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The delivery shaft push is a rhythm drill designed to help you take out some of the trail arm throw tendencies. A lot of golfers overpower the swing from the trail arm, especially the shoulder. This causes a host of contact and clubface issues and results in body compensations, like stalling. The delivery shaft push helps you feel a natural timing of pushing on the club with the trail arm later in the downswing than you do currently.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Transition, Drill, Beginner
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This concept video is connecting scapular alignment to
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impact alignment. So when we
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look at impact we're looking at kind of
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the Merry-Go-Round and the impact line and getting the upper
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body in a good kind of stacked position over
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the golf ball to help control low point but we're also
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trying not to be too Steep. And so
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what can often happen is if your shoulder blades
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don't do the right thing, then it prevents your body
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from getting into more of that open classic impact look
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so oftentimes the way I'll demonstrate
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so I held a club out in front of me like this. Then
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we have different videos relating to
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the downswing in the release and even transition where
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we feel more of a movement kind
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of like this where essentially if I was to pull if you
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imagine that my hands or my shoulder blades if I was to pull my
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right shoulder blade down and back
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kind of down towards my left butt cheek
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kind of down this way and if I was to reach that,
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Left shoulder blade up and forward that would create
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a shoulder alignment that was pointing way out there
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to the right 30 degrees 40 degrees out to the right kind of
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like this. So if I got down into this posture and I kept the shoulders in
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that position now if I was to turn my
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belly button my hips can be open but my
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shoulders are relatively square and I
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can do that.
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And get my upper body on top of my left foot.
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A common dysfunctional pattern is
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if you get too much either throw from
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this right shoulder where this right shoulder is going up or too
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much pull from this left shoulder. Essentially. What
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happens is the shoulder blades start till to tipping this
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way now with my shoulders tip this way. If
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I was to get into that same impact position, you could see how steep
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I would be from this down line. So the classical compensations
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is from this steeper shoulder
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position. I will either slide and
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tilt back now, I got this steep arm
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motion pointing in the direction of
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the Target or was in
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this position. I'll do more of an early extension kind of
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like this where that also helps prevent getting
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too steep. So if you're struggling with getting your
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body open, one of the kind of
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hidden places that's hard for a lot of golfers to identify is
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the shoulder blades. The easiest
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way to see is from the down the line video.
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As we approach impact we still want to
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see that right shoulder kind of scrunch down
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here where we'll see this right side creasing or
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compressing more like this. If you already see that
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right shoulder up double check in transition oftentimes,
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you'll see that right shoulder coming up towards the
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ear. What a lot of really
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good ball Strikers do is they create more space there where that
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shoulder is coming down and away
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from the ear as the body is
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rotating into position kind of like this.
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so
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we've drills on isolating either the left arm not pulling
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down kind of blocking and staying up or the right arm
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staying more down and back.
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When you do that making sure that you don't get too much
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tilt so some we have some anti tilt drills
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to help combo that but this is this concept
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video is a way for you to kind of think about and
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start exploring. Well, how could I be upper upper
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body stacked on top of the Lead Foot and
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rotated but still have those shoulders in
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a more square or close position
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in order to do that. I'm gonna have to feel the shoulder
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blades being more tilted out to
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the right and kind of connected now the other
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little benefit to this is if you get the hang
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of it what It ultimately feels
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Is as I'm more as I'm more connected
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kind of like this my body and my
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arms will have a tendency to rotate through together. And
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so when the when the arm gets
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up, it gets kind of disconnected, but when it's down like this my body
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and my arms tend to work more in harmony
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or together, so it'll feel maybe a
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little bit stiff. But as you do it
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more it will feel shallow compressed as
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well as
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Connected so it'll feel like there's a lot
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less of throw. I got a little bit tilted back
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on that one. So I caught that a little thin and
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that is one of the most common compensations if
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you start working on this you want to really monitor
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from the face on video that you're still able.
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To get forward as that shoulder is down not
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just going down this way when I
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go down that way. It's more of I'm cheating from the pelvis and
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the spine instead of just doing it from the
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shoulders. So
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You're struggling with your impact position check out your shoulders.
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They may be sabotaging you and refer to
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looking at your video so that you can see which one
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might be throwing you off. And when that'll help you point you
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in the direction of some breakthrough drills that might really help improve
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your overall contact and flat spot control
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during your release.
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Kind of like that.