Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Balance Your Arm Motion for Better Swing Timing
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify the right arm motion for your swing type
- Feel how your arm timing impacts club face control
- Develop a balanced approach to arm and body coordination during your swing
In this drill, you'll learn how to align your arm movement with your swing plane for improved timing and consistency. Understanding this relationship is essential for achieving a powerful and effective golf swing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160
This drill is balancing your arm activity to shaft plane.
2
00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.410
So this is a little bit of a tricky topic because it kind of gets into some of
3
00:00:09.410 --> 00:00:09.880
the golf
4
00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:11.440
science stuff.
5
00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:17.540
But if we're looking at the relationship of where this club is to your body,
6
00:00:17.540 --> 00:00:18.200
there are
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:23.840
a couple patterns that you'll tend to see that can either be good or bad.
8
00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.190
Then tendency would be if I tend to have a little bit more of an aggressive arm
9
00:00:30.190 --> 00:00:30.900
motion
10
00:00:30.900 --> 00:00:36.660
from the top of the swing, then the dangerous combination would be having a
11
00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:37.520
longer swing
12
00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.660
or having too much of an upright swing.
13
00:00:39.660 --> 00:00:44.780
If I'm going to get very aggressive with my arms early in transition, then it's
14
00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:45.240
going
15
00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.060
to make a lot more sense for me to come from kind of a shorter and laid off
16
00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:50.800
position so
17
00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:57.650
that when I get my arms involved, it doesn't mess up my path and the way that
18
00:00:57.650 --> 00:00:58.520
my club face
19
00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.960
is squaring kind of has a chance to work with my body.
20
00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.570
The same can be said for if I'm going to take a little bit more of a long swing
21
00:01:08.570 --> 00:01:09.200
or if I'm
22
00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.020
going to have a little bit more of this kind of body driven transition and
23
00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:15.080
really let the
24
00:01:15.080 --> 00:01:21.950
arms kind of wait their time, which ultimately is the more powerful of the two
25
00:01:21.950 --> 00:01:23.400
options, then
26
00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.040
I want to air away from being flat.
27
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.100
So I would air on a little bit longer and even across the line so that when my
28
00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:30.880
body starts
29
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.000
now the club can actually really drop underneath and then when my arms kick in
30
00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:36.720
late, that'll
31
00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.480
help tumble the club or square the club.
32
00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:46.210
So the two combinations that can potentially cause trouble would be short and
33
00:01:46.210 --> 00:01:47.840
upright or
34
00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.240
long and laid off or the other way to look at it would be if I'm really
35
00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:53.440
aggressive with
36
00:01:53.440 --> 00:01:57.370
my upper body, I want to air more on the laid off side so I want to be a little
37
00:01:57.370 --> 00:01:58.680
bit shorter.
38
00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.750
If I tend to have a good time waiting or I'm able to wait with my arms until
39
00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:05.680
later down
40
00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.430
in the swing, then being a little bit more long and a little bit more across
41
00:02:10.430 --> 00:02:11.080
the line
42
00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.320
at the top is not so much of a bad thing.
43
00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:18.390
So I will have a hard time demonstrating the long one just because of my injury
44
00:02:18.390 --> 00:02:19.280
, but basically
45
00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.380
if I was to get long and upright, kind of almost like a John Daly or Fred Cou
46
00:02:24.380 --> 00:02:24.960
ples, then
47
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.830
as I drop down and I wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until almost shaft parallel
48
00:02:31.830 --> 00:02:32.800
to really
49
00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.360
let my arms get involved, I'll be fine.
50
00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:41.830
Or if I'm going to get really active early, then what I need to do is I need to
51
00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:42.560
be a little
52
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:50.160
bit shorter, a little bit more laid off so we'll see if we can do that one.
53
00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:54.050
That's actually the harder one for me because I played a lot of tennis where we
54
00:02:54.050 --> 00:02:54.760
wait a very
55
00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:59.240
long time and I did a lot of throwing which is also a kind of a waiting sport.
56
00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:03.310
But if you tend to have more of that kind of upper body pull, we'll see if we
57
00:03:03.310 --> 00:03:04.200
can get
58
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:09.400
a little bit more short and flat, kind of like so.
59
00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:13.400
So there's the two different kind of combinations.
60
00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.830
Either short and flat can work really well, but it can compromise your distance
61
00:03:17.830 --> 00:03:18.320
or long
62
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:20.560
and across can work really well.
