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This is the recoil drill.

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So the recoil drill is very helpful for training getting out of a flip pattern.

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In a flip pattern, oftentimes golfers have a lot of right arm and right hand

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action down

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at the bottom, usually going into more of a flexion pattern of the wrist, kind

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of like

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this, or going into a trail arm internal rotation pattern, kind of like that.

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But it's usually accompanied with a stalling of the body.

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So the recoil drill is training you to use your arms to deliver the club to the

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golf

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ball while waiting longer and longer with the wrist.

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You can still use some of the owner deviation to shallow it out, but it

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definitely prevents

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you from getting the flip pattern.

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In fact, it's virtually impossible to do the recoil drill correctly if you are

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flipping.

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So basically what we're going to do for the recoil drill is we're going to put

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the emphasis

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on hitting the leading edge against the ground.

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So I'll start by putting the club way back in my stance, kind of like this.

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And then if I was to make contact with the ground, you'll notice that the

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leading edge

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hits in the ground and it just kind of digs.

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First, I should say, I recommend doing this either in your backyard or

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somewhere where

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the greenskeeper's not going to get too upset if you're taking some really deep

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divots.

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Because the first few times you do this, you might take some really deep divots

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So here's the recoil part is basically making contact with the ground with the

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leading edge

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and then coming right back out of the ground, just like that.

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Now you'll see if I was to do this more with the wrist, the club will continue

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going through

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if I have any amount of speed.

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So I'll back up so we don't ruin kind of the hitting area there.

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But if I try to get that leading edge to hit, but then I add some right arm,

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you'll see

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that it tends to go through instead of hitting more of the leading edge just

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like this.

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Now, if I want to combo and work this into a little bit better low point

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position by

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using the wipe, now I'm going to try to get the leading edge and the recoil to

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happen

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ahead of the middle of my stance.

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So I'm going to get set up and now I'm going to try and get my hands way ahead

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and get

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that recoil to happen well ahead of the middle of my stance.

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The further forward I can go, the more that I'm getting a combination of the

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wipe and

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not losing that trail wrist extension.

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So once I have a decent pattern of hitting the ground, I can try to do this

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with the golf

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ball.

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Once I get the pattern of doing it with the golf ball, I'm going to try to add

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some

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speed and feel like the body causes me to go past that recoil point instead of

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stopping

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right there.

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So this is a pretty powerful drill for some golfers who have a really ingrained

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trail

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wrist flip pattern.

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Okay, so now we'll try one of those little recoils, got the ball just slightly

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ahead

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of maybe middle of my stance, but wherever I have it, I was kind of forgot what

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I was

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doing there for a second.

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It was a solid strike, but it wasn't the true recoil.

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So for the true recoil, I'm going to have to exaggerate getting the hands ahead

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so that

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when I hit the golf or when I strike the ground with the leading edge pretty

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hard, I'm going

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to be able to recoil out of it.

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Now you'll notice between those two, what I did in order to hit the ground with

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that

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recoil drill a little bit harder was I had to do more of the wipe, I had to get

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my hands

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well ahead and then when I released the club down, you'll notice I did it more

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with the

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arm and less with the wrist.

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Once I have that feeling in my mind, now I can try to add a little bit of speed

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and bracing

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and what'll happen is when I put in some speed and some bracing, now even when

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I'm trying

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to hit that recoil, it's going to be shallowed out by that bracing movement,

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which is going

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to cause the club to just slide through the ground or just slice through the

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ground instead

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of digging into it and stopping it.

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So now with a little bit more speed, you'll see that even though I'm attempting

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to create

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recoil on that one, I didn't even make contact with the ground because of the

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position of

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my body or the movement of my body through impact.

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So this will help you with your early release of your trail right hand or

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losing that extension,

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what some people call the flying wedge in that trail wrist.