Effortless Power Webinar (RSA)

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RSA webinar on how to produce effortless power in the golf swing. I cover three core topics: how to sequence the entire golf swing with 1 simple drill, how your grip could be costing your free club head speed, and finally how to post up and release all that stored up energy.


all right guys we're five minutes early just going to let everybody start to register so I'm gonna wait for everybody to start signing in we've got one there we've got a couple hundred people registered for this webinar tonight so we're going to give everybody five minutes to get signed in then we get started meantime loosen up here a little bit I am hitting a 7 iron here for those of you that are going to be asking questions I'm sure so this is all about effortless power tonight and 186 yard 7 iron we'll get the job done I'm gonna go to the chat section here just so you guys know I'm going to type a message in here now you guys can post in the chat section so it happens when you skank one off the toe and you're tight still a little better you got questions don't be afraid to post in the chat section I'm going to explain how all this is going to work just a moment you should see on the right side of your screen you should see a little chat box hey there Kenny welcome I got 52 people registered so far a couple more minutes to get that's a big seven iron there I'm loose loose as a goose we're ready hi Chip welcome 102 huh there's some effortless power boys 102 miles an hour at the seven iron not bad for an old guy thank you David we've been working on this for a while we're excited to get the new studio up and rocking and rolling gives us the ability to set up these clinics like the webinars like this so super awesome for all the rotorspring Academy members so we can certainly a lot more interactive stuff hopefully some of you guys out there have got webcams and want to jump on here hi Mike welcome Arthur I don't know about guru maybe goob but welcome hi Brian thank you Malcolm welcome hi Richard welcome everybody a couple more minutes and we're going to get rocking and rolling here oh didn't pick it up and I wailed on that doesn't unfortunately it is just distance spin rate club head speed launch angle smash factor but it does not show direction at all hi Bruce thank you I will try not to hurt myself Barry the weather is perfect out here it is uh 70 degrees right now or so all right took we got uh we need going here at six o'clock on my clock hi Bob Graham Bonnie welcome all right so let's get rocking and rolling here I'm excited so first of all if you don't have a club with you if you can grab one if you've got room to swing it if not don't worry about it but I would like for you to be able to do a lot of these drills along with me this is the whole point of this stuff for rotorspring Academy members is to be interactive to be doing a lot of stuff together and doing it with me as we work on it so three topics we're going to cover tonight the first one sequencing sequencing is the name of the game it is the golf swing getting all these parts to move correctly together is incredibly simple when you follow the rotary swing to a five-step system I'm going to show you just how simple it is tonight and we're going to make it super easy and I want you to be able to get up move around with me do these drills with me the second thing is we're going to talk about the grip it seems kind of strange to talk about the grip when we're talking about effortless power but the grip is a huge part of the golf swing the grip is just as important as race car tires if you've watched days of thunder and you've listened to hair you know tires win races it's all about that connection with the club that is the final transfer of energy from your body all the stuff you've been building up to is all going to be done transferred through the grip so having a proper grip and I'm going to talk about a part of the grip that you've probably never heard about today that's going to explain where you can gain a lot of power with no effort whatsoever and then the third thing we're talking about is the post step move so the release happens automatically so these three things are huge for producing power in the golf swing now and we go through them each one step by step but the first thing i want you to understand is that there's just one of me i can see some questions on the screen but my eyes aren't that good in this 10 feet away i could only kind of see it so i won't be able to stop in the middle while i'm doing stuff so please try and maintain uh hold on to your questions until i get done with this with each section and then i'm going to open it up to q a and then i'm going to take questions that are pertinent to the topic come back up here in front of the camera and discuss them i have to go back to the screen to to read the question so i won't be able to answer questions in the middle because i just won't be able to stop so i'm going to go through my presentation and my little discussion get you up moving around doing the drills with me and then i'm going to answer questions so without further ado let me see if there's any questions that are important uh all right we're ready to get rocking and rolling it so first things first so get up i want you to start doing this stuff with me because the sequencing part that we're going to discuss first is the entire golf swing if you can do what i'm going to show you next right the rest of the stuff is a piece of cake stop worrying about your position at the top and your left pinky here and this and that don't worry about nonsense the stuff i'm going to show you right now is the most important part of the golf swing when it comes to producing power and consistency but since the topic tonight is all about effortless power that's what i'm going to focus on so from base on the most important thing you've got to understand is that the golf swing is really only about that big there's so little movement when you're doing the rotary swing five step system that it doesn't really require any special flexibility or any special movement how simple is this movement well you're going to do it with me so i'm not going to get into all the details about setup and access till i'm going to assume you already know how to do that stuff because there's tons of videos on it on the site so i'm just going to dive right in and talk about how to get everything to sequence correctly so the first thing that you have to do when you're trying to work on your swing and trying to produce power is you have to rotate it's called rotary swing for a reason the body is rotating around the spine the spine is everything in the swing it is the central point that which we're moving around all of our muscles are tying into all this stuff in one way or another and so we have to learn how to rotate correctly and it's super simple this is how simple it is so from a proper setup all i need to do is that that's the entire backswing if you can do what i just did you just mastered the back half of the swing so all you have to do from there is get down i'm going to talk about a couple details where people tend to get off in their swing because it what happened nine times out of ten and the online lessons that we do i just saw today we did we've done over 70 000 online golf swingers it's crazy but and out of those 70 000 that we've done in the past 15 years i would say 90 of the people do the exact same mistakes over and over again and the one thing that we see all the time is people don't rotate going back they just swing their arms and then their arms are doing everything and that's why you need to practice doing the drills without your arms that's why the core rotation stuff in step two of the five step system is arms across your chest no arms and just pull that right shoulder back behind your head if you can do this you have the potential to hit a seven iron 196 yards is nothing more special than what i'm doing in my backswing than what i just did there all i'm doing rotating back that's the key of course weight shift and all that stuff again discussed in the videos on the site