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Stop the Chicken Wing: Improve Your Follow-Through with L to L
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify the cause of the chicken wing in your follow-through
- Practice the L to L drill to promote a correct wrist motion
- Develop a smoother transition from wrists to elbows for improved swing mechanics
In this drill, you'll learn the L to L technique to help eliminate the chicken wing effect in your swing. This method emphasizes the proper sequence of wrist rehinging for better impact and follow-through.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.150
This drill is L to L. Now I'm a big fan of doing some sort of hold off finish
2
00:00:10.150 --> 00:00:10.520
for the
3
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.010
majority of golfers. It helps work on the quality of the movements down at
4
00:00:14.010 --> 00:00:15.040
impact. And
5
00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:21.160
for many golfers, I prioritize doing the L to I where I'm basically finishing
6
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:21.560
in this
7
00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:27.620
pattern. That really works on more of the stall flip. But there's a subset of
8
00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:28.040
golfers
9
00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:32.470
who really benefit from taking it all the way up to vertical and letting the
10
00:00:32.470 --> 00:00:33.840
wrist rehinge.
11
00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.490
And that's if you struggle with the chicken wing. Typically what happens is
12
00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:37.920
golfers who
13
00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.840
struggle with bending their arm on the way through doesn't necessarily mean
14
00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:43.440
that the
15
00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.960
arm has to be bent at impact. But it means that the arm is bending. That's one
16
00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:49.080
of my
17
00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:54.240
distinctions for a chicken wing. So if the arm is bending on the way through,
18
00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:54.360
one way
19
00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:59.710
to think about it is the wrists are doing very little and the elbows are doing
20
00:00:59.710 --> 00:01:00.160
a lot
21
00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:04.950
to get into this pattern. What I want to do is I want to reverse that. I want
22
00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:05.680
the elbows
23
00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.690
to stay straight and then the wrist to rehinge. And it's not until the wrists
24
00:01:10.690 --> 00:01:12.120
are done rehinging
25
00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:17.480
that the elbows then soften and absorb some of the speed. So it's kind of the
26
00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:17.920
reverse
27
00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.080
sequence or the reverse pattern on the way down. On the way down, I'm going to
28
00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:23.600
use my
29
00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:28.030
shoulders and then my elbows and then my wrists and forearms. So on the way
30
00:01:28.030 --> 00:01:29.080
through, I'm going
31
00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:36.410
to use my wrists first and then my elbows and then my shoulders. So one check
32
00:01:36.410 --> 00:01:36.960
for this
33
00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:42.330
is you can do the classic L to L drill where basically I'm going to make a 3/4
34
00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:43.200
backswing
35
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:48.240
or about a 10 o'clock backswing. And on the way through, I'm going to focus on
36
00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:48.720
the arm
37
00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:53.760
staying straight and then making this classic L look because my wrists will
38
00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.720
have rehinged.
39
00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:04.090
So the actual drill, you can do varying speeds and tempos but I want to
40
00:02:04.090 --> 00:02:06.080
minimize that lead
41
00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:12.010
arm bend while maximizing letting the wrist rehinge. Now what usually happens
42
00:02:12.010 --> 00:02:12.760
is the first
43
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:16.140
few times that you're doing this, if you're used to doing a chicken wing, you
44
00:02:16.140 --> 00:02:16.840
'll overdo
45
00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.700
the wrist trying to rehinge because you'll actively try to do it at the normal
46
00:02:21.700 --> 00:02:22.280
time when
47
00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:26.600
your elbows would want to straighten or sorry, would want to bend. So what I
48
00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:26.960
want you to
49
00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:31.650
do instead is just let the momentum of the club kind of help it rehinge. You
50
00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:32.200
don't have
51
00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:38.920
to forcefully rehinge it. So we'll do one more. We're going to go into this 3/4
52
00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:41.320
backswing
53
00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:48.370
and then focusing on those arms staying straight as the club rehinges. This
54
00:02:48.370 --> 00:02:49.400
will help for many
55
00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.830
golfers the first few times that they do it. If they have a really pronounced
56
00:02:53.830 --> 00:02:54.400
chicken
57
00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.720
wing, first few times that you do this, you'll feel like your arms are really
58
00:02:58.720 --> 00:02:59.320
stiff and
59
00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:02.750
like you're pushing your arms out towards the target when normally they would
60
00:03:02.750 --> 00:03:03.280
be bending
61
00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:09.110
and coming back like this. So normally they would, golfer who chicken wings
62
00:03:09.110 --> 00:03:09.480
would have
63
00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:14.520
a feeling of their chest getting past their elbows and I want you to feel like
64
00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.280
your hands
65
00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.680
are pushing out towards the target while staying straight. Do a couple more of
66
00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.760
these.
