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this video is trail arm straight for width so one of the common things that

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we're trying to do in this backswing is we are trying to enable the core to

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dominate the backswing movements while letting the arms kind of set the the

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path and kind of get the get the arms in position but we're allowing the the

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core to dominate this backswing position so that it can get loaded so that it

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will be more likely to fire during transition so there have been lots of

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different ways that golfers have described having more of this core load

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the one-piece takeaway is kind of that initial move feeling really wide at the

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top is another version of feeling like the core is doing most of the movements

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because basically what you'll see is if I start to move my shoulders everything

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will narrow and everything will get up quickly so golfers have described either

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low and slow wide but those are all just kind of feelings of what the body may

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be doing to create this one-piece takeaway well one of the areas that I

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tend to see relate to this one-piece takeaway is looking at the relationship

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for the trail arm but we'll talk about the trail arm and the lead arm and how

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they can influence whether you're doing more of this body pivot and therefore

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get

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your body and shoulders in a good position so that you can transition well

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or if you're setting the club more within arm movement which may lead to

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transition issues so with the one-piece pivot or takeaway we're gonna take a

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look at that right elbow staying straighter a little bit longer now if you

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do this on nine to three shots and you tend to kind of bottom out then it it

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means that you're bending this arm in order to create some of the depth because

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you're not shallowing enough with the shoulders or forearms but keeping that

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right arm straighter a little bit longer tends to force the body to dominate

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that

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early part of the takeaway and we can look at that as it gets to the top of the

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swing because a lot of in order for the elbow to work behind you or to really

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bend you will tend to see the arms work a little bit more across the body so

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that's why a lot of golfers have described having that width at the top

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as a really good feeling it kind of compliments making most of the movements

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happen from the body as opposed to from the arms so from the down the line a

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good

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little checkpoint is looking at the the when this trail arm is straightening

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and

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making sure that it's not really or sorry when it's bending and making sure

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that it's not bending until pretty much after this shaft parallel movement or

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as

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you go to set the club looking at where that right arm is in relationship to

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your chest now you can look at the left arm in its relationship to the chest as

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well and what you'll see is if that right arm stays straight it's very hard for

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that left arm to get too deep if I bend this arm and I'll try not to smush the

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microphone but if I bend this left arm or sorry this right arm then this left

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arm can really work across my body if that right arm stays straight even if I

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try to move that left arm across my body I'm gonna struggle with getting kind

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of

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stuck behind myself at the top and again if the arms are more out in front of

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me

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kind of like so my shoulder is in a position where it can naturally shallow

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during transition where if these arms get way behind I'll lose some of that

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rotation capability so I'll be more likely to get steep in transition so if

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you're struggling with having either an arm dominated backswing or if you're

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struggling with having the arms get too much behind you at the top working on

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feeling that right arm staying straight or longer can help you overcome that

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when

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you go to hit you can either use kind of a supported one arm swing and kind of

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feel that width up at the top and then once you have a good sensation of that

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width you can make that same movement and then put your left arm in place this

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what may feel like I'm really reaching but you'll be able to confirm it either

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with cameras or or the fact that this right arm is staying straighter so that

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you can then feel that the body has kind of dominated the movement then what

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you

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do is you set up to a normal wall and you try to recreate that same kind of

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feeling if it works out it should help with the movements that you're trying to

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do on the downswing but I always work on the downswing first because the back

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swing ultimately sets up what you wanted to do on the downswing it doesn't

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naturally just cause a perfect downswing