Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Golf Swing with the Chair Wipe Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how your core rotation influences your arm movement during the swing
- Practice keeping your shoulders square while allowing your arms to follow the body
- Develop a better understanding of the relationship between lower body and upper body during your swing
In this video, you'll learn the Chair Wipe drill, a practical exercise to enhance your arm and body coordination during your swing. This drill helps create a better connection between your core and arms, leading to improved shot accuracy.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.160
This drill is the chair wipe.
2
00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.740
So this is more of a positional training to help with the wipe movement when
3
00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:14.480
you're just
4
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.280
doing some practice at home.
5
00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.980
So we're going to use an object that can be a chair, it can be a couch, it can
6
00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:21.360
be a countertop.
7
00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:25.120
But I like something at lower than belly button height.
8
00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.110
So this is kind of pushing it for me because what you'll see is when I get down
9
00:00:29.110 --> 00:00:29.560
into my
10
00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:33.670
golf posture, I would like this to be at about the height of my elbow and you
11
00:00:33.670 --> 00:00:34.240
can see it's
12
00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.160
just the touch height.
13
00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:40.660
So if I was doing this at home, I would probably kick something underneath here
14
00:00:40.660 --> 00:00:41.400
to lower it
15
00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.640
by angling it back just slightly like that.
16
00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.000
But I'll still be able to demonstrate it for you.
17
00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.930
So what we're going to do with the chair wipe is we're going to rest our fore
18
00:00:51.930 --> 00:00:52.880
arms on the
19
00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.000
chair or the countertop.
20
00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.140
I'm not leaning into my toes as you can see from the down the line camera, I'm
21
00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:00.760
more still
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:02.840
in the center of my feet.
23
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:08.770
And now from here, I'm going to basically do kind of this feeling of the side
24
00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:09.920
arm throw.
25
00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:16.800
And what I do is when I turn the lower body, I'm going to feel my right arm
26
00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:18.120
work around
27
00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.120
my body so that both are pointing towards the target.
28
00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:25.800
And this gives me a feeling of my shoulders staying more square.
29
00:01:25.800 --> 00:01:29.680
This can be really helpful for golfers who tend to really pull with that left
30
00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:30.240
shoulder
31
00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:34.680
and kind of throw the arms that way.
32
00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.380
So this gets me feeling like my core is rotated and my arms have followed the
33
00:01:41.380 --> 00:01:42.280
core as opposed
34
00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.320
to following the shoulders.
35
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So we're going to get this feel where when I do this, it has a feeling like my
36
00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:50.160
shoulders
37
00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.480
are more closed than my lower body, but my arms are out in front.
38
00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.600
So we'll do that a few times.
39
00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.760
And if you do that with a club nearby, then what you can do is once you get
40
00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:04.720
down into
41
00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:10.630
this delivery position, basically at a round parallel, your shoulders should be
42
00:02:10.630 --> 00:02:11.160
close to
43
00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:12.520
parallel to the target line.
44
00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:17.210
So this is parallel to the counter or the chair, but my lower body is a good 20
45
00:02:17.210 --> 00:02:18.040
, 30 degrees
46
00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:20.080
open at that point.
47
00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:24.330
If you are practicing your delivery position and you're more going like this,
48
00:02:24.330 --> 00:02:24.960
where the
49
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.550
shoulders and the hips are open, that would cause you to be too steep, so it
50
00:02:28.550 --> 00:02:29.080
wouldn't
51
00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.960
really be usable.
52
00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.950
So next we're going to try and hit a few where we focus on this delivery
53
00:02:34.950 --> 00:02:36.320
checkpoint,
54
00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:39.200
feeling what we felt with the chair, helping our shoulders stay a little bit
55
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:39.760
more closed
56
00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:40.760
or square.
