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Trail Arm Pull
Many golfers struggle with consistency because of a "flip". That flip can originate from the wrist or the shoulder. When it comes more from the shoulder, I often call it a trail arm throw. The throw motion involves the shoulder going into internal rotation and abduction creating that common gap between the trail arm and the body. The trail arm pull involves staying in external rotation and moving into more adduction. This drill helps you get that feeling long enough into the downswing to really make progress with your stall flip release.
Many golfers struggle with consistency because of a "flip". That flip can originate from the wrist or the shoulder. When it comes more from the shoulder, I often call it a trail arm throw. The throw motion involves the shoulder going into internal rotation and abduction creating that common gap between the trail arm and the body. The trail arm pull involves staying in external rotation and moving into more adduction. This drill helps you get that feeling long enough into the downswing to really make progress with your stall flip release.
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Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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This drill is trail arm pull. So trail arm pull is a way to kind of help combat
2
00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:10.680
some
3
00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:16.640
of that throw that plagues a lot of golfers with either chunky contact, diggy
4
00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.560
contact,
5
00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:22.910
or pulls as the most common. It can also cause really big pull hooks. So that
6
00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:23.940
typically looks
7
00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:27.940
like somewhere around here that the arms kind of release more like this way,
8
00:00:27.940 --> 00:00:28.560
shoulder
9
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get high, club is overly closed, and it tends to have some really nasty pull
10
00:00:34.150 --> 00:00:35.560
characteristics
11
00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.870
and some really big left shot. Oftentimes in that pattern, you'll have a
12
00:00:39.870 --> 00:00:40.600
feeling more
13
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.750
of kind of pushing or throwing the club head down at the golf ball. So I use
14
00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:45.300
the trail
15
00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:50.820
arm pull as kind of a breakthrough feel of what the opposite might be like. So
16
00:00:50.820 --> 00:00:51.280
trail
17
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arm pulls, you're going to take the club and you're going to hold it in kind of
18
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a delivery
19
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position like this with your right hand. And now I'm not going to show you yet,
20
00:00:58.820 --> 00:00:59.240
but I'm
21
00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.610
going to tell you what I want you to do. I want you to just pull this around
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your body
23
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so that the club stays behind you. I'll give you a couple seconds to try or at
24
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least visualize
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it and then I'll demonstrate how I like to see it done. So most people when
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they do it,
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they're going to do it more as kind of a small little golf move. But to really
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get the feel
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of it, if you have any vertigo, be careful with this. But if you don't get dizz
30
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y, then
31
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what I want you to do is I'm going to pull and I'm going to keep spinning and I
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'm going
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to try to pull as fast as I can until I start to get a little dizzy like I did
34
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right there.
35
00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:40.020
But I'm getting this feeling of this constant pull along the club rather than a
36
00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:40.800
throw of
37
00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:48.760
the club head. So in the kind of the stock tour swing where the arm is more in
38
00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:49.800
this position
39
00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:55.600
here and I'm using my core, I'm pulling along the club later. So I think a lot
40
00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:56.040
of golfers
41
00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:02.490
actually have a feel or a lot of good golfers have a feel of that pull actually
42
00:02:02.490 --> 00:02:03.440
happening
43
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:07.210
all the way through into follow through. It doesn't actually happen there, but
44
00:02:07.210 --> 00:02:07.680
pulling
45
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.180
as long as you can until you get into your bracing movements will help take
46
00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:11.800
away some
47
00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:16.980
of this throw. So first version we're going to do is with that trail arm, we're
48
00:02:16.980 --> 00:02:17.200
just
49
00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:21.710
going to feel like we pull through and we're going to use enough side bend so
50
00:02:21.710 --> 00:02:22.560
that we brush
51
00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.440
the ground. So you'll see if I do that here with an actual golf ball, I can
52
00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:29.520
make contact
53
00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:35.820
and it should look like it's fairly fluid like my arms didn't really have any
54
00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:36.480
stop and
55
00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:41.830
throw in order to get the club all the way down there. I'll do it one more time
56
00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:42.320
