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Not everyone is aware of how their body feels when it moves. Using your hands to turbocharge your awareness of a certain body part is often helpful. In this drill, we use your hands to increase the awareness of the upper body during the release.d Many golfers stall and stand up through impact, but this drill can help you stay in your posture and not flip the club during the release.
Tags: Poor Contact, Early Extension, Chicken Wing, Follow Through, Drill, Intermediate
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This video is using a sharks fin or chest rotation.
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So I'm going to show you one of the little setups that I use when working with students who have more of a stall pattern.
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But then I'll show you how you can just use your hand as a simple replacement.
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I actually think it's better than what I do in here.
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So many common or many offers struggle with a common issue of their body kind of stopping or stalling it impact.
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And then a lot of kind of flip and hand action kind of like that.
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Well, it's going to take using your arms and hands a little differently down at the bottom.
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But it's also going to take learning to continue your body rotation and your body fit.
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And one of the problems is that many offers are just really unaware of what their upper body is doing and how to feel what their upper body is doing.
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So to help with a more of a visual spatial and to give you a little bit increase sensitivity.
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I've got a chest strap on here and then I take a pool noodle that I've attached some velcro to and I'll put it on there chest just like so.
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And now if I was to do what say a nine to three.
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If I bring my arms back a little bit, you'll see that my left arm gets roughly up against this pool noodle and then I'll challenge them to keep the pool noodle and the arm in contact.
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All the way through kind of like that now if you're kind of crafty you're welcome to try and recreate something like this, but basically.
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Anything that helps you become more aware of your chest moving on the way through.
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One of the other things that I will do is I will put my hand out in front of them and match this thing here and I will basically have them try and keep that moving at a constant speed all the way through the ball.
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So for demonstration purposes, let's say you're working on some nine to three's you can have the chest continuing to rotate and basically trying to keep the grip or the hands in front of the pool noodle as you're working through.
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Now I said I'm going to show you how to do this without the pool noodle.
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So actually think this is more useful especially if you've already been doing trail arm training.
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So what we're going to do is instead of using this as the feedback you're going to take your left hand and place it on your chest vertical and this is where I got the the name of the sharks fin.
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So the line it or your hand is sticking straight up out in front of your sternum and now your goal is to basically keep that moving with the right arm.
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So you can stay relatively in front of your chest.
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You can also do this with the lead arm. This works equally well.
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If you remember when I was doing the lead arm or when I was doing the nine to three version with the pool noodle, the left arm got roughly up against that pool noodle and I tried to keep it there all the way through.
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So you can just be able to feel that space a little bit easier than just trying to be aware of where your chest is.
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So you can do the single arm training and instead of having the hand, you know, just out of the way, you can now use it to increase the feedback of your upper body rotation.
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So lead arm we're going to.
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Keep that sharks fin moving on the way through hopefully not let it stall or trail arm.
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And we're just going to keep that hand moving at about the same tempo same pacing all the way through as you're working on your release.
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So try this drill if you're struggling with more of a stall as it relates to your flip.
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Especially if you've had success with doing good arm training, but then when you take it into a bigger swing, it looks like your body stalls.
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Then you have to take a step back and work on the body pivot and work on the body stalling so that your arms will do what you've been training them to do.
