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This video is looking at the major shallowers of the transition.

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So, a lot of golfers submit their swing or see me in person and I'll ask them,

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hey, what

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are you hoping to work on?

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And many of them know, many of them have seen on video or they know when they

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submit it,

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I'm getting steep in transition, I just don't know how to shallow it.

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When I try and shallow it, I hit it poorly, et cetera, et cetera.

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So what I'm going to do in this video is highlight the three possibly four key

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shallowers that

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you can try if you're struggling with getting very steep in transition.

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So, and you'll probably be surprised by one that is left out, but I'll explain

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what that

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is.

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So, the three/four major shallowers are going to be full body rotation in the

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backswing,

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so completing your turn, right arm external rotation, left forearm pronation,

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or left

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arm adduction or working more across your body.

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That's the one that's kind of, for most people, technically shallows but causes

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a little bit

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more of a steep movement in transition.

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So, the one that you may have thought would be included but doesn't actually

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fit in this

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category would be right side bend.

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A lot of golfers do right side bend in transition, but if you're looking at

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kind of the tour

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model, the right side bend isn't going to switch from left to right until round

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shaft

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45.

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So, that's more of a release movement going into the side bend.

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It's not so much one of the major shallowers in transition.

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So, the one that I think everybody tries and everybody has at least

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experimented with

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is the trail arm external rotation.

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Now, a lot of golfers will try to get into this trail arm external rotation and

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end up

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getting super side bendy extension, early extension, and they'll start getting

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into more

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of this kind of super shallow, shallow too long, shallow too late pattern that

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becomes

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unplayable.

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So, I've had a fair amount of success helping golfers get more of the shallow

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from rotating

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the lead form and it's important that it's the forearm, not the shoulder

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because if the

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shoulder starts rotating, that's a disconnected and weak position for the

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shoulder.

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So, the shoulder is actually going to potentially internally rotate or the very

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least kind of

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stay the same as that lead form pronates.

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So, if I go up towards the top of the swing, I keep that lead elbow kind of

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pointing down

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and I'm just going to feel like I turn that thumb down just like so.

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If I turn that thumb down, that's going to shallow.

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The other option, I'm at the top of the swing, I'm going to externally rotate,

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so I'm going

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to externally rotate, like so that would be more that trail shoulder.

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The one that a lot of people miss is completing a full backswing.

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So, a lot of golfers, if you don't have enough rotation, then what will happen

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is the club,

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the hand distance from the target line will be more closer to the target line

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as opposed

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to if I had that rotation.

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And that rotation allows me to potentially not shallow quite as much with my

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arms and

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still come from the inside.

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So, especially with the driver, golfers who can do it pretty well with an iron

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but then

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because of the driver you don't want to hit down quite as much, they tend to

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get a little

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bit steeper with the driver.

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They can feel a little bit better and actually improve their launch

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characteristics by making

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sure that they complete their shoulder turn, complete their pivot and really

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focus on that

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arm height and depth as opposed to maximizing those arm shallowing.

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So, if you're struggling with shallowing the club in transition, take a look at

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the amount

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of turn you're having in the backswing and know from some of the other videos

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that turning

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doesn't just mean rotation, it's an extension, a side bend, it's finishing the

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pivot.

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So, you can finish the pivot which will help create the depth.

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You can rotate the lead form to help shallow or you can externally rotate that

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trail shoulder.

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You can potentially pull the arms more across but what can happen is sometimes

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pulling it

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across limits your ability of the trail shoulder and so it forces your arms to

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actually get

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steep in transition.

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So, for some people that helps but for many people that actually makes it worse

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So, we've got drills here in the transition section to help you feel either the

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trail

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shoulder, the lead form but know that completing the backswing is always an

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option if you're

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struggling with getting too steep in transition and you can't get it shallow

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enough just from

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the arm movements.