67
00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:29.350
That was a pretty good one. Then you've got the classic choice. I'm doing this
68
00:03:29.350 --> 00:03:29.800
really
69
00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.970
well in a drill. Do I want to add speed or try to lengthen this wing? In this
70
00:03:33.970 --> 00:03:34.280
next one
71
00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:42.190
I'll try to add a little bit more speed. So just feeling a little bit more
72
00:03:42.190 --> 00:03:43.520
aggressive
73
00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:50.090
body movement and now I'm going to try to lengthen the swing on both sides. So
74
00:03:50.090 --> 00:03:50.840
now I'm
75
00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.160
going to get to this L position and have it as a reference but I'm going to
76
00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:54.880
feel my arms
77
00:03:54.880 --> 00:04:03.490
bend a little bit as it goes past it. So I want to make sure, yeah that felt
78
00:04:03.490 --> 00:04:04.280
like that
79
00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.850
was pretty good in terms of the L position and then it bent way late. This will
80
00:04:07.850 --> 00:04:08.160
help
81
00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:11.480
you start to become more aware of when your arm bends which will help you
82
00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:12.280
recognize when
83
00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.400
the pattern starts to show up when you're playing on the course.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.150
This drill is L to L. Now I'm a big fan of doing some sort of hold off finish
2
00:00:10.150 --> 00:00:10.520
for the
3
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.010
majority of golfers. It helps work on the quality of the movements down at
4
00:00:14.010 --> 00:00:15.040
impact. And
5
00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:21.160
for many golfers, I prioritize doing the L to I where I'm basically finishing
6
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:21.560
in this
7
00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:27.620
pattern. That really works on more of the stall flip. But there's a subset of
8
00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:28.040
golfers
9
00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:32.470
who really benefit from taking it all the way up to vertical and letting the
10
00:00:32.470 --> 00:00:33.840
wrist rehinge.
11
00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.490
And that's if you struggle with the chicken wing. Typically what happens is
12
00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:37.920
golfers who
13
00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.840
struggle with bending their arm on the way through doesn't necessarily mean
14
00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:43.440
that the
15
00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.960
arm has to be bent at impact. But it means that the arm is bending. That's one
16
00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:49.080
of my
17
00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:54.240
distinctions for a chicken wing. So if the arm is bending on the way through,
18
00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:54.360
one way
19
00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:59.710
to think about it is the wrists are doing very little and the elbows are doing
20
00:00:59.710 --> 00:01:00.160
a lot
21
00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:04.950
to get into this pattern. What I want to do is I want to reverse that. I want
22
00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:05.680
the elbows
23
00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.690
to stay straight and then the wrist to rehinge. And it's not until the wrists
24
00:01:10.690 --> 00:01:12.120
are done rehinging
25
00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:17.480
that the elbows then soften and absorb some of the speed. So it's kind of the
26
00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:17.920
reverse
27
00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.080
sequence or the reverse pattern on the way down. On the way down, I'm going to
28
00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:23.600
use my
29
00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:28.030
shoulders and then my elbows and then my wrists and forearms. So on the way
30
00:01:28.030 --> 00:01:29.080
through, I'm going
31
00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:36.410
to use my wrists first and then my elbows and then my shoulders. So one check
32
00:01:36.410 --> 00:01:36.960
for this
33
00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:42.330
is you can do the classic L to L drill where basically I'm going to make a 3/4
34
00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:43.200
backswing
35
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:48.240
or about a 10 o'clock backswing. And on the way through, I'm going to focus on
36
00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:48.720
the arm
37
00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:53.760
staying straight and then making this classic L look because my wrists will
38
00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.720
have rehinged.
