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The Struill video is throw the ball in transition.

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So I've got a ball here and I'm going to help you think of the motorcycle move or think

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of squaring the club face in a slightly different way.

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But I have to give credit to one of our members John through an email interaction.

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We kind of, I helped him understand how this drill basically could help him use what he

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already knew how to do, which was throw a baseball really well.

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So he was talking about a clinic that he attended and basically if one of the things

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that they'll teach young pitchers is to keep the palm facing second base as long as you can

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into the downswing of the throw.

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So basically it would end up looking like something like this for much of the downswing

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and then believe it or not, you end up working 180 degrees and pointing it down towards

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the plate.

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I didn't do a whole lot of baseball so that was a cool little news to me but I did play

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a P.E. football flag football but I was the quarterback so I had a pretty good throwing

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mechanic and I always felt like it kind of worked down like so palms both palms face

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the way before it would go into delivery.

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It wouldn't just go straight back saying facing the target like I was doing a shot

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put.

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Well the same thing is going to happen in golf and that's part of the reason why pitchers

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and quarterbacks end up being pretty good golfers.

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So what I'm going to do here is we're going to imagine this is my baseball, this is the

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smallest baseball we have here in this little studio.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the top of the swing and then I'm going

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to imagine second base is that way and what I'm going to do is as I come down I'm going

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to try to get my palm, my right palm facing directly away from the target.

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So I'm going to go from here to palm facing away from the target just like so.

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Now I could very easily do this by doing the motorcycle move or doing it with the lead

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wrist but for a lot of athletes it's going to feel more comfortable to do with the trail

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of wrist.

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So then once you've done that and kind of done it enough reps that you've gotten a feel

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of it so maybe ten times just kind of getting a feel of that movement during transition.

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What you're going to do is you're going to go to the top of the swing and then as you start

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down you're basically going to try and point that palm away from you but also slightly

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down just like so.

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So if I was looking at where my fingers were pointing I wouldn't want them pointing straight

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up in the sky.

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I would want them pointing at an angle slightly down towards the ground like that.

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So I'm going to go up to the top, you're going to point it away just like so.

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And you'll see that that gets the club face already starting to square so that I can be

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a little bit more aggressive and have my hands far enough ahead to have the bottom of my

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swing pretty far forward and get good compression on the golf ball.