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This concept video is connecting lead arm lift to shaft

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lean. So a lot of golfers are

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working on trying to get a little bit more shaft leaned

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impact and one of the kind of hidden pieces that

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a lot of golfers neglect is this position of the left

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arm or the lead arm lift. Basically, the more

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that that lead arm is up and

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forward that's going to allow your body to

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get into a steeper position both upper body on top of

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the lead leg or getting more stacked as well as getting more

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body rotation and both of those you can

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see when I get more on top and in rotated

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that helps get my lead arm

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in front.

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Which helps produce some shaft lean?

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if the lead arm

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Is tending to have more of a pull pattern where it's pulling

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down like this? You would think

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that that would help pull the hands in front?

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But unfortunately, what it does is when

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this lead arm pulls what's happening on the back side of

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the body is preventing your body from rotating. So it

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tends to keep the when that lead arm pulls. It

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tends to keep the chest more facing the golf

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ball instead of the belly button and the lower ribs kind

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of rotating and getting open there. And so when

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it gets open like this, it will also have a tendency to

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take the wrist into more of

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this extension and that extension is going to let the

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club pass and it's gonna prevent you from getting shaft lean. So oftentimes

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when we're working on

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this we'll we'll do some kind of exaggerations where

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we're feeling space between the left arm and the

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the body that can often feel in

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transition. Like this left arm is staying a little

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bit higher and that can feel like on the way

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that left arm again is creating a little

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bit of space. I don't mind feeling the connection way up

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here in the armpit or the upper Peck. In fact, I think that

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can be really complementary but I

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don't want to have that arm connected all the way down to

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the Elbow. That's one of the checks that I give people is. Can you

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keep your elbow more in front of your body on the

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way through now if you do that

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Oftentimes this pull complements too much

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tilt. So the upper body going this way moves everything

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out to the right and then the arms pulling this

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way tends to move the swing back to a neutral position,

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but it moves the low Point backwards. So it causes contact problems

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and because it limits my ability

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to get shaft lean it it causes the club to

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be more vertical the club face is twisting very quickly and

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it tends the cause to a misses a big right big

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left when that left arm is pulling down. So if

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I'm struggling with trying to get some shaft lean I can feel almost

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like I'm gonna have the arm quite high and

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now as I rotate you can see how the rotation

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is feeling like it's more down here rather than

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rotating it my shoulders that can be a common contributing factor.

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But if I've rotated my body like this then as

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I release the

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club or extend the arms, they're gonna stay up and more

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forward and that's gonna help with contact and shaft

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lean. So if you're struggling

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Athlene one of the places that you might not be looking is that lead

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arm location. It has a big impact on connection

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the overall kind of body shoulder connection

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and has a pretty significant impact

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on your ability to get shaft lean

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at impact. So we'll demo one. So if I want kind

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of Maximum shaft lean, I'm gonna get hips rotated upper

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body covered shoulders a little

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bit more shallow so that I can get my hands forward

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like that and I'm gonna feel the release is a little bit more almost

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behind or owner deviated as opposed to

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in front or rotate it. So, let's

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see if we can

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throw all that together Focus really on the lead

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arm staying up.

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Kind of like that.

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Pretty good flat spot on that one.