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in this golf smart insight we're going

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to answer a member question about should

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I rotate my forearms through impact so

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it sounds like a really easy question

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like I should be able to just type an

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answer yes or no but obviously I'm doing

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a video so it's it's somewhat

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complicated what I want to do is I want

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to separate your understanding of

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forearm rotation from shoulder rotation

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and yes I want the forearms to rotate

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through impact but I want to make sure

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it's the forearms and not the shoulders

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so let me break that down for you a

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little bit when I look at 3d one of the

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things that I'm looking at is the amount

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of lead arm supination through impact

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now for a lot for the majority of Tour

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Pros it is not uncommon to get 75 80 90

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even up to 95 degrees of left arm

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supination and that will generally

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finish in that follow-through position

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that I talked about now it's also not

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uncommon if I have an amateur struggles

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with slicing the ball getting shaft lean

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hitting poles they will tend to only

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have about 50 60 degrees of forearm

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supination so I do think that it's a

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great thing to do because supinating the

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lead arm gets those elbows closest

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together which helps keep extending the

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path further out to the right moving the

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bottom of your swing forward giving you

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a more shallow angle attack conversely

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golfers that tend to try to force this

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motion tend to do it more from the

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shoulders so it's important that the

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supination comes more like this and you

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can see my elbows are still facing up

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versus going like this in which case

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this right elbow is now facing down like

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so this would actually be a right

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shoulder internal rotation not a left

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arm supination if I'm coming from a good

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delivery position and those arms are

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extending out away from me they will

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both basically be supinating like I'm

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extending my arms out like so that gets

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those elbows very close to the ball

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which

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gives me good solid impact alignments

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where a lot of golfers who try and force

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this rotation will more kind of wipe it

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across like so without letting those

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arms extend away from you so we want to

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make sure that we get some of this lead

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arm supination because I I read a lot of

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of certain swing styles that are trying

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to advocate more holding the clubface

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square to the arc and not letting it

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rotate and I've never seen someone on 3d

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who was a really good ball striker that

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didn't let that left arm sue Panay I'm

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not saying you need to force it it

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should be more of a gentle supination so

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one of the things I like to give a kind

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of a quick little metaphor for your

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analogy if you're throwing a punch your

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arms are rotated like so right so if you

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were throwing a punch from here it would

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rotate as you extend you wouldn't

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necessarily have to force a lot of

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rotation it would just rotate because

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it's coming from an already rotated

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position well the same things going to

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happen in delivery position your

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forearms are pretty much rotated like so

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so when you go to extend them they're

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going to unwind which is going to cause

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that rotation and we're basically going

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to get into the follow-through position

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kind of like so so I hope that clears it

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up the yes I want you to let those forms

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rotate but I want you to be diligent and

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make sure it's not the shoulder that is

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over rotating because if the shoulder

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rotates that's going to move the bottom

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of your swing back it's going to move

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your path more left and that's going to

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cause you to hit fat shots thin shots

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poles and and slices so make sure that

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when you're letting your forearm

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supinate you're doing in the right way