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This video is visualizing steep and shallow arms in transition.

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So it can be challenging to visualize the steepness or the shallowness in the

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arms.

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So I've got a couple of pieces of electrical tape to help use the rib cage as a

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reference

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instead of looking at the golf ball and the club to the ground because

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sometimes that can

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confuse things.

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The difference between a club that looks like that and a club that looks like

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that are pretty

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minor.

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They can still be very significant but they're pretty minor when looking on

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video.

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So using just the club to the ground can sometimes be more confusing than

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necessarily helpful.

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When I'm talking about shallow arm movements, I'm using a reference of

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basically the bottom

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of the rib cage.

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So if we were to, I've got this piece of tape just kind of at the bottom of the

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rib cage

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and parallel to it.

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So if we were to review the components of steep and shallow, there's two major

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components

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too, shallowing the club.

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One would be the extension of the arms because getting the club far away from

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me shallows

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it out.

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And two would be, is the club working more vertically, so kind of straight

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along my spine,

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or is the club working more horizontally, kind of like so, which would be more

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working along

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the bottom of my rib cage.

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What you'll see when you look at a lot of really good golf swings or when you

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see some

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of the legends talk about the golf swing, you'll tend to see them demonstrating

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the

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club working more horizontally around their body.

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In fact, a lot of one common thought or drill that was given to a lot of golf

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ers was basically

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a baseball swing, right, which is essentially working those arms completely

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horizontally

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and then figuring out how to position that rib cage so that that horizontal

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movement

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would get down all the way to the golf ball.

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So what you'll see is the shallow arms and what we're trying to get in

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transition is

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basically trying to get this closest to parallel to the bottom of my rib cage,

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or close to

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this horizontal line.

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If you're in the steep category, the club will be tending to work more along

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almost the

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45 degree angle, maybe even creeping down towards 30.

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I would say that somewhere in that 30 degrees or above would be steep, so

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someone like Charles

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Barkley is almost vertical, where golfers closer to that 20 degrees, 10 degrees

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, 0 degrees,

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those are going to tend to look more shallow.

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So now you've got that kind of reference of what we're trying to look at.

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From the down the line, when you're looking at a lot of these videos, I want

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you to now

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see how if I do the shallow arm movements, this starts to kind of match the

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plane or

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the path that my rib cage is rotating around.

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Not technically rotating around a plane, but you can kind of use that as a

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reference when

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you're looking at the arm movements instead of comparing them to the golf ball.

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Because what frequently happens is a golfer will work the arms vertically, but

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at the

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same time have a little bit of loss of posture, a little bit of slide, and a

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lack of rotation.

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And now that vertical arm movement looks like it's coming well from the inside.

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So they'll say, how could I possibly have steep arms?

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I'm hitting big hooks.

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I'm getting too shallow.

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Hopefully looking at this grid and using the rib cage as a reference will help

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you visualize

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how very easily you could have vertical arm movement and still come well from

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the inside.

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So it's not totally about the club path because one common problem for golfers

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who tend to

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hook the ball is getting steep and deep.

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So the club well behind kind of like so, but working in more of a vertical

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fashion as opposed

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to working in a horizontal fashion and working more around.

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So if you've struggled with understanding kind of some of these shallow

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movements, the

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examples, the drills, hopefully this visual helps you tie together what I mean

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when I

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say shallow arms in transition.

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Use this little, just imagine this shirt or the grid on the golfers when you're

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looking

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at YouTube or if you're looking at any of my analysis videos and you'll have a

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better

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idea of whether their arms are working in a steep fashion or whether their arms

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are working

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in a shallow fashion during transition.