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This drill video is the Trail Arm Body Sync.

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So this is one of the few one arm drills where I focus on a bigger swing.

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I'm not doing the one arm drill for working on the arm and the wrist mechanics,

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so I'm

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not really just focusing on the 9-3.

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This is a one arm drill where we're going to focus more on the top of the swing

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in transition

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and blending how the arm and the body works together.

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A lot of golfers struggle with stopping the body too soon, lifting the arms up

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and then

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powering the swing by pulling the arms down using more of a tricep pull or a

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lat pull,

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but a big arm pull.

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So this drill, the Trail Arm Body Sync is designed to synchronize the body and

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the arm

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working together.

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So before we do it with a claw, we're going to do it with a classic toss of the

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ball.

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Now when you do the tossing of the ball, your goal is to throw it with your

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body.

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Your goal is that your arm is just a prosthetic, it's going to hold onto the

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ball in kind of

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shot position, just like this, and I'm going to keep the arm in front of my

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body.

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So you'll see as I turn, it stays in front of my chest.

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My hand is in front of my chest, it's not coming back like this.

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This would not work.

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I can't get my left arm to reach, so it would typically have to get there if I

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was actually

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make this movement.

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So keeping the arm in front of my chest, I'm going to make a backswing, and

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then I'm going

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to make a through swing, and I'm just letting go like this.

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So there's this just nice little shot pull feel.

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This is not designed to be more like that, where I threw it with my wrist.

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I threw that one more powerfully, but I also did it to the exclusion of using

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the body.

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And the goal of this is to synchronize and get more of the hit happening from

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body and

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less of it happening from the arm.

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So one more good one, where I'm going to feel the body and the arm going

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through together.

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Now when we put the club in place, there's typically two places where you're

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going to

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feel this dramatically different.

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One is the top of the swing, two is transition, and a third one, it might be a

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little bit

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during the release, but the two places where it typically feels different is

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for the top

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of the swing.

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If you need this one, then you're used to kind of this pattern here, where the

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body stopped

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the arm lift, and then they kind of pulled down and got into that really narrow

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position.

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Well, if I do what I just did with the ball, so if I keep this in front of me,

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we're not

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going to worry too much about contact, but also see that contact's typically

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not that

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bad once you figure it out.

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Because the arm staying straight and in front allows a pretty consistent

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control of the

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radius.

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And I'm not really moving my hand around that much, so the club face is going

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to change

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very much.

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You can see I'm hitting some of these thin, I'm kind of picking it a little bit

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.

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But what I'm feeling is at the top of the swing, that was a pretty good one.

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At the top of the swing, the arm feels like it's more in front.

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And now, so this kind of blends with the trail arm in front of PEC idea.

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So now I'm going to do what I just did, but I'm going to stop at the top of the

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swing

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and I'm going to reach and put the left hand on it.

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Now, if you are used to not turning, this is going to feel like your back is

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facing the

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target.

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This is going to feel like you've made a much bigger shoulder turn.

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So hopefully you can do this without swaying and without lifting up or losing

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your posture.

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And this becomes a nice little checkpoint for where I want to get to.

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And then from here, I'm just going to turn my body, it can become kind of an

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isolated

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drill or a hit from the top type drill, where I'm going to get up here, stop,

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put my hand

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on, kind of like that.

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So this will help you feel wider at the top, which will require you to feel

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more body rotation

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there in transition.

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Once you do in a few of these kind of stop drills, then you can try to add more

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of a dynamic

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feel where you're going to feel like you make the backswing.

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But the transition is going to feel like wider and typically slower, more

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powered from the

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body, less of a violent pull down from the arms.

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So if we walk through the quick demo, it would basically be arm in front, throw

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a ball.

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That's kind of stage one.

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Swing the club in front, stage two, swing the club back to the top, put the

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other hand

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on, stage three, and then stage four would be feeling like I get back to there

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and just

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turn through.

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So it's going to feel wider, more body driven, less lift and pull.