39
00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:04.090
So the actual drill, you can do varying speeds and tempos but I want to
40
00:02:04.090 --> 00:02:06.080
minimize that lead
41
00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:12.010
arm bend while maximizing letting the wrist rehinge. Now what usually happens
42
00:02:12.010 --> 00:02:12.760
is the first
43
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:16.140
few times that you're doing this, if you're used to doing a chicken wing, you
44
00:02:16.140 --> 00:02:16.840
'll overdo
45
00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.700
the wrist trying to rehinge because you'll actively try to do it at the normal
46
00:02:21.700 --> 00:02:22.280
time when
47
00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:26.600
your elbows would want to straighten or sorry, would want to bend. So what I
48
00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:26.960
want you to
49
00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:31.650
do instead is just let the momentum of the club kind of help it rehinge. You
50
00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:32.200
don't have
51
00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:38.920
to forcefully rehinge it. So we'll do one more. We're going to go into this 3/4
52
00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:41.320
backswing
53
00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:48.370
and then focusing on those arms staying straight as the club rehinges. This
54
00:02:48.370 --> 00:02:49.400
will help for many
55
00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.830
golfers the first few times that they do it. If they have a really pronounced
56
00:02:53.830 --> 00:02:54.400
chicken
57
00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.720
wing, first few times that you do this, you'll feel like your arms are really
58
00:02:58.720 --> 00:02:59.320
stiff and
59
00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:02.750
like you're pushing your arms out towards the target when normally they would
60
00:03:02.750 --> 00:03:03.280
be bending
61
00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:09.110
and coming back like this. So normally they would, golfer who chicken wings
62
00:03:09.110 --> 00:03:09.480
would have
63
00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:14.520
a feeling of their chest getting past their elbows and I want you to feel like
64
00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.280
your hands
65
00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.680
are pushing out towards the target while staying straight. Do a couple more of
66
00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.760
these.
67
00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:29.350
That was a pretty good one. Then you've got the classic choice. I'm doing this
68
00:03:29.350 --> 00:03:29.800
really
69
00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.970
well in a drill. Do I want to add speed or try to lengthen this wing? In this
70
00:03:33.970 --> 00:03:34.280
next one
71
00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:42.190
I'll try to add a little bit more speed. So just feeling a little bit more
72
00:03:42.190 --> 00:03:43.520
aggressive
73
00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:50.090
body movement and now I'm going to try to lengthen the swing on both sides. So
74
00:03:50.090 --> 00:03:50.840
now I'm
75
00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.160
going to get to this L position and have it as a reference but I'm going to
76
00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:54.880
feel my arms
77
00:03:54.880 --> 00:04:03.490
bend a little bit as it goes past it. So I want to make sure, yeah that felt
78
00:04:03.490 --> 00:04:04.280
like that
79
00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.850
was pretty good in terms of the L position and then it bent way late. This will
80
00:04:07.850 --> 00:04:08.160
help
81
00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:11.480
you start to become more aware of when your arm bends which will help you
82
00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:12.280
recognize when
83
00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.400
the pattern starts to show up when you're playing on the course.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Stop the Chicken Wing: Improve Your Follow-Through with L to L
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify the cause of the chicken wing in your follow-through
- Practice the L to L drill to promote a correct wrist motion
- Develop a smoother transition from wrists to elbows for improved swing mechanics
In this drill, you'll learn the L to L technique to help eliminate the chicken wing effect in your swing. This method emphasizes the proper sequence of wrist rehinging for better impact and follow-through.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.150
This drill is L to L. Now I'm a big fan of doing some sort of hold off finish
2
00:00:10.150 --> 00:00:10.520
for the
3
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.010
majority of golfers. It helps work on the quality of the movements down at
4
00:00:14.010 --> 00:00:15.040
impact. And
5
00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:21.160
for many golfers, I prioritize doing the L to I where I'm basically finishing
6
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:21.560
in this
7
00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:27.620
pattern. That really works on more of the stall flip. But there's a subset of
8
00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:28.040
golfers
9
00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:32.470
who really benefit from taking it all the way up to vertical and letting the
10
00:00:32.470 --> 00:00:33.840
wrist rehinge.
