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This concept video is understanding the look of the chicken wing. Um,

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so hopefully you're in the habit of using some video when you're practicing.

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Um, what I want to help you in this video,

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what I wanna help you understand is the look of the chicken wing and,

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and what we're seeing from the face on camera. Cuz that's, um, yes,

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you can see the, um, from the down the line,

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you can see the elbow kind of popping out behind.

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That's what gives the classic chicken wing look. Um, or from the face on camera.

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You'll typically see that arm bending and kind of collapsing,

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getting very narrow like this.

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So you would think on paper it's just about keeping the arms straight. Um,

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but what I'm gonna show you in this video is it's more about, um,

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or it's equally about the orientation of the shoulder.

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So if I was to get into, um, impact position, right?

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Good merry-go-round impact line, something along the lines of there.

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And then if I was to release without a chicken wing,

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this would have kind of that look of the hands going down the target line,

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kinda like this. If I came back to face the camera,

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you can see that this is a little bit more towards the right half of my body cuz

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my body is turned, it hasn't crossed over.

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What you'll see is if you have a habit of pulling the arm across your body,

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that's one of the primary causes of the chicken wing that usually causes or

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results in the shoulder pulling down, kind of pulling like this.

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It's a very powerful movement using some big strong muscles of the left side of

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the back. Now, um,

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it creates a whole host of contact and direction problems.

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Usually causes toe contact, usually causes poles, um,

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and usually causes some face inconsistency, um, especially with the driver, uh,

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the longer clubs. But what we,

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what I want to help you understand is it's not just about trying to keep that

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arm straight. Um,

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it's actually about keeping that arm up from the down the line camera and across

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from the face on camera. So if I was to get into this, uh,

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position over here, and if, if I kept that arm straight,

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I'm gonna remove my right hand to make it a little bit easier and I pulled the

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hand down or my arm down to the side,

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you can see that my bicep disappears and my hand is really low.

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If I put my right hand on, it would be kind of looking like this.

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Now if I keep my arm straight and I bring the arm more in front

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by bringing this shoulder so that now it's pointing at my right hip,

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you'll now see from that face on camera angle that you can see a lot more of

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that left arm and left shoulder.

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So one of the habits that I talk about is kind of using that left arm as

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more of a blocking and feeling like it's pinned a little bit more, uh,

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across the chest, kind of turning into that arm or pinning the peck, um,

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type feel that helps create a lot more width compared to,

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you can see if I, if we looked at kind of where that is right here.

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If I pull this arm across, it's now much closer.

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So that has a big impact on your ability to create the flat spot. Um,

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which is ultimately why the chicken wing tends to show up as one of the more

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inconsistent patterns. It's also oftentimes, um,

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a associated with an overly dominant pattern,

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either in transition or more likely, um, during the release.

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So not using a whole lot of body pivot,

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so you have a bunch of drills to kind of help on on it.

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But if you're just experimenting with this concept,

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what you can do is you can pin this arm kind of across your shoulder,

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hold it across your shoulder, kind of like this,

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and then come through where you're feeling like you're applying a little bit of

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pressure and the arm is releasing.

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You might feel a little bit more supination or rotation the arm is releasing

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while it's staying across your body instead of that shoulder, um, pulling down.

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For many of you,

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this will either feel like the arm is up or it will feel like it's more across

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as opposed to down and behind.

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Okay,

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so first we'll do this as just a one arm kind of practice where I'm gonna

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feel like that is pulling across. In fact, in the, in the practice drill,

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I can kind of hold that arm a little bit across just like that. Um,

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then we're gonna do a single arm where we can just check that finished

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position, feeling like it's crossed, put the right hand on.

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We've got some pretty good width there.

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Now we're gonna try it in a nine to three.

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So we're just gonna feel like that arm stays a little bit more

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across.

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And one of the big things that you'll find is this should really help clean up

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kind of the, the shallowness of the contact. Um,

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what I mean by that is when this arm pulls,

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it tends to take a more of a deep or diggy or kind of steep divot.

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Um, even if you're coming from the inside because of some body shallowing,

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it will tend to get deeper, deeper divots. Um,

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if you take them or have a a fairly abrasive feel with the ground,

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if you keep that arm more across, then as you go through,

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um, it will allow you to rotate your body. Um,

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and it will on its own make the club just kind of skim across the ground.

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So I'm trying to get this feel of the arm still being out in front from this

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face on camera angle while my body is turned.

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That's one of the kind of magic ways for solving, um,

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the chicken wing is understanding a better role of how the shoulder works.

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As you get more comfortable, you can work it up into fuller and fuller swings.

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Um,

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one other little piece I should add is that it is very hard to pull

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smoothly.

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So if you have a hard time doing slow motion tai chi

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type swings like that, um, you'll see this next one I will try and chicken wing,

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but I will try and do it smoothly.

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So I'll try to pull across and it was okay, kind of smooth. Um,

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but it felt nowhere near as smooth, especially through impact, um,

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as that first one where I felt like I kept that arm

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much more out.

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That feels like I'm just swinging through the ball where the chicken wing tends

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to feel a little bit more like a rapid change down to the bottom.

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So if you struggle with the chicken wing,

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hopefully this little discussion helps you understand how some of the drills on

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the site are going to help you ultimately solve that annoying inconsistent

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pattern.