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This video is trail arm straight for width.

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So one of the common things that we're trying to do in this backswing is we are trying

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to enable the core to dominate the backswing movements while letting the arms kind of set

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the path and kind of get the arms in position.

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But we're allowing the core to dominate this backswing position so that it can get loaded

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so that it will be more likely to fire during transition.

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So there have been lots of different ways that golfers have described having more of this

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core load.

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The one piece take away is kind of that initial move.

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Feeling really wide at the top is another version of feeling like the core is doing

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most of the movements.

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Because basically what you'll see is if I start to move my shoulders, everything will

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narrow and everything will get up quickly.

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So golfers have described either low and slow, wide.

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But those are all just kind of feelings of what the body may be doing to create this

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one piece take away.

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Well one of the areas that I tend to see relate to this one piece take away is looking

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at the relationship for the trail arm.

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But we'll talk about the trail arm and the lead arm and how they can influence whether

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you're doing more of this body pivot and therefore get your body and shoulders in a good

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position so that you can transition well.

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Or if you're setting the club more within arm movement which may lead to transition

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issues.

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So with the one piece pivot or take away, we're going to take a look at that right

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elbow staying straighter a little bit longer.

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Now if you do this on nine to three shots and you tend to kind of bottom out, then it

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means that you're bending this arm in order to create some of the depth because you're

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not shallowing enough with the shoulders or forearms.

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But keeping that right arm straighter a little bit longer tends to force the body to

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dominate that early part of the take away.

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And we can look at that as it gets to the top of the swing because in order for the

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elbow to work behind you or to really bend, you will tend to see the arms work a little

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bit more across the body.

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So that's why a lot of golfers have described having that with the top as a really good

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feeling.

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It kind of complements making most of the movements happen from the body as opposed to

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from the arms.

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So from the down the line, a good little checkpoint is looking at the when this trail arm

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is straightening and making sure that it's not really, or sorry, when it's bending and making

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sure that it's not bending until pretty much after this shaft parallel movement or as

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you go to set the club, looking at where that right arm is in relationship to your chest.

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Now you can look at the left arm and its relationship to the chest as well.

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And what you'll see is if that right arm stays straight, it's very hard for that left arm

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to get too deep.

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If I bend this arm and I'll try not to smush the microphone, but if I bend this left arm,

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or sorry, this right arm, then this left arm can really work across my body.

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If that right arm stays straight, even if I try to move that left arm across my body,

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I'm going to struggle with getting kind of stuck behind myself at the top.

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And again, if the arms are more out in front of me kind of like so, my shoulder isn't

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a position where it can naturally shallow during transition, where if these arms get way

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behind, I'll lose some of that rotation capability, so I'll be more likely to get steep

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in transition.

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So if you're struggling with having either an arm dominated backswing or if you're struggling

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with having the arms get too much behind you at the top, working on feeling that right

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arm staying straight or longer can help you overcome that.

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When you go to hit, you can either use kind of a supported one arm swing and kind of feel

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that width up at the top and then once you have a good sensation of that width, you

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can make that same movement and then put your left arm in place.

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This may feel like I'm really reaching, but you'll be able to confirm either with cameras

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or the fact that this right arm is staying straighter, so that you can then feel that

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the body has kind of dominated the movement.

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Then what you do is you set up to a normal wall and you try to recreate that same kind

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of feeling.

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If it works out, it should help with the movements that you're trying to do on the downswing,

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but I always work on the downswing first because the backswing ultimately sets up what you

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want to do on the downswing.

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It doesn't naturally just cause a perfect downswing.