63
00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.810
But you may have a little bit more of a battle with accuracy if you don't do
64
00:03:24.810 --> 00:03:25.600
any of the good
65
00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:27.880
the release stuff that we teach here in the stock full swing.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160
This drill is balancing your arm activity to shaft plane.
2
00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.410
So this is a little bit of a tricky topic because it kind of gets into some of
3
00:00:09.410 --> 00:00:09.880
the golf
4
00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:11.440
science stuff.
5
00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:17.540
But if we're looking at the relationship of where this club is to your body,
6
00:00:17.540 --> 00:00:18.200
there are
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:23.840
a couple patterns that you'll tend to see that can either be good or bad.
8
00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.190
Then tendency would be if I tend to have a little bit more of an aggressive arm
9
00:00:30.190 --> 00:00:30.900
motion
10
00:00:30.900 --> 00:00:36.660
from the top of the swing, then the dangerous combination would be having a
11
00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:37.520
longer swing
12
00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.660
or having too much of an upright swing.
13
00:00:39.660 --> 00:00:44.780
If I'm going to get very aggressive with my arms early in transition, then it's
14
00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:45.240
going
15
00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.060
to make a lot more sense for me to come from kind of a shorter and laid off
16
00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:50.800
position so
17
00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:57.650
that when I get my arms involved, it doesn't mess up my path and the way that
18
00:00:57.650 --> 00:00:58.520
my club face
19
00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.960
is squaring kind of has a chance to work with my body.
20
00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.570
The same can be said for if I'm going to take a little bit more of a long swing
21
00:01:08.570 --> 00:01:09.200
or if I'm
22
00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.020
going to have a little bit more of this kind of body driven transition and
23
00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:15.080
really let the
24
00:01:15.080 --> 00:01:21.950
arms kind of wait their time, which ultimately is the more powerful of the two
25
00:01:21.950 --> 00:01:23.400
options, then
26
00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.040
I want to air away from being flat.
27
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.100
So I would air on a little bit longer and even across the line so that when my
28
00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:30.880
body starts
29
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.000
now the club can actually really drop underneath and then when my arms kick in
30
00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:36.720
late, that'll
31
00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.480
help tumble the club or square the club.
32
00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:46.210
So the two combinations that can potentially cause trouble would be short and
33
00:01:46.210 --> 00:01:47.840
upright or
34
00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.240
long and laid off or the other way to look at it would be if I'm really
35
00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:53.440
aggressive with
36
00:01:53.440 --> 00:01:57.370
my upper body, I want to air more on the laid off side so I want to be a little
37
00:01:57.370 --> 00:01:58.680
bit shorter.
38
00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.750
If I tend to have a good time waiting or I'm able to wait with my arms until
39
00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:05.680
later down
40
00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.430
in the swing, then being a little bit more long and a little bit more across
41
00:02:10.430 --> 00:02:11.080
the line
42
00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.320
at the top is not so much of a bad thing.
43
00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:18.390
So I will have a hard time demonstrating the long one just because of my injury
44
00:02:18.390 --> 00:02:19.280
, but basically
45
00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.380
if I was to get long and upright, kind of almost like a John Daly or Fred Cou
46
00:02:24.380 --> 00:02:24.960
ples, then
47
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.830
as I drop down and I wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until almost shaft parallel
48
00:02:31.830 --> 00:02:32.800
to really
49
00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.360
let my arms get involved, I'll be fine.
50
00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:41.830
Or if I'm going to get really active early, then what I need to do is I need to
51
00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:42.560
be a little
52
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:50.160
bit shorter, a little bit more laid off so we'll see if we can do that one.
53
00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:54.050
That's actually the harder one for me because I played a lot of tennis where we
54
00:02:54.050 --> 00:02:54.760
wait a very
55
00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:59.240
long time and I did a lot of throwing which is also a kind of a waiting sport.
56
00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:03.310
But if you tend to have more of that kind of upper body pull, we'll see if we
57
00:03:03.310 --> 00:03:04.200
can get
58
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:09.400
a little bit more short and flat, kind of like so.
59
00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:13.400
So there's the two different kind of combinations.
60
00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.830
Either short and flat can work really well, but it can compromise your distance
61
00:03:17.830 --> 00:03:18.320
or long
62
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:20.560
and across can work really well.
