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This drill is seated release training. So I like to get creative and hopefully

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help you

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understand each of the pieces and how they fit together. And I get a lot of

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weird looks

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when I'm giving some lessons and one of the common ones where I'll get a kind

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of crazy look

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is if we're talking about release I'm just not quite sure what they're doing

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because they're

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using their body a whole lot. I'll have them sit down and I'll say okay show me

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what your release

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would look like. And usually after I get that squirrely look they'll finally

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give it a go. But

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the example is if I had you seated and I said show me what the release looks

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like throwing a ball

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most people can demonstrate what their arms do. If I ask them show me what your

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release looks like

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for your arms with a golf club usually they can't do it without moving their

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body. So this will

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help you see especially if you're facing a mirror or videotaping yourself you

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'll be able to see what

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your brain really wants to do during the release. So before I show the answers

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we want kind of an

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unbiased perspective on you go ahead and demonstrate. So look in the mirror and

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just put your hands

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together you know take kind of your normal grip put your hands together and

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then try a couple

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times showing what your release would look like. Give it a try now we're mostly

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going to look at

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it from face on view. Okay so hopefully you gave it a try and what we'll

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usually see is one of a

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couple different options. The most common one that I'll see is the release will

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look something

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like this where basically the hands are straight up and down compared to the

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body

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and then they just kind of wipe across your body like that. That's the most

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common one.

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That's pretty close to what we want for a wedge shot minus a little bit of the

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kind of unhinging.

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That's pretty close to what we're trying to do for a wedge shot when if you'd

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ever see me in the

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airport or you know traveling the classes sometimes I practice my release just

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thinking about it

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and it'll look something a little bit more like this. Usually putting the hands

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on the trail thigh

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even a little bit towards the outside so that the palm is facing dead away.

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That's pretty close to

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delivery position and then from here I'm going to extend my arms slightly out

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and a little bit

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almost up. So if I turn and I know we said face on is the most important but

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here's the

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here's the difference between those two. This is straight up and down just kind

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of working across

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my body more like this versus the release that we're hopefully trying to train

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is a little bit more

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of an extension kind of like that and you'll see that they're going just

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slightly up and out.

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If you if that feels really weird for you to go from basically on that left or

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on the right

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thigh or on your trail thigh to extending up in front of the chest even with

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the left thigh

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then there's a very good chance that you're going to have a appearance of a

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scoop or a flip or a

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chicken wing which is good for a wedge shot because you want the bottom of the

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swing pretty much in

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line with the golf ball but if you want the bottom of swing ahead of the golf

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ball you want to get

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used to this movement more across your body and how much it goes up you know

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that that varies

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called the club body to body but getting used to it feeling like it's already

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squared

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towards the right half of your body and then extending away from you. Now what

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you'll see

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is if I then were to stand up and make that movement from right about here to

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extending actually

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with no body you'll see it goes well out to the right but now if I was to add a

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little bit of body

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movement you can see that that matches those hands going a little bit more to

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the left.

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So I love to challenge things when I can if you're not quite sure what your

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release looks like

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take the body out see what your arms are doing it may reveal that there's some

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room for you to

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improve especially if you're in the kind of 10 handicap range trying to get

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down towards scratch

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or in that scratch golfer trying to get to the plus three plus four plus five

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so hopefully this

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helps you understand your release and see that you can train it even when you

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're on the road or

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watching TV by building these movement patterns it'll be that much easier for

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your brain to recall

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call them when you're either on the range or on the course.