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Cyril is feeling the one-piece takeaway, so I've had a number of students who

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almost get kind of paralyzed over the ball trying to think about either

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moving the hands or trying to make it move with the core or the shoulders going

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down. What I'm gonna help you do is I'm gonna help you feel what I normally do

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in a lesson, so I'm gonna help you feel a one-piece takeaway and I'm gonna help

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you initiate your takeaway with a push of the lead foot as opposed to just

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thinking about the one-piece takeaway. For many golfers all they have to think

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about is the hands staying in front and kind of turning the body and the arms

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being a little bit more passive during the takeaway and then using that

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momentum

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for those arms to start setting the club. That helps them achieve enough of a

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pressure shift while staying centered to get in a good top of backswing

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position, which is really all we're trying to do in the takeaway. What I

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do frequently when I'm working with golfers who are struggling with feeling

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that takeaway is I'll have them getting their set up and then I'll come and

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stand

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over here and grab the club and I'll have them try and take the club back but

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I'm gonna block it. Well I can't do that for you so what you can use is either

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I've got a golf bag here but you could use a golf cart you can use the edge of

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your sofa pretty much a wall anything that's going to block the club but I

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would block it higher up than just the club head. If you start blocking it all

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the way down to the club head there's gonna be a strong enough kind of torque

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at the hands that you're probably still gonna feel the forearms. That's why

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I'm doing it I'm blocking up here so I'm gonna block it as close to the grip as

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I can and now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to initiate the takeaway and I'm

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just gonna feel where in my body was that triggered and what most people who

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struggle with their takeaway is gonna feel is they're gonna feel it either in

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the forearms elbows or up in the shoulders and neck. Now what I want to

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feel is I want to feel it in the core so my forearms are somewhat relaxed and

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I'm feeling it more from a rotation of my ab muscles. Now if I'm really astute

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what I'll feel is that the left foot is going to push on an angle kind of that

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way and have a little bit of a rotation that way so I'm basically taking this

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front foot and I'm pushing it out and having a little rotation like that. It's

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almost like I'm sliding a piece of carpet away from me that way. By pushing

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that way and having a little bit of a rotation that's going to cause my body to

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rotate the opposite direction. So when I grab on the club for my students I'll

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frequently ask okay can you feel that in your core can you feel that all the

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way

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in your foot and then they'll start to connect and you can see it doesn't take

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much it's not an exaggerated movement unless you've never done it before then

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you might have to exaggerate. But in general it's just a subtle movement of

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kind of anchoring that foot creating a really good fixed point for me to then

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rotate away from it. Now in the lessons what I'll usually do is I'll grab it

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and

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then after they've done it a few times I'll let go and they'll feel like the

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club just kind of floated and their arms did nothing. That's the hard part to

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replicate on your own. But if you get far enough back you can kind of pump it

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one, pump it two, pump it three, get it out of the way and try to make that

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same

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movement. It's the closest I've come to figuring out how to replicate it on

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your

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own. But once you have that feeling of that one piece takeaway then you can try

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and take you know nine to three's or even full shots initiating it there and

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then just you know kind of letting happen whatever is going to happen. One of

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the

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hard things is anytime you're working on backswing thoughts, whether it's

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takeaway or setting the club, you can't totally use contact and ball flight as

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an indicator of if you're doing it well, but you can use the feeling of rhythm.

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So

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if you feel this kind of smooth out your initiation and kind of improve the

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sequencing in your backswing then it's a good thing for you to work on and

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sometimes takeaway thoughts make excellent playing thoughts. So if you're

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struggling with what to start with your takeaway, add a little resistance, feel

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the foot connecting all the way through the core so the movement is happening

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from the ground pushing all the way up through until my ribcage rotate my arms.

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When you do that you'll be sure you've got a one-piece takeaway. So in

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demonstrating it's very similar to the turn and grab with the medicine ball. In

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fact the medicine ball makes it hard to just lift with your arms. Many golfers

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who benefit from this tend to be more though either lift more with their arms

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kind of trigger it more like that or they'll tend to shift more laterally kind

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of like that either way they'll tend to feel it more in their arms. So get kind

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of that feeling through the leg and then you can go ahead and take some easy

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golf

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swings. Do that to work on your one-piece takeaway.