63
00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.810
But you may have a little bit more of a battle with accuracy if you don't do
64
00:03:24.810 --> 00:03:25.600
any of the good
65
00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:27.880
the release stuff that we teach here in the stock full swing.
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Balance Your Arm Motion for Better Swing Timing
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify the right arm motion for your swing type
- Feel how your arm timing impacts club face control
- Develop a balanced approach to arm and body coordination during your swing
In this drill, you'll learn how to align your arm movement with your swing plane for improved timing and consistency. Understanding this relationship is essential for achieving a powerful and effective golf swing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160
This drill is balancing your arm activity to shaft plane.
2
00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.410
So this is a little bit of a tricky topic because it kind of gets into some of
3
00:00:09.410 --> 00:00:09.880
the golf
4
00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:11.440
science stuff.
5
00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:17.540
But if we're looking at the relationship of where this club is to your body,
6
00:00:17.540 --> 00:00:18.200
there are
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:23.840
a couple patterns that you'll tend to see that can either be good or bad.
8
00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.190
Then tendency would be if I tend to have a little bit more of an aggressive arm
9
00:00:30.190 --> 00:00:30.900
motion
10
00:00:30.900 --> 00:00:36.660
from the top of the swing, then the dangerous combination would be having a
11
00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:37.520
longer swing
12
00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.660
or having too much of an upright swing.
13
00:00:39.660 --> 00:00:44.780
If I'm going to get very aggressive with my arms early in transition, then it's
14
00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:45.240
going
15
00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.060
to make a lot more sense for me to come from kind of a shorter and laid off
16
00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:50.800
position so
17
00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:57.650
that when I get my arms involved, it doesn't mess up my path and the way that
18
00:00:57.650 --> 00:00:58.520
my club face
19
00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.960
is squaring kind of has a chance to work with my body.
20
00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.570
The same can be said for if I'm going to take a little bit more of a long swing
21
00:01:08.570 --> 00:01:09.200
or if I'm
22
00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.020
going to have a little bit more of this kind of body driven transition and
23
00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:15.080
really let the
24
00:01:15.080 --> 00:01:21.950
arms kind of wait their time, which ultimately is the more powerful of the two
25
00:01:21.950 --> 00:01:23.400
options, then
26
00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.040
I want to air away from being flat.
27
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.100
So I would air on a little bit longer and even across the line so that when my
28
00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:30.880
body starts
29
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.000
now the club can actually really drop underneath and then when my arms kick in
30
00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:36.720
late, that'll
31
00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.480
help tumble the club or square the club.
32
00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:46.210
So the two combinations that can potentially cause trouble would be short and
33
00:01:46.210 --> 00:01:47.840
upright or
34
00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.240
long and laid off or the other way to look at it would be if I'm really
35
00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:53.440
aggressive with
36
00:01:53.440 --> 00:01:57.370
my upper body, I want to air more on the laid off side so I want to be a little
37
00:01:57.370 --> 00:01:58.680
bit shorter.
38
00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.750
If I tend to have a good time waiting or I'm able to wait with my arms until
39
00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:05.680
later down
40
00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.430
in the swing, then being a little bit more long and a little bit more across
41
00:02:10.430 --> 00:02:11.080
the line
42
00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.320
at the top is not so much of a bad thing.
43
00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:18.390
So I will have a hard time demonstrating the long one just because of my injury
44
00:02:18.390 --> 00:02:19.280
, but basically
45
00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.380
if I was to get long and upright, kind of almost like a John Daly or Fred Cou
46
00:02:24.380 --> 00:02:24.960
ples, then
47
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.830
as I drop down and I wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until almost shaft parallel
48
00:02:31.830 --> 00:02:32.800
to really
49
00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.360
let my arms get involved, I'll be fine.
50
00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:41.830
Or if I'm going to get really active early, then what I need to do is I need to
51
00:02:41.830 --> 00:02:42.560
be a little
52
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:50.160
bit shorter, a little bit more laid off so we'll see if we can do that one.
53
00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:54.050
That's actually the harder one for me because I played a lot of tennis where we
54
00:02:54.050 --> 00:02:54.760
wait a very
55
00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:59.240
long time and I did a lot of throwing which is also a kind of a waiting sport.
56
00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:03.310
But if you tend to have more of that kind of upper body pull, we'll see if we
57
00:03:03.310 --> 00:03:04.200
can get
58
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:09.400
a little bit more short and flat, kind of like so.
