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Alright, so this drill is called the impact drill and it's probably the most

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important

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drill that you have to practice in this whole series.

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So the impact drill is designed to basically get inside your head.

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Whenever a student asks me where they should be at impact and what it should

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feel like,

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well, I can tell them where they should be, but getting them to feel or helping

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them figure

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out what it's going to feel like is a little tougher than just getting them in

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the right

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position.

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I get you in the right positions, you tell me what it feels like.

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So to replicate impact, we're going to practice pushing into the golf ball.

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So normally when my student is in front of me, I'll have them set up to the

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golf ball

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and then I would step on the golf ball to create resistance against.

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You're not going to have me standing there, so you're going to take a golf ball

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and place

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it up against either the corner of a wall or as you see here, I've got my yoga

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block

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up against the golf bag.

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So then you're going to take your normal setup position and you're going to

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practice applying

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force into the golf ball.

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Now you'll see that a few of the things that we talked about in the concept

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video will

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automatically happen.

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As I push into the golf ball, my wrists and my hands are going to want to get a

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little

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better leverage and so they're going to move slightly in front.

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So you'll see my left wrist get towards flat and my right wrist get towards cu

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pped.

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My right elbow is going to be closing in towards my side so that it can be

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straightening,

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but it's not going to be fully locked.

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If it's fully locked, I'll feel like I'm pushing more into the ground or when I

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push

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towards the direction of the target, I'll feel like all the resistance is in my

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shoulder.

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If you do this, you should feel, or if you do this correctly, you should feel

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very strong

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and you should feel like the energy is moving all the way into your legs and

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into your feet

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and into your hips.

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So just going through the checklist of things that will help you feel stronger,

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which will

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help you in grain and practice this proper impact position, you're going to

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have your

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lower body slightly rotated with your weight mostly on your left foot.

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You're going to have your right shoulder under your left.

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You're going to be flexed slightly forward so you're not going to be standing

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up and

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you're going to have your hands slightly ahead with the left wrist flat and the

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right

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wrist cupped.

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So one good thing to do is you're going to practice feeling like you're pushing

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strongly

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in the direction of the target and then do the opposite.

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So you'll feel if you move your weight back onto your right foot, if you move

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your hands

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back, if you stand up, all of those things make me feel much, much weaker and

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you can

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see I'm having a lot harder time getting pressure into the shaft.

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So going back to a good impact position, I'll feel really strong, feel like I'm

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pressing

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through really into the golf ball.

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And the important thing to train which we'll get into in the release section is

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that you're

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not lunging forward with your upper body, you'll keep your upper body pretty

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centered

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even though your weight is shifting onto the left side.

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So it seems like a very simple drill and it is, you're just pushing into the

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golf ball,

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but there's a lot of little fine tuning and little details to pay attention to

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and if

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you do, it should give you a good idea of what a proper impact position should

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really feel

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