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Rewind From Impact

When you really know a skill, you can slow down the movement, or speed it up and still have success. Golf is no different. One great way to reinforce the path of the club during the release is to go to impact, and then pause and start working backward. Remember, in the ideal sequence, the last thing to go is going to be the hands, so in this drill, the ONLY thing that will move a lot is the hands and arms. The rest of the body should stay relatively passive.

Tags: Impact, Release, Drill, Intermediate

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The drill is rewind from impact.

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So one of the things that I like to do is if you are well aware of how you're moving,

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you should be able to press play or press rewind.

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What I mean by that is if I give you a ball and I said to throw it and I said okay,

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and you threw it and I said now slowly bring it back, you could probably recreate the

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pattern that your body made.

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What happens is with a golf swing, oftentimes we get just this blur of movement,

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we really have no idea what we're doing.

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So one of the fun ways that I like to use this messing around with time is going to impact

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and then going back to delivery position.

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So if you haven't gone there, delivery position is in the transition section and it

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helps you figure out this good little intermediate point before the release happens.

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So the delivery position looks something like this.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to get into this impact position that all the

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good pieces weight left, spine down, hands ahead, all that.

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From here, if we looked at one of the things that we talk about is the sequencing of the

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body, right?

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So from the top of the swing we're going to sequence the lower body first, then the core,

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then the arms, then the hands, more or less.

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Well, if that were true, then when I press rewind, the first thing that should move back

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should be just the hands.

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Notice how my body didn't really change.

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Oftentimes I get people in this posture and I say, okay, go ahead and press rewind and

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they'll go like this.

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And everything move back.

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So that's telling me that there are brain things that everything is going to come down

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into the golf ball.

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What I teach in the release is that during this phase, the body is kind of pushing up,

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but it's not really rotating it on as those arms extend.

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So we're just going to practice getting into impact and then coming back into delivery.

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Impact, coming back into delivery.

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The only thing that you'll see changes basically my hands and a little bit of I'm recreating

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some of the squat that I will be jumping through the release.

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So if you haven't watched the transition in the release section, that may be a little bit more

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complicated, but what you can practice is getting that weight on that left side with the hands

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ahead and then going back and forth just like so.

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And then you can try and take some swings where you get into transition and you get into that

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pre-set position that you just saw by doing the rewind rule.

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I think the rewind rule is great for eliminating some of the blank spots or the black spots

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that you might have in this movement and clearing up where your body is going to be during the release.

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