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This content video is connecting scapular control to spine

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extension. So this is primarily talking about

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topless swinging into transition, but there's

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a big relationship between what's going on with your

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shoulder blades how they're moving and what's going

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on with your spine. And so a common complaint

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of golfers is one of two two

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fold, either they tend to shift their upper body

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off the ball so they can get kind of flat shoulder

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plane. No extension have kind

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of upper body sway or more

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commonly golfers will complain of

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kind of bending the arms up at the top especially getting

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in that right arm behind into

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more of a flying flying elbow

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or getting across the line at the top.

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So the relationship between these two is

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loading different kind of

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fascial lines or loading different muscle patterns.

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Oftentimes if you're struggling with getting spine extension

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what's happening at the shoulders is contributing

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to you limit or having trouble getting

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spine extension, the two things that tend to

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happen is if I if I kind of turn like this and and stay

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Flex forward then when I reach my arms

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up, I feel a big load on the underside of my arms

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kind of in my tricep and my lat I've really loaded this

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arm to be able to pull down or I've loaded

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it to be able to rotate down kind of

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like this and if I were to get into more spine extension

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there that it it doesn't feel as

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strong because I've kind of limited how well

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I can anchor it down here in my pelvis in my lower back.

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from the left arm

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The more that I kind of reach that shoulder across like

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here. I've loaded the let to really pull

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I've loaded the the shoulder blade into a

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position to pull again. If I got into this position here if

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I pulled really hard I would be really over the

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top and so from this position, it wouldn't

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make sense to pull. So the connection is if you're

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struggling with keeping your centered pivot, you want

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to look at your shoulder blades and you want to see if

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the right shoulder is staying more retracted,

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especially top of swinging into transition and

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you want to see if the left shoulder is having too much

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kind of reach and disconnect there oftentimes

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when it disconnects it pulls around

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and you'll see this right arm go shoulder up.

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Sometimes that's coming from the left shoulder. Sometimes that's

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coming from the right shoulder. So you want might want to experiment with some different feels

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or drills working on each individual shoulder to

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see where the real culprit is.

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alternatively, if you're having trouble getting your

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arms out of a really narrow bent position kind of

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like this then

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You don't want to just focus on keeping your arms extended because if

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you did keep your arms extended, that's probably about

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as long of a swing you as you would make and you wouldn't hit the

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ball anywhere. So if you are struggling

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with the arms tending to bend then if you're

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getting those shoulders more back, you can experiment with

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getting the chest pointing a little bit more up or going

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into more of a neutral hip position

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or a little bit more spinemen. So top of

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the Swing trying to get it looking kind of

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more up in that position as opposed to

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there highlight. The reason why

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we get in that position is usually this relationship between spidemen

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and shoulder connection. So if you're

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struggling with either with at the top or more of

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a centered pivot and getting good spine

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extension, then look at the relationship between the

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two check yourself on video and see if the shoulders are

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kind of breaking the pattern first or if

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it's the the spine that's causing the

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terms event. I'm I promise if you work on both of

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those you'll figure out which is the key component for you and that'll have

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a big impact on how you're improving your

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top of backswing position and your transition sequencing.

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Okay, so demo wise let's take a look at a couple of these patterns. So

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kind of the classic one. I'm going to keep my

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arms a little bit more straight.

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Kind of like that.

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And now if we I'm gonna

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let this right shoulder kind of

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pull the club back and you'll see that naturally

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I'm gonna stay a little bit more

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flexed.

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Now I hit the classic pull from there got a little steep and

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throwy felt like it got way around

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me. If you have a tendency to hit poles or slices

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that could be one of the contributing factors now on

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the next one. I'm gonna try to stay flexed over.

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I'm not going to focus too much on the arms.

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I'm gonna try to stay flexed over and what we'll see is

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once I get to about here because I'm gonna

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safex flexed over it's gonna limit some of my body rotation and

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my arms are gonna have run off to try to complete a backswing so

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we're gonna stay flexed over in turn.

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and again

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hit it. Okay felt very Army, but hit more of a pull pattern

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typically both of these will contribute to

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pulls and slices.

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Okay. So, let's see if you can identify now

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if I make what I feel like is a

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pretty good backswing if you can see the relationship between

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these shoulders and spine a little bit better.

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close

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Let's do one more.

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I want to end on that one more for me than for you

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guys.

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All right, so good backswing.

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That was better.

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little Hydra

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so

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investigate the shoulder spine complex if you're struggling with your

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top of Swing or transition.