where
57
00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:47.460
I'm going to feel that pull pull all the way through and you'll notice probably
58
00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:47.560
have to
59
00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:52.740
close the club face a little bit more while doing this pull all the way through
60
00:02:52.740 --> 00:02:53.200
kind of
61
00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:58.380
like that. And now if I get into that follow through or if I put my left hand
62
00:02:58.380 --> 00:02:59.120
on, I can
63
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:05.000
get a sense of what it might feel like in order to pull through more with your
64
00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.640
core and with
65
00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:11.870
your body and keeping that shoulder in more of a kind of packed or tucked
66
00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:13.480
position. That's
67
00:03:13.480 --> 00:03:16.840
more of a sign that I'm using my core as the power source as instead of using
68
00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:17.560
the shoulders
69
00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.740
and kind of using that throw as a power source. So now it'll feel a little bit
70
00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:23.360
more natural
71
00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.240
if I put my left hand on and I'm going to try and basically get that same
72
00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:30.160
feeling of
73
00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:36.770
pulling it through almost trying to just skim the ground on these nine to th
74
00:03:36.770 --> 00:03:37.760
rees. So it's
75
00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:43.240
back in this position and then I'm pulling all the way through feeling like no
76
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arm throw
77
00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:48.050
whatsoever just like I did when I did that full pirouette where I was going
78
00:03:48.050 --> 00:03:48.800
around and
79
00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:54.800
around in circles. It gives this exaggerated feel of the lag or the club being
80
00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.480
behind my
81
00:03:55.480 --> 00:03:59.920
body as I'm pulling on it rather than pushing on it with the shoulder and the
82
00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:01.040
arm. So if
83
00:04:01.040 --> 00:04:05.590
you see a really big stall flip down at the bottom or from the down the line
84
00:04:05.590 --> 00:04:06.240
you see a
85
00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.420
really big widening of the arm. Try this little trail arm pull to get a feeling
86
00:04:11.420 --> 00:04:11.960
of pulling
87
00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.360
along the club longer working into your nine to three tend to two and
88
00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.480
ultimately into full
89
00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:26.000
swings. So let's go full swing feeling a little bit longer pull kind of like
90
00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:26.680
that.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.360
This drill is trail arm pull. So trail arm pull is a way to kind of help combat
2
00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:10.680
some
3
00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:16.640
of that throw that plagues a lot of golfers with either chunky contact, diggy
4
00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.560
contact,
5
00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:22.910
or pulls as the most common. It can also cause really big pull hooks. So that
6
00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:23.940
typically looks
7
00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:27.940
like somewhere around here that the arms kind of release more like this way,
8
00:00:27.940 --> 00:00:28.560
shoulder
9
00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.150
get high, club is overly closed, and it tends to have some really nasty pull
10
00:00:34.150 --> 00:00:35.560
characteristics
11
00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.870
and some really big left shot. Oftentimes in that pattern, you'll have a
12
00:00:39.870 --> 00:00:40.600
feeling more
13
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.750
of kind of pushing or throwing the club head down at the golf ball. So I use
14
00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:45.300
the trail
15
00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:50.820
arm pull as kind of a breakthrough feel of what the opposite might be like. So
16
00:00:50.820 --> 00:00:51.280
trail
17
00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.750
arm pulls, you're going to take the club and you're going to hold it in kind of
18
00:00:54.750 --> 00:00:55.280
a delivery
19
00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.820
position like this with your right hand. And now I'm not going to show you yet,
20
00:00:58.820 --> 00:00:59.240
but I'm
21
00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.610
going to tell you what I want you to do. I want you to just pull this around
22
00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:03.160
your body
23
00:01:03.160 --> 00:01:06.950
so that the club stays behind you. I'll give you a couple seconds to try or at
24
00:01:06.950 --> 00:01:07.960
least visualize
25
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:12.200
it and then I'll demonstrate how I like to see it done. So most people when
26
00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:12.760
they do it,
27
00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.530
they're going to do it more as kind of a small little golf move. But to really
28
00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:17.120
get the feel
29
00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:22.640
of it, if you have any vertigo, be careful with this. But if you don't get dizz
30
00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:23.240
y, then
31
00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:27.190
what I want you to do is I'm going to pull and I'm going to keep spinning and I
32
00:01:27.190 --> 00:01:27.760
'm going
33
00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:32.900
to try to pull as fast as I can until I start to get a little dizzy like I did
34
00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:33.480
right there.