57
00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:45.090
Okay, so now I like to do this in a version of kind of a nine to three where I
58
00:02:45.090 --> 00:02:45.760
'm going
59
00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:51.670
to try or a little bit past nine to three, where I'm going to try and feel an
60
00:02:51.670 --> 00:02:52.120
exaggeration
61
00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.390
on this wipe movement where you'll see that the club stays at about the same
62
00:02:57.390 --> 00:02:58.280
height compared
63
00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:59.440
to the golf ball.
64
00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:01.280
So I'm going to get into that position.
65
00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:08.560
I'm going to feel like my shoulders or my chest stays square as I open my lower
66
00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:09.120
body
67
00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.400
and rotate.
68
00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.610
I know that when I look at this on camera, my body is still going to be open,
69
00:03:13.610 --> 00:03:14.280
but because
70
00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.900
of what I just did with the chair, it's going to feel like my chest and my
71
00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:18.720
shoulders stay
72
00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:20.000
a little bit more closed.
73
00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.620
I think this is where some of the feelings of keep your back to the target
74
00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:25.520
longer or pull
75
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.960
the arms down in front originated.
76
00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.690
They tend to, those feelings tend to help prevent you from spinning the
77
00:03:31.690 --> 00:03:32.520
shoulders too
78
00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:36.480
fast and I find that the chair wipe does the same thing.
79
00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:41.130
So we're going to bring this back, we're going to get that lower body open and
80
00:03:41.130 --> 00:03:41.560
that
81
00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:48.880
wipe feel while the feeling of my chest and shoulders feels like it stays
82
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square until
83
00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.600
the release brings it around.
84
00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.760
Now I have a feeling I'm going to want to explore into a bigger swing.
85
00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:00.360
So I'm going to go up towards the top of the swing and I'm going to try to get
86
00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:00.640
back
87
00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.240
to that delivery kind of wipe position.
88
00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.580
So that felt pretty good with the body, I kind of forgot what I was going to do
89
00:04:11.580 --> 00:04:12.040
with
90
00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:17.180
the arms, but worked out okay just a tiny bit thin, let's do another one maybe
91
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with
92
00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:20.840
a little clearer intention in the arms.
93
00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:28.590
So that was a little bit better, that had good feeling of this getting open
94
00:04:28.590 --> 00:04:29.120
while the
95
00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:33.040
shoulders staying square but the arms not getting behind.
96
00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:35.040
This helps with two specific problems.
97
00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.840
One I've talked about a bunch in this video is pulling with the shoulders.
98
00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:42.400
The other one is often in an attempt to keep the shoulders more square the arms
99
00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:43.280
get behind.
100
00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:48.770
So in trying to keep this chest square or shoulder square as I turn my lower
101
00:04:48.770 --> 00:04:49.440
body but
102
00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.330
then still getting the arms out in front, that's where the magic in the
103
00:04:53.330 --> 00:04:54.480
delivery position
104
00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.230
really comes from and I find that that chair can be a helpful kind of a Tai Chi
105
00:04:59.230 --> 00:04:59.960
or at home
106
00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:04.300
kind of mirror work where you can really dial in the physical relationship
107
00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.960
without a club.
108
00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:09.000
That was pretty good.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.160
This drill is the chair wipe.
2
00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.740
So this is more of a positional training to help with the wipe movement when
3
00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:14.480
you're just
4
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.280
doing some practice at home.
5
00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.980
So we're going to use an object that can be a chair, it can be a couch, it can
6
00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:21.360
be a countertop.
7
00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:25.120
But I like something at lower than belly button height.
8
00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.110
So this is kind of pushing it for me because what you'll see is when I get down
9
00:00:29.110 --> 00:00:29.560
into my
10
00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:33.670
golf posture, I would like this to be at about the height of my elbow and you
11
00:00:33.670 --> 00:00:34.240
can see it's
12
00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.160
just the touch height.
13
00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:40.660
So if I was doing this at home, I would probably kick something underneath here
14
00:00:40.660 --> 00:00:41.400
to lower it
15
00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.640
by angling it back just slightly like that.
