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This drill is banned presses.

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Now, I just got back from the World Golf Fitness Summit.

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As you know, I like to stay current, so I try to go to a lot of these things that I can.

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Martin Hall, the School of Golf Instructor, gave a great presentation about how he trains the release.

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And there's some similarities to what I think builds a good release.

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There's some differences, absolutely.

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But more importantly, in the similarities, one of the things that we both focus on

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is letting these arms extend through the shot.

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Now, we know from looking at the physics that you are imparting a pulling force.

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But if you think about it, the only way it could not be imparting a pulling force during this release

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is if the club never changed directions.

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So if the club continues, like if the handle continue to go down,

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the second handle is going to start coming up, I'm going to be imparting a pulling force

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some kind.

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But that doesn't mean that I can't be imparting a pulling force while letting my arms extend.

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And what he's seen is, and similar to what I've seen, that using how much arm extension

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is a great indicator for a handicap level, and usually highly correlated with consistency in my opinion.

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So he also mentioned that Pete Cowen uses this drill that I don't know if he came up with,

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but I'm going to give him credit.

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It was a brilliant little piece.

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So I've always done it with just kind of throwing balls and feeling that arm extension.

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But this allowed adds a little resistance so that I can feel it a little bit better in the muscles of the

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create that extension.

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So I'm just going to take a band and I'm going to put it around my back so that my thumbs

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are through the loops.

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You can use any type of therapy band.

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This is just some physical therapy tubing that I tied to, to a little loops in.

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And basically if I stand here and I was to extend my arms out, I can feel good shoulder kind of

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depression, and I can feel good arm extension just like so.

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Now, this doesn't take care of what the arms and hands are doing as far as rotation goes,

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but if you remember, a lot of that is going to happen because I'm coming from a rotated position like so,

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and I extend and if I extend quickly, that'll cause my arms to rotate.

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So what I can do is I can add little pivot to this so I can make backswing.

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I can go, marry around with my body and then really let those arms and feel that tension through the ball just like so.

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Now, it's a little tricky.

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I was trying this earlier and because of where it connects, if I'm gripping on my thumbs,

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it feels a little bit weird to get this extension.

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But you can actually hit balls this way.

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I recommend it more for just getting a feeling and then trying to apply that feeling with either your nine to three or any of your other release drills,

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but you can actually get a semi-solid straight.

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It feels really weird in the backswing, but through the ball, it actually feels pretty normal.

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So you can use a band to exaggerate the feeling of letting those arms fully extend.

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Through the shot, and then when you take off the band, it's kind of like when you put your arms in the door and you'll feel a little weird,

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but it'll fade and it just gives you a good feeling, muscle activation of what you want those arms to do,

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which is extend through the shot.