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This video is transition of just the arms.

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Now during transition we're going to have a number of pieces moving and kind of getting ready

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for the release.

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But if we want to, we can isolate it just what the arms are doing and practice them in isolation.

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So here's what we're going to do.

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We'll start with the lean arm.

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During transition, which is going to be basically when my body starts changing direction

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from the backswing to getting into delivery position, we're going to call that transition.

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So basically, from right about there to right about there.

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It's a very important move and there's a number of different pieces.

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Let's focus on just the arms for this video.

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So during that transition movement, the lead of wrist is going to pronate just slightly

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like so.

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The lead arm is going to work slightly across my chest and that's actually the major movement

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of this lead side.

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Is it's basically going to rotate across just like so.

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The trail arm is going to be somewhere around here, if you remember from the top of the

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backswing.

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From here, this elbow is going to start working across my body just like so as it's working

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kind of down towards my belly button.

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So it's going into external rotation kind of like so.

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And the wrist is going to work its way.

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It's already in a fair amount of extension at the top of the swing, but it's going to work

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into more extension as it goes into transition.

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So if I put those two together, it's going to end up looking, we'll do just the arm.

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So here I am at the top of the swing and then there I am in transition.

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And you'll see that that pretty much gets me into this delivery position.

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So if I was to then add and kind of unify it with the body, what'll end up happening is

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from the top of the swing.

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As my body starts to rotate, that trail arm works in front, wrist goes into extension,

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lead arm works across and rotates slightly.

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Our goal is to turn that into kind of one little movement, just like if I was throwing

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a ball, there's kind of this one movement before I release, kind of that little lag movement.

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Now if we take a look from the down the line view, when I do that movement, kind of up

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in here, you'll see that the club is going to flatten a fair amount.

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Like if I don't use my body at all and I just do the arm movements, you'll see that it

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gets the almost parallel to the ground.

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For some guys like a Sergio Garcia, it will actually get the low parallel.

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Now it's not going to look quite that drastic when you're actually taking a swing

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because what'll happen is at the same time the arms are doing this, the body is already

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started to rotate and shift weight and so it's just going to look like it slightly drops.

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But that drop is going to be really important for getting the shaft plane slightly flatter than

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the hand plane, which is one of those kind of big keys that we're trying to get into transition.

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So that gives you a way that you can practice this when you're just sitting and watching TV

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or anytime you're in an elevator and you're working on transition.

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This is a great way to kind of reinforce the pattern of just what the arms are going to do

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so that then when you're on the range, put your attention on what the body needs to do.