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This video is connecting lead arm to Trail arm shallowing. So

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I had a member question come in about arm sowing

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specifically external rotation of the trail arm that

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they've been working on it for years and haven't

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made much progress that the arm

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is always behind kind of more in this position. And so

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no matter what they try whether it's getting a little bit more

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face rotation or really getting that elbow in front. It just

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doesn't seem to go there. So I asked them

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to send in a video and I showed him

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how the lead arm was.

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equally, if not more so

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causing that steep arm pattern so

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As one of the arguments for understanding how the shoulders work together with a

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rotational pattern. The shoulders will end up working kind of

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like the pelvis. So if you try to go into external rotation

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of the trail arm or the trail shoulder

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that will typically be accompanied with more

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of a retraction and depression of

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that shoulder blade to complement that the

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lead shoulder will help out if it goes into

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a little bit more protraction or

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kind of goes around your body like this and if your lead

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shoulder goes into internal rotation so oftentimes I'll

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describe as if we were holding on

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to a steering wheel kind of like this and going like that.

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If you try to externally rotate both of them it puts

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a lot of tension into your back and it can stall some of the ribcage

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rotation in your upper thoracic spine.

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So what often happens is if the lead arm

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starts pulling into external rotation

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or pulling down like this that shoulder

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drops down that trail arm comes up and you

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get more of this steep over the top pattern from the

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downline camera angle. So you'll get more of this even

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if you think you're trying to go this way, you'll see

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that if this is pulling down I

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have to really work somewhere in this wrist position

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in order to keep it from steepening. So that's

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why I have kind of an equal number of drills related

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to shallowing from the trail arm or shallowing from

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the lead arm from the lead arm. It's more of this lead shoulder

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rotation component, which you can identify by

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where the elbow is pointing.

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So if you go up to the top of the swing and you

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get into this downswing checkpoint, you pretty

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much want your lead arm pointing out

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away as that trail arm is more in

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front of your hip or in front of your body. If the lead

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arm is pointing more down than you would just have to

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excessively get the shallowing happening more at the forearm. And

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I'd find I found that some people

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can do that and it works really well, but other people's other 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

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this lead arm shallows like this

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and raises up it tends to encourage and

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create a little bit of tension. So it encourages the body

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rotation on the way through when this arm

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tends to pull it'll actually encourage a little bit more of a stall

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pattern so

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you'll see if I get if I

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Steepen that lead arm you'll see even if I try to

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shallow that trail arm because of

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this arm getting into more of that steep position. It still has

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a tendency to want to pull on the way through where if I do

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the same thing with my trail arm, but I

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tend to lift or rotate this

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and give it more of a shallow position. You'll see

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that I have much cleaner impact. I have more of a less

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of a stall and more of an ability to rotate

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my body through so if you're really struggling with

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trying to take out some steepening moves and you've

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tried a lot with the trail arm don't neglect the lead arm those two

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work in pairs. You got to work on shallowing the lead

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arm just as much as shallowing the trail.