Best video on the web regarding this. I love how they explain how different grips can effect it, and the simulated lesson style with questions that we would ask if we were getting it. They cover all the bases on how different positions cause each thing, rather than "You should do this" approach. When he said something along the lines of "flat shoulder plane, hips go up and out" this is so many of us, me included. Im just blown away. We get so focused on what the arms should do and forget to turn to set the club. Awesome video.

As a rehabilitation therapist, this is the best explanation of wrist/forearm motion using the correct anatomical terms. It is so difficult for me to follow layman terms (even if common to golf enthusiasts). I am a beginner and this was very helpful and thorough!

So glad for this topic as its hardly ever talked about and strangely something I was having to experiment with. Slight pronation deep into the backswing helped me regain ability to hit baby draws after I "fixed" my too much inside & open takeaway. But I'd like to work it in gradually. So many videos on right arm/hand when I believe most of us are dominant right hand swinging with lead being left and thus need help on what left arm and hands should be doing. Really nice that you gave TJ room to share freely. Lastly, each time I work on a different part of my backswing, I find my release has to change. Maybe a topic that you lead into.

This is the key that turned my swing around, terrible slice for 30 years now a straight shot or slight draw. This one tip of where is the club head right before the wrist hinge is it straight up if so you'll struggle to close it or is it leaning forwards much better, is the back of the hand visible, bad, is the back of the hand towards the ground, much better. Thank you Eric, this short tip has literally changed my life.

Great video.... The hand adjustment kept my ball on a consistent line! Shot 82 my third lowest score! Thanks!

Just seeing the picture of where your left arm and hands are in that picture is priceless! This creates my own shot picture I can follow. Great visual.

Great series of lessons!

Great, thorough description. Thanks

great details guys, really appreciated

Eric, as a retired LPGA Tour player love following you and thought this video explanation was excellent. Keep up the great work! Babe DeLuca⛳️

Another tremendous video!

This is great video and explanation!

Another great explanation of the take away which is so important, more so for those who can rotate fully with a straight left arm (younger golfers) I watched a video of yours similar to what was shown here which helped me so much Eric! I have a back swing to around shoulder height keeping my left arm straight and I make good contact with the ball as long as I do not rush the take away! Have you any footage of short back swings for senior golfers?

Single best video regarding forearm rotation I have found and I look a lot. This was a major "Aha" moment for me. Thank you!

First few swings of the season today and I was hitting miles behind the ball. I found feeling as I was shallowing/going in to supination during transition resulted in a much better strike. I think a few arm rotation drills and shallowing the club might be my first practice area this year. This video seems a good place to start. 👍

Excellent demo

thanks for the detailed explanation of how the left arm rotates late in the backswing for maximum results

I do slo mo drills with correct rotation and it works for me. I picked it up from the little red book.

Really, really good stuff - I just wish I could have watched this type of material 30 years ago to have saved all the pain. If you ever get to teach a right-shooting hockey player, that had a big shot (that was me), the top left hand would learn to be in a VERY bowed position at impact (this is to keep the puck down on a slapshot so you don't kill your own player in front of the net) - I now finally understand why I like a weak left grip in golf - I just naturally bow my left wrist a lot through impact. Nice collaboration.

Thank you! Insightful video. Could you explain the logo facing the camera behind you at 5:18. To me the logo is not facing the camera behind you but towards your front side

Awesome session Eric. This is exactly what I have been struggling with. Now time for the range

Hi Eric - great vid. With regards to the ‘natural’ increase in pronation from P4-P5. What other components are causing this to happen naturally? Many thanks.

Recommendation for a vid: Lead leg braking, lead hip rotation. That "snap" that the good players get. Thanks for the great videos.

I struggle with pronating too early in the backswing, which makes shallowing harder. When I can feel like my left palm faces the sky longer, it’s so much easier to turn it over into a shallow position in transition. This explanation couldn’t be any better 👌

Hi Eric, really really great demonstration from both of you. This video covers a lot. One question I kindly would like to ask you is as in your video shows when the shaft shows parallel to the ground, and from this level starting up to the end of backswing, is there any hinging of leading left wrist? Thank you so much.

Thanks for the video. I used to be close to scratch player....played college golf....ect....now, I just hack away. Been in physical therapy for pelvis/back issues. Long story short, realized my left arm is very supinated at address ( inside of left elbow pointed at sky, outside of elbow pointed at my thigh). I can take a 4 knuckle showing strong grip with left hand and this problem persists. There is an issue with my left scapula not functioning correctly. Not a good way to play golf.....feels almost impossible. There is basically zero natural pronation in my left arm. I've got a wicked flop shot though

good tips :D thx

How can I consistently think about when my arm is parallel to the ground? It happens in less than a second. When I try this, I smother hook the ball.