i'm not going to go into detail about it the whole key here is just to get those shoulders turning get your rib cage rotating around your spine now for the payoff how do we get back the other way okay well again out of these 70 000 lessons everybody throws the club from the top with their arms pushes from the right side and so on so this is the key to sequencing we're going to do this step by step together so i want you to pay close attention to what we're going to do here rotate back weights on the right side obviously now we're going to break this into chunks first thing i want you to take your left knee and move it over your left ankle not out past your left ankle not inside your left ankle not forward not back just take it and move it over your left ankle well notice my right leg didn't do anything yet if i can just move this knee as the first move the simplest way to think about this is like a pitcher or a football player anybody throwing something the first move is external rotation that gets everything starting to rotate forward in the golf swing it's the same thing we just don't get the benefit of that step so as you're going back the first thing you want to do to break this into chunks take that left knee and move it out over your foot it doesn't it can't move forward if it's moving forward that's too much it's a small movement now the second thing i'm going to do is essentially sit into that left side so you'll notice i've moved my left knee and i'm going to kind of sit almost like a squat move to get into that left side and this is what's going to start to bring my hips back to square i'm starting to sit and rotate a little bit to get my belt buckle back so watch me closely here left knee sit notice that my left knee doesn't move any further forward once i've got it over the ankle it's done that's back into neutral sitting into the left side and now i'm going to use this muscle that's loaded up my left leg and i'm going to start to stand up and push off of it let's do this one more time so rotate back nothing special here this is simple everybody can make a full shoulder turn right left knee sit into it post up done and we'll do this all together in one step turn left knee sit post up now if you look at me from face on that's a perfect golf swing i'm in a perfect impact position this looks just like tiger woods or any other great ball striker this is all i'm trying to do that is the entire golf swing that's the entire sequence right shoulder back left knee sit post done notice as i post my hips open up a little bit what did i do with my right nada i'm not going to talk about the right side that's when you start really trying to whale on stuff you don't need to worry about that right side right now we're going to focus on just getting the left sequencing the key to sequencing is the left side now let's do this from down the line so you can see it again from this perspective turning back just opening up my chest keep my shoulders back i want to see the logo on my shirt i've made a full shoulder turn here there left knee sit post up done look where my shoulders are they're dead squares perpendicular to the screen here straight down my target line turning back left knee sit post the entire golf swing the entire sequence the stuff that you have to do right was right there everything else is just details the arm movement is nothing compared to this if you can do what i just did you've literally mastered 90 percent of a tour caliber golf swing and it's that simple it's critical that you get these keys right shoulder back left knee sit post into your golf swing and if you can't do that right don't do anything else i don't care how you look at the top i don't care if your club face is shot i don't care if it's going way inside that's all arm stuff and none of that will work correctly unless your body is moving correctly so once you fix what your body's doing the rest of the stuff is a piece of cake so now i'm going to open up to some questions i'm sure you've got some questions about some of the sequencing there so i'm looking at the screen now go ahead and type them into the chat box if you've got questions i will try to get to as many of them as i can so go ahead with your questions i'm looking at the screen or you guys are going to make me feel really good if you don't ask any questions because that just means i explained everything perfectly clearly i don't see any questions any comments does it make sense all right steve good question roll the left shoulder in the backswing it doesn't do anything it's being turned it's being moved you don't do anything with your left shoulder in fact that's one of the greatest ways to mess up your swing is by pushing across the left side think about the golf swing happening from right here down from here up don't do anything with it how much do you sit without so i'm going to try to get to all these does the head drop during the squat it certainly can in most cases it does the more you squat the more muscle fiber you're recruiting but you don't want to make this some crazy move because then it's hard to recover from so a little tiny squat head depth is fine how do you sit without moving laterally well very simple i'm not moving my head when i'm sitting i'm doing my hips notice that my head doesn't move my hips do move laterally they have to you posting up raises the head no it's a good question though okay so i'm squatting down but as i'm posting up it's my hips that are moving not my upper body so when i'm posting up my hips are moving up but my head's staying exactly in the same place you can do this or feel this by putting your head against a wall and making this entire sequence and you'll see that your head doesn't have to move at all oh gosh lots of questions coming i'm trying to get to all of them here left knee hurts when posting up uh first of all you may be you may have some issues with your knee so you got to check that out first but most of the time if your left knee hurts it's because you're hyper extending it you don't need to lock this knee out you're posting up as if you're standing here talking to me that's the same amount of tension that you're going to have it doesn't need to be all ran broad straight and locked out to where you're going to tear your meniscus let's see oh gosh too many questions sorry okay how do you keep from rushing the swing well if you're doing it with your body it's virtually impossible to rush the downswing if you're doing with your arms you're going to rush it right away because your arms and hands can move very quickly but your trunk can't move that fast so you're not going to worry about rushing your swing when you're moving from the right parts of your body uh let's see when you squat how much do your hips rotate before you start to post up good question chip so once i squat there's a video on the site called squat to square so basically what we're doing is we're essentially squatting back to square to the target and then we start posting up so you're basically squatting back to square rich your knee always moves outside the ankle well get in front of a mirror rich and make yourself move your knee the right amount it's not that much movement if it's moving further than that you're pushing off the right side what is the weight distribution when you squat to the left i like to think about it i'm 80 on the right when i'm squatting back i get 50 50 and then i continue moving into the left side let's see do you use opposing force on takeaway and initiating transition opposing forces in the ground i think i understand what you're talking about but i'm not sure uh so if you can maybe explain that a little bit differently i can hopefully answer that let's see patrick i can really feel my right glutes activate is it good to overemphasize the squat to square until i feel the left glute the same as i can on the right side you should feel way more on the left side the right side doesn't need to be loaded up that much the right side being loaded up is more about being able to make a quick and powerful turn going back so this side needs to be stable but if it's really really tight then you're just kind of overdoing sitting