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How to Shallow Your Arms for Better Swing Path
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how your arms should move more around your body during the swing
- Understand the importance of transitioning from vertical to horizontal swings
- Create greater clubhead speed by mastering the shallow arm movement
In this drill, you'll learn how to visualize and practice shallowing your arms to improve your swing path. This technique will help you achieve better contact and consistency with your shots.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
This drill is horizontal swings are shallow, so when you're working on
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.560
steepening and shallowing your arms, sometimes it's good to take global
3
00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:15.060
perspective. So I have a good video on visualizing shallow arms, so basically
4
00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:21.080
working a little bit more around your body as opposed to vertically. So some
5
00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:25.560
golfers get a really good feel of the shallowness of the arms and how the
6
00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:28.880
arms should work in transition when they start trying to work around their body
7
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:28.880
.
8
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.520
I think that's part of the reason why things like baseball swings or hitting
9
00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.560
with the ball above your feet were commonly used for golfers who got steep.
10
00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:42.960
So just feeling like my arms are swinging kind of more around my body,
11
00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.520
kind of like so, and I can do this trying to create some speed. So trying to
12
00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:54.840
actually get the club to whoosh through from more of this horizontal movement.
13
00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:01.760
Then what I can do is I can gradually work more or still around my body, but
14
00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:07.960
then angle my body down so that that movement around my body will brush the
15
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:13.280
ground. This gets me gives me a feeling of my arms working more kind of around
16
00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.840
this way as opposed to straight up and down. Compare that to if I stayed
17
00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.720
perfectly vertical, the only way that I would get the club or as vertical as I
18
00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:26.600
can and still hit a golf ball. The only way I could get the club down to the
19
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.760
ground would be if my arms worked up, even if they work kind of around, they'll
20
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:36.800
still have to work up and then down. If I had them work around my body down
21
00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:37.120
here,
22
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.600
I would have a real challenge creating any amount of speed. So if I were to
23
00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:41.840
stand
24
00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:49.920
vertical, my arms would work much more up and down. That's not so good for golf
25
00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.720
especially for the longer clubs like the driver and the long irons. So getting
26
00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:01.280
this feel of the arms working more around my body and then angling more down at
27
00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.000
the golf ball. Sometimes that feeling of just having the arms work more around
28
00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.280
my
29
00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.880
body is enough to shallow out the club. So it kind of falls in line with the
30
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:16.920
concept of you don't necessarily have to feel a big drop in shallow. You just
31
00:02:16.920 --> 00:02:20.560
have to use the reference frames to make sure that you're shallowing with your
32
00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.280
arms in some way. For a lot of golfers, swinging the club more on a horizontal
33
00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:31.360
plane and then using bending at the hips in order to get that shallow movement
34
00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:31.480
to
35
00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:36.840
brush the ground really helps unlock and kind of unify a lot of the details of
36
00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:42.040
how you can actually shallow with the arms during transition. One quick word of
37
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:47.080
caution. When you're doing these horizontal swings, it is natural for you to
38
00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:47.320
move
39
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.400
the bottom of the swing more behind the golf ball. So if you tend to hit kind
40
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.400
of
41
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.770
fat or thin shots when you're working on the club swinging more around you,
42
00:02:55.770 --> 00:02:56.200
then
43
00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:01.680
know that it's the shallow arms or your arms normally working steep that help
44
00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:01.840
you
45
00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.880
move the bottom of the swing forward. Better ways to move the bottom of the
46
00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:09.010
swing forward would be making sure that you have a full shift into that front
47
00:03:09.010 --> 00:03:09.160
foot
48
00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:16.480
or continuing your body rotating on the way through or continuing that feeling
49
00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.600
of the shallowness and not letting the wrist release. So working on more that
50
00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:24.280
arm timing.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
This drill is horizontal swings are shallow, so when you're working on
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.560
steepening and shallowing your arms, sometimes it's good to take global
3
00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:15.060
perspective. So I have a good video on visualizing shallow arms, so basically
4
00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:21.080
working a little bit more around your body as opposed to vertically. So some
5
00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:25.560
golfers get a really good feel of the shallowness of the arms and how the
6
00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:28.880
arms should work in transition when they start trying to work around their body
7
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:28.880
.
8
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.520
I think that's part of the reason why things like baseball swings or hitting
9
00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.560
with the ball above your feet were commonly used for golfers who got steep.
10
00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:42.960
So just feeling like my arms are swinging kind of more around my body,
11
00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.520
kind of like so, and I can do this trying to create some speed. So trying to
12
00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:54.840
actually get the club to whoosh through from more of this horizontal movement.
