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

Session 4 of 4

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So there's some actual steps that are missing from the soup, and I'll explain this to you guys at the end.

So first off, I made a couple of microphone adjustments.

Does the sound sound all right?

Is it too low now?

I tried to reduce it just a little bit, or is it just fine?

Oh, and welcome everybody.

Hopefully everybody's having a wonderful day so far.

Kenneth, good, thank you very much.

Kenneth, how you doing today, sir?

Hopefully everybody's doing wonderfully.

I see everybody's slowly starting to come into the room.

Got a big day today.

Okay, all good on the sound?

All right.

So I'm hoping, because I had a little issue with the camera falling offline when I was making these adjustments, so I was concerned that my mic pack didn't get picked up, but it seems like it did.

Okay, now we can all settle in and have ourselves a little Saturday session of golf instruction.

Hopefully.

You guys are doing awesome.

Hopefully you guys have been able to start blending the movements in the release together.

I didn't get a lot of reviews sent in.

I don't know if I didn't get a chance to talk to Craig earlier, but the reviews that I did see, I did see some faults that we're going to talk about today because I like to be able to address some fault fixes.

Because if we only saw a few samples of what people were working on, I think there's probably other people that are battling with this stuff as well.

So it's pretty important that we address it so that you guys, if you see it yourselves, that you know how to work through it.

So see, everybody is getting in here.

Okay.

Yeah, Alan, so there's a missing piece.

So I didn't add it in there because I ran out of time typing it, to be honest with you, and I was worried about the mic pack.

So I'll talk to you about that at the end because we're going to do the golf instruction part now, and then we'll talk about all of our soups that we like to make.

So funny thing.

Really funny thing for you guys.

I don't know.

I know that some of you guys are in parts of the world where it's real cold.

And so Florida is about to drop down to like the 30 degree mark, maybe just a little bit underneath it.

And our, our news stations are like issuing all of these crazy warnings, like warning, stay inside.

If you have outdoor pets, bring them inside.

And I'm like, it's 30 degrees folks.

It's not that cold.

Okay.

There are other people that are in like minus 30 degree wind chill weather right now.

So, all right.

So hopefully you guys are all staying warm out there.

If you happen to be in Florida, then take cover.

Everybody pray for us because 30 degree weather is coming to get us.

68 degrees in central California.

So rub it in, sir.

You guys have some good weather over there.

21.

Yeah, see, I'm sure you guys don't have 14 this morning.

All right.

There's the lowest one of the day so far.

Blizzard today in Boston.

I did hear that you guys were getting some crazy weather up there.

Minus 35.

There you go.

I knew it was coming.

40 in Houston.

Frost delays this morning.

Here we go.

20 degrees.

Now, the question back to you guys that have these low temps, was there any warnings issued to you guys?

I know the blizzard, I'm sure there was a warning.

I got a big kick out of it this morning.

So, no warnings for us, I figured.

I guess we're just a bunch of wussies here in Florida.

That's the nature of the beast.

So I kind of like the cool weather though because now my wife can make me get out and do yard work and I'm not just like sweating beyond belief.

So, all right.

So it looks like we're all getting settled in here.

So we got a big day today for many different reasons.

This is the last day of our camp.

So hopefully you guys have enjoyed the first three sessions and you've been able to make this stuff work for you.

And so I just want to kind of do a quick recap on what you should have taken away from camp so far.

Okay.

And so the first thing is, is that you should be working to get really proficient with your lower body movement, right?

Because using your legs and your hips is extremely imperative for stability, power, and safety, right?

This is going to be one of the driving forces of your golf swing.

If you neglect to use your legs and your hips, then guess what?

You're going to use your arms and your shoulders.

And you can produce a lot of speed through your arms and your shoulders.

You really can.

Okay, I can get this club moving around my body really quickly with just my arms and my shoulders.

But what you're going to leave yourself susceptible to is you're going to leave yourself open to a golf swing that's built on timing.

Now, let's talk about that for a second.

Timing is one of those things that we should be extracting from the golf swing.

We want the golf swing to do the same thing every single day, right?

Think about that.

If you want to be consistent, and I would be, it would be very safe to say, if I had a thousand people sitting in the room in front of me, and I said, what do you guys want from your golf instruction today?

A lot of you would say, I want to be consistent.

I would think most of you, and some of you would probably say, I want to hit the ball a little bit further.

So what we're trying to do is we want to eliminate the things in the golf swing that can cause timing.

It's one of my least favorite expressions, right?

So I'm sure some of you have said this yourself or some of you have heard this or like, hey, you know, sitting in the pro shop, like, how'd you play today, Ron?

And Ron goes, oh, my timing was off.

I played terrible.

Well, why is your timing off?

What are you working on in your golf swing that's allowing you to have timing?

Now, I'm not going to lie to you.

There are some things that are timed in the golf swing.

It's all about sequence, right?

So getting yourself to move in the correct order is absolutely key.

And so that's what we did for the first session.

