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The Chair Wipe

The chair wipe is an at-home drill designed to help you feel the direction of the wipe movement as you start your release. Many golfers who struggle with shaft lean at impact benefit from doing wipe training at some point in their swing building phase. This simple addition of using a chair can help elevate the feel your brain gets from wipe drills. That additional feel can often be enough to help give you that elusive eureka moment and move the wipe into one of your shaft lean keys.

Tags: Poor Contact, Iron, Driver, Transition, Release, Drill, Advanced, Intermediate

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The drill is the chair wipe.

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So this is more of a positional training to help with the white movement when you're just

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doing some practice at home.

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So we're going to use an object that can be a chair, it can be a couch, it can be a countertop,

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but I like something at lower than belly button height.

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So this is kind of pushing it for me because what you'll see is when I get down into my golf

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posture, I would like this to be at about the height of my elbow and you can see it's

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just a touch height.

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So if I was doing this at home, I would probably kick something underneath here to lower

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it by angling it back just slightly like that.

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But I'll still be able to demonstrate it for you.

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So what we're going to do with the chair wipe is we're going to rest our forearms on the

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chair or the countertop.

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But I'm not leaning into my toes as you can see from the down the line camera.

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I'm more still in the center of my feet.

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And now from here, I'm going to basically do kind of this feeling of the side arm

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throw and what I do is when I turn the lower body, I'm going to feel my right arm work

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around my body so that both are pointing towards the target.

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This gives me a feeling of my shoulders staying more square.

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This can be really helpful for golfers to tend to really pull with that left shoulder and

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kind of throw the arms that way.

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So this gets me feeling like my core is rotated and my arms have followed the core as

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opposed to following the shoulders.

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So we're going to get this feel where when I do this it has a feeling like my shoulders

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are more closed than my lower body but my arms are out in front.

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So we'll do that a few times and if you do that with a club nearby then what you can

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do is once you get down into this delivery position basically it around parallel your

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shoulders should be close to parallel to the target line so this is parallel to the counter

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or the chair but my lower body is a good 20 30 degrees open at that point.

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If you are practicing your delivery position and you're more going like this where the

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shoulders and the hips are open that would cause you to be too steep so it wouldn't

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really be usable.

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So next we're going to try and hit a few where we focus on this delivery checkpoint

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feeling what we felt with the chair helping our shoulders stay a little bit more closed

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or square.

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So now I like to do this in a version of kind of a 9 to 3 where I'm going to try or a

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little bit past 9 to 3 where I'm going to try and feel an exaggeration on this white

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movement where you'll see that the club stays at about the same height compared to

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the golf ball.

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So I'm going to get into that position I'm going to feel like my shoulders or my chest

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stays square as I open my lower body and rotate.

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I know that when I look at this one camera my body is still going to be open but because

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of what I just did with the chair it's going to feel like my chest and my shoulders

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stay a little bit more closed.

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I think this is where some of the the feelings of keep your back to the target longer

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or pull the arms down in front originated.

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They tend to those feelings tend to help prevent you from spinning the shoulders through

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fast and I find that the chair wipe does the same thing.

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So we're going to bring this back.

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We're going to get that lower body open and that white feel while the feeling of

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my chest and shoulders feels like it stays square until the release brings that around.

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Now I have a feeling I'm going to want to explore into a bigger swing so I'm going to go

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up towards the top of the swing and I'm going to try to get back to that delivery kind

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of wipe position.

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That felt pretty good with the body.

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I kind of forgot what I was going to do with the arms but worked out okay just a tiny

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bit thin.

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Let's do another one maybe with a little clearer intention in the arms.

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That was a little bit better.

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That had good feeling of this getting open while the shoulders staying square but the

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arms not getting behind.

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It helps with two specific problems.

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One I've talked about a bunch in this video is pulling with the shoulders.

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The other one is often in an attempt to keep the shoulders more square the arms get

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behind.

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So in trying to keep this chest square or shoulders square as I turn my lower body but then

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still getting the arms out in front.

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That's where the magic in the delivery position really comes from and I find that that

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chair can be a helpful kind of a tai chi or at home kind of mirror work where you can really

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dial in the physical relationship without a club.

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That was pretty good.

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