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Getting a proper movement of the arms during transition is critical for speed and consistency. This drill is an at home drill for creating a feel and a spatial awareness to what the arms will look like if you use them on the proper path. Imagine that there is a stick, or my arm, in between your arms. When you get to delivery position, you should have a feeling of your trail arm under the lead arm. This will help create a shallow angle of attack that works well to compliment the motorcycle move.
Tags: Cast, Release, Drill, Intermediate
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The Strel is don't break my arm and this drill is the help you work on blending the
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transition into the release. So my students get this nice little intimate relationship where
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I'm putting my hands kind of in different places while they're trying to make swings.
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Well one of the ones that's a lot of fun is when they get to about delivery position,
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I like to take my arm and stick it between this little window here so that I can grab
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onto this arm and prevent it from going out that way. What that'll force them to do is bring the
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arm more across the body with that palm facing up. Now the only way that they'll be able to
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square the club faces if the motorcycle is already had to. So it ends up looking kind of like this
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and you can see how my arm would fit right through. So now this is more important as we get to the
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longer clubs and you know the driver the three wood the hybrids, things like that. This is just another
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way of looking at the path of the club and how the arms do it. It's very similar to the concept of what
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I talk about in the handle in the bucket video and the transition section. So when you're practicing it
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at home what I have my students do is put a ruler across your form kind of like so. This is a little
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bit heavier than a ruler so it'll move around more so I can't do fast swings. But basically
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it's going to be parallel to my form. And so what I can do is I can take little position movement
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type swings where I'm just kind of going through slow motion and trying to create as much space as I
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can or trying to get the feeling of this right arm underneath my left arm. Now yes this left arm
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is going to be rolling or supernating through the shot but compared to where it was it set up
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it's going to be more pronated when you're making contact, at least with the longer clubs.
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So it'll end up looking kind of like so and then that roll or that supination is going to happen
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after I've made contact with the golf ball or just starting just before but happening as I'm
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making contact with the golf ball allowing me to finish in this good arm extended position. So
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if you tend to get this arm away from you, if you tend to get the arm away from you more out here
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then when you come through that'll tend to have a little bit more of the elbow pointing behind you
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which is great for a little half wedge but it's terrible for a driver. So this movement of getting
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this right arm, this right form underneath the left and not breaking my arm that's in the middle
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helps with this path which will help shallow out your swing from the forms and help create
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that ideal path that we're trying to get. So you can practice this at home to get the feeling of
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these arms doing this little flattening move that I talk about during transition and then all you have
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to do is add the motorcycle and you're pretty much in business and now give you a clear
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mental kind of library of what you can work on the next time you go to the range.