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In this concept video, we're going to connect arm shallowing to the chicken

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wing.

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So there's one of the more common patterns that amateurs hate seeing on the way

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through

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is the chicken wing.

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When the arms are bending coming in kind of more like this, there are a number

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of different

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causes it can be from lack of body rotation, it can be one of the ways that you

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're squaring

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the club face, but what common pattern or one common pattern is that it's a way

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to shallow

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out the club late or pull the low point away from the ground if you're coming

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in from a

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steep arm position.

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So in general, a steeper arm position would be the club working in more of a

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vertical

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fashion like this.

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Now it could be coming from the inside, it doesn't have to be coming from the

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outside.

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That depends more on my body orientation.

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So I don't want you to just think steep is outside, shallow is inside, it has

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to do more

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with this verticality and narrowness.

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So here I'll be steep, but from the inside and from this position, you'll see

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that in

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order to not slam the club into the ground really hard, I'm going to have to

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pull away

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whether that's from early extension of my body or from bending the arms, I'm

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going to

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have to pull to prevent the club from slamming into the ground.

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Here, if I had this in more of a horizontal pattern, so if it was working more

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around

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my body like this and I slowly bent down, you'll see that this gets to a point

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where

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it's just dimming the ground for a long period of time.

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That's part of how we're able to create this consistency or flat spot.

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So if the club is working more around my body kind of like so, then just by it

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will make

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it easier for me to get shaft lean, which is a steepener, hard to create steep

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when you're

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already too steep, and it will allow me to continue rotating my body because

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that's also

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a steepener.

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So what I've seen kind of clinically with my students is that getting the arms

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into more

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of a shallow position tends to free up a number of things and it tends to

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contribute to getting

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more arm extension in the follow through or taking away the chicken wing.

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So if you're looking at your swing and you're struggling with the arms bending

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and really

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pulling in here in the follow through, then double check that down the line arm

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shallow

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checkpoint to make sure that you haven't steepened things too much in

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transition.

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If you have, then it's unlikely you're going to really change that chicken wing

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pattern

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unless you address the arm shallowness at least a little bit.

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If there are some people who are a little bit more vertical and they don't

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chicken wing

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and what they'll do is they'll have more of a well timed kind of reverse thrust

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away from

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the golf ball with the body and kind of a feel of that throw of the arms.

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That is one way to solve the puzzle, but in my experience it tends to break

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down a little

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bit more, be more timing dependent.

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So if you're capable, I would look at some of the arm shallowing drills in

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order to get

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more comfortable in getting into a delivery position kind of more like this,

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then you

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won't really have to time so much the release.

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You just have to stay in your position as you let the arms extend in order to

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get the club

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down toward the ground.

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So again, if you're struggling with your follow through, always look at the

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transition or the

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downswing.

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If you're struggling with the downswing, you might want to look at the follow

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through.

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Those two match each other and one common pattern is the steep arms in

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transition will

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often cause a chicken wing in the follow through.