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The Strel is open trailhand full swings.

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So one of the great things about this site is I get to interact with coaches who look at

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my videos and give me critiques commentary.

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Well one of our coaches really enjoyed the open trailhand that was originally inspired

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by Wayne D. Francesca, well, or wherever he got it from.

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But the great thing about what happens is he told me better ways or different ways that

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he's been using that concept and I wanted to fill the drill, the drill, so the his students

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and all of you can experience what he's noticed.

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So I have largely for the last really almost 10 years used this drill as a release training drill

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because it made sense as it was working on the trail arm and what we wanted to do through

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impact.

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But what I thought was interesting was he said he's been using it in transition.

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So he's been having students take full swings and we kind of bounce some ideas and it makes

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a lot of sense for helping out the chef flattening during transition and really this delay

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in the field of this thrower is catch.

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So we're going to use this open trailhand and basically use any time that I start to feel

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like I'm grabbing as an indication that I'm applying force in the wrong direction.

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So the drill is relatively simple.

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You're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to open your right hand.

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Now what you'll see if I kind of zoom in close is I can still push against the club with

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this part of my index finger kind of right along the line where the chef is.

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What I can't do is I can't really spin it with my right hand and I can't really apply a

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lot of force downward like so.

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So I can apply force against the chef but I can't really do a lot of other motions

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that would help square the face.

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So what it forces me to do is it forces me during transition to keep that pressure and

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keep that right wrist from releasing too soon because if I was to go this way during

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transition or if I was to go kind of more vertical like this what you'll find is my hand

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is going to separate away from the club.

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Usually down through that impact position.

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So keeping that trail hand open allows me to stay in contact with the club the entire

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time.

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The second thing that it does is during the release it forces that lead arm to rotate.

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Now I'm going to be less rotated at impact than when I was at setup but it's in the process

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of rotating and having the trail arm open forces that lead arm to help control some

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of that rotation.

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So it's a simple self limiting drill.

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You just set up and keeping that hand wide open you're going to try and make full swings.

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And what you'll find is if at any point you feel kind of a separation of slipping or

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you feel that hand wanting to grab it's indicating that that's a point in time or just

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before that is a time when your arm path and your body motions are not really matching

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up.

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So we'll see if we can demonstrate a couple of this trail arm open or trail hand open

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full swings.

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So that one wasn't too bad except for the fact that I didn't let that arm rotate quite

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enough but trail arm open.

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That's a little bit better there.

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So it's going to feel a little weird through impact taking these full swings with that

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trail arm open but with a little bit of practice it'll help you get the concept of how

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much that right side is applying and kind of when or how much that left side is kind

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of controlling.

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Ultimately I think it's a great self-limitter for you to develop feelings of how the arm

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should work with your body pivot.