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In this GolfSmart Insight, we're going to answer a member question about should

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I

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rotate my forearms through impact. So it sounds like a really easy question,

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like

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I should be able to just type an answer yes or no but obviously I'm doing a

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video so it's it's somewhat complicated. What I want to do is I want to

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separate

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your understanding of forearm rotation from shoulder rotation and yes I want

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the

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forearms to rotate through impact but I want to make sure it's the forearms and

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not the shoulders. So let me break that down for you a little bit. When I look

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at

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3D, one of the things that I'm looking at is the amount of lead arm

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supination through impact. Now for a lot for the majority of torporos it is not

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uncommon to get 75, 80, 90 even up to 95 degrees of left arm supination and

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that

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will generally finish in that follow-through position that I talk about. Now

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it's also not uncommon if I have an amateur who struggles with slicing the

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ball, getting shaft lean, hitting poles, they will tend to only have about 50,

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60

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degrees of forearm supination. So I do think that it's a great thing to do

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because supinating the lead arm gets those elbows closest together which helps

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keep extending the path further out to the right moving the bottom of your

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swing

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forward giving you a more shallow angle of attack. Conversely golfers that tend

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to try to force this motion tend to do it more from the shoulders. So it's

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important that the supination comes more like this and you can see my elbows

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are

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still facing up versus going like this in which case this right elbow is now

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facing down like so. This would actually be a right shoulder internal rotation

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not a left arm supination. If I'm coming from a good delivery position and

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those

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arms are extending out away from me they will both basically be supinating like

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I'm extending my arms out like so that gets those elbows very close to the ball

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which gives me good solid impact alignment where a lot of golfers who try

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and force this rotation will more kind of wipe it across like so without

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letting

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those arms extend away from you. So we want to make sure that we get some of

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this lead arm supination because I I read a lot of of certain swing styles

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that are trying to advocate more holding the club face square to the arc and

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not

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letting it rotate and I've never seen someone on 3D who was a really good

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ball striker that didn't let that left arm supinate. I'm not saying you need to

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force it it should be more of a gentle supination so one of the things I like

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to give a kind of a quick little metaphor for your analogy if you're

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throwing a punch your arms are rotated like so right so if you were throwing a

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punch from here it would rotate as you extend you wouldn't necessarily have to

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force a lot of rotation it would just rotate because it's coming from an

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already rotated position. Well the same thing's going to happen in delivery

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position your forearms are pretty much rotated like so so when you go to extend

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them they're going to unwind which is going to cause that rotation and we're

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basically going to get into the follow-through position kind of like so. So I

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hope that clears it up the yes I want you to let those forearms rotate but I

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want you to be diligent and make sure it's not the shoulder that is over

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rotating because if the shoulder rotates that's going to move the bottom of

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your

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swing back it's going to move your path more left and that's going to cause you

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to hit fat shots thin shots pulls and slices so make sure that when you're

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letting your forearms supinate you're doing in the right way.