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Delay Your Arms for Better Transition and Impact

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel the proper body rotation while keeping your arms delayed
  • Understand how to maintain a better path for your longer clubs
  • Recognize the importance of timing between body movement and arm extension

In this drill, you'll learn how to keep your arms behind you during the swing, helping to improve your transition and release. This technique is especially beneficial for avoiding slices and hooks while enhancing your ball striking consistency.

Video Transcript
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This drill is leave your arms behind you. So leave your arms behind you is a

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great drill for blending the transition into the release but focusing on the

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body turning aspect of the release and and delaying that extension of the

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right arm. It's going to be much more critical for the longer clubs but can be

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00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:25.200
helpful especially if you have too much of an in-out path or too much

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00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:30.120
rightward path in your suffering with either blocks or hooks. So leave your

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arms behind you is basically I'm gonna get into that good delivery position and

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I'm gonna try and get the club to be almost behind my back. Now keeping that

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club behind my back I'm going to turn my body until that club that is behind my

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back is essentially even with the golf ball. So I'm gonna get that club back

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behind my back and I'm going to turn my body until the club that is behind my

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back is roughly even with the golf ball. Now you can hit little pitches and

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little

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nine to three shots working on this drill so I'm gonna get the club behind

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my back and I'm basically going to turn trying to keep that club behind my back

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.

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I felt on that one that I kind of wanted to go with my arms just a little bit

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too

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soon and that's why I hit a little bit behind it. If I actually keep the club

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behind my back like so the only way that I'm going to get this club down to the

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golf ball is through enough rotation and side bend and so it helps me feel this

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delay of my arm motions. What I can then do is I can then use that feeling and

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kind of take bigger and bigger swings until I can feel like I get to right

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about here before those arms finally join into the party and get involved.

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Because with most of this what we see with the kinematic sequence is we want

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those arms to be delayed until somewhere down in here before they kind of reach

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their maximum impact into the swing. So you're gonna feel like you keep these

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arms behind you. You're gonna turn and side bend to get those arms behind you

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in

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contact with the golf ball. It's going to help you feel what it's like to

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actually

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have your chest open and be in this good merry-go-round or good impact

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position. So I'll show you real quick down the line or actually facing the

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camera.

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So just like so I'm gonna get those levers behind me and I'm basically going

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to turn leaving my arms behind me so that when I make contact my chest is

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going to feel like it's way over here. What a lot of you are going to be

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struggling with is you are going to get those arms involved early in my chest

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and everything is going to be facing the golf ball kind of like so.

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We're going to try and get it to lag behind me kind of more like that. So this

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00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.680
will help you with your angle of attack, this will help you with power. It's a

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00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.400
great drill for working on your sequencing, working on your contact but

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00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.360
most importantly delaying this extension of that trail arm to help you get

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00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:19.000
better body positions for your impact position.
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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.

Delay Your Arms for Better Transition and Impact

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel the proper body rotation while keeping your arms delayed
  • Understand how to maintain a better path for your longer clubs
  • Recognize the importance of timing between body movement and arm extension

In this drill, you'll learn how to keep your arms behind you during the swing, helping to improve your transition and release. This technique is especially beneficial for avoiding slices and hooks while enhancing your ball striking consistency.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.400
This drill is leave your arms behind you. So leave your arms behind you is a

2
00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:10.040
great drill for blending the transition into the release but focusing on the

3
00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:15.160
body turning aspect of the release and and delaying that extension of the

4
00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:19.720
right arm. It's going to be much more critical for the longer clubs but can be

5
00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:25.200
helpful especially if you have too much of an in-out path or too much

6
00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:30.120
rightward path in your suffering with either blocks or hooks. So leave your

7
00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:34.000
arms behind you is basically I'm gonna get into that good delivery position and

8
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.600
I'm gonna try and get the club to be almost behind my back. Now keeping that

9
00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:46.240
club behind my back I'm going to turn my body until that club that is behind my

10
00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:52.240
back is essentially even with the golf ball. So I'm gonna get that club back

11
00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:58.800
behind my back and I'm going to turn my body until the club that is behind my

12
00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:03.760
back is roughly even with the golf ball. Now you can hit little pitches and

13
00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:04.040
little

14
00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:08.440
nine to three shots working on this drill so I'm gonna get the club behind

15
00:01:08.440 --> 00:01:13.160
my back and I'm basically going to turn trying to keep that club behind my back

16
00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:13.160
.

17
00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:17.880
I felt on that one that I kind of wanted to go with my arms just a little bit

18
00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:18.160
too

19
00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:23.600
soon and that's why I hit a little bit behind it. If I actually keep the club

20
00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:28.800
behind my back like so the only way that I'm going to get this club down to the

21
00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:35.120
golf ball is through enough rotation and side bend and so it helps me feel this

22
00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:42.040
delay of my arm motions. What I can then do is I can then use that feeling and

23
00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.240
kind of take bigger and bigger swings until I can feel like I get to right

24
00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:51.440
about here before those arms finally join into the party and get involved.

25
00:01:51.440 --> 00:01:55.600
Because with most of this what we see with the kinematic sequence is we want

26
00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:03.200
those arms to be delayed until somewhere down in here before they kind of reach

27
00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.600
their maximum impact into the swing. So you're gonna feel like you keep these

28
00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:12.440
arms behind you. You're gonna turn and side bend to get those arms behind you

29
00:02:12.440 --> 00:02:12.720
in

30
00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:16.560
contact with the golf ball. It's going to help you feel what it's like to

31
00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:16.880
actually

32
00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:20.640
have your chest open and be in this good merry-go-round or good impact

33
00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:24.200
position. So I'll show you real quick down the line or actually facing the

34
00:02:24.200 --> 00:02:26.560
camera.

35
00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:35.560
So just like so I'm gonna get those levers behind me and I'm basically going

36
00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.960
to turn leaving my arms behind me so that when I make contact my chest is

37
00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:43.080
going to feel like it's way over here. What a lot of you are going to be

38
00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:48.120
struggling with is you are going to get those arms involved early in my chest

39
00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:53.720
and everything is going to be facing the golf ball kind of like so.

40
00:02:53.720 --> 00:03:01.240
We're going to try and get it to lag behind me kind of more like that. So this

41
00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.680
will help you with your angle of attack, this will help you with power. It's a

42
00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.400
great drill for working on your sequencing, working on your contact but

43
00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.360
most importantly delaying this extension of that trail arm to help you get

44
00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:19.000
better body positions for your impact position.
Related topics
This video hasn't been assigned to any topics yet. Browse all topics in the sidebar.