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This content video is two modes of connecting the arms.

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So arm connection is a way of linking the arms and the body together.

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It's been talked about as kind of feeling like the hands stay in front of the

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body.

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It's described as width.

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It's often described as a key component for becoming more of a consistent ball

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striker.

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Now there are two main mechanisms for building the connection.

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One is squeezing the arms in classically that's done by like holding a ball.

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Now some people will do it just between the forearms.

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Personally I like it a little bit higher up so that you can feel a little bit

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more of

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the pack and anterior deltoid and some of the inside shoulder muscles kind of

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squeezing

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the ball there.

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By squeezing the ball that keeps my arms in front of the body just like this.

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But I could lose connection if I'm lifting my arms up.

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So the other classic way of creating the connection is by feeling like the arms

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are more down.

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This is when you feel more of your triceps kind of pinned on your rib cage.

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This is a little bit more of some of your back muscles and some of your armpit

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muscles

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but still a little bit more of your chest muscles.

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So those two combinations of feeling like my chest is squeezing a little bit in

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but my

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arms are being pinned a little bit more down that gets the arms in the body

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moving together.

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Instead of a kind of classic lack of connection would be kind of like lifting

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the arms up

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not turning in the body and then kind of like throwing the arms and disconnect

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ing there.

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That's where I'm using all my shoulders and not a lot of my body.

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Now classically if you keep it totally connected the entire time it limits some

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of your speed

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production.

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So what becomes more important is having the connection kind of more through

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the release

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zone and then either losing it a little bit at the top of the swing and then

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kind of connecting

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it there or having it connected and then losing it as you go into your falter.

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But if you keep it absolutely connected you'll lose a little bit of your speed

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production.

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A couple of different places you can look for which would you need.

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If you are going towards the top of the swing and you have more of an issue of

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the arms getting

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kind of behind your body kind of like this then I tend to air more on the

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squeezing the

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pecs in front using something like the towel or sorry using something like the

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ball.

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If you tend to get set up a little bit more rounded or more importantly on the

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way through

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you tend to get a really kind of elevated right shoulder kind of more of this

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throwing

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type motion then it's more about the arms kind of going up as opposed to

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staying pulled

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down and connected and then I would tend to air a little bit more on using

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something like

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the towel or the ruler or alignment stick something where I can feel a little

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bit more

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of this scapular depression.

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So if you're struggling with consistency and you're looking at the video and

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you're just

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seeing a bunch of independent arm movements then you probably need to work on

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connection

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and there's two different dominant ways that you can look at it either using

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the ball or

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using the towel and if you check your video it'll help you lose as far as which

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method

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you would want.

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If you're not sure and you're having a hard time using the video try both see

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which one

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helps you feel more kind of repeatable or stable through the hitting zone and

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then ultimately

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put in reps and try to make it feel more and more comfortable and more and more

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like your

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full swing.

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Okay so the ball especially if it's above the elbows that will really help me

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feel I'm

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going to feel like I squeeze my arms there this one typically gives me more of

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a feeling

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there kind of in the follow through like I haven't collapsed that left arm or

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disconnected

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that left arm so that one can be helpful and then second whenever we're using

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this how

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we want it as high up in the armpits as we can.

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Arms are a little bit in front feeling like they're a little bit more down now

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this one

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I can still kind of pull around but I can't shrug the shoulders quite as easy

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or at least

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I'll get some feedback there.

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So now I've got a feeling of the shoulders being held a little bit more down.

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So they tend to restrict in different phases but in general they make the arms

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and the

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body feel like they're working a little bit more like one team as opposed to

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two independent

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things that I have to time.