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This drill is hit my arms. So hit my arms is a release drill to help with kind

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of

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where the energy is as you go through impact. So a lot of golfers that I teach

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in lessons and through the site will come in with more of a kind of scoop and

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flip-ish release. This typically involves standing up so my hands are very high

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and then I have to fully release the arms to get the club down to the golf

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ball. Compared to the tour release there's a couple differences and this drill

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hit

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my arms and it just incorporates a few of them into one kind of movement one

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feeling. Hit my arms is basically a simple drill where I go from impact to

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follow through with the intention of using my body rotation as opposed to

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flipping my hands. So to execute you're going to get in setup and then you're

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going to go to impact. Now this is going to be a little challenging for me to

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demonstrate because I actually have them hit my arms. So I can't be in two

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places at once but I'll have you kind of visualize what we're trying to

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accomplish here. So from impact I'll have them then go to follow through and

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what

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I'll do is I will stand right here so that I'll have one hand on the back of

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the wrist and one hand on their elbow. So imagine the golfers right there and I

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would have my hands here and what we'll do is we'll practice going from impact

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to keeping it rotating and keeping the chest moving as my hands go through as

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opposed to getting very ball focused and kind of stopping and flipping. Hit my

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arms basically forces the golfer to continue rotating through like so and I

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have to use face rotation in order to get that to the ball to launch straight.

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So it's a great drill for that overall release pattern and working on the

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follow through position especially if you're coming from more of a stall and a

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flip pattern. So one quick point when looking at the driver with the driver we

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want to use more of our legs and more of our hips to get us to hit my arms. So

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would be in this good impact position and I would use some of my legs to

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power the movement of the body. Compare that to with an iron I can use more of

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my upper body continuing to rotate or I could use my legs. Using the legs is

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going to tend to shallow things out so a lot of golfers will have good success

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with this with the iron and then they go to the driver and if it's not quite as

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good it usually means that you're getting into the position more from your

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upper

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body and not so much from your legs and hips. From the down the line if you hit

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my arms what you'll see is that the hands will kind of follow a smooth path

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from impact to follow through kind of up along this pattern in order to hit my

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hands. The two ways that you would miss my hands would be if you were doing

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more

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of that stall flip you wouldn't hit my arm you would probably hit me with the

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club and the hands would go more out towards the target line. The opposite

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would be if I hit you more with the elbow I'm not going to be able to hit

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with the the whole forearm. So if I came way outside in I would tend to hit you

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with the elbow more so than the whole arm. From the face on the way that looks

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is that would be missing my arms by doing more of kind of that stall hand

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flip a good one would have more of that body rotation so that arm would hit my

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hands kind of at the same time and with some good pace or the opposite if I

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came

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outside in I would hit just with the elbow I wouldn't hit with the full arm

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forearm. So if you have a little bit more of that stall block pattern or if you

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tend to hit more hooks when you start working on the motorcycle there's a very

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good chance that your upper body is not continuing to rotate through the shot

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and it's closing down the face too much.