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In this video, we're going to look at troubleshooting supination.

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So I know supination is one of the hot topics and I recently did a video where

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you could

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visualize what supination looks like.

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So in this video, I thought I'd walk through a few of the key problems I see

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with golfers

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trying to apply it.

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Now remember, supination is designed to get golfers out of that pattern.

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So out of a pattern where the arm is bending, kind of blocking, or of a chicken

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wing style

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or low point control.

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So it could also come from more of a pattern, kind of like that, where the arm

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doesn't

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really bend, but the low point is behind and I'm kind of holding that club face

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open.

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So there are a handful of problems that I see with golfers trying to apply sup

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ination

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and we'll walk through most of the common ones here.

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The first one I'm going to call more of a swivel.

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So basically, they're used to coming through with not full owner deviation.

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So they're used to coming into the ball with the club, kind of more like this.

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So then when they start the supination process, it has more of a look like that

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instead of

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a look like that.

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So if you're, I have another video where I talk about getting your supination

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from that

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arm extension because if you're in a rotated position and then you just extend

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the arms,

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the club is naturally going to un or rotate the opposite direction when I

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extend the arms.

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Oftentimes golfers block that movement by extending the arms and kind of

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holding it off and not

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letting it supinate.

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But ideally, most of the supination is going to come walled from the arm

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extension.

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So if you're not getting full unhinged, which is part of that arm extension,

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then the club

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will get steep when you go into more of a supination pattern and you'll tend to

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have

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kind of clunky chunk misses like that.

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The second pattern that's very similar is doing it more from the shoulder.

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So basically doing more of a shoulder internal rotation, kind of like this,

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instead of getting

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it mostly from the forearm.

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So that will look similar to that first pattern except I might have that good

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early extension

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or sorry, ulnar deviation.

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And then I might, if I do it more from the shoulder, still from that position,

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hit more

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of a pull style shot where I'm just getting a little steep and rotating it

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through, kind

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of like that.

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So doing it more from the shoulder and instead of from the forearm or from the

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wrist.

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The next one I think is probably one of the most common, which is doing it

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right at the

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golf ball, getting to maximum supination right at the golf ball, instead of

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trying to finish

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the supination at the end of the release.

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Many golfers, like say, Jordan Spieth, who looks like he's kind of holding it

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off, reaches

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a high level over 100 degrees of supination, if I remember correctly.

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But he reaches his maximum supination way up here.

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Now you might be thinking, well, why does it matter what I'm doing up there?

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Well, what you're doing up there reflects the movement pattern that you did

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through the

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ball.

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So if he's doing it longer and straight and kind of more gradually to get to

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there, that's

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going to produce a very different pattern than if I got to that maximum sup

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ination right

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down at the ball.

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So many golfers, and like I said, this is probably the most common, try to do

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it all

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at once down at the ball and end up hitting really low pull shots.

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The other, the cousin or the similar pattern to that is stalling the body

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instead of having

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the body continue to rotate through with that supination.

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So on the next one, I'm just going to let the supination continue all the way

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up until

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here, but I'm making sure that when I get to that position, my body is facing

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the target.

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So if you're struggling with applying supination, it's probably one of those

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few key movements.

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Either you're not ulnar deviating, so you're getting more on top of it kind of

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like this,

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or you're doing it more with a lunge and kind of shoulder movement, or you're

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doing it all

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at once, or you're doing it with your body stalling instead of your body

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continuing to

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rotate on the way through.

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If you work on getting that smooth supination matched with the body rotation on

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the way through,

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it tends to keep the path going wide longer, tends to really improve low point

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contact,

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tends to be a little bit more repeatable.

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So hopefully this helps you if you're struggling with getting some width in the

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follow through

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because of lack of supination.