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Train Your Release
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In this drill circuit video, I walk you through a simple series of drills to help you chuck the pieces of the release into one pattern.
- Ping Pong Paddle Releases
- Left Arm Only Release
- Right Hand Open
- Palm Strike
- Pelvic Punch
Playlists: Train Your Release
Tags: Release, Concept, Drill, Intermediate
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In this drill circuit video, we're going to focus on the release.
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So we're going to pick a handful of the release drills that I want to practice right now.
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And we're going to build them into a little drill circuit to work on each piece.
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So first thing we're going to do is we're going to do, or I guess,
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the exercises or the drills that we're going to do in this little video are going to be
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the ping pong paddle releases.
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Then we're going to do the left arm only.
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The right hand open, the palm strike, and then the pelvic punch.
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So we'll start with the ping pong paddle.
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So I'm going to go through the right hand, the left hand, focusing on the key pieces for me
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from those different drill videos.
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So the right hand, I'm going to focus on keeping that cut, get it past the golf ball,
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keeping that cut.
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As my hands move in, past my body.
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This is still pointing. My hands are still out there. I haven't completely flipped it.
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So we're going here.
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Good.
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Okay.
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Got a feeling of where I want to go with those.
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So next one we're going to do is the left hand only.
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So now I'm going to imagine, I'm just holding that ping pong paddle, and we're going to try
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and go through those spaces, just like so, getting a feeling of where I want the club to go.
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It's the most important part of the release.
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So then the next one is going to be the open right hand.
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So I'm going to have my left hand control this as the right hand just helps apply force a little bit.
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Good. So I got a good feeling of that.
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Next one is the shaft press or the palm strike.
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So we're going to get to impact position from here.
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I'm going to bring my right arm back to delivery position, and I'm just going to practice to get an idea.
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Okay. That's not quite right.
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So I'm going to come back to impact.
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There we go.
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So I got a feeling of the direction that that right arm will be going with the ping pong paddle.
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Now I'm going to do the pelvic punch, which is a version of the 93, where I stop at waist height.
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It just forces me to focus on my body positions a little bit better, and forces me to
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focus on the stabilization of the lower body through the shot, because if I were to stand up and have my body
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it lose all of its angles. It becomes very hard for me to hit this shot solidly.
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So the pelvic punch, we're going to go to waist height.
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And then from here, we're going to try to get back into that palm strike position and finish our release.
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So we're going to pelvic punch, kind of like so.
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So that's given me an idea of this feeling of the release.
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And then if I wanted to, I could hit a full shot or take it just in the 93 level,
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and then bring it back and go through the circuit again.
