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This drill is single arm releases with an alignment stick.

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So I do a lot of one arm training for working on the release in the bottom of

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the swing because the arms can often either sabotage each other or at least not

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align.

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And I found using an alignment stick works really well, especially if you have

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a hard time doing it with a club.

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The alignment stick can give you a few extra checkpoints.

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We're going to do what we want to do with the right arm, left arm, while

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swinging an alignment stick rather than a golf club.

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We're going to do most of them up here at kind of like waist height instead of

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doing it down where there would be ground contact.

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We'll say that for when we bring the club back in play.

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So first one we're going to do is with the right hand, we're going to start

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from basically delivery position with either hand.

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So left or right, we're going to start from delivery position kind of like this

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. And now what we're going to do is with the right hand, we're going to try to

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get some supination.

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So we're going to bring the club down or the alignment stick down and then we

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're going to straighten the arm and extend the arm out in front of the left hip

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or the left side kind of like this.

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Now notice a couple things, notice that the alignment stick is still ahead of

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the wrist because I have some extension and notice how the alignment stick is

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pointing down towards the ground almost in line with my right foot.

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What a lot of you will want to do is this which is more of a flip where you'll

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have the alignment stick pointing behind you pointing past your right hip and

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the tip end here is up high kind of in line with the wrist.

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So it hasn't had ulnar deviation and it hasn't worked across your body, there's

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been no wipe.

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So practicing this a couple times, it will look more like this. So in isolation

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it's down and then across but when you do them together it kind of looks like

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this.

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And now you could try to do a few where you get some good ground contact there

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we needed a little bit more, that was better a little bit more ulnar deviation.

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So trying to get into that finished position just before the club would pass.

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Okay now let's do the complementary move on the left side.

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If we do these together then when we put both hands on the club or on the stick

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they will take the club through the same space.

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So the right hand was trying to get to here, the left hand we're going to

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emphasize the ulnar deviation as well.

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So this one instead of the arm rotating to bring it down it's ulnar deviation

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to bring it down and when you come through to impact this one I'm going to

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choke up for a little bit of emphasis here.

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When I come through to impact you'll see that the stick is basically touching

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the outside of the elbow kind of like this.

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If you can do it a lot it will finish above and outside the elbow kind of like

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that rather than pulling what a lot of people do is with this one they will

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pull it kind of down and across kind of more like this.

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So you'll see I don't have ulnar deviation when I do that I didn't have any sup

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ination and I lost the stability of this whole arm, the arm bent as well as

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pulled in.

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So let's do a good one where we're going to get some of that flexion and then

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ulnar deviation so there it impacts it's basically in line with that left arm

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and then it would come through here.

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So now if we do them together this should basically the heel end or the butt

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end of the alignment stick should get kind of down early and then it's going to

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extend through late.

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Now if I wanted to take this past this point then I'll start to go into

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extension of the wrist so now I'm going into that extension of the wrist to get

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into that good L follow through position.

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Okay so we've got the feeling of these single arm releases now you can either

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do them as a single arm release or you can just use that as like a primer and

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then put both hands on the clock.

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I think it's a little bit more of a torture drill to do one arm releases but if

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you have like a at home station or you just want to dedicate a little bit of

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time to work on it I think it pays huge dividend.

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So first one we'll do is that right arm so we're going to bring it back and

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then we're trying to again get into that it's going down first we're

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maintaining that position and we're getting into that good follow through.

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So bringing it back that's a little better pretty good there so then hopefully

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that will look good on video.

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Now we're going to do the lead hand so we're going to feel that timing of that

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ulnar deviation getting close to max just like that and if I do that well I

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should have a very similar ball flight that's your way of knowing if you had

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a couple of mentoring movements and I should get to a very similar follow

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through position.

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So then the last version would be putting both hands on the club and trying to

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get them to work together and oftentimes what you'll what you'll feel when you

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first go through putting both hands on the club is one arm feels like it's not

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quite lined up with the other one.

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And you might want to emphasize doing more of that single arm release but

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ultimately the goal is to get them to feel like they're working as a unit with

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both hands on the club.

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Once you can do that with nine to threes then you want to move on to ten to two

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's and full swings giving the same kind of release or bottom the swing feel.

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So if you're a little lost on where the club should be let's take away the club

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head and just use a stick alignment sticks work really well for training your

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single arm release drills.