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This drill is single arm rope training.

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So I've got two different examples here.

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But basically what you want to do is you're going to take your trusty rope that

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you use

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for some of your power training and you're going to tie some soft object to it.

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So these are really flexible cones that I like.

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They actually seem to provide a good amount of resistance where this is some

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athletic tape.

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So it's a little bit denser, more of a ball bearing at the end of the rope.

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I don't think you get quite as good of a feel.

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The purpose of this drill is to help you take some of those single arm release

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movements

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and learn how to let them happen as opposed to trying to consciously make them

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happen.

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So a lot of times you're training, whether it's the trail arm or the lead arm

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and you'll

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get really tense and tight trying to supinate or trying to unhinge.

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The problem is when you create a lot of arm tension, your brain has to create

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more

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stability, stability further up the chain.

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So if you create a lot of arm tension, your brain has to stabilize the shoulder

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in your

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rib cage and when it stabilizes, it's going to tend to stall or stop some of

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your movement.

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So what will happen is you're doing some of these arm training and then you get

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over

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the golf ball and you've got too much tension and you'll see the body kind of

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brace and

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that'll mess up your contact and it'll prevent you from really getting out of

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the drill what

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you want, which is the ability to hit solid contact with good arm movements

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with very

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little effort.

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So the rope training can be a way to kind of feel guiding the movements as

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opposed to

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forcing them to happen.

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So I'll demonstrate most of it with the one that I like, which is the few

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alignment cones,

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but basically it took a rope, tied to some athletic tape at the end and then

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you'll choke

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up a little bit so that it's, you know, let's say a little bit wider than

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shoulders, right?

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So I'm not trying to max it out as much as I can, a little bit wider than

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shoulders.

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Now what you're going to do is you're going to make a little body pivot so that

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the club

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or the rope would be at about delivery position.

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So about 45 degree angle with the arm, the rope pointed out at about the target

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line.

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Then from here, you're going to let go with your right hand, pivot with your

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body and

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you'll let your arm swing through going through the good single arm release

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movement.

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So going into unhinging and flexing and then ending with supination.

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And so that movement pattern will look, grab the rope kind of like that.

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Now what you'll see is when I grab the discs, they've got a little bit more

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resistance and

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the weight is kind of distributed a little bit wider so it'll, I'll get a

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stronger sensation

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like it's actually floating through there and I can really kind of guide that

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movement

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and you'll see that the rope or my shoulder stays connected through to about

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here and

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then when it swings through, that's when my arm disconnects.

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I'm not pulling it through with the arm straight from the get go.

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Now you can do this with the trail arm.

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I have to admit, I mostly use this for the lead arm.

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I mostly use it for feeling that smooth supination on the way through,

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especially for golfers

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who tend to kind of get close to impact and then start to rehinge or chicken

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wing or bend

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and pull it up.

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It won't feel really fluid if you do that movement with the release, but

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letting the

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arm extend, letting the weight of the club kind of help the supination and the

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ulnar

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deviation in that follow through as it kind of extends out towards the target,

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the rope

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gives you a really strong feeling.

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Now if you're going to do trail arm, so you're going to work a little bit on

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the wipe and

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getting the rope to swing on the other side of the golf ball, you got to be a

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little creative

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with how you grip it.

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I'll show you what I mean because I can't really, this is going to feel awkward

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.

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So what I found is the easiest way is to grip it behind the back unless you

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have a really

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restricted shoulder.

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So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to initiate a little bit of the light

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movement

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and I'm going to feel that arm extend after the golf ball.

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As opposed to what this can be helpful for feeling is if you normally just

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swing right

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at the golf ball, you'll feel a little bit more of the internal rotation as

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opposed

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to kind of that form or the elbow pit staying up as the form rotates through

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and extends.

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So now we'll grip it back, we'll be right arm only, grip it behind the back and

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now

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I'm going to make my little body pivot with my weight movement and swing it out

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in front.

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Then what you can do is you can grab your club and you can do the single arm

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release

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drills.

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They will feel a little bit weird if you've done a number of reps with the rope

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but take

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enough practice swing so it starts to feel a little bit comfortable and then

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try to integrate

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that fluid feeling into the release.

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If you're not making solid contact, use that as a diagnostic to figure out why

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aren't you

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making solid contact.

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What movement is out of position because basically what it's saying is that

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your tension is

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actually saving the fact that you're out of position and the rope drill is a

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great way

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to reveal that.