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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the last key movement which is

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the release.

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So the release is roughly going to be from delivery position which is somewhere

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around

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here through to the follow through position which is somewhere around there.

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So basically from waist height to waist height, that's where the release or

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where a lot of

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the arm stuff happens.

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Now just to refresh this delivery position from the arms perspective, the

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delivery position

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is going to be the end of transition.

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You're going to have your trail arm or your right arm in towards your belly

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button.

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We'll start with palm up and then extend the wrist so the palm is facing away

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from you.

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You're going to match that by left forearm pointed down and then palm facing

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away.

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This is that classic position right here where the club faces perpendicular to

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my wrist or

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close to it like this.

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This ends up being that last parallel to the ground where my hands are facing

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directly

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away from where my chest is.

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So we just train that position because that's where we're trying to get to

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before the arms

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extend.

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When the arms extend, the left wrist is roughly going to rotate.

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It's not going to have a large movement going across your body like so.

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It's roughly going to rotate and extend out like so.

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So you can see where those fingers are pointed.

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We have drill videos to help you figure out where all that stuff is.

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The right wrist from this delivery position, the shoulder or the elbow is going

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to work

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across your body as best you can, which helps delay the release of the right

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wrist.

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The tricep is then going to extend and the palm is going to rotate down, but

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notice how

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the elbows stay pointed down.

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So it's not a big shoulder movement like so, it's just a forearm movement like

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this.

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So those two fit just like so.

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We've got drills that will help you figure out how all that fits together.

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The body movements that must accompany that are going to be a little bit tricky

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.

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So when we go to the top of the swing and we go through transition, we're kind

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of getting

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all of our weight into that left leg.

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The reason we're bending and getting into this left side is so that it can then

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press

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up or I can straighten my legs when I go to straighten my arms.

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As I go to straighten my legs during this release, my upper body is actually

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going to

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drift slightly backward.

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And the reason is what I'm doing with my arms is creating a very steep angle of

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attack.

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If I just stayed on top of the golf ball with my upper body and did the arm

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movement, the

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club would basically stick straight in the ground behind the golf ball like so.

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So what gets it from hitting there to ahead of the golf ball is going to be the

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body movement.

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As I get to hear this delivery position, now my legs are going to straighten

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and my right

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shoulder is going to go down so that when my arms extend to go to that follow-

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through

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position, the club is approaching on kind of a flat angle as opposed to going

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steeply

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in the ground.

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Again, this sounds very complicated and there are a lot of details to it, but

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it feels very

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athletic for most people that I've had try this little progression.

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So I have a lot of drills to help you feel what the hands should be doing and

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how the

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body responds and train each one of them individually but also together because

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in order for the

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arms to work properly, the body has to have a little bit of this bracing

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movement.

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One of the analogies I like is you've got a happy 100-pound dog, you got it by

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a leash,

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you're going to go running with this dog, but then it's going to start running

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faster

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than you because it's a big dog, and then you have to start bracing so that it

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doesn't

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run away from you.

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So it's kind of like transition as I get this happy dog running and then

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release, I'm like,

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"Oh no, I better back up and brace for it," and that's that push against the

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ground with

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the arms, or sorry, push against the ground with the legs straightening as the

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arms straighten.

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So there's a fair amount going on in this release and that's why we've broken

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it down

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into many different drills to help you feel the pieces, but you don't have to

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do them

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all in order to have success, each one that you add should make you a little

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bit more

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consistent and a little bit more solid.

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If transition is where 90% of the swing errors show up, this is where the other

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9.99% show

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up is during this release, and we'll go over more of that in the troubles

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hooting video,

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but just pay attention to the arms extending but not flipping while the body

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presses against

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the ground and continues to side bend.