LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - How much should your left arm participate? Thread: How much should your left arm participate? View Single Post #2 09-18-2006, 06:54 PM Burner Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: England Posts: 626 Originally Posted by rich_allen I took my book and bag to the range last night. I used book markers so I could refer back to all the areas I wanted to experiment with and I had fairly good success. After 3-1/2 hours and 300 balls my left forearm was getting really tight. My swing has always been more of a hitting style than a swingers style but I really wanted to try to implement a swingers stroke into my game and I was really excited with some of the results! After watching Tommy's videos he says that the left arm is like a piece a rope and basically is does nothing but hang onto the club. Should my left forearm be tightening up like this? What could I be doing wrong to make this happen? Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks ~ Rich Rich, Could just be the effect of hanging on to the club a little too tightly through 300 hits. Make a fist and tighten your grip to see the effect on the muscles of the forearm. Swinging the club does not tighten those muscles but tightening your grip will. __________________ IB "My only handicap is me!!!" Burner View Public Profile Send a private message to Burner Find all posts by Burner