The WhyGolf Arm Alarm: Can It ACTUALLY Help Your Golf Swing?

this is the arm alarm from yolf a training aid that they claim is meant to help you improve the most critical part of your golf swing your arm structure in today's video I'm going to go through my very first live usage of this training aid and let you know is it worth the $100 or is it a training aid that you should pass on this is it no funny business here I've actually never even taken this I just ripped it out of the box so let's see what the arm alarm is all about to lay it out there first I want this to be really really a great tool but I'm very very very skeptical pull this tab to to activate it according to the website you have 10,000 beeps so if the battery ever dies they're just going to send you new one so that's that's that's a nice touch Let's uh just kind of get it on there so right there you have this this this you can bring this in bring this out and then there's a lock magnet lock let's go initially okay that the magnet feels strong but not like too strong like it's sensitive enough but it's in there strong enough but initially right away it's like okay well how long does that need to be it's adjustable if you want it at your wrist you want it more in the forearm you want it more in the biceps it's kind of playing off the tour Striker ball that you would squeeze kind of in your forearms it would hang from your neck but already I feel like okay got to the top it it's to fight people doing this but how tight do you make the string and for me I personally would want it pretty tight so that uh you know there's a high standard but let's just hit one no beep beep getting it tight enough on your for it's a bit of a bit of a pickle there that like just kind of hurts to be fair you have to get it so tight because that one there just wasn't tight enough that thing moved so for me I don't fight getting like this I've always had pretty good arm structure so I could get it but I don't really fight losing this width here I fight getting steep in transition getting a little narrow potentially moving a little this way saving it fighting a flip from time to time so I don't know yeah I don't know how this will really be good for me to be fair for me personally I don't know what to do for the top of the back swing how uh tight I should get it how but I again I don't fight that but a lot of uh lot of amateures do so yeah that that's good I I got to say that's good for me personally I want to feel more kind of I want that face going this way I want the arms staying staying tight so that's where I would see the benefit but just having just H hit three shots I feel it forcing me to to be tighter through impact and through the follow through as opposed to kind of getting a little bit wide or a little bit bit loose and I mean some people may fight fight that so yeah I don't know if it's going to benefit me a whole lot but just mentally knowing knowing it's there and knowing I don't want it to come off because again as I as I work to try to you know maintain a bit of shaftline I I fight dumping it and extending just a little early the left arm can I could basically pull too much with the left arm and pull it off so that I will I will feel some benefit benefit from it's it's it's almost mimicking a a a shaft drill where I put an alignment shaft here and I want to hit it like this I feel like the armarm I could pair with some other drills cuz I typically use like I use bands maybe in my knees so just feeling that tension of the band fighting against the band it's a similar idea as as having maybe an elastic band around your or Thea band around your forearms you got to feel a bit of that tension but for people that get but see you can even you know how how tight do you make it that's that's the question right because you know we want to get we get really close here okay so that's super close see what I can do see that almost might be better get it in there really tight so that it allows me through uh through the follow through to just be a bit more free not holding on so much but having just hit five six shots it is very easy to just kind of click in out click in and out and it doesn't feel like it's inhibiting me there we go a little quick little quick with the right hand oh I might have just found something good there help the takeaway feel a bit more power going to that having to just be as tight as possible keeps me from getting a little fast off the ball there you go your forearms your structure your space just gets it's easy get a little Rush you'll rush it off or you rush it down in transition that could be good and then but it still allows me it's like the uh you know the glove under the arm you can still let that glove fall H okay instant benefit I I'm feeling is rhythm sequencing Rhythm because subconsciously you know you don't want to hear that beep you don't want this thing to come apart I feel like it helps with sequencing with rhythm so I could put it like higher or no you're kind of limited to how much oh oh made a minut this gets a little bit bigger okay okay let's go let's go a little bit higher up um maybe like closer to the the elbows cuz that's definitely an area that my action could benefit from so hey learn as we go there is a lot of adjustability in this that's that's good and then boom that's that's that's easy enough you're kind of guessing on on length see I could go but see that it's like okay I could go a little bit tighter there but that's very easy there okay so it's like you want to keep the tension losing it's okay cuz then if you get too narrow here it's a problem you want to keep the tension but not boom okay get in there there we go that just causes me to hit thin I don't know if I like it this High cuz I like practicing with like maybe like a a dodgeball here but that's creating tension arm structure that way the feedback is if you do it wrong versus if you're holding a ball there the feedback is both in the tension you're keeping with the ball and if you lose it the ball drops like I said I want to I really want to like it but I think it's got limitations I think it's got limitations let's try this wrist one so the wrist one basically it Clips onto your glove kind of come on not the easiest to just clip it's like you got to take your glove off to clip it on that's a little annoying but I get it it ain't going the way like because of that like it ain't going anywhere so that's obviously what you want and this the claim is for kind of like your short game keeping that angle flipping it but nothing's happening there you go you got to pretty aggressively uh you got to pretty aggressively flip it so again I'm going to be a bit critical here it's like yeah that Clips on on there great you got to make sure you got this like the right size but if you already have something on your wrist like a whoop a watch whatever um that's going to get in the way so that's like okay grasing at straws but user experiences everything so this see oo I feel like this would be better for me because I want to make sure I'm getting through impact and not losing my angle too soon obviously like this is the uh the exaggeration I don't fight with that but a lot of golfers see at the top though you got to get it see that's not going to work you got to get it in the perfect place at the top I'm I'm saying the the the the bracelet because there it's like you know I'm pretty okay move it over a bit I'm pretty happy with that position at the top so I got to move this okay so it's like you got to find the right spot where it Clips on your glove so that you get to a good place see I like that place at the top M fighting here that could be a good little aid for it making sure you want to get to the right place at the top people that fight this cupping you're not really going to deal with okay let's we're getting off we've lost the PLT so for me it's maybe just do half swings cuz I want to feel I don't want that half swings but like high speed that is good I like that more than the the string because get a little overly aggressive like it's we're going through those 10,000 beeps but's see there I I purposely was like okay okay let's let's not pay attention to it let's flip it and it flipped early so I want to maintain some wrist angle here keep that face from going like that I want it kind of going like that cuz my thing in my full swing is I fight and then this can kind of happen it's like it kind of forces you to drive it that is good but got to find the right exact right positioning on your inside of your forearm your wrist where it needs to go so that's where there's a lot of like human elements that can make this really great but also make it just terrible for you because it's just in the wrong spot and you think you're doing it right but you're actually making things worse whereas like the ball a beach ball a dodge ball really one way to hold it I like it m so full swing I found the right spot on the inside of my wrist essentially man I feel solid though whatever the there's there's there's there's holes in it it could be better but it it's effective it's working if you know exactly where it needs to go and what you're working on with so yeah it's it's good I would give it a three and a half stars out of five it's a training aid that has great feedback that does a lot of good things but it's a training aid that I think can do a lot of harm if you don't have it in the right place or don't have the right guidance on what you're looking for with this training aid a lot of training AIDS are great but they're not great for someone who's trying to self diagnose and self fix a problem in their golf swing if a golf coach if an instructor gives you this training a and say this is what I think you should use it for and this is how it's going to help you this thing could really really help you but if you just think you do something and you get a training aid because it's it's helping what you think you do you could be doing a lot more harm than good you could pass on it or you could use it but use it with caution and make sure you have a bit of direction as to why you're using the arm alarm