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This video is using rope swings to identify your power source.

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So I'm going to talk a little bit here about the difference between iron driver

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We're going to use the rope as kind of an experiment to help you feel and train

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the different

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timings of how we want to pull on the club.

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And this is one of the best ways I know to kind of replicate a hands-on drill

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that I

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do with a lot of my students where I have to get in there and kind of pull on

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the club

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in specific ways and help them really feel what's going on.

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So the drill itself is really simple.

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You're basically going to swing a rope.

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So this is, let's say, about a five-foot rope and I'm just doubling it up.

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A lot of guys have used this, Rob Holding, Dr. Kwan, I know Sasha is a big fan.

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And part of the reason is because there are two major ways I can swing this

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golf club

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around me because it's a rigid object.

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I can use either twerking the club where basically I just get the club to

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rotate or

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I can pull along the club and if I pull different than the direction it's

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pointing, I can get

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the club to kind of swing that way.

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The way some conversations with Sasha Mackenzie, the better players tend to

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pull along the

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rope longer or pull along the shaft of the golf club longer.

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And the neat thing is, with a rope, you can't really do anything but pull along

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it or else

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it'll lose that angle and it'll basically lose that leg and it'll release.

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So when we take the rope, you're just going to take a little backswing, let the

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rope kind

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of collect around you and then you're going to take your through swing working

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on whatever

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good mechanic you're working on.

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The thing that I want you to pay attention to is the direction that you're

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pulling compared

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to the rope.

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So when I'm up here and I'm pulling it down, if I do, you'll see that it will

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tend to release

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kind of out towards the ground or if I get up here and I pull down, you'll see

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that it'll

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release behind the golf ball.

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The other option would be as if I was pulling it.

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The classic example that I've heard, I know Brian Menzel has used it recently,

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but I'm

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not sure where it originally came from, is the pulling on either the, like I

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have a quiver

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of arrows and I'm trying to pull an arrow out, basically by using my body turn,

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I'm going

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to be pulling this club or pulling along the shaft of the club or along the end

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of the

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club kind of like this.

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So it's not that you really need to feel like you pull it out that way, it's

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that if someone

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was holding on to this, I'm going to use my body to kind of feel like I pull

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that out

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from wherever it's attached, somewhere to my towel pull model.

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So I can get up there and if I was to pull straight down, even if I use body

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turn, you'll

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see that it tends to pass there, where if I pull along it, I can actually get

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it to whip

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all the way up through there, I can get it to whip well after impact.

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And that's where the two different patterns for the two different clubs tend to

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come in.

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With the iron, I can get away with kind of pulling down and having it whip

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right through

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there, where I'm pulling more perpendicular to the rope instead of along it.

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But with a driver, in order to get the club low to the ground and not bottom

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out, or not

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hit the ground behind it, in order to develop this flat spot, I have to pull

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along it longer.

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So I'm going to pull all the way through well past impact.

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So that model, if I was to then take a driver, go up to the top of the swing,

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means that I'm

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basically going to be pulling along the direction that the club is pointing.

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Which basically just means I'm not going to pull with my arms, I'm going to

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pull with

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my body.

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So if I pull with my body, you can see right around here, it looks like I'm

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going to be

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pulling that way, right around here, it looks like I'm going to be pulling that

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way.

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Right around here, if I'm pulling along it, it's pulling more that way.

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So the longer I kind of pull along the club, the more I'm using my body to pull

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along it.

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The more that I get up here, and I pull down, that creates a ton of lag, but

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then it's going

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to tend to force this kind of releasing of that lag, which is going to tend to

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cause that

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high to low, steeper angle of attack, which tends to struggle with the longer

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clubs.

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So if I'm using the rope to help train my driver swing, then I want to make

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sure that

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I'm getting this thing to release as late as possible, or I'm pulling along the

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rope

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for as long as possible.

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So I'm going to try and basically get it to pull all the way through here.

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So I'm pull, pull, pull, pull, and then you'll see that my arms don't actually

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release until

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right around there.

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And I can do it looking where I would be looking, so kind of looking in the

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direction of the

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golf ball.

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And then once I have a real good feeling of it, instead of having the rope or

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doubling

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it up, I can do it in one long position, which now it just takes a little bit

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more kind of

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discipline and timing to kind of feel exactly when to pull.

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Once I have that good sensation, then I can take my regular grip and setup, and

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I can

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feel like I'm going to pull, pull, pull, pull, like I'm going to release out

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there.

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So we'll move that bucket, I think it was safe, but better safe than sorry.

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So up to the top, and then I'm going to pull, pull, pull, pull, and it's going

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to feel like

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I'm basically snapping that towel all the way through there, as opposed to if I

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got up

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here, I pulled more down.

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So pulling this way instead of along it, using my arms, now I have this steep

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angle and it's

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going to cause me to use that torque of the club in order to get it out.

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So I would pull down, and then I would use my hands to kind of throw it there.

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You would see that the path isn't going to work for a driver, I can make it

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work for

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an iron if I have a little bit of an upper body lunge, but overall that pattern

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is not

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going to work for the longer clubs.

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The more I can use my body to pull, the better it's going to work for the

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longer clubs, and

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a good way for you to experience it, as well as to train it, is by swinging a

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four or five

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foot rope.