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This drill is the backswing rebound so I didn't exactly know whether to call

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this a drill or a concept video because it's going to blend in a concept but I

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'm

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going to show you practically how to apply it and basically what we're going

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to be looking at here is one of the themes that you hear a lot of long drive

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players talk about is increasing the speed of the backswing so we're going to

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talk about how to apply that to your swing kind of safely and how that tends

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to create more of this feeling of effortless power where essentially you're

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trying to get a rebound in transition rather than a really forceful active

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pull. The classic analogy is if I had you take your hand and place it on your

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chest and I said I want you to take your middle finger and you're gonna lift it

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up and then you're going to slam it into your chest. I went quiet so you could

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hear it on the microphone. Doesn't create a whole lot of speed this way but if

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I

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got more of a rebound effect where I moved it quickly against the load I get

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a lot more speed than if I just did it actively. So essentially the load is

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going to be the golf club so by swinging the golf club with some speed now I

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can

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resist it with the sling that goes from my inner thigh through my obliques into

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the shoulder blade wraps around the spine up to my neck so it creates this

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really nice rotational spiral line. So to feel it we're going to get down on

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the

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ground. I recommend using either the underside of a couch as a resistance or

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a heavy dumbbell. I've got a 10 pound medicine ball so I'm not gonna be able

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to apply say maximum force to it but you'll get the gist. So I'm gonna lean

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this

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way hopefully you can see and hear the demonstration. So I'm gonna lean this

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way and I'm just going to anchor the hand. So if I was holding on to the bottom

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of

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the couch I would be holding my arms in kind of a T position especially this

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trail arm. So I'm going to resist with the hand here and now I'm gonna bring my

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legs up and I'm gonna do a little bit of like an ab roll. Now the key here is

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if I

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was trying to get my obliques to work then you would see I would do it more

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like this where my ribcage isn't really moving. Instead what I want is I want

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my ribcage and my pelvis to move together and I want the ribcage to pull

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away from the inside of the armpit. Hopefully you can see the difference in

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those two. So this would be one where I'm doing more oblique and then this

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would

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be two where I'm doing more armpit. Armpit muscle is the serratus anterior and

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I'm

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gonna feel like I can resist some speed kind of like this. Now if this was I

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can

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feel like if I pulled really hard the medicine ball is going to move but what

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you'll see is if I rebound I kind of get that sling and I can use that armpit

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muscle to pull my whole body pretty quickly in the direction of the target.

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That's not a lot of oblique though oblique is more stabilizing there that is

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more a feeling of this sling on the inside of the armpit kind of loading like

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this and then pulling in that direction. So how does that fit into the golf

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swing?

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Now I'm gonna go up to the top of or I'm gonna go halfway back and now as I go

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to end the backswing I'm gonna feel what I just felt down there where the ribc

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age

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is kind of getting moved away from the arm and the armpit that serratus

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anterior is getting lengthened as the ribs are moving this way and the shoulder

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blade is moving that way. At the same time that that's happening I'm getting an

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anchor I'm getting my my pressure into that lead foot. So it has this look kind

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of moving like that where it almost feels like I'm moving in two different

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directions. I'm moving down in and into that lead side with my body as my arm

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is

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getting stretched and moving back to really create this feeling of tension on

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the inside of the armpit. What I would then do is that's created the speed and

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now I can rebound out of it in one kind of explosive movement where I'm using

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this whole chain my leg muscles my core muscles and that arm armpit muscle to

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help deliver the club down the golf ball in kind of the spring-like or more of

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a

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rebound or kind of a bouncy transition feel. Okay so it's always hard to

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demonstrate a feel but what I'm going to try to do here what I do for my

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students is I have them go up to the top of the swing and I'll push a little

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bit

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here I'll put some resistance on the inside of the shoulder so that they can

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feel that same kind of movement of when the upper body was moving away from

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that

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arm that has a feeling of the arms being left behind or the arms staying up or

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lag the arms might even feel like they're falling so you're gonna have to do

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your best and try to make it feel like you what you were just doing with the

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weight or with the bottom of the couch cushion but it will often have a very

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different transition feel so a lot of you this is what I imagine you feel I go

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back and then I come down that was more of a 1-2 I go back load stuff up and

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then

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I come down in and more of the force is created in the down movement on this

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next one I'm going to create more of the force in the end of the backswing to

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finish the backswing to load that rebound swing and then I'm just going to

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kind of pop it almost like elite pitcher or a martial artist so now we're gonna

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feel a little bit more of this backswing load

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balls moving okay so we're gonna feel a little bit more of this backswing load

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with speed and you'll see I almost always naturally get a little bit more of

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that lead foot pop or that kind of pushback or that rainbow force pattern that

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a lot of guys look for when I focus on this upper body rebound effect so a

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little more speed into that armpit and you'll see from a speed training

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perspective we'll have to put it on track man for you tomorrow and give some

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numbers but oftentimes I can see speed jumps five miles six miles as many as

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eight miles per hour depending on the club from getting more of this easier

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now it feels a little more chaotic but it feels physically easier like less

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actual force on the downswing it feels like more of this force and speed is

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happening to end the backswing and then all the work is done in transition and

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the release just kind of happens so if you're struggling with speed or if

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you're struggling with getting what looks like a really armed dominant

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sequence where the upper body is getting steep perhaps feeling some of this

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rebound will help get your lower body to lead as long as you keep your shoulder

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blade alignment as you're coming through that pelvis leading is going to get

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you

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into a really good merry-go-round or a really good impact position