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This video is explaining the quiver pull.

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So there's a common phrase that's been around

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golf for a little while and I've used it a few times

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on the site from the top of the swing feeling

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like you're pulling an arrow out of the quiver.

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I'll use the whiteboard here in a bit to kind of draw

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where the force should be going, but roughly the force

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should be working in the general direction of where the grip

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is pointing during the entire downswing.

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So at the top of the swing, if the shaft is pretty close

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to parallel, I want to basically be pulling along the grip

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that way.

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Now that doesn't mean that I want to throw my arms

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and kind of get the whole grip moving this way.

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What it means is that if that's at the top of the circle,

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if I rotate my body, you could see how the force would

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be going more in the direction of where that grip is pointing.

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But by the time it's here, I'm no longer pulling out

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that way.

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I'm now pulling more in the direction of the grip.

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When it's straight up and down, now I'm pulling kind of there.

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When it's at in delivery position, kind of like this,

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now I'm pulling out in front of the golf wall.

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When it's here, I'm pulling towards the target.

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As it releases, now I'm pulling a little bit more

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in the direction of my body.

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So I just kind of think of it as more working around my body

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as opposed to pulling straight down, where you can get in trouble

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as if you get to the top of the swing and you're basically

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instead of pulling around kind of like so by using your body.

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If you get to the top of the swing and you're basically pulling

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more down kind of like this, it's going to create some awkward

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flat spot control.

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That's usually going to lead into a little bit more

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of a flip roll style release, which can hit the ball

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plenty straight, but tends to have very limited contact with the ground

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or flat spot down at the bottom.

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So the arc width that I talk about will tend to get

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come start getting narrow too quickly after impact.

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And that tends to cause some inconsistency.

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So in order to get that feeling of a little bit more of that

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pulling around your body, you just want to make sure that you're

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using your body to initiate transition as opposed to pulling down

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with your arms.

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It's really not that complicated to get the force going

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in the right direction.

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If you use your body, your obliques, your back, your hips,

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your legs, that's going to tend to create the right pattern

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as opposed to arbitrarily just trying to throw those arms out.

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So I've seen that misinterpreted.

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I thought it'd be helpful to clarify.

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I'll draw it on the whiteboard, which hopefully will help you

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be able to visualize it even more.

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So here we've got my crude Franken golfer at the top of this wing.

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So you can see here's that club position.

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And then this is roughly the direction that the force will be being

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applied.

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So the danger here is that if you were to pull down with your arms

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and really narrow, like so, some people have described

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as pulling down on the chain, I don't think you were actually

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pulled down.

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It would lead to good mechanics down here at the bottom.

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So what'll happen is if you're just rotating your body.

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So if your body is rotating around that way,

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you can see that because of where it is at the top of the swing,

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that force is going to be much more out along this way

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as opposed to straight down.

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Then when you get to about waist height,

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if you're continuing to rotate with your body, it's down.

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And now, as the body starts bracing right around here,

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the body is now going to start pushing that way.

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That's going to cause the club to want to line up and fly out.

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So now by this point, I'm kind of pulling a little bit more

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in my direction.

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And then at impact, I'm bracing away from here.

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And I'm actually the forces going back up towards me,

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even though the club is moving, or sorry, the club head is moving

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down out in a way.

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As the handle is moving just slightly up and in,

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kind of like so.

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So in order to get that transition movement,

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going in the right direction, you want to pull with your body.

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For some people, it's very helpful to feel

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that initial pull a little bit more along the axis of the club.

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As opposed to if it's more of kind of an arm pull,

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it will feel like it's pulling a little bit more straight down.