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This arm shallow drill is sternum bicep forearm so I use this as an awareness

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drill for helping with arm

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shallowing, specifically for golfers who tend to lose sight of where the arm

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shallowing pattern is and feeling more they tend to get more of the shallowing

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happening from the body. So if you struggle with more of the arm

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shallowing component and you find that when you try to shallow it feels very

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weak you can use this awareness drill as well. So what I'll have you do is you

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're

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going to get into your set-up posture and we're gonna practice hinging the club

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in different ways and feeling different relationships. So the first one we're

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gonna do is we're gonna hinge it more vertically this will call sternum because

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it's straight up and down. Then we're gonna hinge it more in line with the bice

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p or

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more like an angled hinge and then we're going to hinge it more in line with

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the

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forearm. Then what I'm gonna have you do is you're gonna close your eyes and

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you're

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gonna feel so you're gonna do this way and you're gonna do that way and then

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you're gonna do more that way and I'll ask you which one does your downswing

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feel the most similar to? What most of you will say is it's probably gonna feel

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more front like the bicep one but if you're closed and it feels like the bicep

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then that's really closer to the sternum and so what we're gonna do is we're

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gonna challenge feeling more of the forearm or in some cases even feeling

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under the forearm. Many golfers the steepening movement is a pulling down and

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feeling of power so I'll typically apply some resistance against the bottom of

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the club so they can feel pulling down versus if it's here it would be more

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almost like I was pulling up and in order to pull up on the club I really I'm

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gonna have to wait for the club to drop behind and that's where that arm

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shallowing component takes place so you're going to experiment feeling more

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sternum then feel more bicep and then feel more forearm and the goal is we're

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gonna feel more of that forearm during these shallowing drills. Now you can

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also

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if you have trouble with it happening really early at the top of the swing

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then you can try to end the backswing finishing more on that follow-through

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side we're a little bit more laid off. Many golfers who get steep tend to get

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there from more across the line position but that's not an absolute. So we're

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gonna kind of get that feeling it's gonna come from below that forearm and

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then we're gonna go up to the top of the swing and do a pump drill or two just

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kind of feeling that relationship of the club being even more shallow than

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normal.

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So kind of shallow right there up to the top pump it a couple times and then

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let

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it swing through and you may have trouble hitting the ground you may catch it a

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little bit thin but this will give you that sensation in the relationship of

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more of that arm shallowing. Next piece we're gonna try to do it without the

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pause. So if you struggle with more of an arm shallowing movement take the body

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out of it and just feel where the hinge is taking place if it's more in line

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with the sternum or the bicep that's probably steep if it's more in line with

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the forearm or even below that's more of a shallow movement and that's what

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you're trying to do if you're trying to get more of a body centered swing

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during

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the downswing.