16
00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.000
But I'll still be able to demonstrate it for you.
17
00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.930
So what we're going to do with the chair wipe is we're going to rest our fore
18
00:00:51.930 --> 00:00:52.880
arms on the
19
00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.000
chair or the countertop.
20
00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.140
I'm not leaning into my toes as you can see from the down the line camera, I'm
21
00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:00.760
more still
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:02.840
in the center of my feet.
23
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:08.770
And now from here, I'm going to basically do kind of this feeling of the side
24
00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:09.920
arm throw.
25
00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:16.800
And what I do is when I turn the lower body, I'm going to feel my right arm
26
00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:18.120
work around
27
00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.120
my body so that both are pointing towards the target.
28
00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:25.800
And this gives me a feeling of my shoulders staying more square.
29
00:01:25.800 --> 00:01:29.680
This can be really helpful for golfers who tend to really pull with that left
30
00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:30.240
shoulder
31
00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:34.680
and kind of throw the arms that way.
32
00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.380
So this gets me feeling like my core is rotated and my arms have followed the
33
00:01:41.380 --> 00:01:42.280
core as opposed
34
00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.320
to following the shoulders.
35
00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:49.460
So we're going to get this feel where when I do this, it has a feeling like my
36
00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:50.160
shoulders
37
00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:54.480
are more closed than my lower body, but my arms are out in front.
38
00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.600
So we'll do that a few times.
39
00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.760
And if you do that with a club nearby, then what you can do is once you get
40
00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:04.720
down into
41
00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:10.630
this delivery position, basically at a round parallel, your shoulders should be
42
00:02:10.630 --> 00:02:11.160
close to
43
00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:12.520
parallel to the target line.
44
00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:17.210
So this is parallel to the counter or the chair, but my lower body is a good 20
45
00:02:17.210 --> 00:02:18.040
, 30 degrees
46
00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:20.080
open at that point.
47
00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:24.330
If you are practicing your delivery position and you're more going like this,
48
00:02:24.330 --> 00:02:24.960
where the
49
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.550
shoulders and the hips are open, that would cause you to be too steep, so it
50
00:02:28.550 --> 00:02:29.080
wouldn't
51
00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.960
really be usable.
52
00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.950
So next we're going to try and hit a few where we focus on this delivery
53
00:02:34.950 --> 00:02:36.320
checkpoint,
54
00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:39.200
feeling what we felt with the chair, helping our shoulders stay a little bit
55
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:39.760
more closed
56
00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:40.760
or square.
57
00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:45.090
Okay, so now I like to do this in a version of kind of a nine to three where I
58
00:02:45.090 --> 00:02:45.760
'm going
59
00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:51.670
to try or a little bit past nine to three, where I'm going to try and feel an
60
00:02:51.670 --> 00:02:52.120
exaggeration
61
00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.390
on this wipe movement where you'll see that the club stays at about the same
62
00:02:57.390 --> 00:02:58.280
height compared
63
00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:59.440
to the golf ball.
64
00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:01.280
So I'm going to get into that position.
65
00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:08.560
I'm going to feel like my shoulders or my chest stays square as I open my lower
66
00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:09.120
body
67
00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.400
and rotate.
68
00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.610
I know that when I look at this on camera, my body is still going to be open,
69
00:03:13.610 --> 00:03:14.280
but because
70
00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.900
of what I just did with the chair, it's going to feel like my chest and my
71
00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:18.720
shoulders stay
72
00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:20.000
a little bit more closed.
73
00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.620
I think this is where some of the feelings of keep your back to the target
74
00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:25.520
longer or pull
75
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.960
the arms down in front originated.
76
00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.690
They tend to, those feelings tend to help prevent you from spinning the
77
00:03:31.690 --> 00:03:32.520
shoulders too
78
00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:36.480
fast and I find that the chair wipe does the same thing.