into the right side going back let's see the over swinging with too much right elbow flexion at the top does this mean not enough width on the back screen it has nothing to do with what we're talking about right now we're talking about the body i don't care about your arm right now 90 of the people that we see in the lessons do not move their body anywhere near like what we just did and the entire golf swing revolves around this so if you move this correctly then we can worry about the arms later but for today we're not worried about that stuff can show what happens to the posted right leg look like once you've squatted so that initial squat move again it's all being driven by the left let me do it so you guys can see it this way left knee so the right knee is just kind of following along it's being moved because my pelvis is turning being moved by the left so the right knee is just kind of moving in slightly if i see this right knee kicked in like this which we see in all of our lessons just about people heel coming up in the air tilt your pelvis tilt your spine and that's where we start seeing a lot of problems let's see barry when you move the left knee to initiate doesn't right knee have to move also absolutely not why would my left right knee have to do anything left knee is doing all the initiation of that move business as you're shifting right to left should the inside of your right foot be pressing down not that's actually kind of got a trick question because when you start putting all this stuff together really well and really quickly then yes you actually can push it on the right side and torque on the foot and get some more power out of it that's a little bit overkill for what we're talking about today if you squat at the same time as using the knee is the bad i don't know what that means harthur doesn't the squat blow your posture lowers the club likely to dig in the dirt no why would you squat too much it's not like you're doing this that's all of my head moving that's it and then it's going my pelvis is moving up so people who think that they're you know changing all these positions and stuff it's a way over exaggeration the squat move is really subtle you're trying to activate load and stretch these muscles it doesn't need to be this massive squat mode it's not a workout let's see my pushing opposite direction of the ground relative the direction you want the club to go you are doing that with the left side for sure you're pushing up and back so yes that is correct gary regarding the squat and post how quickly should that move happen as fast as you can make it happen as long as it's done correctly there are no speed limits here so this is a whole trip to the swing when you want to swing fast the body is what needs to move fast and the arms are going to learn to keep up but typically people do the exact opposite the arms move fast the body doesn't move at all if it doesn't move very very slowly and just in response to what the arms are doing and we want the opposite your body as long as it's doing everything correctly we just talked about these simple little moves the right shoulder back left knee squat post then it can do that as fast as humanly possible let's see try to get to a couple more here before we move on where do you feel loaded to initiate the downswing there's a whole video on that what muscles you should feel in the downswing so look for that on the site you just search for muscle it'll pop right up where should the shoulders stay when you move knee then sit they don't worry about shoulders don't move don't worry about anything from here up if you're worrying about that stuff you're going to be off track worry about what's happening from here down and the shoulders will go exactly where they're supposed to you don't have to move your shoulders the shoulders get moved because they're attached to your pelvis via your spine and a bunch of connective tissue and a bunch of muscles and so on and so forth so don't worry about what that's happening worry about everything happening from here down all right so a bunch of questions there they're good questions so again to reiterate the whole golf swing getting the sequencing right is incredibly simple but here's the catch i can tell that most people don't worry about it they don't work on it and all these lessons that we see all the time it's all club movement arm movement this and that i don't care where that club goes if this stuff isn't doing exactly what i just showed you to do so if you get this working correctly then we start worrying about that other stuff so a couple more questions i'll try to get to you my hips tend to move toward the ball i assume the butt needs to stay back yep just means you're pushing off the right side there's a whole video on early extension on the site louise how are you when i do the squat move i make myself sit in the left heel while engaging the left quad it seems to help posting up a rotating this is exactly what i would do yep this is it this is the whole golf swing if you can do this stuff right this stuff is super simple the rest of the golf swing is going to fall into place for you if you take the time to master this now the trick is this part getting this to be your focus is the challenge for most people because they want to go out and play golf they want to go out and hit balls they want to go out and start swing swinging full speed right away and i'm all for that as long as this is done correctly the reality is we just typically can't do that our brain needs time to learn this movement even though this movement is incredibly simple it's no more complicated than what i just showed you but if you over challenge your brain and give it too much information too much stimulus well then it's just like anything else in life you've learned too much information is going to lead to paralysis so you've got to make things really simple so the more that you've practiced just doing this body movement by itself and then slowly introduce the arms and then the club exactly the way the five-step system is we add the left arm first so if you were going to stack this drill and start building upon it so again we've got this left knee squat post then i would just say all right step three guess what it is left arm squat excuse me left knee squat post look where my left arm is okay right now we're supposed to then i would stack that it may take me a day to get to that point it might take me a week it might take me a month it doesn't matter you're learning a proper swing so it's going to take however long it takes for you so then i would add the club notice i've got flipped upside down because i don't want all that momentum on there left knee squat post look where the hand is look all the lag i had didn't try to maintain lag didn't try to do anything with my hands and arms at this point that post up move is what would release the club then i would flip it around and so on and so forth that is the sequence that you learn the golf swing at least as far as rotary swing is concerned body first left arm club then the right arm so all right one more question is the right arm stay straight while doing this we're not talking about the right arm yet ultimately because we got to make sure you're doing your body movement correctly first the right arm is the very last thing that you need to worry about in the swing and most people are nowhere near at least from the lessons we've seen at the point where they need to worry about what this right arm is doing it's going to be told what to do by the body and the left arm the right arm obviously has the fold going back and has to release coming down but that's going to happen automatically when your body is moving correctly all right so now i want to talk about the grip first of i'm not going to get into the nuts and bolts of the position of the grip there's a whole video on that that gets into great detail about where the grip should be and the lines and all that stuff what i want to talk about is something i see quite a bit and that is the spacing of your hands on the club so i'll move close to the camera so you can see my hands here now a lot of times i see and there's