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Relax For Shallow Arms

A grip pressure study found that compared to amateurs, tour pros had dramatically less grip pressure in their trail hand during transition and at impact. This is part of the reason that you see many tour pros right hand come off the club at around impact. In transition, the relaxation allows for the shallowing movement to happen for the right length of time. Often when a golfer tries to forcibly shallow the arms, they shallow for too long.

Tags: Not Enough Distance, Transition, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner

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This video is relaxed for shallow arms.

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So a lot of golfers struggle with the arms getting steep in transition.

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And when they get steep, they tend to get more vertical, they tend to get active too

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soon.

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It messes up your sequencing, it messes up your low point control for anything other

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than the short irons.

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Let's say seven iron and above.

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So it's something that a lot of golfers want to work on because the longer clubs are

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a lot of fun to hit, solidly.

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Well, a lot of golfers feel manipulation when they're trying to work on the shallow arms.

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And a common thought that I'll say in either your submission videos or in person lessons

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is I'll get up there and I'll do that little pump and I'll really try to feel how much pressure

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the golfer is putting on the club.

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One of the ways to get the club to naturally shallow a little bit easier is to relax your

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grip pressure, especially your right hand.

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There were a couple of studies done in one of the world science of a world scientific

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congress of golf that basically showed that one of the major differences between Torpros

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and Amateurs was the amount of grip pressure in the right hand or the trail hand in transition

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and it impact.

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So a lot of golfers feeling like those arms are just kind of noodles getting pulled by the

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body will help create that shallow arm movement where if you have a lot of tension and

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you're trying to artificially kind of create that shallow movement instead of sort of letting

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it happen that tension in that artificial movement is usually going to cause the shift from

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going from shallow during transition to then covering the ball during the release to be

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out of sync.

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And so I think one tell-tale sign is if you tend to kind of get shallow and it just kind

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of continues and I tend to hit lots of big blocks.

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So then to correct it instead of getting shallow I just get steep again and kind of have a

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little bit more of that kind of under release.

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That's an indicator for me that you're activating your arms too soon and you're getting

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really active in transition.

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Sometimes feeling in addition to the movements feeling a softness especially in that

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right wrist can really help you overcome the barriers to why your arms tend to get steep.

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So you can use this concept of softening the arms in any of the transition drills so whether

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you're doing kind of some pump, whether you're doing broken transition, whether you're

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doing some step drills.

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You can feel that softness of the arms in any of those complimentary drills and it

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should help you make the shallowness of the arms feel a whole lot more natural.