And into the second session really is give you the nuts and bolts of where you should be moving from, where you should be focused on the most.

Because if you get this stuff right and you get into that really good sound impact position that's really stable, then you know that you've produced proper sequencing.

You know that you have a platform that you can let the thing fly off of.

But that leads into the next thing you should become pretty proficient with or have a better understanding of at this point.

And that's delivery points.

Now, how many of you at this point, how many of you at this point, it looks like I'm broadcasting perfectly fine right now, Michael.

I'm sorry.

So it might be on your end.

Okay.

So how many of you at home right now, and you can post this up in the comments, don't understand what a good delivery point looks like at this point.

How many?

I'm hoping nobody because that was the whole purpose of session two was to talk to you about the delivery point and then impact.

If you don't have a good delivery point, and what I mean by delivery point, for those of you that missed this, is that when we get down into the release, we want the club to be pretty close to being in line with our hands and the club shaft parallel to the ground.

We don't want the club way out here.

We don't want the club way back here.

We want our arms underneath us.

We want our hips opening up.

We want our shoulders to be a little bit closed at this point because we haven't fully released it.

But this spot from face on and down the line is the next piece that you need to be very clear on.

Now, if you have a good delivery point and you've got good legwork, then the release now is basically up to you, right?

So hopefully at this point, some of you have made the decision on what side you want to release the club from.

If you're still kind of on the fence about it, then I'm going to help you make your decision today.

Because again, there are going to be some people that are just way too right-sided and.

They don't want to go through the struggle period of trying to eliminate the right side.

And that's perfectly fine.

That's not me knocking you or telling you that you're an out, okay?

So the first two things that we've gotten are proper lower body movement so that you can load, you can transition, and you can post up.

You should all have a good understanding of that as well as delivery point.

Now, the next piece is impact.

Impact, no matter where you're releasing the club from, okay, whether it's the right side or the left side, trail side or lead side, your left hand needs to be flat or slightly bowed.

It needs to be pointed down the target line.

Why?

Million dollar question.

Because if it's flat and pointed down the target line, then we know that the club shaft is leaning forward.

Okay.

We know that our hand is going to be in front of this club head.

You have to de-loft the club and you have to have it square in order to be able to compress the golf ball.

I shouldn't say you don't have to have it squared to compress the ball, but you have to have the shaft leaning forward in order to compress it.

You cannot have your hand back here and hit down on the golf ball.

You can't do it.

Test it.

Try it.

You can't do it.

The golf ball is going to be hit more on the upswing and the ball is going to ride the face.

So now, three important things that you should have in your brain.

My lower body movement, my delivery point, and my impact position.

If you can do those things, then this camp was a great success for you.

Because again, the release is going to always need work.

You're always going to work on making sure that when you get to this delivery point that you can let the club go and just let it do its thing.

Or if you're going to be a trail side dominant releaser, then you're going to have to work on continuing to turn your upper body and then firing the club down the target line.

That's just something you're always going to want to do.

Now, how do we get ourselves to let the club release?

From a lead side dominant standpoint, all you really do at this point is remember that your arm is being propelled from the top of the swing down by your legs.

So your job is to let your arm just move past your body and keep your grip pressure light.

Because if it's in that delivery point, the club does all of the work for you.

That's right.

It does all the work for you.

It's designed to be swung on an incline plane.

It's designed to rotate.

It's going to pull itself down to the bottom of the swing arc.

And where is the bottom of the swing arc determined by?

Well, if you didn't catch that piece, then that's my mistake.

Your determining factor of the bottom out point in the swing is your lead shoulder.

This is your primary pivot point in the golf swing.

This is determining where the club is going to hit the bottom out point.

Now, when the right hand is on the golf club, that moves the bottom out point to the inside part of the lead shoulder.

It's not going to be directly underneath the center of the shoulder.

It's just to the inside of that.

So that's why we play the ball position.

off of our lead ear because the bottom out point is going to be just behind that or just in front of it, I should say.

So now we're going to be able to hit down on it.

Now, how many of you at home have heard the ball position should start kind of middle back of our stance and progressively start moving forward?

How many people have heard that?

I'd be willing to bet you every single person in this room has.

I actually used to do that myself.

Why?

Because that's what I was told was right.

Because when you have higher lofted clubs, you want to have it back.

But you have to remember.

That was before we understood the important parts of data, these data points that we're able to get now.

If you have your ball position back, what's the swing plane going to be?

Well, the swing plane at that point, because the club is working on an arc, is going to be more from the inside.

And vice versa, if you have the ball position too far forward, where's the path going to be?

And this is something that we're going to talk about with drivers at the end, because I know somebody in this room is going to ask me about a driver.

So you're going to find that when I start talking about it, the further the ball position is forward in our stance, the further the path is to the left.

So you have to make adjustments for that.

Now, I also understand that there is a stock shot and there are specialty shots.

A stock shot is when we are set up and we are trying to hit a certain number.

Like I know my nine iron is going to go 154 yards if I make a full swing and I move through my position just like I would normally.

