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Arm Timing To Shaft Plane

Identifying your backswing position may be related to your arm timing. In this video, Tyler explains how your level of aggression with getting your arms involved may influence your backswing position. If you activate your arms early, then shorter and more laid off could be more accurate. If you activate your arms later in the downswing, then you may do better with a longer and more upright swing.

Tags: Member Question, Concept, Intermediate

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This drill is balancing your arm activity to chef plane.

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So this is a little bit of a tricky topic because it kind of gets into some of the golf

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science stuff.

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But if we're looking at the relationship of where this club is to your body,

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there are a couple patterns that you'll tend to see that can either be good or bad.

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One tendency would be a, if I tend to have a little bit more of an aggressive arm motion

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from the top of the swing, then the dangerous combination would be having a longer swing

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or having too much of an upright swing.

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If I'm going to get very aggressive with my arms early in transition, then it's going to make a lot more sense

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for me to come from kind of a shorter and laid off position so that when I get my arm

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arms involved, it doesn't mess up my path and the way that my club face is squaring,

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kind of has a chance to work with my body.

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The same can be said for if I'm going to take a little bit more of a long swing or if I'm going to have

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a little bit more of this kind of body driven transition and really let the arms kind of weight their time,

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which ultimately is the more powerful of the two options.

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Then I want to air away from being flat, so I would air on a little bit longer and even across the line so that when my body starts now the club can actually

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really drop underneath and then when my arms kick in late, that'll help tumble the club or square the club.

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So the two combinations that can potentially cause trouble would be short and upright or long and laid off

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or the other way to look at it would be if I'm really aggressive with my upper body, I want to air more on the laid off side so I want to be a little bit shorter

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if I tend to have a good time waiting or I may be able to weight with my arms until later down in the swing, then being a little bit more long and a little bit more across the line at the top

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is not so much of a bad thing. So I will have a hard time demonstrating the long one just because of my injury, but basically if I was to get long and upright kind of almost like a John Daley or Fred couples then as I drop down and I weight weight weight weight until almost

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shaft parallel to really let my arms get involved, I'll be fine or if I'm going to get really active early then what I need to do is I need to be a little bit shorter, a little bit more laid off so we'll see if we can do that one.

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That's actually the harder one for me because I've played a lot of tennis where we weight a very long time and I did a lot of throwing which is also a kind of a weighting sport

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but if you tend to have more of that upper body pull we'll see if we can get a little bit more short and flat kind of like so.

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So there's the two different kind of combinations either short and flat can work really well but it can compromise your distance or long and across can work really well but you may have a little bit more of a battle with accuracy if you don't do any of the good and really stuff that we teach here in the stock full swing.

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