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Resisted Tipping Of The Shaft

For developing a feeling of the proper muscles, resistance can help give the brain more information to process and speed up the learning. Use the roof of your golf card to zero in on the part of your body that helps control the tipping of the shaft during transition. The most common places are the back of the right shoulder, and the left forearm.

Tags: Not Enough Distance, Transition, Drill, Intermediate

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The Stural Video is resisted tipping of the shaft.

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So tipping of the shaft is what some of my students refer to as this flattening of just

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the arms during transition.

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So if you're unfamiliar with that, you're welcome to take a look at practicing just

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the arms and transition or the transition overview to understand what the forearms you're

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doing in relationships to the body.

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But oftentimes, I will, in the lesson, grab the club and provide some resistance, but

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they don't have it when they're on the course.

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So I'm going to show you how you can use your golf cart to provide the resistance.

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Basically what you're going to do is you're going to get set up so that your back is

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to the golf cart.

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You're not hitting golf balls this way.

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This is only to get a feeling that you could then apply when you're practicing.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the top of my swing.

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So somewhere around there, and I'm going to come down towards transition.

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Now, if you have a very long swing, you have to might have to come down more, but we're going

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to take it to kind of about arm parallel to the ground or well before delivery position.

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So right here what I'm going to do is I'm going to get into my good transition of my body,

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and I'm going to try and basically turn the club down into the golf cart like so.

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Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to see if I can feel it by bringing this right

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elbow in front and get it more in kind of this backside of my right shoulder.

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And then I'm going to see if I can feel this left side turning down like so and feel

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it more in the left forearm.

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I'm going to see which is easier to feel and then I'm going to try and combine them together

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into one feeling.

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So while I'm pressing, you want to press for about five seconds or so to help activate

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the muscles.

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If you do it just very quickly, your brain's not going to have enough time.

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If you look at techniques like muscle activation, NKT, typically when you're trying to activate

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a muscle, they do five to six second isometric holds.

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So we're just going to do that at the top of the swing where we want to get certain muscle

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active.

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So up here, I'm going to get that feeling.

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Then I'm going to step away and I'm going to let that feel and happen even more.

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So that feeling from the top of the swing is basically this.

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But I'm trying to do it kind of in a controlled, almost guided way.

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And what'll happen is as I'm rotating as I do that, that'll allow my body to stay a

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little bit more over the golf ball and help control the path.

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What most golfers do is they get up to the top of the swing and then the arms go very,

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very steep and unless I was Charles Barkley, I would stand up to balance it back out.

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So working on this forearms flattening during transition is one of the key movements.

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If you want to stabilize your body pivot, which helps with both distance in consistency

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and building your stock full swing.

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