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Improve Supination Through Better Arm Extension

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how to extend your arms from a rotated position for improved release
  • Identify grip tension that may be limiting your arm extension
  • Practice the correct timing for arm extension to achieve consistent contact

Learn how to enhance your arm extension during your swing to promote proper supination. This drill will help you achieve better control and solid contact with the ball.

Video Transcript
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This content video is get your supination from arm extension. So I have a

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handful

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of videos on the timing and the direction that the arms extend and making sure

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that the arms are extending through the ball and out, out in front of the ball

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instead of at the ball. A lot of movements where bodies tend to stall or you

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tend

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to have more of a scoop or you tend to have more of a stand-up. Those stem from

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having your arm extension at the ball. Now whether that's more to help you

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control low point and make solid contact or to help you square the face, that

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takes a little bit of investigation but the arm direction is a key component to

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a good solid release. Now the purpose of this video is to help you feel how

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your

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arms extending from a already rotated position because you did a little bit of

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arm shallowing will cause them to want to rotate if they're rotating while

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staying

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fairly loose and relaxed. Where golfers tend to have stalled rotation tends to

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come more from grip tension or basically squeezing onto the club to stop it

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from

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rotating and then bending the arms. This can either come from, I'm outside in

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kind

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of like that and then if I kept my arms extending the club would slam into the

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ground so I tense my arms and hold off the rotation or the low point is going

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to

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hit behind the golf ball so I tense my arms to bend my arm slightly so that I

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can just barely pick the ball and avoid hitting it fat. But the arm extension

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direction and the kind of the combination of having that motorcycle and then

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extending those arms out in front from a rotated position will create enough

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supination if you let it. What I find is that some golfers first getting into

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that pattern will tend to prevent the supination or the rotation on the way

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through and that limits your arm extension on the way through. So to feel

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that I like to get into delivery position and do either the pumps or the

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delivery and go and basically from here I'm going to extend my arms and by

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extending my arms that's going to cause them to rotate. I am not getting into

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this

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position and then kind of actively rotating this way because if I actively

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rotate this way it's very hard to then get the shallowness from the supination.

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So if I actively rotate more on top I will tend to have kind of more of a steep

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chunky pull kind of like that which can be useful as a trouble shot for getting

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out of the trees but that's about it. So my arms are in a rotated position

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in this delivery position they're nice and shallow like this and then as I go

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to extend them they are going to rotate purely because I'm extending from a

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already rotated position and then the weight of the club and the momentum is

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going to help encourage that supination on the way through. So we're going to

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do

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a couple where we focus on that soft grip pressure letting those arms rotate

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on the way through because I extended them from a rotated position. So to work

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through it I'm going to do a few of kind of that feeling of that arm

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extension out in front and feeling that lead thumb throw away in order to allow

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that extension to create that rotation and then I'm going to take that feeling

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and I'm going to apply it in a pump style move. So I'm going to get into a

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good shallow position and then I'm going to pump more through the release kind

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of

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like this and then let it go with enough softness and enough decreased arm

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tension to let it supinate and I'll know that I allowed it to supinate because

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I'll get arm extension on the way through where it's very hard if you have a

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lot

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of grip pressure grip tension to have either the supination or the arm

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extension.

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So then I'll do it just as they stand alone swing without the pump in it more

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like that.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Supination Through Better Arm Extension

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel how to extend your arms from a rotated position for improved release
  • Identify grip tension that may be limiting your arm extension
  • Practice the correct timing for arm extension to achieve consistent contact

Learn how to enhance your arm extension during your swing to promote proper supination. This drill will help you achieve better control and solid contact with the ball.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.220
This content video is get your supination from arm extension. So I have a

2
00:00:05.220 --> 00:00:05.640
handful

3
00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:10.520
of videos on the timing and the direction that the arms extend and making sure

4
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:15.480
that the arms are extending through the ball and out, out in front of the ball

5
00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:20.440
instead of at the ball. A lot of movements where bodies tend to stall or you