actually a lot of old school way of thinking about the golf swing is that they teach you to kind of have this little trigger finger way down the shaft here and then your hand ends up spread way down the shaft and you can see i can get that set up there you can see a lot of left thumb here and turn to the sides you can kind of see this so this when you have your hands this far down the shaft where you're you know maybe an inch and a half away from the steel that is way way way too separated now why does that even matter well again you've seen videos on the site that talk about this pendulum motion of the swing the left arm acting as a pivot point and so on and that this left hand just needs to be a passive hinge passive clamp on the club and that's how the club is going to release automatically you never try and flip the face over your post up move and all the momentum of the club is going to allow this to happen now however you can slow this down or even stop it by having your hands down the shaft too far and it's going to cost you a ton of speed for no reason think about remember happy gilmore when he was putting right this is happy gilmore putting stroke maybe i should have practiced playing like that might have been better for me this obviously doesn't feel like you're going to move the club very fast your whole body's got to try and move to get this thing to go now this is an extreme exaggeration of this example but the same principle is true when your hands are a little bit down the shaft too far and that's why i hate this trigger finger idea one of the reasons i hate i also obviously encourages you to push against the shaft but as your hands are this far down the shaft and spread apart the hands now get to work independently and you're really going to want to push against the shaft so how do you get the proper feeling of the release and the grip working together here's what i want you to do so if you've got a club this is the time i want you to step up get up and grab it and we're going to start working through this so the first thing you're going to do is you're going to go just left arm only and i don't even worry about post up move or impact position or set up position just stand up and swing the club back and forth with just your left hand and your last three fingers only take your forefinger and your thumb completely off the golf club and swing it back and forth and what do you feel well you should feel as you're letting your wrist just swing the club back and forth and your wrist is very soft the club naturally wants to unhinge and uncock on the way down and release and turn over and it happens very fast i'm not putting any effort into this whatsoever this is the key once you start rotating your body correctly and you post up correctly we want to allow that club to release you never ever try and flip the club over you never try and release the club in fact if you have a proper grip you don't even have to try and square the club face that happens automatically it's way too hard to try and square the club face manually with your right hand which is exactly what you're trying to do when you slide your hand down the shaft even if it's just a half inch that alone makes a huge difference in speed and i'm going to show you how to feel so go back and forth just do this a few times no thumb no forefinger swinging back and forth don't don't even think about how to turn right now we're just focusing on the wrist and the release now put your right hand on and i want you to put your right hand right on top of your left it's not going to be touching the shaft at all it's thunder forefinger still off the club and do the same thing and you were asking alton earlier about what's the right arm do the right arm right now it's just following along with what the left arm is doing i'm not trying to do anything with it i'm not trying to put it in a certain position i'm turning my body just like we did at the beginning now of course i've advanced adding the club because we're trying to talk about the risks here so turning my body left knee sit post up and release so i'm going to do this back and forth while my right hand is just on top of my left now you should feel that that club has really got a lot of zip to it and you're not doing anything you're just trying to hold on again your hands are a passive clamp on the club when you think about that that all of a sudden the consistencies that you're struggling with in your swing are going to start to go away because you are no longer in the driver's seat you're putting sir isaac newton in the driver's seat and you're putting his physics to the test that club naturally wants to rotate and release due to the momentum inertia that we have built up with our bodies during the swing now get used to that freeze flowing swing there's a lot of release speed here getting my right hand just on the left following along now do that same drill i want you to put your right hand separated by about an inch and a half on the shaft and do the exact same thing and then if you can if you feel comfortable you can even put it down here on the steel and you'll feel it's kind of yanking you around of course your hands are separated a little bit this is an exaggeration but you can feel how now everything kind of wants to work a little bit separately my hands have to release kind of a different point they're working differently they're working independent i no longer have the feeling of all the weight of the club head which when you take your left thumb and forefinger off the club and just hold on to the club with your last three fingers you don't have any choice there's the club's just too heavy and it's swinging too fast for to try and control it so all of a sudden you get this freewheeling release as soon as you put the right hand down here down the club now all of a sudden you've got to do something with your arm to try and help release the club and you're losing all of that effortless free speed by using your hands as a passive clamp so as you keep working on this this is a great drill to do anytime just putting your right hand on there on top of your right or on top of your left and let the club swing back and forward and then just slowly keep working it down some golfers i believe jim purick actually does a double overlap grip where his pinky and his ring finger on his right hand actually double overlap on his left hand this is a good way to force yourself to have this nice freewheeling release here in your actual swing it's a great way to practice you don't have to do that the right hand can sit on the club totally normal but you want that right hand slip up the shaft covering up that left thumb not down here where you can see the left thumb sticking out here because again that's my hand working independent so any questions on that grip grab a drink of water here why start reading some questions should the right thumb be on the top side top or side of the club that's covered in the grip video it sits just to the side of center did anybody get a feeling of that boost of speed without any effort when you had just your left hand thumb and forefinger off the club and you put your right hand on top of your left anybody get that feeling of the club kind of zipping through impact without you having to do anything this is all about effortless speed right so hopefully you guys kind of got that feeling it's a great drill to practice no questions on this yes doug all right cool you thought he felt the release there this is the beauty of the swing is getting your hands soft you don't want to be trying to steer the club square the face with your hands nobody can do that consistently unless you slow way down i want a ton of speed where i can hit a 196 200 yard seven iron without having to work for it that's the whole key it was just like it grazes the carpet and zips through it's exactly right you should never ever be trying to take a divot in the golf swing that may sound kind of counterintuitive like most stuff you hear from rotary swing tend to go against the grain a little bit if you're trying to push the club down that's your right hand taking the club and pushing it on a tangent path down