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This concept video is understanding the look of the chicken wing.

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So hopefully you're in the habit of using some video when you're practicing.

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What I want to help you in this video, what I want to help you understand is

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the look

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of the chicken wing and what we're seeing from the face on camera because that

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's, yes,

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you can see the, from the down the line, you can see the elbow kind of popping

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out behind

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that's what gives the classic chicken wing look or from the face on camera, you

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'll typically

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see that arm bending and kind of collapsing, getting very narrow like this.

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So you would think on paper, it's just about keeping the arm straight, what I'm

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going to

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show you in this video is it's more about, or it's equally about the

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orientation of the

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shoulder.

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So if I was to get into impact position, right, good merry-go-round impact line

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, something

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along the lines of there, and then if I was to release without a chicken wing,

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this would

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have kind of that look of the hands going down the target line kind of like

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this.

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If I came back to face the camera, you can see that this is a little bit more

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towards

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the right half of my body because my body is turned, it hasn't crossed over.

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What you'll see is if you have a habit of pulling the arm across your body,

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that's one

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of the primary causes of the chicken wing, that usually causes where results in

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the shoulder

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pulling down, kind of pulling like this, it's a very powerful movement using

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some big strong

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muscles of the left side of the back.

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Now it creates a whole host of contact and direction problems, usually causes

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toe contact,

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usually causes pulls, and usually causes some face inconsistency, especially

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with the driver,

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the longer clubs.

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But what we, what I want to help you understand is it's not just about trying

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to keep that

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arm straight, it's actually about keeping that arm up from the down the line

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camera

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and across from the face on camera.

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So if I was to get into this position over here, and if I kept that arm

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straight, I'm

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going to remove my right hand to make it a little bit easier, and I pulled the

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hand down

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or my arm down to the side, you can see that my bicep disappears and my hand is

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really

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low.

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If I put my right hand on, it would be kind of looking like this.

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Now if I keep my arm straight, and I bring the arm more in front by bringing

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the shoulder

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so that now it's pointing at my right hip, you'll now see from that face on

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camera angle

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that you can see a lot more of that left arm and left shoulder.

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So one of the habits that I talk about is kind of using that left arm as more

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of a blocking

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and feeling like it's pinned a little bit more across the chest, kind of

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turning into

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that arm or pinning the peck type feel.

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That helps create a lot more width compared to, you can see if I, if we looked

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at kind

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of where that is right here, if I pull this arm across, it's now much closer.

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So that has a big impact on your ability to create the flat spot, which is

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ultimately

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why the chicken wing tends to show up as one of the more inconsistent patterns.

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It's also oftentimes associated with an overly dominant pattern, either in

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transition or

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more likely during the release, so not using a whole lot of body pivot.

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So you have a bunch of drills to kind of help on it, but if you're just

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experimenting with

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this concept, what you can do is you can pin this arm kind of across your

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shoulder, hold

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it across your shoulder, kind of like this, and then come through where you're

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feeling

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like you're applying a little bit of pressure and the arm is releasing, you

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might feel a

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little bit more supination or rotation, the arm is releasing while it's saying

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across

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your body, instead of that shoulder pulling down.

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For many of you, this will either feel like the arm is up or it will feel like

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it's more

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across, as opposed to down and behind.

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Okay, so first, we'll do this as just a one arm kind of practice where I'm

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going to feel

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like that is pulling across.

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In fact, in the, in the practice drill, I can kind of hold that arm a little

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bit across

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just like that, then we're going to do a single arm where we can just check

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that finished

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position, feeling like it's across, put the right hand on, we've got some

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pretty good

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width there.

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Now we're going to try it in a nine to three, so we're just going to feel like

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that arm

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stays a little bit more across, and one of the big things that you'll find is

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this should

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really help clean up kind of the, the shallowness of the contact.

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What I mean by that is when this arm pulls, it tends to take a more of a deep

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or diggy

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or kind of steep divot, even if you're coming from the inside because of some

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body shallowing,

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it will tend to get deeper, deeper divots if you take them or have a fairly

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abrasive feel

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with the ground.

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If you keep that arm more across, then as you go through, it will allow you to

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rotate

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your body, and it will, on its own, make the club just kind of skim across the

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ground.

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So I'm trying to get this feel of the arm still being out in front from this

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face on

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camera angle while my body is turned.

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That's one of the kind of magic ways for solving the chicken wing is

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understanding a better

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role of how the shoulder works.

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As you get more comfortable, you can work it up into fuller and fuller swings.

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Another little piece I should add is that it is very hard to pull smoothly.

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So if you have a hard time doing slow motion, Tai Chi type swings like that,

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you'll see

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this next one, I will try and chicken wing, but I will try and do it smoothly.

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So I'll try to pull across and it was okay kind of smooth, but felt nowhere

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near as smooth,

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especially through impact, as that first one where I felt like I kept that arm

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much more

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out.

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That feels like I'm just swinging through the ball where the chicken wing tends

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to feel

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a little bit more like a rapid change down to the bottom.

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So if you struggle with the chicken wing, hopefully this little discussion

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helps you

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understand how some of the drills on the site are going to help you ultimately

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solve that

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annoying inconsistent pattern.