Why You Don't Compress The Ball The Way You Should!

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion Golf unpack one of the most misunderstood moves in the golf swing. What the trail arm actually does through impact and what the trail elbow is REALLY doing at delivery. The demonstration is simple. Put a piece of tape on the outside of your trail elbow (where the GEARS marker would go). At delivery (shaft parallel before impact), that dot is at its closest point to your trail belt loop. From there, that dot moves 8+ inches out and away through the release. And here's the part that matters. The trail elbow is ALWAYS behind the trail hip. Never in front. Not on any good player Shaun has ever seen on video. Not on any player he's ever measured on 3D. Ever. Which is a problem, because Instagram is full of coaches teaching amateurs to get their trail elbow "out in front" at impact. Shaun's blunt on-camera assessment: it's being taught totally wrong, and even the coaches teaching it don't actually do it in their own swings. Watch them. The actual mechanism the pros use is internal shoulder rotation — which does NOT require your forearm to rotate the same way. Two separate joints. Half the 8-inch movement comes from the arm rotating internally. The other half comes from the body turn carrying the arm out. The result is a fully released, arcing motion where the club finishes pointing back at your belly button at the "one last point" — not the fake held-off finish where the club points the opposite way to try to prevent a hook. Mike calls it out directly. "The wipe is so destructive." The wipe is when amateurs pull the hands across the body trying to hold the face off. The correct release is a wide arcing motion that lets the energy out of the club instead of trapping it. When you do it right, the toe or head of your club passes directly over the alignment stick you laid down on the target line — not parallel to it, over it. Plus the practice methodology. Slow-motion drills with foam balls. Getting the finish right at low speed before ever adding intensity. Because you cannot change a bad movement at speed. You can only add speed to a good movement. 🎁 FREE Training Here: Unlock Tour-like Compression For Free Here 👇https://athleticmotiongolf.com/compre... CHAPTERS: 00:00 The Trail Arm Move Through Impact 00:29 The Misunderstood Trail Elbow Position 00:45 The Tape Marker Demonstration 01:07 The 8+ Inch Trail Elbow Movement 01:52 How Internal Rotation Creates The Movement 02:15 The Face-On Camera Reveal 02:35 The Elbow Lean Fake Finish Problem 02:50 Why Amateurs Hit Massive Toe Balls 03:02 Never Seen A Tour Pro Do The Opposite 03:26 The Coaches Who Teach It But Don't Do It 03:53 How Body Rotation Carries The Arm Out 04:01 The Handshake To The Target Line Feel 04:12 The Opposite Of A Hook Release 04:25 If You Hook It You're Not Really Doing It 04:53 How Mike Practiced This Yesterday 05:08 Why The Held-Off Fake Finish Doesn't Work 05:38 The Instagram Anti-Hook Release Illusion 05:55 Why It's Just Trying To Hold Off Hitting Left 06:17 Why Shoulder Rotation Doesn't Require Forearm Rotation 06:52 The Clubhead Over The Target Line Drill 07:32 The Pure Look That Tricks You Into Handle Drag 08:24 The Short Follow Through Drill 08:52 Why The First Attempt Always Fails 09:40 What Speed Reveals The Actual Fix 10:03 Learn It Slow Before Adding Speed 10:33 The Signature Analogy 10:43 The Small Ball Awareness Drill 10:54 The End In Mind Coaching 11:28 Why The Wipe Is So Destructive 11:39 The 2D Perception Vs 3D Reality 12:08 Why The Golf Swing Is Not A Big Putting Stroke 12:18 The Turn Deception 12:24 The Belly Button One Last Point 12:39 Why The Fake Follow Through Won't Help 12:41 The Punch Shot Look Diagnosis 12:55 Film Yourself. Don't Trust Feel #golftips #golfswing #athleticmotiongolf #trailarm #compression