Hit Hard and Stop Short

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This drill is hit hard, stop short.

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So this is one of my favorite kind of bridge or progression drills for working

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on hitting

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with your body, hitting the ball with your body.

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So it's a really simple concept on paper.

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I believe it came from Maco Grady, but who knows, could be one of those drills

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that we

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just have always used and don't really know where it comes from.

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And basically the purpose here is I'm going to take as big and as hard and

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dynamic a swing

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as I can, but my goal is to stop at about belly button height or as close to

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there as

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I can.

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What you'll see is that if you are hitting this more with the shoulder or the

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wrist,

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so if you're using your arms kind of as too much of the power source coming

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through, what

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will happen is you'll give it momentum and it will be hard to stop before the

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club gets

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way up here.

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But if you are hitting this more with the body, you'll see that my arms, if

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they get

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into a really good kind of strong release pattern, but haven't had a flip, it's

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more

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of kind of an extension or a lengthening movement, then I can stop in that kind

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of shorter follow

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through position.

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So the goal here, it's self limiting, hit it as hard as I comfortably can while

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stopping

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short.

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So good players can get to, let's say 80% of their full swing distance with

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this drill,

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and it's closer to what you'll see them do on more of their controlled iron

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shots or

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punch shots.

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We got the driver, we'll use it, but it's harder to get it to stop because you

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don't

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have a little bit of the ground contact to help decelerate the club.

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Okay, so kind of warming up, so we'll do a couple easier ones first.

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So here we're going to kind of a three quarter length backswing, and as I'm

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warming up, I'll

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usually go a little bit further in the backswing, just subconsciously to give

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myself room to

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stop.

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So I'm not bracing or slamming on the brakes too hard.

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This is also very good for helping train your bracing and your centeredness of

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pivot.

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Okay, let's do another one kind of like that.

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That was really good, hit that very solid.

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Now let's see if we can go a little harder and a little shorter.

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That's the name of this game, so a little harder and a little shorter.

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Pulled it a little bit, but felt like I accomplished the mission here.

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Felt like I was really using my body, my legs and my core to hit that, and my

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arms were

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just releasing but not kind of throwing it or passing.

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One more like that.

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Little longer follow through, but still pretty good.

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Now, once I've done a few of those, I can apply that feeling down at the bottom

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, but

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then just give my permission to let momentum carry the follow through pass

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there.

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So you'll see that this next one is going to have a similar impact look and

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feel, but

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just a little safer or kind of longer follow through movement.

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So it wasn't that much bigger of a follow through, but it just felt like I was

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able to

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let it go.

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And it doesn't go that much further than the hit hard stop short.

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Now potentially when I take a fuller backswing, that will make it harder to

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stop short and

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it will help the ball go another 10 yards further or so.

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A little higher, a little further, still had that kind of feeling of hitting it

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more

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with the body.

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Now, like I said, I would start with irons, kind of a mid-iron, eight iron,

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seven iron,

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six iron, something like that, but you can get to driver.

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It's definitely tougher because you don't have the ground to hit it and you're

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getting

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more of that extension.

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So, or later extension, I should say.

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So when you do driver here, what you'll see is a little different look of

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stopping short

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because I'm not going to be able to stop here at waist height very well.

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Essentially, I'm going to be hitting the ball and then here's my goal of the

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stopping position.

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So a little bit of run off would kind of get me closer to there.

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The timing of the release is later when we're dealing with the driver.

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So the timing of stopping short is also going to be later unless you've really

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held the

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arms back.

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Okay.

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So let's go hopefully down the target line, maybe you just touched left of it,

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a little

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bit hook, not too bad.

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I've heard the maintenance gentleman coming in.

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So we'll do one more before we run out of time here.

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So I'm going to focus a little bit more, hit hard, stop short, kind of like

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that.

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So if you're struggling with trying to get more of your body involved, a little

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bit better

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bracing, focusing on shortening your follow through is one of the time tested

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ways to

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make that happen in a little bit more athletic or automatic fashion.