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This concept video is looking at arm shallowing errors.

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So arm shallowing is one of those important kind of differentiators.

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Most good players, um,

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toros tend to have some arm shallowing to allow for more steeper

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body positions, which helps control, uh, the bottom of swing,

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get a really good flat spot, low point.

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Some of those good things allow you to power the swing more with your body

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instead of the arms. So it's something to strive for,

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but it's also something that I see a lot of, um, students especially, uh,

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the virtual ones here on the site, uh, do incorrectly.

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So I'm gonna talk through a few different ways,

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four different ways that I commonly see, um,

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amateurs applying the arm shallowing incorrectly. Now,

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piece number one I might be guilty of in some of my arm shallowing videos if I'm

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not being careful,

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but ideally good arm shallowing is a blend of some arm rotation as

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well as some shoulder blade shallowing.

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So this right shoulder blade goes into retraction and that left shoulder blade,

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um, goes into protraction elevation. They kind of shift this way. Um,

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so what often I see is golfers demonstrating an arm shallowing,

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but really protracting and pulling that arm in front.

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Now that helps kind of create some space and makes me feel like I'm getting the

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elbow way in front. But what we would prefer,

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what I'd like to see is that the shoulder is actually going backward as I'm

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getting, um, or the shoulder is retracting and depressing.

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As I'm getting that elbow in front,

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that creates more of this feeling of connection where when I do this, um,

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it's a little bit disconnected and when the shoulder goes forward like that,

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that is one of the biggest causes of steepening the club from the down the line.

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So even if you feel like the elbow is going this way,

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that's gonna get over overridden by the shoulder movement,

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where if the shoulder is going back as the elbow's going in front,

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you're gonna see that that's gonna have a much bigger impact on, um,

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laying the shaft down or shallowing, uh, in transition.

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Number two is doing more of a bicep curl. Um,

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so oftentimes golfers will kind of pull the elbow up and

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in and get it really close like this. So, um, if you have the club in hand,

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it'll end up looking like it's really narrow like this and the club would just

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be too high off the ground. Um, if I'm doing that,

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that's where I'm getting some of this rotation,

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more of a feel from the bicep instead of if I keep that arm straight

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and I do the shoulder blade and I let it kind of the elbow rotate in front and

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get some shallowing this way where the arm stays wide,

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I feel that primarily in the backside of the shoulder using the shoulder

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external rotators. Um, where again, doing it here,

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you could see how I would have to have some,

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I would have to have some major compensations either from the body or the timing

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of the arms to account for that. Uh, bicep curl number three.

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So first one we've got shoulder protraction two is too much of a bicep

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curl. Um,

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three is the lead arm pulling across the chest kind of this way.

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So if the, if the shoulder blades shallow correctly,

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then that left arm gets pinned a little bit in transition as that right arm is

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shallowing. Now it doesn't have to be across your body as much as you can, um,

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but oftentimes when I see golfers demonstrating getting the arm to shallow,

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it's not so much like this,

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it's more like this where I'm kind of pulling the club across. Well, again,

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the problem is if that left shoulder pulls this way,

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that has a reflex of making the right shoulder pull more in the

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steep way as well. So that tends to throw the club into a, uh,

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steeper orientation when we actually are doing it dynamically.

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So when you're rehearsing that shallow move, you want your hips to turn,

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but you want your lead shoulder to stay, uh,

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more across your body or still in that closed off position.

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And then the last one is more from the body. So we've got three arm ones.

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We've got the shoulder going into protraction,

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the bicep curling or the lead shoulder pulling too much.

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The fourth one is doing it more from the body. Um,

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and what I mean by that is doing a lot of movement from the hips.

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Now you'll see if I do this movement from the shoulders where I get some

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shallowing, my spine does get some right side bend,

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especially because of what's happening at the shoulder blade level. Um,

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but I maintain my staticness here. Um,

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where what I'll see is some golfers when they're demonstrating the arm

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shallowing,

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they'll keep the arms in an overly steep position kind of up like this.

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So it's not gonna really change or get any width.

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And then what happens is we,

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they do the shallowing more from tilting at the pelvis, kind of like this.

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So now I feel like my arm has rotated down, but really all I did was I,

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I tilted my whole upper body using my pelvis.

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So the club is in a shallower position, but I'm not really in a position to,

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to cover the ball and control low point. Um,

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so that usually causes a block hook combination and oftentimes some shanks. So,

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um, if you're working on arm shallowing,

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which is great compliment to working on body sequencing and low point training,

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um, that's great,

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but I wanna make sure that you hit on a few of these key details.

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Watch out for those big four of the shoulder blade going into protraction

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instead of retraction the arm coming in, doing more of a bicep curl,

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the lead arm,

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pulling too much across your chest kind of like this or going into too much

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pelvis side bend, kinda like that early on.

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There's a big difference between getting a little bit of that Jackson five kind

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of that weight shift and being here versus still being almost behind your right

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foot and getting into some major shallowing and that way.

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So if you pay attention to those when you're working on your shallowing,

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it will definitely help your, uh, overall downswing sequence,

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low point control and consistency. Okay, so quick demo,

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even though this was a concept video, if I do any of those steepening movements,

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so if the shoulder gets up, if the arm kind of curls in,

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if that left shoulder pulls, um, those walls steepen things,

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now oftentimes that will be accompanied with a little bit of that body

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shallowing, which can create the look from the down the line that I am on plane.

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But I'll be way behind the ball and have more of a throw style release in order

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to, to get the club down to the golf ball. Um,

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where on the opposite, if I was to do more of that, uh,

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lead shoulder, uh, kind of staying pin that trail shoulder retraction,

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that's gonna allow me to turn my body and get more of

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a covering feel and more of kind of that lag or that body powered swing.

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So if you're working through the showering,

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just pay attention to a few of the key details.