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This video is looking at the bent lead armoured impact.

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So there's with Jordan Speath being now the number wing

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offer in the world, at least at the time of filming this video.

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I've had a number of questions about how does he use a chicken wing

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in order to then place so great, you know, hit it still far,

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not as far as some other guys, but still has the wall plenty far.

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How does that all work out?

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So I figured I'd do a video to help clarify the difference between having

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armoured impact and a chicken wing.

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So let's start with the assumption,

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based on my 3D data or the data that I have in my database,

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that if we compare where a golfer is it set up,

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the tour average is going to be about five to 10 degrees

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more bent at impact.

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That's what often looks straight because of the amount of shoulder rotation

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that these golfer have when they're at impact.

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But they are more bent slightly at impact than they are at straight.

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So, or sorry, then they are at setup.

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Jordan obviously looks very obvious to having more bend at impact.

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Some other golfer don't look quite as obvious.

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The important distinction for me is there is a big difference between bent

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and bending.

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Since most golfer are more bent at impact,

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to be able to look at what they're doing with that arm,

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and the important thing is that that arm is straightening through impact.

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So, I do have a handful of golfer who similar to what Jordan does,

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kind of do that white movement that arm bends,

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and then instead of posting up and straightening that arm,

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they basically hold on to that elbow position,

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and then use more of the wrist and the hands

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to create some of that extension through the ball,

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and they don't get a ton from that elbow.

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That is a huge difference from what I consider the chicken wing.

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The chicken wing would be using bending of the lead arm

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in order to help you avoid fat shots and square up the face,

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and that's not what they're doing.

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So, when a golfer is doing a chicken wing,

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what they end up looking like is they get to about here,

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and the club faces in an open position.

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And so now I would have to do something major

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because if I were to rotate through it, probably shank the ball.

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So, with this club face in an open position,

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what they end up doing is they bend that arm

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in order to get the club to line up.

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So, it bends like this, so there would be, you know,

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with lean and flexing that wrist,

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and what they'll usually do is they'll bend

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so that the club points at the target this way.

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What Jordan is doing is he's kind of in this pattern here,

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and he's still rotating around a stable bent arm.

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Then what happens is he gets to a point where

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now because he isn't using the shoulder to rotate,

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he's got to figure out how to absorb the force,

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and so that arm kind of bends a little bit more

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once the club passes his body.

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So, I think there's a very important distinction

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when we're talking about a bent versus a bending arm

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and how it relates to the chicken wing.

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I don't think it's a problem to have a bent arm similar

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to say a lee Westwood, a receive goose in,

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or current number one golfer in the world Jordan's speed.

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But I do think it is very problematic

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to have that arm bending through impact.

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I've only seen one Torpro who bends that arm

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and it's minor and then it just starts straightening

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right after impact.

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Most of the golfer is even if they look like that arm is bent,

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what usually is happening is that arm is bending through

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to about here, and then it straightens to about there,

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and then sometimes it'll continue straightening,

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sometimes it'll bend, but that's now in kind of the

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bracing pattern and less of the club-face squaring pattern,

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or how they're directing the club to the golf ball.

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So, if you look at your video and you see that arm working

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way behind your body and bending through impact,

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there's a very good chance that you're doing it

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to help control the club-face, that's not what Jordan's

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be doing, and I don't think you should do it either.

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I thought it would be fun to take a look at a few lee-de-albo graphs.

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So here are four different players who kind of demonstrate

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a similar looking pattern to say Jordan's beath.

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So on these graphs, we're looking at the amount of

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bend or straightening of the lead arm.

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So if it were a 180 degrees that would be a straight line,

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so that would be a perfectly locked arm for someone who has

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full full range of motion.

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As the degrees get lower, so as the graph goes down,

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they are bending their arm.

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So basically what you'll see is four different timelines

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for four different golfers.

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So you have a dress, top of the swing impact, and finish.

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So the typical pattern is you'll see that elbow bend

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a little bit during the backswing,

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and then it'll start to straighten during transition,

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and then about midway between top of the swing impact,

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and impact when they start to execute the white movement

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if they're doing it more from the lead arm,

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you'll typically see that lead arm bend.

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So there are a couple examples, like if you look at the bottom left,

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you'll see a golfer who looks like that elbow is bending,

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and what will happen is right before impact,

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it starts to straighten.

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Now the total, it's kind of a little plateau

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from when it starts to bend to where it would be after impact.

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So this would be a guy more like Jordan's beath,

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who would look like he's bending his arm through impact,

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but the graph clearly shows that he's not totally bending his arm

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in fact he's straightening it through impact,

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but it is more bent than it was it set up.

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So not every golfer executes this pattern,

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some will just straighten it more from the top of the swing,

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and they'll execute more of the white from the trail arm,

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but I wanted you to see the difference between an arm

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that is bending just prior to impact,

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and then straightening through impact.

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And if we compare that with golfer's who tend to look like they're doing the chicken wing,

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or are doing the chicken wing,

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you will see the line dropping down significantly through impact,

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that is an actual chicken wing where these golfer's who demonstrate an arm that is bent

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at impact, but slightly straightening are not executing a chicken wing.