59
00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:13.400
So there's the two different kind of combinations.
60
00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:17.830
Either short and flat can work really well, but it can compromise your distance
61
00:03:17.830 --> 00:03:18.320
or long
62
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:20.560
and across can work really well.
63
00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.810
But you may have a little bit more of a battle with accuracy if you don't do
64
00:03:24.810 --> 00:03:25.600
any of the good
65
00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:27.880
the release stuff that we teach here in the stock full swing.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160
This drill is balancing your arm activity to shaft plane.
2
00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.410
So this is a little bit of a tricky topic because it kind of gets into some of
3
00:00:09.410 --> 00:00:09.880
the golf
4
00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:11.440
science stuff.
5
00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:17.540
But if we're looking at the relationship of where this club is to your body,
6
00:00:17.540 --> 00:00:18.200
there are
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:23.840
a couple patterns that you'll tend to see that can either be good or bad.
8
00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.190
Then tendency would be if I tend to have a little bit more of an aggressive arm
9
00:00:30.190 --> 00:00:30.900
motion
10
00:00:30.900 --> 00:00:36.660
from the top of the swing, then the dangerous combination would be having a
11
00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:37.520
longer swing
12
00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.660
or having too much of an upright swing.
13
00:00:39.660 --> 00:00:44.780
If I'm going to get very aggressive with my arms early in transition, then it's
14
00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:45.240
going
15
00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:50.060
to make a lot more sense for me to come from kind of a shorter and laid off
16
00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:50.800
position so
17
00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:57.650
that when I get my arms involved, it doesn't mess up my path and the way that
18
00:00:57.650 --> 00:00:58.520
my club face
19
00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.960
is squaring kind of has a chance to work with my body.
20
00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:08.570
The same can be said for if I'm going to take a little bit more of a long swing
21
00:01:08.570 --> 00:01:09.200
or if I'm
22
00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.020
going to have a little bit more of this kind of body driven transition and
23
00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:15.080
really let the
24
00:01:15.080 --> 00:01:21.950
arms kind of wait their time, which ultimately is the more powerful of the two
25
00:01:21.950 --> 00:01:23.400
options, then
26
00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.040
I want to air away from being flat.
27
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.100
So I would air on a little bit longer and even across the line so that when my
28
00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:30.880
body starts
29
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.000
now the club can actually really drop underneath and then when my arms kick in
30
00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:36.720
late, that'll
31
00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.480
help tumble the club or square the club.
32
00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:46.210
So the two combinations that can potentially cause trouble would be short and
33
00:01:46.210 --> 00:01:47.840
upright or
34
00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.240
long and laid off or the other way to look at it would be if I'm really
35
00:01:52.240 --> 00:01:53.440
aggressive with
36
00:01:53.440 --> 00:01:57.370
my upper body, I want to air more on the laid off side so I want to be a little
37
00:01:57.370 --> 00:01:58.680
bit shorter.
38
00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:04.750
If I tend to have a good time waiting or I'm able to wait with my arms until
39
00:02:04.750 --> 00:02:05.680
later down
40
00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.430
in the swing, then being a little bit more long and a little bit more across
41
00:02:10.430 --> 00:02:11.080
the line
42
00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.320
at the top is not so much of a bad thing.
43
00:02:13.320 --> 00:02:18.390
So I will have a hard time demonstrating the long one just because of my injury
44
00:02:18.390 --> 00:02:19.280
, but basically
45
00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.380
if I was to get long and upright, kind of almost like a John Daly or Fred Cou
46
00:02:24.380 --> 00:02:24.960
ples, then
47
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.830
as I drop down and I wait, wait, wait, wait, wait until almost shaft parallel
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to really
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let my arms get involved, I'll be fine.
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Or if I'm going to get really active early, then what I need to do is I need to
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be a little
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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 played a lot of tennis where we
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wait a very
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long time and I did a lot of throwing which is also a kind of a waiting sport.
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But if you tend to have more of that kind of upper body pull, we'll see if we
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can get
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a little bit more short and flat, kind of like so.
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So there's the two different kind of combinations.
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Either short and flat can work really well, but it can compromise your distance
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or long
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and across can work really well.
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But you may have a little bit more of a battle with accuracy if you don't do
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any of the good
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the release stuff that we teach here in the stock full swing.
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