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This drill is the awkward jump.

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So I have another video called the Awkward Chest Pass,

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where we work on the body working in an opposite direction

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that the, um, arms are traveling.

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This really is more of a upper body dominant pattern,

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so the awkward jump is getting more of the opposite

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movements happening from the legs and the shoulders.

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So it's a little bit more of a core focus.

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Um, when you do the awkward jump, uh,

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you're basically gonna do a regular jump,

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but your arms are gonna work in the opposite directions.

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Um, I got this, uh, I idea from a video that Greg Rose did.

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I think it's a really interesting, uh, way

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to kinda look at the pivot pattern.

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Um, where one of the challenges for a lot

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of golfers is the way that you, um, the way

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that you move your body, it's kind of like divided in half

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what your body is doing from kind of the, the middle

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of your ribcage down

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and what your body is doing from the middle

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of the rib cage up are often in opposition to each other.

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So this is one way to work on, um, kind of a power program

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where you're able to separate or disconnect the two.

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So the awkward jump is doing the opposite

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with your arms than what you would normally do

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in a regular jump pattern.

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You would bring your arms down as you loaded down,

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and then you would swing your arms up as you were going up.

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It would look something like that. Pretty simple.

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So in the awkward jump pattern,

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we're gonna swing our arms the opposite direction,

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and this will be a real challenge for some of you.

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So now as I squat down, I'm gonna bring my arms up

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and then as I jump, I'm going to bring my arms down.

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And a lot of you will go like this,

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where basically you'll start it in the natural pattern

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and you'll really have to override it, um, to

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where you're basically loading just the hips

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and loading the shoulders kind of independently.

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So awkward jump pattern, kind of more like this.

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Now, the advanced version would be combining it

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with like the 360 jump idea, which would basically be

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as I load up into the, the backswing,

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I'm gonna feel like I squat down slightly.

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But because of the rotation,

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this trail leg doesn't really squat.

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It kind of more rotates and loads.

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And then as I jump, I'm going to bring my arms down.

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So it's gonna be more of a pattern, kind of like this.

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This can be done with

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or without kind of an object ball,

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like a really light medicine ball

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or a, a volleyball or something like that.

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But it's getting the pattern of the loading

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where the arms are not matching what the lower body's doing

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and unloading where the lower body is working kind

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of vertically and up as the arms are releasing more down.

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So that combo can help with the feeling

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of either the load at the top of the swing.

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Some golfers tend to kind of lift everything up

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or kind of load more down

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where they're both going in the same, same direction.

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Uh, if I use this awkward jump idea

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that would help me get my good arm extension, um,

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creating some width and some extension here in the upper

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body, but still loading into my core and my lower body.

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And then during the release, uh, doing the opposite.

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So it would look something like a normal swing.

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So, um, I find that golfers can struggle with one or both,

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but the one I see golfers struggle

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with the most is the downswing.

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Um, so that's the idea of more the body

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moving into that vertical jump while the arms

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and the upper body are maintaining their, their

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distance or their height away from the ground.

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Um, as the arms are extending.

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Uh, if you're really, if you see kind of more of a sag

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and a buckle of your legs

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or more of your rib cage moving into your golf

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or into the golf ball,

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then I highly recommend incorporating some

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of these awkward jump ideas into your training program.