AXIOM BootCamp 4, Chris Tyler, Jan 2022, Session 2

Session 2 of 4

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Okay, welcome back.

Happy Saturday to everyone and whatever part of the world you're in.

Good morning, good afternoon to some of you already, and good evening to those folks of you that are on Australian time, because I know we've got quite a few Aussies in the room today.

A special congratulations to our VIP, or I shouldn't say VIP, I should say our MVP, Robert M.

from Australia, who I don't think is going to be joining us live.

sent in a review yesterday where his movements were absolutely freaking perfect.

So congratulations to you for winning the MVP award.

Hopefully everybody is having a wonderful start to their weekend so far.

For those of you that just got to see me about an hour and a half ago, or about two hours ago, I should say, in the learning how to practice program, welcome back.

For those of you that are just joining us now.

Welcome back.

It's nice to see you guys.

Hopefully you guys were able to get some good success with the stuff that we talked about this last week.

Hopefully you guys can hear me a little bit better today.

I was, I think that the lav mic that I wear, I'm wearing a lav mic.

I think what happened was is because of the midst of all the internet catastrophe that I was having on Tuesday, that I didn't get a chance to do a whole bunch of mic testing before I went on.

And I think that the mic pack that I had on was not.

registering through the software.

So I think it was registering through the camera back at home.

And so that may be why you guys couldn't hear me.

But I've also added the rug back to this room to take away a little bit of the bounce and a little bit of the echo.

So for those of you that are here in the chat, check it in from where you are from.

If you can hear me loud and clear and you're comfortable with the sound, please let me know.

All right, Robert says yes.

Okay, that's good.

Excellent.

Loud and clear.

Perfect.

I like it.

10-2, I mean 10-4.

All right.

Thanks, Craig.

Nice to see you again today, sir.

Tom from South Bend checking in.

See that we are all good in the hood.

Today is a very, very important day of our camp because guess what?

We are going to start working on impact.

We're going to start working on trying to hit the golf ball today.

And we're going to be working on the most important area of your golf swing.

It's called the hitting area.

So we're going to be identifying what the hitting area really is.

And I'm going to show you what your goal is between now and Tuesday.

But we're also going to recap some of the stuff that we talked about this last Tuesday, because we did have a couple of write-ins where people didn't necessarily gather a good way to be able to practice this stuff.

And that's not on you guys.

That's back on me as a golf instructor.

right?

So I'm the one standing here in front of you guys.

And if I leave anybody in this room with any sort of question as to what they're doing, why they're doing it, or how they're going to get it done, then I didn't do my job.

And that's just not, I'm not going to settle for that.

So we're going to answer some of that stuff out of the gate today.

As always, okay, as always, if you can, do me a huge favor.

I know we're excited to be here.

Okay.

I know that we're excited to be here on a Saturday.

taking up time out of your day to listen to me ramble at you for an hour plus.

But if you can, please keep the chat really quiet for us unless there's something really pressing, Unless all of a sudden I'm dropped offline, or if my mic stops working, or if anything pops up.

Or if there's some sort of emergency -like question that you need to ask, then you can ask it.

Craig's in here to help me out as well.

I know a lot of you guys have worked with Craig in the past.

I know a lot of you are excited to see him as well.

Please try to do me a favor, just hang on till the end so that we can keep things flowing.

Um, but I also do want to say that I am very, very impressed with the few people that I did see swing reviews from this week.

I'm not sure how many Craig handled, I'm sure he was handling quite a few, but for the few people that I did get to see that were in boot camp.

Going through the movements, just very, very subtle adjustments to certain pieces of those movements.

And you were able to show me some really good stuff, so My hat's off to you.

And as I said to you, for those of you that are just joining us now, Robert M.

from Australia.

I know that you're not joining us live today, but you're going to be watching the replay.

Congratulations.

You are the MVP for the week for what I saw.

Now, Robert sent me in videos of not tying it all together, but he was doing these in three separate pieces.

Okay.

He showed me that he was getting himself into a good setup position.

He showed me his pressure shift to his trail side and his body turn.

He showed me his squat to square, and he showed me his post-up.

Now, the only points of deduction that I gave him was that in transition, his head didn't come fully back into the position of where it was at address.

It was just slightly back.

So I gave him a practice plan to help get the head back into position.

And then my end of review, I told him I want him to start trying to blend those three things together, which leads me into exactly what we're going to be doing at the start of this session.

And this is where I have to apologize to you guys that I didn't give you guys a very clear plan on how to get this stuff done.

So the way that I want you to practice this stuff at home is I want you to start out by breaking it up into pieces, breaking it into a setup first, which we're going to go into the setup position here now, but we're going to go two inches outside of neutral joint alignment.

We're going to hinge from our hips.

So we're going to go butt back, chest over the golf ball.

We're going to keep our chin up.

We're going to soften our knees and let our hands and arms hang freely.

Okay.

Slide our hip towards the target just ever so slightly.

Now I have my axis tilt.

I'm going to cross my arms back over my shoulders.

And now the first piece that we want you to work on is that little pressure shift to the right.

So you're going to see my hip move diagonally towards my right ankle.

My upper body is kind of freed up.

It's working with it.

I'm taking my right shoulder and moving it back behind my head, trying to pull the right shoulder back as far as I possibly can.

So we're going to do 10 or 12 reps just like that.

Three.

Four.

Pressure shift, big turn.

I'm going to turn down the line here for you guys to see it.

So we're going to start from a vertical position.

We're going to hinge from our hips.

Butt back, chest over the golf ball.

Soften the knees.

Arms hang freely.

Okay.

Nudge my hip towards the target just slightly.

I'm going to cross my arms over my shoulders.

Now I'm going to make that little pressure shift to my right.

I'm going to take the right shoulder and pull it back.

I'm going to try to maintain some flex in my right leg.

It's one rep, two, three, four, five.

Okay.

So you've now done setup and your backswing movements.

Now what we're going to do is we're going to blend in the backswing movements and squat to square.

So we're going to go ahead and get our setup position.

Okay.

We're going to get over the golf ball, soften our knees, arms hanging freely.

Arms across your shoulders.

We're gonna pressure shift right, turn our body.

Okay, so our head has moved off the ball.

We're gonna slowly come back into position.

Hips and knees are gonna come back to square.

Shoulders are still gonna be very closed.

90% of my weight or 80% of my weight is underneath my left ankle joint.

Okay, so we're gonna pressure shift right, big turn.

Squat to square, head and chest come back into position.

Chest stays closed.

Squat to square.

Okay, let's turn down the line.

Squat to square.

You can still see a little bit of my lead thigh.

You can see my chest is pointing back to you guys at home.

Okay, pressure shift, turn, squat to square.

Make sure your butt goes back a little bit.

Okay, 90% of my weight on my left side.

Trying to keep your shoulders as closed as you can.

So trail shoulders up, lead shoulders down.

Pressure shift right, big turn, squat to square.

Okay.

So now you've just done setup, backswing and transition.

Now what's the final piece?

Post-up.

But I'm going to show you how to get to your post-up position first so that you have a kind of a place that you're going to try to move to.

How do I want you to do it?

Good setup position.

Arms hanging down freely.

Nudge that hip towards the target if you need a little bit of axis tilt.

Cross your arms over your shoulders.

Okay.

Now move your hips left.

and open your hips up 45 degrees and try to keep your head and chest back, okay?

Hold that position static for a moment, okay?

Your left leg should be passively straight, it should be a neutral joint alignment, and your hips should be open 45 degrees, okay?

So you feel that spot, reset yourself, pressure shift right, pull the shoulder back, squat to square.

Now when I make my post up, I'm gonna make sure that my hip continues to move laterally to get to neutral and opens up.

I'm keeping my head and chest down.

Don't let your head and chest come up and don't let it turn past.

Go here, okay?

Pressure shift right, turn, squat to square, post up.

Keep your head and chest down.

Pressure shift right, pull the shoulder back, squat to square, post up.

Let's turn down the line and I'll turn up the line for two reps here as well.

Pressure shift right, turn, squat to square.

Post up.

So you can see that my hips are open 45 degrees.

You can see my big rear end.

You can see that my shoulders are square.

My right foot is cantered in.

I don't have any weight on that side at all.

Okay, let's do one more rep from down the line and I'll turn up the line.

Pressure shift.

Keep a little flexing that right leg.

Squat to square.

Post up.

Okay, up the line.

So we're going to pressure shift right.

Pull the right shoulder back.

Squat to square.

Left hip goes back, shoulders are square.

Okay, you're trying to get this hip to move back and away.

Now, that's how I want you to practice.

I want you to practice with each one of those checkpoints in mind.

Pressure shift, big turn.

That's your backswing.

Making sure that you maintain some knee flex.

I want you to practice your squat to square, making sure that your head and chest come where?

Back into position.

Shoulders stay closed, 90% of your weight on your left leg, or 80% of your weight on your left leg, sorry.

Then I want you to finish off the movement by going to impact in that post-up position.

Each of those things, you cannot practice enough.

Now, in a real world or a golf course situation, we never just hit those positions.

I gave you guys a way at home to move through those positions.

How are we moving through those positions, getting to impact?

Well, we're using the axiom, but I'm using a hybrid of the axiom movement where I'm not going to have you go all the way around the clock unless you want to.

That's a personal preference.

What is the pressure shift doing?

Well, that pressure shift that you're doing is moving your weight right to six o'clock.

So rather than having to go 12 o'clock, one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, five o 'clock, six o'clock, you're going right to six o'clock.

Why do I like to do that?

Well, because I've seen most of you guys respond to that movement very well.

For those of you at home that are real locked up in your lower half, real frozen, start out with some movement.

Perfectly fine.

Okay.

Get yourself working around the clock.

Now, the big ticket item on here on this movement is that when you're going from six o'clock up to seven, eight, nine, is that you are using your right leg to help push your hips and your body in the direction of the target.

So your head can move back into position.

Okay.

Your hips are shifting left and you're counterbalancing it with that secret sauce movement that some of you missed, right?

The secret sauce movement.

is virtually what the clamshell drill is.

For those of you that haven't seen the clamshell drill, these videos that are referenced on your PDF, you can go back and you can click on them and that should take you right to the video.

It's called the clamshell drill, okay?

It is the first time in Rotary Swing Tour history that you hear us actually talk about the increase of spine angle and transition.

Why have we never talked about it so much in the past?

Well, because it's such a minimal change to the spine that people would get kind of lost in trying to measure how much angle increase they're having.

But what it is, is also a very good way for you to be able to perform your post -up movement.

