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Full Body Finish

The full body finish drill can be helpful for golfers who have trained their 9 to 3 so much that they then have a hard time going to a full finish. Oftentimes, if you've only hit shorter swings, your body starts stopping your finish short by staying in flexion too long. The full body finish helps re-engage the core and spine movement moving from the release to follow through.

Tags: Release, Drill, Intermediate

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This concept video is looking at the full body finish. So a

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lot of golfers, especially, you know,

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kind of your 15 to 25 handicap golfers tend

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to have more of a kind of a short finish

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that is associated with more of a armed dominant

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release pattern and so oftentimes as you're

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working through some of these drills you've gotten maybe better with

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your nine to threes and you're making some solid contact,

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but you're still maybe struggling with some of the distance and you

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just have a shortish swing you're not having a full finish. So

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we're gonna talk about the I think two of the bigger

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key feeling differences when we go up

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into a full finish pattern, so,

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First is understanding the role of spine

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extension. So

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during the follow-through and during the release my

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abs are gonna stay tight. I'm going to

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stay having an appearance of being in my

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spine angle from the down the line but my spine is going to

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go into some extension my

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upper body is going to go into some extension like

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this as it goes into the finish. So one of

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the easy things for you to try and I'll

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demonstrate it a lot but it's helpful. If you just try and you

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can do it just by sitting there. If you're sitting there watching this video

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You're Gonna round you're gonna do a little crunch by bringing

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your upper body down towards your

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belly button kind of like this and then you're gonna try to rotate into

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the finish. And now without trying to rotate. All

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I want you to do is go into extension and

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you'll see as I go into extension

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my shoulder goes from that's as

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far as it can go to as it goes into extension. It moves.

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Well across the screen so part of

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what creates

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Kind of short finish is staying down in your your thing

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flexed in your posture kind of more

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like this and just throwing those arms

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past.

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Now instead what we're going to try to do.

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Is we're gonna get us a little reference of what a full

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finish would feel like so we're going to extend the

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upper spine while keeping the ABS tight and

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then we're gonna turn so that we are

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basically facing away from the golf ball. And

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your Trail shoulder is closer to the golf

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ball or sorry closer to the Target then the

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lead shoulder. So the classic short

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finish position is basically here where everything is facing instead.

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What we're gonna do is we're gonna get used to looking over

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our Trail shoulder for right hand in

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golf for the right shoulder and we're gonna feel a little bit more tall in our

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extension position.

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now what I usually ask golfers to do is try and look back at the

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golf ball and they'll notice that they've turned so much that they can't

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even see the golf ball where when you're

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doing more of an armed dominant pattern. It's really

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easy to just look back at the golf ball because you haven't really turned

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if you're doing more of a body dominant pattern.

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It's going to take some real effort

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if I get

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If I wanted to try to look back at the golf ball, I

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have to unwind and come out of that finished position.

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so now

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Realistically, it's going to be the the

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timing of the release the sequencing and

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the momentum of the club that allows that full

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finish or takes you into that full finish. If you

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allow it. The club is not moving so fast that

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you can't resist it and stay Flex forward and just

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hit it with the arms. But if you allow it, if you

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use more of your body to get into this full finish you'll feel

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The chest being more up or the upper body a little bit more extended and

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the trail shoulder closer to the Target oftentimes that

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can help clean up some of

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the width and some of the look through there. If you

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have more of an arm dominant release pattern like

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that. So if you're looking at video and you're doing pretty

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well on the 93s, but it it's really short and it

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kind of struggles Embrace down as you go more into the full swings focus

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on these two keys getting a little bit more extension and

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getting that lead shoulder closer to

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the Target. If your arm stay in front of

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you or even a little bit towards the right side of your body while you

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do that that will clean up

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a lot of the connection the tempo the Rhythm

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the consistency all the things that the arm dominant pattern

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tends to complain about. Okay, so let's just check

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We're gonna go up.

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And now if we check that finished position, we're gonna

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feel a little bit extended and I'm facing

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away from the golf ball or the trail shoulder is

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closer to the Target.

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That's a pretty good.

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