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Connecting Lead and Trail Arm Shallow
Arm shallowing can give us a margin of error as well as make it harder to hook the ball. It also compliments more body rotation, which is really helpful for creating speed without losing accuracy. Some golfers are more prone to using a steep arm pattern than others. But if you're working on shallowing out the arms, you should check each of them in order to identify which arm is sabotaging your efforts the most. The shoulders work as a pair and complement each other's movements, so training them to shallow the club together makes the most sense.
Arm shallowing can give us a margin of error as well as make it harder to hook the ball. It also compliments more body rotation, which is really helpful for creating speed without losing accuracy. Some golfers are more prone to using a steep arm pattern than others. But if you're working on shallowing out the arms, you should check each of them in order to identify which arm is sabotaging your efforts the most. The shoulders work as a pair and complement each other's movements, so training them to shallow the club together makes the most sense.
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Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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This video is connecting lead arm to trail arm shadowing.
2
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.850
So I had a member question come in about arm shadowing, specifically external
3
00:00:12.850 --> 00:00:13.280
rotation
4
00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:18.460
of the trail arm that they've been working on it for years and haven't made
5
00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:19.560
much progress
6
00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:23.560
that the arm is always behind kind of more in this position.
7
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:26.660
And so no matter what they try, whether it's getting a little bit more face
8
00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:27.220
rotation or
9
00:00:27.220 --> 00:00:30.960
really getting that elbow in front, it just doesn't seem to go there.
10
00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:38.420
So I asked them to send in a video and I showed him how the lead arm was
11
00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:41.640
equally if not more
12
00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.160
so causing that steep arm pattern.
13
00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:48.260
So there's one of the arguments for understanding how the shoulders work
14
00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:49.060
together.
15
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:52.480
With a rotational pattern, the shoulders will end up working kind of like the
16
00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:53.040
pelvis.
17
00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.360
So if you try to go into external rotation of the trail arm or the trail
18
00:00:58.360 --> 00:00:59.360
shoulder, that
19
00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:04.680
will typically be accompanied with more of a retraction and depression of that
20
00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:05.320
shoulder
21
00:01:05.320 --> 00:01:06.320
blade.
22
00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:11.530
To compliment that, the lead shoulder will help out if it goes into a little
23
00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:12.240
bit more
24
00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:15.600
protraction or kind of goes around your body like this.
25
00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.720
And if your lead shoulder goes into internal rotation.
26
00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:23.300
So oftentimes I'll describe as if we were holding onto a steering wheel kind of
27
00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:23.680
like
28
00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.040
this and going like that.
29
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.170
If you try to externally rotate both of them, it puts a lot of tension into
30
00:01:29.170 --> 00:01:29.840
your back and
31
00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:36.380
it can stall some of the rib cage rotation in your upper thoracic spine.
32
00:01:36.380 --> 00:01:44.450
So what often happens is if the lead arm starts pulling into external rotation
33
00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:45.160
or pulling
34
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:49.420
down like this, that shoulder drops down, that trail arm comes up and you get
35
00:01:49.420 --> 00:01:49.880
more of
36
00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:53.840
this steep over the top pattern from the down line camera angle.
37
00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.890
So you'll get more of this even if you think you're trying to go this way, you
38
00:01:57.890 --> 00:01:59.960
'll see that
39
00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:05.080
if this is pulling down, I have to really work somewhere in this wrist position
40
00:02:05.080 --> 00:02:05.560
in order
41
00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.680
to keep it from steepening.
42
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.450
So that's why I have kind of an equal number of drills related to shallowing
43
00:02:11.450 --> 00:02:12.200
from the trail
44
00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:14.720
arm or shallowing from the lead arm.
45
00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:18.740
From the lead arm, it's more of this lead shoulder rotation component which you
46
00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:19.000
kind
47
00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.880
of identify by where the elbow is pointing.
48
00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:27.400
So if you go up to the top of the swing and you get into this downswing
49
00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:28.640
checkpoint, you
50
00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:34.060
pretty much want your lead arm pointing out away as that trail arm is more in
51
00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:34.800
front of
52
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.960
your hip or in front of your body.
