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So here is my practice swing and swing down the line.

Hello, so here is my practice swing and swing down the line. I am exaggerating in my practice swing not crossing the line to help with being able to shallow out the club and also trying to shallow the club out by exaggerating the shift since I tend not to shift far enough in my real swing. I have a slight raising of my hands as I start my swing. My main question is if raising my hands like that to start the swing causes any issues like starting to load the upper body which I understand causes you to not be able to sequence the downswing right? I also have trouble getting my upper body stacked over my lower body even when I allow my head to move to the lead side some. I think it is due to being scared of not having my lower body lead in the downswing and already not shallowing as I should so feeling like moving upper and lower over together will further steepen my swing. Hope that makes sense. Maybe the answers to these will help others too I hope. Happy to share a face on video too if that helps. This forum has been very helpful and I have learned a lot from it! Thanks!
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The raising of the hands early can get you a little floaty and too loaded in the shoulder area. You can see as you start down how the shaft wants to steepen slightly and arms sorta reconnect. Like a quick yank. Try to make the practice swing and real swing more like the Simplify Your Backswing with Shallow Arms Video position. Therefore, you don't have to work so hard to get the shallow. A simple shift will allow the club to drop with ease.
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