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This concept video is wipe and extend, or roll and bend.

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So we're going to look at the trail shoulder, the trail arm, and we're going to

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look at

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how it delivers the club to the ball through the release.

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You have two major combination options that you can take.

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The wipe and extend is basically the arm works across, and then it extends

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straight out in

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front of you.

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The roll and bend would be more of a shoulder internal rotation, which is very

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hard to then

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get full extension so the arm will tend to bend like this.

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So I have two options.

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I could either go like that, I could go like this.

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The way you'll know which one you're using is if you look from the down the

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line camera

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angle, if I do more of this wipe and extend, you'll pretty much see a straight

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line or even

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the elbow staying inside of the line between your hand and your shoulder.

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If you use more of the roll and then bend, you'll tend to see the elbow get

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outside of

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that line from the down the line camera angle.

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From the face on camera angle, the wipe and extend, you'll see really good arm

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extension

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and the delay of this elbow kind of rotating in.

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If you use a little bit more of that roll and then bend, you'll tend to see the

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elbow

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pointing at the camera a little bit sooner.

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If you want to add side bend, you're pretty much limited to only using this

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wipe and

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extend.

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If you want to hit well with the longer clubs, if you want to be a specialist

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with the driver

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in the three wood, the better pattern is going to be this wipe and extend.

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It uses a muscle called the serratus to keep everything kind of tight as that

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arm extends

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so that arm will extend more straight out in front of my body, which allows me

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to get

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my arm the furthest away from me.

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If it starts to rotate this way, my hand is not going to reach as far a

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distance away

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from my body, so it limits my ability to build the flat spot down at the bottom

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that's useful

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for the longer clubs.

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You can use this in either 9-3 or to train it, I should say.

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We can either do 9-3 with both hands or we can just do the single arm releases.

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If we're going to do the single arm releases for this trail arm, the supported

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wipe where

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I've got my arm underneath and then extending the arm will create that look of

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that elbow,

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the shoulder elbow wrist being in a straight line in this position and the only

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thing that

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I've got left to then close the club face is going to be some of this forearm

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rotation

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different from shoulder rotation.

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The opposite pattern, and I think it's useful to experience both of them

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because then you'll

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get a better sense of what your brain is actually trying to do.

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So if I rotate my shoulder like this, you can see that if I also extended and I

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did the

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same wrist movement, that thing would go way to the left.

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So what ends up happening is I make this movement and then I tend to scoop and

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bend the arm

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to keep the club face pointed in the general direction of the target.

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So I go this way, but then I'm also going to scoop with that wrist and it kind

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of goes

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straight, goes a little bit higher, but overall not too bad except for the fact

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that I finished

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in this position.

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So if I'm doing the single arm releases and the arm is finishing in this

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position, it's

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a good indication that I'm doing more of this roll of the shoulder to close the

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face as opposed

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to the extend or the wipe.

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So then if I shake that off, try to get back to a good pattern where I extend

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my arm straight

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out kind of like that, then I get a similar ball flight where it's starting

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straight,

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but it's much more compressed, I've got a feeling of the ball jumping off the

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club face

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and you can see that it launches a lot lower.

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That second option, the one where I'm going to wipe and extend, works a lot

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better when

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I then take it to the full swing.

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If I roll and then bend, that works pretty well for the wedges, in fact that's

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great

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for hitting little finesse shots and half wedges around the green, but it's

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terrible

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for taking powerful swings with the longer clubs.

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So if you see on video or if I've mentioned in one of your analysis videos that

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you tend

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to have more of this roll release, there's a couple of little things that you

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have to

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be careful with.

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One, and this is probably one of the biggest ones, is if your grip is too weak,

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primarily

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that trail hand.

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If that trail hand is too on top, then what will happen is if I extend and wipe

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, that's

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about as closed as I can get the club face.

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So if I have any amount of shaft lean, this is still going to hit a ball that's

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off to

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the right and so I have to use a different method of closing the face and I'll

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tend to

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air on more of that white movement or sorry, more of that roll of the shoulder

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movement.

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That looks like this.

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So if I put my hand more on top like this and I was too wiped, that's as much

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as I can

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get the club face closed and so my shoulder and my body and my brain will

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naturally air

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towards adding a little bit more of that shoulder roll in order to try to close

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the

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club face.

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So if you struggle with this, double check your grip, otherwise, just put in

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the reps

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doing those 9 to 3 and single arm releases where you're trying to get more of

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this extension

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of the arm.

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One great checkpoint would be the space between your armpit or your tricep and

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your rib cage.

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If when you finish that arm is well off your body like so, then you've used

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more of the

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roll to close the face.

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If when I get to that finish position, the space between my elbow, my tricep

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and my rib

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gauge is still really close, then it's a good indication that I did this wipe

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and extend

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instead of the roll and bend.

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So if you're struggling with your release, hopefully this helps you understand

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the trail

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arm and how it relates to the two more dominant release patterns.