Underhand Toss Tempo For Wedges

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This finesse wedge drill is underhand toss tempo. So this is a great drill for

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kind of helping put together some of the feelings of the upper body going

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forward and the arms kind of falling into your actual practice routine. So what

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we're gonna do is we're gonna use an underhand toss to get the tempo of how

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much my upper body should be moving forward during the backswing. So if I

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was to throw an underhand toss here into the net, basically what you'll see is

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I'm all the way back in my right heel, I'm gonna go forward and my arms gonna

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kind of swing from my shoulder. So I'll do it again. And what I feel is my

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upper

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body, I feel it moving forward towards the target, now, now, now, now, and it

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stopped right about here. So this gives me a feeling of this tempo of my upper

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body kind of going forward. So what I will do now is I'm gonna try and hit a

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few

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wedge shots where my upper body goes forward, forward, forward, forward,

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forward, stop. And it should be roughly the same as what I was

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feeling here with this underhand toss. So it's a great way for you to kind of

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take a step back from some of the mechanics and start working on the

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overall tempo which helps you with your sequencing. So I'll try to demonstrate

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couple hitting them into the net. So it would look kind of something like this

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forward, forward, forward, forward, stop. And you'll hear that good kind of

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contact even if everything isn't really perfect. And just to demonstrate, here

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what I would not want to see. For my particular, I would go forward, forward

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back. I got lucky with that flip but anytime you go back you're gonna get too

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shallow and it's gonna affect the path and make your consistency of contact

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really, really tricky. So you can use this feeling of the underhand toss and I

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used it with players as part of their pre-shot routines. If they have a hard

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time feeling the upper body going forward in the backswing, like so, I've used

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this

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as part of their visualization before they actually do the shot. So they'll go

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like that and then they'll set up and they'll try to recreate that same

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amount of the upper body going forward. So I hope this helps you with your

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tempo

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of how you're gonna apply this shot into your or how you're gonna apply this

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movement into your finesse wedge swing.