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This rail is shoulder blade shallowing and this is looking at the trail arm and

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how it influences the club

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So whether you think of the risk going into more extension or the shoulder

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going into more external rotation in this video

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We're going to take a look at the shoulder blade and what it does in order to

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complement that movement

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one of the most frustrating

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Patterns for many amateurs is getting steep in transition

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Some can do it more from the arm or some can do it more from pulling with their

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left arm and shoulder

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I'm going to show you what the right shoulder blade is doing during that

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pattern and the drill or an exercise that you can use to try

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to help strengthen it so

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The common pattern is basically as the arm is going into external rotation

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Typically what you'll see is from this down-the-line

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Camera you'll start to see a little bit of shoulder blade elevation

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So if you were looking at my back, you would see the shoulder blade go up and

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around

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that way as

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The golfer is starting transition golfers who tend to have a more of a shall

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owing movement of the right arm in

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Transition will tend to actually have the shoulder blade go down and back now

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you can see that as I do that it makes it

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Much easier for this right arm to go into external rotation

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So the drill that we're going to use we're going to do a little shoulder blade

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awareness

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So you're going to have your arms out in front and then you're going to squeeze

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your shoulder blades together from

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the back view

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You'll squeeze the shoulder blades together just like that next you're going to

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raise your arms up to about 45 degree angle and do

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The same activation if you have a buddy you can have them put one hand at the

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base of your right shoulder blade

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The second or the next progression is with the arms out. You're just going to

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do the right shoulder blade and

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Then what you're going to do is you're going to put your arm out at 90 degrees

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And you're just going to do the right shoulder blade and as that right shoulder

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blade goes

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You're going to feel that arm going into external rotation and that's the

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combination that's happening more in transition

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in order to set up for a good white movement where the shoulder has some space

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between the ear and

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basically hasn't shrugged up and

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Disconnected or gone into more of an internal rotation pattern

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so then

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With the club we're going to bring the club up to a top of the backswing arm

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position

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So we're not using our body yet and now we're going to

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Depress that shoulder blade as that shoulder shrugs again if you have somebody

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that can help you

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What I like to do is apply a little bit of resistance to the butt end of the

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club out in the direction of the golf ball

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Rather than in the direction of the ground if you're doing it more in the

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direction of the ground

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Then you would probably want to shrug that shoulder and have that shoulder go

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into internal rotation

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But that's going to steepen the shaft and cause a whole host of pivot problems

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Okay, now we're going to add the body pivots

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You're going to make a backswing and now as you rotate you're going to feel

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that shoulder blade working in towards

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the spine and down and

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At the same time you're going to feel kind of a little bit of that zoro move

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So that combination is what helps support the trail arm shallowing

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The shoulder blade depressing works well with the external rotation and many of

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you who are steepening the first movement

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That's triggering it is coming from shoulder blade elevation and protraction

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kind of like that

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So this is a great exercise to do as more of a pump style drill

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And you want that shoulder blade to start going into retraction as

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The arm is bending to set the top of the swing

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Rather than waiting to the top of the swing and then trying to do it all in one

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movement. So we'll pump it a couple times

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Just like so, we'll do it again. So we'll pump

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pump

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And then go just right through there and whenever you're doing pump style

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drills

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You probably won't make great contact. It's just to get a sense of the rhythm

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and the timing and basically to

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Kind of trick your brain into doing it correctly

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So I had a little different sensation there now. I'll do it more from a regular

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setup

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And now because I did the pump drill from a regular setup, it didn't feel quite

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as exaggerated

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But again, I'm doing this little shoulder blade retraction

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to help

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end the backswing and transition

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Into the start of the downswing. So that'll help get everything shallow and set

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you up for a good release move

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Oftentimes, it's hard to work on transition and release

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So you'll want to do them sort of in separate phases, but then work on trying

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to combine them together into one fluid unified downswing

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But if you're finding yourself getting steep really early in transition

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Take a look at the shoulder blade and work on getting a little bit more ret

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raction and depression