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This drill is lead arm lock.

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Um, so lead arm lock is a good anti chicken wing drill.

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It's also a good connection drill.

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It's a good way to, uh, integrate the shoulder working

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with the core, working with the hips.

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Um, and it's a self-guided drill that kind

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of like mimics some of the things that I try to do

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with my students in person.

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Um, so what we're going to do is we're gonna try

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to connect the shoulder so

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that essentially when I rotate my body, it's going

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to move the shoulder instead

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of me moving the arm

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independently by pulling with the shoulder.

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So there's three key pieces to this lead arm lock.

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We're gonna do a little bit of a shrug.

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We're gonna pull the lead arm,

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the left arm a little bit in front.

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So the shrug is kind of more in the direction

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of my chin rather than straight up and down.

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So it's a little bit forward like this

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and now that kind of gets it pinned on my chest like this.

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And now the lock part is I'm gonna feel like I push down,

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uh, with the arm, but not by lowering the shrug.

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So it's gonna feel like I have a little bit

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of straightening kind of from the tricep, um,

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and pushing down from the inside of the armpit.

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So it becomes just this little kind of feeling

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of connection here.

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And I don't have to be doing this

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even though it's called a lock.

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I don't have to be doing this with maximum muscular effort.

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It's just more of a consistency of holding it there.

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Oftentimes I'll have golfers come feel my shoulder, um,

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and they'll feel that it stays in that kind

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of up position on the way through.

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Now, I kind of gave away the answer,

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but I'll have you try it anyway.

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If I was to do this little lock move

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and make a fist, I could push down into this right arm.

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And if I put my trail arm

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or my right arm in more of a external rotation so that the,

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the elbow is pointing away, now I'm in a really good

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shoulder, uh, position where

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that trail shoulder is retracted

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and that lead shoulder is elevated,

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but they're both connected.

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And now I'm pushing down

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and I'm gonna try to go through a release.

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Now, if you are really dominant

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with your shoulder in this position, you will feel friction.

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You will feel like you are pulling across the palm, kind

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of like this, where if I'm more locked in

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and kind of like releasing out, then what I'll feel is

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as I go through it stays in contact.

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The shoulder kind of stays connected.

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My forearms could have some, some release and some rotation.

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But my, my shoulder is basically following the movement

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of my, my core and my ribs

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and my pelvis as opposed to being the independent driver.

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So if I am, if my shoulder is more

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of the independent driver, then through the ball I'll tend

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to have some disconnect and pull

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and that becomes a chicken wing and that becomes a stall.

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'cause you saw, in order for me to do that, my body had

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to stop and let the, let the arm, um,

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take the club past the body

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where if I got into this position

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and now I kind of came up here, so I was locking it in more

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like higher up, you would see.

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Now if I'm feeling that shoulder lock,

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potentially I can still turn through

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and that helps my arm stay connected

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'cause it has, has a little bit of this, uh,

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downward pressure, but while it's in a up

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and forward position, so now I'll do it without

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that trail hand assist.

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So slightly up

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and forward that gives the appearance of some

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of this kind of shoulder tilt.

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But now right there, you saw me kinda lock it in.

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Now I'm gonna do more of a one-handed release drill, feeling

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that consistency of the the shoulder, um,

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both being up but also pushing down.

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Now I'm going to add the right hand

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and I could do this in an open hand

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or I could just, uh, put it on and, and kind of feel it.

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I would put this in the torture drill category

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where you're probably gonna struggle

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with doing it one armed,

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but then when you put both hands on, it's probably going

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to feel a little bit more like natural and connected.

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So again, I would mostly do this in the nine to three zone.

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But as you started to go bigger, what you would feel is

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right in kind of through there is where I'm going

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to be maintaining that locked position.

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So it might have a little bit of kind of sliding

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to get into position here.

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And then as I go into get to delivery position,

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that shoulder is going to feel like it's in

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that connected position all

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the way through to follow through.

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If you're a golfer who tends to not see your body get open

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and you tend to see, uh, the, the arms

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and the shoulders pull so you have more of kind

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of this look on the way through.

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Um, I find that this lead shoulder

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lock can be really helpful.

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Um, the other piece

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that it often compliments is if you do this shoulder lock

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and you tend to hit more of a pull, then it probably means

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that your torso turn is a little bit too level

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or being driven by the shoulders.

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So getting into this lock position

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and getting a good lower body pivot can also encourage

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getting into more of a good side bend position.

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Um, 'cause part of this

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shoulder shrug helps encourage staying in your posture

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or being more side on the way through.

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So I find this is a really helpful, uh, drill

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or activation for improving your lead arm mechanics

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during your release pattern.

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Um, if you see any of that breaking down on the follow

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through, highly recommend you try this drill.

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The lead arm shoulder lock.