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This drill is impact bag outside of lead foot.

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So not a huge fan of using the impact bag in the traditional way of kind of putting it

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there and just kind of smacking it for the sake of feeling some shaft lean.

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But I do like to use it to stop the club to help your brain figure out what you might

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be doing in space.

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So my impact bag is seen better days.

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We're going to use an object.

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You can use a pillow.

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I'm going to use the impact bag to help uncover what might be going on down to impact.

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So I'm going to do this off-grass, but you can do this on carpet.

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You can do this off-mats.

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You can do this striking ball or not striking ball.

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I'm going to kind of identify where ball position would be.

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So somewhere right around here.

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And then I'm going to try to brush the ground roughly where that ball position would be.

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And then I'm going to try and strike the impact bag that is just outside my left foot.

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And my goal is to have my hands and the club head in line.

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So basically vertical.

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This is to help with golfers you have a tendency of getting low to high.

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You would say I would hit it very high up on the impact bag.

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And my hands would be well behind where the club is at that point after impact.

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The other option would be golfers you have a little bit more of a scoop.

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And chicken wing, I would hit it high on the impact bag.

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I might not even hit the ground and my hands would definitely be behind.

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So in order to accomplish the two goals of or actually the three goals, brushing the

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ground, striking it low on the impact bag with my hands even with the club head, I have

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to do a decent job of getting my hands in front, maintaining that leg, keeping my chest

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in a good merry-go-round position or getting my body into a good impact position.

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It kind of ties together a few things relating to both the pivot and the sequence of the

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arms.

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For me, in order to do this correctly, it feels like I'm throwing my arms out in that direction

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such as the grip throws or the single arm throws or any of those drills.

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But for you, by doing this, you may develop your own unique feel.

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All that's important is that you take that feel and then we're going to try to apply it

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with a golf ball.

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So first, I'm going to do the trickier version, which is just kind of a tap drill.

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I'm going to try and strike the ground and just tap the impact bag like I was doing right

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there.

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The goal on this is not to make the impact bag topple over and make it go flying.

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If anything, I'm almost kind of decelerating in the impact because of the limited amount

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of grip pressures.

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So basically, I don't want to feel like I'm really squeezing my arms and tensing my

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shoulders.

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I'm going to feel more like they're getting pulled away by the weight of the club.

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And in order to do that, I'm not using my body for the bracing and the power transfer

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the way that I would normally.

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So the club is actually going to be moving fairly slow when it strikes the impact bag.

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So now, again, I'm going to try and brush the ground and strike the impact bag low

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towards the bottom of the impact bag with my hands relatively even with the club head

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when I make contact.

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Once I have a feeling of that, I'm a big fan of baby steps.

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And now I'm just going to move the impact bag so that I won't make contact with it.

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And then I'm going to try and basically duplicate that same feel.

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Once I have a few of these little baby step drills, then I can move up into a little

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bit bigger.

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Then I might be able to move into more of a continuous 9 to 3.

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And then once I feel like I've accomplished the goal with my 9 to 3, I'm going to move

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up to my 10 to 2 and into full swings.

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And now when I start to do it with a little bit more speed and body, I'm going to start

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to hit the ground hard enough that I've probably taken a divot where in the slow motion

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swings it's unlikely even if I'm having a leading edge strike unless the ground is really

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soft.

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I'm probably not going to take a divot.

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So this is great for golfers who have more of a scoop early release and you struggle

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with more of the clubbed going low to eye high or bottoming out behind the golf ball.

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So if you have trouble taking divots or you're more of a picker of a golf ball, this

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is a great way to get a sense of the handle getting ahead of the club head down through

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impact.

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One of the key skills for striking the ball in the center of the club from having good sequencing,

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good body position and good chef lean.