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When working on the arms, it's natural to feel weak or out of sync. A key step in training is to connect your arms and your body. This will make the arm movements feel more 'natural' or 'athletic'. This video highlights a few examples, but some key phases for working on connecting the arms and body include:
- Takeaway
- Transition
- Arm Shallowing
- Motorcycle
- Release
- Arm extension
- Unhinge
- Supination
A great way to work on connecting the movements is with tempo drills and pump drills.
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Enough Distance, Concept, Intermediate
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The Stirl is connecting your arm movements to body movements.
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So in the transition section in the Downswing section or the Release section, even in the
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Backswing section, I have drills that help you understand how the arm moves move.
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Now one of the steps that you'll want to make before you'll really own the movement
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and be able to function kind of automatically is taking that step of connecting the arm
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movements to the body movements.
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What I mean by that is you want the arm movements to happen somewhat passively or
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reflexively.
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If you're overly thinking about what's a shallowing the club or older deviating and
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you're doing it with a lot of effort or you're thinking a lot about supination, when you
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have that overly active arm movement, it will tend to slow down or disconnect your rib
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movement.
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It'll tend to stabilize the shoulder, it'll stabilize the rib cage.
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So it'll disrupt some of your sequencing.
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That disrupted sequencing will tend to make it a little less repeatable on the golf
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course.
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So when you're working on these movements, you want to connect them to the body motions.
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A few examples, right?
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Let's say we're working on the Downswing.
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We're working on getting the club to shallowing.
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I've got a number of videos on how to kind of feel the arm shallowing, but then to
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take it that next step further, you should try to feel the arm shallowing because the
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body is initiating the Downswing, not because the arms are just shallowing.
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Or if you're working on the motorcycle movement, you're trying to get more face rotation.
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It should rotate because the arms are lagging behind and somewhat relaxed as your body
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is rotating.
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If you're working on getting a little bit more of that unhingy, you have a little bit
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too much of that role in your release.
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You're getting some unhingy to help get width.
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That should happen because of the body bracing, not just because the arms are actively
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unhingching.
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So the first step is you have to disrupt the pattern, so you have to learn how to do the
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arm movements almost actively.
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Then to really take it to that comfort level, you're going to try to connect it to
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the body.
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I'll do a couple of examples here.
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Let's say I'm working on the arm shallowing.
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I might do some active arm shallowing movement, and I might do an active, I'm going to
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overrelease it for the purpose of the video, arm shallowing movement.
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I might do a swing where I really focus on that arm shallowing movement.
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I knew that I was going to hit it poorly because it was different.
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I knew that I was going to hit it poorly because I wasn't really using my body, but it
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was different.
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Now I'm going to try and shallow, and I'm going to try and connect that to the body movement.
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I'm still going to stick on an easy tempo.
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I'm not really trying to swing too hard, but I could feel that the arm shallowing because
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they were lagging behind the body, not just because I was trying to shallow.
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Then I can gradually increase speed, or I can jump to faster speed and work back and forth.
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But it's a good little way to progress.
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The movements that you're training into mechanics that will hopefully hold up better
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on the course.
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To do that, you really got to connect it to the body movement.