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This drill is a legs, arms balanced.

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So this drill is to help you try to experiment or play around with power sources and how

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they relate to your tempo.

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Ideally, when you're making your good stock swing, you want to have a balanced approach

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where your lower body, your core, your arms, and your hands, or your shoulders and your

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hands are kind of evenly distributed.

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You're not overpowering the swing from one area.

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Many golfers do one of the two extremes.

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Either they get tons of power from their legs in more of like an early extension or a

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slide type model or they tend to get tons of power from their upper body in more of a

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chop or maybe more of a lunge in pull where the shoulders and the arms are kind of the dominant

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power source.

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So oftentimes golfers are unaware of their dominant power source and this can be a

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this drill can be a way for you to explore it.

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So as it indicates, it's a pretty simple drill.

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You're going to rely mostly on your perception or your feelings of what you're doing

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power wise.

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Now this also doubles as a diagnostic because it can see if your movements are pretty well

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trained as in if your pivot is in good positions, if your release is in good positions

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or good balance, then as you add power to one area it's not going to totally disrupt

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the system.

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If you find that going from swinging mostly with your legs to mostly with your arms

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to balance messes you up it can be a sign that the geometry or the balance of the

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positions isn't quite matching up.

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With all the drills I like to work through the circuit of 9-3's 10-2 full swings.

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So first one we'll do is more of a 9-3 but focus on getting the power from the lower

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body.

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So this will be more similar to the pelvic punch drill without stopping now.

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So I'm going to do a 9-3 and I'm going to feel like my arms are a little bit extra

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soft or extra relaxed and then I'm going to feel like I get the dominant force happening

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more from my legs.

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Next one I'm going to do a 9-3 but I'm going to tend to almost lock my lower body

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more down and I'm going to try to get more of the power happening from my arms and my

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shoulders.

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So 9-3 really and in my case I'm a little bit steeper when I do that and I tend to pull

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it more.

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So that could indicate that maybe there's something going on pivot wise release wise

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so that when I get too active with my arms it messes up my geometry.

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Now I'm going to try to balance it so I'm going to try to do the same amount of effort

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with my legs as my arms and hopefully even my core.

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So same amount we're going to do.

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So there's little 9-3 maybe a touch bigger than that but that felt like it was more balanced

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between the legs and the arms.

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Today the legs actually felt as good as the balance one when I got upper body dominant

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I felt like I was a little bit off.

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Okay now we'll go into the 10-2.

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So same concepts we're going to explore a longer position to see if that really disrupts

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my rhythm in my timing.

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Remember this part of the sequence drills the goal here is to find the balance or the

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amount of effort that gives you the most smooth swing.

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Okay so now we're going to do primarily legs 10-2.

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So not too bad maybe a little kind of disjointed down there at impact now we'll go

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more with the arms.

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I felt like I swung a little harder but that actually felt pretty good if I like my

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transition was really connected even though I went dominant with the arms.

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And now we're going to try to apply legs and arms evenly.

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So that was a really good strike it felt like a really good blend like that would be

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if I was warming up and doing this I would be like okay that's my 3-4 shot like that is

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I know when we get on the 7th hole here and it's a heavily tilted green and I need

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to take a little spin off I'm going to hit that 3-4 with 1 extra club that's the shot

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I'm going to hit.

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So I've got a good feeling in my rhythm but for the sake of the drill we're now going

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to take it to a full swing.

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So now we're going to do more leg powered softened softened the arms in core I'm going

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to try to get most of the energy from the legs.

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And you'll see on the full one that got me maybe a little bit out of position cause me to

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hit it a little bit fat especially since I just had a really good feeling with the

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10 to 2.

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Right now we're going to try to quiet the lower body and get more of the swing happening

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from the arms.

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So that felt like I stayed more quiet and chopped more down it felt a little earlier with

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the activation of my arms which isn't a problem for the iron so that felt actually

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pretty good but that felt like if I had done it with a driver I would have flared it off

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to the right.

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So now let's try to balance those two legs and arms on a full swing.

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Neither one is going to overpower the swing they're both going to be the same level of

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effort.

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And so that felt again similar to the 10 to the 2.

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In the tail felt great that might be more of my go to feel today but overall this helps

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you kind of get more aware if you're driving the swing mostly from the legs or mostly

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from the arms you can concert this or work with some positions at the same time if you're

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trying to improve one area of your swing.

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In general if you're working on the longer clubs getting more movement from the lower

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body tends to be helpful and if you're working on the shorter clubs getting it more balanced

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or a little upper body dominant keeps you more stacked and can help with solid strikes.

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So don't be scared to experiment with this day to day because oftentimes your tempo or

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your perception of the sequencing can change but the reality is that we want to have a nice

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balance swing when we're working on our stock tour swing that will give us the best chance

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of creating maximum speed but also controlling the low point in geometry.