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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the white movement from the back view.

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I think the white movement is one of the hallmarks of a really good release.

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It's been referred to by other instructors as getting the arms back in front of your body,

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the extending the arms in front of the golf ball. I think of it as both the position of the

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arms as well as the timing and the arms working a little bit more

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or extending through the ball instead of at the ball and the arms specifically the upper arms

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or the elbows getting more in front of your body. When you do that, it helps eliminate

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fat shots and it helps eliminate hook shots. So it's a very helpful movement for a lot of

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highly skilled golfers. It also allows you to use your body a little bit more powerfully

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rotationally and again, not struggle with contact issues or overdraws.

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So we're going to look at a number of different examples of golfers from this back view and we're

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going to highlight specifically where the right arm is in space compared to the body.

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Unfortunately, I don't have a really good 3D parameter for looking at the white movement,

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so I can't just put up some graphs and show a clear pattern.

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But I think that it can be helpful to look at it from this back view perspective.

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Many golfers struggle to see the subtle differences between kind of an amateur style of

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a release and a tour style of a release, but I think this view can help.

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So we're just going to look at where is the right arm compared to the body.

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We're going to use a couple of different references or checkpoints,

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but I guess the main one we're going to look at is when the golf club is roughly

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shaft parallel to the ground somewhere in here. How much of the right arm can we see?

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So as we go back up towards this hop of the swing, you'll see that dust and here over on the left

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gets his arm more or less just to the side of his pack, but not all the way on the side of his

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ribgage. Now as he starts down, you'll see that we can clearly see that arm

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starting to work in front and that elbow is actually disappearing well before he gets the club to

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parallel. He's probably the golfer who exaggerates this movement most, but I think it's no

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coincidence that that's part of why he's such an elite ball striker. Over here on the right,

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we've got Ricky Fowler and you can see that during his transition his early movement,

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the arm gets a little bit behind his ribs. You can see some of the tries up getting

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on the backside of the ribgage there, but he does a great job of delaying the straightening of his

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arms while his arms start to work more in front. So here we are again at that chat parallel checkpoint.

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You can see that about half the elbow has disappeared. I'm not really picky as far as how much of

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the arm has disappeared. The more that the arm is in front of you, the more that you will tend to have

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a look of really good left arm extension on the way through and the more that you can see this

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right arm, the more you'll tend to have a look of the arms getting bunched on the way through

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or chicken winging or scooping. We'll take a look at a couple examples of both elite golfers as

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well as amateur who tend to have more of that pattern. Again, seeing by about the time he gets the

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club to shaft parallel, you can see that the elbow is starting to get in front and then the other

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checkpoint that can be helpful is when the golf ball is actually being struck, can you see any of the right

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arm. There are a number of twerpurs where yes you can still see some of their arm and they will have a

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little bit more of a roll look to their release, but many of the elite ball strikers you'll see

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their right arm is almost completely disappeared when they're making contact with the golf ball.

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The only way that would happen is if the right arm is more in front of the body.

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There is virtually nothing you could do with your body that would guarantee that the arm is going

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to get out in front of you, so I think this is a helpful movement that you actually have to train.

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I thought the most helpful thing to do in this video would be to just show a variety of different

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examples and and relate it to what we're trying to do, but mostly just show a bunch of examples

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so that you can start to visualize how this movement could work. I also want this to help you

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understand why I advocate not letting that right arm get too far behind your body at the top of the swing.

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If the goal is to get it back out in front of your body, as you can see, Moneurman here on the left

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demonstrating pretty well, by the time the shaft is parallel, you can see that the more that it gets

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behind or wrapped around your body that's going to add an extra level of kind of challenge during

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that transition. Over here on the right is the video that actually inspired this video. I was talking

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with a student of mine and he was talking about how the right arm gets onto your side and just kind of

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stays there and he actually talked about this specific video because you can see that Sergio

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gets that his arm almost on the backside similar to what we saw with Ricky, but now you'll see that

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by about the time the club is parallel, which is somewhere in here. You can see that that arm is

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worked from behind his body to in front and you can relate that to the timing of when it's straightening.

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So you can see that his arm is straightening through this phase, but it's also working across his body.

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That's why I refer to it as the timing and direction in the arms. If it's working

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across his body as it's straightening, then it's going to have a feel or an appearance of the

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arms extending out in front of the golf ball through there instead of at the golf ball.