79
00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:41.130
So we're going to bring this back, we're going to get that lower body open and
80
00:03:41.130 --> 00:03:41.560
that
81
00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:48.880
wipe feel while the feeling of my chest and shoulders feels like it stays
82
00:03:48.880 --> 00:03:50.000
square until
83
00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.600
the release brings it around.
84
00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.760
Now I have a feeling I'm going to want to explore into a bigger swing.
85
00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:00.360
So I'm going to go up towards the top of the swing and I'm going to try to get
86
00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:00.640
back
87
00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.240
to that delivery kind of wipe position.
88
00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.580
So that felt pretty good with the body, I kind of forgot what I was going to do
89
00:04:11.580 --> 00:04:12.040
with
90
00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:17.180
the arms, but worked out okay just a tiny bit thin, let's do another one maybe
91
00:04:17.180 --> 00:04:17.400
with
92
00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:20.840
a little clearer intention in the arms.
93
00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:28.590
So that was a little bit better, that had good feeling of this getting open
94
00:04:28.590 --> 00:04:29.120
while the
95
00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:33.040
shoulders staying square but the arms not getting behind.
96
00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:35.040
This helps with two specific problems.
97
00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.840
One I've talked about a bunch in this video is pulling with the shoulders.
98
00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:42.400
The other one is often in an attempt to keep the shoulders more square the arms
99
00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:43.280
get behind.
100
00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:48.770
So in trying to keep this chest square or shoulder square as I turn my lower
101
00:04:48.770 --> 00:04:49.440
body but
102
00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.330
then still getting the arms out in front, that's where the magic in the
103
00:04:53.330 --> 00:04:54.480
delivery position
104
00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.230
really comes from and I find that that chair can be a helpful kind of a Tai Chi
105
00:04:59.230 --> 00:04:59.960
or at home
106
00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:04.300
kind of mirror work where you can really dial in the physical relationship
107
00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.960
without a club.
108
00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:09.000
That was pretty good.
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Golf Swing with the Chair Wipe Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how your core rotation influences your arm movement during the swing
- Practice keeping your shoulders square while allowing your arms to follow the body
- Develop a better understanding of the relationship between lower body and upper body during your swing
In this video, you'll learn the Chair Wipe drill, a practical exercise to enhance your arm and body coordination during your swing. This drill helps create a better connection between your core and arms, leading to improved shot accuracy.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.160
This drill is the chair wipe.
2
00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.740
So this is more of a positional training to help with the wipe movement when
3
00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:14.480
you're just
4
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.280
doing some practice at home.
5
00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.980
So we're going to use an object that can be a chair, it can be a couch, it can
6
00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:21.360
be a countertop.
7
00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:25.120
But I like something at lower than belly button height.
8
00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.110
So this is kind of pushing it for me because what you'll see is when I get down
9
00:00:29.110 --> 00:00:29.560
into my
10
00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:33.670
golf posture, I would like this to be at about the height of my elbow and you
11
00:00:33.670 --> 00:00:34.240
can see it's
12
00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.160
just the touch height.
13
00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:40.660
So if I was doing this at home, I would probably kick something underneath here
14
00:00:40.660 --> 00:00:41.400
to lower it
15
00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:44.640
by angling it back just slightly like that.
16
00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.000
But I'll still be able to demonstrate it for you.
17
00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.930
So what we're going to do with the chair wipe is we're going to rest our fore
18
00:00:51.930 --> 00:00:52.880
arms on the
19
00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.000
chair or the countertop.
20
00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.140
I'm not leaning into my toes as you can see from the down the line camera, I'm
21
00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:00.760
more still
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:02.840
in the center of my feet.
23
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:08.770
And now from here, I'm going to basically do kind of this feeling of the side
24
00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:09.920
arm throw.
25
00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:16.800
And what I do is when I turn the lower body, I'm going to feel my right arm
26
00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:18.120
work around
27
00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.120
my body so that both are pointing towards the target.
