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This drill is coat hanger lead wrist training.

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So there's a training product out there called the hanger, which is a, as far

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as I know,

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an adaptation of a famous drill that I've seen a number of guys use to help

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train the

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lead wrist.

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And basically keeping that flexion of the lead wrist longer into the downswing.

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Now we know that through impact most golfers are going to lose that lead wrist

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flexion

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that's going to move towards extension.

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But in my experience most of that is going to come from how much they're using

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their

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body in their bracing strategy.

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So for a small drill and working on getting better arm extension, a coat hanger

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helps

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with your visual as well as your tactile feel.

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And I've got two different versions here. This is just the classic coat hanger

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for at home

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training, which I really like.

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And this one is a little bit flexible. You'll see why I like that strong, I

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like that better

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than the really firm plastic ones.

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And then this is a wire coat hanger that I have taped to a club. So the basic

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principle

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is we'll take the coat hanger here and I'm going to grip it on the kind of the

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far side

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like so, so that I have the long side sticking up by my forearm.

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Now what I'm going to do here, if I have just a neutral grip, you can see that

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this is off

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my forearm. If I then go into the motorcycle movement and I flex that wrist,

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you can now

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see that I'm feeling a little bit of force and this is kind of bending the coat

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hanger

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this way.

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And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to practice going from 9 to 3 or

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even a little

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bit past, keeping that flexion in the lead wrist.

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Now again, in the full swing, because of how my body braces that would cause it

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to come

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out through there, but in this slow motion training, this keeping the flexion

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is going

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to force me to absorb the speed and the movement of my arm more with some of

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this rotation.

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So I'm finishing with my wrist vertical. I'm not just holding off this way. I

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tend to

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find that a lot of golfers trying to avoid the flip are going to hold the wrist

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off

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this way and not allow for that natural rotation.

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Trying to hold off the club from passing is literally like trying to do a wrist

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curl

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with a 100-pound weight, 150-pound weight if you have 120-mile hour club speed

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or so.

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So you're never going to be strong enough to just hold it off and it wouldn't

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be advantageous

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if you did. Instead, what you want to do is you want to absorb it with a bit

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more of the

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reform rotation. So there it is with just the lead arm and now I can have the

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trail arm

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kind of shadow it or even apply almost like an open right-hand type drill.

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Now this one, where I've bent it and basically got it straight out in line with

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the clubface,

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this one you can actually train, if we get that in line with the clubface, you

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can actually

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train hitting little 9-3 shots trying to keep that wrist in that connected

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position. So

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if I did this towards the camera here, you could see keeping that in connection

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all the

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way through there is basically what I did on this little 9-3 shot. Get it in

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connection,

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keep it there all the way through, get good arm extension without collapsing

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the wrist.

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If I then took that into a little bit bigger swing, you'd see that I would lose

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it but

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I'm still trying to maintain that same connection. So if you're struggling with

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having a look

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like this where the grip is pointing at your body, the club has passed and I've

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got this

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kind of broken down arm look, then try the hanger connection that will help

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create much

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more width in that follow through, which will help improve your low point

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control and your

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3D flat spot, which should give you a little bit more consistent contact.