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This drill is feeling the rhythm of the arm shallowing.

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Many golfers struggle with the arm shallowing movement and so they're forced to do

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a steeper arm movement and couple that with a more of a cast pattern.

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But that can be a problem when you get into the longer clubs or when you're trying

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to really create body speed.

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So this drill is to help you feel the rhythm of the arm shallowing because it's

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very common that many golfers tend to force the feeling or force the movements of the

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arm shallowing when they're trying to learn it and the club face gets out of position

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and it kind of results in a poor contact, difficult learning environment.

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So what I'll show you in this video is how to feel the rhythm of it with the arms.

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We're going to start with the trail arm.

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So what you're going to do is you're going to take your normal grip and then take your

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lead hand or left hand off the club.

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So now I'm going to hold the club straight up and down.

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This is kind of that unweighted feeling of the club at the top of the swing.

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And then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to let the club fall and I'm just going

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to catch it and let it bounce back up to vertical.

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So this is a little bit like the first half of the Zoro loop and it'll reinforce a couple

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things.

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A, it'll give you that feeling of the muscles of the forearm and the shoulder really

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catching the club and B. It'll reinforce that you have a decent grip with the club in

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your fingers because if you put the club more in your palm, you'll feel it's pretty tough

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on your forearm in order to just bounce it where if it's in the fingers, I'm going to have

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a much more easy job catching the club with basically these knuckles right here.

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So I'm just going to do a few more kind of like that and then I can put my lead hand on

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but I'm going to keep it very relaxed and basically let the lead hand feel that shallowing

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movement happen all at once.

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So the lead hand's not really helping it enforcing it, it's just kind of sensing it.

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One of what you can do is you can coordinate it with the body movement during transition.

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So now I've got the club straight up and down and I'm going to add a little bit of body

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rotation in order to create or to trigger the falling of the club.

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So it's unweighted and then as my body starts to rotate that pulls my hand out from underneath

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it and I just kind of feel the club fall.

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Again I can do that one hand or I can do that two hands and then the last version that I like

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is adding a little bit of the face rotation.

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So as I've been doing this you'll see the first version.

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The club is staying facing the sky where it's staying perpendicular to the path.

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Now in this last version as it drops I'm going to try to let the club face close just a bit.

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And you'll feel or at least I feel that now the hand is in a weaker position to catch it

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because now it's going through the fingers instead of through the knuckles.

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So I'll be able to catch it more in the shoulder than in the fingers.

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Again I can now add that left arm just like so and I'm feeling that falling coordinated

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with my body pivot.

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Now I'm going to do it in golf posture.

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So when I coordinate it with that body pivot you'll see that it doesn't look exaggerated.

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In fact the more that I add body pivot to it the more it looks like the club is just falling

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into place but the sensation I get is very similar to what we're experiencing with that.

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Once you have a good feeling you can then blend it into the zoro loop so that as it gets to the

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bottom of it you're basically going to then just straighten those arms and let it release.

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So I'm going to feel that shallowing coordinated now add the club face and then swing through.

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Once you have a decent feeling you can either do these in pump style or you can go ahead and

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place the ball down and take that feeling and try it with the ball there.

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So it'll look something like this.

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So if you're struggling with getting your arms to shallow this can give you the sensation of them

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kind of falling into the shallow movement and loading the release movement that's going to happen

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at the end of that arm shallow.