If I need to flight it or if I need to move it in one direction or the other, there's going to be some minor differences that I might play around with ball position.

But think about that stuff as being advanced level.

You're here to build a stock shot.

You're here to build a stock swing that's going to produce good consistency, a good tight ball flight.

And when you become really good at that, then you can start working your way through specialty shots.

And that's a really fun part of my job and Craig's job.

Why?

Well, because we get to sit there and have you guys send in reviews.

And we start talking about little adjustments that you can make to get the ball flight that you're looking for.

That's right.

You're going to get to a point where you can be nitpicky with us.

I love that part.

I love working on ball striking drills with students.

Why?

Well, because that's when you guys have really got the movement in a good spot.

And you can go out there and make little adjustments to what you're doing with your lead wrist, little adjustments to what you're doing with your trail hand.

And you can ultimately affect the ball flight and get it to move in whatever direction you want.

Face angle is 80%.

Now, if you leave the camp with an understanding of how to move your lower body, just like this, and you understand how to get into a good delivery point and impact, and then you can leave by doing those two things together, whether it's a lead side dominant or a trail side dominant, just those two pieces right there together, whether it's hip high to hip high, nine to three, or in full swing territory like we're going to talk about today, then you have a great success.

in this camp, I promise you.

Because that's why we engineered it this way.

That's why Craig and I had a very big discussion with one another after our first camp.

And we went to Chuck and we said, listen, we need to strip this thing down.

We need to strip it down because we give too much freedom with all of this extra movement that we're going to discuss today.

And if you don't have this stuff in a pretty decent spot or an understanding of delivery and release and impact, then there's a pretty good chance that you're not going to be able to hit the golf ball really well.

Just going to say it.

Because all of the stuff that's happening around in space here in the periphery can really ultimately affect these positions.

Think about that.

How many of you have even thought about your delivery point?

Most of you think about the slot position, coming down, having the club right through the middle of the forearm.

That's the slot.

I get it in the slot.

I'm going to hit it great.

Well, there's a lot that can happen from being in the slot down to impact.

take your body and heave it.

Now look at when I get to delivery where the club is, right?

I can take and shift my posture a little bit by driving forward.

What's that going to do to the swing point?

So I look at it more condensed.

I look at it from the ground up.

I look at it from impact back.

You get it into a delivery point, like we've talked about many times over, then you've got a real good chance of being able to hit the golf ball with some zip to it, okay?

So as I said to you, If you left or if you leave this camp with a better understanding of how to move your lower body, a better understanding of how important your delivery point is, and a better understanding of how to release the club, then all this other stuff that we're going to do is just you adding speed to the mix.

Okay?

That's the fun part.

That's why we reverse engineered this.

That's why we changed the program to kind of go back with what we were originally founded on and say, When did we see people get the most success with their ball striking?

And how did we get them to move from and through those positions faster?

And so we took a combination of all of the stuff that we've done for the last 10 or 12 years, and we compiled it down to this.

And I can be honest with you, I don't foresee this program changing anytime soon.

I don't.

We're going to make a little adjustments to it based off of what we see from the students.

But the way that this is going to be taught in this format, I'm very confident that this is the way we're going to stay because of what we see for results.

I've seen some absolutely sensational lower body movements.

I've seen some very, very good focus on the release this time.

I saw people actually staying in static impact and getting their left arm and their club to do the work.

Now, as I said to you guys at the open of this, I did see some faults.

I saw some faults from this last Tuesday to this session where people were trying to blend together.

And the big fault that came out of that was when people started moving from that six o 'clock position, over through to the lead side.

So when you start working from six to seven, eight, nine, okay, what we started seeing was, is the right shoulder kind of dropping down and staying back, right?

Now, the fix for this is, is if you look at my hips moving this way and I'm driving up, is to allow your upper body to feel like it moves more laterally into position with your hips.

Don't leave your upper body hung out to dry and start feeling this right shoulder drop down.

Different ways to think about it for you, students at home that don't really get any sort of awareness of your head or your eyes.

Is either thinking about your left shoulder staying down and moving laterally towards your left ankle, or keeping your right shoulder up and behind your head.

Either way, it's working on the same sort of fix.

If your right shoulder drops down, your upper body's hanging back.

The other fault that I saw was people trying to get to nine to three before they were ready to get to nine to three.

And immediately what I saw was is that they started down with their arm and then their legs played catch up.

So what do we do to fix that?

Well, you have to remember when you get to this position of nine o'clock, if you try to leave your arm there and you prioritize this movement, your arm is moving with you.

Don't try to move from the arms.

Keep your arms chilled.

It's going to feel like most of you at home.

It's going to feel like there's no power.

Some of you are going to be like, that's it.

That's it.

Think about what we do here.

We are teaching you a golf swing that's going to produce the maximum amount of efficiency in a space where you're not having.

A lot of this added movement and a lot of this added effort.

Why?

Well, Because the other piece of the puzzle is that we're trying to keep you safe.

