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This video is trail leg back 45. So this video or this drill is to help you

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with

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your early extension pattern. Many golfers have a pattern where their lower

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body is moving in towards the golf ball and that can be a complement to a st

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eeper

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arm movement and more of a flip style release which the early extension pattern

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serves a purpose of helping you shallow it out and avoid hitting it fat. But it

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can linger when golfers start working on a little bit better release pattern

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and

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what can happen is that early extension by itself can cause the hand path to

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work too far out to the right and cause a little bit more of a roll style

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internal rotation style release pattern down at the bottom. So it can cause

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some

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unneeded inconsistency it's great for a lot of golfers to work on. So what we

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're

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gonna do in this drill is we're gonna focus specifically on the roll of the

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right hip because some people actually as they're shifting weight that's when

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the majority of the early extension happens and then they're able to post up

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around the left leg but they've kind of already started that pattern. So to use

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the trail leg properly I have a few videos on kind of pushing the leg away

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from you or pushing the ground back in that direction. If you keep the foot

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planted then what ends up happening is the hip is going to move backward 45. In

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fact with golfers who have this pattern what I'll do is I'll go up to the top

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of

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the swing and then I'll take the golf club and I'll place it right here on

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the point of their hip or just below the bony part of the pelvis and I'll push

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it back 45 and then have them rotate through. So it ends up looking like the

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weight shift is going weird like this but you can see that as I'm moving back

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this way I can still have a bit of a rotation. So if you don't have someone

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to push on your hip which likely you don't you can use a pool noodle and a

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couple alignment sticks or a chair this is similar to the ball or the butt

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fingerprint concept. So if I go up to the to set this up properly I want the

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foam or the pool noodle to be about a hands-width away. I don't want to be

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right up against it although this one is soft enough that I can push up against

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it but if it's a firm object I have to make sure that I have a little bit of

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space. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the top of my swing

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and I'm going to push that right hip basically in a 30 or 45 degree angle

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back that way. So if I'm hitting it at these flags I'm pushing it back

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towards those other flags over there. That will help create the space for my

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arms to stay in front of my chest and require my upper body to continue

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rotating on the way through. What happens with a lot of golfers when they first

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do this as they just push the hips back and then stall the body and just kind

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of

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throw the hands. You have to make sure that when you do this and you push that

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hip back that your body continues its rotation. So you can do this with half

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shots and full swings up against and then go ahead and step away from it and

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try

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to duplicate the same feeling when you don't have the support there. So don't

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overdo the drill just for the sake of doing the drill. Use it to get a feeling

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and then try to apply that feeling with a golf ball.

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So I'm just off the pool noodle here. I'm going to do a little

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9 to 3 first. So I'm going to go up. I'm going to push back

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and then I'm going to rotate and do a good release. So I felt like I had a

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little extra space maybe then what I was doing during warm-ups.

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You may feel like it's a completely different amount of space and

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like the weight distribution more in towards your heels and less in towards

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your toe. You may feel closer to the ground. There's lots of different feels

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that you may develop from this. Now I'm going to try to do it in one fluid

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motion. Not bad, lost it a little bit. Felt that I was

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on the stick instead of foam roller. It's using what kind of little sensations

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can disrupt your pattern. And now we'll try it in more of a

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full swing style action.

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So pushing into that hip didn't quite get the release to come around but

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had my start line just club face got left and a bit open.

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So now that I've got the feeling of that hip going backward I'm going to try

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and duplicate that feeling without the pool noodle. So we'll do a 9 to 3

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style first.

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So feeling like that hip went back and then turned and

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executed good release with it. And then we'll try it in more of a full swing

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pattern really emphasizing that transition of the right hip.

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Now what some of you may find is that if you shift too much into that back hip

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like if your hip goes way far back in your backswing

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then you can't go back anymore in the downswing. So you want to make sure that

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when you make your pivot you're more towards the center of your foot so

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that you have the room to let this hip work a little bit more

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back that way as you're shifting into that left midfoot.

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So if you struggle with more of your trail leg early extension

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in the early extension happening really early in the downswing

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this is the drill for you to correct that lower body weight shift

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right leg push dysfunctional pattern.