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This video is step-by-step arm motion backswing so I like to kind of go in

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varying levels of depth when we're talking about certain issues. So in a lot

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of these videos I describe hey you're just gonna kind of have your shoulders

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do this, get your arms go like this. In this video I'm gonna break down into a

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sequential order how you can kind of get into this toward backswing position.

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Now

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I'm also gonna talk a little bit about the ranges to allow you to see that it

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doesn't have to be perfect but understand that the backswing is done in order

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to

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help set up the transition and ultimately the release and impact

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conditions that we're trying to achieve. Okay so the the lead arm is a whole

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lot

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simpler so we're gonna talk about trail so for me I'm a right-handed golfer we

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're

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gonna talk about right arm. To start this process you're just gonna put your

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right

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arm in front of you 90 degrees like so. All right first thing we're gonna do is

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you're gonna extend your wrist and then you're gonna rotate your palm down

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about

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40 degrees from vertical. So that's the first movement that's kind of what the

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wrist does is going to extend and then it's gonna go like this. It doesn't

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hinge

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a whole lot you know it's usually only 10 degrees 15 degrees summer up to 20

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but not a ton of hinge so we've got it extended and we've got it rotated like

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that. Now we're gonna raise the elbow up as much as about nipple level so it's

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started at our side we're gonna raise it up and then you can have as much

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windshield wiper as you want. So if we turn it into one motion kind of looks

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like this. That's the right arm. Now the left arm is going to come across my

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body

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and it's gonna rotate slightly this way and I'm going to hinge the wrist up

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like

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that. So from this view it's gonna come across my body it's gonna rotate so

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elbows pointing a little bit away from me and it's gonna come like that. Now we

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can see that those two hands will match so if I go like this and then my wrist

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and I bring this one across you can see that those match into a good backswing

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position. Now if I was to do that same movement we'll do it first kind of with

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the club in combination because in combination is going to be a little bit

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harder just because when you go to bend that right arm what's gonna tend to

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happen is that left arm is going to want to bend as well. But when I'm

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demonstrating that backswing position I'm doing a combination of those

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movements

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so extend rotate about 40 degrees down so this would be 90 this would be

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negative

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90 so I'm going about 40 degrees in that kind of pronation direction. So like

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that

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I'll go up and then let it rotate. So that ends up looking like that. Now when

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it

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comes up you don't have to bend your arm very much. Most most people just from

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almost trying to stay wide are still gonna get about the right amount of

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bend. Oftentimes players are gonna bend that right arm way too much and that's

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gonna encourage them to get that elbow behind the body. So the area that's

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usually a little weird is feeling that it rotates this way and feeling that

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windshield wiper movement. But if you do those in a backswing movement it ends

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up looking kind of like this. So if the club is more over there that means that

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you probably didn't have any of this palm rate rotating down. The bigger

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problem if that elbow gets way behind you then instead of just windshield

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wipering out like that you're actually going like this and moving it all the

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way across. The left arm the the biggest one is you'll tend to see that it

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doesn't

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rotate so a lot of golfers will tend to almost take it away like this and now

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everything would be way outside unless I bent those elbows and bring them

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across.

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So the left arm will tend to not rotate and look something like that. Now there

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are variances to this movement you don't have to do it a hundred percent not

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everyone can windshield wiper the same amount but you'll tend to see kind of

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close to maximum wrist extension it increases about 10 degrees on the way

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down but close to maximum wrist extension most people are gonna have about 40

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degrees of this pronation and the big thing is making sure that that elbow

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doesn't work behind you because that's gonna cause a steepening move in

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transition which is going to set off this whole cascade of compensations. So if

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you're struggling with kind of feeling a comfortable backswing position this

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gives you a simple little process you can go one two three four and then just

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put the left hand where it would be and then practice doing that while you are

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making your backswing pivot. Doing so kind of helps you get in the ballpark

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and avoid those major backswing issues that I talked about of not letting the

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left arm rotate letting the right elbow get behind you or not letting that lead

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wrist rotate but this breaks down what the arms are doing we've got other

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videos

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that show you what the pivot is doing if you combine those together you're

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gonna

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get a pretty solid looking toward backswing position and that's gonna set you

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up for all the good movements in the downswing that we talked about in the

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other sections.