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In this analysis video, we're gonna take a look at shallowing the club, and the

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different methods that pros and amateurs use to shallow the club.

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Now to start, we're gonna take a look at Charles Barkley.

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Charles is unique in that he has almost no shallowing movement in transition,

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which is part of what's given him his flinch.

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If you look over on the right, you'll see he gets where the club is practically

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vertical, and there's virtually nothing he can do, so he stops,

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and then through the release he adds no more steepening moves and all shallow

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moves.

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It's a much better idea to have a general blend of the steepening and shallow

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ing movements.

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For a quick idea of what we're gonna cover in this video, the major shallowing

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movements are going to come from either the arms or the body.

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If they come from the arms, it's gonna be the arms moving to the right of the

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body, rotating to the right, or away from the target, or the arms straightening

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From the body, the major shallowing movements are going to be standing up, or

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going into extension, side bending to the right, or limiting your body rotation

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So keep those in mind as we look through these different shallowing strategies.

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So now if we jump back to Charles, we can see that during transition his body

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flexes, it doesn't really side bend to the right, and he rotates a bit.

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You can see his lower body and upper body rotating. So he adds all three steep

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eners from the body.

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You can also see that the arms rotate a little bit to the left.

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The arms work more out in front of his chest. They don't fall behind his body,

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but there isn't a ton of trail arm straightening.

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So of the six possible shallowing methods, he uses five of them, and he gets

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into a position where it's virtually impossible for him to continue his body

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doing anything except for stand up, which shallows it, extend that arm, which

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shallows it, limit rotation, which also shallows it.

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So hopefully you can come up with a better strategy for shallowing out your

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swing than the one that Charles has used to create one of the worst golf swings

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in recent history.

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Now for the format of this video, we're going to rapid fire look through

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different swings and somewhat categorize their different shallowing movements.

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So over on the left, you'll see that Adam Scott's upper body flexes slightly

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forward, so you can see that his head is dropping just a little bit, his chest

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is getting closer to the golf ball, and he's rotating.

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So by definition, in order to have the club pointed in the general direction of

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the golf ball, his arms must be shallowing since his body is deepening.

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So now if you look subtly, if you look at his lead arm, you can see that his

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lead arm is rotating away from the target or to the right.

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And you can see that compared to where his arms are here, where his hands are

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roughly in front of his chest, you can see that as he starts going down,

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because of this left arm really working across his body, that's moved it more

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to the right of his body.

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So he steepened with his body and he's shallowed with his arms.

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Over here on the right, we have Graham McDowell.

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You can see the upper body flexing as the body rotates, so he has that same

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pattern of steepening with his body.

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And you'll see a very pronounced shallowing movement with the left arm.

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You can see that the right arm and the right elbow is actually going into

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external rotation, that elbow is almost working a little bit behind him.

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But you can see that the club is following the movements of the left arm, not

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the movements of the right arm.

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So while his body is steepening, he's rotating his arms to the right and moving

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them off towards the right of his body.

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Those are both shallowers, so both of these two exhibit the classic kind of

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stock torsoing model, where they are steepening with their body during

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transition and shallowing with the arms.

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So now on the right, we have Kevin Stadler, and on the left we have John Daly.

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Every swing is going to give us a little bit more understanding of this global

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shallowing concept.

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So you can see that as he starts down, there's a fair amount of rotation of

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that lead arm.

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So looking at those two segments there, you'll see that they start rotating

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more towards pointing up towards the sky than pointing vertically.

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So there's a fair amount of shallowing there.

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And you can see that his right arm is actually in a steepening move, but his

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right hand is actually coming off of the club because he's controlling it

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largely with that lead hand.

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His other shallowing movement is he's controlling the amount of rotation.

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So if we got him in this position here, and we had him rotate as much as say,

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and Adam Scott, the club, if his arms stayed in the same relationship to his

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body, would actually be out here, which would be more of a steepening movement.

