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This drill is Flipper Hug. So Flipper Hug is for those of you who have more of

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kind of

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a pole and chicken wing down at the bottom. That can be a frustrating pattern

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where basically

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your arms are bending and collapsing. And what we would see on 3D is as you get

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towards

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impact, the space between your elbows is actually increasing, where on average

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the tour pros

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are going to have the space decrease. I've seen as much as seven, eight inches

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where the

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elbows are getting closer through that release pattern and reaching their

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narrowest point

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right around here. So the Flipper Hug is the idea of both arms kind of meeting

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in the middle

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as we're releasing. So for a lot of golfers who have more of a chicken wing

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pattern, what

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would happen is the arms kind of pull in and behind. Kind of more like this.

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Done at

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the right time, that helps propel or throw the club head past. But it prevents

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your body

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from doing a lot of good things. It causes the club to pass too soon and it

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really deprives

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the lengthening that creates the flat spot. So it comes more inconsistent. You

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usually

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get a lot of toe hits. But regardless of what kind of feedback you're getting,

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if you see

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it on video that your arm is kind of finishing behind you like this, this can

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be a helpful

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drill or image. So the Flipper Hug is basically you're going to pretend you're

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a penguin.

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So your arms are straight and then you're going to try and bring your arms

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across more

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like this. And now I usually like to then get the back of your hands touching,

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kind of

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like that. And now those elbows are really close together. I'm going to take

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that position

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and bring it into the follow through and you're just going to ask yourself

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which Flipper feels

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more different. Is it more that the left arm is across your body? That's the

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more common

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one. Or is it more that the right arm is across your body? Because when it goes

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apart

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like this, the arms are either away or behind. And so this kind of helps you

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feel the right

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word you use for your brain. So now timing, we're going to try to get the Fl

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ipper Hug

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feeling from right around here all the way until there. In fact, I'll sometimes

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do it

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all the way up into more of a 10 to 2 style where we're getting well into the

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finish.

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So we're first going to do this as more of a kind of a broken or a stop drill

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where we're

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just going to get into that position there. And then from there, we're going to

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feel like

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we squeeze those arms together and especially that left arm staying more across

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your body.

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But the extreme version, I will tend to try to have them meet over on the right

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side of

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the body more like this if you really have a big kind of chicken wing pull

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pattern. That

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releasing more on the right side of your body kind of like this as I then got

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down and turned

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my body actually gets it closer to more in the midline especially if you're

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used to bringing

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the arms across like here then if I did have some turn you could see that

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really big narrowness

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and chicken wing pattern. So let's do another of this Flipper Hug where kind of

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this arm

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is feeling like it's working across or the arms are squeezing more along the

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right side

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of the body kind of like that. So a little 9 to 3, 10 to 2-ish. We're going to

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spin

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it back and you'll see there those arms are close together and it's a little

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bit more

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kind of off to the right side of your body. So if you struggle with a chicken

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wing really

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diggy contact, toe hits, pulls or just the general inconsistency that comes

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from the

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look of this being narrow on the way through then work on your Flipper Hug.

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That's a feeling

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of the shoulder squeezing together or the elbow squeezing together during the

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release

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pattern getting into the closest position pretty much at your follow through

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position

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right there and then keeping them close if you start working it more in up into

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your

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full finish.