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This drill is Tai Chi downswing sequence.

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So again, many golfers struggle with getting the sequence right when they take

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a full length

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backswing.

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So it's much easier in these nine to threes when the club is kind of even with

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the height

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of my hands or my shoulders haven't been fully loaded.

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It's much easier to initiate that swing with my body.

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But when I start to get my shoulders more towards maximum stretch up at the top

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of the

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swing, sometimes it's a little bit harder to have the patience or the

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sequencing of

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use in the lower body first.

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So the two main sequence drills that I use are versions of pump drills where I

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'm rhythmically

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kind of going back and forth to trick my brain into using more my core.

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Because when I pump back and forth, it's very hard to do it aggressively and it

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's very

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hard to do it in a way that would complement a heavy arm pull.

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So the two main compliments would be more of an upper body lunge or more of an

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early

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extension.

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And it's really hard to pump back and forth with either of those two body

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movements.

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But some golfers aren't real comfortable doing pump drills.

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So the other common sequence training drill that I'll do is more of a Tai Chi

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or a slow

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motion swing.

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So we'll go up to the top of the swing.

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And now I'm going to ask you to take at least three seconds to make your down

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swing.

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We're going to go one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three.

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And I want you to make contact with the ground and with the ball.

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It's only going to go a few feet so you can actually hopefully do this in the

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comfort

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of your living room or off to the side.

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So if I'm doing these slow motion swings, oftentimes what will happen is some

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golfers

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will do these slow motion swings and they'll be up above the golf ball kind of

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like so.

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And I'll tell them you haven't solved the equation yet because you haven't

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connected

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in your mind where, how you're going to get the club down to the golf ball.

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So if I'm here, the easiest way to get it down to the golf ball is to go a

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little bit

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earlier with my arms.

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And so what then happens is they do these nice looking sequence drills.

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And then when they go to actually hit the ball because they haven't solved the

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equation,

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they go earlier and earlier with the arms.

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So oftentimes just by doing five or ten of these slow motion swings where I'm

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going to

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try and do all the movements that I'm hoping to train and that was actually a

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little bit

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quick.

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You can see I hit that a little too far.

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By doing all these movements in slow motion, it will help your body and your

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brain coordinate

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the sequencing and the timing of how these movements fit together.

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So we'll do one more good one, hopefully kind of thinking about it a little bit

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more.

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So shallowing as I turn.

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That was a pretty good one, finishing where I wanted to in that release

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position.

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Went a little bit further than I wanted, but the sequencing was there.

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Let's see if I can slow it down even more before I then try to add a little bit

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of speed

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to it.

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So if I go up to the top, that was pretty good.

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Now that I have this feeling of the sequence of what my arms are going to do

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while my body

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is initiating that downswing, now I can try and add a little bit more speed.

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Usually I'll say now do one at about 50%, 60% and then 80% and then we're

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pretty much

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back up to full swing tempo.

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So now this will be a little slow, closer to kind of a 50%.

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So that one worked out pretty well.

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Work up close to full speed after doing the half speed drill.

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So now we've got kind of a good rhythm going for the movements that we were

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training.

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As we put in more speed, maybe a feel will emerge or maybe we'll figure out a

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tempo that

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that we'll serve as our playing field

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for when we go to the course tomorrow.