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This drill is feeling the rhythm of the arm-shallowing. Many golfers struggle

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with the arm-shallowing movement and so they're forced to do a steeper arm

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movement and couple that with more of a cast pattern but that can be a problem

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when you get into the longer clubs or when you're trying to really create

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body speed. So this drill is to help you feel the rhythm of the arm-shallowing

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because it's very common that many golfers tend to force the feeling or force

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the movements of the arm-shallowing when they're trying to learn it and the

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club

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face gets out of position and it kind of results in a poor contact, difficult

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learning environment. So what I'll show you in this video is how to feel the

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rhythm of it with the arms. We're going to start with the trail arm. So what

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you're

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going to do is you're going to take your normal grip and then take your lead

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hand

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or left hand off the club. So now I'm going to hold the club straight up and

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down. This is kind of that unweighted feeling of the club at the top of the

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swing and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to let the club fall and

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I'm just going to catch it and let it bounce back up to vertical. So this is a

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little bit like the first half of the Zorro loop and it'll reinforce a couple

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things. A, it'll give you that feeling of the muscles of the forearm and the

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shoulder really catching the club and B, it'll reinforce that you have a decent

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grip with the club in your fingers because if you put the club more in your

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palm you'll feel it's pretty tough on your forearm in order to just bounce it

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where if it's in the fingers I'm going to have a much more easy job catching

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the

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club with basically these knuckles right here. So I'm just going to do a few

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more

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kind of like that and then I can put my lead hand on but I'm going to keep it

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very relaxed and basically let the lead hand feel that shallowing movement

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happen all at once. So the lead hand's not really helping it and forcing it it

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's

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just kind of sensing it. Then what you can do is you can coordinate it with the

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body movement during transition. So now I've got the club straight up and down

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and

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I'm going to add a little bit of body rotation in order to create or to

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trigger the falling of the club. So it's unweighted and then as my body starts

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to rotate that pulls my hand out from underneath it and I just kind of feel

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the club fall. Again I can do that one hand or I can do that two hands and then

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the last version that I like is adding a little bit of the face rotation. So as

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I've been doing this you'll see the first version. The club is staying facing

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the sky where it's staying perpendicular to the path. Now in this last version

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as

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it drops I'm going to try to let the club face close just a bit. And you'll

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feel or at least I feel that now the hand is in a weaker position to catch

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it because now it's going through the fingers instead of through the knuckles.

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So I'll be able to catch it more in the shoulder than in the fingers. Again I

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can

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now add that left arm on just like so and I'm feeling that falling

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coordinated with my body pivot. Now I'm going to do it in golf posture. So when

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I

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coordinate it with that body pivot you'll see that it doesn't look exaggerated.

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In

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fact the more that I add body pivot to it the more it looks like the club is

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just falling into place. But the sensation I get is very similar to what

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we're experiencing with that. Once you have a good feeling you can then blend

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it

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into the zoro loop so that as it gets to the bottom of it you're basically

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gonna

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then just straighten those arms and let it release. So I'm going to feel that

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shallowing, coordinated. Now add the club face and then swing through. Once you

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have

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a decent feeling you can either do these in pump style or you can go ahead and

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place the ball down and take that feeling and try it with the ball there.

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So it'll look something like this. So if you're struggling with getting your

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arms to shallow this can give you the sensation of them kind of falling into

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the shallow movement and loading the release movement that's gonna happen at

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the end of that arm shallow.