And so that's all that chrysium that I told you is all about, or the hybrid axi movement, is just pushing from your trail side up through six, seven, eight, nine, and thinking about your left butt, your lead butt for you left-handed players at home.

Sorry, I don't mean to leave you guys out.

but you're just thinking about this left butt going down and back.

Now, everybody at home is like, well, my left hip is supposed to go up and away.

Trust me, if your left butt is moving down and back and you're pushing from your right side, it moves to that open position that opens your hips up.

The rotation of your hips is what's moving your left leg to that straight position, okay?

And that and driving your left foot into the ground.

So you're pushing back against the ground.

That's ground force, okay?

Ground force is a good thing.

So how do I want you to practice that?

Well, I want you to take your setup position.

I want you to press your shift to your right side, and I want you to push as hard as you want from your right side to your left, and I want you to get to this spot right here, okay?

That's all I want you to do.

Now, if you notice a fault that pops up, like your head position didn't return, maybe you didn't load into your right leg properly, then how do you think I want you to start your next practice session off?

Well, I want you to work on loading into your right leg, maintaining some knee flex, making good body turn.

Then I want you to start.

trying to move through those positions.

Everybody's going to practice a little bit different because everybody's going to have, they're going to be in different phases of this stuff.

But you at home, I'm trying to arm you with all of the tools and all of the arsenal that you need in order to be able to look at it on camera and say, I'm missing this piece.

Maybe it's in transition where your shoulders have come back to a square position.

They haven't stayed closed.

Maybe you haven't transferred enough weight.

I gave you all three of those big key movements first, on purpose.

Why?

Because if I just led you into Axiom, and this is what we said to you guys at the start of the first session, is that if I just led you into Axiom, gave you all of this big free reign movement, that doesn't ensure us that you're going to load your right leg.

That doesn't ensure us that you're going to turn your body.

That doesn't ensure us that your whole body is going to move back onto your left side.

That doesn't ensure us that you're not going to come down here and hump the goat with the right leg going like this.

Excuse the poor terminology, but you can see what I'm saying.

So we break it up into the dead drill components on purpose.

Because you at least have to have some of this baseline stuff in a good spot before you start trying to blend it together.

So that's why we give you the secret sauce at the end of it, right?

And we can call it something else if you guys have a better name for it, right?

So what I'm trying to tell you is this.

If I left you unclear as to how to practice this stuff in the last session, or I didn't give you all of the information that you needed, My sincerest apologies because that is absolutely just not going to work for me, right?

We're here to work with you guys.

So I will make sure today, as we go through the nuts and bolts of the release, that I teach you exactly how to practice this stuff.

Because this, my friends at home, is where golf is made, right?

We know two very important things about golf.

That.

You have to have the club face square at the point of contact, right?

And you got to have the club shaft leaning forward.

We know that those two things are extremely important for compression and for us to be able to hit the golf ball in a reasonable direction.

Now, obviously, path does play an important role in this, but I want you to remember the stuff that we're going to be talking about today is 80% of your golf shot's DNA.

80% is face angle.

The other 20% is dictated by the path.

Yes, like I said, path does play a very, very important role.

With the way the club face wants to rotate through the hitting area.

Now, before I get into that, I'm going to make one little disclaimer that I thought I made in the first session.

But I still got a note on it.

And I'm going to just nip this in the bud.

Some of you have been around the website for a long time, seven, eight, nine, ten years.

Some of you have been around the website for a year.

Some of you have been around the website for this is your first experience.

I want you to remember that if I talk about every single little small detail that goes into every single body position, as far as like a setup, right?

Where you might've heard ankles rolled in or get your glutes activated all for the sheer fact of getting stability out of dress.

I'm not leaving that stuff out of the program on purpose, right?

The way that I got you set up over the golf ball, regardless of your level of competency is going to get you into a stable position.

Now, if you find that you're unstable, you specifically, when you start moving at home, then post that up in the comments.

Let us help you because I can give you a little tip that might help the class by saying, roll your ankles in a little bit out of dress.

That helps activate some of the muscles in your inductors.

That helps get some quad activation.

That helps get some glute activation.

So my point is this, this program that we worked our butts off on is not just something we grew out of thin air.

In fact, I remember the day that when Craig, myself, The days my Craig, myself and Chuck were sitting in Chuck's office writing The dead drug.

That was a very, very long, tedious process, and it was a lot of trial and error.

And a lot of the stuff that we as instructors know.

And how people are going to respond to this information.

And so the same thing that unfolded when we started writing the axiom program is that axiom.

When we beta tested it.

We learned very quickly that we were way behind swing faults.

We were way behind, and we don't like causing swing faults.

We like building nice looking golf swings that produce.

So my point is, Is that the information and the way that we've written it and the way that we've put it together?

Is the fastest way to get you guys swinging the golf club and moving through positions, right?

And getting to the point where you can actually start hitting golf balls, right?

Think about that.

Now, I don't expect you guys at the end of this two weeks to be out there ready for the PGA tour, but you're going to leave here.

with better movements that you showed up here in the first place.

You're going to leave here with a better understanding on how to work your way away from faults.

You're going to learn, you're going to find a better way to practice and you're going to learn that it's okay to start small and then work big.

That's it.

And that's what you're going to be doing from today into next Tuesday is I'm going to teach you really small movements.

And a lot of you guys are at home and be like, that's it.

Watch what happens.

This is how Chuck, myself, and Craig used to teach our clinics, is we started with a release.

And everybody came in from all over the world.

They spent two days with Paul, I'm sorry.

Am I boring you?

I just got to cover this stuff, all right?

So we spent two days working from hip high to hip high.

And everybody was like, that's all I'm doing is just hip high to hip high swings.

Yep.

Guess what?

By the end of the weekend, we got them hitting steamboat nine to three swings.

And they were compressing the golf ball.

Everybody was like.

So.

That's what you're going to learn today.

Now, when we're done the session today, you're going to work on two things.

You're going to be working on the release drills and you're going to be working on your body movements.

You're going to be working on those as two separate pieces as much as you possibly can between now and Tuesday.

Okay, Paul, if you want, you can just watch the recording because I got a lot of stuff to cover because of the stuff that was missed in the last session.

So no, let's go, baby.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Sorry.

I took you out of context.

I like your excitement.

So this right here is my favorite thing to teach.

Why?

Because you guys at home, regardless if you're good at golf or you suck at golf, can start compressing the golf ball.

I promise you, if you follow this plan and you do this and this only between now and next Tuesday, you will have compressed the golf ball.

If you can do this where your left wrist goes from here to here, okay, that's it.

If you can go from here to here and it's flat or slightly bowed, you can play golf.

Now, you're going to hear me talk about lead side versus trail side stuff.

You're going to hear me as a golf instructor push you in one direction.

Why?

Well, because I've been doing this for a long time.

You're going to hear that I'm very biased towards a lead side release.

I personally am a lead side dominant releaser of the golf club.

I am.

I teach it.

I do it myself.

The trail side, we just started introducing about a year, year and a half ago.

I'm not a huge fan of it.

Why?

Well, because I don't do it.

And number two, I understand that you guys at home are not good at golf sometimes because you overuse your troublemaker, right?

Your right hand for right-handed golfers is unfortunately your very out of control brother that screws up the party all the time.

And your lead hand is your conservative brother that shows up and does the right thing.

He shows up and he's on time.

He's like your accountant.

This guy is, he's the crackhead wacky one, right?

So when your right hand sits behind the club, It can affect some very, very important parts of the swing, folks.

It can affect face angle, right?

It can change the complexity of face angle.

It can change your angle of attack.

It can change the swing plane and the path that the club is on very quickly, very quickly.

And so if you actually look at how precise you have to be in the world of golf to hit a straight shot, you would be mind boggled, okay?

A lot of you would probably pack your bags up and head over to the go-kart track and try to do something different with your life, okay?

I promise you, okay?

When you look at playing professionals, and you look at their data, and you guys can go look at TrackMan data after we're done here today, because I like studying this stuff, you will see that most of them have a face angle that's a degree or better.

Face angle is a byproduct of your path versus your face-to-path.

Angle of attack does play a role in there, but that's where you get that number from.

So if you have control of your face angle, which all of those guys do, then you have a fighting chance to play this game.

So we're going to teach you how to do that today.

Okay.

And we're going to do it stripped down and then we're going to build it up.

Okay.

It's going to feel maybe a little bit on the mundane side at first.

It might feel a little bit not exciting, but guess what?

I will do my best to spice it up for you guys and give you some of the ins and outs of this stuff.

Now, some of you have heard some of this stuff before.

Some of you haven't heard any of this stuff.

I still want you to practice this no matter if you feel like you're really proficient with a release, because quite honestly, you can't do enough of what I'm going to teach you today.

Okay.

Now, for those of you that have your PDF up, what we're going to do is go through these bullet points real quick, and I'm going to teach you guys how to practice this.

And we're going to talk about trail side versus lead side.

And no matter what you do, whether it's trail side versus lead side, I don't care if you swing it with your right leg, trying to help your arms through there.

I don't care.

If you can get your wrist into this position where it is towards the middle of your lead thigh, it is flat, okay, or slightly both, then you can play golf.

This right here is what most of you look like at impact.

where you have your left wrist cupped, the club is past your hands.

Now, why can't you play golf like that?

Because when you have the club adding loft to it, you can't compress the golf ball.

When you have this position right here, the toe of the club is rotating around its axis much too quickly, and you're going to create all sorts of different deer effect on the golf ball.

So you cannot play with a cupped left wrist position at impact, okay?

If you go and look at golf across the board, and you look at it from the last 100 years, and you look at all of the best ball strikers, look at the one thing they have in common.

you're just going to see the left wrist position.

It is flat at impact.

Promise you.

Now you can go down the pathway of KVEST where they've measured every single person under the sun and they give you all this really, really bad data that doesn't do us a lick of good, right?

Because all those guys sustain a golf related injury that keeps them out of golf for eight weeks or more.

You can go look at it.

But the thing, the only thing that they're doing in common is the left wrist position.

Okay, trust Got it?

All right.

So the release should be freewheeling.

Lead side dominant releasers of the club are going to feel out of control.

You're going to feel out of control.

There's this great movie that nobody on this planet saw, including myself.

It's called Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.

If any of you saw it at home, I'm sorry.

And I just heard it was terrible.

I did see the trailer for that movie.

And Little Bow Wow says, you ain't in control unless you're out of control.

And I was like, that's it.

He finally said something of substance in this world.

