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This video is discussing the trail arm line.

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So I think the trail arm is one of the more confusing pieces for a lot of

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amateur golfers.

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It's one that we see on video, we see a lot of casting, we see a lot of

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shoulder elevation,

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we see a lot of scooping, arm bending, chicken winging, all these kind of

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pieces of breaking

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down of the trail arm.

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So in this video, we're going to try to unify what's happening at the wrist,

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with what's

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happening at the shoulder to help it feel like it's more one motion.

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Now if you're struggling with one motion, you can try some of the specific

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drills to

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work on the piece that's preventing you from tying it all together.

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But ultimately, we want it to become one kind of unified feel from the hand to

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the shoulder.

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So before we jump into what are those pieces we want to tie together and what's

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this line

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he's talking about, let's discuss what I don't want to see or what would be the

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bad pattern.

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So the pattern that would cause a lot of inconsistency would be more the

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shoulder going up and forward

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or elevating and pertracting, kind of like this, the arm going more into

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internal rotation,

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the wrist going into flexion and actually radial deviation, or kind of like

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scooping

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rehinging kind of like this, this is often associated with kind of like an arm

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throw

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feeling hitting it with the arm, not much body, very little low point control,

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very little

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flat spot, very little club face control, a lot of inconsistency and in

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efficiency.

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Okay, so that's what we don't want to see.

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What we do want to see would be mostly the opposite of that.

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So we'll start at the wrist and we'll follow this line all the way up to the

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shoulder.

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So to create some consistency or stability in the wrist, we're going to create

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some extension

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and then we're going to work towards ulnar deviation.

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So we got extension and then we're working towards ulnar deviation.

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Now as we do that, we're going to feel some tension on the bottom of our arm

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here.

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That's going to encourage us to want to straighten the arm.

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Now you'll see when I go to straighten the arm, you might have the tendency to

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elevate

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the shoulder, so I want you to focus on keeping that shoulder down and bring

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that arm slightly

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across so that you're using more the inside of the tricep rather than the

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outside.

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The outside of the tricep is often associated with internal rotation.

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Like if I was doing a tricep press down on a rope in the gym, I actually want

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to do more

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of a tricep press where I'd be kind of doing more of the long head or the

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inside tricep

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kind of like this, but with that wrist in this other position that I talked

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about of

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extension with ulnar deviation.

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So now as I do that, I feel this tension going all the way up more the inside

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of the arm.

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So to connect that to the shoulder blade, I'm going to bring the shoulder blade

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down

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and slightly forward or to help the arm work more across in kind of that white

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movement.

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So the shoulder blade is down and it's technically working forward, but

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compared to your maximum

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movement of the shoulder blade, it's probably going to feel like it's more back

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because

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if I go down and then forward, that's how much forward I can really go before I

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start

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to feel like I have to lose the down part where if I was to get back there and

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then

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lose the down, I could reach that much forward.

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So for a lot of golfers, it tends to feel like it's back, but it is moving

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slightly around.

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It's kind of like my shoulder blade is going around the rib cage, but in the

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downward

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position kind of like this.

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So if I do that, I usually start by doing that with kind of the isolated, the

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little

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shot put feel where I've got my wrist in this position.

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And now I'm going to get just a little bit of this tricep straightening while

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that shoulder

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is working down and around and this will feel kind of more connected and more

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like a shot

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put feel than like a big shoulder throw feel.

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And if I was to recreate that with the single arm drill, that will help me

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create a little

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bit better shaft lean that will help me create more like a more feeling of

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compression and

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a more feeling of lag, less of a feeling of throw.

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Now for a lot of you that might feel weak at first, especially if you're used

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to kind

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of creating a whole lot of speed from the arm, but you can see the geometry of

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it, the consistency

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of it is going to break down and it's not really connected to the core.

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So if you're struggling with it, if you're struggling with more of the wrist

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stuff, then

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it's probably working on either the extension, like the stop sign stuff, the

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owner deviation

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or getting into that shake hands with the target.

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And if you're struggling more with the shoulder component, it's probably more

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the wipe, more

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the shoulder blade, more focusing on that arm extension and that elbow working

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more in

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and across some of the don't break my arms and things like that.

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So if you're struggling with your release and it's just breaking down on video,

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hopefully

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this video helps you see how the pieces fit together and it'll help you

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prioritize whether

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you should focus more on the wrist, more on the shoulder or more on linking

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them all together.

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See a good one there.