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In this concept video, we're going to take a look at the details of how the arm

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shallow

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the club during transition.

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This is one of the big movements in the golf swing that separates your high

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handicappers

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from your tour pros, because if I fail to shallow the club with my arms during

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transition,

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it opens me up to shallowing it either early with a cast or late with early

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extension and

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both of those are going to limit my flat spot and limit my ability to strike

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the ball consistently.

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So take a look at these examples and hopefully it'll help you understand how

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and why we want

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these arms to shallow during transition.

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So now we're going to take a look at how a couple great ball strikers have

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described

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this down versus out movement and how amateurs typically interpret it and I

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think you'll

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be able to see where you might have some struggles or some issues with putting

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it into your

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own swing, but I think that it's one of those key movements that helps build

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proper pivot

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and body movements on the downswing.

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So I think it's important that we get on the same page here.

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So in this video, Ben Hogan is describing what he wants the lower body to do.

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But what I want you to do is I want you to watch his upper body as he

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demonstrates this

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lower body movement.

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So you'll see that basically compared to his chest, his hands stay relatively

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at the same

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level as he goes through this movement.

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So his hands are working more or less across his body as he's demonstrating

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this.

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They're not really working down towards the golf ball until he reaches that

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delivery position

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and then lets those arms go through.

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So while he's describing this movement as all lower body, you can see that his

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arms have

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had this shallow move and they're working more across his body.

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Next, we'll take a look at Mo Norman demonstrating the same thing.

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So now we have a video of Mo Norman essentially describing what his arms do,

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what he describes

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as the drop, but you'll see that as he does that, his shoulder compared to his

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body actually

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stays more or less out in front of his chest.

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His arms are not actually dropping down even though he describes it as a drop.

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And then what you'll see is as he works more into the release, you'll see that

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his arms

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work actually more across his body as opposed to down out towards the golf ball

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Here he's describing how that right elbow got underneath the left.

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And so if you were to, that would be similar to my concept of the don't break

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my arm.

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But you'll see that as he goes through this, he's basically describing this

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shallow move

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or this, having the club drop behind you, this vision of how the arms actually

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shallow

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the swing and you'll see that when he demonstrates it, it looks almost nothing

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like it.

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So now I want to show you a couple amateurs who I think need to work on this

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and I'll

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even show you one amateur working on it and how often it is interpreted.

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So now here's one of our members who's agreed to let me use the swing and you

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'll see he

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had kind of more of an upper body dominated swing and so he's trying to get

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those that

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shallow move and you'll see that the hands are actually working almost

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vertically just

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like so.

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And as a result, the shaft is actually tipping back this way or getting steeper

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So even though those hands are working very much down and from the inside of

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the golf

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ball, that club is moving steeper and steeper and steeper during that pattern.

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That's what's commonly interpreted when you try to drop your arms or what most

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people

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think of come from the inside and shallow out the swing.

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I'll show you another example of a golfer who actually worked with in person

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and thus

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going through the process.

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So here's the golfer working in sunny Colorado.

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You'll see that this is just during his warm up so he's not really focused on

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this at all.

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In fact, he has some thoughts that are more geared towards the body and you'll

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see that

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those hands work very much down and the shaft tends to stand up and steepen

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even as he takes

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these practice swings.

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And so as a result, he'll tend to have this clunky behind the ground contact

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like so.

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Well if I were to bring in, I mentioned or I showed him on video what he was

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doing and

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I said okay so I want you to try to really work on getting that shaft to

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shallow and

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he was like okay I got an idea for it.

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Here we go.

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So now he's going to go up towards the top of the swing and he's really going

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to get

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that shaft to shallow and you'll see that what he actually does is that shaft

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steepens

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compared to the other one but his hands are just working more and more down

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back and behind

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him kind of like so.

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So that's commonly what a lot of amateurs try to do or what they do

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unconsciously in trying

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to get that shallowing piece.

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Now if you were to replay in the back of your mind what it looked like when Ben

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Hogan was

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demonstrating his movement so you can see his arms compared to his body are

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closer to

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vertical.

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If we were to bring Ben Hogan back up and demonstrate that piece, you'll see

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that as

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he does this little pump movement you can see that those arms are very much

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working

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more across your bodies.

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I know this is a different view but hopefully you can see what I'm talking

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about.

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So now let's jump back to this amateur and when he was actually trying to do

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the drill.

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So basically what I did was I stepped in and made sure that his hands

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physically could

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not drop and he tried to drop the club.

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So I had my hands right here and I said I want you to let the club drop down

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behind

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you just like this.

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And so you'll see that as he practices it, hey he's actually getting it to

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shallow out

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some and look a little bit more like Mo Norman and Ben Hogan.

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Obviously the club faces not in the same position but you can see the shaft is

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working

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out.

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And so as a result of him when he feels that movement you'll see when he

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actually goes

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to swing the contact with the ground is much more shallow, it's no longer cl

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unky and slamming

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into the ground and it's going to ultimately give him a much higher margin for

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air as he

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works on the club face.

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So I think that a lot of golfers who struggle with this cast pattern or who

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struggle with

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early extension and the downswing can benefit from this shallowing move during

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the transition.

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And while I have a couple of videos such as Downverse Out, the water bottle

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transition,

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things like that, I still think it helps to visualize.

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So hopefully this helps you understand how to apply those drills properly for

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your swing.

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So if you're the average golfer, that's probably all you need is just to see

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the video and

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see what it looks like.

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But I know that we have a fair number of instructors and kind of what I

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consider the golf nerds

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who love to study the shuhu what and why.

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So I'm going to show the 3D graph that essentially shows how we look at this

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Downverse Out.

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So here's, this is lead arm lift.

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So this line is basically showing how much the left arm for a rehanded golfer

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is either

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raised or depressed compared to the thorax.

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So basically if we look at the one on the left, you'll see during the takeaway

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it pretty

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much stays the same and then it starts lifting during the backswing and it's

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still lifting

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until you'll see this vertical line represents top of the swing and you'll see

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it's still

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lifting until just after top of the swing and then it starts working back down

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towards

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impact.

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Over on the right, you'll see more of that kind of dropping and steepening move

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where

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you'll see it has similar pattern during the takeaway and then gradually lifts

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during the

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backswing.

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But you'll see that just before the top of the swing, it starts working down.

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This will be one of those golfers who's going to look like the club is steep

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ening and the

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arms are dropping straight down behind him so it'll feel like he's coming from

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the inside

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but it doesn't have very much of a shallow piece.

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So I like to give you as much information as I can, hopefully this helps you

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understand

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why this golfer on the left who happens to be an accomplished tour pro, hits

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the ball

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a lot better than this golfer on the right, part of which is what they are

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doing with

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their arms during transition and how the arms are controlling a big piece of

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the shallowing

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of the swing.