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Insight - Keeping The Left Arm Straight?
If you are trying to keep your left arm straight, then you could be wasting your time. Pros all bend their lead arm, so the question is, why does it not look as much when they do it? Here's how the optical illusion can change your perspective on arm bend.
If you are trying to keep your left arm straight, then you could be wasting your time. Pros all bend their lead arm, so the question is, why does it not look as much when they do it? Here's how the optical illusion can change your perspective on arm bend.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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In this golf smart insight we're going to look at the optical illusion of the
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:06.860
left arm.
3
00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:12.170
So people have enjoyed some of these optical illusions and essentially all they
4
00:00:12.170 --> 00:00:12.840
are, when
5
00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:16.680
I'm looking at the golf swing I'm typically standing in either the face on or c
6
00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:17.240
addy view
7
00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:19.200
or the down the line view.
8
00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:23.420
And that's not always the best vantage point to see certain movements, one of
9
00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:24.120
which would
10
00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:31.140
be what's happening with the left arm. Basically when I bend a joint or hinge a
11
00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.140
joint or whatever
12
00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:37.020
you want to call it, the easiest way to see where or how much I've actually
13
00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:37.720
bent this
14
00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:44.040
joint would be looking perpendicular to the axis that it's moving around.
15
00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:49.060
So essentially when I go up to the top of the swing a lot of people have been
16
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:49.560
told to
17
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:54.050
try to keep that left arm straight. Well on 3D I see tour pros who have that
18
00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:54.680
left arm
19
00:00:54.680 --> 00:01:00.610
bending as much as 40 degrees, somewhere 15, 20 degrees is probably normal as
20
00:01:00.610 --> 00:01:01.280
in trying
21
00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.840
to keep it straight.
22
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.830
So what ends up happening in the reason that people look different is going to
23
00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:08.480
be based
24
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.180
on the amount of rotation in the shoulder. So if you see, if I can bend my arm
25
00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:14.760
right
26
00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.820
about there, so this is going to be my humerus, so that's probably somewhere
27
00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:20.040
around 30 degrees
28
00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:25.030
or so. If I was to take this angle and I'll stiffen my arm so it stays the same
29
00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:25.400
and I
30
00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.890
was to rotate it so that now you're looking pretty much straight at it, it's
31
00:01:29.890 --> 00:01:30.600
not going
32
00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:35.220
to look nearly as bent when you're looking straight at it as it would if it
33
00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:37.040
looks perpendicular.
34
00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.430
So part of the reason why when you're watching a tour pro swing you don't
35
00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:42.520
really see this
36
00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:48.290
is they tend to have a fair amount of this rotation. So there I'm bending my
37
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.320
arm pretty
38
00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:54.850
good a bit, but I'm also flattening and rotating the shoulder. The reason why a
39
00:01:54.850 --> 00:01:55.760
lot of amateurs
40
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.980
look like they have a fair amount of arm bend is because if you're standing
41
00:01:58.980 --> 00:01:59.800
where the camera
42
00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:06.180
is in this face on view and I move my arms very vertically, you can see I'm now
43
00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:06.680
looking
44
00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.050
pretty much straight at this angle compared to if I was a tour pro and I had it
45
00:02:11.050 --> 00:02:11.640
a little
46
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:18.010
bit more rotated. So keeping your arm straight can help create some width and
47
00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:18.800
there's probably
48
00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.310
some good things that could happen, but I've seen tour pros bend it as much as
49
00:02:22.310 --> 00:02:23.280
40 degrees.
50
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.250
So if you're trying to keep your arm straight at least the left one, there's
51
00:02:28.250 --> 00:02:29.140
probably better
52
00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:33.480
ways to accomplish whatever it is that you're trying to do with your golf swing
53
00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:33.880
. If you
54
00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:38.100
like the way we look at things and break things down, then please check out
55
00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:39.600
GolfSmart Academy
56
00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:43.560
for programs, tips and other golf instruction to help you with your game.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
In this golf smart insight we're going to look at the optical illusion of the
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:06.860
left arm.
3
00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:12.170
So people have enjoyed some of these optical illusions and essentially all they
4
00:00:12.170 --> 00:00:12.840
are, when
5
00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:16.680
I'm looking at the golf swing I'm typically standing in either the face on or c
6
00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:17.240
addy view
7
00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:19.200
or the down the line view.
8
00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:23.420
And that's not always the best vantage point to see certain movements, one of
9
00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:24.120
which would
10
00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:31.140
be what's happening with the left arm. Basically when I bend a joint or hinge a
11
00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.140
joint or whatever
12
00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:37.020
you want to call it, the easiest way to see where or how much I've actually
13
00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:37.720
bent this
14
00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:44.040
joint would be looking perpendicular to the axis that it's moving around.
15
00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:49.060
So essentially when I go up to the top of the swing a lot of people have been
16
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:49.560
told to
17
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:54.050
try to keep that left arm straight. Well on 3D I see tour pros who have that
18
00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:54.680
left arm
19
00:00:54.680 --> 00:01:00.610
bending as much as 40 degrees, somewhere 15, 20 degrees is probably normal as
20
00:01:00.610 --> 00:01:01.280
in trying
21
00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.840
to keep it straight.
