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This drill is lead arm lock. So lead arm lock is a good anti chicken wing drill

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. It's

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also a good connection drill. It's a good way to integrate the shoulder working

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with

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the core, working with the hips. And it's a self-guided drill that kind of like

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mimics

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some of the things that I try to do with my students in person. So what we're

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going to

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do is we're going to try to connect the shoulder so that essentially when I

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rotate my body it's

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going to move the shoulder instead of me moving the arm independently by

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pulling with the shoulder.

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So there's three key pieces to this lead arm lock. We're going to do a little

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bit of

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a shrug. We're going to pull the lead arm, the left arm a little bit in front.

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So the

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shrug is kind of more in the direction of my chin rather than straight up and

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down. So

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it's a little bit forward like this. And now that kind of gets it pinned on my

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chest like

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this. And now the lock part is I'm going to feel like I pushed down with the

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arm but

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not by lowering the shrug. So it's going to feel like I have a little bit of

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straightening

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kind of from the tricep and pushing down from the inside of the armpit. So it

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becomes just

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this little kind of feeling of connection here. And I don't have to be doing

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this even though

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it's called a lock. I don't have to be doing this with maximum muscular effort.

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It's just

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more of a consistency of holding it there. Oftentimes I'll have golfers come

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feel my shoulder and

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they'll feel that it stays in that kind of up position on the way through. Now

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I kind

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of gave away the answer but I'll have you try it anyway. If I was to do this

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little

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lock move and make a fist I could push down into this right arm. And if I put

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my trail

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arm or my right arm in more of an external rotation so that the elbow is

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pointing away.

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Now I'm in a really good shoulder position where that trail shoulder is

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retracted and

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that lead shoulder is elevated but they're both connected. And now I'm pushing

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down and

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I'm going to try to go through a release. Now if you are really dominant with

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your shoulder

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in this position you will feel friction. You will feel like you are pulling

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across the

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palm kind of like this where if I'm more locked in and kind of like releasing

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out then what

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I'll feel is as I go through it stays in contact. The shoulder kind of stays

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connected.

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My forearms could have some release and some rotation but my shoulder is

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basically following

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the movement of my core, my ribs and my pelvis as opposed to being the

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independent driver.

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So if my shoulder is more of the independent driver than through the ball I'll

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tend to

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have some disconnect and pull. And that becomes a chicken wing and that becomes

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a stall because

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you saw in order for me to do that my body had to stop and let the arm take the

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club

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past the body. Where if I got into this position and now I kind of came up here

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so I was locking

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it in more like higher up you would see now if I'm feeling that shoulder lock

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potentially

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I can still turn through and that helps my arms stay connected because it has a

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little

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bit of this downward pressure but while it's in a up and forward position. So

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now I'll

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do it without that trail hand assist so slightly up and forward that gives the

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appearance of

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some of this kind of shoulder tilt but now right there you saw me kind of lock

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it in.

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Now I'm going to do more of a one handed release drill feeling that consistency

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of the shoulder

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both being up but also pushing down. Now I'm going to add the right hand and I

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could do

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this in an open hand or I could just put it on and kind of feel it. I would put

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this

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in the torture drill category where you're probably going to struggle with

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doing it

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one armed but then when you put both hands on it's probably going to feel a

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little bit

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more like natural and connected. So again I would mostly do this in the 9-3

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zone but

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as you started to go bigger what you would feel is right in kind of through

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there is

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where I'm going to be maintaining that lock position. So it might have a little

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bit of

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kind of sliding to get into position here and then as I go in to get to

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delivery position

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that shoulder is going to feel like it's in that connected position all the way

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through

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to follow through. If you're a golfer who tends to not see your body get open

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and you

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tend to see the arms and the shoulders pull so you have more of kind of this

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look on the

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way through I find that this lead shoulder lock can be really helpful. The

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other piece

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that it often complements is if you do this shoulder lock and you tend to hit

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more of

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a pull then it probably means that your torso turn is a little bit too level or

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being driven

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by the shoulders. So getting into this lock position and getting a good lower

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body pivot

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can also encourage getting into more of a good side bend position because part

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of this

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shoulder shrug helps encourage staying in your posture or being more side bent

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on the

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way through. So I find this is a really helpful drill or activation for

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improving your lead

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arm mechanics during your release pattern. If you see any of that breaking down

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on the

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follow through I highly recommend you try this drill the lead arm shoulder lock

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.