This is the lesson I've just given today. It's a good lesson for anybody
who feels likes they are waxing at a steep, upright or in a high position. Anybody feels
like they need to improve the connection between their arms and their body. The relationship
between the way the body works and the way the arms work compared to that tee compact
[inaudible 0:00:23] shot, slice shot. This might be something which you can learn something
from. Honestly every golfer in the world when you sit and analyze somebody's swing and then
you can pick then different things you would like to see improve and no different with
this girl. But as with anything, what you are trying to do is your trying to think,
"What's the priority?", "What's the most important thing to improve?". And with this player,
the biggest thing we'd like to see improve, to start with, would be the relationship between
her arms and her body. Her arms and her body are not really matched up. They get separated
in the back swing. Arms get a little high, steep.
She struggles and hitting that [inaudible 0:01:07] deep contact, eye to hand so she
gets [inaudible 0:01:12] shots and cut shots. The longer the club is, the more this should
happen. She's improving actually. As I just quickly showed you where she kind of came
from and this is a huge [inaudible 0:01:27] cut, very steep contact, so this young girl
is really going in the right direction quickly. But the final sort of step in relation to
improving the way her arms and body work together came from understanding her posture better.
This is were I see, hopefully, some people that benefit from. I told her, her shoulders
sat to far in front of her body. A very common postural fault these days, the way we do everything
in front of us; computers, phones, driving a car. And shoulders come forward, we get
tight here, and in our chest. And we get the muscles here in the back of our shoulder,
in behind our shoulder blades, and between our shoulder blades become weak. Shoulders
sit forward, [inaudible 0:02:16] arms in front of her body. A set up we really expect to
make some... a setup that's hard to maintain it during the swing. We did see little posture
exercises, but the main point here was I asked her to pull her shoulder blades together,
activating the muscles in behind her shoulder blades and between her shoulder blades.
And that itself is a little bit awkward to her, but that pulls her shoulders back more
in line with her ears. And then simply all I asked her to do is to try to keep those
muscles activated, keep that feeling during the swing. And you can see that really sort
of finished the job off, improving the relationship between her arms and her body. [inaudible
0:03:00] by the swing and then yet control sort of increased almost instantly. The first
time it felt awkward, but the result was good. Not all the time, but I think for most of
the time, if you are working on the right thing technically even when it seems awkward,
you'll still see fairly good results. So for the last step we needed to take and improving
that relationship between arms and body and hopefully she can sort of cement that in and
then we can get to work on a few other things. But you can see swing clean improved a lot,
contact became shallower and certainly reduced, heavily reduced this sort of [inaudible 0:03:45]
cut. So anybody struggling with arms getting away from your body, feel like your steep,
feel like you're really hard. finding it difficult staying connected. You know, for example,
this girl. We could do all the drills in the world to just try and feel like her arms are
low, but still her arms are high. So really she has to be aware of high the posture, high
the muscles in the back of your shoulders and help bring your arms, this is a key point,
help to bring your arms onto the side of your body and setup and then they help to maintain
that position throughout the swing, where your arms remain. Keep that connection throughout
the swing. Hope that benefits some people. Thanks for watching and we'll see you again
soon.