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This drill is the Handcuff release.

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So the Handcuff release is a combo drill to help feel the shoulders working a

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little bit

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more connected or under and the forearms going through some of their rotations.

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So basically combining the MoNorman arm connected with the lead arm supination.

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So you'll see quickly why it's called the Handcuff release.

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So first we're going to do it without a club and what you're going to do is you

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're going

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to take your wrists and hold them together just like this.

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And now we're going to try to get into that good follow through position.

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So we're going to extend or bring that right elbow underneath kind of like this

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and then

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we're going to try and get the right hand or right forearm on top like so.

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So we've got right elbow underneath, right hand on top.

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So here we're going to go dynamically, we're going to bring it back a little

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bit, we're

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going to go right elbow underneath, right hand on top.

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And so this has a feeling of like my wrists are stuck together and the rotation

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is happening

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there as opposed to happening more at the shoulders kind of like this.

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A lot of golfers who have more this action or this action kind of that stall

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chase down

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move, those can be more shoulder driven movements as opposed to doing it more

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at the forearms.

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In order to do this, the forearms have to be soft enough and the shoulder has

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to be

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in a good position because basically most pro golfers will use one or the other

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You're either going to use the, you're going to stiffen the forearms so that

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they don't

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really move and then you're going to do most of the rotation happening at the

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shoulders

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kind of like this or your shoulders aren't going to do as much, your arms can

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straighten

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but the shoulder stays in until close to impact.

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And so the rotation is going to happen more from the forearms.

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You'll either feel that lead arm supination which is I'd say more common or you

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'll feel

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that trail arm stop sign movement that we talked about in some of the trail arm

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videos

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as kind of picking up the slack for what the shoulders would want to do.

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So then I can do some nine to threes.

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So we're going to basically just check that follow through position against the

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drill

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we were just doing.

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So I'm going to bring it back.

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When I get into this position if I drop the club you'll see right elbow

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underneath left

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and the right hand is just on top.

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So if I face here so we can see this target view if I do that movement as I go

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through

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you'll see that that the arm is still extending but I haven't lost the shoulder

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So a good little check is how long can I see that elbow pit pointing at the

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face on camera

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and can I get into this follow through position where the right hand is on top

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of the glove

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hand but not by doing it with the shoulders.

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I can't stress that enough.

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One of the biggest complaints or one of the biggest contributors to kind of a

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mid level

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handicap players struggle with consistency is doing not enough at the forearms

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and too

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much at the shoulders.

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So here let's do another nine to three focusing on that follow through.

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So if I bring it back that's right arm pretty good underneath, right hand on

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top that's

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a good classic follow through position.

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As I do this more I can try and add speed and what I'll challenge you to do is

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as you

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add speed you want most of that speed going through to be absorbed in the fore

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arms first

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and then bring it into the core.

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One good thought that I give to golfers is to feel like the shoulders are

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maintaining

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their width as the club is smoothly moving around from the forearms.

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It feels that's why I have this kind of hand cuff feel because that keeps those

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arms close

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and extended and then the softness and the movement is happening more at the

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forearms.

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So now as I go to add some speed we're going to try and exaggerate.

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I lost the shoulder just a little bit but that wasn't too bad.

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I'm going to try to exaggerate by breaking into that finish position where in

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the full

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swing the momentum would take us up through that.

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So in the full swing we would tend to see where it goes through that position

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and momentum

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takes it all the way up into the full finish but as I'm doing this hand cuff

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drill I want

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to try and keep that right shoulder kind of in and back as the forearms are

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going around

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and wide.

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So you can try that if you're really struggling with your follow through

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position or if you

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see during the downswing you tend to get this arm a little bit more behind you

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kind of like

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this.

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Those are two classic signs that I'm doing too much with the shoulders and

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likely not

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enough with the forearms.

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So practice that hand cuff forearm rotation or the hand cuff release drill in

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order to

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rebalance what's releasing the club your forearms or your shoulders.