instead of letting the club release my club face usually closes too much to control i have to feel that i'm holding it off is that correct no absolutely not if your club is closing too much there's something else going on you're flipping it over you're coming too far from the inside there's some other swing plane or path issue that's causing the club to flip over the club's going to release automatically that's why everything in the rotor swing is a system you can't look at one thing isolated by itself and say oh well this is happening so i need to change this that's how you start changing or chasing band-aid fixes in your golf swing there's something else fundamentally wrong that's causing that let's see can you use interlock grip sure no problem i overlap it's more of a preference thing there are some biomechanical fundamentals into it but i don't want to make too big of a deal out of it i do think that's a little bit easier for your hands to release when the right pinky is not locked into the hands but it's not a huge deal uh how do you stop the shoulders from moving with the knees and squat moving from the left side if you move from the left side your shoulders will not move i'm standing here like i can move my left knee completely without my left shoulder it's not my shoulders moving at all but let's focus just on the grip stuff now can you show placing both thumbs on the club with the proper grip i don't want to get too much into details on stuff that's already covered in great detail on the site there's a video on the site with the close-ups of the proper grip but that should show you pretty much what we're looking at should the right pad totally cover the left thumb that's a good question again covered in the grip video on the site but basically it covers the vast majority of it yes let me see if i can scroll if i saw a couple other questions go through that i didn't catch let's see don my lead hand feels like it's working hard doing this drill it will at first you've got to learn to create momentum with your body turn and everything else so the left hand can be light but if you're not used to using your left hand it may take some training to get comfortable with that let's see the top of the backswing should the thumb and forefinger be on the club yes absolutely when you're doing the drill it's perfectly okay for it to be off we're actually telling you to keep it off let's see arthur huge momentum that's great that's what we want to feel all right i think that's all the questions i see on the grip stuff so if you put just these two things together the sequencing of the body and your right hand no longer trying to be down the shaft and pushing against the shaft and causing it to work independent of the left consistency and effort of speed is going to be the byproduct the body is the star of the show the arms and hands follow along remember the rst mantra the backswing mantra big body turn tiny little arm swing your arms don't have to do that much when your body is moving correctly so now let's get to the money maker this is the most important one because we can make this beautiful backswing this great turn get loaded up properly have a proper grip where our hands are further up the shaft we're going to make that shaft effectively as long as we can remember for every half inch of shaft length that you have it's about two miles an hour of clubhead speed that's why your six iron swings faster than your seven iron so when your hands are further down the shaft you're just basically taking that seven iron and making it into a nine iron get your hands up near the top that's why your grips are tapered i talked about that in the video too about the left pinky and how that works but the key again you want to have this thing with as much leverage as you can possibly create because leverage is effortless power again if my hands are down here i've got to start adding a lot of effort to try and get that club to release my hands are way up the shaft you can feel the club just zipping through without you having to do a thing but how do we get that release with that with our hands being up on high on the shaft and our wrist being soft how do we get that to happen automatically that's what we're talking about in our third and final topic of tonight which is the post-up move so how do we get everything to release totally automatically it happens from the left side so when we started out we did this little left knee sit and when i'm talking about the sit we're just basically finishing our weight transfer sitting into it and getting our left hip in line with our left knee and over our left ankle that's neutral joint alignment this is critical because that's going to be the most powerful and stable and safe position for our left hip and knee and ankle to be in and that's going to allow us to then drive up off of it remember you always want to move in the opposite direction the club's going what direction is the club going in the downswing well it's going both out away from me right because the ball is out there and the club's coming from back here somewhere so the club's moving out which means i need to be moving this way if the club's going that way the club's also going down because the ball's on the dirt so i need to be moving up that's how you get the club to release automatically your hands are soft they're high up on the shaft and your left side is leading the only thing that we've got to do and the critical part of the post-up and again the stuff that i see done wrong all the time and all these online lessons we're doing is getting that left leg straight it's critical that you get it up and stop moving it's locked into place here now again you shouldn't hyper extend your knee you're not straightening it to the point that you're hurting your knee that's way way way too much but again think about like you're standing here talking to somebody that's how straight it has to be but the critical thing is that your hips have to post up and by 1000 post up that means stop moving we're done 1001 once we get here everything else is done 1002 it's not moving anymore so what happens 1003 is if this hip the lower body the pelvis 1004 is doing all of the movement in the 1005 downswing and it stops moving then what's 1006 going to happen to the club well it's not 1007 going to magically stop right there's all 1008 this momentum that's bringing the club 1009 down so as soon as you post up and stop 1010 and get locked into place that's when the 1011 club really zips through and you can see 1012 even just make these tiny little swings i 1013 can get a lot of speed by posting up and 1014 slamming on the brakes fully engaging my 1015 left glute straightening my left leg 1016 again not hyper extending as long as it's 1017 in neutral we're in a safe position where 1018 we can be assertive with it 1019 and the harder you're trying to hit the 1020 ball the more aggressive you're going to 1021 be with this but on your normal shot you 1022 don't have to be crazy it's not like 1023 you're trying to jump off the ground you 1024 do that with a driver when you're really 1025 wailing on one but what you really want 1026 to feel here is just getting it 1027 straightened up and stopping that's key 1028 the other important part of the stopping 1029 is it has to happen long before impact so 1030 if we're going to go back to our 1031 sequencing drill with the body and we add 1032 the arms to it left knee sit post up by 1033 the time my hands are here my hips should 1034 basically be done moving and all i'm 1035 going to have happen here is my hands are 1036 soft they're going to release and that is 1037 the entire swing if i can put those 1038 things together turning back left knee 1039 sit post up soft hands and as long as i 1040 stop moving with my hips the club's got 1041 to release it has to pick up speed 1042 because energy is going to be transferred 1043 up my hips stop moving everything else is 1044 still going the club rips through and 1045 that is the key to effortless power i'm 1046 going to talk about just for moment what 1047 i see nine times out of ten and that is 1048 that people are pushing off the right 1049 side and so