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Motorcycle With Right Or Left Arm
The motorcycle movement is a key component to a body-centered downswing. If you want to power the swing with your whole body and create more of a rotational pattern, you need to have the club face rotated to the shaft. This can be done with either the right or the left hand, so it's important to experiment and figure out which is most useful for you. This drill helps you identify a simple way to identify which side you will be more dominant with.
The motorcycle movement is a key component to a body-centered downswing. If you want to power the swing with your whole body and create more of a rotational pattern, you need to have the club face rotated to the shaft. This can be done with either the right or the left hand, so it's important to experiment and figure out which is most useful for you. This drill helps you identify a simple way to identify which side you will be more dominant with.
Video Transcript
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This is right versus left motorcycle. So you'll see on here that I'm really big
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in finding the
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details that click for each golfer. And we know that we need to have some shaft
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rotation early
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if we're going to have more of this body pivot and kind of tour impact-like
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conditions.
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So the thing that I don't really care is I don't care too much if it's more of
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the
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lead wrist doing the motorcycle move or the trail wrist doing more of the throw
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er's catch move
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or the right hand motorcycle but trying to get the club to rotate. But I've had
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a number of
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golfers who were trying to do it with one or the other and then I put them in
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the position and I
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simply ask which one do you feel kind of more tension or which one do you feel
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is more different
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than your normal pattern and it out and ended up being the opposite in one case
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. He was trying to
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do it with his right and he said no I feel it more in the left. I've never
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thought of swinging with
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my left hand and we worked on that and it was able to clean up pretty nicely.
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The other golfer
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felt like he was flexing like crazy but because of what was happening in the
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right wrist wasn't
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working out. So figuring out which one helps you can help if you're struggling
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with getting this
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face rotation piece. So you'll know that you're struggling with the face
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rotation piece if from
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the face on camera you have a little bit more of kind of that look to it as
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opposed to that's
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more of the look of the face rotation version of the release. So what I
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recommend is get into delivery
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position kind of like this and then to exaggerate it really kind of crank on
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your body and exaggerating
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get it even more open and then ask yourself which one if you close your eyes
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which one feels more
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different. Is it more my left wrist bowed like so where normally it would be
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kind of like this
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or is it the right wrist more extended and even a little bit more on top of the
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shaft where normally
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it feels like it would be kind of straight and underneath kind of like that. So
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you can figure
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out which hand tends to feel different or is potentially blocking you from
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getting that shaft
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rotation and then you can train it with some of the single arm release drills
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or with the single
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arm throw drills or with delivery and pump delivery and go and things where you
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're kind of pre-setting
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some of those rotations but that rotation is really key for getting into a body
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impact position
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kind of like so if you're struggling with having a little bit more of the body
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impact position
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looking more like that then figure out which one of the wrist is ultimately
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going to help you feel
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that rotation at the right time during the swing and that can potentially
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unlock where you're trying
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to get at impact. Now I'm going to feel mostly left that felt pretty good. Now
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I'm going to do
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mostly right so right kind of like so and that felt good but didn't feel quite
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as free through the
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ball. I'm a little bit better focusing on the left wrist like a lot of torporos
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so for me that's
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why it's more of the motorcycle and less of the throwers catch but you can
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figure out which of these
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two movements relates the shaft rotation to your swing.
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Ask Mulligan for helpMotorcycle With Right Or Left Arm
The motorcycle movement is a key component to a body-centered downswing. If you want to power the swing with your whole body and create more of a rotational pattern, you need to have the club face rotated to the shaft. This can be done with either the right or the left hand, so it's important to experiment and figure out which is most useful for you. This drill helps you identify a simple way to identify which side you will be more dominant with.
The motorcycle movement is a key component to a body-centered downswing. If you want to power the swing with your whole body and create more of a rotational pattern, you need to have the club face rotated to the shaft. This can be done with either the right or the left hand, so it's important to experiment and figure out which is most useful for you. This drill helps you identify a simple way to identify which side you will be more dominant with.
Video Transcript
1
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This is right versus left motorcycle. So you'll see on here that I'm really big
2
00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:06.560
in finding the
3
00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:11.630
details that click for each golfer. And we know that we need to have some shaft
4
00:00:11.630 --> 00:00:13.760
rotation early
5
00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:18.310
if we're going to have more of this body pivot and kind of tour impact-like
6
00:00:18.310 --> 00:00:19.360
conditions.
7
00:00:19.360 --> 00:00:23.920
So the thing that I don't really care is I don't care too much if it's more of
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00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:24.240
the
9
00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:28.220
lead wrist doing the motorcycle move or the trail wrist doing more of the throw
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00:00:28.220 --> 00:00:29.520
er's catch move
11
00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:35.130
or the right hand motorcycle but trying to get the club to rotate. But I've had
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00:00:35.130 --> 00:00:35.600
a number of
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00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:40.060
golfers who were trying to do it with one or the other and then I put them in
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00:00:40.060 --> 00:00:41.200
the position and I
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00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:45.170
simply ask which one do you feel kind of more tension or which one do you feel
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00:00:45.170 --> 00:00:46.400
is more different
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00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:51.280
than your normal pattern and it out and ended up being the opposite in one case
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. He was trying to
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00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:54.790
do it with his right and he said no I feel it more in the left. I've never
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00:00:54.790 --> 00:00:55.920
thought of swinging with
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00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:00.560
my left hand and we worked on that and it was able to clean up pretty nicely.
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The other golfer
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felt like he was flexing like crazy but because of what was happening in the
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right wrist wasn't
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working out. So figuring out which one helps you can help if you're struggling
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with getting this
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face rotation piece. So you'll know that you're struggling with the face
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rotation piece if from
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the face on camera you have a little bit more of kind of that look to it as
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opposed to that's
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more of the look of the face rotation version of the release. So what I
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recommend is get into delivery
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position kind of like this and then to exaggerate it really kind of crank on
34
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your body and exaggerating
35
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get it even more open and then ask yourself which one if you close your eyes
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which one feels more
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different. Is it more my left wrist bowed like so where normally it would be
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kind of like this
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or is it the right wrist more extended and even a little bit more on top of the
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shaft where normally
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it feels like it would be kind of straight and underneath kind of like that. So
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you can figure
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out which hand tends to feel different or is potentially blocking you from
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getting that shaft
45
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rotation and then you can train it with some of the single arm release drills
46
00:02:19.430 --> 00:02:20.400
or with the single
47
00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:25.330
arm throw drills or with delivery and pump delivery and go and things where you
48
00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:26.640
're kind of pre-setting
49
00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:32.320
some of those rotations but that rotation is really key for getting into a body
50
00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:33.440
impact position
51
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kind of like so if you're struggling with having a little bit more of the body
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impact position
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looking more like that then figure out which one of the wrist is ultimately
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going to help you feel
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that rotation at the right time during the swing and that can potentially
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unlock where you're trying
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to get at impact. Now I'm going to feel mostly left that felt pretty good. Now
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I'm going to do
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mostly right so right kind of like so and that felt good but didn't feel quite
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as free through the
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ball. I'm a little bit better focusing on the left wrist like a lot of torporos
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so for me that's
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why it's more of the motorcycle and less of the throwers catch but you can
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figure out which of these
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two movements relates the shaft rotation to your swing.
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