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This drill is chopped versus lift, lead arm to chest.

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So basically what we're going to look at is the way that the arms are working

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through

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the release and how they will relate to whether I'm hitting a wedge shot,

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whether I'm hitting

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a driver, whether I'm trying to hit a draw or whether I'm trying to hit a fade.

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So how can I use this lead arm as a reference point of what's going on with my

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body and

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a reference point of what's going on with my path?

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If I were to make a follow through movement in your general direction, we can

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look and

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we can see where is this elbow compared to the body.

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And there's a classic chicken wing picture where basically from the down the

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line view,

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you would see that that arm is worked behind the body, or this is what I would

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call more

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of a chop movement.

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If I were to do more of a lift movement, you would see that the elbow stay more

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in front

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of the body and the hand would be kind of reaching up or releasing more up this

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way.

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So one, the arm would be going like so, two, the arm would be going like this.

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Now how that relates is with the shorter shots with chipping, with pitching, I

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can get away

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with it up to about seven iron or so, it is very good to have this arm working

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more around

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your body or working more kind of like so.

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That help keeps some of the steepness in my arm path so that I can get my body

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on top

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of the ball and still have a fairly good angle of attack or fairly good path

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through the

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ball.

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With driver, you will rarely see good golfers have that elbow coming behind

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them like so.

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Typically what you will see is if they have enough side bend and we're getting

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that arm

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extension, you will tend to see that this arm actually works almost closer just

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slightly

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in towards the chest as opposed to working around it.

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So a lot of golfers, especially if you're trying to get out of hitting kind of

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fades and slices

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with your drivers or even pulls with your drivers.

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So if I have a very leftward path with the longer clubs, one of the biggest

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ways that

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you can help work on that is by keeping that elbow or having that elbow work

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more in front

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of your chest as you release through.

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Because that will continue getting the club to release further and further away

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from me

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and the further it releases away from me, the more it creates a rightward path,

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which

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that rightward path is going to help me hit more of draws and potentially

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slight pushes,

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but mostly the draw that I'm looking for as long as I have a good face

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relationship.

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So I like to do this as part of a 9-3 and you can basically work on stopping

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and hitting

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kind of in this position where that elbow feels like it's working back here.

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When I'm working with students, oftentimes I will block the arm from getting

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behind them

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if we're working on this.

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So basically I would stand right here and I would put my hand kind of like this

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so that

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when I go to swing I'm actually pushing that elbow slightly in front of them.

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Obviously I can't be there while you're swinging, but you could ask a buddy to

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kind of squat

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down here and push on that arm or you could just focus on feeling like that arm

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is working

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more in front of your chest to keep the club moving out like so.

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You'll find that the two movements that are almost mutually exclusive are if I

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have enough

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side bend it's very hard to have this work around me.

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So what will happen is I will tend the lunge in front of the golf ball and

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chicken wing

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and kind of hit those thin picky shots or I will tend to stay behind the ball

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and let

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this club or let the arm stay more in front of me kind of like so.

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So you can use that elbow as a good reference frame for how this release is

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working and

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if you're trying to work on going from a drop or from a fade to a draw focusing

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on this

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elbow working more in front of your body can be a really good reference for you

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