53
00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.890
If the lead arm is pointing more down, then you would just have to excessively
54
00:02:40.890 --> 00:02:41.360
get the
55
00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.920
shallowing happening more at the forearm.
56
00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:49.090
I've found that some people can do that and it works really well, but other
57
00:02:49.090 --> 00:02:49.800
golfers really
58
00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.880
struggle with it and that can be one of their big shallow barriers.
59
00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:59.230
One of the other advantages is as this lead arm shallows like this and raises
60
00:02:59.230 --> 00:03:00.280
up, it tends
61
00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.810
to encourage and create a little bit of tension so it encourages the body
62
00:03:04.810 --> 00:03:05.960
rotation on the way
63
00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:06.960
through.
64
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.040
And this arm tends to pull, it'll actually encourage a little bit more of a
65
00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:12.140
stall pattern.
66
00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:19.470
So you'll see if I get, if I steepen that lead arm, you'll see even if I try to
67
00:03:19.470 --> 00:03:20.360
shallow
68
00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.350
that trail arm, because of this arm getting into more of that steep position,
69
00:03:24.350 --> 00:03:24.880
it still
70
00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:27.880
has a tendency to want to pull on the way through.
71
00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:33.950
Where if I do the same thing with my trail arm, but I tend to lift or rotate
72
00:03:33.950 --> 00:03:34.600
this and
73
00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:39.220
give it more of a shallow position, you'll see that I have much cleaner impact,
74
00:03:39.220 --> 00:03:39.640
I have
75
00:03:39.640 --> 00:03:44.960
more of a, less of a stall and more of an ability to rotate my body through.
76
00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.800
So if you're really struggling with trying to take out some steepening moves
77
00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:49.200
and you've
78
00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:53.040
tried a lot with the trail arm, don't neglect the lead arm, those two work in
79
00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:53.680
pairs, you
80
00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.120
got to work on shallowing the lead arm just as much as shallowing the trail.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.720
This video is connecting lead arm to trail arm shadowing.
2
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.850
So I had a member question come in about arm shadowing, specifically external
3
00:00:12.850 --> 00:00:13.280
rotation
4
00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:18.460
of the trail arm that they've been working on it for years and haven't made
5
00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:19.560
much progress
6
00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:23.560
that the arm is always behind kind of more in this position.
7
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:26.660
And so no matter what they try, whether it's getting a little bit more face
8
00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:27.220
rotation or
9
00:00:27.220 --> 00:00:30.960
really getting that elbow in front, it just doesn't seem to go there.
10
00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:38.420
So I asked them to send in a video and I showed him how the lead arm was
11
00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:41.640
equally if not more
12
00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.160
so causing that steep arm pattern.
13
00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:48.260
So there's one of the arguments for understanding how the shoulders work
14
00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:49.060
together.
15
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:52.480
With a rotational pattern, the shoulders will end up working kind of like the
16
00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:53.040
pelvis.
17
00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.360
So if you try to go into external rotation of the trail arm or the trail
18
00:00:58.360 --> 00:00:59.360
shoulder, that
19
00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:04.680
will typically be accompanied with more of a retraction and depression of that
20
00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:05.320
shoulder
21
00:01:05.320 --> 00:01:06.320
blade.
22
00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:11.530
To compliment that, the lead shoulder will help out if it goes into a little
23
00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:12.240
bit more
24
00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:15.600
protraction or kind of goes around your body like this.
25
00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.720
And if your lead shoulder goes into internal rotation.
26
00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:23.300
So oftentimes I'll describe as if we were holding onto a steering wheel kind of
27
00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:23.680
like
28
00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.040
this and going like that.
29
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.170
If you try to externally rotate both of them, it puts a lot of tension into
30
00:01:29.170 --> 00:01:29.840
your back and
31
00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:36.380
it can stall some of the rib cage rotation in your upper thoracic spine.
32
00:01:36.380 --> 00:01:44.450
So what often happens is if the lead arm starts pulling into external rotation
33
00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:45.160
or pulling
34
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:49.420
down like this, that shoulder drops down, that trail arm comes up and you get
35
00:01:49.420 --> 00:01:49.880
more of
36
00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:53.840
this steep over the top pattern from the down line camera angle.
