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Sternum - Bicep - Forearm - Arm Shallow Angle

Hinging the club UP can cause big problems for many golfers in search of consistency. Too much vertical hinge causes the path to be steep and the face to be open and most golfers don't like the consequences of the extra body shallowing moves. In this video, you'll learn to feel what shallow arms really feels like. This is a necessary compliment to a body powereddownswing.

Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Standing Up, Backswing, Transition, Drill, Intermediate

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This arm shallow drill is sternum bicep forearm.

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So I use this as an awareness drill for helping with arm shallowing.

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Specifically for golfers who tend to lose sight of where the arm shallowing pattern is

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and feeling more, they tend to get more of the shallowing happening from the body.

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So if you struggle with more of the arm shallowing component and you find that when you try to shallow it feels very weak,

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you can use this awareness drill as well.

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So what I'll have you do is you're going to get into your set of posture and we're going to practice

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hinging the club in different ways and feeling different relationships.

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So the first one we're going to do is we're going to hinge it more vertically.

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This will call sternum because it's straight up and down.

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Then we're going to hinge it more in line with the bicep or more like an angled hinge.

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And then we're going to hinge it more in line with the forearm.

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Now that I'm going to have you do is you're going to close your eyes and you're going to feel so you're going to do this way.

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And you're going to do that way.

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And then you're going to do more that way.

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And I'll ask you which one does your downswing feel the most similar to?

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What most of you will say is it's probably going to feel more front like the bicep one.

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But if you're closed and it feels like the bicep, then that's really closer to the sternum.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to challenge feeling more of the forearm or in some cases even feeling under the forearm.

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Many golfers, the steepening movement is a pulling down and a feeling of power.

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So I'll typically apply some resistance against the bottom of the club so they can feel pulling down.

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Versus if it's here, it would be more almost like I was pulling up.

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And in order to pull up on the club, I really am going to have to wait for the club to do this.

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Club to drop behind and that's where that arm shallowing component takes place.

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So you're going to experiment feeling more sternum, then feel more bicep and then feel more forearm.

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And the goal is we're going to feel more of that forearm during these shallowing drills.

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Now you can also, if you have trouble with it happening really early at the top of the swing, then you can try to end the backswing, finishing more on that follow-through side.

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We're a little bit more laid off.

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Many golfers, you get steep tend to get there from a more across the line position, but that's not an absolute.

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So we're going to kind of get that feeling.

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And we're going to come from below that form, then we're going to go up to the top of the swing and do a pump drill or two, just kind of feeling that relationship of the club being even more shallow than normal.

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So kind of shallow right there up to the top pump at a couple times and then let it swing through.

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And you may have trouble hitting the ground, you may catch it a little bit thin, but this will give you that sensation and the relationship of more of that arm shallowing.

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Next piece, we're going to try to do it without the pause.

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So if you struggle with more of an arm shallowing movement, take the body out of it and just feel where the hinge is taking place.

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If it's more in line with the sternum or the bicep, that's probably steep.

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If it's more in line with the forearm or even below, that's more of a shallow movement.

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And that's what you're trying to do if you're trying to get more of a body centered swing during the downswing.