Hi Eric, I'm a huge fan of your content and I've been able to employ a number of your tips into my own game. However, this video seems to directly contradict yesterday's video on "The Perfect Top of Backswing" and I'm struggling a bit with rectifying the two. Could you help sort this out? Thanks!

Great video! This is a huge natural fault of mine and I have to feel like the swing is loopy almost like a Wolff of Furyk to get to the right positions and shallow in transition.

Hi, Eric, This kind left arm rotation can force my left shoulder really turn back at full swing.

I have a strong grip, but in takeaway I rotate my left arm towards the ball (externally??) before P2. For me it works but dont know if its ideal?

Just watch vid again . Identified even more benefits to the moves, particular for a stronger gripper.

I’ve watched a jillion videos and still my takeaway is just a smidge inside at first parallel. I think my right arm isn’t bending enough at the takeaway and it’s dragging it inside and causing the lead forearm to pronate?

I feel like i have zero forearm pronation / supination in my swing. Why does it matter what my left forearm does after impact ( if its not a symptom of an error that happens prior to impact) ?

Eric, this video focuses a lot on rotation in the backswing (and does so superbly), but you go over rotation in the downswing quite quickly. Especially near the moment of contact. What I miss: how do you create the rotation in the downswing? When I try to do it intentionally, the clubface is way closed at impact. Anything on that by chance?

What about ball flight?! Talking about faulty positions without ball flight is crazy - usually, faulty swing positions are an attempt to square the face at impact

But with that late pronation isnt the shaft too laid off at the top?

I’m the guy that’s wild that needs a lot of exaggeration 😂🤘🏻

I love your video topics and ur Way to tell these things. But tbh i run dry in the first 3 mins with ads and videos being too long..

7:20

this guy might be a great teacher but thinking about all of that i could not hit the ball ill stick with the way malaska

9:35 guy with Covid19 or something? lol

Hi Eric if golf has been proven to be a two pendulum swing. Your friend’s instructions are confusing the heck out of me. Cheers

Good video, this is not talked about enough. As you say, this is a "stock" swing, others like Wolff, Rahm are available. Also, as we age and are unable to turn our shoulders, it is important to pronate the lead arm earlier or you can get stuck too upright, unable to drop inside. Sad to see Jack Nicklaus at 80 struggling with this, a short Rahm-like swing would help him but he insists on swinging upright as he did in his youth.

Eric, please let him say more.. If u speak most of the video ,then what is the point? how can I hear his teaching?

Nope. This is orthodoxy but it's inferior. The idea that we can both rotate the forearms open and then close them in the milliseconds of a downswing consistently well is folly. It requires immense practice and tolerance for wild swings in ball striking consistency. Which is what we see with almost all golfers and most pros. And I guarantee you won't be able to do it without a significant deceleration of the arms. I know, I did it for 25 years. My theory on why this became the orthodoxy is because of the first 400 years of golf with hickory super flexible super high torque shafts and the physics of that system. Study Morikawa and Hovland, phenomenal strikers, if you want to do it a better way. Among others . Another good visual is a video Mike Dunaway did with the model airplane in his hands. Look that up for a great visual. So I'm going off the reservation on this one with you Eric. Had you guys not sold it as THE way, and left options ok then. But you didn't. Again, and I've said it before , if you make a throwing sidearm/overhand motion in golf posture your throwing hand will wind counterclockwise and unwind clockwise. That's the best way to hit a golf ball. Imagine throwing the way demonstrated here: When you rear back wind the forearm clockwise and you'll immediately see how goofy it is. The pro here sort of slipped by the shallowing problem without a good explanation. Because unwinding counterclockwise goes steep. And the momentary clockwise then switching to counterclockwise is problematic. Imagine something new where the entire downswing was unwinding clockwise. Then shallowing is simple. In any case, there's more than one way to skin the cat.

Hi Eric, it is better to keep things simple in the already complicated game of golf >>>>>

XZ.x this would be hard follow if you don't know biomechanics. sigh. Its easy but, all at once - its a lot of ques.

YES BUT NO! LET'S just call this the famous "shallowing out" at top recommendation. Great, but the average golfer doesn't have the time to do this. they rush. so if they don't have some rotation earlier, they are too VERTICAL at the top and all hell breaks loose on the downswing (lifting etc). You can play being too flat, you can't play being too vertical.

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had to stop watching because of the coughing...love the video concept though.

You are making it to complicated with the good bad up and out just make it simple quit drifting away from what your trying to teach here