It's being out of control.

When you get to the point of delivery, okay?

And when I talk about delivery, I want you to understand what this looks like.

When your hands get down in front of your trail thigh and you have your club shaft parallel to the ground, this is your delivery point.

Now, looking at it from a down the line perspective, Your delivery point when your hands in front of your trail thigh is going to be when your club head is in line with your hands and the club shaft is parallel to the ground.

This is a delivery point.

Out here, no bueno.

Back here, no bueno.

You want it right here.

So if you get it to this delivery point and you're a lead side dominant releaser, all you have to do is let go, baby.

That's all you got to do is just let her go.

That's why if you look at all of these still images of Phil Mickelson and Freddie Couples and Vijay Singh, their trail hand is off the golf club at impact.

It's coming off the club.

Why?

Because they're not using it to move through the hitting area.

They're letting it go.

They're letting the club do what it's designed to do.

Let's talk about that for a moment.

Golf clubs are designed to rotate.

They're designed to rotate.

And if you look at the way the shaft comes up off the hosel here, it's designed to be swung on an incline plane.

So here's something that I do for students all of the time.

And this is very much in line with what Homer Kelly was able to uncover back in the early 80s, late 70s, early 80s.

For those of you that don't know who he is, you don't need to go look him up.

But he basically took a golf club and he put it on the end of a string.

And he started swinging it around in circles.

And every time that club went to the bottom of the circle, what did the club What did it do?

Well, I'll answer for you.

It squared itself up.

You mean the club pulled itself down to the bottom of the circle and it rotated square.

Exactly.

This is where a lot of you guys are going to have a problem with this.

Why?

Because you want to be in control of something I don't want you to be in control of anymore.

Think about that.

This game is already really freaking hard as it is for us to go out there and to get this little ball and this little club head lined up with one another.

And for us not to feel like we're doing things with our hands and our arms.

No way, Chris, no way.

I'm going to hit it all over the place today.

You got to just trust it.

Okay.

And this is where if you follow along with these movements and you think about your body and you only think about your body, guess what the club and the ball are going to be doing.

They're going to be reacting.

Okay.

I promise you.

So a lead side dominant releaser is going to have a very free-flowing release.

A trail side dominant releaser is going to have a little bit more effort.

We'll get into that here in just a moment.

Your grip pressure should be in the back three fingers of your left hand.

So the back three fingers, your pinky finger, your ring finger, and your middle finger.

I didn't mean to flip you guys off at home, but you get it.

Those three fingers, lightly, on a scale from one to 10, 10 being rigid and tense, I like you hold it between a two and four.

Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, Chris, That is very subjective because my two and four could be a lot different than your two and four.

Okay, I'll give you something a little different.

Think about it as being a tube of toothpaste that you have the cap on or the cap off, I should say.

You're going to hold onto it where you're just hanging on to it enough to where you don't have toothpaste flying out of the tube.

We all have these crazy analogies, right?

Like the baby bird.

Hold onto it like a tube of toothpaste.

So between two and four, that should get you in the ballpark.

Now, a drill that I do for people quite often is I will hold the club and I'll swing it back and forth.

And if you look at my hand really closely, it's a little hard to see it because I'm standing far away.

You're going to notice that I'm holding the club where?

I'm holding it in just my pinky.

And I take video of it and I'll show students.

And they're like, so you're not trying to hang on to the club?

No, I'm trying to let the club fly.

We have plenty of videos on the website, the VJ release drill.

All of those videos talk about how free -flowing you want the release.

So we want your grip pressure to be in the back three fingers of your left hand.

We want it to be between a two and a four.

Taking the club back outside the trail thigh, the lead wrist should begin to flatten slightly with your golf logo pointed directly in front of you.

So the way that your lead wrist works in the golf swing.

I'll roll this up.

And actually, you know what?

Let me put a glove on.

I think it's a little bit easier for you to follow when I have a glove on.

So your lead wrist at address is going to start out a little bit cupped.

Okay.

Just a little bit.

As you start to take your left arm back, this is going to begin to flatten.

It goes fully flat as you go from a takeaway up to the top of the backswing.

So for today's sake, when you actually start doing these reps, I want you to try to get it to perfectly anatomically flat.

Okay.

I want you to try because this is going to be where your delivery point starts and it's going to be flat on the way down.

Now from here, what you're going to do.

Is you're just going to allow your arm to fall down in front of your body?

And you're going to focus on getting your glove logo to be pointed directly down your target line.

Not like this, not like this, directly down your target line.

For those of you that have had a nasty flip or scoop, I want you to actually try to bow your wrist and get your glove.

Logo pointed in the direction of the target, to the point where you can look down through your palm and see a hole.

If you had a hole there, you could see the ground.

that's how much I want you to bow it.

This would be very exaggerated.

You would have the club shaft delofted too much.

It'd be very hard to hit shots.

So your lead wrist is going to be flat as it goes back.

So you're going to start a little cupped.

You're going to try to get it flat.

It's then going to work down and it's going to stay flat, or you're going to try to bow it off just slightly by the time it gets in front of your lead thigh.

Piece of cake, right?

At the finish of the release, your lead wrist should be still flat and it should be pointed directly behind you.

So your wrist position at the point of entry, so when we're getting into delivery, okay, in front of your trail thigh or just outside of it right here is going to be flat and pointed out in front of you.

It's gonna be flat and pointed down the target line and it's gonna be flat and pointed behind you.

Look at how it rotated from right here to here to here.

It's not being done here to here.

Okay.

That's not where I want you to train it at first.

You're learning the hitting area.

So as I just defined it for you, the hitting area is going to be right around hip high to hip high.

Okay.

Everything that's happening in here is your hitting area.

Okay.

So your main goal is to train it first to get to a flat position here at delivery point to a flat, slightly bowed position right here.

I want you to do that as many times as you possibly can with or without a golf club.

I would prefer.

And at home, you start out with a golf club.

You want to be able to go here.

Put your weight over on your left foot too.

Try to get your hips open up a little bit.

And then let your left wrist come down.

That's it.

Piece of cake.

For those of you at home, you might feel like that is pretty easy.

Try it out.

If you find that you're not doing it right, then stop what you're doing and make it right.

Once you start getting the hang of that, then start moving through to the lead side.

Think about these being done as very, very small swings.

Here's something that I want you to write all over your PDF on your forehead and on the ground.

I am going to keep my lead arm moving through the hitting area as my lead wrist is rotating.

Don't stop your arm when the club comes back in here and start trying to flip your wrist over.

You're going to think about your arm swinging back and forth underneath your shoulder like a grandfather club.

All I'm thinking about here is my arm moving back and forth.

And I'm going to try to get my glove logo now from being pointed out in front of me to pointed behind me.

Okay?

So when you see my left wrist at this point, it is pointed directly behind Okay?

And it is flat.

Okay?

If you look over and your wrist is cupped like this, fix it.

Put it in a flat position.

This is easy to do without the club in your hands.

Why?

Because we don't have a lot of the weight in the club pulling us all around.

You're going to notice here in a little bit when I get the club in my hands.

And when you guys get the club in your hands at home, that the momentum and inertia in the club is going to start pulling your wrist into a little bit of a cup position 1000 over there.

1001 That's fine.

1002 I care about you making sure that it's 1003 flat here and it is at least flat when it 1004 gets outside of your trail thigh or your 1005 lead thigh, I should say, and it is 1006 rotating.

1007 Steve says, throughout the entire swing, 1008 should we have a swing thought?

Thinking 1009 about the foot movements, if no swing 1010 thoughts, then just the reps will ingrain 1011 the ax and then we just trust the non 1012 -thoughts.

1013 Steve, 1014 So hang on to that question for me and 1015 copy and paste it to me at the end here 1016 so I can answer it after I'm done going 1017 through this.

Because this is, there's a 1018 lot of components to the release.

Okay.

1019 And I'm trying my best to be able to move 1020 through this as cleanly as possible.

I'm 1021 sorry, I'm not trying to evade your 1022 question.

1023 Okay.

So your main goal is to start out 1024 by getting your left wrist from this 1025 position to this position.

Then you're 1026 going to keep your arm moving.

Okay.

To 1027 where your left wrist is now flat and 1028 pointed directly behind you.

Okay.

So 1029 it's flat pointed out in front of you, 1030 pointed behind you.

Now.

Some of you at 1031 home may ask me exactly how many reps I 1032 want you to do like that.

1033 I'm going to give you at least 25.

1034 When you can do 25 reps and it looks 1035 great on camera, then you can start 1036 putting the club back in your hands.

1037 And I want you to make these swings very, 1038 very small.

1039 You can start out by stopping at impact.

1040 So you can take your left wrist back, 1041 make sure it's flat, point it out in 1042 front of you, and you can let your left 1043 arm swing down and make sure it's flat 1044 and pointed down the target line.

You can 1045 stop right here.

You can actually even 1046 hit golf balls like this, believe it or 1047 not.

You can take the left wrist back and 1048 just let it stop.

And you can check to 1049 make sure your wrist is in the position 1050 of impact.

1051 Okay.

That's a good thing for you to do 1052 at home.

Why?

1053 Well, because now you're training your 1054 subconscious that you can do it with a 1055 ball there.

If you stop in that position 1056 and look at it, and if it's not right, 1057 fix it, then that's how you're going to 1058 be able to start progressing through this 1059 stuff.

1060 Now, once you start getting the club in 1061 your hands and you're like, okay, I've 1062 got impact sorted out.

1063 I know my left wrist is pointed out in 1064 front of me.

I know it's flat or slightly 1065 bowed and pointed down the target line.

1066 Now I'm going to start actually letting 1067 it fully release.

1068 When you do this, your job is to hold the 1069 club as lightly as you can.

You can even 1070 take your thumb and your pointer finger 1071 up off the shaft and just let your left 1072 arm swing through to the other side.

Now, 1073 what you're going to notice here is when 1074 I do these reps, watch very closely.

1075 You can kind of hear it.

1076 The club is doing what?

1077 You can kind of hear it brush in the 1078 grass right here.

1079 Look how relaxed this movement looks.

1080 I'm not trying to make big swings.

1081 You have to start small.

1082 I can do this very easily.

Why?

1083 Because I've done it for a long freaking 1084 time.

For those of you that are plus two, 1085 plus three handicaps, you still need to 1086 go slow and do this stuff.

For those of 1087 you that are just starting the game out, 1088 start slow and small.

1089 If you make your movements happen, you 1090 keep your grip pressure light and you 1091 keep your arm moving through there.

The 1092 club does the work for you.

