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Hardly a swing error in golf is as unpopular as the stretched arms. Every golfer wants to get into this beautiful position in the swing with straight arms. Not only does it look much nicer and the hitter will swing much faster, you will also hit the ball more constantly, because stretched arms automatically mean that the hitter's head comes off the ground. So you will hit a lot of balls on the bottom of the racket, they go too flat and are not repeatable. At the same time, we will also bring the hitter closer to the body from this perspective. And you can already see that many top hits are received, even here with much less energy transfer. Unfortunately, the problem is that we can't just try to solve this problem by pushing through the arms. That will simply have no effect. Even if it feels like the arms are straight, you are always amazed that the arms are stretched. You have to do three movements correctly, which have nothing to do directly with the arms, but which represent the absolute prerequisite that the arms can be straight at all. The good news is that if we do these movements correctly, the arms will automatically become straight immediately. At the latest, the third point will be an absolute game changer for you, because this movement is completely contrary to what you would do intuitively to get the arms straight. I wish you a lot of fun with this video. The following three points must first be based on an overridden, very important understanding. Namely the fact that we don't want both arms to be completely straight in the moment of hit. If the right arm were completely straight, this would automatically mean that we have falsely released the wrist angle here. So we have created a spoon, received little energy transfer, the risk of fat or thin hits. In fact, in the moment of hit, the left arm is relatively straight and the right arm is in the process of stretching. But it is definitely still a few degrees angled in the moment of hit and only in the momentum, when the stick is parallel to the ground or a little bit afterwards, only in this phase does the right arm receive its complete extension. That means I would really describe the feeling as very important, not to have straight arms in the moment of hit, but to have straight arms in this position. The first important requirement is that we have enough body rotation in the momentum, so that the arms can be straight here. You immediately see that if I turn too little with my body, I have no chance of getting the arms straight. And that's what I meant at the beginning. If I were to try to get the arms straight now, to push through, I might be able to do it a little more, but you don't see it close enough. Now I'm just in great danger of getting injured permanently, getting pain in the shoulder area, in the elbow area. Of course, we also want to avoid that under all circumstances. That's why we are now discussing how you can practice this to get into this right rotation. As a reference for the optimal rotation, we use the end position of this exercise. And we don't have a normal end position, but end when the right arm is parallel to the ground in the momentum. From here on, it should be the case that both knees, the belt buckle and the chest leg point straight to the target. If this is the case, you are optimally rotated, so that the arms can stay nice and straight. You first try to achieve this end position from a normal setup with a very short swingback, first without the ball and then with the ball. In both cases, it should be the case that you feel that you can accelerate in the hit phase and afterwards, even though you land in this short end position. And this acceleration comes from the rotation, not from the hands, they remain relatively passive, but I have the feeling that the hit, in quotation marks, comes from the rotation of the body. I also have a really high body tension, which feels very stable, very good. I feel that I don't have to do anything big to keep my arms straight. And if you can do that well in practice, you also try to transfer this feeling to the ball. The second essential prerequisite is, in addition to a body rotation, also a straightening, a stretching of the body in the swing. If I stay bent with my body and now try to get my arms straight, I would lose the balance forward. Of course, the body will never allow this in the swing and never stretch the arms. This stretching is done in isolation. This movement is a straightening of the body. We generally need this movement for a good swing. But this movement has a huge influence, especially on the stretching of the arms. You can also imagine this movement like this. You want to be able to get the hip to the left in the swing, to have the weight fully to the left, without the head also going to the left in the direction of the target, but as far back as possible in relation to the hip. So we come into a hollow-cross position. I now deliberately make this movement a little extreme. It doesn't have to look quite as strong. I just want to make it clearer. And only when I stretch the body like this, can I get the arms straight. How you can do this, we will discuss in the following exercise. To be able to feel the stretch optimally, I ask you to clamp a stick handkerchief, just like I just did, under both shoulders. You turn the stick around and place the end of the handle slightly to the right of the body center. Now you will drive the stick along the floor. And the task is to bring the handle as high as possible, while keeping the handkerchief under the shoulders. So I'm not allowed to release the arms now. If I were to lift them, of course I would climb higher, but then the handkerchief would fall out. I don't want to do that, so that I can continue the exercise well. So the handkerchief is clamped under both shoulders. And only when I stretch, does the stick come up. If I stay bent, then you see that the stick doesn't come up