9 to 3 Test

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Hey golfer, this is the 9-3 test.

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So using the hack motion, I've identified that I have a flip down at the bottom

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Now I want to figure out what do I need to work on.

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So the 9-3 test is basically breaking the swing down where I'm going to do a

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shorter

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swing to see if I can get good contact on a smaller swing with the wrist being

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more

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flexed than it was at setup.

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So striving for that 15 to 30 degrees more flexed position at impact, I'm going

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to

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basically bring the club back, a belt belly button height, and then I'm going

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to try and

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hit a little half shot just like that.

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So nowhere near my full distance.

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And you might have to use video to monitor.

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A lot of golfers who have backswing and transition issues have a hard time or

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even golfers who

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have a flip and more of a release issue, have a hard time stopping the swing

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short.

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Because oftentimes that reveals that you're relying too much on loading your

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arms rather

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than loading your core and your body.

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And so when you do this little short swing, you feel like you haven't even made

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a swing

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because you haven't loaded your arms at all, all you've done is load your core

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and your

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body from kind of your chest down.

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So again, you might want to do 5 to 10 just seeing if you can get into that

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good flexed

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wrist impact position.

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If you struggle with that, then I would recommend that you start with the

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release section and

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work on some arm education and some body pivot just to get a sense of where

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this impact position

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should be.

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We've got drills like the pushball drill, like the single arm drill is to help

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you figure

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out how to get into that good position.

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Then once you have a sense of it, you can retest it and see if you can then

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execute some 9-3s

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making good solid contact.

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Once you can do that, then I would try to see if it breaks down because of two

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different

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reasons.

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Either it's going to break down because I'm swinging really easy and now I'm

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going to

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try to hit it hard.

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And basically that tells me my flip is associated more with my power issue

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because it's trying

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to hit it hard that causes me to break down my wrist.

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Or it's going to be more associated with the length of swing and what I'm doing

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at the

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backswing or in transition.

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But then it's going to mean that I can do it now in this 9-3, but it still

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breaks down

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when I take a full swing.

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Then I have to do either top of swing or transition training in order to

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influence that pattern.

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But if we start with this 9-3, 10-2 full swing, if we start with this hierarchy

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, it's

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going to help us pinpoint exactly what we need to do in order to change our

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impact.