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Armpit Rope Swings

Using the core in the golf swing can help with power as well as sequencing. The sequencing aspect helps train consistency and effortless power. Typically when you don't use the core, your swing will feel fast and armsy. Try this drill to feel an acceleration of your trunk using your obliques.

Tags: Not Enough Distance, Drill

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This drill is armpit rope swings.

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So this is kind of in the same light as the beat the drum, but I've realized that with the

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beat the drum drill, which is a dynamic version of the merry-go-round.

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Basically the goal there is to get the speed going from your legs into the core and into

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the rib cage.

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It's really helpful for golfers to tend to early-send and kind of stall the body and just

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kind of throw the arms.

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The problem with it is unless you have something to strike against, which is usually

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provided by me, something you're not going to feel to clearly.

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So we're going to use a rope or I've seen or other instructors use jackets, so I'll

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use my shirt sleeve here as kind of the backup version.

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But with the rope, basically what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and get my body

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speed into the rope or into the handle and I'm not going to have any opportunity to

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use my shoulders in my arms.

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So I'm going to take the rope and I'm going to place it high up in my armpit, kind of

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like this, and then I'm going to take that arm and place it across my chest.

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Now a kind of advanced version is I'm just going to use my body.

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But for the beginner version, let's say I'm going to bring the rope back while holding on

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to it and then I'm going to let go and I'm going to try to get the rope to whip through

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impact as much as I can.

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Now dynamically as I get better at this, I'm going to do a little bit more of this kind

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of preset move where I swing the rope back fast with my body to load that right glute

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and then I swing it down using my hips and my core.

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So the advanced version would be I'm not allowed to use either hand.

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I'm going to get it swinging, turn it back, turn it through.

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This is a quite a core workout.

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If you're used to early extending what you'll see is that rope will swing almost vertically.

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So see if you can get it to swing through more on plane, especially if you are using

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the hand to get a big enough swing that it will come through on roughly a swing plane.

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That would be a good indication that you're keeping your head on the pillow or you're keeping

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your spine angle on the way through.

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So if you don't have a rope, you could use a towel.

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Tows work pretty well.

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Or potentially what you can do is if you pull your arm out of a jacket or out of a sleeve,

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kind of like this.

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It's a little windy today, so this is going to be really tough.

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My goal is to use my body to propel my sleeve towards the target while staying on plane.

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So that right there is kind of an exaggerated feel of the dynamic body position going through

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the merry-go-round movement.

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So now I'm going to try and combo that into a 10 to 2 where I'm going to feel like I have

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that same throwing action from my body.

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My arms are going to be connected but soft like ropes.

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So they're just going to transmit the force from my body.

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I did a little bit more with my arms on that one.

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So I could feel that the core wasn't quite as involved.

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I'm going to get that feel of the beat the drum or the dynamic merry-go-round.

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And when you do that, you'll tend to feel this speed through the ball that you may not be

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used to if you're used to more of a kind of the classic upper body dominant stand up.

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Stalk through the arms.

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Now because I have a reference, that feels like my body is stopped and nothing in my

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core was really involved.

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That was a arm flick with some leg action.

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I don't want to end with that.

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So let's see if we can do one more good one where we feel like we do the dynamic merry-go-round.

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So that was pretty good there.

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So try that.

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If you have a little bit more of early-sensions, stalk flip, or you have a hard time getting

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the merry-go-round, it's a feel-powerful.

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