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This drill is single arm full swings.

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Um, so, uh, single arm full swings is kind of a, a cousin

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to the single arm releases.

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One of the challenges in the golf swing is

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because we have both hands on the club, um, it's often hard

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to tease out what is causing the problem.

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So, um, we know

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that there are certain arm movements we don't like,

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we don't like to see the club getting really steep

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in, uh, transition.

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We don't like to see it really scoopy on the way through.

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We don't want to see lots of kind of collapsing and,

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and rolling, but oftentimes we have a hard time determining,

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well, is it the right hand?

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Just 'cause it feels like it's the right

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hand, is it the left arm?

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Because the left arm's in front and it looks funnier.

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Um, there's, there's no easy way to kind of guess.

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So I use the, um, single arm full swings as a diagnostic

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to look at a couple key phrase, uh, phases in the swing.

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Now, I've used the single arm releases, um,

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because I think they're safer.

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Um, but I do use these single arm full swings.

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Um, my, my caveat to you is

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I injured my shoulder when I was 15 doing a left arm only

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swing in the trees

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and the club dug into a, it went steep into the ground

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and uh, dug into a root.

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So I've always been hesitant

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of having people do single arm full swing.

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So my caveat is swing really smooth

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and this is safer to do off of mats, um,

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where it's just gonna hit the ground,

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it's not going to dig into the ground.

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So that's the, the one, um, little, uh, by beware

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or uh, warning label there.

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Okay, so now I usually recommend videotaping yourself doing

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right arm only, left arm only.

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Um, and we're gonna then break down a couple key places

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to investigate what's going on.

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Um, so there's no,

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no given rules other than you're gonna take your normal

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setup and then take whichever hand you're not using off the

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club and either hold it to your side, um,

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or behind your back, but basically out of the way.

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I don't want it to be right there on the club.

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Um, and you, I say full swings,

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but really I want at least a three quarter, so at least

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above, um, parallel.

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So we're going to do right arm only, kinda like

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that little pole, not too bad.

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And then we are going to do left arm only.

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Good a similar pole. Looks like both arms wanna pull today.

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Um, but now let's talk through kind of the classic patterns.

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What I usually see when I do these, um, first

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during the backswing, oftentimes what you'll see is

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with the right arm only the body won't rotate

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and the arm will get disconnected

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and the arm will just lift in order to create a back swing

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where the left arm will tend

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to have a little bit better rotation,

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but it'll often also have a little bit more

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of a flat shoulder plane.

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Um, kind of like this.

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So one of the ways you can investigate that is,

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is basically when you see the one arm doing the pattern

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that you don't like to see in your full swing,

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it's very likely that that one arm

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or that side of the body is

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what's creating that dysfunction.

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So then second, this is where I think one of the most

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critical pieces is, is looking at transition.

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Now, um, most of us, a lot of golfers tend

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to see a steepening in transition

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and we often think that it's the right arm kind

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of getting overpower or,

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or going, uh, into internal rotation.

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What I've seen from doing the one arm drills here is

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almost nobody using just the right arm

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steepens the club in transition.

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I have seen it, so I,

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that's why I say almost, but it's rare.

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Most of the time the right arm is going

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to do a much better job of shallowing in transition

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and it's gonna do a much better job

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of sinking up with the body.

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If you're looking at impact,

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you will often see much more body rotation

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with the right hand, um, compared to the left hand.

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Now with the right hand, you'll often see more

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of a scoop on the way through where it gets very narrow.

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Um, you might have some top shots

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or chunk shots kinda like that,

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but getting into the finished position,

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even though it's shallowed and

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and rotated, it will tend

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to really scoop down there at the bottom.

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The left arm oftentimes is the steeper,

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the left arm is going to pull independent of the body

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and often get out here.

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Um, and then on the way through,

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we know this from the single arm release drills

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that on the way through it's going

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to be very much a left arm pole where the body is

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not rotating.

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Um, so my global challenge to you is whatever you're doing,

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you want to try to match up both sides.

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So if for, if for example, I had the ability

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to remove your body from the swing

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or from the video, whatever you're doing with the right hand

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and whatever you're doing with the left hand,

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I want the club to basically be going through the same, um,

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space means

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that I'm basically swinging the club the same way.

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If the right arm

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and the left arm are going

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through dramatically different space,

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then there's gonna be a lot more timing

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as your brain is trying to reconcile

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how the two arms are gonna work together.

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So what I usually recommend is whichever one looks better,

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you're gonna use that to help tutor the opposite arm.

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Two common places, um, would be in transition.

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If you do right arm only

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and then put the left arm on,

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it will usually feel like the right arm is,

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or sorry, like the left arm is much flatter,

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like it's rotated this way as opposed to vertical like this.

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Um, and it will feel like it's higher, um,

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because it hasn't pulled down quite as hard like this.

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Then on the way through, if you were to use the left arm

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and get it to this position, it would be like this.

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And then if I said to get your hand right hand on the club,

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this will feel like you still have more angle.

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Um, and this will feel like, uh, you had a bunch of shalene.

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So if you were to take the left arm down to impact

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and then switch, um,

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you will feel like the right arm has not passed or flipped.

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It has maintained this angle as it's rotating through.

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Um, and that helps it get into the last

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checkpoint, which would be follow through.

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I'd probably use the right hand now

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that it's getting closer to go to there.

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And then if I put the left hand on, you'll notice the space.

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I talk a lot about this zone in the single arm releases.

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Um, so the single arm full swing is a little bit more about

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this initial move in transition with the left arm.

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It will feel like it has to stay higher

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and like it's more driven from the body.

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Um, and then with the right arm,

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the transition I would say happens more naturally.

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It's gonna be coming from a good position.

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The big thing is you have to continue, um, to

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extend the arm and not flip down to the bottom.

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So I highly recommend if you have some funky arm movements

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either in transition, um,

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or during the release that you

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investigate the single arm drills,

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whether it's the full swing to look at the whole picture,

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um, or the release style just

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to look at what's going on at the bottom that will help you,

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um, get laser focus into what's likely causing the

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breakdown that you're seeing on video.

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Okay, so quick demo again, right arm only

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focusing on kind of it maintaining its extension there

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and then left arm only

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left arm's a little tough today.

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Um, I highly recommend once you've done it to go into um,

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either shadow drills, um,

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or open hand, uh, where basically

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your feeling the arms work a little bit more

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together or connected.

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So shadow drills either open hand, um,

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either, sorry, either trail hand

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or the really tough one is the lead hand.

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Kinda like that. The shadow drills

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and the open hand drills force the body to work as a team.

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Um, but don't rely on the benefits

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of having both hands on the clock.

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So you can use that for a lot

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of cleaning up your arm motion.

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I.