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This concept video is looking at arm-shallowing errors.

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So arm-shallowing is one of those important differentiators, most good players,

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tour pros

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tend to have some arm-shallowing to allow for more steeper body positions,

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which helps control

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the bottom of the swing, get a really good flat spot, low point, some of those

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good things

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allow you to power the swing more with your body instead of the arms.

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So it's something to strive for, but it's also something that I see a lot of

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students,

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especially the virtual ones here on the site, do incorrectly.

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So I'm going to talk through a few different ways, four different ways that I

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commonly

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see amateurs applying the arm-shallowing incorrectly.

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Now, piece number one, I might be guilty of in some of my arm-shallowing videos

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if I'm

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not being careful, but ideally, good arm-shallowing is a blend of some arm

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rotation as well as

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some shoulder blade-shallowing.

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So this right shoulder blade goes into retraction and that left shoulder blade

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goes into protraction,

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elevation, they kind of shift this way.

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So what often I see is golfers demonstrating an arm-shallowing, but really prot

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racting and

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pulling that arm in front.

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Now that helps kind of create some space and makes me feel like I'm getting the

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elbow

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away in front, but what we would prefer, what I'd like to see is that the

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shoulder is actually

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going backward as I'm getting or the shoulder is retracting and depressing as I

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'm getting

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that elbow in front.

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That creates more of this feeling of connection where when I do this, it's a

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little bit disconnected.

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And when the shoulder goes forward like that, that is one of the biggest causes

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of steepening

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the club from the down line.

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So even if you feel like the elbow is going this way, that's going to get overr

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idden by

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the shoulder movement where if the shoulder is going back as the elbow is going

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in front,

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you're going to see that that's going to have a much bigger impact on laying

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the shaft

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down or shallowing in transition.

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Number two is doing more of a bicep curl.

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So oftentimes golfers will kind of pull the elbow up and in and get it really

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close like

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this.

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So if you have the club in hand, it'll end up looking like it's really narrow

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like this.

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And the club would just be too high off the ground if I'm doing that.

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That's where I'm getting some of this rotation, more of a feel from the bicep

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instead of if

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I keep that arm straight and I do the shoulder blade and I let it kind of the

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elbow rotate

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in front and get some shallowing this way where the arm stays wide, I feel that

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primarily

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in the back side of the shoulder using the shoulder external rotators where

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again, doing

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it here, you could see how I would have to have some, I would have to have some

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major

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compensations either from the body or the timing of the arms to account for

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that bicep

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curl.

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Number three, so first one, we've got shoulder protraction.

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Two is too much of a bicep curl.

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Three is the lead arm pulling across the chest kind of this way.

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So if the shoulder blade shallow correctly, then that left arm gets pinned a

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little bit

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in transition as that right arm is shallowing.

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Now it doesn't have to be across your body as much as you can.

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But oftentimes when I see golfers demonstrating getting the arm to shallow, it

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's not so much

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like this, it's more like this where I'm kind of pulling the club across.

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Well again, the problem is if that left shoulder pulls this way, that has a

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reflex of making

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the right shoulder pull more in the steep way as well.

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So that tends to throw the club into a steeper orientation when we actually are

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doing it

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dynamically.

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So when you're rehearsing that shallow move, you want your hips to turn, but

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you want your

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lead shoulder to stay more across your body or still in that closed off

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position.

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And then the last one is more from the body.

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So we've got three arm ones.

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We've got the shoulder going into protraction, the bicep curling, or the lead

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shoulder pulling

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too much.

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The fourth one is doing it more from the body.

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And what I mean by that is doing a lot of movement from the hips.

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Now you'll see if I do this movement from the shoulders where I get some shall

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owing, my

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spine does get some right side bend, especially because of what's happening at

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the shoulder

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blade level.

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But I maintain my stackness here, where what I'll see is some golfers, when

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they're demonstrating

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the arm shallowing, they'll keep the arms in an overly steep position kind of

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up like

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this.

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So it's not going to really change or get any width.

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And then what happens is they do the shallowing more from tilting at the pelvis

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kind of like

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this.

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So I feel like my arm has rotated down, but really all I did was I tilted my

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whole upper

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body using my pelvis so the club is in a shallower position.

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But I'm not really in a position to cover the ball and control low point.

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So that usually causes a block hook combination and oftentimes some shanks.

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So if you're working on arm shallowing, which is great complement to working on

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body sequencing

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and low point training, that's great, but I want to make sure that you hit on a

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few

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of these key details.

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Watch out for those big four of the shoulder blade going into protraction

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instead of retraction.

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The arm coming in doing more of a bicep curl, the lead arm pulling too much

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across your

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chest kind of like this, or going into too much pelvis side bend kind of like

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that early

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on.

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There's a big difference between getting a little bit of that Jackson five kind

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of that

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weight shift and being here versus still being almost behind your right foot

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and getting

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into some major shallowing in that way.

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So if you pay attention to those when you're working on your shallowing, it

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will definitely

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help your overall downswing sequence, low point control and consistency.

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Okay.

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So quick demo, even though this was a concept video, if I do any of those steep

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ening movements,

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so if the shoulder gets up, if the arm kind of curls in, if that left shoulder

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pulls,

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those will all steepen things.

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Now oftentimes that will be accompanied with a little bit of that body shall

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owing, which

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can create the look from the down the line that I am on plane, but I'll be way

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behind

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the ball and have more of a throw style release in order to get the club down

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to the golf

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ball, where on the opposite, if I was to do more of that lead shoulder kind of

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staying

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pin, that trail shoulder retraction, that's going to allow me to turn my body

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and get more

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of a covering feel and more of kind of that lag or that body powered swing.

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So if you're working through the shallowing, just pay attention to a few of the

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key details.