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This drill is pin the lead shoulder.

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So this is a release drill for helping golfers who get really dominant with

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that left arm

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pull.

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This can be useful for golfers who have a chicken wing or for golfers who have

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a really kind

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of level shoulder plane on the way through.

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You can have kind of this look where the arms look like they're rotating more

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around

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your body.

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Those patterns tend to share in common that the lead arm is kind of pulling

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back well

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before impact.

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We're too soon.

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So we're going to use a visual kind of a spatial awareness thing and we're

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going to

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try and feel like we pin the left shoulder in place.

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So what we're going to do during the demo I'll use a foam noodle but it blocks

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the camera

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a little bit.

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So we'll just talk through it first in this little description.

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So we're going to make a kind of a 10 o'clock vaccine and as I come down to

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delivery position

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I'm now going to try and keep this shoulder as close to in line with the target

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line.

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So close to the golf ball there as my body continues to rotate.

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Now I don't want the right side to leave behind so the right side is going to

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feel like it

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works underneath.

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This is very similar to kind of the sidearm throw or this kind of supported

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release station.

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In fact I like to have golfers who can do single arm releases to add this to a

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single

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arm release feel or a trail arm release feel.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to feel like that left shoulder stays

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there as my

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body rotates and as the right side kind of comes through and it's going to give

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me this

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feel of the back staying for the target longer or not spinning from the

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shoulders rather

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getting more of the rotation or spin from the core.

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So we're going to feel we get into that delivery position and then the shoulder

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stays close

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to the camera as we come down and through.

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So we'll do one real quick kind of like that where it feels like there's this

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build up

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and then it doesn't come through until as the club is coming through impact.

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It's definitely more of a feeling if you look on video it will come through.

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But what it won't look like is more of this pattern where golfers tend to have

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more of

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the shoulder kind of pulling early.

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So if we put those side by side and we look at it we can kind of see that

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second one

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that shoulder is pulling hard from right around here where in that first one

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the shoulder

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doesn't really start pulling until the club is well passed the golf ball or

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into that

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widest point.

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So we'll go through a demo where I'll put how I normally do it we'll do two

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different

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versions that's a trail arm drill as well as the pool noodle version.

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Okay so first version with the pool noodle I like to create something I'm

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usually standing

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there holding it but if you're doing it at home you can use a trusty tripod and

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then

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what we're going to do is we're going to put it so that it's in the field of

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view very

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close to in line with that shoulder.

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So now I'm going to feel like I get that shoulder as far as it will be

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somewhere around here

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in the delivery position and now I'm going to continue rotating and I'm going

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to try

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to exaggerate this shoulder staying that way as that right side is coming

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through.

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Now you'll see eventually I get to a point where the tension of my body turning

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is pulling

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that shoulder around but I'm not retracting or pulling that shoulder in order

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to do it.

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So I'm going to do it as a little bit of a pump where I'm going to feel like

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that shoulder

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kind of stays there all the way through and it's really going to have a feel of

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the back

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staying to the target longer so I might want to use video to kind of confirm

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and look out

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for two major issues.

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One would be I still keep my lower body behind so issue number one would be

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everything stays

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behind and it kind of looks like this I'll tend to get more fat shots.

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And the other problem to look out for is in an attempt to keep the shoulder

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there you'll

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go into right side bend and you'll get a lot of axis tilt.

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So I want that left shoulder to still get in line get over that front foot or

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get into

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that good impact line it's going to feel like it stays closer to this longer

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and then that

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right side is kind of working through.

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So this works well for a visual this is more of kind of playing you can do this

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with fuller

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swings to really exaggerate the feel I like to do a single arm trail arm

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release.

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So now this will help me feel if that left arm is pulling my goal here is to

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keep that

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shaft vertical and to actually rotate my hip and my shoulder kind of away from

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each other.

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So the left shoulder feels like it's going towards the camera as the left hip

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feels like

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it's going back towards the road.

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All the while that right arm is coming through.

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Now the most common issue I see here as you can imagine is a lot of golfers

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will just

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kind of stop and just throw the arm so it will finish with the palm facing up.

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I still want to finish in a really good trail arm release position.

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So I want to finish with more of a stop sign or more of that palm palm strike

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feel palm

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facing away.

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So we'll do one really good one here kind of like that.

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And now if I were to let go of my support and put that arm to me it might feel

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like this

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left arm is a little bit more around and in front or my body is turned through

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my arm.

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So we can use either of these to get feels for the left side.

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If I have a really strong pull of that left shoulder through the release that

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can cause

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pulls and hooks, low point issues, toe contact, all kinds of release problems.

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So I highly recommend adding this to your release protocols if you're

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struggling with

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getting into a good follow through position because of too much lead arm pull.

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So now let's throw in a good one where we feel like it stays more closed.

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Kind of like that.