11
00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.490
And that's if you struggle with the chicken wing. Typically what happens is
12
00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:37.920
golfers who
13
00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.840
struggle with bending their arm on the way through doesn't necessarily mean
14
00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:43.440
that the
15
00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.960
arm has to be bent at impact. But it means that the arm is bending. That's one
16
00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:49.080
of my
17
00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:54.240
distinctions for a chicken wing. So if the arm is bending on the way through,
18
00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:54.360
one way
19
00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:59.710
to think about it is the wrists are doing very little and the elbows are doing
20
00:00:59.710 --> 00:01:00.160
a lot
21
00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:04.950
to get into this pattern. What I want to do is I want to reverse that. I want
22
00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:05.680
the elbows
23
00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.690
to stay straight and then the wrist to rehinge. And it's not until the wrists
24
00:01:10.690 --> 00:01:12.120
are done rehinging
25
00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:17.480
that the elbows then soften and absorb some of the speed. So it's kind of the
26
00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:17.920
reverse
27
00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.080
sequence or the reverse pattern on the way down. On the way down, I'm going to
28
00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:23.600
use my
29
00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:28.030
shoulders and then my elbows and then my wrists and forearms. So on the way
30
00:01:28.030 --> 00:01:29.080
through, I'm going
31
00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:36.410
to use my wrists first and then my elbows and then my shoulders. So one check
32
00:01:36.410 --> 00:01:36.960
for this
33
00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:42.330
is you can do the classic L to L drill where basically I'm going to make a 3/4
34
00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:43.200
backswing
35
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:48.240
or about a 10 o'clock backswing. And on the way through, I'm going to focus on
36
00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:48.720
the arm
37
00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:53.760
staying straight and then making this classic L look because my wrists will
38
00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.720
have rehinged.
39
00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:04.090
So the actual drill, you can do varying speeds and tempos but I want to
40
00:02:04.090 --> 00:02:06.080
minimize that lead
41
00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:12.010
arm bend while maximizing letting the wrist rehinge. Now what usually happens
42
00:02:12.010 --> 00:02:12.760
is the first
43
00:02:12.760 --> 00:02:16.140
few times that you're doing this, if you're used to doing a chicken wing, you
44
00:02:16.140 --> 00:02:16.840
'll overdo
45
00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.700
the wrist trying to rehinge because you'll actively try to do it at the normal
46
00:02:21.700 --> 00:02:22.280
time when
47
00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:26.600
your elbows would want to straighten or sorry, would want to bend. So what I
48
00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:26.960
want you to
49
00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:31.650
do instead is just let the momentum of the club kind of help it rehinge. You
50
00:02:31.650 --> 00:02:32.200
don't have
51
00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:38.920
to forcefully rehinge it. So we'll do one more. We're going to go into this 3/4
52
00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:41.320
backswing
53
00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:48.370
and then focusing on those arms staying straight as the club rehinges. This
54
00:02:48.370 --> 00:02:49.400
will help for many
55
00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.830
golfers the first few times that they do it. If they have a really pronounced
56
00:02:53.830 --> 00:02:54.400
chicken
57
00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.720
wing, first few times that you do this, you'll feel like your arms are really
58
00:02:58.720 --> 00:02:59.320
stiff and
59
00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:02.750
like you're pushing your arms out towards the target when normally they would
60
00:03:02.750 --> 00:03:03.280
be bending
61
00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:09.110
and coming back like this. So normally they would, golfer who chicken wings
62
00:03:09.110 --> 00:03:09.480
would have
63
00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:14.520
a feeling of their chest getting past their elbows and I want you to feel like
64
00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.280
your hands
65
00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.680
are pushing out towards the target while staying straight. Do a couple more of
66
00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:22.760
these.
