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The gravity release is helpful for taking some of the tightening impulses that a lot of golfers fight down at impact. Grip pressure for professionals tends to be very little at impact. Amateurs, on the other hand, can have a lot of grip and forearm tension. That combination makes it hard to lengthen the radius and create shaft lean at impact. If you struggle with a "tightening" tendency, then work in the gravity release to your training program.
Tags: Chicken Wing, Cast, Release, Drill, Intermediate
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This Thrill is the gravity release. So the gravity
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release is a way to train getting into
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a good impact position without creating a
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whole lot of arm tension. So while
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some tension is good that allows you
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to transfer some energy through your body into the
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club oftentimes. I see amateurs having a really
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aggressive or tightening of the arm, whether
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that's trying to control the club
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face down at the bottom the swing or trying to apply a really
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big hit that ultimately makes
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it harder to get shaft lean. So typically
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that will have more of this kind
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of look to it and then things will
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Bend or break on the way through
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so the gravity release is taking a
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concept like the impact fix where we're trying to get the hands slightly
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forward and slightly up kind of
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even with the left eye body in this
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good Merry Go Round position. So we're trying to get into this
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position here, but we're trying to get there
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by having the arms fall to that position from
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more of a ten o'clock backswing or so
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that will cause me to feel like a little
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bit of this falling wipe where the arm is working across my
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body oftentimes golfers who have too much tension will
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either pull it across and never release
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it or throw it out and release it early. So this
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gravity release kind of combines the White
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and The Arm extension into one feeling.
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Now if you're doing this correctly, you should
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be able to stop a couple feet after
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impact or before well before
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follow-through position. So I'm close
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enough over here. You can see it will be easiest to
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do.
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on Turf because you'll get a little you'll
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have the advantage of having
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the club interaction with the ground helping you decelerate,
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but
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You can do it off Matt's so I'll demonstrate here
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and one of the challenges is how
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hard can you hit it while still getting this kind of
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feeling of gravity. So I'm going
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to bring it up to that ten o'clock position.
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And I'm going to let the club fall into
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that impact position. So it's
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going to feel like there's this falling across my
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body and then out not just
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falling straight out. So where I see kind of
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the pattern the problem one would be letting it
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fall.
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Kind of like this and you'll see even though I tried to
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stop it because the club had passed my wrist.
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Down to the bottom. It was hard to stop before follow through
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position.
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If I do a better one.
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So now I'm going to try and get into.
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A really good impact position. You'll see
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that I hit those.
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Comparable distances I did hit that first one. Maybe just a touch further,
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but you'll see follow through wise.
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That so that one went past the one
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where I flipped it and you can see the head of very short follow-through the
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similar to The Recoil drill any of
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the drills where you're working on getting the arm extension without
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letting the wrist flip should enable you
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to get a shorter follow through so that
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short follow through becomes a self-limiter of
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the drill where if you're doing it, right you
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can stop really short even if you're hitting it kind of
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hard.
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Where if you have a hard time stopping short, it's almost
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always because you have too much activity of that right
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arm or too much activity of the left shoulder pull
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on the way through so if you've worked on
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some of the positions and maybe you're pretty good at doing
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some nine to threes and getting some
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shaft lean, but then it breaks down when you go higher up try the
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gravity release to help feel this falling blending
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of the wipe into a really good impact position.
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Okay, so we'll do
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one more good one.
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Like that, and then this can become a breaking
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drill. Where now I'm going to try to hit this
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even hard.
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while stopping
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as short as I can.
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There my arms still felt like they were falling with
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gravity, but my body felt like it was a whole lot more active.