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There are few more examples. We've got Michelle Wee over here on the left and we'll see

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that she hits the arm in front checkpoint and then by the time she gets the impact,

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there's virtually no appearance of that right arm because it's worked a little bit more out in front

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of her body instead of releasing more behind her body around the right half and that helps get that look

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of the arm extension on the way through the good width on the way through. Next we'll look at

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Tiger Woods over here on the right. This is from 2009 back at Hazelteen. So prior to some of his injuries,

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he's had a laundry list, but prior to some of his injuries, and you can see that arm working

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nicely in front of his body. That was one of his early coaching cues with butch of trying to

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get the arms in front of his body. Now he did it by trying to slow down his body, but you can also

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do it by trying to actively move the arms. You'll see that by he gets by the time he gets

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to impact there, you can see very little of that right arm. Now we have two elite level ball

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strikers who don't demonstrate that movement quite as well as some of the others. We've got Henry

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Stinson over on the right and Louis Oostace on the left, and we'll see that as Henry gets down

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to about shaft parallel, you can see that that arm is behind his body of it. You can see that the

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front or the inside part of the elbow is started to disappear. So it's not as dramatic as some of the

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amateurs that we're going to see here in a second, but you'll see that when he makes context with

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the golf ball, you can still see a little bit of his elbow. Now it's important to note that Henry

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has one of a higher amounts of lower body lateral slide, and so when the lower body slides that far

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from the setup or from the top of the swing to impact, it's going to be harder to keep the arm

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out in front. That's part of the reason why a lot of golfers who have a slide and buckle will

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tend to have the look of more of a scoop or a lease, because they're, you know, not doing the

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white movement, and therefore they slide to make up for it, or they're sliding, so if they did the

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white movement, they'd be too steep, and therefore they can't have a great looking release pattern.

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So here we have Louis Oostayz and gets it a little bit more on the side of the body.

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But then you'll see he, he does make it pretty close to that checkpoint where by the time he makes

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contact, the majority of that right him is going. There's just a little bit of a, kind of a glimmer of

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that right arm. So hopefully this helps you visualize what I mean when I say I want you to get those

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arms working a little bit more in front of your body. You can see a number of examples of

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lead level ball strikers and how they, and kind of a little checkpoint on how they accomplish that.

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Now let's take a look at a couple amateurs so you can see what is typically happening with more

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of a 90s golfer as they're entering their release.

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All right, so I got a couple different amateur examples that I filmed last week. Just wanted to have a few

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of a few examples to be able to compare with what's going on with the torque row. And the one over here

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on the left is actually what inspired the video he was talking about that Sergio video.

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Now what you'll see is from the top of the swing, you'll see that arm wants to straighten

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quickly and you'll see that when we get to that shaft arrow, a checkpoint, there's a fair amount

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of daylight here. Right, we can see that the arm is nowhere near in front of his body and it's not

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even up against the side, it's well off to the side. Over here on the right we have a golfer who

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at the time had not broken 100. I'm happy to say that he's not only broken 100, he's broken 90.

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Pretty proud to hear that. But we can see kind of a similar distance at space when we get to that

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and now if we compare or if we look at kind of the straightening of the arms, you can see that his arm

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is straightening while it's more or less behind his body. And so when he makes contact, which is

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that frame there, you can still see almost both of the points of the elbow. So that right arm is

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well behind his body compared to what we were seeing with most of the torque rows. Similar thing

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here, if we get it to making contact, you can see there's roughly three points or three

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bonely landmarks that make up the visual appearance of the elbow and you can see two of them. You can see

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the main point and the outside of the right arm as he's making contact. So in both these cases,

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you see the right arm is more behind the body and so as a release or as a result you'll see a little

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bit more of a scoop style release. Now I wanted to add one more little point, which is using video

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to monitor your progress. Many images when I show them what I consider improvements on video,

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they'll be disappointed that it's still in the same pattern. You have to get skilled at being

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if you're going to coach yourself and you're going to use video, you have to get skilled at being

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and detective and being able to identify when things are moving in the right direction. So here we have

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the same golfer. You can see that his little practice move is getting used to that feeling of that

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arm in front. Now his brain still has to figure out how to control low point and how to hit the golf ball

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from there. So it's going to want to revert more towards his normal pattern. But you can see if we get

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him to about the same shaft position, which is probably that frame there. You can see that the amount

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of space has been decreased and now if we get him down towards impact, so we'll go that frame just

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before impact and we get this one to that frame just before impact, which is there. You can see that

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more of the right arm has disappeared over here on the right. So while you could look at this and say

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yeah, but he's still doing the same pattern, you can see that it's trending in the right direction

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and with so it shows that the drills he's using will help shape the swing in the direction that we

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wanted to go and we should be able to get the results of less hook shots, less fat shots that we're

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trying to achieve. So hopefully this video helps you visualize and start to understand the white

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movement of getting the arm's in front of your body, specifically the upper arms and the right

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elbow in front of your body during the downswing so that when you extend your arms during the release

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it's extending more out in front of the golf ball that helps delay the closing of the club face

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so eliminate hooks and it helps control low point so eliminate fat shots. This should also help

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you see that if the goal is to get those arms back in front of your body, having your arms closer

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to in front of your body at the top of the swing should make the movements you're trying to do

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during transition and ultimately preparing for the release, it should make those movements

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that much easier.