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So he's shallowing with his arms, but he's also not steepening quite as much

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with his body.

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So now John Daly, we'll see a powerful pulling motion of the arms, which is

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actually more of a steepening movement.

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So you can see as he gets in here, he's still kind of in that could be

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dangerous as far as being too steep for the longer clubs, but then you'll see

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right through there.

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He's now doing more of a shallow with his body backing up or his upper body

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kind of extending away as his arms are now doing more of the right rotation.

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So you'll see that he's shallowing a little bit more a little bit later, but as

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long as he's done it before he gets down into that delivery zone, he'll be fine

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So now on the left, we have Jim Furyk. We'll see that he didn't rotate a ton

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with his body in the backswing, so that is a lack of a shallow movement, but

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you'll see that he has a tremendous arm shallowing move in transition.

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You can see that that arm is completely across his chest, so his arms are to

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the right of his body, but they've still rotated to the right, so that's a fair

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amount of shallowing.

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And you'll see as a result, his upper body can actually stay relatively close

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to the golf ball and rotate, because those are both steepening movements.

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So now he's in a very good delivery position to apply a blend in a balanced

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release. We'll cover that in other videos.

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So then, here we have John Sandin. John Sandin is a little bit more of an upper

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body pull, and so you'll see that because the upper body pulling and the arm's

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steepening is part of his power source, you'll see that his upper body tends to

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move away from the golf ball.

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He tends to stall that rotation and straighten that right arm, so his major

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shallowing movements are the upper body moving away, and that right arm's

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straightening a little bit fuller with the driver than someone who has more of

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a gradual blend of the shallowing movements.

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It should be noted that from those who ever watched John Sandin play, he is a

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tremendous ball striker, but he swings well within himself. He never looks like

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he's swinging hard, he swings with full control.

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If you have a hard time getting more of your arms to shallow and body to steep

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en, he is a great model to look at, but understand that you will never be able

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to swing really hard without having control issues off the tee.

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So on the left we have Lee Westwood, on the right we'll look at Bill Haas, so

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Lee Westwood has a very pronounced upper body kind of crunch move, so he has

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steepening movements there, but you can see that that lead arm is rotating as

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he goes into that transition move to get more facing in the sky.

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And remember by definition, if the club is on a shallower path, so here it is

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in the backswing, if it's on a shallower path, but his body has flexed forward

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and rotated to the left, that means that the arms had to have done a shallowing

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movement in order for the club to not steepen.

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So he doesn't do as much of the arms working across his body, he does it more

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with the arms rotating, which helps him shallow it out.

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Bill Haas is an interesting one, where as he gets towards the top of the swing

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he has a very pronounced upper body early extension move, so the upper body

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works away from the golf ball, that's a major shallower.

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Most people who do that would also extend the spine and stand up, but he

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actually flexes slightly forward, so he stays down even though he's moving his

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whole body away from the golf ball.

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So that requires some body timing, but he's very good with that, and it doesn't

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require that he makes as big a shallowing movement with the arms.

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He doesn't have a lot of the arm rotation, you can see that the back of the

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left hand isn't really working more so that it's pointed up towards the sky, it

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's actually saying pretty much the same compared to his body, but he does have a

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fair amount of the arms working more to the right of his body or working across

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his body.

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So his major shallowers are going to be the upper body moving away, and then

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the arms working more to the right of his body, which allows him to then have

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more of a classic release, even though he still has that unique movement of his

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upper body moving away significantly from the top of the swing as a shallowing

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move.

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So on the left we have Charlie Wie over on the right, we have Jeff Ogilvy, so

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Charlie Wie, you can see a pretty good shallow movement of rotating that lead

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arm, but you can see that he doesn't have a ton of shallowing from the arm

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staying across his body, they're actually working more out in front of his

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chest, so as a result he stalled some of his body rotation or limits some of

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his body's rotation to rebalance that back out.

