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This drill, we're going to walk through the lead arm connection drills.

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The lead arm connection drills are very similar to the trail arm connection drills, except

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they're going to isolate the left shoulder in my case.

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So just as a reminder, the general connection drills are learning to kind of keep your

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shoulders a little bit more stiff or connected so that you can transfer the movement from

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the ribcage and core and pelvis into the arms easier.

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So the general connection drill is just the towel under the arms.

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This is often given kind of the hoagin towel drill, but basically arm pits connected.

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I'm going to focus on hitting this mostly with my pivot and a little bit of forearm release.

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So owner deviation and supination getting into that really good classic ball through position.

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If I'm just working on the general sequence, then the towel under both arms works pretty

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well.

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But sometimes I want to get more isolated to a specific problem.

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And that's where I do either the leader of the trail.

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So with the lead arm, there's a couple different times where golfers tend to lose it.

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In the take away, they will kind of not use the body and lift the arm up off the chest

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like so.

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So this will tend to move the hands way out and disconnect.

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The second place where golfers tend to lose it is up towards the top of the swing.

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It will tend to really reach with that lead shoulder in order to create width.

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Remember the width is going to happen more from the elbow and the arms saying straight.

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Rather than a big collapse or reach of the shoulder.

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So up at the top of the swing right through there.

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And then the most problematic one or the one that causes the biggest contact issues would

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be on the way through pulling that lead shoulder kind of up and around more like this.

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As opposed to getting the up and around more from the pivot and the spine angle, if I do

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it correctly, then the arm is going to stay a little bit more in front and rotate instead

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of really pulling retract like I was doing a row.

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So with the lead arm, I tend to not use the alignment stick.

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I tend to focus either on the ruler or the glove.

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So again, the ruler is a little bit easier to maintain, but it also produces a little stronger

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feel.

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I think you get a little bit stronger feedback from the ruler than say the glove or the

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alignment stick.

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So now with the ruler, the place where you're going to tend to feel the most restricted

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is there up at the top of the swing.

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So this is a good compliment to golfers who tend to need to work on feeling the top of

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the swing more in the hips and more in the core and less up in the shoulders.

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The second place that I really tend to focus on it is here on the follow-through.

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So if I'm pinning this up against my chest and then turning that body through, the arm

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is going to stay more or less, I did that this way.

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The arm is going to stay more or less in front of my body.

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So if I did a nice, easy one, hopefully this doesn't go too far, you'll see that that

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arm is rotating through to get into this good follow-through position.

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And this is staying in front of my body.

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A bad one, one where that arm tends to get more disconnected would tend to look more like

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that there.

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Now I've been holding it to a kind of stuck in place, but you saw that that would have

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dropped if I had done that with any more speed.

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So the two times that I really focus on this lead side is top of the swing, because that

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ensures that I had a pretty good takeaway and then in the follow-through.

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In order to do the follow-through one, I have to have my arms straight enough and wide enough

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and soft enough so that the movement is happening more at the forearms and less through

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the shoulders.

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So the arm pit connections can be a great diagnostic for helping golfers to tend to get

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stiff with the forearms and overactive with the shoulders.

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That pattern usually causes low point issues as well as over closing the club face from

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in-plane movement.

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So that causes pulls and pull hooks, a couple of frustrating mispeders.

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So if you're struggling with your chicken wing, you can work on this arm pit connection.

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If you're struggling with your transition sequence, this arm pit connection works pretty

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well as well.

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Similar to the trail arm, I can do a more subtle version with the towel and similar

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almost easier for the trail version.

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My goal is to get hitting this close to my full swing distance.

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It won't be exactly my full swing distance, but my goal is to work on doing these movements

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and adding more and more speed.

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As it's oftentimes, this shoulder disconnect is one of the ways that golfers incorrectly

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create a lot of speed.

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So that was a little out of sequence, kind of a little more stalled flippish and I've

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said before that the shoulders are one of the big gateways to controlling the stalled

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flipp.

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So here we go.

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We'll try and hit this one pretty hard.

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So that's probably 70-80% of my normal distance.

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80% of my normal distance.

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That one went pretty good.

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And I was able to do it with that shorter position because I was having the engine more

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from the four arms on the way through rather than the shoulders and overall more from the

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core than from the arms and shoulders.

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So one quick demo with the hard version, trying to keep it connected there.

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I tend to find this is the hardest one to maintain at the top of the swing.

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Let it have a little bit more hip rotation.

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That wasn't bad.

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Left the club face a little bit, but pretty good strike.