13
00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:01.760
Then what I can do is I can gradually work more or still around my body, but
14
00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:07.960
then angle my body down so that that movement around my body will brush the
15
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:13.280
ground. This gets me gives me a feeling of my arms working more kind of around
16
00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.840
this way as opposed to straight up and down. Compare that to if I stayed
17
00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.720
perfectly vertical, the only way that I would get the club or as vertical as I
18
00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:26.600
can and still hit a golf ball. The only way I could get the club down to the
19
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.760
ground would be if my arms worked up, even if they work kind of around, they'll
20
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:36.800
still have to work up and then down. If I had them work around my body down
21
00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:37.120
here,
22
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.600
I would have a real challenge creating any amount of speed. So if I were to
23
00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:41.840
stand
24
00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:49.920
vertical, my arms would work much more up and down. That's not so good for golf
25
00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.720
especially for the longer clubs like the driver and the long irons. So getting
26
00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:01.280
this feel of the arms working more around my body and then angling more down at
27
00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.000
the golf ball. Sometimes that feeling of just having the arms work more around
28
00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.280
my
29
00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.880
body is enough to shallow out the club. So it kind of falls in line with the
30
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:16.920
concept of you don't necessarily have to feel a big drop in shallow. You just
31
00:02:16.920 --> 00:02:20.560
have to use the reference frames to make sure that you're shallowing with your
32
00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.280
arms in some way. For a lot of golfers, swinging the club more on a horizontal
33
00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:31.360
plane and then using bending at the hips in order to get that shallow movement
34
00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:31.480
to
35
00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:36.840
brush the ground really helps unlock and kind of unify a lot of the details of
36
00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:42.040
how you can actually shallow with the arms during transition. One quick word of
37
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:47.080
caution. When you're doing these horizontal swings, it is natural for you to
38
00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:47.320
move
39
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.400
the bottom of the swing more behind the golf ball. So if you tend to hit kind
40
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.400
of
41
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.770
fat or thin shots when you're working on the club swinging more around you,
42
00:02:55.770 --> 00:02:56.200
then
43
00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:01.680
know that it's the shallow arms or your arms normally working steep that help
44
00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:01.840
you
45
00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.880
move the bottom of the swing forward. Better ways to move the bottom of the
46
00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:09.010
swing forward would be making sure that you have a full shift into that front
47
00:03:09.010 --> 00:03:09.160
foot
48
00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:16.480
or continuing your body rotating on the way through or continuing that feeling
49
00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.600
of the shallowness and not letting the wrist release. So working on more that
50
00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:24.280
arm timing.
Have questions?
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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.
How to Shallow Your Arms for Better Swing Path
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how your arms should move more around your body during the swing
- Understand the importance of transitioning from vertical to horizontal swings
- Create greater clubhead speed by mastering the shallow arm movement
In this drill, you'll learn how to visualize and practice shallowing your arms to improve your swing path. This technique will help you achieve better contact and consistency with your shots.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
This drill is horizontal swings are shallow, so when you're working on
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.560
steepening and shallowing your arms, sometimes it's good to take global
3
00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:15.060
perspective. So I have a good video on visualizing shallow arms, so basically
4
00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:21.080
working a little bit more around your body as opposed to vertically. So some
5
00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:25.560
golfers get a really good feel of the shallowness of the arms and how the
6
00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:28.880
arms should work in transition when they start trying to work around their body
7
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:28.880
.
8
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.520
I think that's part of the reason why things like baseball swings or hitting
9
00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.560
with the ball above your feet were commonly used for golfers who got steep.
10
00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:42.960
So just feeling like my arms are swinging kind of more around my body,
11
00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.520
kind of like so, and I can do this trying to create some speed. So trying to
12
00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:54.840
actually get the club to whoosh through from more of this horizontal movement.
