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This drill is the arm height crutch.

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So we're going to work on our impact positions, explicitly looking at the left

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arm.

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A lot of people who struggle with contact issues as well as pulls tenda from

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the down

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the line camera angle, if you're looking at it, have a very low left arm

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compared to

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the shaft.

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So this is the opposite of some of the MoNorman or impact window or ideas where

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we're trying

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to create more width control by having this arm a little bit higher.

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Now this can be because it's down through impact and it's associated with this

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kind

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of pulling motion, it's often tricky for golfers to feel.

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So this little at-home drill I do, I call it the lead arm crutch.

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So when you have a, you know, if you break your leg and you have a crutch, you

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're going

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to put it in the armpit kind of like this.

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So this will allow us to feel that the left arm is going to stay at a specific

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height.

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Now I usually just do it with the grip end and I basically got it here.

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So now if I was to, if I was to try to pull with the arm, it actually steps me

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a little

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bit so it doesn't feel very good.

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Or if I pulled the entire arm would move over there, that would feel very

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awkward.

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So I can practice getting into an impact position and then I can practice

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coming through into

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follow through where basically the arm height stays at about the same.

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I can then put my right arm on and this is slightly exaggerated but not by a

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lot.

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So the next step would be working into a more dynamic movement where I'm trying

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to recreate

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that same feel.

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So let's do it one more time, I'm going to feel like I get into an impact

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position there

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where it's pretty close to pointing at or around the golf ball.

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If, if in general, if I was to pull it down just like this, if I put that in

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there, you

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could see that the, the club would be pointing more at my foot and it's just

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using the wrist

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to get the club out towards the golf ball.

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Ideally, I'm going to have more of the arm kind of pointing in the general

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direction

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of the golf ball so I can go down play around with that spacing there.

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Now as I keep turning through, this is often the part that feels a little bit

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weird because

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this is going to feel like your arm stayed at a more consistent height compared

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to your

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chest as you're coming through, kind of like this.

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So working on that lead arm height, either with the club acting as a brace or

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like a reverse

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shark spin, where I'm feeling that left arm kind of staying above my right arm

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and my

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right hand here at a chest level, that can help me use my body and my forearm

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to bring

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the club through rather than pulling in with the shoulder.

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That pull in with the shoulder has many different varieties, but oftentimes you

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'll see either

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a low handle from the down line or you will see a chicken wing where this arm

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is pulling

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down.

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Or you might see just more of a kind of a high club face closing in the follow

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through where

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essentially this is coming through kind of like that.

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As you straighten that arm, it tends to make it harder to get the club face to

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rotate quite

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as much.

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So let's get that feel.

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It'll feel a lot more body centric, kind of like that.

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And then we're going to do a little nine to three first.

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We're just going to see if we can check that follow through and see if we got

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into a similar

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place.

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If we're getting into a similar place there, then we can add more speed and

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work on longer

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and longer swing.

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Okay, so let's do a quick demo where we walk through it.

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So I'll start by using this as more of a kind of a dynamic version.

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Then I'm going to take the arm and I'm going to try to feel like it stays more

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at that same

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height, either with or without the support of the trail arm.

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Now I could do an open hand version.

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I could do kind of a shadow version, this kind of works in this falls in line

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with left

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arm training.

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And my key is to get into this good impact position where it probably feels a

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little

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bit higher, but it's more in line with the golf ball and then follow through

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where it

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feels like it stayed around the same height as opposed to it pulling down and

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in getting

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behind you into that follow through.

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Once I've done that, now I can do a nine to three and check it in the finish.

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So essentially, let's say, working through the space, look back at the ball.

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This is where I'm trying to get to.

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So now if I do a nine to three, you can basically compare that, bring it in.

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Okay, pretty much hit the spot as I'm, as I'm getting more comfortable with

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that, I can

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add more and more speed and work through my general nine to three, 10 to two

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full swing,

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slow, medium, hard progressions.

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That'll make it show up more consistently in my full swing.

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This can help you get more of a feeling of hitting the ball with your body, as

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well as

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getting a little bit better arm structure, two hallmarks for consistent ground,

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as well

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as ball flight, part of the stock tour swing.