Distance Wedge Chest Bump

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This drill is the chest bump ab stretch for distance wedges, so the chest bump

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ab stretch

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is going into more of this extension on the way through, kind of feels like you

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're sticking

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your chest out rather than collapsing it down like this.

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This has a big impact on low point control and it's a trait that you'll see

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with a lot

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of really good wedge players, a lot of really good wedge players say Rory

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Cameron Smith,

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you'll see go into this more extension position on the way through, that's a

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big shallowing

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movement so that allows them to exaggerate or be really stacked over that front

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foot

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and then go into that extension position to prevent getting too much depth.

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So it'll allow me to have a bunch of shaft lean without digging because that it

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allows

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me to feel like my arms and hands kind of maintain that shaft lean, but my body

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helps

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time the release, that tends to be a little bit more sustainable under pressure

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So I like to do this as an exaggerated drill of feeling like the upper body is

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actually

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almost ahead of the lower body and then I have to extend my chest to get it

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back to

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stacked up.

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As opposed to if you have a tendency to really shift off the ball, you will

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tend to stay

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more flexed forward kind of like this and you can see how that's going to tend

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to move

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the low point around a lot more rather than if I use that second version where

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I have

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more of this chest bump or ab stretch.

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So without a club it's feeling like I'm pushing my abs that way, with a club it

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's going to

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feel like my arms kind of ride my chest through there.

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Without a club if I stay flexed you'll see how far I can get the club away from

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me.

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If I extend my chest as I try to reach my arms, it limits how far that can get

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away

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from me.

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So I'm going to feel like I keep a little bit of that leg position as I'm

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stacked up

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and then I'm going to feel like I get more of that chest extension on the way

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through.

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Becomes a little bit trickier as you go into a fuller swing but we still want

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to feel that

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chest extension.

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What ends up happening is that first movement and on the shorter swing you can

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go straight

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into that chest ab stretch chest bump.

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You can go straight into it right away.

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On the bigger swing you have to wait a little bit until it gets to about here

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and then you

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can do it all the way into your finished position.

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So if you struggle with really diggy contact, if you struggle with getting

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behind double

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check from the down the line camera angle to see if your upper body is limited

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and going

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into extension or from the face on that would look like this where the upper

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body is kind

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of rounded still as this throws as opposed to being more extended as those arms

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come through

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with that body pivot.

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So if you're struggling with your impact line, quality of contact, trajectory,

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control, this

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chest bump ab stretch can be one of the things that you should look for at your

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video.

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So let's do one or two more.

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Pretty good there.