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This drill is the clap drill.

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So this is designed to work on a body-centered tempo.

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So many golfers who struggle with getting the hips in the core to lead the

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swing, who struggle

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with getting more of shallowness tend to do so because of how they power the

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swing, especially

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in transition.

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So if you find that you can do slow motion drills and you have no problem,

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shallow things

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out and then you go to try to hit the ball and boom, you look on video and

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everything

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gets steep, then there's a good chance that you're applying too much force to

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the club

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too soon.

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Or I should say too much muscle activity too soon because most of the muscles

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when the

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upper body really tries to apply force to the club, most of the muscles are

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going to

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steepen the path of the club.

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If you activate them, it's very hard to have a natural showering.

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So this is a clap drill that I got from Stu McGill in his back pain program.

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He focuses a lot on throwing and striking sports and creating more of a feeling

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of a

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pulse of speed down at the bottom.

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I have referred to this as bracing, but I like his idea of creating a pulse.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to do this clap drill where you're

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going to

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feel hopefully you've done some muscle activation, some core exercises at some

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point in your

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career.

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And now you're going to try to use that to create speed all at once down at the

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bottom.

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So I'm going to try and tighten my quads, my glutes, my abs, and my lats.

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So there's a little, just a pulse of tightening, just like that.

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Now I'm going to put my hands about six inches apart like so, and I'm going to

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pulse and

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create a little clap, just like so.

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Now if I'm applying too much muscle effort, then I'll push my hand like so, as

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opposed

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to having a rapid contraction and a rapid relaxation.

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So spine is fairly neutral on this, I'm clap, and then I'm going to clap back

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the other

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way.

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Okay.

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So that's the warm up version.

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The actual drill, we're now going to add a fluid motion and then try to apply

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that clap

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as late as possible.

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So now I'm going to get in my golf posture.

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I'm going to make a slow, slow, slow, quick, slow, slow, slow pop, and I'm

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going to have

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this slow little pop and this slow rapid acceleration through my hips, my core,

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and my lats, all

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at once.

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Once I have this feeling of kind of this slow, slow, slow pop, now I'm going to

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add a little

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bit more speed.

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And I do recommend wearing a golf glove when I do this demonstrating for

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students, two or

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three of these, and my hands don't like it.

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So now I'm going to apply a little bit more of a swinging, but I'm not overly

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accelerating

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it until down at the bottom.

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Once you have this feeling of applying this pulse of speed down at the bottom,

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you're then

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going to do a nine to three version, trying to feel a little bit of a bracing

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at the bottom.

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So now I'm going to bring it back to here.

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It's going to be slow, slow.

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You won't see a dramatic acceleration on video when you're swinging the club,

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but you'll

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probably feel one.

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And when you do that pulse in the clap drill, everything was stopping.

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The relaxation happens so quickly that the club should pull you back into or

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pull you

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and bring the club helping into the follow through position.

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But it's this pulse that you can sometimes see in half or in slow motion videos

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in especially

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lean golfers.

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For example, when you look at Rory McElroy and down near the bottom of the

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swing, you see

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that right leg really start to extend because he's using that right glute.

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And then through the ball, his hips actually rotate the opposite direction.

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That's a golfer really channeling this pulse to help create a little bit of

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stiffness last

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minute to get most of the speed into the club head.

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So then once I've done a few of these nine to three, then I can do either three

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quarter

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swings, tend to twos, or I can go straight to full swings, trying to feel a

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really slow

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transition followed by rapid acceleration down at impact.

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So if you struggle with getting really quick and active in transition, then

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work on this

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clap drill in order to get a feeling of more of a late acceleration, that'll

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ultimately

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help you with the shallowing of your path, the arm extension in the follow

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through, and

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overall your tempo, which helps control low point and allows you to do the

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better wrist

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mechanics to help control clubface.

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So now quick demo, if I don't pulse, if I go really early, you'll see I tend to

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get

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more vertical.

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I even shank that one because that's what happens if I get too vertical in my

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transition.

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So then on the next one, I'm going to let that really shallow out and I feel

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personally

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like my swing starts right about there.

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It's very similar to if I was throwing a ball, the feeling of throwing the ball

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really happens

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between there and there, all this extra motion feels very slow and doesn't feel

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like I'm

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accelerating the ball or accelerating my hand rapidly yet.

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So I'm going to try to apply that same principle, getting a good clap feeling

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down at the bottom.

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That clap involves a rapid acceleration, followed by a rapid relaxation through

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that

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follow through position.