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This drill is free-falling ulnar.

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So this is kind of like the cousin to the free swinging supination, which is

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down at

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the bottom of the swing.

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Yes, we are using some active movements in order to release the club, but in

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order for

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the wrist to allow the club to fully lengthen and rotate over, there has to be

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an element

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of softness.

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I use the example of if you were trying to throw a ball.

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If you were to hold your forearm really rigid, you would lack a lot of the key

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dynamics of

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being able to create the proper release of the golf ball.

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Same thing can happen with the golf swing, and I find that golfers can hold on

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to this

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rigidity of the club at the bottom of the swing in the wrist, and that can

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either show up

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in holding off the rotation or holding off the ulnar deviation.

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So instead of getting into kind of more of a position like that, they will tend

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to kind

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of hold off, pull this way, or hold off, kind of pull that way.

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And so this free-falling ulnar is to help you soften your arms and let the ul

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nar deviation

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happen rather than doing it too actively.

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It does start kind of actively up here, but it has more of this softness down

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at the bottom,

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especially with the thumb and index finger, where if you tend to kind of hold

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on too long,

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you will tend to hold it more in the thumb and index finger really tightly, as

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opposed

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to more in the last three fingers of the left hand or middle fingers of the

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right hand.

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So this free-falling ulnar is, first, I'm just going to kind of bounce the club

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kind

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of like this, now I'm doing it with just a couple fingers so that you can see

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the overall

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motion.

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And now I'm going to take my grip and I'm going to try to do that same thing,

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and I'm

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going to feel like it gets into that ulnar deviation kind of by falling like

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this.

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And I'm just not stopping it, like a lot of you would probably will stop right

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here.

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I'm going to try to get it to where it's in line or even pass that depending on

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my wrist

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flexibility.

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Okay, so now I have a feeling of that free-fall.

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Now what I want to do is I want to bring it back to kind of delivery position

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or about

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shaft 45, and now I want to let it free-fall into that finish position or that

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follow-through

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position.

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And when I get there, I should still feel like the club is staying downward in

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this ulnar

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deviation position, and the club is coming up more because of what my body is

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doing,

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not because I'm pulling in.

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If you're really active with your arms, you'll have a hard time stopping the

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club short

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of vertical, and if you're just letting this drop, you'll see that it kind of

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like floats

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into that finish position.

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So we're going to bring it back, and we're just letting it kind of drop.

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We're letting the momentum of the club help the ulnar deviation.

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So what I actively have to do is I have to get my body into a good

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complementary position

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and I have to get my shoulders into a good complementary position, but the

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wrists feel

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very soft.

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So then I can try and ramp this up a little bit.

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This can be a good primer for doing like a four-ball rhythm drill or something

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where

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I'm feeling more of the clubhead swing.

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So the part of this idea of being able to get the club to swing and naturally

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lengthen

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down at the bottom is feeling some of this lack of tension.

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So this can be a really good primer for doing some of those rhythm drills that

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require you

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to have a little bit softer forearms because you can do it once and really

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focus on it

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on these shorter shots rather than trying to do it while doing other things in

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the actual

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swing.

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Okay, so then once we've got the feeling of this free fall, now we have to try

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to make

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that feel a little bit more dynamic because some people say, "Well, that's

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great, but

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how does free fall add speed?"

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And I would say it's similar to kind of getting that buggy whip release or

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feeling like there's

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wrist kind of speed at the end of the movement.

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So I'm going to now get my body into this good position and then I'm feeling

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that free

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fall go through the ball rather than tightening and bracing with my arms around

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impact.

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Kind of like that.

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So if you're struggling with your release, maybe you need to let the ulnar

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deviation

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happen from falling rather than actively do it from a really strong muscular

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effort.