Pivot Drills
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When you first start retraining a movement, each piece and action is going to feel very forced. However, the goal is to turn these pieces into an overall single movement. In this "connecting" video, we help you see how proper use of the body during transition will help drive the wrist movements if you let them happen.
Tags: Fundamentals, Not Enough Distance, Transition, Concept, Intermediate
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This concept video is connecting the hand so the power source in transition.
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So we have a lot of videos in here in transition because transition is really where all this
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intention of the downswing really begins and so a lot of swings break down by having
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port process or port intentions with this transition.
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So this concept video is to help you understand how the wrist motion should be connected
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to your lower body and happen as a result of this total body motion not just independent
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movements that kind of work together.
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So basically what we talk about happening in transition is the shaft flattening and the motor
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cycle happening so that the club face can start squaring kind of like this.
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Well what you'll see is that if you look at the timing of these movements that lower body
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initiating because this club has weight and my arms are kind of over here but they're tied to
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my shoulders. What'll happen is when my body starts to pull on my arms because of the weight of
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the club. If I'm truly leading from my lower body it's going to cause the shaft to flatten
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and the wrist to start flexing. If you let it so if I am trying to rotate my body and I'm trying to
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use the ground it will cause this shallow move in the arms. On the other hand if I get up to the top
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of the swing and my intention is to pull down with my arms and create speed with my arms and with
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my shoulders then it's going to make it very difficult for me to do these shallow movements with the
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arms. So if you're struggling with getting this piece then focus on kind of the holistic approach
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and blending it and connecting it to the lower body and how you're powering your swing and then
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you can feel about feel yourself letting these arm movements that we teach here in the transition
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section happen as opposed to forcing them. Now initially you're probably going to have to force them
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and so for a few weeks while you're working on forcing these movements what you'll find is
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you're timing it'll be a little off and it won't be as good as once it becomes connected into
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one movement and that's ultimately your goal is to take these pieces that we discuss here
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in each section and then blend them into one movement so we have a really solid motor pattern
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the develops consistent repeatable power for your golf swing. So if I'm exaggerating it and I'm
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kind of doing that pump or a broken transition I can kind of force it by super relaxing and
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trying to make my arms feel almost like noodles and as my body is kind of powering this in
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higher swing. So then if I was to execute I can either do it kind of in a piecemeal or I kind of
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really let that kind of exaggerated all the wrist motions happening from my body happen or I could
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do it a little bit more at speed. Kind of like so. So we're going connecting the power source
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to what the hands are doing and ultimately that'll build a more solid and repeatable pattern
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for your golf swing.