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This concept video is the details of the wipe, so the wipe or what I refer to

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as

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the drift sometimes is basically the movement of the arms as they initiate

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the release. Just as a thought puzzle and more of a concept of what's going on,

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at

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the top of the swing, I will have gone something like this. So compared to my

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chest, my arms are slightly behind, right? I've loaded my shoulder girdle by

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having

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my arms slightly behind just like this. Well at impact, those arms are going to

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be out in front of my sternum or just slightly even left of my sternum, so it's

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going to look kind of like that. So the question is how do I get my arms from

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there to there? Now there's two different ways that I could do it. One would be

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I

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just extend my arms in a straight line like this, so I just I'm over here and

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then I extend my arms out in front of me. Facing this way it would be I'm over

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here at the top of the swing and then I just extend my arms straight out in

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front of me. Now that would look more like we'll try to see where's the easiest

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way to show it. That would look more like a U pattern kind of like that where

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they're working out and then everything's just kind of drifting that club

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across.

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It would end up looking there, my arms are extended and it basically just rot

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ates

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across like so. And a lot of golfers think that that's how the release should

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happen. But what I tend to see on 3D is this other alternative would be

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basically

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I'm over here and then I'm just going to bring the hands in front of the place

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where they're going to extend in the chest and then they're going to extend

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out. So from the down the line I'm over there basically drifts or wipes

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slightly

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across my body before it goes out and it turns into I guess from this down the

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line face-on it looks like this and then it goes out. So it's one movement

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there's that little white movement and goes out. So for example the

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delivery and go because your arms are more in front of your body it is preset

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that white movement. So if you have a hard time with that drift or that white

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movement you're going to have a hard time with the delivery and go drill. When

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we're looking at the the places where I typically see this motion originating

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the release begins at delivery position which is somewhere around here. What

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I'll typically see on 3D especially with very good ball strikers longer hitters

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is that left elbow is going to start bending 10 degrees you know it's a

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slight bend so it's barely noticeable on video but that left elbow is going to

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start bending and that right wrist is going to start radial deviating or

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hinging. So combined if I'm in this position it tends to go like that. So one

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of the ways that I'll describe it to students is if I'm in this position it's

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almost as if that grip was moving in a straight line across my body. So if I'm

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standing here and I had a target right there it would from right about here as

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if I was trying to slam that into the wall. Now I'm exaggerating it but that

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arm bending this wrist hinging kind of brings it across there before they

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extend down and out. The other way to kind of think about it is if I'm hitting

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it out towards the mountains that way if I was to do just a normal extend those

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arms my arms are extending pretty much at the golf ball. If I add this little

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white movement then my arms are going to be extending kind of in this little

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alleyway 30 degrees or so out in front. So again that first version would be if

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I just extend my arms it would look more like this even if I add body rotation

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where that white version it would go there and then my arms would basically be

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extending out even with my foot out along this direction here even though the

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golf ball would be right there. So that white movement where it comes slightly

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across before those arms extend is one of the keys to getting that real good

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solid strike. If I don't do that white movement then what'll happen is I will

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tend to release it down like so and if I added any side bend I'd hit behind it

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so I will typically have to kind of bring my body in front and stand up. So I

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hit that pretty well but you could see that I took a major effort from my body

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I wouldn't be able to get this good bracing I wouldn't have my body kind of

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stabilizing so my arms wouldn't extend instead they would go more like that. So

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if you're struggling with hitting behind the golf ball if you're struggling

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with

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getting side bend this can be a big big component to early extension so a lot

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of

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golfers who are failing to do this movement will early extend to prevent

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from hitting the ground behind the golf ball so it can be a big component to

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that. If you're struggling with any of those issues and more understanding this

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wipe and training this wipe movement is one of the big keys to developing this

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tour release. And one last question that I frequently get is related to the top

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of backswing position in this move. So in the drop them wipe I basically talk

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about how those arms are gonna just kind of fall and connect into the body like

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this during that early shallow move and then they're going to wipe across

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before they extend out. Well if I have a lot of disconnect so if I have a very

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more upright or vertical arm movement it's gonna tend to feel like it's more of

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a kind of a gradual drop. The more that it's kind of that modern swing where

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the arms are a little bit lower the more that it's gonna feel like it's an

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exaggerated wipe movement. But I've got examples on 3D of elite level golfers

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both one plane two plane and they will both demonstrate this wipe style release

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so it's more of conversations that are giving me the ideas as far as what it

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feels like. But I can tell you that once you get to the end of that transition

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once you get to this delivery position if you want to have really solid contact

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you're going to have to start doing this wipe movement. And one last last piece

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is relating it to side bend. So a lot of golfers will struggle with

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drifting their upper body on top kind of like this where it's more of a forward

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lunge where that body just kind of really pulls and gets the handle moving

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and lunges on top like this. Well what'll happen is they will try to get in a

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body better body position by adding side bend and they'll bottom out way

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behind the golf ball because they're not doing this wipe. There is a big

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relationship between the amount of this wipe and the amount of the side bend

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that you're going to be able to get. So because what you can see is if I did

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this and I stay vertical you can see that the club is well above where a golf

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ball would be. I'll grab one and put one there as kind of an object. So if I

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did

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this wipe that that golf club is well above the golf ball. This would be very

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challenging. I would feel like I'm just chopping straight down in order to try

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to

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hit it. But if I did that wipe movement and at the same time I added that

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rotation and side bend. Now the club is starting to come on a little bit

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shallower path. I didn't hit that great but just for demonstration purposes

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what

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I want you to see is that the more that you're doing this little wipe movement

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the more that you can add that side bend or not let your upper body drift. So

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if

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you're if you're struggling with your body sliding early extending your upper

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body drifting in front this wipe move is critical so I wanted to take the time

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to try to break it down so that you understand it. You can see the related

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drills on ways that you can practice it whether it's the single arm releases,

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the

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supported wipe or just kind of using this feeling through the golf ball. I

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promise if you implement it it will help you with your contact especially with

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your iron play. One one piece of advice if you start doing this and you start

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hitting the ball right then what you're typically doing is you're doing a great

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job of this wipe but you're missing that motorcycle piece. And so that's a

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clear indication that you are using this lack of wipe as a way to square the

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club face by pointing it that way as opposed to pointing it that way. So I'm

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using the entire shaft going backward to square the club face as opposed to

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doing this wipe and just using that motorcycle. Hopefully that helps you

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understand and tie together one of the key pieces to a tour release.