Legs Arms Balanced

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This drill is a legs arms balanced so this drill is to help you try to

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experiment or

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play around with power sources and how they relate to your tempo. Ideally when

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you're making your good stock swing you want to have a balanced approach where

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your lower body your core your arms and your hands or your shoulders and your

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hands are kind of evenly distributed you're not overpowering the swing from one

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area. Many golfers do one or two one of the two extremes either they get tons

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of

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power from their legs and more of like an early extension or a slide type model

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or they tend to get tons of power from their upper body in more of a chop or

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maybe more of a lunge and pull where the shoulders and the arms are kind of the

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dominant power source. So oftentimes golfers are unaware of their dominant

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power

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source and this can be a this drill can be a way for you to explore it. So as

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it

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indicates it's a pretty simple drill you're going to rely mostly on your

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perception or your feelings of what you're doing power-power wise. Now this

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also doubles as a diagnostic because it can see if your your movements are

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pretty well trained as in if your your pivot is in good positions if your

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release is in good positions or good balance then as you add power to one

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area it's not going to totally disrupt the system. If you find that going from

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swinging mostly with your legs to mostly with your arms to balance messes you

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up

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it can be a sign that the geometry or the balance of the positions isn't quite

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matching up. So with all the drills I like to work through the circuit of 9 to

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3s 10 to 2 full swings. So first one we'll do is more of a 9 to 3 but focus on

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getting the power from the lower body. So this will be more similar to like a

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pelvic punch drill without stopping though. So I'm gonna do a 9 to 3 and I'm

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gonna feel like my arms are a little bit extra soft or extra relaxed and then I

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'm

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gonna feel like I get the dominant force happening more from my legs. Next one

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I'm gonna do a 9 to 3 but I'm gonna tend to kind of almost like lock my lower

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body more down and I'm gonna tend try to get more of the power happening from

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my arms and my shoulders. So 9 to 3 really and in my case I'm a little bit

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steeper when I do that and I tend to pull it more. So that could indicate that

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maybe there's something going on pivot wise, release wise so that when I get

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too

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too active with my arms it messes up my geometry. Alright now I'm gonna try to

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balance it so I'm gonna try to do even the same amount of effort with my legs

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as my arms and hopefully even my core. So same amount we're gonna do. So there

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little 9 to 3 maybe a touch bigger than that but that felt like it was more

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balanced between the legs and the arms. Today the legs actually felt as good as

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the balanced one when I got upper body dominant I felt like I was a little bit

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off. Okay now we'll go into the 10 to 2. So same same concepts we're gonna

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explore a longer position to see if that really disrupts my rhythm and my

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timing. Remember this is part of the sequence drills. The goal here is to

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find the balance or the amount of effort that gives you the most smooth swing.

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Okay so now we're gonna do primarily legs 10 to 2 so not too bad. Maybe a

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little kind of disjointed down there at impact. Now we'll go more with the

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arms. Felt like I swung a little harder but that actually felt pretty good. It

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felt like my my transition was really connected even though I went dominant

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with the arms. So now we're going to try to apply legs and arms evenly. So that

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was a really good strike. It felt like a really good blend like that would be

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if

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I was warming up and doing this I'd be like okay that's my 3/4 shot like that

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is I know when we get on the 7th hole here and it's a heavily tilted green and

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I need to take a little spin off. I'm gonna hit that 3/4 with one extra club

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that's the shot I'm gonna hit. So I've got a good feeling in my rhythm but for

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the sake of the drill we're now gonna take it to a full swing. So now we're

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going to do more leg powered, soften the arms in core. I'm going to try to get

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most of the energy from the legs and you'll see on the full one that got me

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maybe a little a bit out of position caused me to hit it a little bit fat

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especially since I just had a really good feeling with the 10 to 2. Alright now

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we're gonna try to quiet the lower body and get more of the swing happening

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from

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the arms. So that felt like I stayed more quiet and chopped more down. It felt

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a

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little earlier with the activation of my arms which isn't a problem for the

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iron so that felt actually pretty good but that felt like if I'd done it with a

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driver I would have flared it off to the right. So now let's try to balance

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those

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two legs and arms on a full swing. Neither one's gonna overpower the swing

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they're both going to be the same level of effort and so that felt again

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similar

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to the 10 to 2. 10 to 2 felt great that might be more of my go-to feel today

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but

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overall this helps you kind of get more aware if you're driving the swing

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mostly from the legs or mostly from the arms you can concert this or work with

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some positions at the same time if you're trying to improve one area of your

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swing. In general if you're working on the longer clubs getting more movement

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from the lower body tends to be helpful and if you're working on the shorter

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clubs getting it more balanced or a little upper body dominant keeps you more

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stacked and can help with solid strikes. So don't be scared to experiment with

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this day-to-day because oftentimes your tempo or your perception of the

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sequencing can change but the reality is that we want to have a nice balanced

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swing when we're working on our stock to our swing that will give us the best

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chance of creating maximum speed but also controlling the low point in

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geometry.