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This drill is the single leg squat and jump for lower body power.

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So this is the help with your transition and kind of your overall picture of

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what the lower

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body is going to do in order to contribute power or speed to the system.

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So I'm going to highlight what we're going to do from the top of the swing down

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to impact

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and how we're going to use this lower body.

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You may have seen, you know, if you watch enough golf on TV, they will always

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talk about

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how especially Tiger would have this pronounced kind of squat move where it

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would look like

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he would basically be going into a squat position during his transition.

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I'm going to give you what gives that appearance, okay, and why it happened so

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frequently and

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how it contributes power.

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During this transition, the left leg is going to increase flex as I shift my

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weight.

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So as my pelvis moves, you know, five, six inches to get over this left heel,

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this left

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leg is increasing flex.

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This puts a lot of pressure through that left leg and provides a platform for

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you to then

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straighten that leg to help the bracing to help the release through impact.

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So what ends up happening is I'll do it in the swing is basically you squat in

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and then

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as you push through impact, it's kind of the squat and then the jump.

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Now notice as I go into the jump, it pretty much gets absorbed up through my

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core.

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It doesn't cause my upper body to go up with it.

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So if you have a hard time putting this in play, it could be that you're doing

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more of

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a back jump or a stand up style jump instead of actually pushing through the

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legs.

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So one of the ways that I like to get my golfers to feel this is by doing a

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single leg hop.

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Because if I was going to have you stand on your left leg and then jump off of

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it, you

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would basically squat down a little bit and then push up, all right, so you

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would squat

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down and then push up.

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So what happens during the golf swing is we're more or less centered with more

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of our pressure

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or a little bit of our weight on that trail foot and then we load into this

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front leg

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by bending that knee just like I was doing that single leg jump.

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So I load into that leg and then I extend that leg as the release happens until

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I get

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into the follow through position.

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The appearance of the squat and those knees separating is just because of this

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combined

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lateral movement with that left knee bend.

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That gives the appearance of the squat and loads that left leg to push through

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the release

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pattern.

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So if you're working on trying to get a little bit more speed in your swing,

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especially from

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your lower body, this is a great way to practice or a great kind of image to

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have in order

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to help you figure out what the lower body should feel like during this

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transition and

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then through the release.

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It can be a huge power source, but let me give you a word of caution.

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If your sequence is normally, I get most of my speed from chopping with my arms

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, then

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you really have to work on the timing of the sequence, not the actual movements

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Because what will happen is if your arms have already fallen as you're into the

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squat,

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they'll be too close to the ball when you go into the jump and you'll hit the

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ground way

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behind the golf ball because your arms have already kind of dumped their energy

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.

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This squat, or what I call the single leg squat and then the stand up, during

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that single

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leg squat, the arms should basically stay in contact with your body or this

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left arm

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should stay in contact with your body, indicating that you haven't used a whole

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lot of shoulder

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power yet, right?

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That should happen during the release and much, much later in the swing.

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So keep in mind, the movements that we're trying to do is very simple, a little

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press

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against the earth and then get off of it.

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It's almost, if I had two scales under my feet, you're trying to get the one

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under your left

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foot to read as high as you can during transition, that's a common image that I

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've heard many

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people explain.

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That tends to be a really strong or kind of positive image for the speed of the

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weight

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shift as well as the left leg increasing its flex during that transition.

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That is to load so that you can do the jump on the release.

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So, hopefully that's a somewhat clear idea and gives you a kind of a picture of

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what

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you can practice.

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It's very hard to do in slow motion, but after you've done a few of these

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single leg reps

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and you're kind of like, okay, I've got this, I've seen pretty dramatic speed

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gains from

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putting it into full springs.

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Again, it's hard to do in slow speed, so be patient when you're doing your

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learning process

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drills before you put it in the full speed.