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So on the right we have Jeff Ogilvy, you'll see that he is also a little bit

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more of that arm pull, you'll see the arms are in a steepish position, so now

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he's going to have to add some shallow movements from here in order to not have

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the club slam into the ground.

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So his major shallow movement is going to be that extension of the body working

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away, so his body moving up this way, pelvis moving in that way, ultimately

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moving all of this away from the golf ball, which helps allow him to get more

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of a full extension of that right arm.

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He's not too bad, still has pretty good sequencing, but you see that the major

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shallowing movements are coming more from that extension and lack of rotation

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than true arm movements.

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So on the left we have Jodorant, one of my favorite swings, and Hunter Mahan on

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the right, Jodorant, we can see a very pronounced shallow movement from that

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lead and trail arm, so you can see the back of his left hand facing almost

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parallel to where his shoulders are, or parallel to his spine, perpendicular to

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his shoulders, however you want to look at it.

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That allows him to have a very good amount of late body rotation through the

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shot, which I think helps him with a lot of his consistency.

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Hunter Mahan, you can see, doesn't have a ton of the shaft or arm rotation, he

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gets it more from the arm staying to the right of his body or working more to

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the right of his body.

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And then because he hasn't had a ton of rotation of that lead arm, but the

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shaft is still shallowing with steep body movements, we know that the only

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thing that could probably be doing it is going to be that right arm.

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He gets more of the shallow from the arms working across his body and more of

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that right arm shallowing as opposed to the left arm, but with the body bending

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forward, rotating, doing mostly steep movements in order to have that club in a

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shallow position here, we know that he had to have done shallow movements from

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his arms.

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So here we have a couple interesting ones, Kenny Perry and Keegan Bradley on

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the left, so Keegan has a little bit more, he gets some arm rotation, you can

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see that lead wrist, lead forearm, lead shoulder, shallowing the club there.

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But you'll see that his right arm is in a fairly steepish position, and so what

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he ends up doing is he shallows with side bend lead.

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So he's probably in more of a steep position right here, and you'll see that he

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has a fair amount of that right side bend coupled with extension, so he's

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having some major shallow movements through there, which means that in order to

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have the club somewhat on plane,

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his arm and release pattern is going to be a little bit more in the steep

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category.

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Over on the right with Kenny Perry, you can see he's got his classic loss of

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posture in the backswing, but then applies really traditional movements during

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the transition.

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So flexing forward and rotating, both steep, you can see that the arms stay to

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the right of his body as they are rotating, so he gets that great combination

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of shaft plane from steepening the body and shallowing out the arms.

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So over on the left here, we have Matt Kuchar on the right way of Sergio Garcia

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With Matt Kuchar, you can see he is the Jim Hardy school and the one plane

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school talks about really rotating the arms to the left, especially that right

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arm in transition.

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Now, if he were to actually do that, we would see the shaft work more and more

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towards vertical, but what you'll see is that he doesn't do that.

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He's actually shallowing out with his arms because his upper body staying flex

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ed forward as it's rotating.

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Those are both steepeners, so the club should steepen a lot based on what his

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body's doing and what he is described as trying to do with his arms, but we can

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see that he's not actually doing that.

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His arms are shallowing quite nicely, gets him into this classic delivery

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position, and then from there he has a very good release.

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It's no wonder that he's one of the consistent solid iron players, solid ball

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strikers.

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Sergio Garcia has his trademark kind of shallowing movement where he has a fair

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amount of that forearm rotation.

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If you look at his elbow, you can see that not a ton of the rotation is

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happening from the elbow, so he's having a very big shallow movement from the

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forearms.

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He has the same upper body flexing forward as it's rotating, so those are both

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steepening movements, and the arms disconnect from his chest a little bit

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earlier in the downswing, which is also a steepening movement.

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But because of the forearm rotation, he's able to get the club in an overall

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shallow path.

