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In this concept video, we're going to discuss how to play the steep arm pattern

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So the steep arm pattern is not ideal, but if you don't have enough time to

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work on the

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pieces, like let's say I've been doing this steep arm pattern for 20 years and

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I'm going

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to play a trip in two weeks and I don't have like a good feel of shallowing the

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arms.

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Well, then I probably don't want to do anything radically different to try to

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shallow out

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the arms.

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I want to just play that steep arm pattern.

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So if I'm going to play that steep arm pattern, then there's a couple

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suggestions I give

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for most golfers.

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First, the easiest thing to understand is the more that I create this power

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vertically,

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my body is going to shallow out.

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Now I could either do that from really tilting behind, but that tends to cause

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some timing

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and low point issues, or I could do that by staying a little bit taller.

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So I'm going to stand up a little bit taller so that I can pull down and still

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have enough

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room to then get those arms straight.

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And as I'm getting the arms straight, you'll notice I let the club pass as

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opposed to kind

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of bending the arms and bringing it in like this.

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So I want to make sure that from this tall position, I'm really letting my arms

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stay

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straight and letting the wrist do a little bit more down at the bottom.

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Kind of more like that as opposed to trying to do too much with the body.

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If I am really steep with the arms, then short term trying to do too much with

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the body often

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disrupts my timing.

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The other piece with the steepness aspect, or with the staying tall aspect, is

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I really

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want to make sure that my upper body stays on top of the golf ball.

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It's very hard to be steep arms and be back behind the golf ball kind of like

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this.

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And that's part of the reason why the steep arm pattern doesn't tend to work as

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well with

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the driver.

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So I'm going to not only stay tall, but I'm also going to stay a little bit

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more on my

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front foot.

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This will help get the solid contact.

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So get the low point ahead of the golf ball without having to overly rotate my

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body.

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Because what will usually happen is if I have a steep arm pattern kind of like

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this, then

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the last thing my body will want to do is get wide open because I'd have a

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really hard

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time squaring it up.

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So I'm going to be tall and I'm going to be on top.

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Those are the two kind of set up and pivot ideas that compliment the steep arm

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pattern.

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From a rhythm perspective, I have to be really careful not to swing out of my

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shoes.

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I have to be really careful not to try to ratchet things up.

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Oftentimes when I have more of this shallow body, steeper arm pattern, it's

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more timing

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sensitive.

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I'm also going to have a lot more trouble hitting kind of flighted shots or

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easy tempo,

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like three quarter swings.

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I want to kind of stick with around the same tempo for most of my shots as best

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I can.

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So because if I swing hard, what will usually happen is I pull harder, I lose

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the timing

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of when my body should be either lunging or standing up and I tend to get some

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called

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facing or contact issues.

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So we're going to stay tall, we're going to stay on top of the ball and we're

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not going

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to swing hard.

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Ball flight wise, everyone always asks is it better to hit more of a fade or a

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draw?

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That really depends on your grip and your club face alignment, but I would say

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you will

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do better playing one ball flight rather than trying to do a whole lot of shot

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shaping.

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And I would say that the better ball flight to play is one that isn't dead

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straight.

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So if I'm more on top of it, it's a little bit easier if I have the club face

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open, that

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thing's going to fade fairly, you know, a good amount.

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And if I do end up keeping my body a little bit more closed, then that's going

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to tend

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to draw a fair amount.

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So it becomes harder to have a really stable club face.

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So it's easier to have a little margin of error and make sure that I'm going to

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hit

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either a bigger fade or a bigger draw.

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Now, lastly, equipment wise, you'll tend to do better with shorter clubs and

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even a little

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bit more upright.

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So the driver is typically the most problematic pattern, which you can either

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try to resolve

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by choking up or remembering some of those other keys and making sure that you

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don't

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swing hard and that you stay pretty tall.

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So what I usually recommend is in order to play the driver, you don't want to

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get the

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ball too far forward.

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So you're going to tend to hit the ball a little bit lower.

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It might be a little bit spinnier coming off, but that'll make it closer to

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your iron pattern

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so you don't have to make as big a change.

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I think that varying your ball position too much is almost the same thing as

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varying the

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length of swing.

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So quick summary, tying it all together.

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If you're going to, let's say you're going on a trip and you haven't had time

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to figure

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out how to shallow out the arms and get the body a little bit more involved or

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steep,

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we're going to get a little bit taller, a little bit more on top of that left

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foot.

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So shoulders are a little bit more level.

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We're going to focus on staying within ourselves as far as our rhythm goes.

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Shot wise, we're going to make sure that we're not trying to hit it dead

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straight.

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We're going to play one curve or the other and driver position, we're

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definitely not

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going to try to kill it and we might be comfortable hitting it a little bit

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lower from being more

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on top of the ball.

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If you do that, oftentimes some of these steep arm golfers have pretty good

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short games.

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This will be a way you can manage the full swing, avoid some of those big

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numbers, keep

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it in play until you have enough time where you can work on putting some of

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these pieces

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together.

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So let's do one more difference.

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So we'll do one where I do the steep arm pattern, kind of like that, a little

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less body turn,

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little more arm pull, kept the body a little bit more tall and quiet.

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And now we'll do more of my normal, so a little bit more arm shallow, a little

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bit more body

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rotation, kind of like that.

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(birds chirping)