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this drill is power down to feel your power source so many golfers ask me on

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the site you know am I pulling too much with my arms am I using my legs or my

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core enough I found this little kind of bridge drill that you can do to help

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you

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identify and train where your power source should be many golfers just try

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and get up there and swing hard from different areas of their body and while

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sometimes that works I find that it's not very repeatable golfer to golfer so

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in

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this process we're gonna swing a little bit slower but we're going to focus on

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what is controlling the movement and I'll give you a couple little tips to help

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you figure out exactly how to feel in your body what is controlling the

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movement so we're gonna start by baselining your swing your swing with the

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three-time slower downswing method so basically what you're going to do is

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you're going to get set up and you're gonna take a regular swing but I want

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the downswing to take three times longer than normal so you're gonna go up to

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the top of your swing and it forces you to match the rhythm and match the the

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tempo so this is a seven iron and I just hit that about 90 yards now in order

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to

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help identify my power source I'm gonna do the same thing but I have to bring

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it

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back 20 yards so I'm going to try and hit this 20 yard shorter with the same

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movement so three times slower downswing just gonna throttle back 20 yards

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so fairly successful brought it back to the front of the green from the back of

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the green the next question is the key part of this drill and that's to ask

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yourself how did you do it what most of you will find is that you had a

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little bit less tension in your arms but you actually slowed down the rate of

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where your core was or the rate of core movement so now you've identified what

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it feels like to take your power source the ideal power source and throttle it

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down now we're gonna take the power source and throttle it up and so we're

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gonna gradually work our way back up to our 80% swing so now I'm gonna try and

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take my core movement that I just did keep the same arm movement and go a

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little bit faster with the core so got a little out of sorts with me on my arms

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so I ended up pulling it but overall not that bad not that poor of using my

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core

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just arms got a little bit more involved so now I'm gonna try and ratchet it up

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closer to my 80% level but feeling it mostly from that core power source so

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definitely not my 100% all out but felt like I controlled that a little bit

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more with the core so now I'm getting what it feels like to swing harder from

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one part of my body and keeping the same intensity at another part of my body

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now I'm gonna try and add even a little bit more from my core but keep the same

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level of tension or activity in my arms I'm gonna ramp this up

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so why it's still relatively quiet with the arms a little bit disconnected so I

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cross pretty much my threshold what most people find is that the place where

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they will hit the ball the furthest and the best is somewhere around 80% in

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fact I've done many many different individual case studies on track man

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where I'll have a golfer swing 80% and dial in their distance and then I'll ask

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them to swing 100 and I'd say probably about 70% of the time the speed of the

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club head will actually decrease when they swing at 100% compared to when they

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swing at 80% but I'll probably do a separate video on that so back to this

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we're trying to get that feel of the core if I lose it I'm gonna go back to a

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shorter or a three-time slower downswing and then how would I take it off I

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felt

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I moved this a little bit slower to speed it up I'm basically gonna do the

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opposite this is one way for you to feel some of the subtleties of if you're

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pulling more with your arms pushing with your legs or powering it with your

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core

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if you lose sense of it go to the slower one if you're practicing beyond

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your speed of awareness there's a good chance that you're not really kind of

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training the brain you're not really helping it figure out what you need to

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do differently and slowing them down gradually or taking bigger jumps in

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tempo is one fast way to make yourself temporarily more aware and I find it

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especially helpful when you're looking at power training