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This video is discussing get the arms in front of you.

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So I frequently get the question because you've heard this past on through golf instructors

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and you've heard players describe it where basically they get to the top of the swing and

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they feel like they're trying to get their arms more in front of them or the other

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way is they'll be told that they should kind of pull down on the handle.

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And that sounds very different than what I describe in transition of kind of the arm

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shallowing and go with the body.

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So let me describe a couple different scenarios where I think that the feeling of getting

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the arms in front of you or pulling down can potentially be beneficial.

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The major one is with early extension.

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A lot of golfers who try to really drive that lower body can get into this kind of stuck

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early extended position where now my rib cage is in the way.

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Trying to pull my arms down in front of me would cause me to get really steep if I didn't

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have any body rotation.

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So what typically can happen is instead of a golfer getting here.

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Now they're going to use their core a little bit more and as long as the arms don't get

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very steep when they're pulling down that actually encourages them to get into this

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more toward impact position.

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But usually it's more that trying to pull down keeps them in their posture or gets

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them to flex a little bit more and helps connect the serratus or one of the deep shoulder

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muscles which connects to the oblique so that then their body is powered a little bit

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more by core rotation.

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So that's one of the major places where golfer who tend to pull down are going to be

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going to do a little bit better.

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The other one is if you are a more of an arm pull style golfer then trying to get the

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club out in front of you can help with tumbling the club face to square it as kind of one

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of the main ways to square the club if you're going to be more of an arm pull method.

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This can typically work really well with your short, maybe even your mid-iron's but does

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tend to struggle with the longer clubs because of the angle of attack or limited flats

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by.

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Now there are two populations that I think you should be really careful trying this

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tip but in general it's not a bad thought for tying together powering the swing and connecting

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the body to what the arms are doing.

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The two populations that tend to have a lot of problem with this movement would be if

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you tend to get more of that steep arm movement.

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These guys tend to add arm pull pulling in towards them, tend to get even steeper and

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that can potentially open the club face while in a steep position and cause a whole

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slew of problems that will pretty much just stall any amount of body pivot.

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The second one would be those who have more of that trail arm cast where the right arm

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or wrist tends to straighten straight from the top of the swing.

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If you start pulling straight down or feeling like you're trying to get that out in front

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of you it'll tend to open the club face even more.

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You won't have the same angle of attack issues because the cast problem but you'll probably

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have the sequencing issues and probably have a pretty big chicken wing have a lot of

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toe contact not so much fun.

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So if you've been told, if you look like you were a league stand and you've been told

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to try to get those arms down in front hopefully you'll understand why it's usually a way

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to get better core activation and better sequencing.

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It's not so much that it actually gets those arms back in front and kind of matches it

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up because ideally in order to get into that core impact position while the hands will

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be pretty close to in front of your body the club will have to be lagged behind in order

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to have some of that shaft lean in impact.

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So I don't think that this is one of those tips that if you actually do it it'll work

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out but trying to do it can do a whole lot of things especially for early standards.