as they come into impact 1050 their hips are still turning or their 1051 left knees bowed out because again 1052 they're pushing off the right side and so 1053 then the club just gets dragged through 1054 the hitting area and the shoulders keep 1055 turning and that is a death move for the 1056 swing and that you're never going to hit 1057 a 200 yard seven iron by continuing to 1058 rotate through you have to post up and 1059 the beauty of it is once you post up and 1060 stop moving it's free speed the hands and 1061 everything already set into motion and so 1062 this is going to be the key to getting 1063 effortless power out of your swing so so 1064 a couple questions come through so let's 1065 talk about some questions about getting 1066 post up uh doug in one of the roadshow 1067 videos you were trying to get a gentleman 1068 to post up sooner how soon should this 1069 just occur hopefully i just answered that 1070 doug i like to drill it the timing and 1071 sequence of this at speed can be slightly 1072 different but when you're drilling the 1073 sequencing left knee pose or squat post 1074 up i want the hands to be about in front 1075 of the thigh because from here there's 1076 nothing else to do but for the wrist to 1077 release so when you're practicing it 1078 drill getting your hands to here the club 1079 shaft should still be parallel to the 1080 ground and then the club's just going to 1081 release from there let's see 1082 david why rory's hips need to stop and 1083 the body will continue david is a great 1084 example rory's hips actually move 1085 backwards and then continue moving 1086 forward so yes it's exactly what he's 1087 doing he's just doing it so extreme that 1088 he's actually reversing the movement 1089 called torque and that's what's really 1090 aggressive with his release don't need to 1091 go that quite crazy but that is the idea 1092 how do you stay down while posting i tend 1093 to raise up and hit thin steve if you're 1094 raising up you're using your arms i 1095 guarantee it your body is not driving the 1096 down swing when you start throwing the 1097 club from the top your body senses this 1098 your proprioception takes over and it 1099 freaks out and everything stands up you 1100 lose your posture to keep from digging 1101 the club into the dirt do it again where 1102 should the clubs and hands be when 1103 initiating the post up okay so let me do 1104 the whole thing left knee sit to the left 1105 side 1106 starting to post up look where my hands 1107 are right in front of my thigh club shot 1108 parallel to the ground in the real swing 1109 the club would keep moving but my body is 1110 done let's see can't you move your left 1111 knee without weight shift is it hip 1112 rotation that moves the left knee no it's 1113 the left knee that moves technically it's 1114 external rotation from the pelvis that's 1115 moving the left knee and you're starting 1116 that weight shift during that time but 1117 then the weight shift is really going to 1118 start to happen as you start to sit more 1119 into that left side how do you stop 1120 raising the upper body of post you're 1121 using your arms steve as i mentioned 1122 before and that's why i don't hit a turn 1123 1124 is it okay to start the move left before 1125 the backswing is completely finished in 1126 the real world that's exactly when it 1127 does happen brian it's a great question 1128 so we try to break things into chunks 1129 because most golfers can't learn it all 1130 in the dynamic sequence and speed well 1131 nobody can right if we can't learn 1132 everything full speed when we're doing it 1133 for the first time our brains just can't 1134 do it nobody can so when you're going 1135 back in the real world my hands would 1136 probably be about right here and still go 1137 well maybe a little bit though maybe 10 o 1138 'clock 10 30 and then still going back 1139 while this left knee is starting to 1140 initiate everything back so yes your 1141 hands will still be going back 1142 while your body starts to get everything 1143 going back to the left so that's a really 1144 dynamic sequence and once you get the 1145 movements down we don't have to think 1146 through them mechanically you don't have 1147 to think through them at a conscious 1148 level of thought where you're going to 1149 tell yourself okay turn back and then now 1150 left knee okay now she said sit um and 1151 then post up it's going to start to 1152 happen fluidly dynamically and that's 1153 when you start getting real speed what 1154 causes swaying versus turning 1155 you're pushing there's a ton of videos on 1156 the side about this if you're swaying 1157 you're moving you're pushing from one 1158 side and pushing from the other so go 1159 look at those videos there's a whole 1160 video on the wall drill on how to stop 1161 swaying uh if you if you're at that point 1162 where you're 1163 standing up out of your posture and 1164 swaying your whole golf swing i promise 1165 you is happening from here up and nothing 1166 is happening from here down the way that 1167 we need it to so swaying is almost always 1168 caused from pushing instead of pulling 1169 you pull your right shoulder back your 1170 head's not going to go anywhere all right 1171 any other questions on the post up move 1172 we've covered the entire golf swing in 46 1173 minutes actually 40 minutes because we 1174 started uh five minutes early so the 1175 whole thing turning back 1176 sequencing the lower body first that has 1177 to be your focus hands on the proper 1178 position on the shaft post up move it's 1179 all going to happen same movement for all 1180 clubs come on miguel come on guys can you 1181 please answer this question for miguel 1182 don't make me answer something like this 1183 anybody anybody going to help miguel out 1184 no one bueller thank you patrick why 1185 would it change when you pick up a 1186 different club your body didn't change 1187 your pelvis width didn't change your 1188 muscles didn't change your attachment 1189 points didn't change it's the same for 1190 every single club in the bag ball 1191 position is the same posture is the same 1192 obviously your posture is going to change 1193 a little bit because the length of the 1194 shaft but your body movements are the 1195 same this is the whole point of looking 1196 at the swing objectively the body is the 1197 whole key to the golf swing the body is 1198 going to tell the club what to do not the 1199 other way around let's see steve you did 1200 not mention starting the downswing before 1201 finishing the back so i actually did just 1202 talk about it um please do more of these 1203 rsc bonus this was the whole goal it took 1204 me a while to get the studio together but 1205 yes the whole point of rotary swing 1206 academy to be much more interactive and 1207 doing a lot more stuff interactive with 1208 you guys so that we can get questions 1209 done in real time and get feedback and 1210 questions answered stuff that we see all 1211 the time and you know things that are 1212 pertinent so yes i definitely plan to do 1213 more of the uh these rsa webinars so for 1214 sure that is the goal any other questions 1215 on anything that we've covered we 1216 literally 1217 if you can do just what we did and 1218 nothing else you are going to hit the 1219 ball like that the alarms are just going 1220 to follow along it's not that hard to 1221 move correctly the golf swing is 1222 impossible though 1223 when you're trying to learn it with just 1224 your arms and hands so you're welcome 1225 dennis thank you so much uh any other 1226 questions before we go uh thank you steve 1227 very kind what is the max distance of 1228 back and the left knee can move laterally 1229 ah good question david so i will answer 1230 that one so 1231 i wouldn't say that there's a max 1232 distance per se understand this the more 1233 that the left knee moves in the backswing 1234 the more that it has to move in the 1235 downswing and there's so little time to 1236 make all this stuff happen that you want 1237 to move it as little as relatively 1238 possible don't lock it in place but as 1239 long as you make that full shoulder