Because there's a lot of golf instruction out there that just evades that principle.

So by moving very little, as little as you possibly can, and being able to produce efficiency and using kinematic sequence to your advantage, That's how you produce a golf club that's going to produce speed.

And it does feel effortless.

And for those of you that have never looked at the masthead of our website, go read it.

Okay.

Oh, it's actually changed a little bit, but it used to say effortless power.

That's what we're teaching you.

So with that being said, today's goal is to give you a few checkpoints about the backswing.

Also to show you the finished axiom movement and how to kind of tone it back.

The unfortunate thing is, is I'm not going to be able to do the big clockwise circles with the club in my hands because there is a giant fan right above my head, like a massive one.

And in the second camp, I almost took it out.

So I'm not going to do that, but I will demonstrate it without the club.

When I bring the club back to the mix, I'm going to bring the left hand back onto the club and it's going to start making those circles a lot smaller.

Okay.

So you're going to see.

that when I started making this big clockwise movement with my arm, it gets toned back very quickly.

And everything within Axiom is to introduce movement back to your golf swings because we don't want you guys to feel stuck, right?

How many of you have worked on the technical side of the swing so much that you forgot how to move, right?

So if you think about where Axiom came from, it was because we watched it, right?

We watched students just getting frozen all the time.

And so now you have the ability to be able to move.

And what we've done too in this camp is, change a lot of that added movement that that axiom really is, right?

Axiom is a big clockwise circle at first, right?

But what do we do to change all of that added movement to the exterior part of the foot?

Well, I introduced a pressure shift, right?

I got you right to six o'clock and then I gave you a way to move up off the merry-go-round, right?

Like you've heard us.

And then we've coupled it with that big move of that left butt moving down and back as you're doing it.

So you're not even having to really think about that right knee moving towards the left.

Again, those movements.

that are originally introduced to the people of masses are very, very big that are going to eventually need to be toned back.

That's why at every single one of these camps, and Craig will vouch for it as well, is that everybody goes, well, I was told I got to get my right knee over towards my left and my right foot's supposed to be, but then I was told that my right foot's supposed to be rolled to the instep.

This is all so conflicting.

Remember, we gave you that big movement at first to get your hips working.

eventually we're going to want to get your right foot closer to the floor and you're going to be rolled to the instep when this is all said and done.

Just like for those of you that took some time out of your day to watch the Hudson's Watford video that we released the other day, right?

You saw his foot on the floor.

Think about and watch golf this weekend, right?

Watch them and watch a lot of the good ball strikers.

Don't watch their driver swings.

They're going to be moving up out of the ground, but watch their iron play, right?

Watch their trail foot specifically.

You're going to see a lot of them with it down on the floor.

You'll see some of them with it up off the ground, but you'll see a bulk of them when they're in stock shot format with it.

Just like this.

Just like that.

Boom.

Why?

Helps you maintain posture, helps stall the body out, helps let those hands and arms pass in front.

If you're actively turning up and through the shot, you're creating posture issues, you're making it harder for you to release the club in time.

So all we're doing today is we're expanding on the nine to three.

And I'm going to give you a couple little checkpoints.

And for you lead side dominant players, I'm going to give you a way to practice.

Getting your hands and arms into the vertical plane and get them into that on plane position, and you're going to see that.

That's all I have to do.

Yep, that's all you have to do.

And then from there, what do you think happens?

Well, the same thing that's going to be happening from a nine right?

This is just how you sequence a golf swing.

It's using this stuff first that moves the arms and the shoulders into position or the shoulders and the arms into position, okay?

So for you lead side dominant players, we're gonna go to almost the final slide, slide 18.

Now the way I want you to practice this is we're going to start out without the golf club in our hands.

You guys at home that are working, want to be interactive with me?

Perfect.

I want you to do that.

But you're going to set up with your arm hanging down freely from your shoulders.

And we're going to work on making that pressure shift over to our trail side.

How do we do that?

Well, we let our right hip move back towards our right ankle.

Okay.

And then what we're going to do from here is we're going to take our right shoulder and we're going to pull it back behind our head as far as we can.

And we're going to let our left arm.

elevate above our right shoulder.

Now, when you do this, it's going to feel heavy.

It's going to feel like you've got some tension in there.

You're going to feel like, man, that actually feels like work.

You don't have to hold it that long.

But what you want to think about is the only function that your left arm has in the golf swing functions is elevation and wrist and forearm rotation and wrist set.

That's it.

So a little bit of elevation.

And a little bit of wrist and forearm rotation.

A little bit of wrist set.

That's it.

It doesn't have any of this movement.

It gets moved like that by your body turn.

What you're going to be looking for at the top of the golf swing is after you pressure shift and you turn, is you're going to try to get the hand just above the right shoulder.

Okay?

And you're going to make sure that your left wrist is anatomically flat.

This is going to be easier to feel here in just a moment.

Okay?

So your left wrist is going to be anatomically flat.

Now notice where my wrist and my forearm are facing.

You can see that.

