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This video is point your trail elbow at your trail hip so many golfers work on

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trail arm training. Either the trail arm kind of pulls behind them in the back

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swing and take away or at the top of the swing that trail elbow starts flying

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at

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the top and kind of gets across the line or the trail arm tends to get stuck

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behind and go into more of a foot pattern. So this is a video that I used to

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work

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on just kind of the global awareness of that right arm and specifically it's

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targeting more the visual of you know where is that elbow pointing. So some

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golfers have a hard time feeling all those different movements of the shoulder

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but

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they can usually gravitate towards this one little visual. So if I imagine that

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I

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had like a laser beam shooting out of my elbow I want to keep that elbow

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pointing roughly at my right hip or that right ASIS during the entire golf

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swing.

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So what would happen is if I have more of an arm takeaway like this you can see

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that that elbow is pointing behind. If I have more of a one-piece takeaway this

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elbow is still pointing at my trail hip. Next when I go to set the club so I

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get

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to hear and then I pull the arms behind again that elbow is pointing

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directly behind me or behind my back instead of if I have keep that arm more

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in front of my peck and let the arm rotate this elbow will be pointing more

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down towards the trail hip. When I get into transition if I get in a steep

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movement again that elbow gets pointing behind you'll notice that's the trend

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it's rare that a golfer will struggle with the elbow pointing too far in

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front or pointing at the left hip. What usually happens is at some point the

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elbow starts pointing behind so some golfer is it happens in transition where

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it gets pointing behind kind of like so and then it becomes really hard not to

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have the hands go flying out to the right from way behind unless I'm really

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patient and use much more of a body hit with just some subtle arm extension on

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the way through it. So in transition I'm keeping that elbow pointing at that

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trail hip and then through the release I'm keeping it pointing at the trail

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hip. Some golfers have it perfect all the way down until here and then that

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arm tends to fly away and they get more of kind of a really extreme end out

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which

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can cause chanking or low to high so topping it can cause the club face to get

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really closed and hit shots way over there to the left where if I keep that

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arm in a little bit more of external rotation then when I come through this

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elbow is still pointing closer to the trail hip instead of pointing behind me

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or out towards that camera or towards the target line. So if you're working on

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your right arm at all whether it be single arm drills or whether it be nine

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to threes or full swings you can use a simple visual of keeping that elbow

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pointing at that trail hip and see what that does as far as helping you use

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more

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of your hips helping you use more of your core as opposed to dominating the

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arm with pulling that elbow too much behind. This can be a problem for low

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point control or face control with primarily your full swing. Short game it's

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less of an issue to get that arm behind because that's going to be

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dominated that motion is going to be dominated more by the shoulders and less

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by the legs. So if you're struggling with contact and ball flight of the full

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swing and you're working on your trail arm mechanics with a simple little

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visual helps you make your practice drills a little bit more specific or a

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little bit more focused on the key movement. So in demonstration you can

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either do just regular swings really just focusing on the location or you can

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do more of a stop kind of checkpoint drill so you're going to do point it at

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the hip. It's pointed at the hip. It's pointed at the hip. It's pointed at the

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hip. It's pointed at the hip and I can basically work my way through little

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stop or checkpoints making sure that it's pointed at the hip. It's a little

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frustrating at first but it will make you aware of the timing of when you get

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off which will hopefully make it that much more focused for where you need to

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train the trail arm awareness in your swing.