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Australia is looking at alignment stick loading so we're going to use an

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alignment stick to exaggerate the feel of the hands and the wrists on the club

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because as you can see if I step on this club and apply some force you can see

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that the stick actually bends so when we when we take a golf swing what'll

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happen is in transition you're going to create some speed in the handle that's

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going to cause the club to lag behind and then you're going to do some things

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in

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the release that cause it to kick out and the goal is to get it to kick down at

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the bottom well the way you push on your on the club can change the way it

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kicks

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and change the way that you'll control the low point and club face down at the

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bottom of the swing so to exaggerate this we're going to use an alignment stick

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because you can see that I can bend this a whole lot easier so first we're

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going

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to do the left hand the left hand we're going to use the left thumb and we're

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going to use the right hand to kind of push against it like so now I'm not

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trying to stretch my wrist back as much as possible I'm going to push almost

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like I'm using a hammer but at the same time I'm going to be pulling back with

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that right wrist now that would make my wrist want to extend so the only little

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caveat is I'm going to make sure that I keep it a little bit more bowed kind of

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like this now I'm going to do that at about this point in time over here so

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this right arm is going to pull in and that left arm is going to resist I'm

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going to get down to about delivery position like so and then I'm going to

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let it snap out and as it snaps out I'm going to let it rotate so I'm going to

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let this hand basically do the single arm release training so I'm going to

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load and then let it rotate now one thing you may experience is if you're

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used to having a really long thumb or gripping it in the palm you'll be very

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weak when you go to push against this so right now I've got a lot of range of

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motion but it feels very weak and it's going to snap out in a slower manner so

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as part of the reason why I'm an advocate of at least a medium thumb or at the

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very or possibly even a shorter thumb you rarely see long hitters who have the

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thumb well down the shaft there are handful of them but most of them are

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going to have the shaft or the thumb in a position where you could apply more

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of

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this resistance so left hand is pretty simple feeling that load and then just

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do the good single arm release movements to control the width of the swing the

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bottom of swing as you unload it now looking at the trail hand so the trail

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hand what we're going to do here is I'm going to put the club up against the

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ground kind of like this and I'm going to take this joint right here just

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underneath my first knuckle and I'm going to place that on top of the club

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so I can we're on top of the alignment stick so I can push it like so so now I

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've

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got this gripped so that I've got that whole first joint of the index finger as

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my pressure now I'm going to push and at the same time I'm going to kind of

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cover it so I'm going to feel that right there now the timing of when that

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happens is right about here as the left wrist is really taking over with that

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unhinged that right wrist is going to push and rotate and kind of cover and

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you can see that those two work together hand-in-hand so if I'm doing it just

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right wrist rotation I'll anchor it down there kind of feel that push now I'm

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going to push on top of it and having a little bit of rotation what I will

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frequently do is I will come and apply a little bit of resistance so that they

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can feel the energy and the connection between that part right there of the

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index finger going all the way up into the shoulder and trying to get that

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kind of rotation through actually this works pretty well getting that rotation

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through kind of like that so I'm taking my grip what I'm not doing with the

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right hand is I'm not pushing on it with the thumb a whole lot like I'm using a

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hammer that's more the left-hand's job so I see a lot of it's higher-hand you

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have golfers you have the thumb kind of like this and they're really pushing on

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it with the thumb that's not the trail hands goal or role the trail hand should

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be pushing more with this part of the hand more like that once you've gotten

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that exaggerated feeling you can then do 9 to 3s and 3/4 drills just kind of

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emphasizing the feelings of either the right hand or the left hand and how

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they're pushing on the club and that'll help you control the club face as well

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as the width and flat spot a whole lot easier and it'll provide a little bit

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more clarity if you're lost and confused on what's going on down here I find

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that

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many golfers once they get a clear sense of what the hand should feel it's a

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whole

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lot easier to do it especially when you start applying more speed so using the

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alignment stick at home is a great way to exaggerate those feelings of the load

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of the club and the unload so then it'll be a little bit easier when you're

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practicing working on those arm and hand movements on the range

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left hand we've got pushing you can see the close-up of the thumb in the last

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three fingers you can see it really bend the shaft there as opposed to if it's

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narrow like that doesn't really bend too well now for here's that shaft 45 view

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even closer here's that shaft 45 view instead of pushing more like this pushing

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right through there we'll get this this is how I normally demonstrate it just

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like that so just like that where this is pushing and twisting in order to bend

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the shaft