It's facing up towards the sky here.

Okay.

Not fully up there, but it's facing kind of up in that direction.

I'll face way out in front of me.

And then my left wrist is anatomically flat.

So I'm going to turn.

Okay.

That's what you're going to work to.

Now, when you start getting the hang of that, bring the club back in very quickly, but flip the club upside down and do a bunch of reps with no weight there.

Why?

Momentum and inertia sometimes becomes your worst enemy because then you start trying to swing the club.

So keep the club light.

Same thing.

So you're going to do.

Three or four reps where you press your shift, big turn, let your wrist flatten off.

Now, your arm should be fairly straight.

We want it to be straight, passively straight, not ramrod straight where you're making like a workout program and you're sweating.

If you see a little bit of bend in it when you're doing a left arm only swing, don't panic.

Don't be like, I gotta go back to the drawing board here because I got my left arm bent and there's only a couple of people that I've seen ever play golf like that, right?

No.

When the right hand's not in the club, it's not offering any support, okay?

So let's give it some support.

So after you do these two or three reps where you pressure shift, you turn, you make sure your left wrist is flat, okay?

Pressure shift, turn, left wrist flat, arm up above the right shoulder.

Pressure shift, turn.

Now, bring the right hand back to the side of the club and just touch it.

And when I mean touch it, watch.

I just mean touch it.

When you do that, for those of you at home that are actually working through this, how much less tense did you feel on your left shoulder when you brought that hand in there just to touch the shaft?

Should feel like you can relax a little bit, right?

So the right hand and right arm offer support.

Okay, that's all it's doing.

Now, your right arm can screw some things up here.

We want your right hand and right arm to be reacting to what the left arm is doing.

So if I elevate my left arm, my right arm should be coming with it.

If I rotate my left wrist, My right wrist should be rotating with it.

If you don't allow for these movements to happen, you create resistance.

So let's talk about what resistance means.

If I take my hands and my arms and I put them in front of my body, right, with my palms touching, and I take my left arm and I push it across my center, my right arm is eventually going to break.

So what did my wrist and my forearm not do here?

Well, it didn't rotate, right?

Your wrists and your forearms, if I take this and I now turn my palms to where my left.

Wrist is facing towards the sky.

My right wrist is facing down the ground.

Your wrists and your forearms will row together.

Don't start resisting from what the lead side is doing.

So when this guy follows along with it, let it react to it.

Now, for those of you that have had a flying elbow issue in the past, where you get your right elbow up back here, okay?

A way to fix that is to, first off, check your humerus rotation.

So you need external humerus rotation to be able to fix this.

What I mean is if you hold your right arm straight out in front of your body and you flex it to like 90 degrees, without moving your arm away from your body like this, move your hand away from your face, right?

So you can see that I've got a lot of external humerus rotation.

There are lots of people in this room, lots of people that don't have any mobility.

They can't move, physically move their hand away.

Why?

Well, because maybe you've had rotator cuff surgery.

Maybe you need rotator cuff surgery.

Maybe you've got a frozen shoulder.

Maybe you've got.

issues with mobility.

Okay.

But the point is, is that what you need to be able to feel is if you're going to keep that elbow in line with the body at the top of the swing, is you need to maintain the space that you have between the forearms and elbows at address.

What?

Yes.

So at address, you have space between your forearms and your elbows.

This is an increase in space.

If you maintain that space, but doing it tension -free and you allow your wrist and forearm to rotate, then guess what?

Your golf swing is going to look very pretty at the top, okay?

Just by turning, allowing your wrist to rotate and hold your elbows together.

That's all I have to do, Chris.

Yes, that's all you guys have to do is just literally let the right hand, right arm react and keep the elbow close to the left.

So how do I want you to practice this?

Well, after you've done reps where they're left arm only, now you've got the club on the heavy end.

You're going to pressure shift, turn.

Bring the right hand back to it.

Now I want you to go back down to the bottom of the right hand on the club, and I want you to go back up to that same position.

Okay, we're going to do this three or four or five reps.

Okay, I'm just touching the club from the right hand.

I'm letting it react.

Now, how do we get down from there?

How do we get down from that?

We use the merry ground, right?

That version of what I've been talking about, 6, 7, 8, 9, this is going to start changing the direction.

My hips start moving back this way.

Guess what?

Your shoulders and your arms coming with it.

Now, I see a question that relates to this.

Does 7, 8, 9 happen first, then your butt down, or is it done at the same time?

It's done at the exact same time.

So as soon as you start moving from 6 o 'clock through 7, 8, 9, that is going to start initiating the shift, right?

That is going to start moving the hips in the direction of the lead side.

You're counterbalancing that by thinking down and back right away.

So as you start getting to nine o'clock, which is the end of this, the merry-go-round, right?

When you start to work to get off of it, okay, if you're thinking down and back, you should have moved the hips all the way to neutral, right?

They should have already been there.

That opens the hips up as well.

So it's happening all together.

It's a blended movement.

And the key to this is when to move, right?