37
00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.890
So you'll get more of this even if you think you're trying to go this way, you
38
00:01:57.890 --> 00:01:59.960
'll see that
39
00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:05.080
if this is pulling down, I have to really work somewhere in this wrist position
40
00:02:05.080 --> 00:02:05.560
in order
41
00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.680
to keep it from steepening.
42
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.450
So that's why I have kind of an equal number of drills related to shallowing
43
00:02:11.450 --> 00:02:12.200
from the trail
44
00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:14.720
arm or shallowing from the lead arm.
45
00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:18.740
From the lead arm, it's more of this lead shoulder rotation component which you
46
00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:19.000
kind
47
00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.880
of identify by where the elbow is pointing.
48
00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:27.400
So if you go up to the top of the swing and you get into this downswing
49
00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:28.640
checkpoint, you
50
00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:34.060
pretty much want your lead arm pointing out away as that trail arm is more in
51
00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:34.800
front of
52
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.960
your hip or in front of your body.
53
00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.890
If the lead arm is pointing more down, then you would just have to excessively
54
00:02:40.890 --> 00:02:41.360
get the
55
00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.920
shallowing happening more at the forearm.
56
00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:49.090
I've found that some people can do that and it works really well, but other
57
00:02:49.090 --> 00:02:49.800
golfers really
58
00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.880
struggle with it and that can be one of their big shallow barriers.
59
00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:59.230
One of the other advantages is as this lead arm shallows like this and raises
60
00:02:59.230 --> 00:03:00.280
up, it tends
61
00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.810
to encourage and create a little bit of tension so it encourages the body
62
00:03:04.810 --> 00:03:05.960
rotation on the way
63
00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:06.960
through.
64
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.040
And this arm tends to pull, it'll actually encourage a little bit more of a
65
00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:12.140
stall pattern.
66
00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:19.470
So you'll see if I get, if I steepen that lead arm, you'll see even if I try to
67
00:03:19.470 --> 00:03:20.360
shallow
68
00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.350
that trail arm, because of this arm getting into more of that steep position,
69
00:03:24.350 --> 00:03:24.880
it still
70
00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:27.880
has a tendency to want to pull on the way through.
71
00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:33.950
Where if I do the same thing with my trail arm, but I tend to lift or rotate
72
00:03:33.950 --> 00:03:34.600
this and
73
00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:39.220
give it more of a shallow position, you'll see that I have much cleaner impact,
74
00:03:39.220 --> 00:03:39.640
I have
75
00:03:39.640 --> 00:03:44.960
more of a, less of a stall and more of an ability to rotate my body through.
76
00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.800
So if you're really struggling with trying to take out some steepening moves
77
00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:49.200
and you've
78
00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:53.040
tried a lot with the trail arm, don't neglect the lead arm, those two work in
79
00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:53.680
pairs, you
80
00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.120
got to work on shallowing the lead arm just as much as shallowing the trail.
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Meet your new
instructor.
Connecting Lead and Trail Arm Shallow
Arm shallowing can give us a margin of error as well as make it harder to hook the ball. It also compliments more body rotation, which is really helpful for creating speed without losing accuracy. Some golfers are more prone to using a steep arm pattern than others. But if you're working on shallowing out the arms, you should check each of them in order to identify which arm is sabotaging your efforts the most. The shoulders work as a pair and complement each other's movements, so training them to shallow the club together makes the most sense.
Arm shallowing can give us a margin of error as well as make it harder to hook the ball. It also compliments more body rotation, which is really helpful for creating speed without losing accuracy. Some golfers are more prone to using a steep arm pattern than others. But if you're working on shallowing out the arms, you should check each of them in order to identify which arm is sabotaging your efforts the most. The shoulders work as a pair and complement each other's movements, so training them to shallow the club together makes the most sense.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.720
This video is connecting lead arm to trail arm shadowing.
