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In this case study we're going to take a look at a golfer working through

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shallow arms.

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So I like the recipe or the process of clarifying exactly what you want to do

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and then selecting a drill that gets you to do what you want to do

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and then putting in reps. And when you put in reps the next step is to remove

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the barriers

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that prevent you from hitting the ball the way you want when you do what you're

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trying to do.

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So in this particular example working on shallow arms and working on it

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directly

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didn't really resonate. So we clarified that we needed to shallow out the swing

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but going at it directly didn't work so we went at it from a different

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perspective which

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you'll see in this video. Once we had a way that he could train the shallow

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arms then he was able

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to put in reps and we started to remove barriers. So this will hopefully help

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you see the recipe

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of how you can improve your own game. Alright this is the student he joined the

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website and then

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found me live close enough nearby where he wanted to come and take a few

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lessons. He knew that he

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needed to shallow out the swing and we had a limited time frame so we only had

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about six or

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eight weeks. We were able to fit in about four lessons. So over here on the

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left we have the first

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swings that he took for me and he had been working on trying to get some of

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that right arm external

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rotation. He was working on some of the active ways to shallow out the club.

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Now you can see that

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there's a lot of body rotation and you can see that those arms aren't really

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they're

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they're shallowing a bit but you can see that that overall path is probably

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going to get outside

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in unless that club drops a ton. Now if you see where he's looking I have him

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aimed at the middle

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of the driving range which is um there's a there's a pole kind of in line with

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one of those trees so

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that's roughly where he's trying to hit. So even though he was doing some of

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the shallow pumps the

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problem was it didn't it wasn't providing correct feedback for him and so here

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we can see his actual

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swing is very steep almost vertical with a very leftward path. He was hitting

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really deep divots

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he was hitting big poles some slices and he couldn't hit anything longer than

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you know say a five iron

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with any level of consistency. So I wanted to show that one because it had the

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little pump in it

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but here you can see the movement outside so we can see it get steep and you'll

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see a lot of

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toe shots and a lot of poles. This is actually the new the beginning of the

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second lesson so

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by working on it directly we were not able to make a big impact as far as the

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shallowing goes.

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Now I wanted to use this as a case study for a couple reasons. One I sometimes

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get accused of

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teaching a swing that only young fit guys are able to do and so I wanted to

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show a guy who's a little

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bit larger maybe doesn't work out a ton you know he's got a pretty busy job

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working in the oil and

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gas but he's a passionate golfer any practices a bunch. The other key that I

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wanted to highlight

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was that you don't necessarily have to actively do what you're trying to do. So

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the three steps are

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basically clarify what you're trying to do. Select a drill that allows you to

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do it correctly and

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then put in reps and once you've put in reps you then want to remove barriers

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as to why when you put

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whatever you're learning in that drill when you put that back in your full

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swing it doesn't if it

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doesn't give you exactly the results you want what else is left. So clarify

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select a drill and then

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remove barriers. So here we still know we've got to get shallow and working on

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it directly wasn't

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getting there. Every time I asked him what did it feel like what did it feel

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like he wasn't very

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aware of feel. So we did some a variation of the four square and a variation of

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the follow-through

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poles so getting awareness of the where we wanted the club the swing and we

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used some sticks and

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alignment aids and kind of created some visuals so that he could see where he

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wanted to get the

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club to go. Now let's fast forward to the end of this lesson and show you what

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the changes were.

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All right over on the left he's trying to swing along this path that we created

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he's trying to

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create a blur that goes kind of through this gate or along this path and you

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can see he's basically

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trying to get his arms to swing where what he felt was directly out to the

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right we had visuals

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trying to help him out but you can see a massive change in where he was able to

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get the club to

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shallow. So this is one example of how we wanted to work on shallow arms and we

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found a way to work

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on shallow arms by working on the follow-through position. Here he is after

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doing kind of a full

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session of practice if you remember he wasn't able to hit anything longer than

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about a five iron

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and here he was able to hit a number of drives that would have gone pretty

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straight and found the

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fairway. So at this point we were both pretty excited but I know from looking

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from teaching golf

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and kind of working in motor learnings that you don't know what's learned until

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there's been time

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right you don't know if he's actually learned how to shallow out the arms or he

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just was in a good

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groove so I was really excited to see where I was anxious to see what would

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happen when he came back

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for the next lesson. All right as we were walking out he told me he hit a lot

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of good shots he still

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had some bad ones but he hit a lot of good shots and the overall turf contact

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was better that was

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the mean feedback we were focusing on because once we got the blur we had to do

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you know brush the

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ground and then put the ball in the way but he worked through that he got some

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awareness of the

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proper path this was his first swing after that next lesson so but in my head I

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'm like oh man it

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didn't quite stick right it's a little shallower it's not quite as vertical but

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nowhere near where it

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was. As soon as he hit that ball he said nope nope I got this here was the next

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swing

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and I asked him what the difference was and he said he could see the blur of

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the club going through

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the path and the neat thing was he said after training the blur of the club and

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using visual

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feedback after doing that for a few weeks he was now starting to feel where his

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arms were

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in delivery position so he was starting to feel where his body was and how it

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related to this

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visual so he's using multiple feedback mechanisms to help create the shallow

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path but the key is you

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have to once you figure out what you need to do whether it's move the low point

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power it more with

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the body get more lag shallow out the club square the club face earlier

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whatever you decide you need

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to do you have to find a drill or two that help you do it I find that most

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people just they figure

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out what they want to do and then they go put in reps trying to do it but they

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haven't

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actually changed the situation so that they're actually doing it so they're

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really just confusing

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their motor pattern by thinking they're doing one thing and not actually doing

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it so you've got to

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find a drill and select a drill that gets you to actually do what you're trying

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to train then you

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can put in the reps and if it's not everything's not going exactly the way you

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want you can then

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remove barriers like we found um such as over here that when he tries to swing

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harder he gets a

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little steeper so that's a barrier we have to work on how can he get the blur

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while still swinging

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hard we also found that he one of the barriers on some of his uh worst shots he

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would tend to have

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the club face a little bit more open compared to the path so we had to work a

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little bit more on

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getting the club face to rotate hopefully this inspires you to experiment with

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different forms

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of feedback that can ultimately help you um do the movements that you're trying

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to do so that you can

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build your field database so that it'll hold up under pressure when you're out

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on the course