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The drill is single arm full swings.

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So single arm full swings is kind of a cousin to the single arm releases.

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One of the challenges in the golf swing is because we have both hands on the

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club, it's

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often hard to tease out what is causing the problem.

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So we know that there are certain arm movements we don't like.

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We don't like to see the club getting really steep in transition.

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We don't like to see it really scoopy on the way through.

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We don't want to see lots of collapsing and rolling.

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But oftentimes we have a hard time determining, well, is it the right hand just

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because it

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feels like it's the right hand?

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Is it the left arm because the left arm's in front and it looks funnier?

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There's no easy way to kind of guess.

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So I use the single arm full swings as a diagnostic to look at a couple key

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phases in the swing.

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Now I've used the single arm releases because I think they're safer.

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But I do use the single arm full swings.

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My caveat to you is I injured my shoulder when I was 15 doing a left arm only

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swing in the

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trees and the club dug into it went steep into the ground and dug into a root.

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So I've always been hesitant of having people do single arm full swings.

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So my caveat is swing really smooth and this is safer to do off of mats where

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it's just

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going to hit the ground, it's not going to dig into the ground.

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So that's the one little buyer beware or warning label there.

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Okay.

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So now I usually recommend videotaping yourself doing right arm only, left arm

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only, and we're

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going to then break down a couple key places to investigate what's going on.

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So there's no given rules other than you're going to take your normal setup and

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then take

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whichever hand you're not using off the club and either hold it to your side or

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behind

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your back but basically out of the way, I don't want it to be right there on

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the club.

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And I say full swings but really I want at least a three quarter so at least

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above parallel.

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So we're going to do right arm only, kind of like that little pole, not too bad

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And then we are going to do left arm only, good, a similar pole, looks like

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both arms

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want to pull today.

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But now let's talk through kind of the classic patterns, what I usually see

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when I do these.

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First, during the backswing, oftentimes what you'll see is with the right arm

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only, the

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body won't rotate and the arm will get disconnected and the arm will just lift

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in order to create

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a backswing where the left arm will tend to have a little bit better rotation

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but it'll

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often also have a little bit more of a flat shoulder plane, kind of like this.

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So one of the ways you can investigate that is basically when you see the one

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arm doing

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the pattern that you don't like to see in your full swing, it's very likely

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that that

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one arm or that side of the body is what's creating that dysfunction.

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So then second, this is where I think one of the most critical pieces is

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looking at transition.

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Now most of us, a lot of golfers tend to see a steepening in transition and we

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often think

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that it's the right arm kind of getting over power or going into internal

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rotation.

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What I've seen from doing the one arm drills here is almost nobody using just

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the right

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arm steepens the club in transition.

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I have seen it, so that's why I say almost, but it's rare.

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Most of the time the right arm is going to do a much better job of shallowing

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in transition

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and it's going to do a much better job of sinking up with the body.

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If you're looking at impact, you will often see much more body rotation with

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the right

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hand compared to the left hand.

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Now with the right hand, you'll often see more of a scoop on the way through

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where it

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gets very narrow.

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You might have some top shots or chunk shots kind of like that, but getting

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into the finished

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position, even though it shallowed and rotated, it will tend to really scoop

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down there at

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the bottom.

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The left arm oftentimes is the steepener.

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The left arm is going to pull independent of the body and often get out here.

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And then on the way through, we know this from the single arm release drills

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that on the way

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through, it's going to be very much a left arm pull where the body is not

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rotating.

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So my global challenge to you is whatever you're doing, you want to try to

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match up

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both sides.

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So if for example, I had the ability to remove your body from the swing or from

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the video,

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whatever you're doing with the right hand and whatever you're doing with the

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left hand,

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I want the club to basically be going through the same space means that I'm

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basically swinging

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the club the same way.

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If the right arm and the left arm are going through dramatically different

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space, then

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there's going to be a lot more timing as your brain is trying to reconcile how

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the two arms

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are going to work together.

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So what I usually recommend is whichever one looks better, you're going to use

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that

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to help tutor the opposite arm.

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Two common places would be in transition, if you do right arm only and then put

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the left

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arm on, it will usually feel like the left arm is much flatter, like it's

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rotated this

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way as opposed to vertical like this, and it will feel like it's higher because

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it hasn't

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pulled down quite as hard like this.

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Then on the way through, if you were to use the left arm and get it to this

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position, it

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would be like this, and then if I said to get your right hand on the club, this

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will feel

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like you still have more angle, and this will feel like you had a bunch of

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shaft lean.

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So if you were to take the left arm down to impact and then switch, you will

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feel like

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the right arm has not passed or flipped, it has maintained this angle as it's

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rotating

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through, and that helps it get into the last checkpoint, which would be follow

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through.

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I'd probably use the right hand now that it's getting closer to go to there,

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and then if

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I put the left hand on, you'll notice the space.

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I talk a lot about this zone in the single arm releases, so the single arm full

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swing

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is a little bit more about this initial move in transition.

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With the left arm, it will feel like it has to stay higher, and like it's more

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driven from

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the body, and then with the right arm, the transition, I would say, happens

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more naturally, it's

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going to be coming from a good position.

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The big thing is you have to continue to extend the arm and not flip down to

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the bottom.

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So I highly recommend if you have some funky arm movements either in transition

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or during

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the release, that you investigate the single arm drills, whether it's the full

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swing to

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look at the whole picture or the release style just to look at what's going on

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at the bottom,

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that will help you get laser focus into what's likely causing the breakdown

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that you're seeing

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on video.

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Okay, so quick demo, again, right arm only focusing on maintaining its

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extension there,

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and then left arm only.

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Left arm is a little tough today.

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I highly recommend once you've done it to go into either shadow drills or open

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hand where

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basically you're feeling the arms work a little bit more together or connected.

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So shadow drills either open hand, either sorry, either trail hand or the

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really tough one

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is the lead hand, kind of like that.

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The shadow drills and the open hand drills force the body to work as a team,

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but don't rely

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on the benefits of having both hands on the clock.

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So you can use that for a lot of cleaning up your arm motion.