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This concept video is connecting the trail arm straightness to the pivot so

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many golfers want to get more open at impact and many golfers know that they

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want to keep that right arm bent a little bit longer in the downswing. In this

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video we're going to explore the relationship between those two, the

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movement of the right arm and how it relates to the pivot. So as a general

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concept the club is a pretty fixed length you know it'll have a little bit

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of bending and you know drooping kick and that stuff but it's a fixed length so

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if I imagine that the club is going to be right here and I could put in it in a

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vice then I have kind of a almost infinite number of body positions and

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connections that could relate to that position of the club and what we'll

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find is the more that I get my body open that brings my right shoulder closer

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to

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the grip. If the grip doesn't move then I would have to in order to have that

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arms straight you'll see that I have to get that shoulder joint further away.

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So

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if I rotate and side bend then my right arm will fit on there as long as the

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elbow stays in front kind of like this but if I was to straighten the arm you

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can see I would either have to elevate my shoulder or the easiest way is I

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could

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decrease the amount of rotation. So those two connection pieces are go hand in

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hand.

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If you are going to try and delay the straightening of the arm from having a

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little bit better wipe and having the arm working in the direction more across

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your body instead of out well that's going to require your body to be a

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little bit more rotated and side bent. If on the other hand let's say you're

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hitting a wedge shot where you're going to try and get that right arm to be a

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little bit straighter down at the bottom well then you're going to have to keep

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that right shoulder tall because if you rotate it in side bent you would bottom

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out behind the golf ball. So there's a good connection between the right arm

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pivot movement or right arm shoulder action and the pivot movement and the

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part of how they work together is the more that this elbow is working kind of

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across my body going like this. That engages some of the shoulder muscles and

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those muscles on the inside of the shoulder blade have a pretty strong

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connection to the obliques. So leading and hitting almost more with the elbow

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allows me to get into that shoulder position. We're hitting a little bit more

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with the top of the arm or the back of the arm or the tricep in the shoulder

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typically disconnects what's going on at the ribcage and I'll typically go into

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more of a crunch pattern. So I'm either going to have that rotation side bend

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pattern with the good arm extension late or I'm going to have more of a arm

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extension early body going into more of a crunch pattern. Neither is

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necessarily

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better or worse but for the longer clubs that rotation side bend arm extension

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tends to give you a little bit flatter bottom of the swing and a little bit

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more consistency. So when you're experimenting with some of these drills

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that work on either the pivot or work on that right arm action understand the

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relationship between the two because if you're only training one you may

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struggle with contact because you haven't tied it together to the other

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pieces. It's the whole purpose of the connection series and this one is

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designed

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to help you see how you can improve your pivot with your right arm or improve

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your right arm by working on your pivot.