turn 1240 that's our goal you've got to turn your 1241 hips however far you've got to turn your 1242 hips to allow that to happen depending on 1243 your flexibility but it shouldn't be much 1244 your left knee might move in an inch or 1245 two any more than that and we're really 1246 going to start putting ourselves in a 1247 position where we're going to really spin 1248 the hips out coming down and it's hard to 1249 time all that awesome thank you so much 1250 doug uh the release of the hands happen 1251 at the left shoulder the release is 1252 happening actually happening once those 1253 hands get here the hands are starting to 1254 release they've got to if you're holding 1255 your hands to here then the club's way 1256 too late and club face is either going to 1257 be wide open coming to impact or it's 1258 going to be digging a trench you're going 1259 to be digging squirrel graves can you 1260 face oh sorry i saw a couple more 1261 questions there i'm going to try to get 1262 to all of them in just a second uh you're 1263 welcome what is the intensity of the post 1264 i just mentioned that steve so hopefully 1265 you watch this replay and you will listen 1266 you'll get that point again uh showing 1267 the position of the club on the down the 1268 line yeah we didn't do that so that's a 1269 good good one so we go all the way to the 1270 top now left knee sitting into the left 1271 side starting to post up the club should 1272 work right down my right forearm right in 1273 line with my hands and then out on top 1274 the plane in the ball so hopefully that 1275 answers that try to get to a couple more 1276 here 1277 you're welcome 1278 i thought of the webinar jam pat so i 1279 will give myself a cookie just for you 1280 guys so you know i am a huge chips ahoy 1281 chocolate chip fan the original chips 1282 ahoy not that soft crap want the real 1283 deal like i had when i was a kid let's 1284 see can i just train with three fingers 1285 on the left hand absolutely we do that on 1286 drills all the time oops uh chip at the 1287 range today hitting the ball off left arm 1288 only great problems creeping with adding 1289 the right hand doing it too soon you've 1290 got to do the sequence to where you're 1291 just lightly you don't even touch the 1292 club with the right hand and then you 1293 mirror 1294 and then you lightly touch it just like i 1295 do in the five-step system it's critical 1296 that you don't add that right hand fully 1297 onto the club too soon when does the 1298 right foot come up and rotate it comes up 1299 when it's pulled up by the left side and 1300 do that with the left side to camera i'm 1301 not sure what you mean by that uh what 1302 causes the hands to separate the top uh i 1303 don't know what you're talking about 1304 steve unless you've got a really funky 1305 grip and a lot of sloppy wrist movement 1306 and your hands might come apart uh left 1307 foot flare out to best achieve these 1308 moves that's discussed in the video on 1309 should you flare your left foot at 1310 address so the video on that uh business 1311 maybe talk briefly about what percent of 1312 weight on each side as you're moving as i 1313 mentioned dennis uh we'll come back in 1314 front of the camera for that one for a 1315 second so weight shift on the backswing 1316 is going to be 70 to 8 i actually go 85 1317 to the right um so 70 to 85 to the right 1318 is pretty much normal for most tour pros 1319 and then you get you go back to kind of 1320 the squat to square you're 50 50 more or 1321 less you may feel more pressure on the 1322 left but you're going to keep 1323 transferring that weight as your pelvis 1324 you'll see once i'm over here i do the 1325 squat to square my pelvis is still 1326 transferring weight and that's when i get 1327 to 80 90 on the left side is at impact 1328 right before i release the club 1329 very kind of you bob thank you uh let's 1330 see who offered me a moscow mule i saw 1331 that somewhere i want to miss that thank 1332 you harry very kind all right copper mug 1333 my man that's what i'm talking about 1334 can you show us a squat move with left 1335 side facing the camera uh richard i may 1336 be retarded but i think you mean this so 1337 if this is correct i'll do the whole 1338 thing this is a good good idea though to 1339 put it all together and seeing it from up 1340 the line although most people don't video 1341 this but if you have a mirror you can at 1342 least see what's going on here so we're 1343 going to go here left knee sit 1344 post up there are my hands in front of my 1345 thigh and i'm just released from there 1346 let's see best money you've ever spent 1347 thank you william very kind very kind 1348 guys thank you for all the compliments i 1349 appreciate it my arms come low and inside 1350 even with a good takeaway steve you need 1351 to focus on your body and get a swing 1352 review immediately because the questions 1353 that you've asked show me that you have 1354 uh you're lacking understanding of the 1355 core fundamentals of rst so please get a 1356 swing review up as soon as possible so we 1357 can get you going on the right track what 1358 causes the shoulders to be closed after 1359 posting up would be not enough hip 1360 rotation 1361 uh what caused me to hit right as a left 1362 -hander jim that is there's a million 1363 things that go on there so please focus 1364 on the core rst five-step system go 1365 through the fundamentals right don't 1366 worry about ball flight yet because if 1367 you are you once you learn the five-step 1368 system let me answer this for everybody 1369 real quick ball flight is a result of 1370 what you did with everything else right 1371 once you start boiling the swing down to 1372 something stupidly simple like i just 1373 showed you just this that's the whole 1374 freaking golf swing that's everything 1375 diagnosing every single miss will come 1376 right back to this because if this is the 1377 core and if this is working correctly the 1378 arms have no choice but to go more or 1379 less where we want them to as soon as the 1380 arms start taking over the body movement 1381 then you're gonna have every miss under 1382 the sun you're gonna fat then chunky left 1383 right etc so focus on the body movements 1384 first and then the ball flight stuff is 1385 really simple to diagnose let's see uh 1386 all the certified instructors that we 1387 have are listed on the site if you go 1388 under the instruction tab we have 1389 everybody listed there um actually i feel 1390 my left three fingers is taking the ride 1391 with the club yeah absolutely you should 1392 feel this is what that video i just put 1393 out the other day about the two club 1394 drill 1395 the stuff we just did tonight you can do 1396 the same stuff with two clubs it's harder 1397 of course but then you really get the 1398 feeling of the momentum of the club it 1399 taking over your hands and giving you 1400 this free boost of speed and your hands 1401 the last three fingers are just along for 1402 the ride please thank you so much 1403 appreciate the kind words all right any 1404 other questions guys we'll wrap it up 1405 it's been about an hour hopefully we got 1406 a lot out of this there's a lot of 1407 material in here and there's going to be 1408 a replay available so you can watch this 1409 again you should get an email on it with 1410 the replay link pretty much right after 1411 this so hopefully there's a lot of stuff 1412 i covered on a short period of time but 1413 uh any other questions great thank you 1414 awesome thank you guys all right guys 1415 thank you so much i hope you enjoyed it 1416 and if you've got any other questions 1417 post them on the site and we will uh see 1418 you soon take care

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Jeremy
Hi, I’m interested in some kind of device that is going to check the core swing statistics that are helpful and relevant. What is that device Chuck is using here? And do you have any recommendations that are under 1000? I’d love to know my clubhead speed, ball speed, smash factor, carry/roll distance and any other relevant stats that RST views as useful. Thank you!
