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This drill is retract the lead shoulder, not the lead elbow.

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So this is a drill to help with golfers who tend to have more of a chicken wing

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or more

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of a really strong arm shoulder pull on the way through.

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So that will typically look like on the way through the elbow is going to bend

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the wrist

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might rehinge or it might not, but the arc narrows very quickly on the way

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through.

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That can be accompanying a variety of different pivot issues, but what it

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almost always does

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is it causes the club face to close and the path to get left.

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So you'll hit a lot of pull shots and you'll tend to hit a lot of thin fat

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shots.

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You'll have some contact issues and oftentimes you'll have a lot of toe shots

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because you're

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narrowing everything.

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So to get used to this arm staying straight, we're going to work on some

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shoulder blade

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retractions.

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I'm going to turn this way so that you can kind of see from this perspective

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here.

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So now I'm just going to practice reaching my shoulder blade and then retract

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ing my

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shoulder blade.

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And I want to do it, that was a bad one where the elbow bent, I want to do it

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without bending

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the elbow and without moving my spine.

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So I don't want to do this there, I'm kind of getting initiation or we're

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getting momentum

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from the body.

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So I'm going to try to not move my body.

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I could actually have some players do it seated at first.

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And then I'm just feeling that shoulder blade retract.

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Now the advanced version, I'm going to add a little thumb pointing to it as I'm

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retracting

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like that.

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So now what I'm going to try to do, I've got this feeling of the shoulder blade

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retracting

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while that elbow stays straight.

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Now I'm going to do it while the thumb points and I'm going to add some body

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rotation.

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So that's going to help me get into this L position.

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Now it's not going to be retracted maybe as much as I possibly can so that the

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shoulder

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blades are squeezing all the way into the spine.

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But it's just moving from a place where I've been kind of reaching to pulling

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back more

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towards neutral or a little bit past that.

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My big emphasis there is I don't want you to feel like it's the maximum

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shoulder squeeze

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that you could do.

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It's just more of learning to move the shoulder without moving the elbow.

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Okay, so now let's demonstrate few working through kind of some tend to twos

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and into

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fuller swings.

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I'm going to focus on this elbow staying straight.

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I'll often have golfers do this as a single arm if they're okay with doing a

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left arm

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only swing, so now I'm going to do a 9-3 where I focus on that shoulder pulling

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but the

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elbow staying straight and the thumb pointing out.

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So it's a combo movement, we'll do another one there.

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That was a pretty good one.

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And then I'll have them put the trail arm on and they'll usually say wow it

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feels like

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I got a ton of width but hopefully that shoulder pull helps it feel like it's

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somewhat connected

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or stable.

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So now we'll do both hands on the club trying to get kind of a similar feel,

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kind of like

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that.

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And this is just emphasizing that the shoulder can move while the elbow stays

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straight.

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If you are used to having more of a chicken wing pattern then oftentimes even

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on these

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short ones you will want to pull the arms in or pull on the grip usually to

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throw the

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club head down at the ball, kind of like that.

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So this gets a much more quiet or even stiff feeling in the arms while more of

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the movement

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is happening in the body pivot or in the hips and in the shoulder blade.

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So we can add more and more speed to it until we get it closer to the full

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swing.

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So let's do a 10 to 2, kind of feeling there.

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And once you get past, I usually say chest height, then you're going to have

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some arm

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or some elbow bend but the goal, the intention here is that the shoulder is

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moving independent

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of the elbow bend.

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So I'll try to do a better 10 to 2 where I keep that going even later.

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So there kept it all the way up until hands were pretty close to the head

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height, I don't

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think I could have gone into much more of a finish without letting the elbow

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bend a

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little bit there.

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So this is a really powerful drill for golfers who tend to have more of that

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arm pull that

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could either be more of a chicken wing issue or that could be more of a stall

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issue where

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the body appears to stop at impact.

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This drill is really helpful for smoothing out and keeping width during the

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release and

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into the follow through.