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This drill video is two-click backswing.

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So two-click backswing is designed to help you feel re-centering during the

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backswing.

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A lot of amateur golfers have a poor concept of thinking that the golf swing is

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this big

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lateral shift off the ball and then lateral shift towards the ball.

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So if I was exaggerating it in their minds, the golf swing is a shift way back

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here.

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And then I shift way forward here as I calm down.

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But it has more of a pressure shift somewhere to a throwing pattern where I

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would shift.

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And as I'm still bringing this backward, I would be shifting towards the target

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, starting

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my lower body before my arms have gotten to the top of the swing.

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So I will use the pressure board or a wobble board, or if you don't have either

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of those,

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you can always put a piece of wood on top of a towel.

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Something so that you can feel where your weight is.

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And I'm not quite sure if you can hear it because this mat's a little softer

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than inside

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my studio.

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But if I push it hard into the ground, you'll hear a click.

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So I'm going to do a couple of these swings where I'm not talking, so hopefully

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it will

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get picked up on the audio.

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But basically what I'm going to do is it's called a two-click backswing, which

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is basically

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I'm going to start on the left foot, and then I'm going to make a takeaway move

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where I

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shift into that right leg, but not by shifting my whole upper body, because if

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I shift my

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whole upper body, the second click is going to be tough, because the second

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click is supposed

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to happen between, or as I'm going from here, up towards the top of the swing.

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So the two-click backswing kind of looks like that.

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So we've got start on the left foot, shift, shift.

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And as I'm shifting, I'm going to feel like I'm more down and on top of the

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ball and ready

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to go into more of my rotational vertical, that 360 jump, or the force-puddle

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idea of

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using the legs more vertically there during the latter half of the downswing.

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So I've already had this lateral movement, and now it's more rotation and

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vertical movement

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down through the ball.

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Now the only downside to this is because it's higher off the ground, it can

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cause some contact

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issues.

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It's hard to actually take full shots, but I do think that it works pretty well

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if you're

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good enough that you can adjust for what you would have to face if the ball was

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just a

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little bit below your feet, or you can always use a small T and T the ball up

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if you're doing

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this on a mat.

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I don't recommend doing this on grass, I just haven't got the same benefit.

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Now one other thing that you'll see is if you're late, if I shift and then I

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start spinning

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as I'm shifting, what will happen is the board will actually twist under your

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feet before

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you get to that second click.

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So I want to be able to do this with a fairly good aggressive swing.

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I don't want it to be, you can see that one I shifted late and the board

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twisted.

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So let's try it again.

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So we're over on this left foot, click, click, swing, good.

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This can also be a problem if you get too much of your lower body movement

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laterally,

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or if you use too much of your back muscles to really pull on the club.

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It can be awkward for you to get on top of the golf ball, because then if you

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did those

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patterns, you would be too steep.

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So you need to, basically you have to rework your shallowing pattern.

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So this can be a really good drill for a couple different issues in end of back

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swing in transition.

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But the most common is if you use more of your upper body shift kind of like

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that where

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you shift way off the ball like this and then try to shift during the downswing

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So if I did that, the bad one that we're actually trying to solve here, it

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would typically

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look like this.

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I'm on the left foot, I would shift, and then I would shift.

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And you'll see that because of the timing of that shift, I ended up having to

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throw

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my arms pretty early.

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So now we'll do one where it's more of this re-centering move in the backswing.

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So we've got shift, shift, go.

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And that's kind of the rhythm that I'll usually say to students while they're

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working on it

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is the shift shift.

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I want that timing happening during the backswing.

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So we'll do that again.

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So we've got shift, shift, go.

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And like I said, it will force you to stay a little bit more down or it might

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force you

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to release your arms a little bit more in order to control low points.

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So it's not perfect, but I think it's really good for helping if your backswing

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force pivot

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pattern is causing some downswing issues, this will help you stay centered and

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get your

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lower body a little bit more active in transition.