28
00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:25.800
And this gives me a feeling of my shoulders staying more square.
29
00:01:25.800 --> 00:01:29.680
This can be really helpful for golfers who tend to really pull with that left
30
00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:30.240
shoulder
31
00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:34.680
and 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
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core as opposed
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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
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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.
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And if you do that with a club nearby, then what you can do is once you get
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down into
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this delivery position, basically at a round parallel, your shoulders should be
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close to
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parallel to the target line.
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So this is parallel to the counter or the chair, but my lower body is a good 20
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, 30 degrees
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open at that point.
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If you are practicing your delivery position and you're more going like this,
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where the
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shoulders and the hips are open, that would cause you to be too steep, so it
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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
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checkpoint,
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feeling what we felt with the chair, helping our shoulders stay a little bit
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more closed
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or square.
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Okay, so now I like to do this in a version of kind of a nine to three where I
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'm going
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to try or a little bit past nine to three, where I'm going to try and feel an
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exaggeration
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on this wipe movement where you'll see that the club stays at about the same
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height compared
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to the golf ball.
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So I'm going to get into that position.
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I'm going to feel like my shoulders or my chest stays square as I open my lower
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body
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and rotate.
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I know that when I look at this on camera, my body is still going to be open,
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but because
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of what I just did with the chair, it's going to feel like my chest and my
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shoulders stay
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a little bit more closed.
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I think this is where some of the feelings of keep your back to the target
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longer or pull
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the arms down in front originated.
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They tend to, those feelings tend to help prevent you from spinning the
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shoulders too
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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, we're going to get that lower body open and
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that
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wipe feel while the feeling of my chest and shoulders feels like it stays
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square until
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the release brings it around.
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Now I have a feeling I'm going to want to explore into a bigger swing.
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So I'm going to go up towards the top of the swing and I'm going to try to get
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back
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to that delivery kind of wipe position.
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So that felt pretty good with the body, I kind of forgot what I was going to do
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with
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the arms, but worked out okay just a tiny bit thin, let's do another one maybe
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with
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a little clearer intention in the arms.
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So that was a little bit better, that had good feeling of this getting open
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while the
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shoulders staying square but the arms not getting behind.
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This 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
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get behind.
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So in trying to keep this chest square or shoulder square as I turn my lower
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body but
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then still getting the arms out in front, that's where the magic in the
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delivery position
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really comes from and I find that that chair can be a helpful kind of a Tai Chi
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or at home
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kind of mirror work where you can really dial in the physical relationship
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without a club.
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That was pretty good.
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This drill is the chair wipe.
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So this is more of a positional training to help with the wipe movement when
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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
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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
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into my
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golf posture, I would like this to be at about the height of my elbow and you
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can see it's
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just the touch height.
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So if I was doing this at home, I would probably kick something underneath here
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to lower it
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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 fore
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arms on the
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chair or the countertop.
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I'm not leaning into my toes as you can see from the down the line camera, I'm
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more still
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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
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arm throw.
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And what I do is when I turn the lower body, I'm going to feel my right arm
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work around
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my body so that both are pointing towards the target.
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And this gives me a feeling of my shoulders staying more square.
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This can be really helpful for golfers who tend to really pull with that left
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shoulder
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and 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
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core as opposed
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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
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shoulders
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are more closed than my lower body, but my arms are out in front.
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00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.600
So we'll do that a few times.
39
00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.760
And if you do that with a club nearby, then what you can do is once you get
40
00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:04.720
down into
41
00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:10.630
this delivery position, basically at a round parallel, your shoulders should be
42
00:02:10.630 --> 00:02:11.160
close to
43
00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:12.520
parallel to the target line.
44
00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:17.210
So this is parallel to the counter or the chair, but my lower body is a good 20
45
00:02:17.210 --> 00:02:18.040
, 30 degrees
46
00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:20.080
open at that point.
