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This drill is connecting your arm movements to body movements. So in the

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transition section, in the downswing section or the release section, even in

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the backswing section, I have drills that help you understand how the arms move

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Now one of the steps that you'll want to make before you'll really own the

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movement and be able to function kind of automatically is taking that step of

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connecting the arm movements to the body movements. What I mean by that is you

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want the arm movements to happen somewhat passively or reflexively. If

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you're overly thinking about, let's say, shallowing the club or ulnar deviating

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and you're doing it with a lot of effort or you're thinking a lot about

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supination, when you have that overly active arm movement, it will tend to

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slow down or disconnect your rib cage from the movement. It'll tend to

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stabilize the

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shoulder growth, stabilize the rib cage. So it'll disrupt some of your

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sequencing.

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That disrupted sequencing will tend to make it a little less repeatable on the

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golf course. So when you're working on these movements, you want to connect

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them

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to the body motions. Few examples, right? Let's say we're working on the

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downswing. We're working on getting the club to shallow. Well I've got a number

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of

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videos on how to kind of feel the arm shallow, but then to take it that next

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step further, you should try to feel the arm shallow because the body is

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initiating the downswing, not because the arms are just shallowing. Or if you

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working on the motorcycle movement, you're trying to get more face rotation. It

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should rotate because the arms are lagging behind and somewhat relaxed as

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your body is rotating. If you're working on getting a little bit more of that

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unhingely, you have a little bit too much of that roll in your release. You're

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getting some unhinge to help get width. That should happen because of the body

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bracing, not just because the arms are actively unhinging. So the first step is

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you have to disrupt the pattern, so you have to learn how to do the arm

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movements almost actively. But then to really take it to that comfort level,

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you're going to try to connect it to the body. I'll do a couple examples here.

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So

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let's say I'm working on the arm shallowing. So I might do some active arm

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shallowing movement, and I might do an active, I'm going to over really exagger

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ate

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for the purpose of the video, arm shallowing movement, and then I might do a

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swing where I really focus on that arm shallowing movement, and I knew that I

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was going to hit it poorly because it was, but it was different, right? I knew

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that

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I was going to hit it poorly because I wasn't really using my body, but it was

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different. So now I'm going to try and shallow, and I'm going to try and

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connect

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that to the body movement. Then I'm still going to stick on kind of an easy

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tempo. I'm going to not really try to swing too hard, but I could feel that the

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arm shallowed because they were lagging behind the body, not just because I was

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trying to shallow. Then I can gradually increase speed, or I can jump to faster

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speed and work back and forth, but it's a good little way to progress the

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movements

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that you're training into mechanics that will hopefully hold up better on the

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course. To do that, you really got to connect it to the body movement.