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This video is my view of the release.

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So we're going to go through a number of my favorite release drills so that you

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can see

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the perspective that I'm talking about.

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So the first one we're going to talk about is going to be just the single arm

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releases.

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So first one I'm going to do is it's kind of an extension of that wipe from

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transition.

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So I'm going to extend my right wrist and get into delivery position.

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And then from here, I'm going to extend my arm out and across.

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Now at the very end, I will let my wrist point all the way out just like so.

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Now you can see that compared to my body, my arm is working across my body.

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It's not just working out towards the golf ball like so.

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So now my left wrist, I'm going to start again in that delivery position.

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And then from here, I'm going to go to where follow through would be.

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And it's got a very small movement across my body, but it's basically just

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rotating and

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pointing the thumb out.

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So you can see where the fingers are pointed, kind of like so.

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So now if I put those two together down to my golf posture, it goes across kind

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of like

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so.

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And then when that trail wrist releases, that's what would cause the loss of

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this lead wrist.

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Because you'll see when I do the single arm releases with the golf club, I'm

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actually

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going to maintain that.

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So now I'm going to walk through with a golf club.

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So above the golf ball first.

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So I'm in that delivery position.

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And then from here, it's going to work down and across just like so.

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Now you'll see even though my arms are working out away from me, because my

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body is continued

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rotating compared to my visual alignment that I have down on the ground, I'm

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going to have

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my hands working slightly in just like so.

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So that's where they're about the furthest out.

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Now as my arms continue extending, you can see that the distance away from that

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orange

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line increases.

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So now I'll do one with a ball, kind of like so.

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We'll do that again.

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So get in my normal seven iron setup position.

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And then I'm going to go basically in that delivery position and then release.

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So we'll do it in one movement again.

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So basically like a nine to three type swing, just like so, letting that arm

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extend without

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releasing the wrist.

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So what most of you are going to do if you're struggling with this drill or if

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you're struggling

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with having a little bit more of a kind of scoop release is you are going to

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release

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more from the hand and arm.

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So impact, everything's going to be in front of my right shoulder in front

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instead of out

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in front of my chest.

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And then when I get to the follow through, my palm is going to be facing the

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sky and kind

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of looking like this, right there, as opposed to notice how I've let that

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rotate by staying

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on top of it and just kind of extending that arm.

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So now let's go through the lead wrist or in my case, the left wrist.

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So as a right-hand golfer, I'm going to grip the left wrist.

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Now if you remember the left wrist is just going to do this.

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So it's basically going to look like that.

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If I didn't rotate, it would basically look like this.

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But because I'm rotating, you can see that that allows the club to kind of work

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down

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the target line, kind of like so.

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So it stays in that flex position, you can see right there, all the way through

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to the

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end of my follow through, right here.

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Just like that.

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What most of you are going to do with this lead arm is you are going to want to

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take

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it back almost closed and then just keep that face pointed at the target almost

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like I was

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doing a square to square method of putting.

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So it's going to end up looking a lot like this.

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So what you have to get used to, or what I have a lot of my players do, is you

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can take

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your lead or your trail arm and put it in your armpit so that that forces you

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to let

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that kind of release more out, kind of like so.

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Then you can practice switching hands.

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You can see how both of those hands would fit together.

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The next stage of that release training is going to be both hands on the club

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but right

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hand open.

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So because the right hand is kind of pushing with more or less this part of the

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hand, kind

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of these two right here.

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So just the base of the thumb and kind of this middle joint of the index finger

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, they're

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kind of pushing again.

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So if I have my right hand open, that's going to allow me to continue pushing.

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Now how much of that is actually going into the club is highly debatable right

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now but

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the arm is going to be extending pretty much as if it were pushing on the club

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just like

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so.

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So I'm going to take my normal grip then open my right hand and then I'm going

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to go through

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the release drills focusing on each arm as best I can.

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You may feel that you got to jump and do one where you focus left, one where

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you focus

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right but those will allow you to kind of build that feeling.

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What most of you will do with this is if that lead arm is kind of separating

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and I'm kind

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of holding off like so, the weight of the club when it passes my hands will

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cause my

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hands to separate.

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So good one, looks kind of like that, they stayed in contact.

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Bad one, I'm going to try to stay in contact but even if I flip you'll see that

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they finish

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a little bit more separated just like so.

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So hopefully that gives you a good perspective of my view of the release and

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that I hope can

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help you overcome some of the visual barriers you may be having in trying to

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train these

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movements.