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Okay so now we're going to train the single arm release drills while striking

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a golf ball. So this is a great one to do at the driving range as part of your

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mechanical practice for working on how the hands are going to transfer energy

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after the transition phase to impact. So it's going to be exactly the same

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movements that we've trained with the ping pong paddle and either the speed

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ball or the impact bag and but now we're using the golf club and letting the

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golf ball getting in the way of these movements. So we'll start with the right

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one. I'm going to take my normal setup take my left hand off the club and just

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kind of stick it on my side and then we're going to go to that delivery

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position that we trained in at the end of transition and then from here we're

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going to try to feel like we throw the golf ball and if we use that good right

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wrist mechanics you can notice I'm going to have a really clean strike and hit

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the ball really well and finish pretty close to that follow through position.

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Okay so applying the same principles we can work on the left wrist as well so

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we're going to go to that same kind of delivery position. You're going to take

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your right hand off the club this time. Now you'll it's it's going to feel

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weaker

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especially if you're right-handed and you're playing golf right-handed and it's

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going to feel very weak when I flatten this left wrist but if you remember from

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the

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impact drill your hand is going to want to or the the door jam drill if you

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remember the impact drill. When you go to push into the golf ball your hand is

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going to feel very strong in that bowed position. So it'll feel weak here but

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it'll feel strong and transfer more energy when you're at impact. So we're

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going to go to this waist height position bow that left wrist down.

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There's a good sound. So you'll see in this finished position of the left wrist

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if I were to take my right wrist and do it same thing they would pretty much

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fit

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in place and that's the best way to train these wrist movements is after you do

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say let's say we did a right one and that wasn't very good but let's see why.

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So if

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I put my left wrist where it would be you can see that my left elbow is a

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little bent compared to if I was doing that full follow-through position. So

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that means that the club started working up instead of out too soon which is

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why

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I hit the ball a little heavy. So you can do the same thing if we use the left

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wrist.

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If I hit a good shot which that was and then I put my right wrist where it

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would

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be this will help me train that feeling of those elbows really extending into

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the

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follow-through. The hand should basically take the club through the same path

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regardless of which hand is swinging. So what I often see in clinics is the

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right wrist will kind of do a little scoopy thingy like this and try to hit it

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high but then I'll ask you to put your left wrist where it would be and you can

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see that if I finished a real golf swing like this I would be in a lot of

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trouble.

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The same thing will happen when you're working on the left wrist because what

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will happen is you'll hit this left wrist and it'll go flying like this and

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I'll say okay that was a good shot but put your right hand where it would be

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and

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they'll have to almost take a step in order to get there. So the key for the

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wrist and the release training is to make sure that each hand is taking the

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club

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through the same 3D space and through the same path. If you're able to do the

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same

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with both hands then you'll have a much more consistent and solid strike when

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you put both hands on and go back to the 9 to 3 drill to work through these

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movements. So this is one of my favorite ways to train the release. I've had

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lots

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of success with it and I hope you will too if you give it a little bit of time.