47
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If you are practicing your delivery position and you're more going like this,
48
00:02:24.330 --> 00:02:24.960
where the
49
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.550
shoulders and the hips are open, that would cause you to be too steep, so it
50
00:02:28.550 --> 00:02:29.080
wouldn't
51
00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:30.960
really be usable.
52
00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.950
So next we're going to try and hit a few where we focus on this delivery
53
00:02:34.950 --> 00:02:36.320
checkpoint,
54
00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:39.200
feeling what we felt with the chair, helping our shoulders stay a little bit
55
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:39.760
more closed
56
00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:40.760
or square.
57
00:02:40.760 --> 00:02:45.090
Okay, so now I like to do this in a version of kind of a nine to three where I
58
00:02:45.090 --> 00:02:45.760
'm going
59
00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:51.670
to try or a little bit past nine to three, where I'm going to try and feel an
60
00:02:51.670 --> 00:02:52.120
exaggeration
61
00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.390
on this wipe movement where you'll see that the club stays at about the same
62
00:02:57.390 --> 00:02:58.280
height compared
63
00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:59.440
to the golf ball.
64
00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:01.280
So I'm going to get into that position.
65
00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:08.560
I'm going to feel like my shoulders or my chest stays square as I open my lower
66
00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:09.120
body
67
00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.400
and rotate.
68
00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.610
I know that when I look at this on camera, my body is still going to be open,
69
00:03:13.610 --> 00:03:14.280
but because
70
00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.900
of what I just did with the chair, it's going to feel like my chest and my
71
00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:18.720
shoulders stay
72
00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:20.000
a little bit more closed.
73
00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.620
I think this is where some of the feelings of keep your back to the target
74
00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:25.520
longer or pull
75
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.960
the arms down in front originated.
76
00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.690
They tend to, those feelings tend to help prevent you from spinning the
77
00:03:31.690 --> 00:03:32.520
shoulders too
78
00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:36.480
fast and I find that the chair wipe does the same thing.
79
00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:41.130
So we're going to bring this back, we're going to get that lower body open and
80
00:03:41.130 --> 00:03:41.560
that
81
00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:48.880
wipe feel while the feeling of my chest and shoulders feels like it stays
82
00:03:48.880 --> 00:03:50.000
square until
83
00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.600
the release brings it around.
84
00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.760
Now I have a feeling I'm going to want to explore into a bigger swing.
85
00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:00.360
So I'm going to go up towards the top of the swing and I'm going to try to get
86
00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:00.640
back
87
00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.240
to that delivery kind of wipe position.
88
00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.580
So that felt pretty good with the body, I kind of forgot what I was going to do
89
00:04:11.580 --> 00:04:12.040
with
90
00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:17.180
the arms, but worked out okay just a tiny bit thin, let's do another one maybe
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with
92
00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:20.840
a little clearer intention in the arms.
93
00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:28.590
So that was a little bit better, that had good feeling of this getting open
94
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while the
95
00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:33.040
shoulders staying square but the arms not getting behind.
96
00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:35.040
This helps with two specific problems.
97
00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.840
One I've talked about a bunch in this video is pulling with the shoulders.
98
00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:42.400
The other one is often in an attempt to keep the shoulders more square the arms
99
00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:43.280
get behind.
100
00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:48.770
So in trying to keep this chest square or shoulder square as I turn my lower
101
00:04:48.770 --> 00:04:49.440
body but
102
00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:53.330
then still getting the arms out in front, that's where the magic in the
103
00:04:53.330 --> 00:04:54.480
delivery position
104
00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.230
really comes from and I find that that chair can be a helpful kind of a Tai Chi
105
00:04:59.230 --> 00:04:59.960
or at home
106
00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:04.300
kind of mirror work where you can really dial in the physical relationship
107
00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.960
without a club.
108
00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:09.000
That was pretty good.
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