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In this concept video, we're going to investigate arm connection.

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Now, arm connection is somewhat tricky topic.

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It just takes a little bit of understanding of some

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basic anatomy concepts.

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But what I frequently see is many golfers in trying to

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brace or to get into a good connection position in the

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follow-through will overdo it and keep their arm

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their whole tricep and their whole upper arm up against

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their side.

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I think this stems from some of those drills where you'll take a

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glove and place it under your armpit or take a T in place

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it under your armpit.

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The purpose of getting that armpit connection is really

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for scapular stability.

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So if you've ever done any exercise and you've played around

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with kettlebells or some of the functional movements

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stuff, they're very big in scapular control.

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So at the top of the kettlebell swing, you want your

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shoulder to remain relatively packed.

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You don't want it to get pulled out of its socket like so.

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This is the same relationship that we want at the end of

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the follow-through position.

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So right about there, we want that same position.

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So my arms are straight and extended, but my shoulders are

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nice and retracted or stabilized.

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What I see when a lot of people are trying to get

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an armpit extension position is that they end up

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extending more from the shoulder blades and not from the

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arms.

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So I want you to focus when you're getting into that good

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three position that you're getting the armpit extension

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from the arms and not from the shoulder blade.

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Or yeah, not from the shoulder blade.

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All you need at the shoulder blades is for the scap to

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stay stabilized.

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You don't really need the arms to stay up against

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your body.

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They're going to drift out, but they'll be in a strong packed

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position so that if something was to pull me that way,

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my shoulders would be able to absorb that speed.

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One way that I work on this with students that you'll have

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to try to kind of improvise yourself is in nine to three

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shots, I'll have them go to the finished position and I'll

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kind of all stay in there and pull on the club or I'll walk

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to there once they're done hitting.

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And I'll pull on the club just to feel that the arms are

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relaxed, but that I can't pull them over and that basically

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their whole unit or the energy would go through the shoulder

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blades.

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If they're here, if I go to pull, it's going to pull them over.

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So if you have someone who can grab the club and pull it,

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that's great.

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Otherwise, you can just kind of do this little pump movement

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where you're basically feeling almost retract, protract

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of the shoulders, but the arms are relatively loose.

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And then what you can do is you can dial in that retract

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feeling and then take some swings.

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We're basically it gets to that feeling where the arms are

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soft and extending, but the shoulder blades are actually

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stabilizing.

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This will help you with your bracing and your follow-through

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position, which will ultimately help you get it get rid of a

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little bit of that scoop or stand-up movement down through

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the wall because that's an alternative to stabilizing in

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the shoulder.

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So when you're doing these 9 to 3 in focusing on that

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scaps ability, you would get to the end position and then

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if I did that facing this way, get to that end position and

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then just kind of softly float the arms out towards the target.

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From the face on view, we're going to do that same little

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pattern and we're just going to let those arms pump a few

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times in that follow-through.

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So we're there and then we just kind of feel that softness

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in the arms, but that's the ability and the shoulder blades.

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Use that to help you with your stability position in your 9

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to 3 training.