at all. The more I stretch, the more the stick comes up. As a good checkpoint, my weight is completely to the left. I can lift my right foot briefly. And I can now see from my point of view, that my hip, my left hip bone, is significantly closer to the target in relation to the head. Whenever the head comes forward, I am not well stretched. If the hip comes forward more than the head, then I am well stretched. I can also perceive this slight hollow-cross position. As I said, I am deliberately doing a lot of stretching now. It doesn't have to be quite as strong. Then we try to achieve this movement without the handkerchief, from a set-up with the normal grip and short back swing, as a test swing. We can now immediately integrate these checkpoints with the rotation. Belt buckle, knees, chest to the target. Hollow-cross position, weight to the left, right foot is lifted. Hip more to the target than the head. If you can do this well in the test swings, please add a ball here as well. Short back swing and still right arm parallel to the ground is the end of the swing. I would argue that professionals have never consciously worked to get their arms straight forward. And yet their arms are straight in one way or another. The reason is that the straight arms are the product of the correct acceleration of the racket head. And not the isolated attempt to follow an aesthetic or to do some isolated movement correctly. And they always do this correct acceleration of the racket head, because they feel that this is the only way the racket wants to be swung. This correct acceleration of the racket head is the fact that we generate flying forces that ensure that the racket head, one can really say, is thrown towards the target. And the fact that the racket head wants to fly here, towards the target, also pulls my arms forward. The extension of the upper body, which brings the upper body backwards, balances this out so that I don't fall over. So I don't have to put any force into my arms at all. The arms are really pulled for a long time, is the much better picture, instead of putting in a force. Especially the attempt to put a force into the arms to get them straight, would interfere with these flying forces and it would just not work anymore. These flying forces are generated correctly when you turn and stretch enough in the swing and release the wrist angle correctly. This movement would be done isolatedly, so that the little finger comes closer to this side of the forearm. I'll do it again in motion. The left arm of the racket comes in a line. The little finger has come in this direction, in the direction of the forearm. When I combine this, I really feel how the racket head flies in this direction. And you can no longer prevent this flying. And that feels like a loss of control, that the racket flies forward without our ability to intervene. A professional would describe this as totally great. I no longer manipulate the racket, I no longer intervene. This gives me a much higher control and the racket head becomes much faster. An amateur would often describe this as somehow scary. I then feel a loss of control. And just this attempt to permanently control the racket, never to get into a situation where the racket head can make a free movement, can fly forward without our consent, that will always result in angled arms and a lower racket head speed. How you can practice this correctly, we will discuss now. It is very important to me that you really feel in the rehearsals, what life comes into the racket head, what forces the racket head develops and pulls the arms forward. I don't want you to have such a big focus on the arms themselves, but really on this combination from the stretching of the body, which we have just practiced, and this powerful releasing of the wrist angle. So this movement, which you can also practice isolated, to implement it optimally in rehearsal. I now combine this angle with the powerful stretching of the body and have the focus clearly on accelerating the target. Everything is focused here. Not a big swing back. We also make such a very short swing back. And now I have the feeling to really release the racket head, to really angle the wrists there. The left arm and the racket come in a line. The little finger comes in the direction of the forearm. And I really notice how I have to increase the grip pressure automatically and intuitively, so that the racket does not fly away from me, because it flies so strongly there, I have to hold on relatively tight in the hands. This happens automatically, but it is good if you feel it. You should feel less pressure in the forearm and the upper arm. I have to hold on less there. This is just pulled for a long time. The hands have to hold on so that the racket does not fly away from me, because it develops such a high inertia. This here. Again, this shorter finish. And if you can really create this dynamic in the swing, in the trial swing, try to implement it immediately with the ball. And with this little swing, you can see it now, I really released the wrist angle here very nicely. I am really surprised how far this ball has gone, how full this hit was, how soft the hit was. And I can promise you, no tension in the arms and without watching the video, I am sure that the arms are nice and straight, because I felt how nicely I stretched myself and how well I released this wrist angle, which forces were in the racket that pulled me along. If you can now combine the third point very well with the first two points with the ball, I would ask you to establish an ever-increasing swingback. Nevertheless, I recommend that you land in this finish from the feeling. You will notice, the longer your swingback, the longer your finish automatically becomes, even if you try to end here. However, you will notice how much better your arm structure looks in the swing, how straight they are, and you don't get angry at speed at all with this seemingly shorter finish. Quite the opposite.