Advanced Single Arm Drills

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This drill is left arm swings, right arm shadow.

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So I'd like to do a lot of these splitting hands when we're doing the release

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training.

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And you can typically see when a person has a release issue, when either there

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's a lot

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of kind of bending, narrowing, or not really good bracing patterns, but a lot

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of golfers

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struggle with the release because they tend to be too much trail side dominant.

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There are many good golfers where the trailhand actually comes slightly off the

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grip during

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the hitting zone.

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But I haven't seen any really good golfers where the lead hand comes off the

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grip.

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So at the very least, you need your hands to be working together at the other

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end of

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spectrum.

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You could be almost a lead side totally and still be a pretty good golfer.

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So this lead hand hitting with the trailhand being a shadow works really well

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for golfers

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who tend to have a little bit more of a right side release that gets into kind

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of this

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little chicken wing style finish look.

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Because you will rarely see when you're hitting these one arm left hand only,

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you'll rarely

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see that same amount of bending or bracing or kind of breaking the elbow or

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chicken

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wing.

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What we're going to do for this drill is you're going to take your right hand

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and you're

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going to put it within a couple inches of the grip but not actually on the grip

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So this is kind of a cousin to the open trailhand where I'm working on how the

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right hand pushes

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against the grip.

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So I'm going to keep those in space and I'm just going to try to have that

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right hand

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follow the left hand very closely as I do some of these left arm single arm

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drills.

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Many golfers are going to feel either the right side continuing rotating, a

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little bit more

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shoulder activity, ab activity or you may struggle and you'll find that your

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body just

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wants to stall in order to let that right hand really square the club face.

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So this is a good kind of awareness drill for feeling how the lead arm can

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control the

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release and how the trail arm would have to support that or how the trail side

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of the

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body would have to support it if you're hitting more of these left arm only

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shots.

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So the way I would work through this drill I'm going to hit a few just lead arm

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only

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and then I'm going to take my trail hand and put it just off the grip.

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So I'm basically doing that lead hand only and then taking the trail hand and

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placing

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it just off the grip so I can get a sense of where I'm going to try to get in

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that follow

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through position and then I can try and hit a lead hand only shot while letting

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the right

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hand kind of follow.

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And this is definitely a little bit more of a mental puzzle for a lot of you

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because

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you've got to coordinate both sides of your brain making the right movement

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while hitting

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a golf ball or while you're letting a golf ball get in the way.

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But for a lot of you that's actually a good challenge because it forces you to

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not really

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talk yourself through it but you just have to feel it and just kind of trust it

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and go

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with it.

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So I'm going to do the left hand open or sorry the left hand single arm with a

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right hand

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shot shadow where basically I'm trying to just let that right hand follow that

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left hand

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motion.

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Once I have a feeling or a concept of what it feels like to kind of lead it now

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I'm

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going to put my right hand on but I'm going to put it on very softly and I'm

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going to

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feel like I hit this more with my left hand emphasis.

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What I tend to see when I have golfers do this is hitting more with this left

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hand emphasis

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you'll almost never see someone go into a chicken wing style motion.

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You'll tend to see really good arm extension and then the challenge is getting

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bigger swing

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so going from waist height to up to three quarter and then up to full swing and

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then

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adding intensity or at each position adding intensity and feeling like I can

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swing hard

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from that with that left hand being a little bit more in control.

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So if you're struggling with your kind of chicken wing or the release and you

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're having

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trouble especially when you swing hard play around with this drill and put some

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of the

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intensity into what the lead hand is doing sometimes that helps overcome trying

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to control

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it with the trail hand.

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If that doesn't work you can always try the trail hand only style of drills and

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really

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work on the control pattern but sometimes this is a much faster fix for being

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able to

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take it to the course.