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This concept video is connecting trail wrist extension to trail wrist ulnar

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deviation. So many golfers complain about having a scoopy or a flip down to the

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bottom basically not knowing what the trail arm should do. There's a couple

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different kind of common schools of thought. Some people are taught to

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basically hold on to this angle forever as you come through and others are

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taught

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but no don't hold on to that angle you want to have more of this kind of free

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release flexing the wrist. So in this video I'm going to try to clarify what's

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going on with the trail wrist down during the impact zone from about parallel

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to

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parallel. Essentially what we want to have happen is we're going to try and

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keep

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some extension in the wrist but as we go into ulnar deviation that is going to

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pull us out of the extension of the wrist but it's not that we're actively

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flexing to lose that extension of the wrist it's just the ulnar deviation the

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way that the joints work is going to pull you out of that extension. That is

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the

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way that you can have people describe having kind of a feeling of holding the

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wrist back and kind of covering it but if I did that the club would be way up

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here. So the only way I could keep that extension of the wrist feeling and get

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down to the golf ball would be then ulnar deviation. Now you'll see I went

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from having the wrist that much to as I ulnar deviated I got it into this

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slightly extended but ulnar deviated position. Interestingly the when you have

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a slight bit of extension and ulnar deviation that's one of the most

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precise positions for the wrist that's where we do a lot of our fine motor

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things like using tools or drawing and things like that. So it gets us into

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this

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really good anatomical position for precision and and feeling where that

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club face would be. So oftentimes when I'm having golfers work on this we'll do

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it in two different stages. First we're just going to feel like we keep the

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extension of the wrist. This would be more of like a classic kind of flying

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wedge drill and oftentimes you'll have kind of this artificially held on follow

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through position but it gives you a feeling of holding the wrist through the

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hitting area and using a little bit more of the body pivot. Next we're going to

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feel like we hold on to that wrist but now we're going to ulnar deviate and

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you'll see as we do that that's going to tend to encourage getting a little bit

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more hands up from the down the line video and it's going to allow us to get

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into this shake the hands with the target line finish position where here

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it it feels like I've got tension kind of in two different ways a little bit of

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tension from trying to hold that extension but then tension and going into

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that ulnar deviation and that tension creates a lot of feeling of stability or

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consistency of the club face down through impact and it helps us get

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shaft lean without getting too diggy. If you keep the extension and you kind of

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don't do the ulnar deviation it will tend to hit more poles and it will tend to

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come kind of over the top at the bottom which which causes a lot of really

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abrasive ground contact and a lot of club face control issues. So let's do

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that one more time we're going to bring it back to about waist height we're

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going

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to feel like we increase that extension of the wrist and then from there we're

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going to feel like we hold on to that extension of the wrist kind of that stop

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sign feel but at the same time we're going to ulnar deviate and you'll see I

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get to this follow-through position where it's just barely extended but fully

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ulnar deviated. That will really help clean up a lot of the looks of either the

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scoop down through here or the quick passing of the handle when you see the

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the club on the way through kind of going like that. That's usually a lack of

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ulnar deviation but it's hard to have ulnar deviation if you don't also have

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that extension. So there's a good little recap of how to combo the two most

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common wrist release drills that we have in the release section.