35
00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:40.020
But I'm getting this feeling of this constant pull along the club rather than a
36
00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:40.800
throw of
37
00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:48.760
the club head. So in the kind of the stock tour swing where the arm is more in
38
00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:49.800
this position
39
00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:55.600
here and I'm using my core, I'm pulling along the club later. So I think a lot
40
00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:56.040
of golfers
41
00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:02.490
actually have a feel or a lot of good golfers have a feel of that pull actually
42
00:02:02.490 --> 00:02:03.440
happening
43
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:07.210
all the way through into follow through. It doesn't actually happen there, but
44
00:02:07.210 --> 00:02:07.680
pulling
45
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.180
as long as you can until you get into your bracing movements will help take
46
00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:11.800
away some
47
00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:16.980
of this throw. So first version we're going to do is with that trail arm, we're
48
00:02:16.980 --> 00:02:17.200
just
49
00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:21.710
going to feel like we pull through and we're going to use enough side bend so
50
00:02:21.710 --> 00:02:22.560
that we brush
51
00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.440
the ground. So you'll see if I do that here with an actual golf ball, I can
52
00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:29.520
make contact
53
00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:35.820
and it should look like it's fairly fluid like my arms didn't really have any
54
00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:36.480
stop and
55
00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:41.830
throw in order to get the club all the way down there. I'll do it one more time
56
00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:42.320
where
57
00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:47.460
I'm going to feel that pull pull all the way through and you'll notice probably
58
00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:47.560
have to
59
00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:52.740
close the club face a little bit more while doing this pull all the way through
60
00:02:52.740 --> 00:02:53.200
kind of
61
00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:58.380
like that. And now if I get into that follow through or if I put my left hand
62
00:02:58.380 --> 00:02:59.120
on, I can
63
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:05.000
get a sense of what it might feel like in order to pull through more with your
64
00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.640
core and with
65
00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:11.870
your body and keeping that shoulder in more of a kind of packed or tucked
66
00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:13.480
position. That's
67
00:03:13.480 --> 00:03:16.840
more of a sign that I'm using my core as the power source as instead of using
68
00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:17.560
the shoulders
69
00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.740
and kind of using that throw as a power source. So now it'll feel a little bit
70
00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:23.360
more natural
71
00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.240
if I put my left hand on and I'm going to try and basically get that same
72
00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:30.160
feeling of
73
00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:36.770
pulling it through almost trying to just skim the ground on these nine to th
74
00:03:36.770 --> 00:03:37.760
rees. So it's
75
00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:43.240
back in this position and then I'm pulling all the way through feeling like no
76
00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:43.920
arm throw
77
00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:48.050
whatsoever just like I did when I did that full pirouette where I was going
78
00:03:48.050 --> 00:03:48.800
around and
79
00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:54.800
around in circles. It gives this exaggerated feel of the lag or the club being
80
00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.480
behind my
81
00:03:55.480 --> 00:03:59.920
body as I'm pulling on it rather than pushing on it with the shoulder and the
82
00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:01.040
arm. So if
83
00:04:01.040 --> 00:04:05.590
you see a really big stall flip down at the bottom or from the down the line
84
00:04:05.590 --> 00:04:06.240
you see a
85
00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.420
really big widening of the arm. Try this little trail arm pull to get a feeling
86
00:04:11.420 --> 00:04:11.960
of pulling
87
00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.360
along the club longer working into your nine to three tend to two and
88
00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.480
ultimately into full
89
00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:26.000
swings. So let's go full swing feeling a little bit longer pull kind of like
90
00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:26.680
that.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Trail Arm Pull
Many golfers struggle with consistency because of a "flip". That flip can originate from the wrist or the shoulder. When it comes more from the shoulder, I often call it a trail arm throw. The throw motion involves the shoulder going into internal rotation and abduction creating that common gap between the trail arm and the body. The trail arm pull involves staying in external rotation and moving into more adduction. This drill helps you get that feeling long enough into the downswing to really make progress with your stall flip release.
