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In this short game drill video, we're going to look at the resisted Swiss ball

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lean. So I talk a lot about this three-inch lean and it's getting more and

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more solidified in my mind that this is just a common pattern that you see

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among the best. Rob Neal did a presentation where he showed that the average

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golfer on all these shots inside 100 yards is going to be moving forward. I've

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been collecting more and more data and it just seems to be going that way.

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The best guys during the backswing, they're shifting towards the target. So for

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those of you who are more feel versus visual learners, you can apply some

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principles of using resistance. So you can either use a Swiss ball or you

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can have a chord pulling you away. But basically what you can do is get into your

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setup position, kind of like so whether it's for a distance wedge shot or more of a

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finesse wedge shot. But in either of these wedge techniques, you're basically

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going to feel like you have a slight pressure shift into this Swiss ball where a

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slight movement of the upper body and pelvis into this Swiss ball to initiate

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the swing. What I see a lot when people are trying to first work on this is that

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they will kind of shift away just like so and then try to go back. And the problem is

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that little shift from right to left creates a lot of lag and some potential

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power where for hitting shorter shots, you don't really want that. So this is a

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great little drill that you can do at home. You just put a Swiss ball and kind of

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pin it up against the wall. I've obviously built kind of my fake wall for

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your video, but you're going to place this up against the wall and just put it

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right off your shoulder so that as you turn, you'll roll a little bit around it, but

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you'll be able to apply a little bit of pressure and kind of start building up

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that feeling of the upper body, moving a couple inches towards the target during

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the backswing and then continuing to move there or continuing to stay there as you

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come down. So making sure that you're not falling off of it back that way. This is a

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great little kinesthetic feeling to help you learn the position of the upper body

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during either the finesse wedge or the distance wedge shots. Here's a close-up.

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So I'm going to have the ball just off my shoulder up against the wall and what

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you'll see is as I make my backswing, I can actually kind of lean into it an almost

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roll. Now the narrower stance, this would be more like the finesse if I'm kind of

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leveled with my twisted spine and then I kind of lean forward and just kind of

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slightly roll off of it. And for those kinesthetic awareness, this is going to give

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you a great feeling of what a proper backswing pivot is going to feel like for

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these shorter wedge shots or the distance wedge shots.