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this drill video is working through shallow arms so we had a request from a

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student and I thought it'd be a good video to kind of include the rest of the

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class on so what we're gonna do is walk through the process from going from

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steep arms to work into the pump to brush in the ground to then hitting a

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golf ball and you'll see kind of where some of these sticking points maybe one

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of the challenge with working on shallow arms is it's a transition move so you

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already kind of if you're at that point in the swing you've already done a lot

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of things similarly to what you've already trained you know your normal

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takeaway your normal setting and so your brain will want to do its normal

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pattern

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that's why I highly recommend whenever you're working on transition to do

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either

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pump drills or broken transition drills in order to work around that then once

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you have a feeling start mixing in more and more full swings until you're

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primarily doing full swings so this particular golfer similar to a lot of

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golfers has a pattern where to start the downswing the arms tend to get steep

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kind of like this and the body is standing up or shallowing so it kind of

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has that look like so and I know that if I do that and I kind of throw my hands

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at the right place I can control how it's going to hit the ground problem is it

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gives me a very limited flat spot and it has a lot of trouble with the

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longer clubs especially if you go and swing hard it's almost disastrous

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instantly with the longer clubs so the goal would be to get a little bit more

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shallow arms and we usually do that by working on kind of the delivery drill

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right by working on letting the left forearm rotate or letting the trail

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shoulder rotate now what'll happen is if I do what I've always been doing and I

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just shallow my arms it'll frequently look like this where the forearm is

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going to be pointing well above the golf ball where when I do my steep

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movements that form is pointing more or less at the golf ball so what you have

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to

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do is you have to figure out how to do the shallow arms while still getting in

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a playable orientation in this case having that form pointing closer to the

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golf ball so what'll happen is I do the shallow arms but now I bend forward and

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I kind of steepen with my body in order to get this pointing more in line with

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the golf ball if I did shallow arms and stand up I wouldn't be able to hit the

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golf ball or the ground so that's why a good bridge to getting to actually

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hitting the golf ball is going to be making that little pump move but brushing

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the ground so you notice on that one I stood up a little bit I wasn't able to

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brush the ground now if I were to kind of keep my posture still do that shallow

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arms now I can get the club to brush the ground so I'd work on doing a few

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pumps

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or a broken transition so the same thing would be if I did this and I said okay

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now try to brush the ground there's no way I can get my hands down there

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because

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that form is just too high where if I did that now from there I can finish the

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swing and brush the ground so broken transition or pump drills are two good

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ways to kind of trick the brain to swing into a certain position then what I

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can do is after I've practiced making the movement in isolation making the

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movement where I can brush the ground now I can put the golf ball in the way

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and

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start to read the feedback of contact and and direction so the important thing

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is if you feel like you're doing a movement in your practice wings and it

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looks visually like you're doing a movement in the practice wings but then

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you're not doing it when you have the golf ball in the way you have to pay

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attention to the details of what's really different between those two

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usually there's a critical detail that is preventing it from working when the

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golf ball is there and you're trying to hit it so now just walking through kind

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of the the normal progression you would do alright I'm gonna make a little

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shallow

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move just the shallow move with with the arms good now I'm going to make that

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shallow move and work on brushing the ground not quite so that was good

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shallow there so to fix it I changed my body angle I didn't change the arm

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shallowing movement and then I can do the same progression with the golf ball

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getting in the way so I would do that arm shallow movement like so now I can

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pump it a couple times more in the position now I can pump it a couple times

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and let the golf ball just get in the way once I've done enough reps where I

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can

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feel comfortable controlling the club brushing the ground more from my body

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angle than with the arms then I can probably challenge it and take a full

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swing starting from a dress position but if I'm having trouble with something

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that's a trigger at the top of the swing the thing I want to avoid is having

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the

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same trigger for my takeaway that I normally use so now for fun we'll take

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a look at the swing that kind of inspired this video and the question so

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we'll see here was the original over on the right now we can see a little bit

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of

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loss of posture so he's already starting to shallow his body during the back

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swing

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but then we'll see during transition the the arms work in a very steep fashion

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getting the club almost vertical the body will continue to shallow as it stands

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out so then I had him send me a pump version and now you'll see that the the

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arms by themselves look pretty good with the exception of a slightly open club

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face but you can see that this form is pointing way too high and so what'll end

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up happening is if he continued rotating around that that axis the club would

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basically swing on a path like this we need to get that right form pointing

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closer to the golf ball so that when he continues rotating his body the club's

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going to intersect with the golf ball so his brain knows that that's not going

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to work and so then when he goes to make the swing it's it is an improvement it

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is less steep in transition than what we saw with his original but it's not

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quite as good as what he was doing in the practice wings and in my mind it's

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still kind of on the verge of getting into too steep so with a proper proper

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focus and paying attention to the key details as he works through these

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practice drills hopefully he'll be able to shallow his swing and hopefully you

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will too