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This video is Luzet Arm Wrestling.

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So there's a lot of discussion about the trail arm and how it works in the Galswing.

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And we definitely have our preferences here.

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A student of mine was talking to me about another online instructor by the name of Kelvin

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Mia Hurra who has a great description of the right arm external rotation.

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So he references basically, you're in an arm wrestling contest and you want to feel like

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you lose at arm wrestling the entire time.

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Now there's two good things to that.

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One, it's going to be the movement of external rotation.

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And when you externally rotate, that's going to tend to shallow out the club.

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So you'll see if I externally rotate, which is basically going out this direction,

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if I externally rotate like so, that's going to move the club well behind me and further away

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from the Galshwall.

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So that's going to require more body rotation to then get it back down to making contact.

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Or if I do the opposite, if I internally rotate, that's going to tend to

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steep in the club and move the path left.

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So then if I were to rotate, it would tend to get even steeper in steeper contact.

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So losing or going into this external rotation, shallows out the club,

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it encourages body rotation, it encourages later arm timing.

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It really helps tie a lot of the key body movements into what the arms and the shoulders are doing.

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Now a lot of golfers who first try this external rotation end up blocking the shots off to

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the right, hitting well off and basically leaving the club face open.

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If that happens, then that means that you're tending to close the club face with internal

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rotation instead of just rotating the shaft with more forearm movements or the motorcycle with

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the lead wrist.

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But you're tending to square the club face by releasing the whole shaft instead of just

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rotating the face to path.

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The other option is golfers will tend to start doing this external rotation and they'll hit

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it thin.

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They'll have a hard time making contact with the ground.

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So that gives you an idea that going into internal rotation and straightening the arm like this

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is part of the way your brain is helping control your low point.

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So those are two of the big barriers that a lot of golfers face to getting more of this external

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rotation of the trail arm during the downswing.

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But if you can figure out how to do it, it helps your arms stay relaxed and soft and it requires

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more body rotation.

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

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Couple of good ways to practice it.

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One, you can just kind of get a sense of that feeling and then make a few swings kind of trying

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to feel that movement like I'm losing the entire downswing.

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So all the way until I make contact, I'm going to feel like I'm going this way.

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It's not truly what happens, but it's pretty close.

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The second option would be sometimes golfers have a hard time feeling it, so you can use the

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supported wipe as a way to kind of add some sensors to it.

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So I'm going to take my hand, which will allow me to feel and now I'm going to feel,

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okay, if I were to externally rotate it goes kind of like that.

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So if I externally rotate that whole downswing, it'll end up looking something like that.

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And I can hit single arm kind of release style shots and if I do a good job with this external

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

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

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instead of pointing out at the golf wall. It's pointing out at the golf wall then I went into

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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 angle

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is that we'll tend to see one of two things. So we'll tend to see either a very vertical shaft

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because that would be losing that external rotation kind of like so. Or what I just highlighted

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is I might look okay through impact, but then I'll tend to see a bend and I'll tend to see that

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elbow facing the camera kind of like that if I exaggerate it as opposed to that arm continuing

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to go into external rotation and having the club face rotate more based on what the left arm

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

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just know you need more external rotation, a good image is feeling like you're in an arm wrestling

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contest and like you're losing the entire time. There are a couple different ways you can practice

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

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moves try this concept as you're working through some of these drills.