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Seve Ballesteros was known to practice trail arm-only pitch shots. Many amateurs with the chip yips also seem to prefer a one-arm approach. What are some of the reasons behind this preference? In this video, I discuss a couple of common reasons that golfers do better with a single-arm approach. Oftentimes, I see golfers change their scapular movement as well as their balance/body pivot when they have one arm vs two. See how that looks in this concept video.
Tags: Chip, Concept, Intermediate
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This concept video is answering the member question.
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Why do I chip better one-handed? So I
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had an email come in asking with
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some videos about why the
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swing looks smoother and why this particular golfer
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chips better when they're doing it one-handed doesn't
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make any sense. Well, I'm gonna try to
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shed light on two different reasons why I think golfers oftentimes
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fall into this pattern, especially if
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you have a little bit more of a chip Yip pattern or a
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little bit more of a rapid acceleration. Um,
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so one of the things that happens is
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when you have both hands on the club oftentimes what
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golfers end up doing is in order
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to reach around and kind of connect
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both arms together their shoulders get a little
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bit more rounded and sometimes they get more slack what can
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happen is in trying to round the shoulders or in trying
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to grab the club the shoulder blades end up moving
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a lot and the rib cage does
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Then move a whole lot. So then I also start moving my
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lower body a lot. So the two main reasons why I think
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golfers certain golfers with certain patterns chip better
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one-handed rather than two is they stay more
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centered more stacked and they
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tend to keep the the shoulders a little bit more stable or
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packed in that helps control the
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radius. So then they're able to control
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bounce and low point a lot better. If you
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have the club in one hand. It's really hard
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to have like a big shoulder reach because
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it's heavy regardless of which hand
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I'm using I'm gonna tend to kind of like pack in or
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or stabilize that shoulder a little bit when that
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shoulder is stabilized. Even if I use the wrist that
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helps control the width of
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the Swing so I don't see a whole lot of lengthening arm
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motions or I don't see a lot of Punchy acceleration
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on the way through when I'm doing
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things one handed just like that and he
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Demonstrated Trail, I would say the most common is
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demonstrating Trail, but the same
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kind of rules apply that keeping
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the radius and the width of the swing.
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Would apply for doing a single arm
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left-handed drill as well. So that's
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option or that's key piece. Number
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one is you might be finding that when you have
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two arms on the club, you're having more shoulder movements
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in the backswing and downswing and when you
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have one arm
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Tends to stay a little bit more of a constant radius
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or or consistent shoulder position. The second
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one I mentioned is oftentimes when both hands are on the
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club some golfers start having more action happening
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at their body and their legs whether that's
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because of what's going on in the rib cage or just they're
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they're kind of trying to more or
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less lock down what's happening in the upper body? And so
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they start moving more lower body, but
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Oftentimes what I see is that golfers? Who do
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it one-handed which I'll be golfers. Who
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do it one-handed tend to stay more stacked or
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more centered and that tends to help with
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the angle of attack as well as low Point
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control, especially the the
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golfers who I see fall more into this pattern would be
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tending to have more of a strong grip oftentimes when
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when they have a strong grip
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one handed. It's not quite as strong and
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when they get both hands on the
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club, they tend to get a little bit more tilt and then have a
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little bit more slide. It's just a
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general tendency, but that can create low Point issues. So what's
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always interesting is if you find that you
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do something particularly. Well, I recommend videotaping yourself.
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So that way you can look at the difference between what
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you're the one you that happens
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kind of naturally and the one that you're struggling with in this
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case if you if you videotape one hand two hand
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and
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Then you post it in the Forum. We can help you understand.
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Well, what are you actually doing differently when
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you have one hand on the club versus when
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you have two ideally.
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the the body the ground contact all that's going to be fairly similar
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the the main drawback to only
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doing it one-handed would be
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I could see distance control being a little bit more of
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an issue as well as handling really thick rough,
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but for basic shots around the green a lot
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of players do really well one-handed and
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I think this provides a couple of the reasons why I
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think that is
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It was pretty good.
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even better