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In this drill we're going to walk through the lead arm connection drills.

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So the lead arm connection drills are very similar to the trail arm connection

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drills

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except they're going to isolate the left shoulder in my case.

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So just as a reminder, the general connection drills are learning to kind of

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keep your shoulders

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a little bit more stiff or connected so that you can transfer the movement from

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the rib

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cage and core and pelvis into the arms easier.

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So the general connection drill is just the towel under the arms.

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This is often given kind of the Hogan towel drill.

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But basically arm pits connected.

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I'm going to focus on hitting this mostly with my pivot and a little bit of

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forearm release.

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So owner deviation and supination getting into that really good classic follow

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through position.

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If I'm just working on the general sequence then the towel under both arms

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works pretty

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well.

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But sometimes I want to get more isolated to a specific problem and that's

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where I do

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either the lead or the trail.

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So with the lead arm, there's a couple different times where golfers tend to

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lose it.

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Either in the takeaway they will kind of not use the body and lift the arm up

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off the chest

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like so.

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So this will tend to move the hands way out and disconnect.

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The second place where golfers tend to lose it is up towards the top of the

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swing.

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It will tend to really reach with that lead shoulder in order to create width.

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Remember the width is going to happen more from the elbow and the arm staying

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straight

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rather than a big collapse or reach of the shoulder.

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So up at the top of the swing right through there and then the most problematic

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one or

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the one that causes the biggest contact issues would be on the way through

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pulling that lead

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shoulder kind of up and around more like this.

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As opposed to getting the up and around more from the pivot and the spine angle

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.

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If I do it correctly then the arm is going to stay a little bit more in front

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and rotate

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instead of really pulling retract like I was doing a row.

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So with the lead arm, I tend to not use the alignment stick.

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I tend to focus either on the ruler or the glove.

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So again, the ruler is a little bit easier to maintain but it also produces a

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little

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stronger feel.

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So I think you get a little bit stronger feedback from the ruler than say the

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glove or the alignment

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stick.

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So now with the ruler, the place where you're going to tend to feel the most

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restricted is

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there up at the top of the swing.

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So this is a good compliment to golfers who tend to need to work on feeling the

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top of

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the swing more in the hips and more in the core and less up in the shoulders.

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The place that I really tend to focus on it is here on the follow through.

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So if I'm pinning this up against my chest and then turning that body through,

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the arm

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is going to stay more or less, if I did that this way, the arm is going to stay

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more or

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less in front of my body.

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So if I did a nice easy one, hopefully this doesn't go too far, you'll see that

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that

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arm is rotating through to get into this good follow through position and this

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is staying

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in front of my body.

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A bad one, one where that arm tends to get more disconnected would tend to look

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more like

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that there.

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Now I've been holding it so it kind of stuck in place but you saw that that

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would have

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dropped if I had done that with any more speed.

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So the two times that I really focus on this lead side is top of the swing

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because that

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ensures that I had a pretty good takeaway and then in the follow through.

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In order to do the follow through one, I have to have my arms straight enough

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and wide enough

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and soft enough so that the movement is happening more at the forearms and less

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through the

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shoulders.

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So the armpit connections can be a great diagnostic for helping golfers who

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tend to get stiff with

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the forearms and overactive with the shoulders.

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That pattern usually causes low point issues as well as over closing the club

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face from

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in-plane movement so that causes pulls and pull hooks, a couple of frustrating

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mispatterns.

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So if you're struggling with your chicken wing, you can work on this armpit

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connection.

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If you're struggling with kind of your transition sequence, this armpit

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connection works pretty

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well as well.

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Similar to the trail arm, I can do a more subtle version with the towel and

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similar, almost

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easier for the trail version.

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My goal is to get hitting this close to my full swing distance.

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It won't be exactly my full swing distance, but my goal is to work on doing

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these movements

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and adding more and more speed because oftentimes this shoulder disconnect is

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one of the ways

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that golfers incorrectly create a lot of speed.

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So that was a little out of sequence, kind of a little more stall-flippish and

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I've said

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before that the shoulders are one of the big gateways to controlling the stall

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flip.

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So here we go, we'll try and hit this one pretty hard.

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So that's probably 70-80% of my normal distance, that's 80% of my normal

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distance, that one

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went pretty good.

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And I was able to do it with that shorter position because I was having the

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engine more

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from the forearms on the way through rather than the shoulders and overall more

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from the

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core than from the arms and shoulders.

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So one quick demo with the hard version, try and keep it connected there, tend

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to find

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this is the hardest one to maintain at the top of the swing.

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Let it have a little bit more hip rotation, that wasn't bad.

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Have to clubface a little bit but pretty good strike.