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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

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that

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they've got a scoop where they think that their wrists are bending like this

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and I'll

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show them on video that the wrists are actually staying pretty stable on the

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way through.

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But what's actually happening is that more of the elbows and the shoulders are

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bending.

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So they'll get to a open club face position, kind of like this, maybe even a

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little outside

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

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letting

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the club pass and to prevent from hitting it fat.

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So oftentimes what will happen is we'll work on some body pivot stuff and we'll

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work on

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getting more shaft rotation because those are the two key things that you'll

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have to

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do to solve that pattern.

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But one way to tie it together into a feel and give you kind of a simple drill

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that you

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can use is to take a car wash sponge and place it between your forearms.

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So I've got two different versions here.

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One was just a rectangular sponge that I cut in half and then put a rubber band

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around

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so it would create kind of more of an X shape that I could fit between my fore

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arms, kind

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of like that.

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Or the other one that I like even more is they've got that kind of figure eight

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sponge

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and I just cut it in half.

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But if you have a little bit more broad shoulders you may have to do the whole

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sponge instead

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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

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and so what

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

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letting the

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natural supination and roll happen.

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It'll force you because it's firm, it'll force it to rotate around the ball

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instead of rotating

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through the ball like we would do in the regular swing.

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So what I usually recommend is doing these shots, mostly working on release

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pattern kind

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of nine to three and what most people find is that they feel that in order to

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swing with

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that between their forearms they have to have more fluid body rotation.

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It will, the sponge usually would come out if you were to make a full swing

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either at

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the top of the swing, it'll drop out depending on your shoulder flexibility but

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for most

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people it would drop out if you take a full full backswing or on the way

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through once

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you get past about shaft vertical as the arm works around you would have the

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sponge drop

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out there.

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So I mostly use this working on release style drills.

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Okay so in demonstrating you place the sponge between your forearms it will

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more or less

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keep your forearms pretty quiet and then just doing some little nine to three

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swings this

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will force you to keep that connection between your arms and you'll find that

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they go right

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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 most

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of that

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hit with the body then the goal would be to duplicate it add length to the

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movement,

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add speed to the movement but this is a great little training aid that you can

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keep in your

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bag you can work it into full swings if your shoulders have pretty good

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flexibility.

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I've also got one version where I've got it a lanyard kind of you know hole

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punt or drilled

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through the middle so that I don't have to keep letting go and picking it up in

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case

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I lose it, similar to the training aid that Martin Kimer or sorry Henrik St

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enson 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

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able to let that

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arm go at the top.

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So try this if you find that you have either a stall of your body on the way

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through or

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your arms bend on the way through both are signs that your your arms and your

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body aren't

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

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