67
00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:29.350
That was a pretty good one. Then you've got the classic choice. I'm doing this
68
00:03:29.350 --> 00:03:29.800
really
69
00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.970
well in a drill. Do I want to add speed or try to lengthen this wing? In this
70
00:03:33.970 --> 00:03:34.280
next one
71
00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:42.190
I'll try to add a little bit more speed. So just feeling a little bit more
72
00:03:42.190 --> 00:03:43.520
aggressive
73
00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:50.090
body movement and now I'm going to try to lengthen the swing on both sides. So
74
00:03:50.090 --> 00:03:50.840
now I'm
75
00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.160
going to get to this L position and have it as a reference but I'm going to
76
00:03:54.160 --> 00:03:54.880
feel my arms
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bend a little bit as it goes past it. So I want to make sure, yeah that felt
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like that
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was pretty good in terms of the L position and then it bent way late. This will
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help
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you start to become more aware of when your arm bends which will help you
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recognize when
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the pattern starts to show up when you're playing on the course.
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This drill is L to L. Now I'm a big fan of doing some sort of hold off finish
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for the
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majority of golfers. It helps work on the quality of the movements down at
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impact. And
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for many golfers, I prioritize doing the L to I where I'm basically finishing
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in this
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pattern. That really works on more of the stall flip. But there's a subset of
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golfers
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who really benefit from taking it all the way up to vertical and letting the
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wrist rehinge.
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And that's if you struggle with the chicken wing. Typically what happens is
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golfers who
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struggle with bending their arm on the way through doesn't necessarily mean
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that the
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arm has to be bent at impact. But it means that the arm is bending. That's one
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of my
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distinctions for a chicken wing. So if the arm is bending on the way through,
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one way
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to think about it is the wrists are doing very little and the elbows are doing
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a lot
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to get into this pattern. What I want to do is I want to reverse that. I want
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the elbows
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to stay straight and then the wrist to rehinge. And it's not until the wrists
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are done rehinging
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that the elbows then soften and absorb some of the speed. So it's kind of the
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reverse
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sequence or the reverse pattern on the way down. On the way down, I'm going to
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use my
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shoulders and then my elbows and then my wrists and forearms. So on the way
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through, I'm going
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to use my wrists first and then my elbows and then my shoulders. So one check
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for this
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is you can do the classic L to L drill where basically I'm going to make a 3/4
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backswing
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or about a 10 o'clock backswing. And on the way through, I'm going to focus on
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the arm
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staying straight and then making this classic L look because my wrists will
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have rehinged.
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So the actual drill, you can do varying speeds and tempos but I want to
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minimize that lead
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arm bend while maximizing letting the wrist rehinge. Now what usually happens
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is the first
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few times that you're doing this, if you're used to doing a chicken wing, you
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'll overdo
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the wrist trying to rehinge because you'll actively try to do it at the normal
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time when
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your elbows would want to straighten or sorry, would want to bend. So what I
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want you to
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do instead is just let the momentum of the club kind of help it rehinge. You
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don't have
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to forcefully rehinge it. So we'll do one more. We're going to go into this 3/4
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backswing
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and then focusing on those arms staying straight as the club rehinges. This
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will help for many
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golfers the first few times that they do it. If they have a really pronounced
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chicken
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wing, first few times that you do this, you'll feel like your arms are really
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stiff and
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like you're pushing your arms out towards the target when normally they would
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be bending
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and coming back like this. So normally they would, golfer who chicken wings
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would have
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a feeling of their chest getting past their elbows and I want you to feel like
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your hands
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are pushing out towards the target while staying straight. Do a couple more of
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these.
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That was a pretty good one. Then you've got the classic choice. I'm doing this
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really
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well in a drill. Do I want to add speed or try to lengthen this wing? In this
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next one
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I'll try to add a little bit more speed. So just feeling a little bit more
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aggressive
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body movement and now I'm going to try to lengthen the swing on both sides. So
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now I'm
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going to get to this L position and have it as a reference but I'm going to
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feel my arms
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bend a little bit as it goes past it. So I want to make sure, yeah that felt
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like that
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was pretty good in terms of the L position and then it bent way late. This will
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help
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you start to become more aware of when your arm bends which will help you
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recognize when
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the pattern starts to show up when you're playing on the course.
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