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This trail is open trail hand full swings.

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So one of the great things about this site is I get to interact with coaches

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who look

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at my videos and give me critiques commentary.

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Well one of our coaches really enjoyed the open trail hand that was originally

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inspired

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by Wayne D. Francisco or wherever he got it from.

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But the great thing about what happens is he told me better ways or different

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ways that

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he's been using that concept and I wanted to film the drill so that his

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students and

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all of you can experience what he's noticed.

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So I have largely for the last really almost 10 years used this drill as a

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release training

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drill because it made sense as to working on the trail arm and what we want to

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do through

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impact.

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But what I thought was interesting was he said he's been using it in transition

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So he's been having students take full swings and we kind of bounce some ideas

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and it makes

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a lot of sense for helping out the chef flattening during transition and really

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this delay in

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this feel of this thrower's catch.

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So we're going to use this open trail hand and basically use any time that I

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start to

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feel like I'm grabbing as an indication that I'm applying force in the wrong

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direction.

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So the drill is relatively simple.

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You're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to open your right

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hand.

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Now what you'll see if I kind of zoom in close is I can still push against the

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club with

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this part of my index finger kind of right along the line where the shaft is.

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What I can't do is I can't really spin it with my right hand and I can't really

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apply

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a lot of force downward like so.

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So I can apply force against the shaft but I can't really do a lot of other

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motions that

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would help square the face.

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So what it forces me to do is it forces me during transition to keep that

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pressure and

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keep that right wrist from releasing too soon because if I was to go this way

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during transition

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or if I was to go kind of more vertical like this what you'll find is my hand

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is going

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to separate away from the club usually down through that impact position.

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So keeping that trail hand open allows me to stay in contact with the club the

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entire

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time.

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Second thing that it does is during the release it forces that lead arm to

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rotate.

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Now I'm going to be less rotated at impact than when I was at setup but it's in

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the process

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of rotating and having this trail arm open forces that lead arm to help control

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some

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of that rotation.

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So it's a simple self limiting drill you just set up and keeping that hand wide

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open you're

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going to try and make full swings.

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And what you'll find is if at any point you feel kind of a separation a

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slipping or you

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feel that hand wanting to grab it's indicating that that's a point in time or

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just before

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that is a time when your arm path and your body motions are not really matching

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up.

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So we'll see if we can demonstrate a couple of this trail arm open or trail

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hand open

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full swings.

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So that one wasn't too bad except for the fact that I didn't let that arm

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rotate quite

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enough.

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The trail arm open that's a little bit better there so it's going to feel a

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little weird

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through impact taking these full swings with that trail arm open but with a

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little bit

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of practice it'll help you get the concept of how much that right side is

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applying and

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kind of when or how much that left side is kind of controlling.

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Ultimately I think it's a great self limiter for you to develop feelings of how

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the arm

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should work with your body pivot.