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In this video, I'm demonstrating the trail arm body sink drill, a one-arm exercise focused on syncing body and arm movements for a more efficient swing, starting with a ball toss and progressing to the club to promote a wider, body-driven transition and less reliance on arm power
Tags: Backswing, Transition, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill video is the trail arm body sink. Um,
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so this is one of the few one arm drills where I focus on a bigger swing.
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I'm not doing the one arm drill for working on the arm and the wrist mechanic,
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so I'm not really just focusing on the nine to three. This is a one arm drill.
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We're gonna focus more on the top of the swing in transition and blending how
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the arm and the body works together. Um, a lot of golfers struggle with,
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uh, stopping the body too soon,
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lifting the arms up and then powering the swing by pulling the arms down using
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more of a tricep pole or a lat pole, um, but a big arm pole.
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Um, so this, this drill, uh,
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the trail arm body sink is designed to synchronize the body and the
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arm working together. So before we do it with a club, we're gonna do it, uh,
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with a classic, uh, toss of the ball. Now when you do the tossing of the ball,
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your goal is to throw it with your body.
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So your goal is that your arm is just a prosthetic.
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It's gonna hold onto the ball in kind of shot, put position just like this,
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and I'm gonna keep the arm in front of my, in front of my body.
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So you'll see as I turn, it stays in front of my chest.
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My hand is in front of my chest. It's not coming back like this.
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This would not work. I can't get my left arm to reach.
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So it would typically have to get there if I was actually make this movement.
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So keeping the arm in front of my chest, I'm gonna make a backswing,
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and then I'm gonna make a through swing and I'm just letting go
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like this. So there's this just nice little shot put feel.
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This is not designed to be more like that, where I threw it with my wrist.
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I threw that one more powerfully,
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but I also did it to the exclusion of using the body. Um,
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and the goal of this is to synchronize and get more of the hit happening from
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body and less of it happening from the arm.
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So one more good one where I'm gonna feel the body and the arm going through
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together. Now, the, when we put the club in place,
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there's typically two places where you're gonna feel this, um,
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dramatically different. One is the top of the swing, two is transition. Um,
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and a third one, it might be a little bit during the release,
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but the two places where it, uh, typically, um,
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feels different is for the top of the swing. If you really need this one,
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then you're used to kind of this pattern here where the body stopped the arms
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lift and then they kind of pulled down and got into that really narrow position.
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Well, if I do what I just did, uh, with the ball,
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so if I keep this in front of me, um,
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we're not gonna worry too much about contact.
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But also see that contact's typically not that bad
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once you figure it out
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Because the arm staying straight and in front allows
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the, a pretty consistent control of the radius.
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And I'm not really moving my hand around that much.
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So the club face isn't gonna change very much. You can see I'm hitting some of,
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uh, some of these thin, I'm kind of picking it a little bit. Um,
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but what I'm feeling is at the top of the swing,
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that was a pretty good one at the top of the swing,
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the arm feels like it's more in front now.
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So this kind of blends with the trail arm in front of Peck idea.
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So now I'm gonna do what I just did,
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but I'm gonna stop at the top of the swing and I'm gonna reach and put the left
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hand, uh, on it. Now, if you are used to not turning,
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this is gonna feel like your, your back is facing the target.
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This is gonna feel like you've made a much bigger, um, shoulder turn.
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So hopefully you can do this without swaying and without lifting up or losing
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your posture. Um,
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but this becomes a nice little checkpoint for where I want to get to.
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And then from here, I'm just going to turn my body. It can become kind of a,
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a isolated drill or a hit from the top type drill where I'm gonna get up here,
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stop, put my hand on, Kinda like that.
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So this will help you feel wider at the top,
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which will require you to feel more body rotation there in transition.
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Once you've done a few of these kind of stop drills,
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then you can try to add more of a dynamic feel, um,
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where you're gonna feel like you, uh, make the backswing,
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but the transition's gonna feel like wider and typically slower,
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more powered from the body. Less of a violent pull down from the arms.
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So if we walk through the quick demo, it would basically be arm in front,
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throw a ball, that's kind of stage one,
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swing the club in front, stage two,
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swing the club back to the top,
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put the other hand on stage three.
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And then stage four would be feeling like I get back to there
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and just turn through. So it's gonna feel wider, more body driven,
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less lift and pull.