Arms Behind Body

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This concept video is discussing the low-point killer of the arms behind your

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body.

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So when I say your arms behind your body, what I'm referring to is kind of

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looking at

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the midline of your chest.

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So if we say that the midline of your chest is kind of the middle of your body,

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then having

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your hands or the handle well behind that can make it hard to get the low point

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forward.

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Now some good players struggle with this.

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They can be a good driver of the golf ball, you can be a pretty good wedge

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player, but

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you might struggle with more your mid and scoring irons if you have the club

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too far behind

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your body like so, especially if you're early with your arm timing.

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So this trail arm gets away from you kind of like this.

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Essentially what will happen is when the arms go like this that lengthens the

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club and moves

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the low point backward.

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So now if I did that merry-go-round drill, you could see that the club is going

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to strike

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the ground more down here.

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What a lot of golfers do is in order to avoid striking the ground down there,

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they're going

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to bend the wrist or throw the club forward.

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So then now the club is coming up to avoid hitting the ground behind it.

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I end up with a lot of fat and thin and oftentimes top shots like I just hit on

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that last one.

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So that all stemmed from bringing the arms too far behind my body kind of like

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this and

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then having them throw down to the bottom.

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You'll see I was able to make okay contact but it was still a little bit thin.

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The one way you can get away with having the arms way behind your body like

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this would

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be more if you still keep the extension of that trail wrist and you have a very

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excessive

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or aggressive body rotation so the arms almost never feel like they fire.

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A good example of this would be someone more like a gym puric.

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But for most golfers who have some arm extension and some feel of a release

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down at the bottom,

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most of this hold off feel in the shoulders, if you have some type of release

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down at the

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bottom then getting the arms way behind is going to cause more of this low

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point issue

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behind the ball.

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So there's a couple of different ways you can approach that.

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You can either look at some of the backswing videos about keeping the arm more

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in front

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of your chest or keeping the elbow in front of your back or the handle more in

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front of

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your chest.

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That makes it so that then when I get my chest down to impact my hands are in

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front of my

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sternum and ahead of the golf ball and ahead of this midline or they're in line

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with the

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low point line.

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The other option is if I get the arms behind my body in the backswing then I

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have to be

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patient enough and exaggerate the arm components of the wipe movement.

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So if I get the arms behind but then I let them catch up kind of in this

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feeling of this

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more kind of floating or what I call Zorro loops, feeling the arms work more in

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a direction

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ahead of the golf ball kind of out there can allow them to get a little bit

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more behind

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in the backswing and then ahead through impact.

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Ultimately the place that really matters is impact and having the hands in

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front of the

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chest of the chest is a little bit open is one of the surefire ways or one of

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the best

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ways to get low point to be out ahead of the golf ball.

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So if you look at your video and your body is in a reasonable position or even

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slightly

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ahead but you're hitting a lot of fat and thin shots then you want to

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investigate the

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arms and look at more of the single arm drills and ways to get more comfortable

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with the

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arms being in front of your body.

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If you do that that will have a really big impact for quickly cleaning up your

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low point

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issues.