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In this case study, we're going to take a look at the benefits of training the

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trail arm only.

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So we're going to look at a couple different golfers with some slightly

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different swings.

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But one of the common patterns that we're going to address with this drill is

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that trail arm kind of getting stuck to your side.

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And when that elbow gets stuck to your side and then the hands pass, that

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frequently is accompanied by a chicken wing.

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So it has that look of the arms bending on the way through.

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But if you try the lead arm only and it doesn't clean it up, more often than

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not, it's a trail shoulder and trail arm issue.

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So I'll walk you through a couple different golfers using the trail arm and

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what kind of changes it produces with the release.

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Okay, now every golfer has different keys when they're working through the

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drill.

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But here we can see one of the early drills that he was doing working on this

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right arm only.

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Now the club got a little steep into the ground, but you can see that the arm

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is working much better across his chest and straightening on the way through

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instead of bending.

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And his body rotation is much improved as well.

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If you can imagine putting the left arm on the end of the grip with that hand

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position, the left arm would be pretty straight and there would be very little,

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if any, chicken wing.

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So here he is over on the right, hitting a little punch shot after doing that

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drill, just trying to duplicate that same feeling of the right arm only.

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And what you'll see is that the left arm has no problem staying straight.

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The right arm maintains some of its good arm extension that he was doing in

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that single arm drill.

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So that results in a much wider arm extension on the way through.

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This is one of our goals for helping this golfer eliminate the contact issues

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of fat thin and the ball flight issues of more of an overdraw or a pole draw.

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And then here we're taking a full swing after doing some of that trail arm

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training.

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And we'll see that there's always a little bit of regression, but you can see

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that right arm extending better on the way through.

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You can see the body continuing to rotate and a lot less of that chicken wing

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look.

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So as long as everything is moving in the right direction, this is a successful

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drill and will help us with getting better low point control, better face

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control, as well as more consistency and avoiding that big left pole miss.

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That we're trying to avoid.

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Next we'll take a look at a junior golfer who's got a little bit more of that

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trail arm internal rotation style release and gets into that really pronounced

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bend look on the way through.

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So you can see that right arm bending and really rotating a company by that

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left arm getting into more of a bent position.

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Let's see what working on the trail arm only did for this release pattern.

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Okay, so over on the right, we're going to take a look at him doing the drill.

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And again, everyone's got little different keys, but one of the rules that I

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gave him was make sure that you take a divot and make sure that the right arm

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finishes fully straight.

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So you'll see he accomplishes both of those feet.

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You'd see if we were to take the left arm and put it on there, there's no way

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it would be bent.

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And the only way that that left arm could be bent would be if we move the grip

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further back that way and made it more of a scoop.

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And he struggles with the same thin contact and airing more on a pole draw.

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Now over here on the left, he's taking a few practice wings and then trying to

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duplicate that feeling immediately with the ball.

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And what we'll see is that he did a great job of maintaining the skill that he

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learned with that trail arm while doing it with the swing.

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Now you can see that there's a little bit of a Jordan Spieth-esque bend to that

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arm.

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I don't have a problem with that as long as the trail arm, right arm is getting

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extended on the way through, which is a sign of a better shoulder release, kind

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of body release, instead of just a hand manipulation.

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So over here on the right is where he was at the end of the lesson.

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Again, getting a really good arm extension on the way through, especially when

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he shortens and hits more of a punch style release.

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But here he was at the beginning of the following lesson after practicing it

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for a week.

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And you can see that he maintained a lot of the pieces and a lot of the

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improvements that he got from that trail arm drill.

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So while each of these wings looked very different, you can see a common trend.

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If you have trouble getting good arm extension and getting into a really solid

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follow-through position, then I recommend giving a try the trail arm only

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training.