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this video is lose at arm wrestling so there's a lot of discussion about the

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trail arm and how it works in the the golf swing and we definitely have our

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preferences here. The student of mine was talking to me about another online

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instructor by the name of Kelvin Miyahura who has a great description of the

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right

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arm external rotation so he references basically you're in an arm wrestling

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contest and you want to feel like you lose at arm wrestling the entire time.

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Now there's two good things to that one it's going to be the movement of

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external

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rotation and when you externally rotate that's going to tend to shallow out the

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club so you'll see if I externally rotate which is basically going out this

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direction if I externally rotate like so that's going to move the club well

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behind me and further away from the golf wall. So that's going to require more

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body rotation to then get it back down to making contact or if I do the

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opposite if I internally rotate that's going to tend to steepen the club and

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move the path left so then if I were to rotate it would tend to get even st

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eeper

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and steeper contact. So losing or going into this external rotation

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shallows out the club it encourages body rotation it encourages later arm

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timing it really helps tie a lot of the key body movements into what the arms

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and the shoulders are doing. Now a lot of golfers who first try this external

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rotation end up blocking the shots off to the right hitting well off and

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basically leaving the club face open. If that happens then that means that you

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're

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tending to close the club face with internal rotation instead of just

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rotating the shaft with more forearm movements or the motorcycle with the

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lead wrist but you're tending to square the club face by releasing the whole

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shaft instead of just rotating the face to path. The other option is golfers

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will

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tend to start doing this external rotation and they'll hit it thin. They'll

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have a hard time making contact with the ground so that gives you an idea that

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going into internal rotation and straightening the arm like this is part of the

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way your brain is helping control your low point. So those are two of the big

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barriers that a lot of golfers face to getting more of this external rotation

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of the trail arm during the downswing but if you can figure out how to do it

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it helps your arms stay relaxed and soft and it requires more body rotation so

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it does a lot of really good things for the overall shape and mechanics of the

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swing. Couple good ways to practice it. One you can just kind of get a sense of

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that feeling and then make a few swings trying to feel that movement like I'm

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losing the entire downswing. So all the way until I make contact I'm gonna feel

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like I'm going this way. Not truly what happens but it's pretty close. The

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second

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option would be sometimes golfers have a hard time feeling it so you can use

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the

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supported wipe as a way to kind of add some sensors to it. So I'm gonna take my

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hand which will allow me to feel and now I'm gonna feel okay if I were to

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externally rotate it goes kind of like that. So if I externally rotate that

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whole

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downswing it'll end up looking something like that and I can hit single arm

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kind

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of release style shots and if I do a good job with this external rotation what

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I'll tend to feel is that this elbow will be pointing more towards the ground

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in

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the follow through. So that elbow will be pointing more towards the ground in

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the

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follow through instead of pointing out at the golf ball. It's pointing out at

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the

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golf ball then I went into internal rotation and I likely did it too soon.

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If I'm struggling with this move what I'll tend to see from a face-on camera

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angle is I will tend to see one or two things. I will tend to see either a very

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vertical shaft because that would be losing that external rotation kind of

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like so. Or what I just highlighted is I might look okay through impact but

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then

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I'll tend to see a bend and I'll tend to see that elbow facing the camera kind

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of

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like that if I exaggerate it as opposed to that arm continuing to go into

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external

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rotation and having the club face rotate more based on what the left arm is

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doing or what the right form is doing. So if you struggle with either of those

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looks or if you just know you need more external rotation a good image is

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having is feeling like you're in an arm wrestling contest and like you're

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losing the entire time there are a couple different ways you can practice it

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but

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it really tends to help you blend transition into the release. So if you're

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working on those moves try this concept as you're working through some of these

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drills.