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In this video, we're going to discuss the wipe and connect it to the big

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picture of the downswing.

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So the wipe is one of the key movements that I see that helps differentiate

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elite ball strikers from kind of average ball strikers.

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And it is either looked at as the end of the transition or the start of the

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release, but it is often easiest to train it as part of the release.

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So from a global picture or a global perspective, the wipe is basically

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relating to the direction that my arms are extending.

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So if I wipe as part of my release and then extend my arms, you'll see that

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they go off to the left.

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So if I was set up to the golf ball and I did that little bit of wipe as I'm

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extending my arms,

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it's basically like I'm extending my arms straight down in a direction 30, 40

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degrees out in front of the golf ball.

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Kind of like this, we can compare that to the opposite, a golfer who doesn't

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look like they have a wipe,

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where the arms are extending straight out in front of the chest and tending to

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kind of rotate this way.

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So that would look more almost like I'm throwing my hands and my arms straight

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towards the golf ball.

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What I've recently discovered is that a lot of golfers who need to work on the

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wipe end up trying to exaggerate the arm movements

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working across their body and basically just want to hold on to it and kind of

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swing through like so.

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So they end up trying to swing it across their body and if they kept it like

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that,

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there's no way they would be able to get those arms down towards the golf ball.

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So the wipe is a little bit more of a subtle movement because the arms are

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going to be off to my side and elevated at the top of the swing.

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And then they reconnect towards the ribcage and then they start working across

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as they're extending.

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So it's just making sure that the timing and the direction of the arm movement

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is proper for what you're trying to do with your body pivot.

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And what the, from a big picture as far as how it relates to muscles and

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efficient energy transfer,

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in order to get the arms working across your body, you'll see that I keep my

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shoulder blade a little bit more depressed

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and my shoulder blade actually kind of slides around my body to help my arms

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extend.

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So the shoulder blade, if I do a good wipe, kind of slides around my body a

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little bit to help my arms extend out like this.

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You can compare that to someone who doesn't do a very good wipe where the

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shoulder would actually work kind of up and around

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and the arms would work more straight out like so.

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Well when the arms work across your body and the shoulder blade works around,

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you're using a muscle called the serratus anterior

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and that muscle connects to the obliques. So trying to get the arm to work a

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little bit more around that way

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helps rotate the upper body and connect the rotation of the upper body to the

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pelvis.

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Where if it starts going this way, I'm using a little bit more my peck and I'm

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using more of my tricep to kind of straighten the arm,

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but I'm not really connecting it to the rib cage and the rotation.

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So it can cause a feeling of being disconnected or on video, it can cause a

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look of a stall if I'm lacking this wipe.

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So from a big picture perspective, if I'm training some of these white

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movements, my release will look a lot more connected and fluid

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compared to if I have more of a stall, it will look like my body and my arms

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aren't quite as

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synced up. So when you're training in the wipe, I've got a variety of different

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drills to help you focus on the movement of that trail or

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lead arm, but the general picture is it's working more partly across your body

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as it's extending.

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So I think it can be very helpful to train it as part of delivery position.

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So if you're doing pump drills and you're working on those arms getting from

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behind your body

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to a little bit more in front of your body, it can be part of what's going on

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at the end of transition.

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Or if you're doing your release drills, you can work it at the start of any of

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those release drills.

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So if I'm doing the left hand, it's just going to work a little bit across

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before it extends.

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If I'm doing the right arm only, it works across as it extends.

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So by training it at the start of the release or the end of the transition, I

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can focus on it in the right phase.

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It is a subtle movement where it's basically just working just a little bit

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from there towards there.

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It's not like it has to continue on forever because that can eventually become

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more of a

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look of almost kind of dragging the handle as opposed to a little wipe and good

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extension just

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on the target side of the golf ball. So if you're struggling with trying to

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make the wipe and

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you're watching these videos and you see yourself in the mirror or you video

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yourself and it looks

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like you're just kind of exaggerating and holding on, make sure you connect

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that wipe to the global

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picture of the arm extension and the timing of the arms because that'll help

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connect it to your stock

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full swing.