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Well even AMG's own terminology is slightly misused. They are referring to the wipe as abduction to show their "wipe". But in reality both the good version and then the bad version as shown by Mike (@8.28 in the original AMG video) are both doing abduction of the trail arm, it's just the good version is also lifting the arm at the same time, and the bad version isn't. Which sort of gets back to my original annoyance that there absolutely is abduction and lift of the arms through the release, it's just very minor compared to the amount that comes well after impact in the follow-through. But, you still need the intent to do that lift and abduction early to actually get the arms moving when you need them too. But yeah we're getting pretty in the pedantic weeds here, there's no real disagreement between Tyler and AMG's methodology, just different terminology.

Because you keep inferring and then implying that any discussion about lifting, especially when someone merely mentions specific lifts like squats of deadlifts, is somehow referring to heavy power lifting. I literally never mentioned heavy lifting, and in a follow-up mentioned that I was even specifically referring to light weights (such as a bar alone). That's when you kept swooping in about injury. Do you think someone is going to get horribly injured squatting a 45lb bar? There's also all of the variants of those exercises like RDLs and split squats. So are we finally in agreement that light and moderate lifting is generally a net benefit for most people, especially aging desk jockeys who badly need core strength and mobility?

The problem when you keep coming in with stories of caution of injuries from any sort of lifting is that it does create fear. In reality, driving your car to work is probably much more dangerous than the risk of injury from working out.

I think this is an important piece to be cognitive of when doing slow motion swings (I like Tyler Ferrell's description as a Tai Chi swing, slow, intentional). Starting with slow but being able to dial up that gain in distinct steps to 20%, 40%, 60%+ etc starts to train those dynamics which you wouldn't get if you just did slow motion and full swing. Because at say 10%, you can't keep your wrists as loose as you might in the swing because the club might actually outrace your arms, but if you start dialing up at distinct intervals you can play around and start to feel the proper dynamics. Once you start feeling those dynamics, you can start to feel the different intentions that cause the desired (and undesired) patterns. I'm a huge fan of just going from delivery (p6ish) to lead leg parallel (just past impact, shaft parallel with lead leg) because it trains just how much "up" motion you need to prevent a rotation stall and get a proper release.

The only thing that annoys me about this video is that they don't really talk about swing/move intentions. They are absolutely right that the arms are still on the trail side through impact (which is absolutely valid to show to Ams who are often confused about that part). But, a golfer still needs the intention to be moving the arms up and through abduction, just in the proper sequence. I think some Ams will see this, without that distinction, and see it as more evidence for passive arms, when it's not. They do mention that the arms move up and through abduction later in the follow-through, which is when it does happen, but the swing is so fast that you need that intention to move the arms far before the arms actually start doing it.

Nobody is suggesting that someone jump straight into setting one rep maxes or anything. s***, even just squatting the bar would help most desk-jockeys (like myself). It's this kind of talk that scares people off of lifting and probably causes more injuries than it saves. It's really hard to maintain strength into your 40s without strenuous exercise, and if you don't keep it up, your 60s are gonna be even worse.

It's not just mobility. People get tendonitis and other injuries because they aren't strong enough. Build up the muscle so that it can take the abuse. Start with core exercises like squats, RDLs, military press, etc. I was in the same boat (at 42), constantly at the PT for some injury/tendonitis. Finally took my PT's advice and started lifting, and I haven't had an injury in two years now.

Full Swing also has the the rights to use tournament clips as fully negotiated between the lawyers with PGAT, NBC, and Netflix. The amount of actual tournament footage that Netflix uses is relatively minor compared to the overall content. Grant should get his lawyers to talk to PGAT and NBC if he wants to be able to broadcast (even if YT) footage from an event that has fully locked up footage rights.

This is a really complex topic that's mixing in measurements and feels as well as sequencing. Yes, it has been measured that the arms lower some amount. The amount at which they lower varies considerably between golfers due to the general anatomy of each golfer (think Ben Hogan with his flat plane gorilla arm swing). Generally the amount they lower is what is required to regain connection of the trail elbow. However, significantly lowering beyond that (such as extending the trail arm) too early is also a death move and is what Bradley is referring to here. To your point most ams use a completely different method to move their arms out. Most ams who hear and try to move their arms out are firing their shoulders too early which leads to a big OTT death move. Here Bradley is referring to the out caused by rotation, not firing the shoulders. Those who feel "out" through rotation rather than shoulder firing are probably the ones whom this video resonates with, including myself. When sequenced correctly the arms move both down (to reconnect) but also out in reference to the width from the torso. The way I like to think about it is you want to be able to keep your trail forearm between the grip and your torso during most of the downswing. That causes the natural amount of lowering, but also prevents too much early lowering. This kind of takes me back to a super old Monte video where he's demonstrating swing plane with a tee-ball. That's how Bradley is referring to the out here, essentially showing the swing without the tilted axis.