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This is the MoNorman arm drill. Now it's very similar to a drill that I use on

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here called don't break my arms but we're gonna continue that motion and we're

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gonna exaggerate it all the way through the downswing and even into the follow

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through. So the reason I call it the MoNorman arm drill is there's a classic

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old video with him in the sweater and he talks about how if if he had a club in

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his arms it would always fall this way because that right arm would be

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underneath

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the left as opposed to this way if that right arm got on top of the left. So if

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I was to get my right arm on top of my left that would provide a really big

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steepening. So then I'd probably have to be more shallow with my body and

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balance

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it by chicken winging and flipping the wrist a little bit more. So if this arm

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gets up I can still hit it straight but it takes a little bit of extra work and

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I'm probably gonna limit myself on speed and if I did that a lot watch out for

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my lead arm or lead shoulder or left side of the neck getting a little bit

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abused from that movement. So we're gonna work on the rotational arm

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shallowing piece. So what I normally have golfers do is if they need this they

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're

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going to hold their arms out in front just like this and then they're going to

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try to get the left elbow above the right but while staying vertical with my

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shoulders or my posture. So this is still staying level and I'm trying to get

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my

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right elbow underneath my left so that my my arms are parallel to my spine

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instead of right now they're perpendicular. So I can do it this way as

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well going just like this. So that feeling there now I'm gonna try and keep

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that

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feeling all the way through until the club is in follow-through position. So

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now so I'm going to preset that rotation just like this and then this

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would feel like wow if I keep that that club is gonna go way out over there

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unless my body rotates through. So one way that I can kind of check it is if I

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'm

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doing a simple 9 to 3 drill if I then turn my body back and stand up just

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made it that right arm is still slightly below the left and the club is still

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behind. Instead of if it's more like this where that right arm is on top and

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the club has passed my body that would look like the club went way around here

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to the left. That level of steepness is typically going to cause a lot of

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problems with the longer clubs. So we're gonna do the MoNorman arm drill one

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more time so I'm going to bring it back. I'm gonna get that right elbow

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underneath that left. I may feel like the left is going up or I might feel like

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the right is going down. I might feel a little bit of both but that left arm is

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getting in line with my spine and above that right arm. So bring it back,

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preset

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that shallow move and then turn my body while keeping the arms in that shallow

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position. As with virtually all the shallow moves this will typically open

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the club face. So if you're not already comfortable doing the motorcycle you

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may

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hit a lot of shots off to the right. If you're used to squaring the club like

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this then if I just get under it it would start to look like that. So even

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though I hit that solid it went a good 40 degrees off-line to the right. I've

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never seen someone working on this movement hit it way left but you could

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hit it fat you could hit it thin and you could hit it right very easily if

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you're not complimenting it with a little bit of wrist motorcycle not getting

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that motorcycle from that trail shoulder or if your body is stalling or early

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extending and basically if that body is not continuing to rotate on the way

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through. So we're gonna get that right elbow under the left we'll do this one

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dynamically. So stage one you would preset that movement you might even

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preset it at setup and then check it here in the follow-through. So stage one

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we'll do it completely extreme preset it at setup and then just turn the body

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and check it that's pretty good so that right shoulder is well under the left

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left shoulder is more up now we'll do it dynamically. So I'm going to bring it

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back and I'm going to check that follow-through position to make sure that that

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right side is a little bit under the left and it is. Okay once I have a

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feeling now I can start to take some bigger swings tend to two's up to full

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swings because what will happen is once I get past that point and the club goes

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flying now my right arm is going to get over the left but I want that pattern

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where I want that to happen as late as possible especially if I have more of a

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body stall or if I have a lot of trail arm activity in that right elbow

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pointing at the camera really quickly after impact. So this can I've had a

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number of students both in person and online where this movement really helps

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tie a lot of the release elements together especially if you're struggling

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with just a little bit of steepness coming from the arms.