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In this video, we're going to connect leg extension to arm extension.

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And primarily, we're going to be talking about the lead leg buckle.

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So if you have more of a left leg that kind of bends on the way through, more

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like that

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pattern there, instead of a leg that tends to straighten on the way through,

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then this

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video is for you.

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It's going to discuss the main cause of that left leg buckle.

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And we're going to talk about a drill or way that you can do nine to three

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style practice

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in order to work on the arm extension and the leg extension together.

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So typically what happens is golfers who have this buckle move are doing so

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because the arms

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are tending to flip on the way through, specifically the wrist.

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So you tend to have more of a really pronounced arm and hand release and the

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buckle move actually

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helps because when you have more of a hand release like this, it tends to move

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the path

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to the left and it tends to close the face.

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So that buckle keeps the path moving to the right and it tends to move the low

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point forward.

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So I should have said that this does three things.

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It moves the path to the left, it closes the face and it moves the low point

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backward because

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the low point is basically going to happen when the widest point of my circle

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happens.

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And when that right wrist is straight, that's the widest part of my circle for

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the most part.

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So when if that right wrist is getting straight because it's scooping back here

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, then when

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I slide in buckle, that helps move that swing forward, but you can see that

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that obviously

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causes some low point control and some face control issues.

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So contact and direction to balance it or to rework that pattern, we're going

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to get

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more of the push through the ball from the leg and less from the arms.

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What the arms are going to do instead, if you review the single arm releases or

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the seated

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release video, the arms are going to extend out and the wrists are going to

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rotate down

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just like so, but they're not going to let the club pass.

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Now the timing of this as it relates to the nine to three is I'm going to get

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into that

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left leg or that left knee is going to get bent right over the center of my

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left foot.

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And then I'm going to straighten that leg.

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And as I straighten the leg, that's going to create this body rotation because

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the shoulder

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is going to come up and that is going to extend those arms down.

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So the drill itself of connecting the lead leg to the arm extension or

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connecting the

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leg extension to the arm extension is I just go back into a little nine to

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three type move

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and then I'm going to straighten the leg and straighten the arms and you'll

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notice that

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I didn't let any flip.

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This is similar to more of a hinge and hold style drill and it's really just to

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feel

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the legs or especially that left leg extending my arms through the body

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rotation.

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The example I usually give is if I had like a punching bag down here and I was

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going to

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punch it, I would extend my arm, but I would extend my leg first and that drive

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of the

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leg would create some of this rotation, but it wouldn't create a whole lot of

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lift.

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I would just straighten those legs and get a lot of power transferred through

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my core,

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but I would extend that energy down into the punching bag or in this case into

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golf ball.

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So walking you through one more time, you're just going to preset a little bit

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of the weight

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into the front leg.

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And this is one of the few times where if you really, if you want to, I like

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having that

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trail leg back, so you take your normal stance, put that foot back or don't

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either way is

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fine.

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You're going to bend that left leg and then when you straighten the leg, you're

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going

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to straighten the arms.

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And I want you to be able to stop before you get to the normal three position.

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I want you to be able to stop when this club is almost parallel to the target

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line or

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sorry, to the target as opposed to pointing at it.

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So here we go one more time.

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I'm going to not put the foot back.

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I'm just going to preset that leg and then extend extend.

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So that leg straightens in one movement and as that leg straightens, it helps

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me straighten

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those arms.

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Once I have a feeling of doing this in the small swing, now I'm going to do

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more of a

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three quarter movement and I'm going to have a tiny bit of extra bend as I

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start.

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And then I'm going to duplicate that same feeling, getting to the same place

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from a

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bigger swing.

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As I get more comfortable, I can add speed and I can add length of swing until

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it's matching

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pretty close to my full swing.

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So what you'll see with most good ball strikers is that they will start that

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leg straightening

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right about here.

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So right about belly button height or when that arm is parallel, that's when

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that left

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arm will start straightening to help trigger the release and extend those arms

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on the way

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through.

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Take a look at that when you're paying attention to analyzing Torpo swings,

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especially if you're

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trying to get out of this buckle pattern from not enough leg extension during

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the bracing

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part of the release.