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One of the traits of many golfers with a more arm-dominant swing is a backswing that lacks width of the trail arm. This is a sign that the shoulder blade isn't retracting and that the arm is bending instead. Use a high-position band, or cable, to help you build more awareness of the shoulder blade muscles that should help support the club at the top of the swing.
Tags: Poor Contact, Backswing, Drill, Beginner
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This is the shoulder blade backswing. So the shoulder
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blade backswing is a drill for
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golfers who tend to create too much
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arm lift in the in the backswing and really
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when they go to lift arm, especially the trail arm kind
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of has more of a look like this where the shoulder
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blade stays in a rounded position as opposed
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to feeling like that shoulder comes back
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in the spine is going into more extension oftentimes
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when golfers are working on
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this I would say the first 10 Rapture. So
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it's gonna feel extremely foreign. If you need this if
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you need more shoulder blade retraction, it's gonna
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feel very stiff got one student to describes
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it like feeling like Frankenstein walking around but what
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you'll see on video is you're gonna
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create much better with you're gonna get much more turn you're gonna
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feel some more load in your core and that ultimately creates
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more of an easy power source rather than
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a big arm.
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Tricep whipping load action. So for
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the backswing shoulder blade we're going to do a couple
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different versions to feel essentially more
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movement at the right shoulder blade
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pulling back rather than just
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bending the arm in order to set it.
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So if I was doing kind of a backswing drill instead
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of just focusing on the arms lifting up here where this stays
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forward I'm gonna focus on this shoulder blade pulling back
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to help create the turn in the lift kind
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of more like this. It'll feel like the arm is stiff, but you'll
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see on the camera that you're still bending the arm.
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So first version, we're gonna put our arms together
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out in front and then we're gonna make a backswing or
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a takeaway movement. And now we're gonna try
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to keep this right arm straight and we're going to try to bring that
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shoulder blade back and we're gonna try to set the wrist now
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you'll see in doing so I get a little bit of
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Bend in the arm, but it's driven more from
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what's happening at the wrist not from actively pulling with
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the bicep to lift the arm. So one and
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then shoulder blade and wrist.
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Is gonna be the widest stiffest swing
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you've ever felt but when oftentimes when
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you look at it on the camera, you're gonna say wow it that
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doesn't look as short or as stiff as it feel. In fact,
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it feels pretty good.
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The other way I like to do it is all often use
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a high cable. So if we can imagine a cable
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pulling up there, I don't have anywhere around here. Usually I
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have to hold it and I don't have anybody here today.
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But if I had a high cable machine kind of pulling this
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way now what I'm going to do and you could
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potentially just do it with a club. But if I had a high cable
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or a rubber band pulling this way, I'm going to pull that
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shoulder blade back and I'm gonna rotate my
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left side to come meet it. So I'm pulling this shoulder blade
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back and rotating that left side to come eat it. Most of
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you are going to feel a lot more movement here. If you're
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one of the golfers who needs this who tends to lift you're gonna
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feel like this normally doesn't move where now my
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sternum my chest my ribs. Those are removing a whole
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lot more.
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So then last version I'm just going to take the club. I'm
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going to do that same thing. And now I'm going to
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put my left hand in place. And this is going to feel very
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wide. This
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is gonna feel very stiff oftentimes. I like to
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combo this with a hit from the top. So I'm going to feel like I
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get there.
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Well, there we go set that.
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And then I'm just going to try and swing from there again.
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It's gonna feel very stiff in the arms and
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it might feel steep. You might hit a bunch of pulls because
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oftentimes when you lift the arm and pull
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it back like this those help create depth and shallowness.
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So now when it's here, you can see that that moves the
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club more that way so I can get more of
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the shallowing happening from some external
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rotation or from some lead forearm
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rotation.
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Or from extending that wrist and a more
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down that way.
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So let's do one more of those hit from the top.
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so we're going to go up to the top check it
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good and then
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From there just swing was a
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little.
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Not great. Let's see if we can do one more good one.
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Okay, so we're gonna go up to
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the top stop and then from there.
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That was better.
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Now we're gonna try to shorten that pause. We're gonna
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try to make that pause take zero time
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or you know a Split Second.
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So shortening the pause I'm gonna
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go up to the top.
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And it'll look like it was continuous motion, but it felt like
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there was just a slight pause for one one Split
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Second before I came down. Like I
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said, it will feel very stiff. If you're used to bending it.
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So use video or launch monitor to confirm oftentimes, you
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won't lose speed oftentimes, you will gain ball
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speed because it's a lot easier to get the arms in front
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and get shaft lean if the arm hasn't drifted so far behind but you
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will definitely see a lot more width and body rotation.
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So use that if you tend to collapse the arms in the
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backswing