Now, you're 1093 going to notice that your club's probably 1094 not bottoming out at times.

What do you 1095 think is happening?

1096 You're just holding on to too much 1097 tension up in your shoulder, up in your 1098 tricep and your bicep.

You're holding on 1099 to too much tension in your grip.

You're 1100 trying to be in command of the golf club, 1101 but I don't want you to be in command of 1102 1103 Now, remember, when you're doing these 1104 reps and you're starting to let the club 1105 swing through to the other side, it's 1106 important that the club is going to be in 1107 line with your hands.

So I want you to 1108 double check at this position.

that your 1109 left wrist is flat and pointed out in 1110 front of you, 1111 okay?

I want you to make sure the club is 1112 in line with your hands and the toe of 1113 the club is up to the sky.

1114 Then from there, you just let it release 1115 on through, and you want to make sure 1116 that the toe of the club is up or 1117 slightly toed left.

Can any of you see 1118 that at home?

1119 So it's toed left just a little bit 1120 there.

This would be way to left, and 1121 this right here would be the reason why 1122 we're not good at golf, because when you 1123 see your club face look like that, okay, 1124 that means you added loft to the club and 1125 you didn't rotate the face, so the ball's 1126 going, High right.

1127 Okay?

So again, it's going to look to be 1128 in line with the hands.

You're going to 1129 let it release.

1130 That's it.

1131 I want you to do as many reps as you 1132 possibly can with that movement and that 1133 movement alone.

If you can get your left 1134 wrist to get flat, to point down the 1135 target line, to be flat and pointed 1136 behind you, golf just became a much 1137 simpler game for you.

All of the other 1138 stuff that we're doing within the swing 1139 shape is to add speed to that movement.

1140 Really, think about that.

So all we're 1141 doing in the golf swing is we're making 1142 all of these big movements to help propel 1143 the hands and the arms through the 1144 hitting area.

1145 Really, that's what it is.

1146 So you start out slow.

You start out like 1147 I'm holding your hand, right?

You start 1148 out by just doing left arm only swings 1149 without a club.

You get your wrist into 1150 the right spot.

You start letting it move 1151 through.

Then you start letting it go 1152 with a club in your hands.

Start trying 1153 to hit little shots.

These golf balls, 1154 when you hit these things, when you're 1155 letting it release, should only go about 1156 10 to 15 yards.

If they go any further 1157 than that, then you're trying to get too 1158 much.

I don't want to see golf swings 1159 like this.

Okay.

You're not ready for 1160 that.

That's like the Indy 500 right now.

1161 Okay.

Take your time.

Start out slow.

But 1162 now here's the piece to this that you're 1163 going to hear, maybe different than what 1164 you would hear from Craig or Chuck is.

I 1165 don't like you to stay doing a lot of 1166 left arm only swings without trying your 1167 best.

to get El Troublemaker back on 1168 there.

Why?

1169 Well, because you've got to train this 1170 thing how it needs to coexist with those 1171 movements.

1172 Now, in the past, you've heard us on five 1173 minutes to a perfect release or maybe 1174 even you're perfecting your impact series 1175 or whatever it might be.

You've heard us 1176 that we can have the right hand coming 1177 off at impact.

You certainly can do that.

1178 But if you become a lead side dominant 1179 releaser, I want you to challenge 1180 yourself, even over the next couple of 1181 days when you go through this program, to 1182 start touching the club and letting it 1183 follow along.

And I mean by touching the 1184 club, folks, okay?

1185 I'm gonna take my pointer finger and my 1186 thumb and I'm just gonna touch the shaft, 1187 okay?

This is gonna take my right hand 1188 and my right arm and try to deactivate it 1189 a little bit.

And I'm gonna take and make 1190 some swings here where I'm gonna let it 1191 follow along with my left arm from one 1192 side of the body to the other.

So I'm 1193 gonna literally take my right hand and 1194 touch it.

I'm gonna turn, so my left hand 1195 is just outside my trail thigh, it's 1196 flat, 1197 okay?

And I'm going to make sure that my 1198 weight gets over to my left side.

I'm 1199 going to let my left hand swing through 1200 and I'm just going to keep it touching 1201 there.

Now, 1202 you just heard something there just a 1203 moment ago that I didn't say before, 1204 right?

I just had to swing your arm back 1205 and forth.

When the right hand comes back 1206 to the club, now you want to start 1207 introducing normal movement to the mix, 1208 right?

How would we get our club to that 1209 position?

Well, we would turn our body, 1210 right?

From here, you want to shift your 1211 hips left and you want to let it release, 1212 but you want to try to keep your hand on 1213 the club.

1214 If you notice that you're flipping it or 1215 you're scooping it, there's one thing 1216 that's happening here.

1217 And a lot of you at home need to take a 1218 little bit of a deep breath and 1219 understand.

I'm telling you something 1220 that's going to be different than what 1221 you've heard on the videos for a reason.

1222 Because again, we've always talked about 1223 the release being free flowing and 1224 letting the hands go.

But remember, at 1225 the release, when you're a lead side 1226 dominant releaser, the hands and The arms 1227 are working independent from the body.

1228 What does that mean, Chris?

1229 Well, think about it this way.

1230 If I take my chest and I leave it right 1231 where it is, and I move my arm away from 1232 my body, that's my arm swinging in this 1233 direction independent from shoulder 1234 rotation, okay?

1235 Now, if I keep my connection here, my arm 1236 and my chest, and turn, that's not me 1237 unhinging my arm.

That's my arms working 1238 with my body.

At the release, we're 1239 trying to get our arms to be independent 1240 from that shoulder rotation.

1241 So one thing is happening for those of 1242 you that are flippy and scoopy is you're 1243 stopping your godforsaken freaking lead 1244 arm from moving.

Think about this for a 1245 second.

1246 If I take my arm and I'm going to swing 1247 it back and forth, 1248 okay, and I keep my whole arm moving, I 1249 keep it always moving.

Now I stop my arm, 1250 what can the club do?

1251 You just saw it, folks.

1252 You just saw the reason why you flip and 1253 scoop because your arm stops moving.

So 1254 if you see that you're still flipping and 1255 scooping it, think about your arm, not 1256 your hands, continuing to move through 1257 the point of contact, into the finish of 1258 the release.

Think about your arm always 1259 moving to that hip high position.

1260 If you do that, then you're going to see 1261 that your hands always stay in front of 1262 the club.

If you keep your grip pressure 1263 light, like you're supposed to, the club 1264 will have pulled itself to the bottom of 1265 the arc and it will have rotated in 1266 relationship to the swing plane that you 1267 put it on.

1268 That's it.

1269 That's it.

1270 If you can do that, if you can focus on 1271 your left arm moving just like a pendulum 1272 underneath your shoulder with a right 1273 hand coexisting with it, now you can 1274 start hitting golf balls.

And when you 1275 start hitting golf balls, you should be 1276 hitting little tight compressed shots 1277 that go about 20, 25 yards max.

That's 1278 all you need to do over the next couple 1279 of days.

As you get to the point where 1280 you're hitting balls, 1281 okay, then what happens on Tuesday is I 1282 start marrying these two movements 1283 together that you just worked on with me.

1284 I start giving you lower body movement.

1285 more lower body movement and start giving 1286 you a little bit bigger swings.

So for 1287 now, what I like to do is I like to 1288 eliminate the thoughts of axiom when 1289 working on release drills.

Okay, we're 1290 working on release drills, not 1291 compression drills.

We're looking on 1292 release drills that lead to compression.

1293 So I like to think about just little tiny 1294 bits of pressure shift and little bits of 1295 turn.

What I mean here is this, I'm going 1296 to shift my weight a little bit and I'm 1297 going to turn my body and I'm going to 1298 shift my weight back to my left side and 1299 let it release.

1300 I don't want you to try to think about 1301 all of the moving parts to get you to 1302 impact at this point, working within the 1303 confines of the release drill.

You're 1304 just focusing on what your left arm and 1305 your left wrist are doing.

And you're 1306 trying to get yourself to allow the club 1307 to have some freedom.

You're allowing the 1308 golf ball to get in the way of it.

That's 1309 how I want you to think about it.

Now, if 1310 you want to give yourself a kick in the 1311 butt away from the release stuff, and you 1312 want to go back through the stuff that I 1313 just did at the start of the session, 1314 please do it.

I want you to do more of 1315 that.

Why?

1316 Because those are the big movements that 1317 lead to better results for your release 1318 in the first place.

1319 So now I'm going to clean this up here in 1320 just a minute, but I want to talk to you 1321 guys about the trail side versus lead 1322 side.

1323 Some of you at home are not going to be 1324 able to be a lead side dominant releaser.

1325 Some of you at home are just going to be 1326 fully convinced that you're just going to 1327 overuse your right hand or your right arm 1328 or your right shoulder.

for the rest of 1329 your golfing life.

We get that.

1330 Okay, it's fine.

1331 I'm not a fan of it, but I'm not going to 1332 evade it.

1333 Most of the people that I worked with on 1334 this website over the 10-year span that 1335 I've been here, I had a few people that 1336 tried to dabble in some trail side 1337 release stuff, but they all came back to 1338 lead side.

1339 Because again, the lead side is a more 1340 free-flowing release.

It's a release that 1341 I'm just going to tell you up front and 1342 honest, that 1343 is designed to work within the confines 1344 of the RST principles to keep the body 1345 safe.

For the trail side release, there's 1346 going to be a little bit more body turn, 1347 a little bit more effort that's exerted.

1348 That doesn't mean that you're going to 1349 just all of a sudden blow your back out 1350 and you're going to be in a hover round.

1351 What a hover round is, is those carts 1352 that you can drive around the supermarket 1353 and you can start putting your canned 1354 goods in them and they go up and down the 1355 aisles.

You know what I'm talking about.

1356 You're not going to blow your back out, 1357 but it is going to be more work and it 1358 can potentially put your back in.

a more 1359 compromised position, right?

Because your 1360 body hates sheer force and it hates sheer 1361 compression.

1362 So the trail side dominant release is 1363 going to be a little bit different 1364 because the body is going to work to help 1365 turn.

1366 And then the right arm is going to work 1367 to extend down the target line, right?

1368 Where the upper body is stalling in a 1369 lead side dominant release.

What you have 1370 to think about in a trail side dominant 1371 release is that the hips are going to 1372 fire, the shoulders are going to turn 1373 longer.

And then the right arm is working 1374 to push the club down the target line.

1375 Now, under no circumstance, when you look 1376 at this, is the club ever going to be 1377 able to work perfectly straight down the 1378 target line?