2
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.850
So I had a member question come in about arm shadowing, specifically external
3
00:00:12.850 --> 00:00:13.280
rotation
4
00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:18.460
of the trail arm that they've been working on it for years and haven't made
5
00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:19.560
much progress
6
00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:23.560
that the arm is always behind kind of more in this position.
7
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:26.660
And so no matter what they try, whether it's getting a little bit more face
8
00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:27.220
rotation or
9
00:00:27.220 --> 00:00:30.960
really getting that elbow in front, it just doesn't seem to go there.
10
00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:38.420
So I asked them to send in a video and I showed him how the lead arm was
11
00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:41.640
equally if not more
12
00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.160
so causing that steep arm pattern.
13
00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:48.260
So there's one of the arguments for understanding how the shoulders work
14
00:00:48.260 --> 00:00:49.060
together.
15
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:52.480
With a rotational pattern, the shoulders will end up working kind of like the
16
00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:53.040
pelvis.
17
00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.360
So if you try to go into external rotation of the trail arm or the trail
18
00:00:58.360 --> 00:00:59.360
shoulder, that
19
00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:04.680
will typically be accompanied with more of a retraction and depression of that
20
00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:05.320
shoulder
21
00:01:05.320 --> 00:01:06.320
blade.
22
00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:11.530
To compliment that, the lead shoulder will help out if it goes into a little
23
00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:12.240
bit more
24
00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:15.600
protraction or kind of goes around your body like this.
25
00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.720
And if your lead shoulder goes into internal rotation.
26
00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:23.300
So oftentimes I'll describe as if we were holding onto a steering wheel kind of
27
00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:23.680
like
28
00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.040
this and going like that.
29
00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.170
If you try to externally rotate both of them, it puts a lot of tension into
30
00:01:29.170 --> 00:01:29.840
your back and
31
00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:36.380
it can stall some of the rib cage rotation in your upper thoracic spine.
32
00:01:36.380 --> 00:01:44.450
So what often happens is if the lead arm starts pulling into external rotation
33
00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:45.160
or pulling
34
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:49.420
down like this, that shoulder drops down, that trail arm comes up and you get
35
00:01:49.420 --> 00:01:49.880
more of
36
00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:53.840
this steep over the top pattern from the down line camera angle.
37
00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.890
So you'll get more of this even if you think you're trying to go this way, you
38
00:01:57.890 --> 00:01:59.960
'll see that
39
00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:05.080
if this is pulling down, I have to really work somewhere in this wrist position
40
00:02:05.080 --> 00:02:05.560
in order
41
00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.680
to keep it from steepening.
42
00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.450
So that's why I have kind of an equal number of drills related to shallowing
43
00:02:11.450 --> 00:02:12.200
from the trail
44
00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:14.720
arm or shallowing from the lead arm.
45
00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:18.740
From the lead arm, it's more of this lead shoulder rotation component which you
46
00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:19.000
kind
47
00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.880
of identify by where the elbow is pointing.
48
00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:27.400
So if you go up to the top of the swing and you get into this downswing
49
00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:28.640
checkpoint, you
50
00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:34.060
pretty much want your lead arm pointing out away as that trail arm is more in
51
00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:34.800
front of
52
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.960
your hip or in front of your body.
53
00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.890
If the lead arm is pointing more down, then you would just have to excessively
54
00:02:40.890 --> 00:02:41.360
get the
55
00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.920
shallowing happening more at the forearm.
56
00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:49.090
I've found that some people can do that and it works really well, but other
57
00:02:49.090 --> 00:02:49.800
golfers really
58
00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.880
struggle with it and that can be one of their big shallow barriers.
59
00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:59.230
One of the other advantages is as this lead arm shallows like this and raises
60
00:02:59.230 --> 00:03:00.280
up, it tends
61
00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.810
to encourage and create a little bit of tension so it encourages the body
62
00:03:04.810 --> 00:03:05.960
rotation on the way
63
00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:06.960
through.
64
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.040
And this arm tends to pull, it'll actually encourage a little bit more of a
65
00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:12.140
stall pattern.
