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This drill is the trail wrist unhinging so as mostly on the site know I'm a big

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fan of the of using the unhinged as a key shallower because a lot of golfers

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retain that angle of the lead wrist for way too long so instead of putting the

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lag in early and then getting it out down before impact they kind of wait a

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little bit and then they try to put it in too late and that can cause a whole

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host of problems. Now I'm going to do two different kind of explanations of

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this

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video. The first one is basically you're going to try and feel like that trail

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arm unhinges right around the same time and what you'll notice is that when the

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trail arm unhinges it works more vertically kind of like this which will

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bring the club down into a shallow position as long as I have a little bit

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of rotation in the in the wrist as I'm doing it it's gonna allow me to come

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from

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a nice shallow position. So the trail wrist is going to feel that it's going to

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unhinge and at the same time I'm bringing this arm and shoulder across so I'm

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getting more of the vertical movement down from the wrist while the elbow is

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working across with my body's rotation. What some golfers will tend to do is

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when

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they go to unhinge they won't bring the elbow behind or sorry in front so they

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'll

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leave it more behind and they'll have a look like this and they'll tend to hit

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more fat shots because they're getting a little bit too shallow coming into the

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golf ball. So the simple version is you're going to bring it back here and as

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you

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do a little bit of the wipe you're going to bring the club down kind of

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simultaneously towards the ground just like that and even if you you know lose

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a little bit of contact you should be relatively close and have reasonable

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low point control. Now that that's the simple version is you're just gonna feel

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like you unhinged. Now the more detailed version is it's not actually going to

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be

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an unhinge on this wrist because the hands are on slightly different

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orientations and because you're trying to maintain this extension of the trail

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wrist then by maintaining the extension of that trail wrist when you go to

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unhinge you'll find that there's not a whole lot you can do. In fact if you

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grab

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on if you get in the palm facing away position and then you grab on to your

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forearms so that you don't let it rotate. So I'm holding on to it really tight

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and preventing it from rotating in this way so I'm actually pulling it in that

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direction. If now I try to keep the extension as my priority you'll see that

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I have very little amount of unhinge. The only way that I'm going to get this

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feeling of unhinge is if I actually rotate the forearm up or supinate kind of

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like that. So the real action is as I bring this across I'm increasing that

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extension so to get it down I'm also supinating or bringing that thumb down

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towards the ground. It's not truly an unhinge the way it is with the lead wrist

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it's more of this supination of that trail wrist. So I get back in this

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position it's going to rotate more palm up but I'm increasing the extension

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which

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is going to help point the club face more down at the golf ball. That

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combination with the elbow working more in front gives me nice ground contact

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and shaft lean and gets me into that good arm you know shaft lean position

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trail arm facing down all those good trail arm mechanics. So if you're

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struggling with a little bit more of a scoop style early release style release

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then perhaps it's because you're maintaining too much extension here and

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going into pronation too soon with that trail wrist and so if you get this

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feeling of the unhinge of the lead wrist matching the supination of the trail

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wrist that will help shallow out the club from this down the line during this

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zone and put you in perfect position to continue rotating and extend those

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arms in front of the target. If you're back here and then you extend your arms

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there's a good chance you're gonna have low point control issues and really hit

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some fat and thin shots. So hopefully this helps clarify what's going on with

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this trail arm in order to get from somewhere around this belly button height

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down to impact. The big shallow move is happening more from supination not from

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ulnar deviation like we're doing with the lead wrist but you'll feel that this

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supination and ulnar deviation which I'm doing in tandem right there feels very

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complementary and it'll feel like you're unhinging both but know if you ever

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see

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it on 3d it's not actually going to be the case. So there's the supination of

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the lead wrist while maintaining that extension that's the palm down butt

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shallow feel apply that with a little bit of pivot

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not the greatest low point control but pretty good looking shot. Try it one

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more

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time without sliding. Alright so as a little demo trying to get that

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unhinged right now I'm focusing it more on the trail wrist than I am from the

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lead combine that with a nice pivot.