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This drill is the gravity release, so the gravity release is a way to train

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getting into a good impact position

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without creating a whole lot of arm tension.

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So, while some tension is good, that allows you to transfer some energy through

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your body into the club.

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Oftentimes, I see amateurs having a really aggressive or tightening of the arm,

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whether that's trying to control the club face down at the bottom of the swing

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or trying to apply a really big hit.

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That ultimately makes it harder to get shaft lean, so typically that will have

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more of this kind of look to it

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and then things will bend or break on the way through.

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So, the gravity release is taking a concept like the impact fix where we're

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trying to get the hands slightly forward and slightly up,

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kind of even with the left thigh, body in this good merry-go-round position.

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So, we're trying to get into this position here, but we're trying to get there

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by having the arms fall to that position

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from more of a 10 o'clock backswing or so.

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That will cause me to feel like a little bit of this falling wipe where the arm

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is working across my body.

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Oftentimes, golfers who have too much tension will either pull it across and

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never release it or throw it out and release it early.

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So, this gravity release kind of combines the wipe and the arm extension into

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one feeling.

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Now, if you're doing this correctly, you should be able to stop a couple feet

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after impact or before, well before follow-through position.

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So, I'm close enough over here.

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You can see it will be easiest to do on turf because you'll get a little, you

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'll have the advantage of having the club interaction with the ground helping

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you decelerate.

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But, you can do it off mats.

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So, I'll demonstrate here.

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And one of the challenges is how hard can you hit it while still getting this

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kind of feeling of gravity.

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So, I'm going to bring it up to that 10 o'clock position and I'm going to let

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the club fall into that impact position.

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So, it's going to feel like there's this falling across my body and then out,

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not just falling straight out.

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So, where I see kind of the pattern, the problem one would be letting it fall

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kind of like this.

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And you'll see, even though I tried to stop it because the club had passed my

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wrist down to the bottom, it was hard to stop before follow-through position.

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If I do a better one, so now I'm going to try and get into a really good impact

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position.

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You'll see that I hit those comparable distances.

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I did hit that first one maybe just a touch further.

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But you'll see follow-through wise that, so that one went past the one where I

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flipped it and you can see that had a very short follow-through.

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It's similar to the recoil drill, any of the drills where you're working on

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getting the arm extension without letting the wrist flip should enable you to

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get a shorter follow-through.

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So, that short follow-through becomes a self-limiter of the drill where if you

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're doing it right, you can stop really short, even if you're hitting it kind of

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hard.

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Where if you have a hard time stopping short, it's almost always because you

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have too much activity of that right arm or too much activity of the left

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shoulder pull on the way through.

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So, if you've worked on some of the positions and maybe you're pretty good at

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doing some 9-3s and getting some shaft lean, but then it breaks down when you

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go higher up, try the gravity release to help feel this falling blending of the

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wipe into a really good impact position.

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Okay, so we'll do one more good one like that, and then this can become a

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breaking drill where now I'm going to try to hit this even hard while stopping

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as short as I can.

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There, my arms still felt like they were falling with gravity, but my body felt

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like it was a whole lot more active.