13
00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:01.760
Then what I can do is I can gradually work more or still around my body, but
14
00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:07.960
then angle my body down so that that movement around my body will brush the
15
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:13.280
ground. This gets me gives me a feeling of my arms working more kind of around
16
00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.840
this way as opposed to straight up and down. Compare that to if I stayed
17
00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.720
perfectly vertical, the only way that I would get the club or as vertical as I
18
00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:26.600
can and still hit a golf ball. The only way I could get the club down to the
19
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.760
ground would be if my arms worked up, even if they work kind of around, they'll
20
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:36.800
still have to work up and then down. If I had them work around my body down
21
00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:37.120
here,
22
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.600
I would have a real challenge creating any amount of speed. So if I were to
23
00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:41.840
stand
24
00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:49.920
vertical, my arms would work much more up and down. That's not so good for golf
25
00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.720
especially for the longer clubs like the driver and the long irons. So getting
26
00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:01.280
this feel of the arms working more around my body and then angling more down at
27
00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.000
the golf ball. Sometimes that feeling of just having the arms work more around
28
00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.280
my
29
00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.880
body is enough to shallow out the club. So it kind of falls in line with the
30
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:16.920
concept of you don't necessarily have to feel a big drop in shallow. You just
31
00:02:16.920 --> 00:02:20.560
have to use the reference frames to make sure that you're shallowing with your
32
00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.280
arms in some way. For a lot of golfers, swinging the club more on a horizontal
33
00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:31.360
plane and then using bending at the hips in order to get that shallow movement
34
00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:31.480
to
35
00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:36.840
brush the ground really helps unlock and kind of unify a lot of the details of
36
00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:42.040
how you can actually shallow with the arms during transition. One quick word of
37
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:47.080
caution. When you're doing these horizontal swings, it is natural for you to
38
00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:47.320
move
39
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.400
the bottom of the swing more behind the golf ball. So if you tend to hit kind
40
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.400
of
41
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.770
fat or thin shots when you're working on the club swinging more around you,
42
00:02:55.770 --> 00:02:56.200
then
43
00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:01.680
know that it's the shallow arms or your arms normally working steep that help
44
00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:01.840
you
45
00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.880
move the bottom of the swing forward. Better ways to move the bottom of the
46
00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:09.010
swing forward would be making sure that you have a full shift into that front
47
00:03:09.010 --> 00:03:09.160
foot
48
00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:16.480
or continuing your body rotating on the way through or continuing that feeling
49
00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.600
of the shallowness and not letting the wrist release. So working on more that
50
00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:24.280
arm timing.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
This drill is horizontal swings are shallow, so when you're working on
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:08.560
steepening and shallowing your arms, sometimes it's good to take global
3
00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:15.060
perspective. So I have a good video on visualizing shallow arms, so basically
4
00:00:15.060 --> 00:00:21.080
working a little bit more around your body as opposed to vertically. So some
5
00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:25.560
golfers get a really good feel of the shallowness of the arms and how the
6
00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:28.880
arms should work in transition when they start trying to work around their body
7
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:28.880
.
8
00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:33.520
I think that's part of the reason why things like baseball swings or hitting
9
00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.560
with the ball above your feet were commonly used for golfers who got steep.
10
00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:42.960
So just feeling like my arms are swinging kind of more around my body,
11
00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.520
kind of like so, and I can do this trying to create some speed. So trying to
12
00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:54.840
actually get the club to whoosh through from more of this horizontal movement.
13
00:00:54.840 --> 00:01:01.760
Then what I can do is I can gradually work more or still around my body, but
14
00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:07.960
then angle my body down so that that movement around my body will brush the
15
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:13.280
ground. This gets me gives me a feeling of my arms working more kind of around
16
00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.840
this way as opposed to straight up and down. Compare that to if I stayed
17
00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.720
perfectly vertical, the only way that I would get the club or as vertical as I
18
00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:26.600
can and still hit a golf ball. The only way I could get the club down to the
19
00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.760
ground would be if my arms worked up, even if they work kind of around, they'll
20
00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:36.800
still have to work up and then down. If I had them work around my body down
21
00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:37.120
here,
22
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.600
I would have a real challenge creating any amount of speed. So if I were to
23
00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:41.840
stand
24
00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:49.920
vertical, my arms would work much more up and down. That's not so good for golf
25
00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.720
especially for the longer clubs like the driver and the long irons. So getting
26
00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:01.280
this feel of the arms working more around my body and then angling more down at
27
00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.000
the golf ball. Sometimes that feeling of just having the arms work more around
28
00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.280
my
29
00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.880
body is enough to shallow out the club. So it kind of falls in line with the
30
00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:16.920
concept of you don't necessarily have to feel a big drop in shallow. You just
31
00:02:16.920 --> 00:02:20.560
have to use the reference frames to make sure that you're shallowing with your
32
00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.280
arms in some way. For a lot of golfers, swinging the club more on a horizontal
33
00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:31.360
plane and then using bending at the hips in order to get that shallow movement
34
00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:31.480
to
35
00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:36.840
brush the ground really helps unlock and kind of unify a lot of the details of
36
00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:42.040
how you can actually shallow with the arms during transition. One quick word of
37
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:47.080
caution. When you're doing these horizontal swings, it is natural for you to
38
00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:47.320
move
39
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.400
the bottom of the swing more behind the golf ball. So if you tend to hit kind
40
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:51.400
of
41
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:55.770
fat or thin shots when you're working on the club swinging more around you,
42
00:02:55.770 --> 00:02:56.200
then
43
00:02:56.200 --> 00:03:01.680
know that it's the shallow arms or your arms normally working steep that help
44
00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:01.840
you
45
00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.880
move the bottom of the swing forward. Better ways to move the bottom of the
46
00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:09.010
swing forward would be making sure that you have a full shift into that front
47
00:03:09.010 --> 00:03:09.160
foot
48
00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:16.480
or continuing your body rotating on the way through or continuing that feeling
49
00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.600
of the shallowness and not letting the wrist release. So working on more that
50
00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:24.280
arm timing.
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