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This drill is squeeze the connection don't just hold it. So in the past I've

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talked about

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getting arm connection. I've talked about the two main mechanisms are bringing

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the arm

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across, bringing the arm more down, things like holding a towel, emphasize more

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holding

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it down, squeezing a ball, emphasizes it more across. But we can use either the

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stick or

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the glove to give us an opportunity to feel both of those simultaneously. And

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so what

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I've gone away from is I've gone away from the idea of just having my students

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hold it

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in place. Instead, what I'll actually say is I want you to like, you know,

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imagine this

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is an orange and you're going to squeeze the juice out of the glove. So we're

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going to

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we'll do it with the glove and then we'll do it with the paint stick which I

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like even

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better. But a lot of people use the glove on the range or something easier like

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just

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folding the shirt. So you're going to place this on the chest side of the armp

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it just

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like this to feel where we're trying to get to. If you put your hand behind

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your head

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this will isolate that you're not doing it from the arm that you're doing it

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from the

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shoulder blade. I'm going to try and reach my shoulder blade forward but then I

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'm going

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to try and pull it down. So it's forward and down. So now when I bring my arm

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across or

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out the shoulder is still down and I can feel a pretty strong pack contraction.

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That is

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basically how we get into this really good connection look there. If on the

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other hand

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the arm is up or the arm is not across your body those will create more of the

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disconnected

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look in that follow through. So if I take the glove and I place it back in the

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starting

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position. Now what I want to do is I want to feel that during the release so

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from here

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through the ball that I don't just hold onto it because what a lot of people do

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is when

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they hold onto it their shoulder still comes up. You can see I can make a swing

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holding

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onto the glove but not really working on that arm connection. If on the other

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hand I want

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you to straighten the arm extend the arm away from you and I want you to

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squeeze that glove.

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I want you to try to get like I said if it was an orange you're trying to get

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some orange

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juice out of it. So now we're going to try and we're going to finish where that

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arm

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is really tight and across as well as down. You'll feel a lot more activity in

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the back

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side of the shoulder most likely. You might feel more in your obliques. You

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might feel

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like your body is turned. All those are good signs that you hit it more with

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your body

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and less with the arm. So the glove is option one. In the connection series I

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like to use

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a paint stick or a ruler because it has a nice flat edge so you can kind of

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feel it

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move pretty easily and because it has a flat edge I can really hold against it

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and it sticks

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out a little bit so it encourages me to keep that left arm a little bit more

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passive or

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low. It encourages me to make this more of a body driven both backswing and

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throughswing.

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Now same thing I am trying to squeeze the stick down and across kind of like

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this as

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I'm going through and as I'm kind of maintaining some of my wrist angles or

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more specifically

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as I'm maintaining the extension of the wrist but still getting my owner

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deviation. So across

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kind of like this and you'll see that the shoulder looks down and connected

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like there's

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a lot of space here that ultimately connects a lot of what the ribcage is doing

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to the arms

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helps take some of the timing out helps create a little bit better awareness or

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control of

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the height of the bottom of the swing. So if you take really deep divots and

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you have

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this arm disconnection on the way through that's one of the top things you

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should look

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at this will help clean up a lot of the bottom of the swing and ultimately make

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you a little

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bit more consistent during the release. So the paint stick or ruler is a little

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bit

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better on the follow through side but the glove is a little bit easier on the

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backswing

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side. So I recommend both they have slightly different purposes figure out

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which one helps

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you the most to work on your arm connection.