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This drill is wrist education with ping pong paddle.

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Now I'm going to use a ping pong paddle but the purpose of this drill is to

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practice the

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release at home away from golf.

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So just to put in reps and get the wrist used to doing what they're going to

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try to do.

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So you can use a ping pong paddle.

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They're, you know, seven, eight bucks at Target.

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Otherwise you can use an old grip with a shaft that you've cut or you could use

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a very

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light weight, I'd say less than five pounds.

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Basically what you're going to do, you're going to take your normal grip and

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then we're

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going to practice the wrist movements and see what it does with the club face

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and how

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it all fits together.

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So I'm going to put down the grip and we're going to use the ping pong paddle.

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So first we're going to train the lead wrist.

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In my case, I'm right here in the golfers.

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So the left wrist and then we'll train the right wrist and then we'll put them

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together.

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So first for the lead wrist, I'm going to take what looks like a normal grip.

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So the thumb is just off to the side of this vertical of the ping pong battle,

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which is

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another reason I like it because you can't really put your thumb straight down

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the shaft.

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It has to be off to this side.

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And the V is pointing somewhere over in this general direction.

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I'm going to get in my golf posture and we're going to train the wrist from

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what it's going

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to do at the end of the transition or from delivery position drill through the

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release

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into the follow through position.

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So we're going to bring the arm basically across my body like so so that it

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would be

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pointing roughly down kind of on the target line.

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First movement we're going to make is we're going to flatten this left wrist

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because in

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transition, we would have already practiced doing the motorcycle drill or at

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the top of

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the swing.

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We would have practiced bowing this left wrist or getting this left wrist flat.

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Now with the ping pong paddle, you'll see that that points the face away from

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me just

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like so.

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Now I'm going to do the body movements of the merry go round so that my hand is

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kind of

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in front of me pointing at the golf ball.

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I'll actually set up to a golf ball for you.

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So one, now my hand is roughly even with the golf ball.

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Now from here I'm going to start to what's called owner deviate or unhinge.

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So I'm basically just going like so.

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So I'm going to get to here just like so and now while keeping my elbow

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pointing in the

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general direction of the target, I'm going to allow that wrist to rotate.

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So it's going to go flex or one, body moves and we're going to go unhinge two

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and then

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rotate three.

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So we'll do it one more time, flex, body movement, unhinge, rotate just like so

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Now I'm not rotating my whole shoulder, I'm just rotating my forearm.

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Because at impact, the average is whatever you set up with, your arm is going

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to be rotated

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about 20 degrees more this way.

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And that just has to do with how much body rotation you've had and what would

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get the

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club face pointing in the direction of the target.

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Okay.

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So let's do the trail wrist now.

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So we're going to do the trail wrist from the same face.

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So we're going to come to here, basically the trail wrist, we're going to hinge

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it just

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like so and then I'm going to extend this arm out.

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So we're going to go to the end of delivery position, which right about here

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and we're

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going to have it pointing in the general direction of the target line.

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So it's not going to be straight up and down, it's going to be on an angle,

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pointing it around

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the target line where even further out is good.

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I'm going to extend this wrist, which is basically just doing that movement

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there.

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So I'm going to extend this wrist and now I'm going to try to lead with my

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elbow until

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my hand is past the ball.

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And then from here, I'm going to cover the golf ball just like so.

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Now I'm in this drill, I'm not going to be releasing this trail wrist.

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So it's going to stay extended as I push.

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So I'm going to come to here, I'm going to flatten, I'm going to lead with the

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elbow

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and then I'm going to extend.

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Lead with the elbow and then I'm going to extend.

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Now if I was to put these two together, basically this left wrist, as we do in

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the single arm

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really struggles with the club, you'll see it's going to basically flatten, un

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hinge and

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then roll.

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This right wrist is basically going to work across my body and then extend.

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And what that does is there's the extension, this works across my body.

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And now when they extend, you can see that they line up.

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So basically because this right wrist is trying to go like this and this left

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wrist is basically

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just unhinging, pointing that thumb away kind of like so, they end up lining up

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towards

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the left half of my body, which would be slightly ahead of the golf ball or

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slightly ahead

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of my body.

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So if I do this in combination together, we're going to do left wrist and right

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wrist.

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I can put the focus in either hand, but they should be able to work together to

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do roughly

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the same movements.

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So first I'll try it with just the left wrist controlling and the right wrist

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following.

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So I'm going to go, there we are at the end of the biliary position.

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I'm going to flatten the left wrist.

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Right wrist feels pretty much where it was when it was working by itself.

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Now I'm going to do that merry-go-round.

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You'll see that that helps my right arm work across my body.

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The left wrist is going to unhinge that starts that trail elbow extending and

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then they're

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going to rotate through together while that elbow stays pointing in the

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direction of the

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target.

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Next we'll do the trail wrist.

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So both hands are on the ping-pong paddle.

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I'm going to extend, yep, that works.

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Now I'm going to lead with that elbow, I'll feel that that works with the body

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rotation

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and then I'm going to extend that right wrist and that's what helps this left

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wrist roll.

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Just like so.

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So this is a great way for you to practice the isolated movements of the arms

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without

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the worry of making solid contact.

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Now I do want to bring up one quick point.

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Even though in these single arm release drills I'm trying to kind of smash this

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hand like

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so.

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In the full swing because of the speed of the club when I go to push away from

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it the club

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is going to move away from my hand.

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This is part of the reason why you'll see a number of golfers who will have

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this look

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of this right hand kind of off the club at the end of the release.

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Phil Mickelson, well he's the opposite, but Vijay Singh, Fred Couples, there's

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a number

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of famous golfers who kind of have this look of the right hand off of it.

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And that's because what I'm pushing has now changed angle and so I can't push

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on it anymore.

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And so as we get closer and closer to impact even though I'm still trying to

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push I'm

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not actually pushing on it nearly as much.

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But this is a great way to practice these wrist movements at home and that will

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make

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it that much easier when you're practicing along the range.