22
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.830
So what ends up happening in the reason that people look different is going to
23
00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:08.480
be based
24
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.180
on the amount of rotation in the shoulder. So if you see, if I can bend my arm
25
00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:14.760
right
26
00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.820
about there, so this is going to be my humerus, so that's probably somewhere
27
00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:20.040
around 30 degrees
28
00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:25.030
or so. If I was to take this angle and I'll stiffen my arm so it stays the same
29
00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:25.400
and I
30
00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.890
was to rotate it so that now you're looking pretty much straight at it, it's
31
00:01:29.890 --> 00:01:30.600
not going
32
00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:35.220
to look nearly as bent when you're looking straight at it as it would if it
33
00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:37.040
looks perpendicular.
34
00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.430
So part of the reason why when you're watching a tour pro swing you don't
35
00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:42.520
really see this
36
00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:48.290
is they tend to have a fair amount of this rotation. So there I'm bending my
37
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.320
arm pretty
38
00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:54.850
good a bit, but I'm also flattening and rotating the shoulder. The reason why a
39
00:01:54.850 --> 00:01:55.760
lot of amateurs
40
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.980
look like they have a fair amount of arm bend is because if you're standing
41
00:01:58.980 --> 00:01:59.800
where the camera
42
00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:06.180
is in this face on view and I move my arms very vertically, you can see I'm now
43
00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:06.680
looking
44
00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.050
pretty much straight at this angle compared to if I was a tour pro and I had it
45
00:02:11.050 --> 00:02:11.640
a little
46
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:18.010
bit more rotated. So keeping your arm straight can help create some width and
47
00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:18.800
there's probably
48
00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.310
some good things that could happen, but I've seen tour pros bend it as much as
49
00:02:22.310 --> 00:02:23.280
40 degrees.
50
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.250
So if you're trying to keep your arm straight at least the left one, there's
51
00:02:28.250 --> 00:02:29.140
probably better
52
00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:33.480
ways to accomplish whatever it is that you're trying to do with your golf swing
53
00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:33.880
. If you
54
00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:38.100
like the way we look at things and break things down, then please check out
55
00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:39.600
GolfSmart Academy
56
00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:43.560
for programs, tips and other golf instruction to help you with your game.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
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.
Insight - Keeping The Left Arm Straight?
If you are trying to keep your left arm straight, then you could be wasting your time. Pros all bend their lead arm, so the question is, why does it not look as much when they do it? Here's how the optical illusion can change your perspective on arm bend.
If you are trying to keep your left arm straight, then you could be wasting your time. Pros all bend their lead arm, so the question is, why does it not look as much when they do it? Here's how the optical illusion can change your perspective on arm bend.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
In this golf smart insight we're going to look at the optical illusion of the
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:06.860
left arm.
3
00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:12.170
So people have enjoyed some of these optical illusions and essentially all they
4
00:00:12.170 --> 00:00:12.840
are, when
5
00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:16.680
I'm looking at the golf swing I'm typically standing in either the face on or c
6
00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:17.240
addy view
7
00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:19.200
or the down the line view.
8
00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:23.420
And that's not always the best vantage point to see certain movements, one of
9
00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:24.120
which would
10
00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:31.140
be what's happening with the left arm. Basically when I bend a joint or hinge a
11
00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.140
joint or whatever
12
00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:37.020
you want to call it, the easiest way to see where or how much I've actually
13
00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:37.720
bent this
14
00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:44.040
joint would be looking perpendicular to the axis that it's moving around.
15
00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:49.060
So essentially when I go up to the top of the swing a lot of people have been
16
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:49.560
told to
17
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:54.050
try to keep that left arm straight. Well on 3D I see tour pros who have that
18
00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:54.680
left arm
19
00:00:54.680 --> 00:01:00.610
bending as much as 40 degrees, somewhere 15, 20 degrees is probably normal as
20
00:01:00.610 --> 00:01:01.280
in trying
21
00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.840
to keep it straight.
22
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.830
So what ends up happening in the reason that people look different is going to
23
00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:08.480
be based
24
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.180
on the amount of rotation in the shoulder. So if you see, if I can bend my arm
25
00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:14.760
right
26
00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.820
about there, so this is going to be my humerus, so that's probably somewhere
27
00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:20.040
around 30 degrees
28
00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:25.030
or so. If I was to take this angle and I'll stiffen my arm so it stays the same
29
00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:25.400
and I
30
00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.890
was to rotate it so that now you're looking pretty much straight at it, it's
31
00:01:29.890 --> 00:01:30.600
not going
32
00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:35.220
to look nearly as bent when you're looking straight at it as it would if it
33
00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:37.040
looks perpendicular.