6
00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:20.640
tend

7
00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.920
to have more of a scoop or you tend to have more of a stand-up. Those stem from

8
00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.800
having your arm extension at the ball. Now whether that's more to help you

9
00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.320
control low point and make solid contact or to help you square the face, that

10
00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:39.520
takes a little bit of investigation but the arm direction is a key component to

11
00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.340
a good solid release. Now the purpose of this video is to help you feel how

12
00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:44.960
your

13
00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.880
arms extending from a already rotated position because you did a little bit of

14
00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:55.200
arm shallowing will cause them to want to rotate if they're rotating while

15
00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:55.480
staying

16
00:00:55.480 --> 00:01:02.980
fairly loose and relaxed. Where golfers tend to have stalled rotation tends to

17
00:01:02.980 --> 00:01:07.120
come more from grip tension or basically squeezing onto the club to stop it

18
00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:07.280
from

19
00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:12.760
rotating and then bending the arms. This can either come from, I'm outside in

20
00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:13.760
kind

21
00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.920
of like that and then if I kept my arms extending the club would slam into the

22
00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:24.960
ground so I tense my arms and hold off the rotation or the low point is going

23
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:25.040
to

24
00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:29.960
hit behind the golf ball so I tense my arms to bend my arm slightly so that I

25
00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:36.920
can just barely pick the ball and avoid hitting it fat. But the arm extension

26
00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:42.800
direction and the kind of the combination of having that motorcycle and then

27
00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:48.280
extending those arms out in front from a rotated position will create enough

28
00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.600
supination if you let it. What I find is that some golfers first getting into

29
00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:58.080
that pattern will tend to prevent the supination or the rotation on the way

30
00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:03.160
through and that limits your arm extension on the way through. So to feel

31
00:02:03.160 --> 00:02:07.200
that I like to get into delivery position and do either the pumps or the

32
00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:12.680
delivery and go and basically from here I'm going to extend my arms and by

33
00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:17.800
extending my arms that's going to cause them to rotate. I am not getting into

34
00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:18.040
this

35
00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:23.320
position and then kind of actively rotating this way because if I actively

36
00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:29.080
rotate this way it's very hard to then get the shallowness from the supination.

37
00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:35.480
So if I actively rotate more on top I will tend to have kind of more of a steep

38
00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:40.960
chunky pull kind of like that which can be useful as a trouble shot for getting

39
00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:47.960
out of the trees but that's about it. So my arms are in a rotated position

40
00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:52.160
in this delivery position they're nice and shallow like this and then as I go

41
00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:59.000
to extend them they are going to rotate purely because I'm extending from a

42
00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:03.160
already rotated position and then the weight of the club and the momentum is

43
00:03:03.160 --> 00:03:07.720
going to help encourage that supination on the way through. So we're going to

44
00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:07.880
do

45
00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:14.680
a couple where we focus on that soft grip pressure letting those arms rotate

46
00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:20.520
on the way through because I extended them from a rotated position. So to work

47
00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:25.120
through it I'm going to do a few of kind of that feeling of that arm

48
00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:30.920
extension out in front and feeling that lead thumb throw away in order to allow

49
00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:36.320
that extension to create that rotation and then I'm going to take that feeling

50
00:03:36.320 --> 00:03:43.200
and I'm going to apply it in a pump style move. So I'm going to get into a

51
00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:47.520
good shallow position and then I'm going to pump more through the release kind

52
00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:47.640
of

53
00:03:47.640 --> 00:03:53.840
like this and then let it go with enough softness and enough decreased arm

54
00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:59.660
tension to let it supinate and I'll know that I allowed it to supinate because

55
00:03:59.660 --> 00:04:03.200
I'll get arm extension on the way through where it's very hard if you have a

56
00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:03.320
lot

57
00:04:03.320 --> 00:04:07.210
of grip pressure grip tension to have either the supination or the arm

58
00:04:07.210 --> 00:04:08.760
extension.

59
00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:19.720
So then I'll do it just as they stand alone swing without the pump in it more

60
00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.120
like that.

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