August 22, 2023
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jeremy. Unfortunately, the more expensive ones provide the most accurate data. The one Chuck is using we sell on the site. ES14 Launch Monitor. He also uses a GCQuad as well.
August 22, 2023
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Jeremy
Thanks Craig, I also meant to ask do you have any recommendations on hitting mats that are good for joints? I’m currently looking at the Simturf EZ Tee Hybrid.
August 23, 2023
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jeremy. Some players I know use that one and are satisfied. (Other than price). I will ask some review students that hit indoor what they use.
August 25, 2023
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Kyaw Thet
Hi Craig, Thanks for your comments on my videos uploaded on facebook group (my facebook name is "Jiv" in case you got confused ) Can I use the right hand grip that Chuck showed here for my actual games?
November 26, 2020
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jiv. Absolutely if you are going to be a lead side swinger. The only issue in a real game you will lose a little support in the backswing if going at a strong pace.
November 26, 2020
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Kyaw Thet
Thanks Craig; I haven't played on the course for around 7 months since I joined RST. Keep working on the DEAD Drill to achieve my focus on the body movement. May be I will send you a swing review once I play in the course. Now I am trying to get comfortable hitting full swing with lead arm only. Is that OK?
November 26, 2020
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
I would recommend that when you go full swing add some trail support. No need to hit full lead arm only shots. Yes. Once, you get out. Film the move so we have an idea for adjustments.
November 26, 2020
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Kyaw Thet
Thanks Craig, Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2020
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Jens
Once i externally rotate my lead leg. Am i assuming right that the sitting into the left side is squatting and pulling my left oblique, so the opening of the hips is done the same way in the transition as in the post up, just that i squat instead of posting?
November 17, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jens. Yes. The shift/squat/oblique to help sit and square the hips. Similar to the post, but the lead leg won't be straightening and the glutes won't fire to full engagement/contraction.
November 17, 2019
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Jens
I feel that i get a better awareness of my left leg if i first squat slightly and then externally rotate my left leg and then pull from my left side. Does this mess the sequence up or is it ok to do it in this order to feel the muscles that need to fire?
November 17, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jens. You have to start shifting the weight first. What I would be afraid of is that you will lack initial transfer, or the hip socket will start getting out ahead of the knee joint too much.
November 17, 2019
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Jens
I found this one cuz i remembered seeing it existing at some point when i was a premium member. It doesnt show up under my RSA folder however. Noticed the other videos in the playlist arent there either. Are there other series i should be aware of that i can search for now that i am an RSA member?
November 17, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jens. Everything should be under your RSA Academy. I can't think of any that aren't listed there. I will update this post if I find more.
November 17, 2019
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Jens
Might just be my phone browser then. Will check from computer!
November 17, 2019
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Kim
Trying to get the post up move right in the Boot Camp drills! In order to maintain spine angle and axis tilt during the post up move, does the left hip move from square after “squat to square” to moving behind and back during the post up move, thus opening the hips and bringing the arms down to the right thigh?
September 22, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Kim. Exactly. The hip not only moves up, but must move back.
September 22, 2019
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Tom
A technical request - I think it would be very helpful for Chuck to also face like he was going to hit a ball at the camera when he is demonstrating proper movements so that we could see what we would see in the mirror when we are working on our reps. Even better if he could show, perhaps at the end through the magic of technology, reversed views so we could see the image exactly how a right-handed player will see themselves in the mirror while practicing.
July 23, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Tom. I will make sure your request is viewed by Chuck.
July 23, 2019
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Tom
41:00 to 41:17 ----> RST in 17 seconds! Excellent instruction delivered in a clear manner. Thank you
July 15, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Tom. Exactly. Thanks for the post. Keep it simple.
July 16, 2019
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Mario manuelito
Good day I am A subscriber of RotarySwing through the internet and it has helped me a lot. Am I not eligible to access the latest webinar? Thanks Mario coronel
July 12, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Mario. The webinar is for the RSA Membership only. Not the normal Premium RST Membership. I apologize. If you are a RSA Member. Please Contact Customer Service.
July 12, 2019
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Mario manuelito
Thanks Craig for the fast response. Sorry I misunderstood. Watching the videos as a normal premium RST member has helped my golf game a lot and has brought back the joy in playing golf. It’s sad though that I can not access the latest Webinar . Thanks a lot again and more power to the RST team. Have a great day .
July 12, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Mario. My pleasure. Thank you for the compliments. The RSA Membership basically gives you the clinic experience without having to travel to one of our clinics. That's why we have to have a separate deal.
July 12, 2019
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Scott
Hi Craig. Just letting you know I’m still working on things and will get some video to you next week.
July 13, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Scott. Great. No worries. I have been out of town and won't return until Monday. Let's get to it!
July 13, 2019
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John
This was worth the entire cost of joining the program. Thanks
July 11, 2019
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Chuck
You're welcome! Had fun doing it!
July 12, 2019

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