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In this concept video we're gonna go over troubleshooting the release. So if

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you

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remember from the release we're basically going to talk about from when the

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club

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is about waist height on this side to waist height on the other side. There's

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three common errors that I tend to see. One would be a scoop or flip, which I

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'll

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discuss the reasons why. Two would be standing up and three would be bending

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those arms or letting those arms separate through impact. So let's talk

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about them one by one. First we have the flip. Now one of the major reasons

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that I

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see players flip is to square the club face. Now a lot of golfers will tell you

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or a lot of golf instructors will tell you that most golfers flip in order to

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get the ball up in the air. I don't think that's the case. I think the case is

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that's what squares the club face for them. And here's what I mean by that. If

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I were

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to rotate my body a ton and keep my palms facing up like so the club would come

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in pointed sixty-seventy degrees off to the right. Well my only options for

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squaring a club that's coming in like this would be the motorcycle move, this

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rotation, the screwdriver force that I'm so big on which would now bring the

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club

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face in pointed at the target or what we call square. So when I say square in

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this video I'm just referring to it's pointing roughly at the target. So that

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would be option one would be there it's coming in way open so I just rotate my

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wrist. It's actually harder than it seems and it's not very intuitive for a lot

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of

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golfers so very few of them actually do it. The other option would be well once

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get to here if I stop my hands and I release look now it's pointed in the

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direction of the target but I have no shaft lean. So if you remember from the

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solid contact or the compression video without that shaft lean I can never hit

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the golf club in the sweet spot unless the ball's sitting up. So that's what

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gives the appearance of flipping in order to help the ball up but most of the

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time I think it's a result of trying to get the club face square. So I'll

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demonstrate from here the two ways that you could get the club face square. So

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let's say I'm in this position where the club face is a little bit pointed

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right of the target or a little bit open. If I were to use my wrist like that

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screwdriver movement I've talked about that now squares the club face so when I

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continue turning that's now pointed in the direction of the target. Right you

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can see that. The other option is I get in that same open club face position

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and

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now instead of continuing to rotate I just release my hands and now that's

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pointed in the direction of the target as well. One of those is better than the

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other. If you're the type of golfer who has tried to get your body more

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involved

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and you hit big blocks or even shank the ball that's a good indication that you

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have no idea how to score the club face with just rotating the hands and so you

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use this flip movement as a way to square the club face. So that's the major

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one

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that I see in the release or that shows up in the release. Second air would be

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standing up through release. Standing up actually kind of helps out with this

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squaring in the club face because as I stand up that's gonna cause everything

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to line up which will get the club face pointed in the direction of the target.

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I'll show you what I mean. So as I get to about here the more that I stand up

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the faster that that gets everything in line which gets things pointed in the

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dark the direction of the target but in an ineffective way. So if you stand up

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to

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square the face when you stay down if you end up blocking the ball or shanking

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the ball or hitting the ball way right it's a very good indication that you

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need

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to train this release. Oftentimes a player who stands up is really suffering

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from a poor transition either I've already started straightening my arms and

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so therefore if I stayed down I'd hit way behind it and therefore I need to

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stand up to avoid hitting the ball fat or this standing up and straightening my

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arms is kind of so geared to my power source that it's happening way too soon

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so you can check the cast sequences the early extension the power videos they

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all kind of relate to this release but the big piece of the release is if you

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understand how to do this little motorcycle move screwdriver move it

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helps set up a lot of the other factors because it's very hard to not stand up

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not flip if you haven't scored the club face early. The last piece is having

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the

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arms or the last common problem during the release is having the arms bending

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around my body as opposed to extending out. Now this can either be a result of

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an overly steep path and so you bend your arms in order to avoid hitting the

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ground really jarringly or it can be a concept issue that you think the club is

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supposed to swing across your body as opposed to going more out so a good

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release would be here's delivery position and then my arms straighten as

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they work across you can see that that's really my arms working more away from

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my body as opposed to going across my body like so. The across is going to come

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from the body speed you can see that as my body's turn now when I release it

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out

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that goes in the direction of the target. Here I'll show it from this side so

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if I

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get into delivery as I turn my body and then release my arms out they'll be

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extending out in front of my body and it'll look like it'll go straight. If I

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were

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to initiate my golf swing or my downswing with my upper body I can't

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continue extending my arms or else I'd do that so I will quickly bottom out or

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bend those arms in order to avoid slamming the club into the ground. Both of

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those that transition air in the release air I think are driven mostly by the

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release problem and so you'd want to work on that before you'd work on the

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transition but you would have to get around working on both of them at the

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same time because they're so interrelated. So those are the big issues you've

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got

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the arms bending on the way through you've got the standing up and you've got

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squaring the club face by flipping the club as opposed to releasing or rotating

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the hands to square the club. Those are the major issues that we see and we got

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drills all to cover every single one of them.