Okay?

The club face has to 1379 rotate.

No matter what you hear these 1380 talking idiots on TV say that this person 1381 holds a club face square to the target 1382 longer than anybody on the planet.

No, 1383 they don't.

1384 Okay?

I promise you.

The club face has to 1385 rotate.

If it doesn't, gear effect kicks 1386 in and the ball is going right field.

1387 Okay?

The club face rotates between 250 1388 to 350 degrees per second with good ball 1389 strikers.

1390 So, But that's what it's going to feel 1391 like to you.

Trail side releasers is that 1392 you're trying to fight off some of that 1393 rotation of the club face by trying to 1394 push it down the target line.

Now, what 1395 are you actually using to square the face 1396 at that point?

1397 Or to keep the club face rotating, I 1398 should say.

1399 What are you using?

1400 Think about it.

1401 Body turn, right?

So you have two options 1402 to move the club from this side of the 1403 body to the other.

You can A, 1404 take your body and turn in the direction 1405 of the target.

Now, if you look at the 1406 club, it rotated through here.

1407 or I can simply just take my wrist and do 1408 this.

1409 One of those is gonna be way more 1410 efficient, right?

One of those is gonna 1411 move the club pretty quickly.

1412 So what you're using is when you're 1413 firing your arm down the target line, 1414 like you would see in the tape drill, 1415 okay, is you would be using your body 1416 turn as the driver or the engine of your 1417 face rotation.

1418 Again, you can hit good shots that way.

1419 There are some playing professionals that 1420 use more of a trail side dominant 1421 release.

1422 I personally will always try to push you 1423 at home to a lead side dominant release.

1424 Because of the success that I got from it 1425 personally and the success that I've 1426 gotten from it in teaching it.

1427 Plus, it's an easier way to swing the 1428 club.

1429 So if you want to be a trail side 1430 dominant releaser, I would suggest that 1431 you go watch the tape drill on the 1432 website, where you actually watch how 1433 Chuck puts a piece of tape on the ground.

1434 And he works to try to get you to extend 1435 the club down the target line.

1436 Now, 1437 both of those style of releases have the 1438 exact same impact position when it comes 1439 to the left wrist.

Your left wrist still 1440 has to be flat or slightly both.

If 1441 you're pushing it, okay, your wrist 1442 cannot still be, it cannot be cupped, 1443 okay?

And it cannot be pointed out in 1444 front of you.

So you can see how both 1445 releases still have to have that left 1446 wrist into the spot.

1447 So for those of you at home, before you 1448 start trying to dabble in one or the 1449 other, 1450 train your left wrist to go from here to 1451 here.

Just train it.

Do it as many times 1452 as you possibly can over the first 1453 quarter or the first half of this year.

1454 Then train it to go from here to here.

1455 As much as you possibly can.

Why do you 1456 think when you see us on TV or you see us 1457 on the back of the range talking with one 1458 another, do you see us with the club in 1459 our hands?

Excuse me.

1460 Our left hand doing this.

Why?

1461 Because that's where we're controlling 1462 the club face from, baby.

That's what 1463 we're doing.

That's where we're 1464 controlling things from.

You won't really 1465 see people flinging around with their 1466 right hand.

Not very much.

But you'll 1467 always see us kind of talking like this.

1468 You'll see us kind of moving around.

1469 And you'll see us really talking with a 1470 lot of our left hand.

1471 That's what we're using to control the 1472 face.

most of us.

1473 So both releases are going to have the 1474 same impact position as far as left wrist 1475 is concerned.

1476 Okay.

1477 Both releases are going to be very 1478 different though, as far as how you're 1479 moving the club from one side to the 1480 other.

1481 The lead side dominant release is going 1482 to be the arms freed up from the body.

1483 It's going to be tension free.

1484 Trail side dominant release is going to 1485 be the body turning, extending the arm 1486 down the target line with more tension in 1487 there.

That's it.

You can say that you 1488 can, you can say that that would feel 1489 like more stability in the clubface for a 1490 lot of people.

I can tell you this right 1491 now.

If my hand is in front of the 1492 clubface, I feel stable in the clubface 1493 all day long.

Now, 1494 a lead side dominant release, I'm going 1495 to be upfront and honest with you.

1496 It errors on the side of a draw bias.

1497 Think about that.

Well, some of you don't 1498 want to hit a draw, right?

So if we talk 1499 about toe up to toe slightly left, that's 1500 going to be erroring on the side of the 1501 ball, having a little bit of right to 1502 left movement in it.

That doesn't mean 1503 that because it's going to error on the 1504 draw bias that You should keep yourself 1505 away from a lead side dominant release.

1506 You can just take a little bit of face 1507 rotation out of there by just either 1508 actively moving your arm quicker.

Or 1509 trying to get the club to be towed up on 1510 the lead side of the body and it will not 1511 go left.

1512 So how many of you at home are like, what 1513 the heck did Chris just talk about for 1514 these last 45 minutes?

1515 Okay.

1516 I'm going to do us all a favor because of 1517 the way that the information came in.

1518 Because of what I saw, because of what I 1519 saw in the last camp, we're going to not 1520 try to blend lower body movements and 1521 release together yet.

We're going to save 1522 that for Tuesday.

1523 So what I want to do is I want to walk 1524 you back through how I want you to 1525 practice this.

So there's no question, 1526 okay?

I want you at home to remember the 1527 number of reps that you're going to do in 1528 a session is between 100 to 300 reps.

1529 How you do those 100 to 300 reps is 1530 entirely up to you and how you create 1531 awareness of your movements.

1532 Write that down because I'm not going to 1533 give 22 reps of this, 42 reps of this 1534 because some people might have awareness 1535 very early on.

1536 I want you to practice in this order 1537 though.

I want you to start out with your 1538 left wrist and your left wrist only going 1539 just outside your trail thigh, flattening 1540 off and coming down to this position 1541 right here.

all the way to the middle of 1542 your lead thigh and flat or slightly 1543 bowed.

However many reps you need to do, 1544 whether you're watching football today or 1545 you're making a soup tomorrow, I owe you 1546 guys a French onion soup recipe, sorry.

1547 I just want you to be able to do that.

1548 When you feel froggy enough and you've 1549 got enough reps and you know it's 1550 perfect, then I want you to be able to do 1551 this.

Left wrist out in front of you, 1552 left wrist flat and behind you.

1553 However many reps it takes you to become 1554 proficient with that is going to be very 1555 different from one person to the next.

I 1556 know a lot of you at home are going to be 1557 like, watch this, watch this.

1558 And you're going to be like, got it.

1559 That's not how I want you to practice.

1560 Don't do that, okay?

Take your time.

Have 1561 some pride in this process.

1562 What at home did you ever learn this 1563 fast?

What did you learn?

1564 Nobody did, right?

You're not Zorro and 1565 you're not in kamikaze mode here.

Think 1566 about how you learned how to drive a 1567 manual transmission.

1568 It's slow, clunky, and it sucks.

Same 1569 thing with golf.

It's slow and clunky at 1570 first.

It's not sexy.

That's why if you 1571 listen back to what I said to you guys, 1572 when we used to teach this at the 1573 clinics, people were like, that's all I'm 1574 doing?

Yes, that's all you're doing.

1575 There's so much more to it than you can 1576 even understand.

Those simple little 1577 movements are where golf is made.

Just 1578 doing this.

That's why if you were to go 1579 out and play golf with me right now, 1580 okay, any of you.

1581 even if I'm not playing a lot of golf and 1582 practicing a lot, and Craig will say the 1583 same thing, we're going to go out there 1584 and we're going to compress the golf 1585 ball.

Why?

Well, because we know our left 1586 wrist is going to be in this position.

We 1587 know it is.

This is a lifelong change.

1588 This is the reason why I petitioned to 1589 Chuck that I wanted to teach this on 1590 session number two, because if I give you 1591 this now and we come back on Tuesday and 1592 then I start getting you guys to do some 1593 of this, where you're actually moving 1594 through nine to three screens and you're 1595 literally hitting golf balls where you're 1596 hitting rocket ships.

then now you've got 1597 the whole golf swing figured out, really.

1598 Because anything above this is just width 1599 and rotation, right?

So think about that.

1600 So you're going to train this left wrist 1601 only from here to here.

Then you're going 1602 to get your left arm to move through to 1603 the other side.

Not big, long swings, 1604 just little baby swings.

Just keep your 1605 arm moving like my shoulder is nailed to 1606 the wall.

Do this from a rehearsed impact 1607 position, okay, where your hips are open 1608 a little bit.

Okay, your left side is 1609 stacked up.

1610 Just doing this.

1611 That's it.

Then you can introduce the 1612 club.

1613 And you can do the same thing.

You can 1614 start with your weight on your left side, 1615 hips opened up.

Go right to here.

Stop.

1616 You have an impact bag at home?

Hit the 1617 impact bag.

Stop.

1618 Don't look at the club.

Look at your 1619 wrist.

1620 Look at the club last.

To a lot of you at 1621 home, it's going to look really shut.

1622 Why?

1623 Because there's some things that are 1624 happening there.

You don't have any axis 1625 tilt.

You don't have your right hand on 1626 the club down.

Pull it back.

1627 Don't look at the club to know if you're 1628 doing things right.

1629 Look at your wrist.

Every single time you 1630 do a rep, you stop and you check it.

1631 My wrist in the right spot.

Yes.

Now 1632 watch.

When I start doing reps and I let 1633 things go, I'm not looking at the club.

1634 I'm looking at my wrist.

I can see that 1635 my wrist has got a little tiny bit of 1636 cupping in it now because the club kind 1637 of pulled my wrist in that position.

I'm 1638 still going to try to get it back to a 1639 flat position and hold it static.

1640 Okay?

1641 Every single rep counts.

Don't just do 1642 this, okay?

Please, for the love of God, 1643 this is what we call rep stringing.

1644 This right here is not gonna do you an 1645 ounce of good, okay?

1646 Practice the way that you would play.

You 1647 don't go out there and hit 30 balls.

Some 1648 of you will, but you don't hit 30 balls 1649 in a row, 1650 right?

You hit one golf shot at a time.

1651 So you get to the point where you can do 1652 this.

1653 Guess what I want you to do?

1654 I want you to bring the right hand back 1655 to the side of the club.

I want you to 1656 touch it.

Now, when the right hand 1657 touches it, Okay.

You're going to have to 1658 allow your body to turn just a little 1659 bit.

So you can come to a static address 1660 position and you can start turning.

