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The Wipe Is Rotational

The wipe is a move that unites the downswing. It blends transition into the release. When you have a good wipe, your swing will usually look smooth and you will have width in the follow through. When you don't have a good wipe you'll usually struggle with fat/thin misses and complain of more inconsistency. When learning the wipe, some golfers lose the connection of the arms to the body. 

Playlists: Fix Your Flip, Fix Your Chicken Wing (Bent Arm @ Impact)

Tags: Not Straight Enough, Chicken Wing, Impact, Follow Through, Concept, Advanced, Intermediate

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This concept video is the wipe is rotational not linear.

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So I have a number of videos working on the wipe

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or getting the arms back out in front of the body.

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Because many players get stuck with the arms behind the body

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either at the top of the swing or the elbow, the trail elbow

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gets more behind or down as they enter the release,

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the trail elbow gets more behind and it turns into

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more of a roll style release that typically causes low point

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to move back, the club face to get closed and the arc

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with Tenero.

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Those are all things that will lead to inconsistency,

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poles, slices, a whole shambal of contact

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and kind of frustrating problems.

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So the wipe is one of those key movements of getting

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those arms back out in front of your body.

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Now, one of the important things to recognize

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is that the wipe movement is rotational or it's a

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round your body.

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It's not linear like it's not going just straight across the

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body towards the target.

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If I'm doing just the arms compared to the body,

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it may feel like it's a little bit more linear at first

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because you're moving the club from the side of the

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body to in front.

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But if it follows along the arc, it actually goes

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around more like this rather than straight towards the target.

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There is from the top of the swing that little movement

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where it gets in front, but then it continues with the body

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rotation on the way through.

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And what'll happen is the wipe or the elbow kind of

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leads the hand in the club for a longer period of time.

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This way, not that way.

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So the way that that ends up look or looking is whether

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you're doing a supported wipe or nine to three with wipe

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just any of the wipe drills.

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The elbow will continue to lead the hands in the club head

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for a longer period of time and that will look like the arm

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gets more out in front of the body.

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So you'll know if you're doing it more across your body

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will tend to stall and so it might have more of a kind of

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look like that down through impact where if you're doing it more

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rotationally where the arm is working across and

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coupled with the body rotation, you will tend to see

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the pivot continue on the way through.

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