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Train Your Release
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Use the SAMI with either arm to focus on the key arm movements during the release. With the trail arm, you can focus on the timing of the arm extension or you can monitor too much internal rotation of the shoulder. With the lead arm you can focus on the flexion of the lead wrist timing and the extension of the lead elbow.
Tags: Release, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill is released training with the Sammy.
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So the Sammy is one of Martin Chucks' newest training aids which I was able to take a look
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at and I thought it was actually pretty cool.
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So I bootlegged my own.
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There's simply a badge retractor, right?
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So an ID badge retractor with an alligator clip.
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So if you ordered that, you have to make sure you order that type.
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And then all I did was put a rubber band or a rubber band instead of the ID badge holder.
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So I actually like this attachment better because I've got other attachments that I've
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created that work with this for how you're potentially training the club.
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So I'll show you what this does.
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Essentially I can use it in a variety of different ways and I'll probably have a series
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of videos here to help you see how to use them.
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First one I'm going to do is the trail arm.
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So I'm just going to take the alligator clip part and I'm going to go to the shoulder
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or the shirt seam and grab a hunk of clothing and put in there and then take the rubber
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band and place it either around my thumb or what I actually like to do is put it around
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my pinky kind of like this.
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So now if I have it around my pinky, I can feel a little bit of resistance and I can
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hear noise if I was to bend this.
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If I'm working on getting a little bit more width in the backswing, this provides some
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pretty good resistance or if I'm working on training more of this roll where I'd hit the
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chord if I were to actually roll versus if I was to wipe it pretty much go straight
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align along the chord.
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This gives me some a little bit of audits where you feedback.
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So it gives me some tactile as well but I really like the auditory component of how
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you can hear the chord extend through the shot as opposed to a lot of golfers who would
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more bend and wouldn't hear anything.
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I can also train this on the left shoulder or the left arm where if I put it in about
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the same position just as a kind of a general reference and then put it through in this case
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I do like the left thumb but you can again put it more with the left pinky.
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Either way it helps me feel that little bit of arm extension and here a little bit of arm
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extension through the release.
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You don't hear it quite as much as you feel it with this side because it's not changing
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quite as drastically.
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So then doing that release focusing on letting that arm extend instead of letting it contract.
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There's a variety of different ways I like to use this but these are two that help you
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with working on the release.