1661 Okay.

To get your hands just outside your 1662 trail thigh, shift back to the left and 1663 let it release on through.

You're 1664 checking the finished position.

Is my 1665 left wrist flat?

1666 Is it pointed behind me?

1667 Is my hands, my left arm straight and 1668 pointed out in front of me?

Yeah.

1669 That's how you do it.

If you see that 1670 those positions aren't correct, guess 1671 what I want you to do.

Correct it.

Now, 1672 for those of you that just sat through, 1673 the 10 o'clock show with me.

1674 This is a good example of how to put the 1675 foot on the accelerator and how to pull 1676 off.

If you notice that when the right 1677 hand is on the club and I have this 1678 really cut position on that side, or I 1679 noticed that I flipped down here in the 1680 middle, then what the heck do you think I 1681 want you to do?

1682 Get the right hand off there and retrain 1683 the left arm.

Take the club out of there.

1684 Go through these processes as a way to 1685 build awareness and to stack.

That's what 1686 Rotary Swing was founded on.

was teaching 1687 you guys in slow, methodical, mechanical 1688 movements and stacking in pieces after 1689 you got proficient with movements.

1690 That's it.

1691 And so now, once you get this right and 1692 you've done more reps with what we've 1693 done with the body, like I just showed 1694 you guys at the start of the session, 1695 then guess what we do on Tuesday?

1696 Is I start teaching you guys how to blend 1697 it together.

And Tuesday to next Saturday 1698 is when you're going to start developing 1699 a full nine to three swing.

Big deal, 1700 Chris.

1701 Nine to three swings.

You can go out 1702 there and hit nine to three swings.

This 1703 is my nine to three swing when I'm 1704 golfing my ball.

1705 Nine to three swing will produce 80% of 1706 my normal distance.

1707 Pretty crazy, right?

And so you're going 1708 to know that those positions that I just 1709 did in that nine to three format is going 1710 to be stacked on my left side.

It's going 1711 to be movement that gets me to a good 1712 solid impact position.

It's going to be 1713 the proper release.

1714 So for those of you at home, 1715 that missed the part of how I said to 1716 practice, 1717 please stick around with me because I 1718 want to make sure that there's no 1719 questions on this stuff.

1720 I would encourage most of you to try the 1721 lead side dominant release.

If you find 1722 that you're just screwing the pooch and 1723 you've got no chance and you just keep 1724 flipping the club, then you can try the 1725 trail side stuff to see if you get some 1726 success with it.

But based off of what 1727 I've seen over the last two camps that 1728 I've done, 1729 Everybody stayed lead side and everybody 1730 showed me forward shaft lane.

The two 1731 things that you need in golf to survive 1732 at this game is forward shaft lane and a 1733 square club face.

1734 With every club in your bag except for 1735 driver, 1736 okay?

Driver's gonna be a little bit 1737 different because they're set up for high 1738 launch, low ball spin.

Talk about that on 1739 next Saturday, okay?

1740 Your job is to get your wrist into this 1741 position.

You do that, train it as much 1742 as you possibly can between now and 1743 Tuesday, exactly how I outlined it for 1744 you.

1745 challenge yourself to move forward in it, 1746 continue to get more reps on the stuff 1747 that I showed you at the start of the 1748 session with your body.

1749 And now you're gonna show up on Tuesday 1750 ready to work because Tuesday is our big 1751 day, right?

Today was the important day 1752 as far as teaching you the nuts and bolts 1753 of the release.

1754 But Tuesday is a big day, right?

And so I 1755 want you to get as many reps on this 1756 stuff, both with the lower body movements 1757 that we talked about and now with the 1758 release.

Now, for those of you that are, 1759 trying to absorb all of the stuff that I 1760 just said and maybe you just want to go 1761 away for a little bit and want to kind of 1762 take some time away.

I get it.

So go 1763 enjoy the rest of your Saturday.

Watch 1764 some football.

1765 For those of you that want to stick 1766 around and do some Q&A with me, we'll do 1767 some Q&A.

1768 If I didn't teach you how to practice, if 1769 I didn't teach you how to do this stuff, 1770 please stick around because I have no 1771 problem sitting here as long as I need to 1772 to get this stuff right into your brain 1773 because this day is important.

This 1774 little small movement.

that everybody 1775 feels like is a piece of cake can get 1776 really, really squirrely if we're not 1777 doing these things right.

1778 Okay.

So your job is to get as much on 1779 the stuff that we talked about Tuesday 1780 and as much stuff on this release done 1781 between now and Tuesday.

Okay.

It's not a 1782 lot of time, but when you show up on 1783 Tuesday, we're going to start blending 1784 this stuff together.

And I'm going to 1785 teach you guys how to look at your swings 1786 and know when it's time to start moving 1787 up the ladder.

Okay.

You guys have been 1788 awesome.

Thank you so much.

Hopefully you 1789 guys have a great rest of your weekend.

1790 Now let's do some Q and A.

1791 1792 It seems with a softer left hand grip, 1793 letting the club release by relaxing, 1794 allowing the club to do what it's 1795 designed to do.

Yep.

So exactly.

1796 You might be wondering to yourself at 1797 home, and this is kind of, this is a 1798 question I get.

It's like, why did you 1799 just train my wrist to rotate when, if 1800 I'm, the club is going to do that 1801 anyways?

1802 Well, some very lead side, or I'm sorry, 1803 some very trail side dominant players 1804 have trained their left arm.

If you watch 1805 my arm here, and I'll do it from up the 1806 line.

1807 that when their arm swings underneath 1808 their shoulder, look at their wrist and 1809 forearm.

It doesn't rotate at all.

1810 They've trained their wrist and forearm 1811 to resist that even with very little 1812 tension, right?

So yes, this is a 1813 movement that we start out without the 1814 club just to make sure that your wrist 1815 and forearm are capable of being able to 1816 have some movement, but it's not an 1817 active movement.

It's a very passive 1818 movement.

1819 So when working on the drills this week, 1820 when using the axiom to get impact, 1821 I move my trail knee down the target once 1822 leaving the merry ground.

Does it 1823 eliminate the need?

1824 Does that eliminate the need?

Sorry.

1825 Think about the front hip going down and 1826 back.

1827 So not necessarily.

1828 So no, not necessarily at all.

So your 1829 trail knee, if it goes down the target 1830 line, it doesn't necessarily mean that 1831 your left hip is going to clear back, 1832 right?

I can move my right knee towards 1833 my left and not do anything.

right?

That 1834 right knee moving towards the left is a 1835 movement that's going to eventually be 1836 toned back, just so you know.

That's why 1837 you didn't hear me talk about it in 1838 session number one, right?

I talk about 1839 getting off the merry-go-round and moving 1840 your whole body.

This movement right 1841 here, the right knee moving towards the 1842 left, if you look at it, is way 1843 overcooked.

This is not, over the long 1844 haul, a great position to be in at 1845 impact.

A great position to be at impact 1846 is with your foot rolled to the instep.

1847 Yes, this movement right here was taught 1848 through the initial axiom Y.

1849 because you guys were at home, were 1850 afraid to move, right?

So it doesn't 1851 necessarily guarantee that the hips are 1852 going to get cleared out now.

1853 So why is it important to initially cup 1854 the lead wrist?

So that's just to make 1855 sure that your grip is correct, 1856 right?

So you want to make sure that your 1857 grip, okay, there's grip videos on the 1858 website.

I'm not going to go through 1859 every piece of the grip, but you want to 1860 make sure that this V in your lead hand 1861 is up towards your right ear.

So you 1862 should be able to see two, two and a half 1863 knuckles, okay?

1864 So you're going to start with a little 1865 bit of cupping there.

1866 My apologies for earlier.

I thought the 1867 questions would just be in the queue.

No, 1868 Steve, you don't have to apologize, bud.

1869 We're all good in the hood.

I don't get 1870 mad at stuff like that.

1871 So I just don't know where the question 1872 1873 So are we to focus on foot movements of 1874 the axiom?

Are we to rely on the reps to 1875 ingrain these movements and have zero 1876 swing thoughts?

1877 So the foot movement, you're still 1878 focusing on it, right?

So if you're doing 1879 that lower body work, I would expect you 1880 to be thinking about six, seven, eight, 1881 nine, but you're using that movement and 1882 counterbalancing it from the lead side.

1883 So you're going to be getting to a point 1884 where you're going to be doing a lot of 1885 reps, thinking about both of those things 1886 happening simultaneously.

1887 So the six o'clock through seven, eight, 1888 nine is the important numbers.

So I want 1889 you to think about that.

And I want you 1890 to couple that with the lead side, but 1891 you're going to get to a point where that 1892 movement is just going to start happening 1893 without having to really think about it a 1894 whole lot.

1895 Okay.

1896 So when should I start to feel the 1897 shoulders too open?

Just pass squat to 1898 square during the squat phase.

So when 1899 should I start to feel the shoulders 1900 open?

1901 Now, so your shoulders are going to stay 1902 really, really wound up as long as you 1903 can.

Squat to square, you're trying to 1904 keep them wound.

Even at post-up, you're 1905 trying to keep them wound.

Okay, your 1906 shoulders are getting pulled around into 1907 a square position.

1908 Unless you're going to be a trail side 1909 dominant releaser, then the shoulders are 1910 going to keep turning as you're extending 1911 the arm.

So you're trying to keep your 1912 shoulders from rotating, right?

Your hips 1913 are going to lead the way.

1914 Remember that analogy or that equation 1915 that I gave you guys in the last session 1916 is that if your hips are turned 45 and 1917 your shoulders are at 90, your hips are 1918 going to go from 45 degrees closed to 45 1919 degrees open.

That's going to pull the 1920 shoulders back to a square position.

You 1921 want to try to restrict that as much as 1922 possible because the more you turn your 1923 upper body through the hitting area, the 1924 later the club face is going to be to 1925 release.

1926 So think about this.

If I get up, and I 1927 start turning my body through the hitting 1928 area, look at the club base.

1929 It's late.

1930 You're going to have to flip at it with 1931 your hands and try to get it back to 1932 square or fire from the right arm.

1933 So in the backswing, do you physically 1934 cock your front wrist on the way back or 1935 does the wrist cock automatically during 1936 the transition?

Great question.

So we're 1937 not talking about backswing.

I'll talk 1938 about the takeaway.

1939 Your wrist will actually naturally start 1940 to set and support the club into your 1941 takeaway position.

And it should.

start 1942 to help support the club as it goes 1943 further back, right?

