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This drill is connecting the hands to the shoulders for transition and the

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release.

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One of the tricky things with golf is I've got these two, I'm swinging this

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club around

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kind of this somewhat stable center, but I've got these two or three joints in

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between

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me and the club head.

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They can do a lot of weird stuff, but often they're going to work together.

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I have this little demo that I show people if you're working on transition.

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This will help you feel how the motor cycle, the throwers catch, all these

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movements work

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together and then how it relates to the release.

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If you hold your hand out in front of you just like this, and I want you to do

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your

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best to try to really relax your shoulder, relax your elbow, and I'm not going

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to show

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you the answer yet, but I want you to try to extend your wrist, which is

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basically going

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in this motion kind of like so, so you're going to do it pretty quickly.

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If you haven't given it a try, stand up, hold it out like so, and then give it

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a try.

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If I fully relax, and I go like this, the question I'll always ask is what is

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your elbow want

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to do, and basically if it was really relaxed, you'll find that that elbow

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wants to tend

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to go in front of your body kind of like so.

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Now I'll do the opposite, and I'll go like this, and if my arm was fully

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relaxed, it'll

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get easier if I go this way, so then I'll have you try to do the opposite, that

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feels

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a little weird, or that feels weird, so typically when it goes like this, when

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my wrist goes

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into extension, the elbow will work in front, when the wrist goes into flexion,

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the elbow

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will go more out like so.

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So now in the transition, we talk about that left wrist flexing in that

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motorcycle movement,

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so that encourages some of this, and that right wrist doing that thrower's

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catch encourages

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the elbow working in front of you.

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So combined, it ends up looking something like that.

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Then when we get down during the release, the sooner that I really flex this

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wrist like

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so, the more that this elbow is going to tend to drift out this way.

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So what most tour pros do is in order to have that impact contact kind of more

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in front

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of their chest, instead of way back behind them, that elbow will continue

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leading that

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wrist, because the more that the elbow goes across like this, the more it

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delays that

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wrist, and they'll ultimately get thrown out by that bracing and that push move

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of

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the body.

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So if you're struggling on what your wrists are doing, check the elbows or the

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shoulders

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because they're tied together, if you're struggling on the look of more what

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the shoulders need

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to be doing, then perhaps you can check the wrist and see if you're not getting

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some interference

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from one of those two segments.