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This drill is lead arm shallow. So lead arm shallow is has become one of my

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more go to drills for helping golfers feel what it's like to shallow the club

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in transition.

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Most of the steepening movements, at least from the arms perspective, comes

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from the trail arm.

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So lead arm shallow is pretty simple on paper. Basically you're going to go to

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the top of your swing

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and then I'm going to have you take your trail hand off the club and then you

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're going to come down about a foot or so

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and put your trail hand back on the club.

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For most of you, you're going to feel like either that trail arm, the forearm

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is pointing more up or the elbow is more in.

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If you're feeling more of the club, you will feel more of the butt end of the

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club is pointing out there

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or the club head is far behind you or you and you may feel like the club is

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kind of more parallel or horizontal instead of vertical.

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All those things are a feeling of the arms shallowing.

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And so what happens for most golfers is when we get up to the top of the swing,

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you will tend to steepen with that trail arm rotating this way.

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Well, if you use just your lead arm, we can experiment on what happens down at

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the bottom if we do that.

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So if we go up to the top of the swing and we're just going to give it a little

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push and swing through

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and we'll feel kind of this like the tendency of the club head to want to hold

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off and come through

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or if it does close down, it feels like it would go way left.

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Even if that steep movement is not online, it feels kind of jarring. It feels

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like you're running it, you're fighting yourself down at the bottom.

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Where if we go up to the top of the swing and we let that drop and then come

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through, we'll feel that it wants to kind of swing through

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and extend the arm as opposed to hold off rotation and cause the arm to want to

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bend.

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So there's a couple places where I see golfers do this drill wrong that I just

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want to make sure that you're paying attention to

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when you're doing your drills at home.

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So what I want you to do, you're going to go up to the top of the swing, you're

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going to take your trail hand off the club

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and then you're going to bring the club down about a foot.

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Two things happen when I did this. One, I rotate in my body. I didn't just

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bring the arms down kind of like this.

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And then two, the hands stayed at about the same height compared to my chest

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and the pitch of the shaft or the angle of the shaft changed.

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What I see a lot of golfers try to do is try to pull those arms down.

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And when you pull those arms down, oftentimes if you're not careful, that trail

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arm causes the club to internally rotate.

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Or sorry, causes the trail arm goes into internal rotation and it causes the

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club to steep it.

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So when we're doing this trail arm, or sorry lead arm shallowing, we're going

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to go up to the top and we're going to feel that lead arm get into this

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position.

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And then from here, we're just going to try and do a release movement with a

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little bit of lower body extension, try to make contact with the golf ball.

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So we're going to go up to the top, bring it down.

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I didn't take my hand off the club. Hopefully you caught that. Go up to the top

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, relax.

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There I felt it shallow. This feels like it's a good bit behind me, but my

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lower body is rotated.

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And then I'm going to release from there.

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Then the next goal is I'm going to do more of a broken transition style move.

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So I'm going to go up to the top of the swing. I'm going to get down into that

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same position and then try and release from there.

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And so now I'm getting a sense, I'm feeling that orientation of the club being

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a little bit more in the shallow position.

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So I find that this is a really powerful drill for a lot of golfers who shallow

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the club.

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One last point I forgot to mention in the do's and don'ts or the troubles

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hooting, what I want you to watch out for.

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Some golfers will go to shallow the club more by doing this with the body.

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So you might want to practice just feeling the arm rotating.

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So going up to the top and feeling that movement there instead of that movement

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there.

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It is much harder to do with just the lead arm holding onto the club.

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It's much easier to shallow the body with either the trail hand or both hands

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on the club.

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So once you have a feeling of this shallow movement then you can work on not so

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much 9 to 3s but 10 to 2s and up to and into full swings.

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I would think of this one less about working the 9 to 3 10 to 2 range but more

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ramping up intensity as you get more comfortable with the movement.

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So I would start slow of up to the top feel it drop feel it get into that

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shallow position and then start adding a little bit more speed.

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More and more speed until you're feeling like it has close to your full speed

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in transition and on the way through.

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So try this one if you're struggling with steep arms in transition up to the

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top there and now we're going to feel that in one movement.

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So hopefully this gives you a few ideas of how you can use your lead arm to

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help you feel that trail arm shallowing.