So what I mean by 1944 natural support is that it would feel 1945 very awkward if I took the club back and 1946 the club was just kind of lagging down 1947 here, right?

See how it's kind of pulling 1948 my wrist down?

So my brain is going to 1949 start trying to help support the club to 1950 keep it up.

We just don't want you moving 1951 from the wrist where you just start 1952 setting it heaps and heaps and heaps.

1953 Why?

1954 Well, because you start activating your 1955 fast-twitch muscles.

You start activating 1956 the muscles in your wrists.

They're just 1957 like any other muscle group.

And you 1958 start that stretch shortening cycle.

You 1959 get them like this.

They want to fire 1960 back in the other direction.

1961 Okay.

So hopefully that answers that 1962 question.

1963 All right.

So to be clear, we should 1964 practice movement through post-up.

Then 1965 work on left arm and hand at impact with 1966 a slightly bowed left wrist for forward 1967 shaft lean at impact.

1968 Face point.

Exactly.

1969 We should practice movement through post 1970 -up.

Yes.

1971 And then the slightly bowed left wrist.

1972 Yep, exactly.

So you got it.

1973 Perfect.

1974 Jeremy, thank you so much for the kind 1975 words, man.

You're awesome.

Thank you so 1976 much.

1977 You keep skipping my question.

Sorry, I'm 1978 not trying.

1979 Things are happening so fast here.

Sorry.

1980 If and when I add the club, have a flat 1981 left wrist impact and the face is.

1982 and the face is closed and not square, 1983 does that mean my grip is too strong or 1984 something?

So yeah, so it could be a grip 1985 issue.

So you want to double check the 1986 grip at address.

1987 If you look down and it is shut, okay, 1988 don't think that you're doing anything 1989 wrong.

If your grip is right and you look 1990 down and your wrist is in this position, 1991 it does look shut.

Remember, I don't have 1992 one thing here.

I don't have axis tilt 1993 and I don't have my right hand on the 1994 club to pull the club back.

1995 Okay, so that's where I need to move you 1996 away from.

1997 the results of what the club looks like.

1998 If you come down and you hit balls when 1999 the right hand is back on the club and 2000 you have axis tilt and the ball starts 2001 sharply to the left, then we would have 2002 to look at your rate of rotation of the 2003 club face going back.

We would have to 2004 look if there's some active influence 2005 from the lead wrist on the way down.

We 2006 would have to look at if there's any 2007 stalling at the arm.

That's the only true 2008 way to get the club face to start turning 2009 shut really fast.

So again, that example 2010 is that if I keep my left arm moving 2011 through the hitting area and I'm just 2012 holding the club lightly, the club is 2013 going to be rotating at a very constant 2014 rate, 2015 okay?

If I slow down my arm, watch, 2016 okay, the club can rotate really fast 2017 there, right?

So there's many different 2018 factors that can shut the face down.

I 2019 would start with a grip and then just 2020 make sure that when you're going back 2021 that the wrist and forearm rotate.

And 2022 then on the way through, you don't want 2023 to try to actively manipulate it.

Just 2024 let the club kind of release on its own.

2025 If it's still shut, then let us look at 2026 2027 Sorry, I didn't mean to miss it.

2028 As I get to impact position, is it okay 2029 to have my left foot start to roll or 2030 should it stay flat?

Thank you so much 2031 for a refreshing take on learning golf a 2032 lot.

2033 When my ball hits in the brain.

No, well, 2034 my pleasure.

So I want you to be flat on 2035 your left foot.

Okay, so when you're 2036 doing these drills, you should be flat 2037 here.

You're rolling to the outside.

2038 That's not necessarily ideal.

2039 You're going to see me in my golf swing.

2040 I get onto the outside portion of my foot 2041 as I start rolling up into finish.

But if 2042 you look at it to impact, it's really 2043 solid through this point.

2044 momentum and inertia and my ability.

I 2045 don't like side bend.

Okay.

I hate it 2046 because my back hates it.

So I don't stay 2047 in posture very long.

So I turn up and 2048 out of it.

So you see me roll to the 2049 outside part.

2050 So Steve says six, seven, eight, nine.

2051 One other question would be in regards to 2052 the right foot.

Should you be on the toe 2053 at impact?

2054 Oops.

2055 Where did that question go?

2056 2057 Yes, if you're working on the true axiom 2058 movement with helping getting the hips 2059 out of the way, you're going to be on the 2060 big toe at impact.

2061 Over time, you're going to see that Greg 2062 and I will tone this back to be rolled to 2063 the instep.

When you get really good hip 2064 action, you're all the way on your left 2065 side, you're going to see that you're 2066 going to roll down onto the instep.

We 2067 talked about that in session one, where I 2068 talk about the role of the right foot in 2069 the downswing.

My favorite video on the 2070 website.

It's a video that every day that 2071 I've done golf instruction for the last 2072 10 years.

I have used that video with 2073 somebody.

2074 At impact, where should your left wrist 2075 be in relative to your lead thigh?

So 2076 when it's left hand only, you want it to 2077 be kind of towards the end of the left 2078 thigh.

When the right hand's on there, 2079 it's going to be to the middle of the 2080 left thigh.

So great question.

That's a 2081 variable though.

Okay.

So just so you 2082 understand that, what I mean by variable 2083 is some people like to have a lot of 2084 shaft lean.

Some people like to have very 2085 little shaft lean.

2086 What I actually, I'm kind of like, 2087 I was kind of the opposite.

I liked my 2088 stock ball flight to be very high.

And 2089 I'll talk to you about that for a second 2090 here.

So my lead wrist at impact was kind 2091 of on the interior part of my lead thigh, 2092 just moving in.

You can still see I lean 2093 the shaft.

So my stock shot would be very 2094 high because I didn't de-loft it like 2095 some of the people all the way to the 2096 middle of the left thigh.

Now, I liked 2097 this approach because it was easier for 2098 me to hit the golf ball high and then try 2099 to flight it down.

By trying to bow my 2100 wrist off.

To be my specialty shots, 2101 where 2102 People that have a very low ball flight, 2103 to get them to try to hit it higher, what 2104 do they have to do?

2105 Well, they have to try to fight off shaft 2106 lean.

So they have to feel like they're 2107 releasing the club a little bit on the 2108 sooner side, which feels like a flip or a 2109 scoop.

2110 So that's my personal preference.

Again, 2111 that's very player dependent.

2112 So shaft lean is considered a variable.

2113 So if you have three degrees or four 2114 degrees of shaft lean, fine.

Some people 2115 like to have seven, eight degrees of 2116 shaft lean.

2117 Okay, so.

2118 Left wrist slightly cupped at address.

Do 2119 you work on rolling left knuckles under 2120 in the back swing to get the flat wrist 2121 at the top?

So now, so the left wrist is 2122 going to rotate and it's going to begin 2123 to set and it's going to start to 2124 flatten.

And a true takeaway, it's not 2125 fully anatomically flat.

But for now, I 2126 want you to try to get it flat because 2127 it's going to be easier for you to get it 2128 to here in a short space.

Okay, now, if 2129 it's a little bit cupped going back, it's 2130 fine.

Okay, as long as it comes down 2131 flat, you can change the pitch of the 2132 wrist very quickly by.

Just thinking 2133 about keeping your knuckles back in 2134 behind your wrist bones.

Okay, so this is 2135 cupped, 2136 right?

2137 My knuckles are now back in behind my 2138 wrist bones.

This is bowed.

Okay, so as 2139 you start moving from this side down, if 2140 you think about your knuckles staying 2141 back in behind your wrist bones, it 2142 automatically starts to force you to bow 2143 it.

But what actually happens in the real 2144 golf swing is that the left wrist starts 2145 cupped.

It starts to flatten.

And then 2146 the weight of the club, as it starts to 2147 move into the vertical plane, is moving 2148 back in this direction.

So it's going to 2149 be pulling that wrist into that 2150 anatomically flat position, right?

And so 2151 the right hand helps act as a support 2152 system to it.

Great question.

2153 All right.

2154 So if I release the club and don't get my 2155 head back to the original spot, will I 2156 smother and hit it left?

2157 Awesome question.

Yes, you will hit it 2158 left of the planet.

Why do I know that?

2159 Because that's what took me out of 2160 professional golf, that and my mindset.

2161 If your head stays back, so if you shift 2162 your weight over here and you turn and 2163 then you keep your head back, right?

So 2164 you're shifting your hips and your spine 2165 leans in this way.

Watch what happens.

2166 So if I go to the top of my swing and I 2167 lean my spine away, what does that do to 2168 shaft plane?

2169 Flattens it.

2170 What's that do to the rate of closure on 2171 the way down?

2172 That forces the rate of closure to become 2173 much higher.

2174 The supination, 2175 okay, your left wrist is supinating on 2176 the way down, is a very weak movement.

2177 Pronation is a very.

Strong movement.

2178 So if you're coming down stuck because 2179 you're hanging on your right side and 2180 it's back in here, you're going to flip 2181 the club over really quickly.

And so your 2182 rate of closure is going to be 800 to 2183 1000 degrees per second.

It's just too 2184 high, right?

2185 So very good question.

2186 How do you create speed with a lead side 2187 swing?

2188 How do you create speed with a lead side 2189 swing?

Pretty easily.

2190 Use the axiom movements, 2191 right?

So that pressure shift.

2192 install the body and let the arm swing 2193 through, right?

So you're going to be 2194 turning aggressively and shifting left.

2195 That movement right there is how you 2196 produce speed in the swing.

Then you also 2197 have the ability to be able to use your 2198 troublemaker a little bit, right?

You can 2199 actually take your troublemaker and as 2200 you're starting to post up and let the 2201 arm swing freely, now you can start 2202 adding a little bit of thrust like a 2203 throw the ball drill.

And so I swung the 2204 club when I was playing full time.

I was, 2205 I'm not going to say I was like 120 or 2206 125.

That would be, I would, I was 115 to 2207 118 is where I was.

Swinging the club 2208 from elite side dominant release.

2209 And it was pretty easy to swing it that 2210 fast.

2211 I'm not swinging that speed now just 2212 because I'm a little out of shape, right?

2213 I had a little bit too much of the food 2214 during the COVID.

2215 That's just what it is.

2216 All right.

2217 When shoulder turn is completed, should 2218 weight be at six o'clock or later?

Yep.

2219 So as soon as you're finishing off your 2220 turn, that weight should be moving into 2221 six o'clock and you should be working to 2222 get off the merry-go-round, right?

That's 2223 the.

