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This is a good drill for those who operate with visual imagery. Imagine that you are standing next to a fence, and instead of thinking of your arms as going up, I want you to think of your arms going away, or maintaining width. The change in spine movements will control the arms going up. If you feel a strain in your mid back doing these movements, then you may want to work on your upper back strength because your shoulder blade stabilizers are not happy with the amount of weight that they have to support when your arms are fully elevated.
Tags: Backswing, Drill
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This drill is the reach over the fence drill for the loss of posture swing fault.
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So what we're going to do with this drill is we're going to help work on the arm position of the top of the swing,
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which could be causing you to stand up and lose your posture.
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What can happen is that golfers think that the arms need to get very, very high.
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And so after the take away, the arms will basically lift up,
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and unless you're very strong in your mid back, what can happen is that left shoulder
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and your spine will get more vertical to support the weight of your arms lifting up.
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So the club will feel a little heavier probably for some of you if you get the club in the right position.
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To get the club in the right position, we're going to use this little plastic Tyler trainer again.
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You're going to get set up.
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And then after you make your take away movement,
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you're going to let your arms continue to stay wide,
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almost like I'm reaching them away from me.
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I'm not reaching them away from me by collapsing my spine.
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I'm still keeping a very centered pivot in my upper body,
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staying more or less over the golf ball.
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But as my left shoulder goes down,
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those arms are reaching more away,
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and that will help support this right arm jazzy Jeff move.
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The common thing that I see with the players that stand up
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is after the take away or sometimes during it,
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the arms and the club will kind of lift up this way,
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and see that compared to this fence, I'm not very wide.
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So the width at the top of the swing helps allow for the transition move.
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If you're very narrow at the top of the swing,
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it's going to tend to mess up your transition timing.
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So this is a good little spatial awareness drill,
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gives you a visual of where you want your hand path to be,
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and helps you support, create a better top of the backswing position,
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which will support what we're trying to do in transition.
