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This release drill is grip throw. So I'm going to use a grip and you can use an

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old grip. Those work really well. Or you can use any type of household object

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whether it's a ruler or a kitchen utensil, big sharpie, just something you can

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kind

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of hold on. So what we're going to do is this is building off of the throws but

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getting me to feel more of the kind of club position. So if I had the ball I'd

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be doing more of this bounce pass wipe or I'd be doing the single arm throws

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but

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getting the goal of kind of throwing this thing out in this 30 degree angle. So

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if

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I was facing the golf ball I'm kind of throwing this thing out there. Now I'm

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not going to do it just by turning and throwing because this would be a

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terrible

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shoulder position. So I'm going to feel like I'm kind of in good body positions

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working in a good shoulder play and almost feeling like I'm a little bit more

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under but then I'm going to use my arms to throw it out in that direction in

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front of the golf ball. So it's a really simple drill. You're just going to get

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set up and then take a little backswing and just feel like you're going to

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throw

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it out kind of out in front of the golf ball. The reason I want an object ball

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there is because a lot of golfers will change where their arms would throw

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based on if a ball is in front or not. So using a ball it'll be helpful. I'm

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going to keep my focus on the golf ball kind of feeling like I'm making a swing

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and then feeling as if my arms are extending out there. If you're used to

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feeling like your arms extend at the golf ball then this is going to feel very

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weird to you and if you feel like your arms extend at the golf ball that would

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end up looking more like this where I'm actually throwing it kind of right out

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at the golf ball instead of that 30 40 degrees out in front. Once you have this

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feel you can then recreate that timing and arm extension with an actual club.

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If when you do that you start hitting the ball off to the right or you're

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starting to hit it really thin then it could be more of a club-based closure

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method that you need to work on and that's why you're struggling with the arm

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extending too much at the golf ball. So this is a useful drill and once you

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understand the drill and kind of get that feeling that feeling can be a very

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good diagnostic because that diagnostic can help you see why your arms are

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extending too soon and your body's not rotating instead of just trying to train

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something that you think you need to do. So then now I've got this feeling of

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those arms kind of extending more out there and then I can try and kind of

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recreate that feeling of those arms extending out in front of the golf ball.

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That one wasn't too bad but I'm even better so that was more those arms

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really kind of extending out in that zone instead of extending straight at the

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golf ball. So let's take a quick look at how this drill works in action. So

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here I

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have two low single-digit handicap golfers, very good golfers but have a

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little bit of flip in their release and so they have the the typical kind of

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contact and mispattern associated with it. In this all I did was give them the

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directions I want you to extend your arms and I kind of put my foot out

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somewhere around here so I said I want you to extend your arms in that general

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direction and so what I want you to see is that both of these golfers when I

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ask

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them what direction they were extending their arms they said that they were

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extending it around or in that general direction. Now here the golfer on the

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left you'll see especially that right arm kind of extending more in line with

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just behind the golf ball. Over here on the right you'll see this golfer again

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is trying to extend the arm especially that right arm along this line. So now

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here I am over on the left and I had a student film me trying to do the same

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thing of basically extending the arms out along that line and so you can see

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the timing and the direction of that right arm looks as if my arms are

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extending over there. Again this golfer over here on the right swore that he

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was

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extending his arms out in that direction. So he may feel like he's

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extending that art in out in front of the golf ball but you can see that that

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right arm is clearly extending behind the golf ball. This is why it's important

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to

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kind of calibrate your movements and make sure that when you feel like you're

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doing something it's actually matching what's happening in reality. So this is

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pre and post for the second gentleman so pre over here on the left and again

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this is a very good golfer he can control his low point but you can see

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that there's a little bit more of the club face passing the hands kind of

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through

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the release. Granted this is in a drill but this is after he had kind of the

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light bulb of his arms extending more out in front of the target and so you'll

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see that the arm movement through the ball has a lot more of that continued

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body

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rotation a lot more of that white movement and the arms extending on the

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way through. So the timing and the direction that the arms extend have a

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big influence on the low point control the path control how solidly you're

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going to hit the golf ball and it's important to calibrate those movements

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and this drill of throwing the grip can really help you understand the general

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direction of the arm movements during the downswing.