Working With My Coach Dan Carraher

today guys is a good day it's nine weeks since surgery it's the first round of the Masters but it's also the first time I get to go work with my coach in a long time probably since January so I'm heading over to Southampton to work with Dan today and I'm going take you guys along for the ride so the last time I was out here with Dan I just let the camera run and you guys seem to really like that so I think that's what we're going to do today just set the camera up let it run and you can hear what Dan has to say about where I'm at as I've been practicing with the bad arm and just trying to keep things tight until we're ready to make full full full golf swings in a couple weeks man that video I sent you was it last week of a swing it's crazy how just however my elbow is right now like it it hurts to hit but it's not like it's not bad but I can't really follow through the way that I used to yeah like it's making me follow through like a little tighter and don't have have that yeah but I think the main thing I have to make sure is because it's more comfortable to be here y not getting too much like that so I mean all I can do is I think of like that dowel rod kind of drill cuz I can do that because it doesn't hurt yet and I can go to about here but remember the last time I was here we were trying to just do like half swings yep like I it's perfect right now like that's all I can do and if I Rush with my arms or body like kind of like get away from me it hurts yes if I just let my body do it more it doesn't hurt and I actually have one that do you have an alignment stick in there yep I one that would be good for you that's kind of like a would even call it an exaggeration it's not but it'll feel full um but it's a variation on that one to make it better yeah so like if you were to do the same drill but instead of starting with on your left hip so you can't set up normal obviously the club starts behind the ball but this won't allow you to roll it to the so this will force it to be steeper here and then as you come down it switches to the left side of your body which it's going to encourage yeah to make sure like what I would say is the only problem with the is some of these are still steep a little in trans like not horrible but to where you'll hit some poles or some toey wipes whereas this well and all I can do right now is swing at 60% speed anyway so it's really good like so to me the the the crossover where it goes from the right side of your body yeah to the left side of your body would basically forces you to get the sequencing right to get this to shallow with what I'm limited to right now and so it would not only help you know obviously these but it would help longterm as well like just hitting cuz I feel like so cuz what I would say is that the biggest thing that always tends to come up for you y is not be when especially when you get quick and aren't patient enough is the club not shallowing enough in the amount of time you give it to shallow and then you're either going to hit the big Pole or like the overcut it's very weird at first yeah but I I mean I can only move slow so I kind of like it yeah cuz I don't feel any kind of like tightness on my right arm yeah but like basically it'll feel like Matt WF yeah it won't look like that but it'll feel or more in your neck of the wood so it would mine me up is John Mills yeah back from the day there's a little outside going back and then kind of really let it shallow yeah like it forces that little shallowing mo yeah and then when you take it away it's really e like it it gets you to feel what we want to feel and then when you take the stick away you're never going to do it as much so the fact that it is a little steep with the stick to then a little shallow without like I'm not worried about strike right now cuz I am a little pulling up with the mat yeah just doesn't they AR yeah but like that won't actually be way outside or Ste but it's still shallows like yeah I mean it's it's one of those things like I almost feel like this injury is could be a really good thing it's definitely going to make the wedges better wedges in short game yeah are going to get tight no no excuse for putting bad nope doesn't mean it can't happen but there's no excuse for it but I think like it's just I starting to hit balls I think last week or starting to try to push myself the minute the doctor said go like I'm hitting the golf balls in pain but I don't think that's like some people would stop do I like no I want to be able to so when I can fully swing I've done in I think being able to only move and slow right now is the best thing for us and it's like a mental thing too because if I just like say Hey cuz you know when your your body hurts you want to like tense up but if I just forget about the fact that I'm going to feel pain at the top of the swing or in the little like right around here and just let go anyways it's almost like it's working as a good mental drill too to just be focused on target or focused on core moving or something like that as opposed to yeah the arms or the position I love it so like what's going to happen all that's going to happen is when you go when you do the drill it's going to be steeper going back yep and have a bigger shallowing move coming down but I we always know like so it's basically making it 11 out of 10 and then when you don't do the drill it ends up at 9 or 10 out of 10 but like it forces you to commit to kind of all in instead of kind of doing it pretty good like there's no getting away with like a B minus yeah and then I'm just making sure I'm staying mindful of what we were working before I got hurt of making sure like this isn't happening yep but it's all kind of like it happens because of I'm in pain well what's going to happen too is like the the other good thing with the stick is when it crosses over and to make it not hit you in the left side you have to turn More Level through it like if you start tilting back massively like you're going to then slam it right into your rib cage which doesn't feel good work out but I'll actually show L ear then you can rotate through it almost as hard as you work yeah that's going to be fun when my Mobil say in in a week from now or in two weeks from now when my Mobility is increased I can turn speed up and it's like it's it's a been a built-in kind of work your way up the speed ladder drill like we had said in January well I actually love the that's what I love about the deals with the alignment stick is that if you do it too fast you murder yourself yeah which is actually a good thing then you you don't go too fast like it's a builtin kind of parachute that is enough for a little insight into our lesson that's about all I can handle Hitting off the mat anyways gave me a nice little drill to do so I'm going to go work off a tea on the grass but call it a day I hope you enjoyed it give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you're not subscribed hit 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