Bunker Single Arm Releases

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This video is the single arm releases for the bunker. So with all the

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different shots we like to break out the arms and kind of identify well what

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should the right arm do what should the left arm do how do we work them

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together. So in this video we're going to cover the details of the right arm

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and

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the left arm kind of a simplified way. So the the general goal here is the same

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we're focusing on trying to get contact with the sand a little bit before the

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ball inch to two inches or so and then the bottom of the swing ahead of the

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golf

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ball. We're going to focus mostly on the arm so we're gonna kind of preset some

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of the body movements with our good setup upper body on top of the golf ball.

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Now

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when we're working on we'll start with the right arm when we're working on the

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right arm our goal is to release the club kind of straight out in front of our

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chest kind of more like this we don't want to have a lot of shaft lean and

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angle we're going to release the club so it's kind of straight out pointing in

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front of me and you'll see that the club as it passes instead of having some

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rollover and pointing that club down it's gonna tend to stay pointed up towards

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the sky. Now the reason it's not gonna look like this when we actually hit a

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shot is because my body is going to turn so it's gonna pivot and it's gonna

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finish kind of low and over here on the left but the overall goal here our big

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focus is we're going to let the club pass. I would say that the secondary focus

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is

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trying to keep that trail arm pretty straight through the shot so it'll have

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more of a look kind of like this where the palm is right down in front but kind

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of facing up towards me instead of across and pointing more down. So with a

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golf

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ball this should have a nice thud sound and splash the sand we might have a

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hard time creating a lot of speed but as we take bigger swings we'll still be

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able to hit this a reasonable distance so ball position is good leaning a

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little

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bit onto that left side and then palm is going to stay facing up and it's gonna

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have a feel of kind of going more almost underneath or scooping like that where

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the palm stays facing up all the way through good if I came back to start

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it'll finish in front of me in fact sometimes what I'll do initially is I'm

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gonna try to take the body out of it and I'm just going to let the club pass so

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I'm gonna focus on getting some owner deviation but also kind of flexing that

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wrist on the way through so that it gets pointing up kind of like this you'll

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see that that came out pretty nicely. Now I find that the right arm is fairly

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natural if I was to take a bigger swing just kind of let it clap out a little

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thin but you'll see with a bigger swing allowing momentum to help I can hit

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this

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right arm shot a pretty good distance kind of by letting the weight of the

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club power the swing getting getting that scoop timing in the speed at the

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right place finishing in front of me but also rotated and facing the target I

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think that overall if you get the right hand working really well that can clean

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up a lot of bunker action but some people have a really dominant pole

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pattern from the left arm so let's talk through some of the details here of the

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left arm or the lead side for you lefty so with the left arm if we're going to

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match it one of the easiest things to do is to just trade hands in this

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position so this is going to feel quite awkward for a lot of you most people

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when

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I give them a club and say swing it left hand only they're gonna have a

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tendency to really pull that tends to cause contact problems really big contact

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problems work for the bunker so our goal here is to let the club pass while the

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wrist is in extension so we're gonna keep that wrist in extension during the

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backswing which keeps the face open and the bounce exposed and then on the way

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through we're gonna feel like it the the wrist stays or sorry the arm stays

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pinned to the side and in front of the body as the club had passes so we're

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gonna

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get here lean a little bit more left kind of like this now I guess I believe

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that it's harder to create a the kind of full speed with the left arm but it is

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doable so if we made a little bit bigger swing and then really let the wrist

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pass when I put the wrist the right wrist on it'll feel like it's still in

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front to me the club head is facing up but it's more over to the left side and

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in fact when you put both hands on the club if you execute both of those

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movements together I'll focus on the left one it'll tend to finish that right

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arm pretty straight still scooped underneath but it'll finish a little bit

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more over here to the left side of your body but still really close kind of

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this so if you're struggling with contact and you're looking at your

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video I'll go through a couple of the common pitfalls that we'll see so with

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the right arm the most common pitfall I'll see is a they'll swing more from the

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shoulder and it'll get kind of way back right here as opposed to keeping that

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arm a little bit closer and keeping the club in front of you it will tend to

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swing kind of back like this and it will do more of a whole shoulder action

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like

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this instead of having more wrist action down to the bottom the other really

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common one that you'll see is on the way through having the club turn over so

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it'll kind of have more of a throw like that where it spins over and you'll see

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that that tends to really cause some contact problems out of the sand I

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didn't I didn't make any sand contact whatsoever so I want to get more of this

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scoop out in front of me with that arm straight different length swings are

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fine but it will tend to strike the sand just before the golf ball but then

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bottom out after it okay with the left arm the most common problems will be

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getting steep or disconnected so coming down into the sand again closing the

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face it'll tend to look something like this where it kind of really digs

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because

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I've rotated the club face closed leading edge hits the sand and it digs down a

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lot the second option usually causes no sand or really bad sand contact where

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I'm pulling that arm away if you recall for the really good lead arm only it's

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gonna have the wrist is gonna stay in front and we're gonna have more of a

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scoop release or release from the wrist where it's passing kind of like this

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but staying in an open position if I did it towards the camera it's gonna stay

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more like this as opposed to rotating over like we might expect in the full

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swing so if you're checking yourself on video those are a couple couple of the

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common pitfalls to look at if you feel like you're doing these pretty well and

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you're still struggling then make sure that you're not getting either too much

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sway off the ball or too much tilt that can disrupt even the best of the arm

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releases so you're gonna make sure that you stay stacked hips are gonna stay

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pretty level right arm left arm little kind of shadow movement ultimately you

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can put them together and try to have both arms helping contribute to the

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overall release pattern which for the bunker is a little bit different than

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what we see in the regular swing so one of my favorite little sequences let's

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do right arm good smack makes that thud noise left arm got a little steep on

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that one but released it okay and now trying to put them together right arm

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left arm nice high soft bunker shot just like that