So as soon as you finish off your body turn, okay, and you feel that six o 'clock position is now you start moving.

Don't think about it from a hand and arm position standpoint, right?

A lot of you are gonna think about, well, I gotta get my hands and arms right up to that spot that Chris just showed me on camera.

I gotta get there.

No, your signals are going to come from your load and your body turn.

And this is one of the more common mistakes I see from students is that, watch.

Watch this very closely, okay?

I'm gonna do a little trick on you guys.

So how many of you at home think that this is a good backswing position?

Okay, how many?

Probably everybody, right?

So if you look at it again, okay, now look at it from face on.

How bad is it?

It's real bad, why?

Because I didn't freaking turn my body, right?

I can make.

It looked really good from down the line really quickly just by knowing where my arms are going.

I see it every single day.

I actually did reviews.

I started doing reviews pretty early this morning just because I knew we had camp today.

And I would say 25% of the reviews that I did had that sort of appearance, not that drastic.

Why?

Because it's very easy for us to move the club around our body with hands and arms, right?

It's very easy for us to push that left arm across your center.

What happens is, is your left shoulder gets loaded up really tight and you can't turn anymore.

And when you can't turn anymore, guess what's happening?

Now your arms are going to fire too quickly in the sequence.

So a simple way for you guys at home to fix this is go back through what we did in session number one.

What did we do in session number one?

Well, we set up, we pressure shifted, and we pulled our right shoulder behind our head.

If you do this for 10 to 15 reps or so, Okay.

Now you put your arm movements back in there.

Okay.

So you're going to put your arm moving back in there.

Left arm hanging down freely.

You're going to pressure shift and turn.

Look how much more I turn.

Okay.

See, this is how you have to be able to make changes is understanding where you need to move from.

Think about that.

Understand where you need to move from.

So pressure first, body turn second, hand and arm movements, in this golf swing are so small.

Our mantra at rotary swing is big.

Sorry, I didn't mean to blow your ears up.

Big, big body turn.

Teeny, tiny little arm movement.

Small arm movement.

Arm movements are this.

So elevation, there's flexion, and there's wrist and forearm rotation.

A little bit of wrist set.

That's it.

Those are the movements.

How many of you at home can do this?

Probably pretty easy, right?

Easy movement.

Now watch.

This is my position.

If I go into golf posture, watch.

Look familiar?

All I did was turn to get my hands and arms into that position.

That's all I did.

So, body turn has to be one of your primary focuses.

Now, going back to what I said to you guys at the start of the session today.

The reason why we revamped this is because when we gave everybody all this big arm movement, what we saw was, and if you look at it on, camera from face on, what's my body not doing?

It's not turning, right?

So what we have to do is we've got to think about these arm movements that you're going to learn today, being synced back to the weight shift and the body turn.

You get that stuff right?

You're cooking with some hot sauce here, okay?

So the way that I want you guys to practice this is I want you to start out without the golf club in your hands.

I want you to start out with your right hand behind your back, okay?

Left arm hanging freely.

Pressure shift.

Good turn.

Left arm above your right shoulder.

Left wrist flat.

You do this 5, 10, 15 reps.

Making sure that you turn.

Then you can bring the club back in.

Upside down.

Same thing.

I'm not going to do 15 reps at a time.

We're on time constraints here.

So I've got my arm hanging down freely.

Pressure shift.

Turn.

God, my posture is so bad.

You guys should.

Like send me to kangaroo court or dock me on that.

Let me get into a good setup and demonstrate.

Okay.

Pressure shift, body turn.

Pressure shift, body turn.

Okay.

Now you can bring the right hand back up, support it.

Try to get the feel of what it's like to have your right arm in that spot.

Okay.

Now you can flip the club back over.

Pressure shift, turn.

In the right hand, come down to the bottom, and then right back up to the top.

Remember, pressure shift and turn by pulling that right shoulder back behind your head.

Okay?

Now, how's the workout?

It's hot in here.

Static positions don't do us a whole lot of good, right?

Yeah, they can look really pretty, but we gotta start moving.

What you wanna start doing is as you start making the swing longer, is as you start feeling your body get to that completed turn, Now focus on switching your attention down to that merry-go -round, getting your legs to start going aggressively to that position.

Even if it happens maybe a fraction sooner than what you were anticipating, at least you know you're motoring your golf swing from your lower body.

That's why we've always worked off of what?

Well, starting the down swing before the back swing is complete.

So you start this transition.

As soon as you feel that coil up sensation, as soon as you feel like you're getting to 90 degrees, aggressively get from six o'clock.

through 7, 8, 9, and get those hips opened up.

Remember, a good way to do this when we start blending it all together is to put yourself in the position where you're going to try to get to.

There's a video that's going to be coming out very soon on this exact same thing.

I just filmed it yesterday.

Get to this position.

Hold it static.

Okay?

Now what you're going to do is you're going to try your best to make big full turn.

Okay?

With the right hand touching the side of the club.

