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This drill is motorcycle timing, so we're going to talk about the motorcycle or

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that

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flexion of the lead wrist and where most people have trouble with it.

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So there's two different things that could be happening, either the timing of

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the movement

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is incorrect or the amount of movement is incorrect.

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Those are the two frequently that I'll see when we're working on getting this

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movement.

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So just as a refresher, this motorcycle is basically going to be a flattening

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of this

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lead wrist, so I start in a neutral grip, which has about 25 degrees of

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extension.

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If I were to then motorcycle, you can see that that closes down the clubface,

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which

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allows for this body rotation and some shaft lean so that I still have the club

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face point

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in the general direction of the target.

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So the timing of when most players do this is before you get to waist height

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about like

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so.

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Now if you wait until waist height to try to do it, you're virtually assured

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that you're

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going to have to stand up to help square the clubface.

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But if you have that motorcycle movement initiated before you get to the end of

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your transition,

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you're going to have a good chance of being able to stay down and keep that

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chest going

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into side bend and rotation and all these other good things to help control the

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flat

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spot and ultimately help with consistency.

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I've had a number of questions on here while I focus on it during transition

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because that's

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the most powerful way to do it and that's what the majority of tour players do.

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There are a number of them who do it to end the backswing.

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So after you've gone into your takeaway movement and you're setting the club,

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guys like Dustin

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Johnson, David Toms, there's probably a handful of others, but those are the

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two that come

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to mind, they will do it more to end the backswing as opposed to start the down

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swing.

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Now as we focus on here, there's no real backswing downswing.

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It's all kind of a blend of transition, right?

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As I'm going back, my lower body starts before my upper body, before my arms

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and my hands.

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So if you want to feel like this is ending the backswing as opposed to starting

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the downswing,

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we may actually be talking about kind of the same timing.

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So as long as it's happening before I get to here, that's going to take care of

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the

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timing piece.

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So the timing of when it happens is typically going to be after the takeaway

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and before

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I reach delivery position.

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The other common thing that I'll see is golfers will start the motorcycle and

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then bail on

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it during the release.

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For most of you, you're going to be able to feel like you motorcycle pretty

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much until

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you get into this follow through position.

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Now even if I'm trying to motorcycle, what will tend to happen is because of

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that extension

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of that right side, this left side pulling and this right side kind of pushing

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through

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or allowing that arm to lengthen, it's going to tend to pull me out of that

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motorcycle

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movement.

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But what tends to happen is golfers will do this motorcycle movement and then

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they'll

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bail on it right about here when it should actually be reaching more of its

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faster speed.

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So for the timing of it, you want to feel like I start it and then I continue,

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continue,

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continue, continue, continue almost until after I've made contact with the golf

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ball.

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That's going to help create a lot more of this lag and that's going to help

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allow for

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the body movements to do all the really good things that help with consistency.

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This side bend, this axis tilt, this rotation, all those good things.

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Ultimately this is lag of the lead wrist so we often think about creating lag

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in this

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shoulder and in this wrist but the more that I motorcycle that is actually lag

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in the lead

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wrist.

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So you're going to initiate it somewhere either working on ending the backswing

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or starting

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the downswing but it's going to initiate by the time I get to, by the time I

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get to

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waist height and you're going to continue that feeling of motorcycling all the

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way through

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to that follow through position.

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Those two keys will tend to help you get the face close to the path in this way

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So if you find that you're hitting slices or you're hitting blocks way out to

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the right,

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there's a good chance that you either didn't do the motorcycle early enough or

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you didn't

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do it for long enough.

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Focus on those two key movements until you're having a nice consistent draw or

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pole draws

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and then you know that the face is not the issue and you can work on the path.