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This video is building forum connection with a car wash sponge.

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So many golfers struggle with the release and a lot of them will come in saying that they've

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got a scoop where they think that they're rister bending like this and I'll show them

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on video that the rister actually staying pretty stable on the way through but what's

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actually happening is that more of the elbows and the shoulders are bending.

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So they'll get to a open club-faced position kind of like this maybe even a little outside

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in and then those elbows will bend on the way through to help close the face by letting the club

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pass and to prevent from hitting it fat. So oftentimes what will happen is will work on

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some body pivot stuff and will work on getting more shafter rotation because those are the two key

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things that you'll have to do to solve that pattern but one way to tie it together into a

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feel and give you a kind of a simple drill that you can use is to take a car wash sponge and place

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between your forums. So I've got two different versions here. One was just a rectangular sponge

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that I cut in half and then put a rubber band around so it would create kind of more of an x-shaped

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that I could fit between my forums kind of like that or the other one that I like even more is

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they've got that kind of figure eight sponge and I just cut it in half but if you have a little bit

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more broad shoulders you may have to do the whole sponge instead of cutting it in half.

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I'm not a big fan of the impact ball because the foam itself is way too dense and so what it does

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is it prevents you from squeezing those arms on the way through or letting the natural

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supination of roll happen. It'll force you because it's firm it'll force it to rotate around the

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ball instead of rotating through the ball like we would do in the regular swing. So what I usually

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recommend is doing these shots mostly working on release pattern kind of nine to three and what most

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people find is that they feel that in order to swing with that between their forums they have to have

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more fluid body rotation. It will the sponge usually would come out if you were to make a full swing

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either at the top of the swing it'll drop out depending on your shoulder flexibility but for most

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people it would drop out if you take a full full backswing or on the way through once you get past

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about a shaft vertical as the arm works around you would have the sponge drop out there.

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So I mostly work use this working on release style drills. Okay so in demonstrating you place the

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between your forums. It'll more or less keep your forums pretty quiet and then just doing

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some little nine to three swings. This will force you to keep that connection between your arms

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and you'll find that they go right unless you have a little bit more of the motorcycle.

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So again, that was a pretty good one there and you'll see that I controlled

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most of that hit with the body. Then the goal would be to duplicate it, add length to the movement,

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add speed to the movement but this is a great little training aid that you can keep in your bag.

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You can work it into full swings if your shoulders have pretty good flexibility.

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I've also got one version where I've got it a land your kind of whole plant or drilled through the

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middle so that I don't have to keep letting go and picking it up in case I lose it.

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Similar to the training aid that Martin Kimer or sorry, Henry Extensen was using.

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But you can take pretty close to full swings with the sponge.

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It will limit a bit what happens in the follow through because you won't be able to

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let that arm go at the top. So try this if you find that you have either a stall of your body on the

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way through or your arms bend on the way through. Both are signs that your arms and your body aren't

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quite connected and using a car wash sponge helps connect them.