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This video is visualizing steep and shallow arms in transition.

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So it can be challenging to visualize the steepness or the shallowness in the arms.

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So I've got a couple pieces of electrical tape to help use the ribcage as a reference

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instead of looking at the golf ball and the club to the ground.

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Because sometimes that can confuse things.

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You know, the difference between a club that looks like that and a club that looks like that

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are pretty minor.

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They can still be very significant, but they're pretty minor when looking on video.

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So using just the club to the ground can sometimes be more confusing than necessarily

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helpful.

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When I'm talking about shallow arm movements, I'm using a reference of basically the bottom

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of the ribcage.

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So if we were to, I've got this piece of tape just kind of at the bottom of the ribcage

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and parallel to it.

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So if we were to review the components of steep and shallow, there's two major components

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to shallowing the club.

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One would be the extension of the arms because getting the club far away from me shallow

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is it out.

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And two would be, is the club working more vertically?

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So kind of straight along my spine or is the club working more horizontally kind of

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like so, which would be more working along the bottom of my ribcage.

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What you'll see when you look at a lot of really good golf swings or when you see some

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of the legends talk about the golf swing, you'll tend to see them demonstrating the club

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working more horizontally around their body.

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In fact, a lot of one common thought or drill that was given to a lot of golfers was

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basically a baseball swing, right?

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Which is essentially working those arms completely horizontally and then figuring out how

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to position that ribcage so that that horizontal movement would get down all the way to

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the golf ball.

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So what you'll see is the shallow arms and what we're trying to get in transition is

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basically trying to get this closest to parallel to the bottom of my ribcage or close to

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this horizontal line.

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If you're in the steep category, the club will be tending to work more along almost

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the 45 degree angle, maybe even creeping down towards 30.

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I would say that somewhere in that 30 degrees were above would be steep, so someone like

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Charles Barkley is almost vertical where golfers closer to that 20 degrees, 10 degrees,

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zero degrees, those are going to tend to look more shallow.

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So now you've got that kind of reference of what we're trying to look at from the down

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the line when you're looking at a lot of these videos.

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I want you to now see how if I do the shallow arm movements, this starts to kind of match

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the plane or the path that my ribcage is rotating around.

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Not technically rotating around a plane, but you can kind of use that as a reference when

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you're looking at the arm movements instead of comparing them to the golf ball.

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Because what frequently happens is a golfer will work the arms vertically, but at the

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same time have a little bit of loss of posture, a little bit of slide and lack of

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rotation.

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Now that vertical arm movement looks like it's coming well from the inside.

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So they'll say, how could I possibly have steep arms?

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I'm hitting big hooks.

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I'm getting too shallow.

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Hopefully looking at this grid and using the ribcage as a reference will help you visualize

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how very easily you could have vertical arm movement and still come well from the inside.

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So it's not totally about the club path.

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Because one common problem for golfers who tend to hook the ball is getting steep and

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deep.

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So the club well behind kind of like so, but working in more of a vertical fashion as

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opposed to working in a horizontal fashion and working more around.

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So if you've struggled with understanding some of these shallow movements, the examples,

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the drills, hopefully this visual helps you tie together what I mean when I say shallow

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arms in transition.

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Use this little, just imagine this shirt or the grid on the golfers when you're looking

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at YouTube or if you're looking at any of my analysis videos and you'll have a better idea

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of whether their arms are working in a steep fashion or whether their arms are working in

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a shallow fashion during transition.