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In this case study, we're going to take a look at a golfer working through shallow arms.

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So I like the recipe or the process of clarifying exactly what you want to do,

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and then selecting a drill that gets you to do what you want to do,

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and then putting in reps.

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And when you put in reps, the next step is to remove the barriers that prevent you from hitting the ball the way you want,

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when you do what you're trying to do.

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So in this particular example, working on shallow arms,

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working on it directly didn't really resonate.

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So we clarified that we needed to shallow out the swing,

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but going at it directly didn't work, so we went at it from a different perspective,

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which you'll see in this video.

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Once we had a way that he could train the shallow arms,

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then he was able to put in reps, and we started to remove barriers.

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So this will hopefully help you see the recipe of how you can improve your own game.

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Alright, this is the student he had joined the website,

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and then found me live close enough nearby where he wanted to come in and take a few lessons.

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He knew that he needed to shallow out the swing,

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and we had a limited time frame.

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So we only had about six or eight weeks.

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We were able to fit in about four lessons.

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So over here on the left, we have the first swings that he took for me.

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And he had been working on trying to get some of that right arm external rotation.

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He was working on some of the active ways to shallow out the club.

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Now you can see that there's a lot of body rotation,

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and you can see that those arms aren't really...

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They're shallowing a bit, but you can see that that overall path is probably going to get outside in,

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unless that club drops a ton.

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And now if you see where he's looking,

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I haven't aimed at the middle of the driving range,

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which is there's a...

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there's a pole kind of in line with one of those trees.

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So that's roughly where he's trying to hit.

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So even though he was doing some of the shallow pumps,

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the problem was it wasn't providing correct feedback for him.

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And so here we can see his actual swing is very steep, almost vertical,

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with a very leftward path.

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He was hitting really deep divots.

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He was hitting big poles, some slices,

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and he couldn't hit anything longer than, you know, say, a five-iron with any level of consistency.

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So I wanted to show that one because it had the little pump in it.

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But here you can see the movement outside,

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so we can see it get steep,

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and you'll see a lot of toe shots and a lot of poles.

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This is actually the...

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near the beginning of the second lesson.

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So by working on it directly,

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we were not able to make a big impact

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as far as the shallowing goes.

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Now I wanted to use this as a case study for a couple reasons.

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One, I sometimes get accused of teaching a swing

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that only young guys are able to do.

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And so I wanted to show a guy who's a little bit larger,

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maybe doesn't work out on, he's got a pretty busy job working in the oil and gas.

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But he's a passionate golfer in any practice as a bunch.

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The other key that I wanted to highlight

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was that you don't necessarily have to actively do what you're trying to do.

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So the three steps are basically clarify what you're trying to do.

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Select a drill that allows you to do it correctly

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and then put in reps.

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And once you've put in reps, you then want to remove barriers

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as to why when you put whatever you're learning in that drill

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when you put that back in your full swing,

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it doesn't give you exactly the results you want,

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what else is left.

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So clarify, select a drill and then remove barriers.

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So here we still know we've got to get shallow

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and working on it directly wasn't getting there.

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Every time I asked him what did it feel like,

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what did it feel like, he wasn't very aware of feel.

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So we did some variation of the force square

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and a variation of the follow through poles.

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So getting awareness of where we wanted to club this swing

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and we used some sticks and alignment aids

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and kind of created some visuals so that he could see

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where he wanted to get the club to go.

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Now what's fast forward to the end of this lesson

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and show you what the changes were.

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Alright, over on the left he's trying to swing along

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this path that we created.

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He's trying to create a blur that goes

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kind of through this gate or along this path.

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And you can see he's basically trying to get his arms

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this swing where what he felt was

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directly out to the right.

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We had visuals trying to help him out.

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But you can see a massive change in where he was able

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to get the club to shallow.

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So this is one example of how we wanted to work on shallow arms

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and we found a way to work on shallow arms

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by working on the follow through position.

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Here he is after doing kind of a full session of practice.

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If you remember he wasn't able to hit anything

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and about a five iron and here he was able to hit

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a number of drives that would have gone pretty straight

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and found the fairway.

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So at this point we were both pretty excited

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but I know from looking from teaching golf

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and kind of working in motor learnings

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that you don't know what's learned until there's been time.

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You don't know if he's actually learned how to shallow

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the arms or he just was in a good groove.

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So I was really excited to see where I had it.

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I was anxious to see what would happen when he came back

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for the next lesson.

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Alright, as we were walking out he told me he hit a lot of

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good shots. He saw that some bad ones but he hit a lot of

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good shots and the overall turf contact was better.

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That was the main feedback we were focusing on.

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Because once we got the blur we had to do,

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you know, brush the ground and then put the ball in the way.

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But he worked through that. He got some awareness

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of the proper path. This was his first swing

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after that next lesson.

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So in my head I'm like, oh man, it didn't quite stick.

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It's a little shallow, it's not quite as vertical

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but nowhere near where it was.

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As soon as he hit that ball he said, nope, nope, I got this.

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Here was the next swing.

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And I asked him what the difference was

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and he said he could see the blur of the club

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going through the path.

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And the neat thing was he said after training the blur of the club

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and using visual feedback after doing that for a few weeks,

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he was now starting to feel where his arms were

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in the library position.

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So he was starting to feel where his body was and how it

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related to this visual.

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So he's using multiple feedback mechanisms to help

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create the shallow path.

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But the key is you have to,

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once you figure out what you need to do,

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whether it's move the low point,

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power it more with the body, get more leg,

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shallow out the club, square the club face earlier.

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Whatever you decide you need to do,

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you have to find a drill or two that help you do it.

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I find that most people just,

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they figure out what they want to do

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and then they go put in reps trying to do it.

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But they haven't actually

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changed the situation so that they're actually doing it.

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So they're really just confusing their motor pattern

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by thinking they're doing one thing

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and not actually doing it.

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So you've got to find a drill and select a drill

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that gets you to actually do what you're trying to train.

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Then you can put in the reps

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and if it's not everything's not going exactly the way you want,

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you can then remove barriers.

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Like we found such as over here

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that when he tries to swing harder,

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he gets a little steeper.

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So that's a barrier.

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We have to work on how can he get the blur

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while still swinging hard.

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We also found that he,

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one of the barriers on some of his workshops

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he would tend to have the club face

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a little bit more open compared to the path.

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So we had to work a little bit more on getting the club face to rotate.

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Hopefully this inspires you

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to experiment with different forms of feedback

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that can ultimately help you

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do the movements that you're trying to do

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so that you can build your field database

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so that it'll hold up under pressure

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when you're out on the course.