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

Okay, and now I'm starting to move into and through that position.

I've got a lot of momentum and inertia that's happening, so it was hard for me to stop in those positions.

I'm not trying to stop at this point.

So is that something that you guys can do once you become really proficient from hip high to hip high, then chest tight to chest tight, and to shoulder height?

Of course you can.

That's why we said to you, start small.

If you can sync this up from here, to here, and then here to here, and then as you get more turn, you can do the whole golf swing just like we outlined it for you.

The positions at the top of the swing, what you're looking for as far as checkpoints are concerned, just so you understand, is you want the right elbow to be kind of right at the base of the chest.

Left wrist nice and flat, right wrist in a very passive position, almost like you're a waiter holding a tray.

Now, One of the things that people have asked us in the past is, how does the left wrist move to a flat position?

Well, as the wrist begins to rotate, going back, it's going to continue to rotate.

And so momentum and inertia is actually pulling in this direction back here behind me.

It's going to actually pull that wrist into that anatomically flat position.

Some of you might even get that Dustin Johnson look, depending on how much rotation you get from your wrist and forearm, where you have your wrist bowed.

That's a little bit overdone.

Who can argue with him, right?

That's how you complete your backswing and how you get your golf swing started in the other direction.

So for those of you at home that have been battling with your arms maybe moving too much early on, or maybe you can't make a full turn, then strip it down.

I guarantee it.

Like every single one of you in this room, if you came to Orlando and we were having a golf lesson, your lesson would start out just like this.

I would have you pressure shift and turn, and I would have you tell me where you feel load.

Most of you would feel your right butt.

Most of you would feel your midsection.

Okay.

Then I would have you pick the club up.

And the very first swing that you make when you go up top, when you focus on those movements, I would say, okay, what do you feel?

And you would say, my golf swing feels really short and really tight.

Try it.

Every one of you at home should try it.

It'll feel short and tight.

Why?

Because your brain responds to muscle tension.

You just gave it muscle tension.

Where?

On my right booty.

Okay.

I didn't mean to spank myself.

Sorry.

Just a lot of enthusiasm today, right?

I feel it in my right booty and I feel my midsection.

Those are the signals that my brain just got.

My signals didn't go through my arms and my shoulders.

Okay.

There was a little bit of tension there just to help support the club, but nothing compared to what my body just felt.

I encourage you to try that all out.

I encourage you.

If you find that all of a sudden, no, I don't feel those signals.

I'm not getting those signals.

And that's when we would need to take a look at your golf swing.

Some of you might be already doing that very well.

So you might have ingrained movement that you don't really have to feel those things.

So we would look at your downswing sequence very closely to see if you were actually firing in the correct order.

Now, trail side dominant releasers.

I need some water first.

Trail side people, if you have not seen the axiom arm movement, I'm gonna demonstrate it right now.

I personally have tried this out.

I don't like it.

I don't like it because I'm a lead side dominant releaser and I don't like having extra arm movement in my swing.

I just don't.

I have a very short, compact golf swing.

I've got short arms.

I've got a long torso.

And so I've always had just a very compact golf swing that was very reliant on a lot of leverage.

So feeling this movement was a lot for me, but I have to be open-minded when it comes to golf instruction because When you look at golf instruction as a whole, and none of us agree on anything, right?

If it helps somebody fix something in their golf swing, then who am I to get in the way of it, right?

That's why I'm telling you when I watch, I'm not going to mention his name, but I'm sure some of you have seen him.

There's a guy that just dances around with a sword and tells everybody Kung Pao Chicken.

He teaches people reverse pivot.

He teaches something that is very dangerous on the body.

And when you read the YouTube comments underneath his videos, I'm like, man, I should, like.

I needed to get some of those people because people on YouTube can be ruthless.

Believe it or not, they can be ruthless.

I had people threaten my family at one point.

Pretty crazy stuff.

But when I was thinking about it, I was like, who am I to chime in to his cult following?

He's got a big following.

And people were like, this is amazing.

I'm hitting the ball so great.

I'm like, that's it.

So I can't get onto his YouTube comments and be like, you're going to blow people's backs out.

If people are getting success with it, great.

Axiom and the arm movement.

Got people's success.

How do I know?

Because I saw it.

I saw it.

I saw people doing some things that they've never done before.

So this right arm movement is just like the footwork.

Everything works in the same direction with an axiom.

So you're going to think about just making a big clockwise circle, okay?

This circle right here is going to be synced up with your footwork.

So as you start moving off a six o'clock and you start moving off the merry-go-round, what do you think you're going to be doing with your arm?

Well, you're going to be strumming up on the guitar, right?

And so this movement right here was a movement that freed people up, number one, but it also taught you really, really big habitual offenders of swinging the club over the top on how to shallow the golf swing out.

Now, that seems to be a really sexy terminology in the golf instruction world right now is shallowing the club or shallowing the swing.

Shallowing the swing is so flipping freaking easy if you just stop.

using your arms and your shoulders on the way down.

