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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, um,

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pieces for a lot of amateur golfers. Uh, it's one that we see on video.

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We see a lot of casting, we see a lot of kind of shoulder elevation,

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

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pieces of breaking down of the trail arm. So in this, we're gonna,

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in this video,

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we're gonna try to unify what's happening at the wrist with what's happening at

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the shoulder, um, to help it feel like it's more one motion. Now,

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if you're struggling with one motion,

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you can try some of the specific drills to work on the piece that's, uh,

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preventing you from tying it all together. Um,

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

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to the shoulder. So before we jump into, well,

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what are those pieces we want to tie together and what's this line he's talking

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about? Let's discuss what I don't wanna see, or what would be the 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 or elevating and protracting kinda like this.

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The arm going more into internal rotation,

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the wrist going into flexion and actually, uh,

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radial deviation or kind of like scooping, re hinging, kinda like this.

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Um, this is often associated with kind of like a,

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an arm throw feeling, hitting it with the arm, not much body,

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very little low point control, very little flat spot,

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very little club face control. Um, a lot of inconsistency and inefficiency.

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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. So to create some consistency or stability in the wrist,

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we're gonna create some extension and then we're gonna work towards ulnar

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

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Now as we do that, we're gonna feel some tension on the bottom of our arm here.

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That's gonna encourage us to wanna straighten the arm.

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Now you'll see when I go to straighten the arm, you might be tendon, uh,

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you might have the tendency to elevate the shoulder.

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So I want you to focus on keeping that shoulder down and bring that arm slightly

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in across so that you're using more the tri,

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the inside of the tricep rather than the, than the 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,

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I actually wanna do more of a tricep press where I'd be kind of, uh,

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doing more of the long head or the inside tricep, kind of like this,

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but with that wrist in this other position that I talked about of extension, uh,

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with ulnar and deviation. So now as I do that,

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I feel this tension going all the way up more the inside of the arm.

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So to connect that to the shoulder blade,

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I'm gonna bring the shoulder blade down and slightly forward,

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or to help the arm work more across in kind of that white movement.

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

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but compared to your maximum movement of the shoulder blade,

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it's probably gonna feel like it's more back. Uh,

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because if I go down and then forward,

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that's how much forward I can really go before I start to feel like I have to

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lose the down part, where if I was to get back there and then lose the down,

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I could reach that much forward. So for a lot of golfers,

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it tends to feel like it's back,

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but it is moving slightly around.

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It's kinda like my shoulder blade is going around the rib cage,

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but in a downward position kinda like this. So if I do that,

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

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the little shot put feel where I've got my wrist in this position,

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and now I'm gonna get just a little bit of this tricep straightening while that

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shoulder is working down and around.

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And this will feel kind of more connected and more like a shot put feel,

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then like a big shoulder throw feel.

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Then if I was to recreate that with the

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single arm drill,

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that will help me create a little bit better shafting that will help me

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create more, uh, like a, um,

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more feeling of compression and a more feeling of leg,

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less of a feeling of throw. Now for a lot of you that might feel weak at first,

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um,

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especially if you're used to kind of creating a whole lot of speed from the arm.

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Um, but you could see the, the geometry of it,

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the consistency of it is gonna break down and it's not really connected to the

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core. Um, so if you're struggling with it,

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if you're struggling with more of the wrist stuff, um,

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

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the ulnar deviation, or getting into that shake hands with the target. Um,

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and if you're struggling more with the shoulder component,

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it's probably more the wipe, more the shoulder blade, um,

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more focusing on that arm extension and that elbow working more in and across

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

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you prioritize whether you should focus more on the wrist, more on the shoulder,

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or more on linking them all together.

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Pretty good one there.