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This video is revisiting the Hogan towel drill.

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So the Hogan towel drill is kind of the original connection drill.

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Connection drills are trying to get either your core or your shoulders to be a

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little

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bit more engaged so that when you move one part of your body, another part

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moves with

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it.

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In this particular case with the Hogan towel drill, the goal is to get the

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inside of your

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shoulder blades to stay a little bit more active or connected so that when you

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move

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your trunk in your core, your shoulders will move with it.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with inconsistency, especially poles and

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especially low point fat

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thin, tend to get a little bit more disconnected and kind of throwy from the

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arms.

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So the classic Hogan towel drill of placing a towel under your armpits can be a

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great

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way to get an exposure of this.

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Now if you're really disconnected, I promise you the first couple sessions that

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you do

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with it, it's going to feel very restrictive.

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But if you stick with it, it is going to kind of help you uncover some of this

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efficient

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or ease of golf swing where people look like they're swinging easy but creating

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a lot

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more speed.

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Okay, so we're going to walk through how to set this up and what you can kind

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of look

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for and how this drill is really designed to work.

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So we're going to take the towel and the main thing here is you're going to

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place it as

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high up in your armpits as you can.

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So I like kind of a little bit like not one of the huge bath towels, seeing

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people using

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them, but I like a little bit more of kind of hand towel size.

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So we're going to place it up as high as we can in the armpit and then pin that

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right

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arm and then we're going to place it as high as we can in the armpit and now we

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're going

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to pin the left arm.

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And the reason we want it high up in the armpit is I don't want my elbows to be

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totally fixed

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to my side.

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I want to still be able to create a little bit of this impact window of having

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the right

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arm down and the left arm up while still keeping the towel or still keeping

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that connection.

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Now the trick will be can we pick up the club without dropping the towel.

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Perfect.

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Okay.

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So I would recommend starting with nine to threes, but in the past I've kind of

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stopped

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there and used this primarily as a release drill, but I actually think it works

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really

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well as a 10 to two drill and I'll talk through a couple of key points there.

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So as a nine to three drill, this towel is basically going to reinforce that my

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arms

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and my body are moving together.

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So it's going to feel like the grip stays a little bit more out in front of my

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body during

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the whole swing.

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So a little nine to three kind of feeling the towel, it can help with creating

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some good

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consistent radius so it can help with either a backswing that is pulled too

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much with the

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arms or a chicken wing because the follow through is or the release is pulled

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too much

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with the arms.

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It can cause you to hit a bunch of right shots if you use this disconnect to

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the arms as

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one of your main club face closing.

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So this can be a good compliment when we're doing this nine to three version of

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feeling

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a little bit more of the motorcycle in order to get that kind of low kind of

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driving trajectory

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or to get a little bit more shaft lean.

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But here's where in the past I've kind of stopped there, but I'm actually a

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bigger fan

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of doing some bigger swings.

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Now you will get to a point where the left arm will limit the backswing a

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little bit,

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but I think it's worth trying to fight through it.

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So we're going to get to the top of the swing and the player that this becomes

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really helpful

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is first who have very little arm rotation.

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So when I try to get into this good kind of top of backswing position, a lot of

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golfers

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kind of pull it across and then lift up.

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And if the dominant ending of my backswing is more of a lifting up, then the

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towel is

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going to feel very restricted.

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But if I have more of this jazzy Jeff move or arm rotation or top corner of the

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strike

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zone, if I have more of this arm rotation, then it will feel like I can stop my

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swing

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a little bit short and it's not going to be the end of the world.

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So it helps with the scalability or the ability to take different length swings

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and the arm

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position in relation to your body during those different length swings.

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So we're going to focus on the backswing here of getting into a little bit more

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3/4 swing.

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And then on the follow through side, what will happen is a lot of golfers tend

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to absorb

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everything.

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In attempt to not break down the wrist, they'll create a lot of stiffness in

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the wrist and

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then kind of hold off.

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And what will happen is they'll get to a point kind of here in the three where

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it looks pretty

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good, but then it's kind of stuck.

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They don't really know what to do.

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So with the towel, while keeping it connected, you're going to feel a little

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bit more of

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the release happening in the forearms and wrists and a lot less in the shoulder

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So this is going to have a little bit of a feel of the club working a little

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bit more

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up but staying in front.

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It can be kind of turned over.

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You can feel some of that forearm rotation, some of the kind of like hand cuff

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release

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type stuff.

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But it has a really profound effect on stopping this motion here where the

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elbows are flying

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apart, the wrists aren't really moving or turning over.

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And that tends to pull the path left so it requires some type of body shall

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owing.

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And it tends to make the widest point of the swing on the backside of the ball.

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So it causes contact issues like fat and thin shots.

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So we did a couple of those nine threes.

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Now we're going to take the towel into the higher level where now we're going

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to focus

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a little bit on the arm rotation in the backswing as well as the release in the

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follow through.

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And if it feels really, really restricted, like I said the first couple of

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times, it's

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going to, or the first couple of sessions probably, it's going to feel

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extremely restricted.

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But with practice, it will feel like you can release it and it'll feel like the

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arms are

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just a little bit more synced up with the body.

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So those two felt pretty good there.

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They did feel like they were a little bit on the shorter side, but they felt

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like they

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were connected and I hit it more with my body and less with the arms.

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Now without trying to lengthen it, the next step is I'm going to try to add

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some speed

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because I want to make sure that this arm pull or the arm lift is not one of my

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dominant

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speed things.

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I find this is really helpful for some style of athletes, baseball players who

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tend to

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get, who tend to stay a little bit more forward, shift off the ball and have a

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big arm lift

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to create speed.

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This can be a good complement to getting more chest extension to create the

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height.

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And then on the way through kind of golfers who tend to get more of the hit by

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pulling

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with the arms, kind of big arm throws rather than hitting it more with your

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hips, your

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core and your trunk.

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So let's try that same length swing that we just did, but try to hit it maybe

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15, 20

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yards further by adding a little bit more speed.

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So up to the 3/4 position and you'll see it still has kind of a softness or a

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coasting

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as it's getting into the finished position.

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But if I was to do this really hard and kind of try to hold my arms from

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rotating, you

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would see I'd like it with a towel and it would look very awkward, it would

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feel very

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restricted and very stiff.

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So if it feels stiff, it's a good sign that you want to do a little bit of

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practice with

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this and it means that your arms aren't quite rotating enough or staying more

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connected

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with your body, but there's no better way to start exploring connection than

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with the

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Hogan towel drill.

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