Seated Wedge Release

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Scott's video is the seated finesse wedge release.

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So I have a video where we go through the seated release

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where basically we're looking at the release

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compared to the chest.

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And we're gonna do a similar idea here

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for the finesse wedge shot.

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'Cause I find that a lot of golfers struggle

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with kind of throwing the club past their body.

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And if they understood where we're trying to get to,

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then perhaps they wouldn't do that.

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So with the seated wedge release,

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what I want you to do is you're gonna take your hands

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and place them out in front of you, just like this.

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And then what I want you to do is in your mind,

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I want you to make a golf swing

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without letting your chest or your body turn.

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So you're gonna make a golf swing

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and just show what your arms do.

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And I'm not gonna do it yet, give you a few seconds.

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All right, so now what I'm gonna do

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is I'm gonna go through where I want your arms to go

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during the finesse wedge release.

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So here we are at the start of the swing.

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So we're kind of right around here,

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maybe a little bit more ulnar deviation.

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And then as I go back,

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the club is basically gonna stay a little bit in front of me.

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It might come back a little bit,

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but I'm gonna exaggerate it for the purpose of this video.

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I'm going to point the club slightly ahead of my body.

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So I'm gonna point the club slightly over here.

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And now during the downswing,

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I'm going to let this arm supinate,

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let this arm rotate a little bit, let this ulnar deviate.

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And so it's gonna point basically

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even with my knee down around there.

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So I'm gonna go this way.

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Now some of you are probably scratching your head.

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And I will say that this works really well

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for some very feel dominant golfers,

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but it might not resonate with you.

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We've got other videos that kind of work more

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on rhythm and things like that.

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So the reason I say that is as you notice,

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basically during the downswing,

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my arms are actually taking the club away from the target.

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If you just broke down what the arms are doing.

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So if I now combo that,

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if I was basically here at the top of the swing,

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I'm gonna go to there during the downswing.

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Just down kind of like this.

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So now if I broke that down at the same time,

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so here we go to the top of the swing,

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you can see that the club is pretty much still out

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in front of my chest.

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So that would look kind of like this.

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So I'm exaggerating it for the purpose of this drill,

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but it would look something like this.

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And then as I start down, I do that ulnar deviation

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and the club will drop a little bit kind of like this.

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That drop movement is gonna happen

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from a little bit of this rotation

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and a little bit of ulnar deviation.

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So if I do that, it would look like this

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if my body didn't move the club at the same time,

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but now that my body moves the club at the same time,

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it just looks like it shallows on plane, kind of like this.

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So that throwing motion that a lot of golfers describe

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and that I talk about is actually kind of going more down

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this way, it's more of an unhinged

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than a throwing past your body.

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So I've heard other instructors talk about it

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being more of a vertical drop

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or releasing the club back that way.

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Those are all different ideas for this concept

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of the seated release.

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So once you have that kind of feel,

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or sorry, once you have that idea,

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then you can try and isolate taking some short little shots

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where it feels like it's going from about chest height

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to down behind you at your knees.

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That will require that your body brings you through.

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And when it brings you through,

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you'll notice that the club stays just a little bit

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outside just behind my chest, kind of like this,

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where a lot of golfers struggle

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as they get the club flipping past.

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That would basically be if I was doing a seated release

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and I was going up and across, kind of like this,

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applying all the force from the shoulder.

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So this will really help quiet the look of your arms

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on the way, on the downswing.

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If you tend to have a look of really handy scoopy arm action,

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this visual, when you figure it out,

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can sometimes really help quiet and sync up

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the arm shallowing of the finesse wedge

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with the body pivot to create this really good feeling

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of coasting on the way through

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and getting really good bounce, bounce, bounce.

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