Many golfers struggle with consistency because of a "flip". That flip can originate from the wrist or the shoulder. When it comes more from the shoulder, I often call it a trail arm throw. The throw motion involves the shoulder going into internal rotation and abduction creating that common gap between the trail arm and the body. The trail arm pull involves staying in external rotation and moving into more adduction. This drill helps you get that feeling long enough into the downswing to really make progress with your stall flip release.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.360
This drill is trail arm pull. So trail arm pull is a way to kind of help combat
2
00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:10.680
some
3
00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:16.640
of that throw that plagues a lot of golfers with either chunky contact, diggy
4
00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.560
contact,
5
00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:22.910
or pulls as the most common. It can also cause really big pull hooks. So that
6
00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:23.940
typically looks
7
00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:27.940
like somewhere around here that the arms kind of release more like this way,
8
00:00:27.940 --> 00:00:28.560
shoulder
9
00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:34.150
get high, club is overly closed, and it tends to have some really nasty pull
10
00:00:34.150 --> 00:00:35.560
characteristics
11
00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.870
and some really big left shot. Oftentimes in that pattern, you'll have a
12
00:00:39.870 --> 00:00:40.600
feeling more
13
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.750
of kind of pushing or throwing the club head down at the golf ball. So I use
14
00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:45.300
the trail
15
00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:50.820
arm pull as kind of a breakthrough feel of what the opposite might be like. So
16
00:00:50.820 --> 00:00:51.280
trail
17
00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.750
arm pulls, you're going to take the club and you're going to hold it in kind of
18
00:00:54.750 --> 00:00:55.280
a delivery
19
00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.820
position like this with your right hand. And now I'm not going to show you yet,
20
00:00:58.820 --> 00:00:59.240
but I'm
21
00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.610
going to tell you what I want you to do. I want you to just pull this around
22
00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:03.160
your body
23
00:01:03.160 --> 00:01:06.950
so that the club stays behind you. I'll give you a couple seconds to try or at
24
00:01:06.950 --> 00:01:07.960
least visualize
25
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:12.200
it and then I'll demonstrate how I like to see it done. So most people when
26
00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:12.760
they do it,
27
00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.530
they're going to do it more as kind of a small little golf move. But to really
28
00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:17.120
get the feel
29
00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:22.640
of it, if you have any vertigo, be careful with this. But if you don't get dizz
30
00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:23.240
y, then
31
00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:27.190
what I want you to do is I'm going to pull and I'm going to keep spinning and I
32
00:01:27.190 --> 00:01:27.760
'm going
33
00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:32.900
to try to pull as fast as I can until I start to get a little dizzy like I did
34
00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:33.480
right there.
35
00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:40.020
But I'm getting this feeling of this constant pull along the club rather than a
36
00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:40.800
throw of
37
00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:48.760
the club head. So in the kind of the stock tour swing where the arm is more in
38
00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:49.800
this position
39
00:01:49.800 --> 00:01:55.600
here and I'm using my core, I'm pulling along the club later. So I think a lot
40
00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:56.040
of golfers
41
00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:02.490
actually have a feel or a lot of good golfers have a feel of that pull actually
42
00:02:02.490 --> 00:02:03.440
happening
43
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:07.210
all the way through into follow through. It doesn't actually happen there, but
44
00:02:07.210 --> 00:02:07.680
pulling
45
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.180
as long as you can until you get into your bracing movements will help take
46
00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:11.800
away some
47
00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:16.980
of this throw. So first version we're going to do is with that trail arm, we're
48
00:02:16.980 --> 00:02:17.200
just
49
00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:21.710
going to feel like we pull through and we're going to use enough side bend so
50
00:02:21.710 --> 00:02:22.560
that we brush
51
00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.440
the ground. So you'll see if I do that here with an actual golf ball, I can
52
00:02:28.440 --> 00:02:29.520
make contact
53
00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:35.820
and it should look like it's fairly fluid like my arms didn't really have any
54
00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:36.480
stop and
55
00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:41.830
throw in order to get the club all the way down there. I'll do it one more time
56
00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:42.320
where
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I'm going to feel that pull pull all the way through and you'll notice probably
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have to
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close the club face a little bit more while doing this pull all the way through
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kind of
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like that. And now if I get into that follow through or if I put my left hand
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on, I can
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get a sense of what it might feel like in order to pull through more with your
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core and with
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your body and keeping that shoulder in more of a kind of packed or tucked
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position. That's
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more of a sign that I'm using my core as the power source as instead of using
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the shoulders
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and kind of using that throw as a power source. So now it'll feel a little bit
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more natural
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if I put my left hand on and I'm going to try and basically get that same
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feeling of
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pulling it through almost trying to just skim the ground on these nine to th
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rees. So it's
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back in this position and then I'm pulling all the way through feeling like no
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arm throw
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whatsoever just like I did when I did that full pirouette where I was going
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around and
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around in circles. It gives this exaggerated feel of the lag or the club being
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behind my
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body as I'm pulling on it rather than pushing on it with the shoulder and the
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arm. So if
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you see a really big stall flip down at the bottom or from the down the line
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you see a
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really big widening of the arm. Try this little trail arm pull to get a feeling
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of pulling
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along the club longer working into your nine to three tend to two and
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ultimately into full
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swings. So let's go full swing feeling a little bit longer pull kind of like
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that.
