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This drill is hit hard stop short. Um,

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so this is one of my favorite kind of bridge or progression drills for working

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on hitting the, with your body, hitting the ball with your body. Um,

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so it's a really simple concept on, on, uh, paper. Um,

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I believe it came from macro Grady, but who knows? Um, could be, uh,

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one of those drills that we just have always used and don't know,

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really know where it comes from. Um,

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but basically the purpose here is I'm gonna take as big and as hard and dynamic

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a swing as I can, but my goal is to stop at about,

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uh, belly button height or as close to there as I can.

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What you'll see is that if you are hitting this more with the shoulder or the

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wrist,

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so if you're using your arms kind of as too much of the power source coming

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through, what will happen is you'll give it momentum.

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It will be hard to stop before the club gets way up here.

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But if you are hitting this more with the body,

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you'll see that my arms,

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if they get into a really good kind of strong release pattern, uh,

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but haven't had a flip,

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it's more of kind of an extension or a lengthening movement,

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then I can stop in that sh uh, kind of shorter follow through position.

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So the, the goal here, it's self-limiting.

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Hit it as hard as I comfortably can while stopping short.

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I'd say most good players can get to,

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let's say 80% of their full swing distance with this drill and it's closer to

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what you'll see them do on more of their controlled iron shots or punch shots.

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We got the driver, we'll, we'll use it, but um,

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it's harder to get it to stop 'cause you don't have a little bit of the ground

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contact to help decelerate the club. Okay, so,

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um, kind of warming up. So we'll do a couple easier ones first.

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So here we're going to kind of a three quarter length

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backswing and, um, as I'm warming up, I'll usually

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go a little bit further in the backswing just subconsciously to give myself room

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to stop so I'm not bracing or slamming on the brakes too hard. Um,

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this is also very good for helping train your bracing and your, uh,

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your centeredness of pivot. Okay, let's do another one. Kind of like that.

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That was really good. Hit that very solid.

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Now let's see if we can go a little harder and a little shorter. That's the,

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the name of this game. So a little harder

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and a little shorter. Um,

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pulled it a little bit but felt like I accomplished the mission

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here. Felt like I was really using my body,

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my legs and my core to hit that.

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And my arms were just releasing but not, um,

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kind of throwing it or passing one more like that.

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Little longer follow through, but still, um, pretty good.

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Now once I've done a few of those,

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I can apply that feeling down to the bottom,

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but then just give my permission to let momentum carry the follow through pass

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there. Um,

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so you'll see that this next one is gonna have a similar impact look and feel,

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but just a little safer or, um, kinda longer follow through movement.

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So it wasn't that much bigger of a follow through,

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but it just felt like I was able, um, to let it go.

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And it doesn't go that much further than the hit hard stop

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short. Now, potentially when I take a fuller back swing,

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that will make it harder to stop short and it will help the ball go, you know,

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another 10 yards further or so,

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A little higher, a little further. Um,

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still had that kind of feeling of hitting it more with the body. Now,

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like I said, I would always, I would start with irons, kind of a mid iron, uh,

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eight iron, seven iron, six irons, something like that. Um,

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but you can get to driver, um,

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it's definitely tougher 'cause you don't have the ground to hit it and you're

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getting more of that extension. So, um, or later extension I should say.

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So when you do driver here,

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What you'll see is a little different look of stopping short

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because I'm not gonna be able to stop here at waist height very

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well. Um,

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essentially I'm going to be hitting the ball and then here's my goal

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of the stopping position.

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So a little bit of runoff would kind of get me closer to there. Um, the,

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the timing of the release is mu is later when we're dealing with the driver.

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So the timing of stopping short is also gonna be later unless you've really held

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the arms back. Okay,

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so let's go hopefully down the target line.

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Maybe it just touched left of it.

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Little

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Bit hook, not too bad.

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Heard the maintenance gentleman coming in. So, we'll,

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we'll do one more before we run outta time here.

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So I'm gonna focus a little bit more. Hit hard,

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stop short, kinda like that.

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So if you're struggling with trying to get more of your body involved,

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a little bit better bracing, um,

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focusing on shortening your follow through is one of the time tested ways to

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make that happen in a little bit more athletic or automatic fashion.