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Prevent Chicken Wing: Improve Elbow Separation in Your Swing

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify when your elbows are bending during your swing
  • Use auditory feedback to train better arm extension
  • Enhance your spatial awareness for improved swing mechanics

In this quick drill, you'll learn how to monitor your elbow position using a bootleg Sami and a rubber band. This feedback mechanism will help you feel the difference between proper extension and bending in your arms during the swing.

Video Transcript
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This drill is monitoring the elbows with the bootleg Sami.

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So I've got my bootleg Sami and I've got a larger rubber band so that I can

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slide the

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rubber band all the way up around just above my elbow kind of like this.

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And then I'm going to attach it to the outside edge of my sleeve, if I can.

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Usually I do this part first so I'm not tethered to the actual rubber band,

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there we go.

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Alright, so now I've got a feedback mechanism that's going to let me feel if

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the arms bend

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I'm going to hear it, if the arms get closer I'm not going to hear it.

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So this allows me, if I'm working on more of a chicken wing or trying to get

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those arms

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to extend all the way through, but I'm just not really aware of what's going on

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.

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This gives me a great feedback mechanism for feeling the difference between

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those and hearing

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the difference between those.

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Hopefully you can pick it up on the microphone.

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So I like this little spatial awareness tool.

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I've got a number of different ways that I use it.

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This is a simple one for monitoring the elbows and I actually prefer it to, say

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, squeezing

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a ball, squeezing a balloon because of the auditory component.

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I think it makes it easier for you to then train the movement.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Prevent Chicken Wing: Improve Elbow Separation in Your Swing

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify when your elbows are bending during your swing
  • Use auditory feedback to train better arm extension
  • Enhance your spatial awareness for improved swing mechanics

In this quick drill, you'll learn how to monitor your elbow position using a bootleg Sami and a rubber band. This feedback mechanism will help you feel the difference between proper extension and bending in your arms during the swing.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.820
This drill is monitoring the elbows with the bootleg Sami.

2
00:00:04.820 --> 00:00:08.830
So I've got my bootleg Sami and I've got a larger rubber band so that I can

3
00:00:08.830 --> 00:00:09.480
slide the

4
00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:15.460
rubber band all the way up around just above my elbow kind of like this.

5
00:00:15.460 --> 00:00:22.020
And then I'm going to attach it to the outside edge of my sleeve, if I can.

6
00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:25.470
Usually I do this part first so I'm not tethered to the actual rubber band,

7
00:00:25.470 --> 00:00:26.860
there we go.

8
00:00:26.860 --> 00:00:35.040
Alright, so now I've got a feedback mechanism that's going to let me feel if

9
00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:36.280
the arms bend

10
00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:41.920
I'm going to hear it, if the arms get closer I'm not going to hear it.

11
00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:47.810
So this allows me, if I'm working on more of a chicken wing or trying to get

12
00:00:47.810 --> 00:00:48.680
those arms

13
00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:52.380
to extend all the way through, but I'm just not really aware of what's going on

14
00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:52.660
.

15
00:00:52.660 --> 00:00:59.170
This gives me a great feedback mechanism for feeling the difference between

16
00:00:59.170 --> 00:01:00.820
those and hearing

17
00:01:00.820 --> 00:01:01.820
the difference between those.

18
00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:05.620
Hopefully you can pick it up on the microphone.

19
00:01:05.620 --> 00:01:08.220
So I like this little spatial awareness tool.

20
00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:11.940
I've got a number of different ways that I use it.

21
00:01:11.940 --> 00:01:16.640
This is a simple one for monitoring the elbows and I actually prefer it to, say

22
00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:17.500
, squeezing

23
00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:21.940
a ball, squeezing a balloon because of the auditory component.

24
00:01:21.940 --> 00:01:24.380
I think it makes it easier for you to then train the movement.
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