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Israel is looking at right versus left shoulder release. So this is a similar

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drill or video or concept to the both arms can't swing like a pendulum, but

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it's basically looking at the idea of are you swinging more around your right

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shoulder, whether you're doing it with the left arm or the right arm, or are

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you

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swinging it more around your left shoulder? So right shoulder, left shoulder.

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If you imagine this as kind of the hub of a circle then what you would see is

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if

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you were to swing it around that right side then it would reach its bottom when

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it's pretty much in line here and then it would start coming up or back in and

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from the down the line it would start coming more to the left. So if you have

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more of a flip style release where the club is releasing out in front of the

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right shoulder, then the bottom of the swing is going to be behind the golf

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ball

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unless you lunge enough to get your right shoulder past it, which is really

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hard to do, or you swing more outside in. So or potentially you could slide to

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get

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that shoulder in front of the golf ball, but basically if the shoulder is

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behind

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the golf ball and you're swinging it around that shoulder, the path is

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going to be more low to high and the contact is or the path from the down the

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line is going to be more outside in which will tend to air more on a toe style

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contact. The opposite will happen with the left shoulder. If you're releasing

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it

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more around the left shoulder you'll tend to hit the ball earlier in the arc

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and

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then it'll bottom out wherever that left shoulder is and then continue on the

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way through. From the down the line because that left shoulder is ahead of

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the ball, it's still going to be moving into out while it's making contact and

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it's not until it gets past the ball that it's going to tend to start working

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back into the left. Now I stressed at the beginning that this isn't about

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swinging

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with your right arm or your left arm in order to do it. When I teach the single

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arm releases, I teach using the right arm but swinging around or swinging with

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movements that tend to look like they're rotating around that left shoulder as

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opposed to doing movements that look like they're swinging more around that

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right shoulder. Also when you're doing the left arm, it's part of the reason

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why

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it's usually a lot easier to get the ball to launch really low when you're

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hitting the left arm and it's easier to get crisp contact because the left arm

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is just naturally ahead of the golf ball. For some people, just kind of

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getting this imagery in mind that right around here, even with that, is where I

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'm

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trying to get the club to bottom out. Not so much right in front of my chest

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and

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definitely not in front of my right shoulder. While you're whether you're

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working on nine to threes or you're working on your full swings, trying to get

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that bottom of the swing out more in front of the left shoulder, that will

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take a good white movement and because you're going to have some shaft lean

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when you do that, it will take some clubface rotation. But if you put those

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together, it allows you to have a much more consistent bottom of the swing,

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solid strike with the irons and the white movement allows for you to have that

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really good side bend with the driver. So it tends to set you up with some of

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the

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skills that help make you a really consistent ball striker. So you can do it

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at varying speeds and what you'll find is actually the better you get at the

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movement and rotating it more around that side, the more you can do kind of

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off speed hits, slow motion or swinging really hard. The more that you're

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swing or the more that you're swinging tends to bottom out right in front of

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the

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golf ball, the more you will be or right at the golf ball, the more that you'll

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be

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tied to tempo in order to hit it solidly. So working on that good release will

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get things rotating more around the space in front of the golf ball, which

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helps with hitting down on it or hitting far enough forward, getting the wide

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point out in front and all those other things that lead to a lot of consistency

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