LIFT Your Freakin' Arms

[iacas]

What do you think?

[boogielicious]

Watched that on Instagram yesterday. Well done Erik.

[iacas]

2 hours ago, boogielicious said:

Watched that on Instagram yesterday. Well done Erik.

I didn't post this to Instagram yesterday.

[saevel25]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

I didn't post this to Instagram yesterday.

10 hours ago, iacas said:

What do you think?

Very concise and to the point. 

I can attest; it makes the golf swing easier if you keep that right arm under control. 

[iacas]

2 hours ago, saevel25 said:

I mean, I just assume he mistyped something. 🙂 Promos were on X/Twitter and today I put the promo on IG. The full video is landscape (not good for Instagram) and too big for X (file size), so it's always been on YouTube.

[Chris Brooks]

The first ("don't do this") example looked oh-so-familiar for some reason. This should be very helpful.

[ConorHealy]

3 hours ago, Chris Brooks said:

The first ("don't do this") example looked oh-so-familiar for some reason.

Same here! Nice to know I'm not alone.

Helpful video.

[saevel25]

You guys coordinating 😛 

 

 

[iacas]

6 hours ago, saevel25 said:

You guys coordinating 😛 

You never know… 😄 

[iacas]

Good images from the short AMG video released yesterday.

[paperclip]

On 3/2/2026 at 11:08 PM, iacas said:

What do you think?

Makes sense, will have to try it

[Ty_Webb]

I'm currently recuperating from surgery, so no golf, but have been thinking about this quite a bit. This and the don't overbend the right arm thing. It's hard for me to even pose the position, so I'm not 100% sure, but I feel like it's impossible to have the right humerus along the shirt seam and not overbend your right arm, unless your hands are down near your hips. If the left arm is up at or above the shoulder plane and your right arm is bent less than 90 degrees, then your right humerus has to raise or your hands will get pulled apart. Your left hand can't reach your right hand unless either the right upper arm is up or the right arm is overbent. Is that right? If it is, then focusing on not overbending the right arm would force you to raise the humerus.

And actually thinking further on it, if you do overbend your right arm, then you're basically forcing your upper arm down or forcing your left arm to bend. Since (for me at least) bending the left arm too much is not something I think I need to worry about, it means that the bend in the trail arm is really the driving force behind what happens to the right humerus. 

Edited May 13 by Ty_Webb
Added second paragraph

[saevel25]

1 minute ago, Ty_Webb said:

Is that right? If it is, then focusing on not overbending the right arm would force you to raise the humerus.

Probably since the golfer has to swing the club back and up. The hands have to move back and up. You can feel them go back and up just by turning the shoulders and bending the right arm, because it brings your hands towards your right shoulder. 

The difference is if you maintain width or not. Less width means a shorter feeling swing path so the more you need to lift the arms. Being as someone who gets the right arm bend at 110+ degrees, it's 100% a timing issue. I am use to like a 1.5+ second backswing. It probably should be like 1 second at most. Half a second or more will feel like an eternity. I have had swings where I keep my right arm straighter and I am still trying to time the downswing based on the old tempo. 

Ideally, for me, it is probably going to be a much quicker and shorter (in duration) backswing, while keeping the right elbow straighter. Which also means more hinging to get swing length without over swinging.