Connecting Trail Arm To Sidearm Throw

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This is connecting the trail arm only

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and the sidearm throw.

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So a common pattern is that golfers will tend to stand up

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and really straighten that trail arm.

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And there's a number of different things in play here.

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I could be struggling with my body creating too much power

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through early extension or kind of thrusting in

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towards the golf ball.

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Or I could feel like my right arm is really straightening

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early to apply force or to help get the club

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all the way down to the ground.

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So there's a number of different factors in play.

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I find that the sidearm throw is a great way of feeling

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the engine and feeling like you're not standing up

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on the way through.

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But then to add a little bit of a control element,

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we're gonna do some single arm only shots.

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So the sidearm throw is basically where you put the driver

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even with your left foot and then you get in your golf posture

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and you do a little sidearm throw underneath the shaft

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and you'll feel like your body is kind of bent over

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almost like you're looking underneath your arm.

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Well now what we're gonna do is we're going to try

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and make contact with a single arm drill,

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a single arm hit with the golf club.

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I've got about a seven or eight iron

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that's a good place to start with this.

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And then I'm gonna use the same setup.

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So I've got the driver basically even with my left foot

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and now I'm going to bring the club back

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and I'm just going to rotate through

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keeping my arm in front.

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And you'll see that when I make contact with the shot,

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it's much more of a body hit

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where it just feels like my arm is kind of being brought along

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but on a different plane than I might be used to.

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I might be used to turning my shoulders very level

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in which case I have to throw this down in order to get there.

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This is gonna feel like my arm and my body pivot

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are working more along the same angle.

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Now one thing you wanna be careful about

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is check your follow through position

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to make sure that the club is still out in front of your body.

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What can happen is some golfers

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when you've got this in your way,

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you'll tend to just kind of throw the arm.

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So now my body is facing the golf ball

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and you can see that I threw the arm across

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and the club finished way past my body over here.

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So I wanna avoid that

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and make sure that I get into a good body position.

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So after I did one where I threw my arm,

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I threw my arm a little bit and caught that thin.

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So now we'll try to feel like we keep it a little bit more

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connected, that was probably the best one of that session.

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So since that was the best one,

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I'm gonna take that club out of the way

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and now I'm gonna look back at the ball

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and I'm gonna spend maybe 15, 20 seconds

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just kind of dialing in that position.

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So that right there is where I wanna try

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to get to with my nine to threes

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and ultimately go through that position

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with my three quarter, 10 to twos and my full swing.

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So this is a great way for you to kind of combine

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a few of these feels of not early extending

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and hitting it more with the body on the way through

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into one playable feel.

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That playable feel may be something

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that you can really use to transfer your range swing

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and take it onto the court.

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