When to Use the Trail Arm in the Golf Swing?

Hey golfers, Tony with Reactionary Golf. Tom asked a question about when to use the right arm, because he's having some success with the left arm and creating good speed, but when he tries to apply the right arm in there, he's getting some hooks. And what's happening with that is at the top, he's probably getting this whole torso moving, and then his reaction is a flip of the hands, trying to get the club head down to the ball. Really what we want the right arm to do is simple, is a feeling of loading it up, here we get a little bit of eccentric load in that trail pack, and then it's the feeling of this whole right side accelerating to catch up to the body. Because kinematically, we see the lower body outracing the upper body, but if we don't tell ourselves from a motor control standpoint, if I don't get that arm moving, then it falls way behind. And that's what Tom's running into, is he's trying to use his hand, but he's using it to catch up on the swing, instead of using that whole arm to deliver that club to the ball. Because really when we take a look at through Foresight, HMT, and GC2 unit, and see the high speed videos on tour, we don't see a lot of shaft rotation. And so that is the extension and flexion of the trail wrist, and the adduction of our arm through the ball. And that's what we're looking for, to use the right arm to bring that whole club down to coordinate, and because this is our proprioception, this is where we have the better sense and better feel. So we talk about the right hand and right arm for right-handed golfers, but it's really more of a whole unit, swinging that club under, and forward, and then letting that body accelerate really at the bottom. One of the things we're going to be doing at our golf school this weekend, is getting golfers to kind of feel that, and using this little chain with a handle, I'm not moving and twisting this. If you take a look, I can create speed, I can even create speed that way, but I'm really not moving anything, until I get this whole arm moving, but I'm not rotating my forearm. And that's what we're looking for the arm to do. So when we do that, we can hit that ball as strong as we want, and as straight. So putting it in the right sequence of the arm swing and then body through the ball, we can produce our best shots. Thanks for watching. For more information, come and join us at InsideTheGolfLab at ReactionaryGolf.com. See ya!