That's the beauty of it is that 2224 that six o'clock position should indicate 2225 that you're ready to start rocking and 2226 rolling.

2227 Why we broke it up and gave you dead 2228 drill stuff is because we noticed that 2229 when people are working around the merry 2230 round, they were just turning like 40 2231 degrees.

So you want to feel like that 2232 body turn is at 90 degrees and you should 2233 feel the weight get into six o'clock and 2234 settle and just drive off of it.

2235 Good question.

2236 What is your left wrist supposed to look 2237 like at the end after impact when you 2238 practice this with your right hand on the 2239 club?

2240 So after impact, 2241 with my right hand staying on the club, 2242 you should try to still keep it as flat 2243 as you possibly can through this 2244 position.

2245 If it's got a little, that's pretty flat 2246 there.

2247 So you can actually do this.

You can 2248 swing the left arm over to the other side 2249 of the body, make sure it's flat, and 2250 then go get it with the right hand.

2251 This is something that's taught in five 2252 minutes to a perfect release.

Stay back 2253 behind it.

2254 All right.

Where are we at?

2255 Did I miss any questions?

2256 So John, thank you very much for the kind 2257 words.

I appreciate it.

2258 You should have access to these videos 2259 for forever.

That's what I think we have 2260 it set up for.

In the past, we've had to 2261 lock the videos down after a certain 2262 timeframe because we had people sharing 2263 the videos, right?

This is information 2264 that we like to keep to this environment, 2265 right?

That's not fair to the rest of the 2266 people that are out there.

So you should 2267 have access to them for quite a while.

2268 So I think we're winding down.

2269 Paul, thank you very much.

You're 2270 awesome.

2271 Do you ever increase tension in your arms 2272 and shoulders during the hitting area?

2273 So, yeah, I'm gonna answer the question.

2274 I'll be honest with you, yes.

There are 2275 very, I shouldn't say very few, or I'm 2276 not gonna give you a set number of times 2277 in a round.

but I'm hitting specialty 2278 shots.

I'm working the golf ball, right?

2279 So what I can tell you is that in order 2280 for me to kind of get the ball or the 2281 club face not to rotate as hard, I need 2282 to firm up my left wrist a little bit 2283 down through there.

So I'm kind of 2284 fighting off some rotation.

2285 That's when you start trying to hit 2286 little cuts.

Or if I'm trying to deal off 2287 the club a lot where I'm trying to get a 2288 lot of bowing of the wrist, I do feel an 2289 increase of tension in there.

But if I'm 2290 trying to hit a stock shot, what I mean 2291 by stock shot is just.

Like I'm trying 2292 to let things free flow, right?

I'm like, 2293 I'm set up.

This is a nine iron.

So my 2294 stock nine iron, I know when I was 2295 playing good golf is going to go 152, 2296 right?

So if I turn my body, okay, that 2297 would be a stock shot right there for me.

2298 Okay.

So if I'm trying to hit 148 yard 2299 shot on trajectory, it's a little bit 2300 lower than I might firm up the left 2301 wrist.

So yeah, there's maybe some times.

2302 How do you release tension in your arms 2303 and your shoulder?

2304 Stop squeezing them.

Stop overusing them.

2305 The arm movements in the swing are very 2306 subtle.

When we start getting into the 2307 compression drills and we start adding 2308 elevation and flexion, this movement and 2309 this movement are very chill.

It's not a 2310 workout program.

Your arms in the swing 2311 are getting propelled by what your body 2312 is doing.

Think about that.

If I sit up 2313 here and I'm just swinging my arm back 2314 and forth, 2315 I feel like I walk in the park, how would 2316 I get my arm to go faster without being 2317 tense, how would I do it?

2318 Well, I would start having to shift my 2319 weight a little bit, right?

2320 I'd start having to turn my body.

I'm not 2321 trying to make my arm get tense to make 2322 this movement happen, but it's going 2323 faster because I'm using movement, right?

2324 That's how you need to think about it.

2325 Your arms and your hands can produce 2326 speed for sure, 2327 okay?

But in order for you to be able to 2328 swing this freaking thing at 100 miles an 2329 hour, You got to have 32 pounds of 2330 muscle.

Now, I know I look like a svelte 2331 young man and I sit at the gym and do 2332 curls for the girls all day, but I don't.

2333 I don't have 32 pounds of muscle 2334 available to me and my shoulders and my 2335 arms.

I don't.

But I do have it available 2336 to me and my biggest surface area 2337 muscles, my lats, my chunkiest muscles, 2338 my glutes, my abs, my obliques.

2339 Abs, obliques.

And so those muscles were 2340 working on getting engaged in the swing 2341 to help transfer speed and energy.

right?

2342 That's why in the setup position, and you 2343 don't hear a lot of people talk about 2344 this, is that the scapulas need to be in 2345 a down and depressed position.

You can't 2346 have your shoulders rounded and transfer 2347 energy from your trunk and your core.

2348 Why?

Well, because there was a big study 2349 done from a biomechanist named Jeff 2350 Broker, Who did this study?

That was able 2351 to uncover that the position of the 2352 scapula in any hitting or throwing sport 2353 was critical for transferring energy from 2354 down here.

So think about a boxer.

This 2355 is always a good example.

2356 A boxer doesn't hold his shoulder up here 2357 and throw punches, right?

A boxer holds 2358 his shoulder down.

So he's using his legs 2359 and he's driving and his power is coming 2360 out through his arm.

So the same thing in 2361 the golf swing is that you don't need to 2362 overuse your small muscles.

That's where 2363 typically people start really not 2364 enjoying the game is because they're 2365 trying to do too much here.

If you think 2366 about keeping your arms just chilled out 2367 and you move your body, then golf becomes 2368 a whole different world.

2369 All right.

Are you going to deal with 2370 this issue of swing thoughts in these 2371 sessions?

In other words, are we supposed 2372 to swing thought our way through the 2373 movements in that first action?

2374 Swing thought.

So, I mean, I'm teaching 2375 you movements, right?

So there's going to 2376 be some point where these movements, 2377 you're having to think about them at 2378 first, but then those thoughts, after 2379 they become part of your subconscious.

2380 So I'm teaching you movement that you're 2381 going to ingrain and drill.

And so you're 2382 going to break these things down into.

2383 a few different pieces.

So I like to use 2384 cue words, right?

So you're going to hear 2385 on Tuesday where I'm going to have you 2386 pressure shift.

I'm going to have you 2387 turn.

I'm going to have you aggressively 2388 move and keep that left arm moving 2389 through the hitting area.

So you're going 2390 to turn these into swing thoughts for 2391 now, but then we eventually want to move 2392 them off the list.

2393 So I'm sorry if that, if I didn't answer 2394 your question, I'm sorry.

I'm maybe a 2395 little bit lost in that one.

2396 So excellent work has always been with 2397 you guys through the evolution of 2398 rotation bootcamp.

Well, thank you very 2399 much, Steve.

That's awesome.

Thank you so 2400 much for the kind words.

2401 As I practice, can I start to stack the 2402 wrist and the rotation to impact?

Yeah, 2403 absolutely.

2404 Yep, absolutely.

I want you to stack, 2405 right?

I want you to move exactly through 2406 the program, just like I outlined.

All 2407 right, I want you to be able to put one 2408 piece in there, make sure it's good, 2409 add the next piece in, and then the next 2410 piece, okay?

Just like I walked you 2411 through today.

2412 All right, I think.

We're winding down 2413 on questions.

If I've missed any 2414 questions, please type those up and send 2415 them my way.

Craig, thank you very much 2416 for being a rock star.

As always, you're 2417 the best of the best, man, for helping me 2418 out.

2419 All right.

2420 So it looks like we're winding down.

2421 So let me end with this.

2422 Hopefully you guys enjoyed.

2423 the presentation today.

I know things 2424 feel really fast.

We're a two-week 2425 program.

We've got four sessions to get 2426 this stuff in.

2427 Release stuff.

Don't overthink it.

Keep 2428 it simple.

Follow the plan.

2429 Also, break up your time and give 2430 yourself a little bit more of a kick in 2431 the butt with these body movements.

Can't 2432 do that stuff enough.

2433 Work on getting these two things as close 2434 to what you can with what we talked about 2435 today.

2436 Also, do me a big favor.

Enjoy your 2437 weekend.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

2438 Come back on Tuesday.

2439 Please review the new homework 2440 assignment.

2441 So the new homework assignment is to work 2442 on your left wrist going from here to 2443 here.

2444 That's your homework assignment.

Now, 2445 once you can do this to here, all I want 2446 you to do is go to this position, okay?

2447 I thought I said that.

If I didn't, then 2448 I'm sorry.

That's your homework.

You do 2449 this to this, okay?

Then you can add the 2450 club in and you can do the same thing.

2451 That's what I want you to be good at, 2452 just from here to here.

If you can get 2453 your right hand back on there and you can 2454 still do the same movements, perfectly 2455 fine.

The other piece of the homework is 2456 exactly what I said to you, exactly what 2457 I said to you at the start of the 2458 session, is going back through those 2459 things in chunky pieces and working on 2460 creating movement, okay?

2461 I'm sorry.

I hope I've made that clear.

2462 If I haven't, Robert, then let's set up 2463 some time to talk, you and I, after the 2464 session where I can kind of get you into 2465 a Zoom format and we can talk a little 2466 bit about what I want you to do 2467 specifically.

2468 Okay.

I see what you're saying.

So I know 2469 it sucks to have to watch me for a full 2470 hour, but go back through it.

Listen to 2471 it.

You might hear some information in 2472 there that actually kind of clicked with 2473 you.

Your job is to just be able to do 2474 this.

to here, to then to here, and add 2475 the club back in, and then be able to do 2476 more of this.

2477 Okay, and then eventually be able to get 2478 those two things blended together, or 2479 those three things blended together, I 2480 should say.

So you do them in three 2481 pieces, blend them together with the 2482 secret sauce movement, do more of that, 2483 and then if you show up Tuesday, and you 2484 can do this, 2485 okay, if you can do that, and you can do 2486 this, you're ahead of the game, 2487 okay?

You can do those two movements with 2488 or without a golf club in your hands.

2489 You're in the game.

You're in the 2490 business, okay?

Maybe that's what I 2491 should have started out with.

Do those 2492 two movements right there, and Tuesday 2493 becomes a piece of cake.

2494 All right, I'm getting out of here.

I'm 2495 going to go decompress.

It's been a long 2496 morning.

Hope you guys have a wonderful 2497 rest of your weekend.

I will talk with 2498 you guys soon.