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This concept video is wipe and extend or roll and bend.

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So we're going to look at the trail shoulder or the trail arm and we're going to look at how it delivers the club to the ball through the release.

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You have two major combination options that you can take.

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The wipe and extend is basically the arm works across and then it extends straight out in front of you.

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The roll and bend would be more of a shoulder internal rotation, which is very hard to then get full

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extensions, so the arm will tend to bend like this.

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So I have two options.

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I could either go like that.

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I could go like this.

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The way you'll know which one you're using is if you look from the down the line camera angle,

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if I do more of this wipe and extend, you'll pretty much see a straight line or even the elbow staying inside of the line between your hand and your shoulder.

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If you use more of the roll and then bend, you'll tend to see the elbow get outside of that line from the down the line camera angle.

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From the face line camera angle, the wipe and extend, you'll see really good arm extension and the delay of this elbow kind of rotating in.

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If you use a little bit more of that roll and then bend, you'll tend to see the elbow pointing at the camera a little bit sooner.

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If you want to add side bend, you're pretty much limited to only using this wipe and extend.

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If you want to hit well with the longer clubs, if you want to be a specialist with the driver and the three would.

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The better pattern is going to be this wipe and extend.

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It uses a muscle called the seratus to keep everything kind of tight as that arm extends, so that arm will extend more straight out in front of my body,

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which allows me to get my arm the furthest away from me.

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If it starts to rotate this way, my hand is not going to reach as far a distance away from my body,

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so it limits my ability to build the flats by down at the bottom that's useful for the longer clubs.

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You can use this in either 9-3 or to train it, I should say.

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We can either do 9-3 with both hands or we can just do the single arm releases.

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So if we're going to do the single arm releases for this trail arm, the supported wipe where I've got my arm underneath,

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and then extending the arm will create that look of that elbow.

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Sorry, the shoulder elbow wrist being in a straight line in this position, and the only thing that I've got left to then close the club face is going to be some of this forearm rotation,

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different from shoulder rotation.

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The opposite pattern, and I think it's useful to experience both of them,

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because then you'll get a better sense of what your brain is actually trying to do.

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So if I rotate my shoulder like this, you can see that if I also extended and I did the same wrist movement,

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that thing would go way to the left, so what ends up happening is I make this movement,

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and then I tend to scoop and bend the arm to keep the club face pointed in the general direction of the target.

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So I go this way, but then I'm also going to scoop with that wrist.

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And it kind of goes straight, goes a little bit higher, but overall not too bad,

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except for the fact that I finished in this position.

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So if I'm doing the single arm releases and the arm is finishing in this position,

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it's a good indication that I'm doing more of this role of the shoulder to close the face as opposed to the extent or the wipe.

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So then if I shake that off, try to get back to a good pattern where I extend my arm straight out,

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kind of like that, then I get this a similar ball flightward starting straight,

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but it's much more compressed.

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I've got a feeling of the ball jumping off the club face, and you can see that it launches a lot lower.

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That second option, the one where I'm going to wipe and extend, works a lot better when I then take it to the full swing.

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If I roll and then bend, that works pretty well for the wedges.

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In fact, that's great for hitting little finesse shots and half wedges around the green,

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but it's terrible for taking powerful swings with the longer clubs.

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So if you see on video, or if I've mentioned in one of your analysis videos,

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that you tend to have more of this role release, there's a couple of little things that you have to be careful with.

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One, and this is probably one of the biggest ones, is if your grip is too weak, primarily that trail hand,

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if that trail hand is too on top, then what will happen is if I extend and wipe, that's about as close as I can get the club face.

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So if I have any amount of shaft lean, this is still going to hit a ball that's off to the right,

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so I have to use a different method of closing the face, and I'll tend to err on more of that white movement.

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Or sorry, more of that roll of the shoulder movement. That looks like this.

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So if I put my hand more on top like this, and I was too white, that's as much as I can get the club face closed.

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And so my shoulder and my body and my brain will naturally air towards adding a little bit more of that shoulder roll in order to try to close the club face.

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So if you struggle with this, double check your grip, otherwise just put in the reps doing those nine to three and single arm releases,

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where you're trying to get more of this extension of the arm.

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One great checkpoint would be the space between your armpit or your tricep and your rib cage.

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If when you finish that arm is well off your body like so, then you've used more of the roll to close the face.

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If when I get to that finished position, the space between my elbow and my tricep and my rib cage is still really close,

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then it's a good indication that I did this wipe and extend instead of the roll and bend.

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So if you're struggling with your release, hopefully this helps you understand the trail arm and how it relates to the two more dominant release patterns.