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This video is discussing get the arms in front of you so I frequently get the

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question because you've heard this passed on through golf instructors and

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you've heard players describe it where basically they get to the top of the

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swing and they feel like they're trying to get their arms more in front of them

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or the other way is they'll be told that they should kind of pull down on the

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handle and that sounds very different than what I describe in transition of

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kind of the arm shallowing and go with the body. So let me describe a couple

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different scenarios where I think that the feeling of getting the arms in front

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of you or pulling down can potentially be beneficial. The major one is with

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early

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extension. A lot of golfers who try to really drive that lower body can get

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into

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this kind of stuck early extended position where now my ribcage is in the

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way trying to pull my arms down in front of me would cause me to get really

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steep

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if I if I didn't have any body rotation. So what typically can happen is

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instead

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of a golfer getting here now they're going to use their core a little bit

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more and as long as the arms don't get very steep when they're pulling down

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that

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actually encourages them to get into this more toward impact position but

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usually

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it's more that trying to pull down keeps them in their posture or gets them to

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flex a little bit more and helps connect the ceratus or one of the deep

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shoulder

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muscles which connects to the oblique so that then their body is powered a

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little bit more by core rotation. So that's one of the major places where golf

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ers

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who tend to pull down are going to be are going to do a little bit better. The

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other one is if you are a more of an arm pull style golfer then trying to get

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the

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club out in front of you can help with tumbling the club face to square it as

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kind of one of the main ways to square the club if you're going to be more of

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an

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arm pull method. This can typically work really well with your short maybe even

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your mid-irons but does tend to struggle with the longer clubs because of the

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angle of attack or limited flat spot. Now there are two populations that I

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think

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you should be really careful trying this tip but in general it's not a bad

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thought for tying together powering the swing and connecting the body to what

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the

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arms are doing. The two populations that tend to have a lot of problem with

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this

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movement would be if you tend to get more of that steep arm movement these guys

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who tend to add arm pull pulling in towards them tend to get even steeper

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and that can potentially open the club face while in a steep position and cause

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a whole slew of problems that'll pretty much just stall any amount of body

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pivot

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and the second one would be those who have more of that trail arm cast where

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the right arm or wrist tends to straighten straight from the top of the swing

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if

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you start pulling straight down or feeling like you're trying to get that

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out in front of you it'll tend to open the club face even more you won't have

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the same angle of attack issues because the cast problem but you'll probably

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have the sequencing issues and probably have a pretty big chicken wing have a

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lot of toe contact not so much fun. So if you've been told you know if you look

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like you early extend and you've been told to try to get those arms down in

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front hopefully you'll understand why it's usually a way to get better core

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activation and better sequencing it's not so much that it actually gets those

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arms back in front and kind of matches it up because ideally in order to get

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into

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that to our impact position while the hands will be pretty close to in front of

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your body the club will have to be lagged behind in order to have some of

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that shaft lean at impact so I don't think that this is one of those tips that

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if you actually do it it'll work out but trying to do it can do a whole lot of

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things especially for early extenders