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This drill is trail arm pull. So trail arm pull is a way to kind of help combat
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some
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of that throw that plagues a lot of golfers with either chunky contact, diggy
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contact,
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or pulls as the most common. It can also cause really big pull hooks. So that
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typically looks
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like somewhere around here that the arms kind of release more like this way,
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shoulder
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get high, club is overly closed, and it tends to have some really nasty pull
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characteristics
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and some really big left shot. Oftentimes in that pattern, you'll have a
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feeling more
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of kind of pushing or throwing the club head down at the golf ball. So I use
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the trail
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arm pull as kind of a breakthrough feel of what the opposite might be like. So
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trail
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arm pulls, you're going to take the club and you're going to hold it in kind of
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a delivery
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position like this with your right hand. And now I'm not going to show you yet,
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but I'm
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going to tell you what I want you to do. I want you to just pull this around
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your body
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so that the club stays behind you. I'll give you a couple seconds to try or at
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least visualize
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it and then I'll demonstrate how I like to see it done. So most people when
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they do it,
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they're going to do it more as kind of a small little golf move. But to really
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get the feel
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of it, if you have any vertigo, be careful with this. But if you don't get dizz
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y, then
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what I want you to do is I'm going to pull and I'm going to keep spinning and I
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'm going
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to try to pull as fast as I can until I start to get a little dizzy like I did
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right there.
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But I'm getting this feeling of this constant pull along the club rather than a
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throw of
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the club head. So in the kind of the stock tour swing where the arm is more in
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this position
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here and I'm using my core, I'm pulling along the club later. So I think a lot
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of golfers
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actually have a feel or a lot of good golfers have a feel of that pull actually
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happening
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all the way through into follow through. It doesn't actually happen there, but
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pulling
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as long as you can until you get into your bracing movements will help take
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away some
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of this throw. So first version we're going to do is with that trail arm, we're
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just
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going to feel like we pull through and we're going to use enough side bend so
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that we brush
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the ground. So you'll see if I do that here with an actual golf ball, I can
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make contact
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and it should look like it's fairly fluid like my arms didn't really have any
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stop and
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throw in order to get the club all the way down there. I'll do it one more time
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where
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I'm going to feel that pull pull all the way through and you'll notice probably
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have to
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close the club face a little bit more while doing this pull all the way through
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kind of
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00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:58.380
like that. And now if I get into that follow through or if I put my left hand
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00:02:58.380 --> 00:02:59.120
on, I can
63
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:05.000
get a sense of what it might feel like in order to pull through more with your
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00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.640
core and with
65
00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:11.870
your body and keeping that shoulder in more of a kind of packed or tucked
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00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:13.480
position. That's
67
00:03:13.480 --> 00:03:16.840
more of a sign that I'm using my core as the power source as instead of using
68
00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:17.560
the shoulders
69
00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:22.740
and kind of using that throw as a power source. So now it'll feel a little bit
70
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more natural
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if I put my left hand on and I'm going to try and basically get that same
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feeling of
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00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:36.770
pulling it through almost trying to just skim the ground on these nine to th
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rees. So it's
75
00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:43.240
back in this position and then I'm pulling all the way through feeling like no
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arm throw
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00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:48.050
whatsoever just like I did when I did that full pirouette where I was going
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around and
79
00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:54.800
around in circles. It gives this exaggerated feel of the lag or the club being
80
00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.480
behind my
81
00:03:55.480 --> 00:03:59.920
body as I'm pulling on it rather than pushing on it with the shoulder and the
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00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:01.040
arm. So if
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00:04:01.040 --> 00:04:05.590
you see a really big stall flip down at the bottom or from the down the line
84
00:04:05.590 --> 00:04:06.240
you see a
85
00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.420
really big widening of the arm. Try this little trail arm pull to get a feeling
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of pulling
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along the club longer working into your nine to three tend to two and
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00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.480
ultimately into full
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00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:26.000
swings. So let's go full swing feeling a little bit longer pull kind of like
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that.
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