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This drill is investigating your arm bracing. So down at the bottom there's a

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couple different swing issues that fall into the same category of basically I'm

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pulling on the club with my arms instead of pulling on the club with the body

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and I call how you pull on the club bracing. So the common thing would be

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down at the bottom I could either pull with my shoulders you'll see them

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especially that left shoulder kind of retractable. I could pull with my elbows

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that would be more of a left arm chicken wing or a right arm kind of bicep curl

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bending like this or I could pull with my wrist. These are all different ways

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to

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pull the club or pull on the grip which does help speed up the club going down

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into the ball but it also narrows the the arc on the way through.

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Ideally I want to have the arc widening. I want my arms my wrists and my

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shoulders

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all lengthening through impact not bending and shortening. I want the pull

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on the club to come more from my body movement so even though my arms are

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bringing the club away my body is pulling the club away from the ground. That

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combination produces that more consistent flat spot. So sometimes golfers are

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unaware of their pulling and I'll have them all stand over there and grab on to

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the club head. So if you don't have someone to play with what I'm going to

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do is you can either hook the club into a bag or on a chair or something like

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this.

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So now first one I'm going to try and bend up so I'm pulling into the club

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this way. Second one I'm going to bend with my arms and pull it towards me like

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this. This thing is a little light so I can't pull too hard and then last one

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I'm going to pull with my shoulders. Okay so those are the different arm pull

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methods. Now I want to feel a body pull method so I could I could bend

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backward almost like I'm doing a deadlift or a back bend but that would be

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too much extension and that would still make it hard for me to create a good

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flat spot. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull while turning my

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body

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so I'm basically pulling on it that way instead of straight up at me. That's a

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little bit closer to what we want to feel down at impact. Because the club is

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going to be in a pretty much set position here at impact. The club is a metal

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rod

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it's got some bend and lead in it at impact but it's a pretty much a fixed

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metal rod so it's set at a certain angle and I'm going to be pulling kind of in

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this direction kind of more back up away from it. So I could either get into a

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position like this and pull more with the body or I could get into a position

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like this where I would pull from my hands. What can be really useful I'll

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stand on the club and have them pull a couple different ways and getting into

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this position to feel like I'm doing it more from the body helps them recreate

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a

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good impact alignment. So if you feel like it's more of a force thing that I'm

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just I feel like I'm hitting it too much with my hands play around with how

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you're pulling on the club until you find a position where you can pull

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strongly with your body but still have the arms being soft enough that they are

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lengthening or moving away from you. You solve that riddle and you'll be able

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to

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build a much more consistent flat spot have your chest more open at impact and

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get that classic follow-through position that we're looking for.

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(crowd cheering)