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In this analysis video, we're going to look at examples of the arm movements

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and how they relate to the shallowing of the club.

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So over on the right, as I used in the details of the arm shallowing, we can

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see Ben Hogan demonstrating...

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He's talking about his lower body, but you can see as he gets into this

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position, his left elbow is roughly above his right.

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Not exactly, but you can see that they're kind of in a similar path, similar

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plane there.

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Now, we're going to use that as a reference as far as this shallow movement.

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So the elbows do a great job of showing us what the shoulders are doing, right?

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The hands to the elbow shows us a lot of what the forearm's doing and the

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elbows can help us see what the shoulders are doing.

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So here we have a kind of a novice golfer, and as he comes down, you can see

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that his elbows are roughly parallel to the ground.

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If anything, that right elbow is actually a little bit higher.

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We can use that as a reference against the spine angle, and we can see that

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there's a pretty good difference between the two.

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If we were looking at Ben Hogan here, his spine would be kind of like so, and

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his elbows are kind of like this, it would be less than an angle.

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It'll make more sense when we take a look at some of the pros from that same

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down the line view.

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So now over here on the left, we're going to have a golfer who tends to battle

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hooks because he does most of his shallowing from his body.

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And then over here on the right, we have Carl Pedersen, who's an awesome ball

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striker.

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So we'll use the elbow location during the backswing as kind of their, you know

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, reference.

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So you can see that roughly Carl's spine is kind of like this, and at this

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point his arms are more or less perpendicular to it.

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Now, as he goes up towards the top of the swing and he starts back down, you

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can see that the spine angle pretty much stayed the same, but now instead of

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having the right elbow above, the right elbow is below, we're closer to that

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angle of the spine.

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So here we have those same two lines over on the left.

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As he goes up, we'll see that there's a big shift as far as what his elbows

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look like, but you can also see that there was about an equal shift in what's

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going on with his body.

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So the other way to kind of look at it is he gets to a similar elbow

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orientation as Carl, but Carl did it while his posture, if anything got steeper

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by dropping slightly down, where the gentleman on the left did it by standing

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up.

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We're going to take a look at a few more tour pros to see examples of this

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elbow orientation during the transition position.

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Okay, so here we have two more examples, Jordan's speed on the left, Graham on

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the right.

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We're going to use the kind of elbows compared to the spine as a representation

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of what kind of shoulder rotation movements they're doing.

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So you'll see his spine has dropped down, but now on the way down, his right

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elbow is getting slightly underneath the left.

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Graham is going to do it a little bit more, so we'll see those elbows roughly

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parallel to the ground at this point.

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His spine is actually getting down, but we can see that as he comes down, now

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his right elbow is underneath the left, similar to what Ben Hogan was

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demonstrating in the early part of the video.

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Let's look at a few more.

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So here are two more fun examples, we've Kenny Perry on the left and Sergio on

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the right.

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Now Sergio will actually demonstrate that he does not do a lot of that rotation

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from the shoulder, so you can see that the elbows, which is going to give us a

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better indication of what's going on at the shoulders, is relatively level.

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Now he still gets at the flatten, which means he's doing it more from his fore

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arms, because that's his only other option, but that's the only other way that

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you could have your upper body go down slightly the way that we want during

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transition, which is an indication of how well you are using the ground.

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So here we have Kenny Perry up at the top of the swing with his slight loss of

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posture, so you'll see that upper body start working down, but you can see that

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right elbow working underneath the left and that left arm slightly rotating.

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That's what helps get in that appearance of the elbows more parallel to the

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spine angle as opposed to perpendicular as we saw with the amateurs.

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Now I like to show you some of the differences between the driver and the iron,

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any time I'm doing these videos, so here we have Steve Stricker with the driver

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You'll see that that right elbow gets well under the left, so he's created that

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shallow movement with the shoulders, but here he's hitting just a 3/4 wedge,

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and you'll see that as he comes down, even though the spine angle is relatively

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the same, you can see that he hasn't had nearly as much of the shoulder

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rotation.

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So it's not as critical for the short shots, Phil Mickelson would be another

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one who doesn't make the adjustment with his driver, and that's part of the

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reason why he struggles with the driver.

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And one more set of examples, I wanted to show you that it is possible to see

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from the face-on view, I think it's easier from the down the line, but from the

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face-on view, what you'd be looking for is the ability to see that trail arm

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underneath the lead arm as they approach delivery position.

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So kind of down in this area and then looking at the timing of when you start

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to see that left arm on top of the right, that's giving you an indication of

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how much those shoulders have rotated.

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So here, the camera's a little bit higher, but you can see the point of that

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elbow. Actually, Nick Watney does it more than Graham, but you'll see a similar

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movement where we can see that right elbow just underneath the left as they

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approach delivery position.

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I can give you an indication of what they're doing with the shoulders, how they

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're shallowing it out, and how it relates to the rest of the swing.

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This shoulder movement is one of the movements that I see unlock a lot of

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things for the amateurs, but some of the coaches who use our sight have

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indicated that it's one of the key movements that they use, especially for golf

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ers who tend to get over the top, struggle with open club face, and tend to

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struggle with having enough body rotation on the way through.

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So if that fits your description, consider looking into the different videos we

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have on how to properly shallow out the club using your arms.