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Now looking at a couple of the legends, here we have Ben Hogan and Jack

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Nicholas, so Ben Hogan on the left.

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You can see that his arms are well across his body, so he's kind of pre-shall

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owing, and they're already rotated a fair amount, so he's pre-shallowing some of

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the movements of his arms.

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But you can see in transition, he still has some shallowing movement,

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especially from that lead arm.

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Back in the hand, the blur is getting more and more facing the sky, and at the

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same time, you'll see that his upper body is flexing slightly forward as it's

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rotating.

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So in order to get into a position like this, where the club is coming more

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along that right forearm plane, there had to be some shallowing movements from

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the shoulders if the body stayed flexed forward and rotated, or flexed more

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forward and rotated, because those are both steepening movements.

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And then over here on the right, we'll see who I think had one of the best

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shallowing movements in the game.

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You can see that those arms really shallow early and a good bit, and that

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allows his body to rotate and to get into a very similar looking delivery

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position to what Ben Hogan was in.

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Even a little bit more flexed forward, which means that his shoulders and his

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arms by definition had to have had more of a shallow movement to balance out

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that extra steep.

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So now as we take a look at a handful of amateurs, you'll see different rates

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and different combinations.

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So over on the left, you'll see that the body movements are fairly similar

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where the body is staying flexed and rotating, but the club is in a totally

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different position because the arms have not shallowed.

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And so because the arms did not shallow, they didn't rotate.

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The club ends up being very vertically, and now he has to shallow more during

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this midsection of the downswing instead of during transition.

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Conversely, here's a golfer who's shallowing largely with the body.

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You can see a big pronounced shallow movement with the body, so then by

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definition, in order to have a club path that's not incredibly shallow, that

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means his arms are working in more of a steep fashion.

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So this is a little bit more of that paradoxical where the body is doing most

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of the shallowing in transition and the arms are mostly steep.

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So now we have a couple examples of good golfers who are just slightly steep

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with the arms in transition.

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So you'll see that the gentleman on the right has the arms to the right of the

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body, but there's not a lot of right rotation, so the arms aren't shallowing a

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ton during that rotation move.

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And so as a result, his body has to stall a little bit and go into more of an

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extension pattern late during the release, which gets the path, having a

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tendency of working too much into out.

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Here's a golfer who gets more of the shallowing movement with the arm working

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across his body. You can see a fair amount of the arm working across his chest,

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but because there wasn't a ton of arm rotation, you can see there's very little

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arm rotation from that lead arm.

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So as a result, he now has to stall and release those arms. Or the other way to

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look at it would be the brain knows that it wants to stall and release those

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arms to square the club face.

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And so shallowing the club would open the face more than he would want for that

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release pattern.

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So what you do in transition and what you do in release often go hand-in-hand.

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Part of the reason why tour pros are able to make this great shallowing

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movement during transition is because they have such a clean balance of the

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steeps and shallows during the release.

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So very good wipe, very good early club face closing, very good timing of the

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arm extension. Those two go hand-in-hand. Hopefully this video helps you

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visualize some of the ways that you may be organizing the steeps and shallows.

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To analyze it, look at it from down the line, look at it at top of the swing,

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and then look at it when the club is about parallel. If when the club is about

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parallel, if the club is well inside or well outside, well inside would be more

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of a shallow pattern, well outside would be more of a steep pattern, and then

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you can isolate the different or look at the different body parts to see which

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one might be contributing.

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As a quick refresher, the major shallow movements are going to be right

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rotation of the arms, moving your arms to the right of your body, which is

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known as a horizontal adduction of the left shoulder, or straightening the arms

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.

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Straightening the arms is one of the common ways that amateurs shallow the club

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very late. From the body's perspective, the shallow movements are going to be

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extension or standing up, limiting your body's rotation or right side bend.

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Figuring out your combination of steeps and shallows will ultimately help you

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understand the overall pattern of your golf swing and what you need to work on

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and when you need to work on balancing it.