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This kind of video is answering the member question pulling the arms down to

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shallow.

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So this is potentially going to be a fun one.

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I've seen a bunch of Instagram videos about golfers talking about pulling the

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arms down

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to shallow and I had a member question come in about that.

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So I thought I'd kind of walk through my thought process there.

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I think when it comes to steeps and shallows some movements are debatable,

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others are a

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little bit more clear cut.

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But oftentimes you'll see one version of tour golfers where they talk about

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keeping the

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back to the target and kind of pulling the arms down.

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And when you see that from the down the line camera that makes the club get

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down in this

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space under the plane well behind them and so it's pretty logical to think that

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pulling

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the arms down there would shallow the club.

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But I'm going to show you in this video that in the way I look at it pulling

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the arms down

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is a steepener and it's just the other things that they're doing at the same

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time are what

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creates some of the shallows.

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So we'll talk, we'll end up landing the plane and we'll end up kind of summar

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izing the video

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with what are the big downswing shallowers that we want to try to train if we

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're trying

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to get out of more of a steep pattern.

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So first let's talk through a couple different things on this arms pulling down

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One when it comes to steepening versus flattening the shaft you can see because

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the center of

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mass of the club is way up here it's pretty simple if I push down on the top of

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the club

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that's going to cause the club to steepen its pitch and if I push up on the

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bottom or

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out on the bottom that's going to cause the club to shallow.

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So in order for me to get the forces through my hands to create a shallowing

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action there

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has to be something where either the fingers on the left hand are pulling up or

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the palm

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on the right hand or the underside here is pushing out kind of more like this.

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If I'm pulling down with my hand on top of the club that is going to cause it

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to steepen.

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So oftentimes what golfers are doing is when they're demonstrating this they're

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twisting

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the club with their forearms and shoulders so they're rotating their arms this

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way as

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they're lowering it.

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Well if I was to twist the club without lowering this would actually be even

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more shallow.

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My hands would be higher and potentially I would be so shallow that I would be

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above

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the ball and actually miss the ball.

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So that would actually be steeper than if I was to pull the arms down.

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The other component is the body component so the one of the big movements that

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steepens

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the club for a lot of golfers is spinning the shoulders or basically rotating

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the shoulders

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from the right side of the body like this to the left side of the body like

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that early

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in transition.

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When you do that that tends to move the handle out towards the target line and

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it tends to

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pull with that left shoulder which causes the club to get more vertical.

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So it has two kind of steepening actions.

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So when I focus on bringing the arms down here the thing that it encourages is

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keeping

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the back to the target especially when you hear golfers describe turning the

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hips while

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keeping the chest facing backward.

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Now we're adding spine rotation to the right while keeping the shoulder blades

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closed.

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Those are two of the really big shallowers.

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So a feeling of pulling the arms down really what that can do is that it can

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help the middle

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of the spine and the shoulder blades execute the shallowing movements which can

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help get

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the club to look a little bit more shallow from the down line.

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But the actual action of pulling the arms down by itself in my book it makes it

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work

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more narrow and it tends to cause the club to rotate in a steep fashion so to

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me that's

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a big steepener not a shallower.

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So I mentioned at the beginning I'd kind of tie it to the big shallowers are

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going to

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be some of this rightward rotation so getting more of the sequencing where the

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lower body

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is rotating as opposed to the shoulder blades.

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So the shoulder blades staying a little bit more rightward rotated compared to

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the body

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instead of leftward rotated that's one of the big shallowers and then the arm

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rotation

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whether it's forearms or shoulders that's going to shallow the club as well.

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We also have width so widening but that's more about kind of creating the shall

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owness

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down at the bottom and less about the apparent angle that we tend to see kind

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of the shallow

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angle the club that we tend to see in transition.

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So hopefully this helps clarify a few things be careful with the kind of have a

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thought

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process as far as understanding what creates steepness what creates shallow

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what creates

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speed all those things that will help you be a little bit more discerning when

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you're

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navigating that the just overwhelming amount of information that we typically

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see on Instagram

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and YouTube.

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So I've done videos where I talk about kind of the unifying theories and if I

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want to

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get a little bit more shallow feeling more like either my back stays to the

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target or

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my shoulders tend to stay closed a little bit longer those are the things that

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shallow

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and when I do that it could feel like I'm pulling my arms down but it's not the

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pulling

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of the arms down that actually shallows the club.