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In this concept video, we're going to investigate arm connection.

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Now, arm connection is a somewhat tricky topic.

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It just takes a little bit of understanding of some basic anatomy concepts.

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But what I frequently see is many golfers in trying to brace or to get into a

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good kind

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of connection position in the follow through will overdo it and kind of keep

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their arm,

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their whole tricep and their whole upper arm up against their side.

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I think this stems from some of those drills where you'll take a glove and

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place it under

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your armpit or take a tee and place it under your armpit.

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The purpose of getting that armpit connection is really for scapular stability.

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So if you've ever done any exercise and you've played around with kettle bells

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or some of

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the functional movement stuff, they're very big in scapular control.

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So at the top of the kettlebell swing, you want your shoulder to remain

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relatively packed.

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You don't want it to get pulled out of its socket like so.

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This is the same relationship that we want at the end of the follow through

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position.

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So right about there, we want that same position.

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So my arms are straight and extended, but my shoulders are nice and retracted

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or stabilized.

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What I see when a lot of people are trying to get in a good arm extension

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position is

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that they end up extending more from the shoulder blades and not from the arms.

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So I want you to focus when you're getting into that good three position that

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you're

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getting the arm extension more from the arms and not from the shoulder blade or

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yeah, not

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from the shoulder blade.

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All you need at the shoulder blades is for the scap to stay stabilized.

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You don't really need the arms to stay up against your body.

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They're going to drift out, but they'll be in a strong packed position so that

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if something

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was to pull me that way, my shoulders would be able to absorb that speed.

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One way that I work on this with students that you'll have to try to kind of

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improvise

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yourself is in nine to three shots, I'll have them go to the finished position

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and I'll

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have, I'll kind of, I'll stand there and pull on the club or I'll walk to there

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once they're

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done hitting and I'll pull on the club just to feel that the arms are relaxed

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but that

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I can't pull them over and that basically their whole unit or the energy would

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go through

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the shoulder blades.

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If they're here, if I go to pull, it's going to pull them over.

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So if you have someone who can grab the club and pull it, that's great.

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Otherwise you can just kind of do this little pump movement where you're

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basically feeling

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almost retract, protract of the shoulders but the arms are relatively loose and

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then what

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you can do is you can dial in that retract feeling and then take some swings

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where basically

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it gets to that feeling where the arms are soft and extending but the shoulder

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blades

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are actually stabilizing.

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This will help you with your bracing and your follow through position which

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will ultimately

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help you get rid of a little bit of that scoop or stand up movement down

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through the

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wall because that's an alternative to stabilizing in the shoulder.

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So when you're doing these nine to three and focusing on that scap stability,

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you would

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get to the end position and then if I did that facing this way, get to that end

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position

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and then just kind of softly float the arms out towards the target.

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From the face on view, we're going to do that same little pattern and we're

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just going

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to let those arms pump a few times in that follow through.

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So we're there and then we just kind of feel that softness in the arms but that

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's stability

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in the shoulder blades.

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Use that to help you with your stability position in your nine to three

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training.