feeling of kind of like doing a

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chest bump or pushing your

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chest through your shoulders kind of like this

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this movement here. So I'm gonna feel a little bit more.

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Like that pattern now, I can do it more from my

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golf posture or I

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could do it with a combination of rotation. So I'm going to put a little bit more

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weight onto my front foot and now I'm going to extend I

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had to flex the catch it but I'm going

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to extend as my arms are

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extending.

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This helps with a lot of golfers when I

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first tell them. Hey, I want you to get more arm extension actually do

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more shoulder movement kind of like this rather than just extending

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the arms. So this is a really good kind

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of drill that you can do away from the

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golf course that will help you with the

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the work of or the

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the timing is kind of extending the legs extending the back

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extending the arms, which is really useful for your low Point control

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and just the quality of your nine to three and release pattern.

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So if you're struggling with a little bit more overthrow stay

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flexed and kind of you know,

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no pressure through the ground. No use

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of the legs. This is a really good homework drill that you can do to make

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it easier next time. You're on the Range.

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