66
00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:19.470
So you'll see if I get, if I steepen that lead arm, you'll see even if I try to
67
00:03:19.470 --> 00:03:20.360
shallow
68
00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.350
that trail arm, because of this arm getting into more of that steep position,
69
00:03:24.350 --> 00:03:24.880
it still
70
00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:27.880
has a tendency to want to pull on the way through.
71
00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:33.950
Where if I do the same thing with my trail arm, but I tend to lift or rotate
72
00:03:33.950 --> 00:03:34.600
this and
73
00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:39.220
give it more of a shallow position, you'll see that I have much cleaner impact,
74
00:03:39.220 --> 00:03:39.640
I have
75
00:03:39.640 --> 00:03:44.960
more of a, less of a stall and more of an ability to rotate my body through.
76
00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.800
So if you're really struggling with trying to take out some steepening moves
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and you've
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tried a lot with the trail arm, don't neglect the lead arm, those two work in
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pairs, you
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got to work on shallowing the lead arm just as much as shallowing the trail.
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This video is connecting lead arm to trail arm shadowing.
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So I had a member question come in about arm shadowing, specifically external
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rotation
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of the trail arm that they've been working on it for years and haven't made
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much progress
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that the arm is always behind kind of more in this position.
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And so no matter what they try, whether it's getting a little bit more face
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rotation or
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really getting that elbow in front, it just doesn't seem to go there.
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So I asked them to send in a video and I showed him how the lead arm was
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equally if not more
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so causing that steep arm pattern.
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So there's one of the arguments for understanding how the shoulders work
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together.
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With a rotational pattern, the shoulders will end up working kind of like the
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pelvis.
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So if you try to go into external rotation of the trail arm or the trail
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shoulder, that
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will typically be accompanied with more of a retraction and depression of that
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shoulder
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blade.
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To compliment that, the lead shoulder will help out if it goes into a little
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bit more
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protraction or kind of goes around your body like this.
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And if your lead shoulder goes into internal rotation.
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So oftentimes I'll describe as if we were holding onto a steering wheel kind of
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like
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this and going like that.
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If you try to externally rotate both of them, it puts a lot of tension into
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your back and
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it can stall some of the rib cage rotation in your upper thoracic spine.
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So what often happens is if the lead arm starts pulling into external rotation
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or pulling
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down like this, that shoulder drops down, that trail arm comes up and you get
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more of
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this steep over the top pattern from the down line camera angle.
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So you'll get more of this even if you think you're trying to go this way, you
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'll see that
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if this is pulling down, I have to really work somewhere in this wrist position
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in order
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to keep it from steepening.
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So that's why I have kind of an equal number of drills related to shallowing
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from the trail
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arm or shallowing from the lead arm.
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From the lead arm, it's more of this lead shoulder rotation component which you
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kind
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of identify by where the elbow is pointing.
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So if you go up to the top of the swing and you get into this downswing
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checkpoint, you
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pretty much want your lead arm pointing out away as that trail arm is more in
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front of
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your hip or in front of your body.
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If the lead arm is pointing more down, then you would just have to excessively
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get the
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shallowing happening more at the forearm.
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I've found that some people can do that and it works really well, but other
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golfers really
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struggle with it and that can be one of their big shallow barriers.
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One of the other advantages is as this lead arm shallows like this and raises
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up, it tends
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to encourage and create a little bit of tension so it encourages the body
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rotation on the way
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through.
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And this arm tends to pull, it'll actually encourage a little bit more of a
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stall pattern.
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So you'll see if I get, if I steepen that lead arm, you'll see even if I try to
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shallow
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that trail arm, because of this arm getting into more of that steep position,
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it still
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has a tendency to want to pull on the way through.
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Where if I do the same thing with my trail arm, but I tend to lift or rotate
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this and
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give it more of a shallow position, you'll see that I have much cleaner impact,
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I have
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more of a, less of a stall and more of an ability to rotate my body through.
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So if you're really struggling with trying to take out some steepening moves
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and you've
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tried a lot with the trail arm, don't neglect the lead arm, those two work in
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pairs, you
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got to work on shallowing the lead arm just as much as shallowing the trail.
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