struggling with elbow tuck

[wbsgn12]

I am really struggling with my elbow tuck. I have bench 230x5 before, but have been inspired to take a more narrow grip and to tuck my elbows on descent.

On my ascent, my elbows are flying out. I am having difficulty pressing in the "\" crescent shape. I did 165x5x5 today and had some slight flaring-its that bad!

My understanding is that the cause is weak triceps. What type of exercises or assistance programming would you recommend.

[Gunnhild Bruno]

Whose bench model are you trying to follow? Have you read Starting Strength? Video?

[wbsgn12]

When I benched 230, I was using a starting strength style.

I have no intention of benching geared. But just want to take good care of my shoulders. Also, quite frankly, Im pretty pissed that I can't seem to figure out how to properly do the tuck and want to at a minimum figure it out so that I can compare the two techniques.

[SciFat]

We really need a video to pin point where you flare them out. Flaring your elbows out as your driving the bar up ward the last few inches is not always a bad thing. Keeping your upper back tight and really focusing on 'bending the bar' like mention above will help dramatically and it takes time to get it down.