Forearm Rotation in Golf Swing is a Key Move

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I'm Ted Norby director of instruction

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for the National University Golf Academy

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today we're going to talk a little bit

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about getting the club on plane

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backswing a lot of people talk about

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hinging the club on the backswing or

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setting the club on the backswing but

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there's also some forearm rotation in

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the backswing if all I do is just set

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the club up and then rotate my body that

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Club is never going to get on plane a

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lot of people talk about the club

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setting up into that right hand well

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that gets the club a little more

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straight up and down instead of tilting

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this way but we need to get it on plane

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which is this almost 45 degree angle

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kind of coming back behind the body

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everybody talks a little bit differently

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about swing plane exactly what this

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shaft line should be but there should be

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some tilt to this shaft to do that there

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needs to be some rotation in the

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forearms to get it in the right place

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again what most people do is they just

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kind of hinge the club up or they pull

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it back what I want to do is hinge the

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club up in front of me but then there is

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some forearm rotation it's almost like

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the weight of the club kind of falls

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down into that right hand so one of the

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best ways to really get that where it

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should be at the half way back spot

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would be to just get the butt of the

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club kind of leveraging down away from

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your body which gets the club head up

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that's the hinging part of it now let

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the right forearm rotate so the weight

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of the club kind of falls into that

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right hand now I'm not cranking my left

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shoulder up make sure that your elbows

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are both still pointing down but as I

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let this rotate it's almost the two

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bones in my right forearm and wrist are

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kind of rotating over to the side so if

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I get up here then let it fall

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now all I'm really doing is just turning

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my shoulders from that spot so if I show

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it to you from this view if I leverage

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the club up let it set now you can see

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that my hands are just right down in

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front of my chest I'm not lifting them

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up over my head but I'm just kind of

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getting the club to go out and

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then I'm going to let that right forearm

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rotate and if from this spot right here

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all I do is turn my shoulders now you

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can see that my left arm the shaft

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everything's basically on plane with my

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shoulder with my spine angle and with

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that original shaft line where we

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started and that's really where we're

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looking for as I start turning my body

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back there's a setting of the club

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there's a hinging of the club and

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there's some rotation in my forearm to

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get the shaft on plane very easy drill

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like I said but of the club works away

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just feel the club kind of fall into

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your right hand and then just make some

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turns now do that from the address

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position and try to get to that same

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spot

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so I've hinged I've set the club into my

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right hand and there's a little forearm

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rotation to get the club on plane from

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here I'm just going to turn and then I

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can go out toward the target so let

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there be some forearm rotation to get

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the club on plane on the backswing

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lifts in the backswing it's a pretty

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important topic because typically what

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happens in the backswing the opposite

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will be happening in the downswing we've

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done our golfer here and this pro golfer

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really accomplished golfer and he's

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making an actual golf swing and we're

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gonna remove the club just to make it

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easier to see so there's an actual swing

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not a demonstration and we chose this

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golfer because he has a very classic

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turn 90 degrees to the spine type of

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backswing and we can see that with the

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shoulders here the left arm covers the

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right shoulder just a very

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bread-and-butter middle-of-the-road

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classic top of the backswing golf

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position a spot that I'm sure we'd all

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be happy with so we're gonna take him

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and we're gonna bring him back down to a

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dress and then we're gonna rotate them

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just to kind of give us a different

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perspective of an actual golf swing what

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it looks like when we change how we view

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it so we're gonna take and move that

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virtual spine 90 degrees to the ground

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so we've got a spine vert vert achill

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and he Hanna kind of has that old

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sitting on a barstool look here and

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we're gonna put a little blue bar here

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underneath his left index finger where

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it overlaps the right hand just as a

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reference so we know where his hand

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started now as you're watching this I

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want to encourage you to stand up get

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yourself in a similar upper body posture

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arms and a similar spot extending it out

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there below your belt now as fast as you

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want to do it or as slow as you want to

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do it make a shoulder turn turn those

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shoulders 90 degrees without lifting

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your arms and I would almost guarantee

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you unless you're just something else

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going on that you will not get your arms

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up to where this golfer does in that

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classic top of the backswing position if

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you just turn your shoulders now you'd

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be right in saying well the right arm

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folds so that's got to account for

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something you're exactly right so let's

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go back down to the address and let's

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Bend let's pre Bend the right arm let

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this golfer does 70 degrees a bend of

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his

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right arm at the top let's take it to

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that classic 90 degrees so go ahead and

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pre bend your right arm 90 degrees now

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without lifting your arms just make a

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shoulder turn and again you will not

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unless something else is going on you

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will not be able to get your arms this

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high without actually lifting the arms

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the shoulder turn will not elevate the

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arms in order to get the hands up this

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far there has to be some independent arm

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lift somewhere in the system and in

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something that we see with every golfer

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we've done this with you you know it's

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subtle

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it happens subtly and it happens

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gradually and most golfers feel the

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shoulder turn and they just

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instinctively lift the arms up until we

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see the golfer come in who is actively

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trying to have the quote-unquote passive

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arms or is actually trying not to lift

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his arms then we see the whole system

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get out of whack where the hands are too

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low as the shoulders are turning and

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then it's forced to have a late arm lift

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and it's just a poor concept in our

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estimation because they're trying not to

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allow the arms to lift and we see that

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every good golf swing we've looked at

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there is absolutely some arm lifts going

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on or it's a really easy way to test

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this out just get yourself in this

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position and rotate your shoulders and

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see where your arms are now lift your

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arms in that classic back swing position

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and you'll get an idea for how much arm

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lift and as an example or as this

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example is we just use our our known

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diameter of a golf ball which is one

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point six eight inches if we just stack

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a bunch of golf balls in this window

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we'll see that basically represents

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about 17 and a half golf balls and again

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this is not scientifically measured

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we're just using this as an example and

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that amount of golf balls represents

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nearly 30 inches so this golfer if this

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was his left arm at the top he raises

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his left arm basically 30 inches in that

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classic very neutral top of the

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backswing position the importance of

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that is what we do in the backswing

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typically has to be reversed in the

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downswing so if we're lifting the arms

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in the backswing you guessed it it's one

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of these topics has often discussed

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is difficult to show or it's difficult

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to demonstrate that's what's cool about

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years we're actually able to take a real

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swing change the angle to it get a

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different perspective on it hopefully to

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help clear up some of these concepts for

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you guys out there working on your own

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game please let us know if you have any

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questions about this we'd love to talk

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more about arm lift it's it can be

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overdone for sure and it can also be

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underdone the right amount is what we're

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looking for so let us know if you have

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any questions in the comments and as

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always thanks for watching

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