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The chicken wing, or lead arm bending motion, is really only a problem when it happens through impact. But for some golfers training the lead arm to stay straight is easier to do after impact rather than through it. One of the ideas that helps train the lead arm from bending is using external rotation of the shoulder from follow through to finish. This is a shallowing action of the arm and compliments a steeper body action. So the lead arm jazzy jeff move helps support body rotation.
Tags: Chicken Wing, Follow Through, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill is the Jazzy Jeff follow through. So the
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Jazzy Jeff move is one of
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the descriptions I used for or I still
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use for going into external rotation. I
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primarily use it for the backswing because a lot
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of golfers tend to get more this elbow going into internal rotation
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stuck behind pointing perpendicular to
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the spine up at the top of the Swing kind of has a
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look more like this and that can encourage some
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Steep and some arm dominant patterns that tend to cause
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a lot of contact and consistency problems. So the
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Jazzy Jeff movement pays homage to The Fresh
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Prince of Bel-Air where he and his buddy who would have the Jazzy
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Jeff kind of handshake where they
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go and then and that movement there of
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that external rotation where the trail arm stays in front
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of the chest and all the movement is
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happening by going into this external rotation is similar
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to what we're trying to do in the backswing.
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Well for some golfers, it can be helpful to
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mirror that in the finish. So a number
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of golfers who have more of a chicken wing pattern
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will tend to pull this
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arm behind and the elbow will be pointing way
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up just like this. So as they come through it's
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often a company with a little bit of arms behind
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in Steep. And so then they pull those
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arms around their body and that causes
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the club to be coming up on the golf ball. You can struggle with top
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shots. You can struggle with thin shots. You can struggle with pulls you
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can struggle with toe shots. That's a common
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pattern of having too much of this arm pull in the follow through
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And so what we're going to do in the Jazzy Jeff
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follow through is basically we're going to
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get our arm into this follow-through position.
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And then from here, we're going to try to keep the elbow
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in front of our body and we're going to do that Jazzy Jeff
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movement. Now, you'll see that naturally I do
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more in my trail arm than my lead. So it's not going to look quite as
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dramatic, but I'm trying to feel
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a little bit of this movement here where the
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arm is actually rotating past
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my body kind of like this the key place to
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see this is from the down the line view what you'll see
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is as I do that Jazzy Jeff move the
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arm will tend to stay straight and up as opposed
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to being bent or coming way down. So if
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you are looking from that down the line View and
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you see either this narrow here or this kind
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of coming behind and pointing way down. Then
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you might be a candidate for working on this follow-through position.
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It really helps create more of a body
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driven finish because the arms aren't pulling
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around you're gonna have to use turn your hips and your chest
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to bring the club all the way around. Okay. So let's jump into the
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demo one of the big Keys here is the timing of
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the movement so we know that we want
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that kind of Mo Norman position on the way through
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where we want the the elbow in a little
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bit more of internal rotation as we're
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coming through
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That helps create some of this width. But
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now as the club passes there. I'm
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going to try and reverse it and go
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more into that Jazzy Jeff movement. The thing
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that they both have in common is that the arm is
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gonna stay more in front of the body. So first
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we're going to do a nine to three just to kind
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of get comfortable.
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With a good with our low point
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and our follow-through and where we're going to be now.
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We're going to try and not stop at the three position. We're gonna
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do nine to follow through. So we're gonna go from this
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nine o'clock here.
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Jazzy Jeff, so I'm slowly going
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past into this follow through position
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or at least
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sorry past the follow-through position up towards the finish. I want
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to at least get the club to Vertical instead of stopping when
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the club is parallel.
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Now we're gonna add a little bit of speed. So we're gonna do more of a 10 to
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2.
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focusing on the timing of this movement
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Right there and you can see elbows are
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still in front of my chest back is almost facing the
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target as opposed to a lot
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of people who struggle with this movement. We'll kind
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of be more like this where the chest has
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the the hips are actually closed. The
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chest is still closed, but the arms have gone past the
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body into that follow through
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Okay, let's get that out of the system. Let's see
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one more 10 to 2 where we feel
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a little bit more.
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So that one was pretty good right there. And now as we add speed
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as you go closer and closer to your full finish
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that arm is gonna Bend so we're gonna still feel like we
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keep that elbow more in front of the chest on
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the way through so up towards a full swing.
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Elbows still in front of the chest and it has
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a feeling of the arms being a little bit more this way.
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So has a feeling of Jazzy Jeff
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movement kind of more like this as opposed to Arms pull
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around more like that use that if you struggle
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with some contact patterns or
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some pull patterns and you see a narrowness in the
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follow-through from those arms breaking down too soon getting the
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lead shoulder go into more external rotation. It's one of the keys
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for getting that look of keeping a straight left arm long into
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the follow through