34
00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.430
So part of the reason why when you're watching a tour pro swing you don't
35
00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:42.520
really see this
36
00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:48.290
is they tend to have a fair amount of this rotation. So there I'm bending my
37
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.320
arm pretty
38
00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:54.850
good a bit, but I'm also flattening and rotating the shoulder. The reason why a
39
00:01:54.850 --> 00:01:55.760
lot of amateurs
40
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.980
look like they have a fair amount of arm bend is because if you're standing
41
00:01:58.980 --> 00:01:59.800
where the camera
42
00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:06.180
is in this face on view and I move my arms very vertically, you can see I'm now
43
00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:06.680
looking
44
00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.050
pretty much straight at this angle compared to if I was a tour pro and I had it
45
00:02:11.050 --> 00:02:11.640
a little
46
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:18.010
bit more rotated. So keeping your arm straight can help create some width and
47
00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:18.800
there's probably
48
00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.310
some good things that could happen, but I've seen tour pros bend it as much as
49
00:02:22.310 --> 00:02:23.280
40 degrees.
50
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.250
So if you're trying to keep your arm straight at least the left one, there's
51
00:02:28.250 --> 00:02:29.140
probably better
52
00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:33.480
ways to accomplish whatever it is that you're trying to do with your golf swing
53
00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:33.880
. If you
54
00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:38.100
like the way we look at things and break things down, then please check out
55
00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:39.600
GolfSmart Academy
56
00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:43.560
for programs, tips and other golf instruction to help you with your game.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040
In this golf smart insight we're going to look at the optical illusion of the
2
00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:06.860
left arm.
3
00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:12.170
So people have enjoyed some of these optical illusions and essentially all they
4
00:00:12.170 --> 00:00:12.840
are, when
5
00:00:12.840 --> 00:00:16.680
I'm looking at the golf swing I'm typically standing in either the face on or c
6
00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:17.240
addy view
7
00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:19.200
or the down the line view.
8
00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:23.420
And that's not always the best vantage point to see certain movements, one of
9
00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:24.120
which would
10
00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:31.140
be what's happening with the left arm. Basically when I bend a joint or hinge a
11
00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.140
joint or whatever
12
00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:37.020
you want to call it, the easiest way to see where or how much I've actually
13
00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:37.720
bent this
14
00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:44.040
joint would be looking perpendicular to the axis that it's moving around.
15
00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:49.060
So essentially when I go up to the top of the swing a lot of people have been
16
00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:49.560
told to
17
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:54.050
try to keep that left arm straight. Well on 3D I see tour pros who have that
18
00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:54.680
left arm
19
00:00:54.680 --> 00:01:00.610
bending as much as 40 degrees, somewhere 15, 20 degrees is probably normal as
20
00:01:00.610 --> 00:01:01.280
in trying
21
00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.840
to keep it straight.
22
00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.830
So what ends up happening in the reason that people look different is going to
23
00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:08.480
be based
24
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.180
on the amount of rotation in the shoulder. So if you see, if I can bend my arm
25
00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:14.760
right
26
00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.820
about there, so this is going to be my humerus, so that's probably somewhere
27
00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:20.040
around 30 degrees
28
00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:25.030
or so. If I was to take this angle and I'll stiffen my arm so it stays the same
29
00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:25.400
and I
30
00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.890
was to rotate it so that now you're looking pretty much straight at it, it's
31
00:01:29.890 --> 00:01:30.600
not going
32
00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:35.220
to look nearly as bent when you're looking straight at it as it would if it
33
00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:37.040
looks perpendicular.
34
00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.430
So part of the reason why when you're watching a tour pro swing you don't
35
00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:42.520
really see this
36
00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:48.290
is they tend to have a fair amount of this rotation. So there I'm bending my
37
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.320
arm pretty
38
00:01:49.320 --> 00:01:54.850
good a bit, but I'm also flattening and rotating the shoulder. The reason why a
39
00:01:54.850 --> 00:01:55.760
lot of amateurs
40
00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.980
look like they have a fair amount of arm bend is because if you're standing
41
00:01:58.980 --> 00:01:59.800
where the camera
42
00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:06.180
is in this face on view and I move my arms very vertically, you can see I'm now
43
00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:06.680
looking
44
00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.050
pretty much straight at this angle compared to if I was a tour pro and I had it
45
00:02:11.050 --> 00:02:11.640
a little
46
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:18.010
bit more rotated. So keeping your arm straight can help create some width and
47
00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:18.800
there's probably
48
00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.310
some good things that could happen, but I've seen tour pros bend it as much as
49
00:02:22.310 --> 00:02:23.280
40 degrees.
50
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.250
So if you're trying to keep your arm straight at least the left one, there's
51
00:02:28.250 --> 00:02:29.140
probably better
52
00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:33.480
ways to accomplish whatever it is that you're trying to do with your golf swing
53
00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:33.880
. If you
54
00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:38.100
like the way we look at things and break things down, then please check out
55
00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:39.600
GolfSmart Academy
56
00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:43.560
for programs, tips and other golf instruction to help you with your game.
Have questions about this video?
Ask Mulligan for personalized guidance on technique, drills, or how to apply what you've learned.
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