If you think about letting your arms and shoulders get moved down in there, just like you would if you threw a ball, okay, you don't start with your arm first, do you?

Unless you're uncoordinated, okay, I'm making fun of you, but everybody that has ever thrown a ball doesn't throw a ball like this, right?

You've seen people throw a ball like that, but why do they do that?

Well, because they didn't learn synchronization of movements when it comes to hitting or throwing.

That doesn't mean that they're dumb.

They just didn't learn that phase.

So I'm watching my two-year-old pick up a ball and throw it.

He's starting to do sequence.

So that's a good thing.

So the same thing goes with a golf swing.

But for some reason, when we get this thing in our hands and we get this thing on the ground, all hell comes loose because we try to hit it.

And where you try to hit it from, you try to hit it from your hands and your arms.

I promise you.

So this clockwise movement is now going to be synced up to your lower body.

So you can do this as you're going back around the clock, you're moving off at six o'clock up through seven, eight, nine.

And the original axiom movement with the legwork is having the right knee move towards the left.

We've toned that way back here in bootcamp.

You've gotten the RST version of it.

Okay.

With a little bit of help from the seven, eight, nine.

So it's a little blended together.

It's, we call it the, I'm not going to, we'll call it the Chrissium and the Craigium.

That was a little joke for you guys.

Okay.

So that's the whole basis of what you're doing.

Now, when you bring the club back in the mix, there's crickets on that joke, I get it.

When you bring the club back in the mix, you can certainly do this.

I'm not gonna do it in big circle motion, but you're gonna wanna try to feel that, okay?

That same movement, okay?

You're gonna wanna feel that same movement and it's gonna start getting synced up and you're gonna start getting this sort of shallow feeling.

Now, we did see some faults pop up out of that where we saw people start getting you know, a little bit stuck on the way down and didn't know how to get things back out in front.

But remember, when the left hand comes back on the club, it's gonna make that circle a whole lot less pronounced.

So if you watch, I'm gonna try to make a big circle with my right arm.

It just, the left arm kind of restricts it.

So you're gonna start out by making some really big circles, but those circles over time are gonna become smaller and smaller.

Okay, and when you start looking at it, it's actually gonna look like a lead side dominant backswing position.

It's going to look the same.

It just, it takes time.

So you have to start with bigger circles.

Those circles will become smaller and smaller and smaller.

When the left hand comes on there, it does add drag to it.

So it helps keep the arms from going way too far behind you.

But that's the basis of how you get your hands and your arms to the top of the swing.

Look at Matthew Wolfe, right?

He has that very similar movement where his hands and arms are moving out away from his body.

But if you look at his positions, especially his delivery point, That's exactly what we've been teaching you, right?

So all of this stuff that we're doing is getting the hands and arms into a good spot and getting them back down in front of you.

So for those of you that have always been one of these really big heavers of the club, then you're going to want to do some axiom movement with your arms.

You're going to want to feel that at first to help shallow things out and sync it back up with the lower body movement that we've been working on, right?

So as soon as you get that arm goods back, you get into six o'clock, you're aggressively moving up.

Off of that merry-go-round, you can couple it back with our secret sauce.

Boom shakabaka, right?

Boom shakalaka.

That's it.

So as I said to you, I wasn't a big fan of it myself because I didn't want to feel that big movement.

I don't like feeling the club go way outside my hands and arms.

Some of you need to feel that.

It's actually age-old golf instruction if you really kind of boil it down.

If we want to get the club to go to the inside, well, we would take it way outside.

If we want the club to go over the top, well, we would flip it way inside and then try to reroute it, right?

Just a different way for you to think about movement and stop trying to think about all of the technical minutia that surrounds a golf swing.

So today is all about, it's not my favorite stuff because really, how many of you are going to be above the nine to three perfection, right?

How many of you would sit in this room?

And I can tell you right now, If I were to play golf, I'm a pretty good player still.

I would want to be really good at this section before I started going a little bit further back.

But I gave you the information that helps you finish this stuff off.

That's what we're here for.

You want the whole golf swing to start coming together.

But remember, the win in this camp for you at home, the way that you take and get the most success with this stuff is following the level of progression in the order we gave it to you.

You have to go through that order.

If you don't understand how important it is to get your hips to do this, right, to get your hips to do that, and you don't understand how important it is to get to here, to here, to here, then please, please stick around because we got a long talking today.

We got a lot of talking.

The rest of the stuff that happens above this area is all just adding speed to the golf swing.

So how many of you at home think that you could take these movements, practice them, and start getting the golf club in there and start compressing the golf ball?

How many of you at home think that?

You have the tools and the resources and the necessary means to be able to go out there and start building a golf swing that gets you to this position?

I would think every one of you.

I would think that if you follow this plan and you go through it step by step and you practice things the proper way, then you're ready to go, right?

Now, The practice is not going to change from what I did for you guys at the last session.

I taught you guys how to stack in.

That was the whole purpose of session number three was to teach you guys how to stack and blend, stack and blend, stack and blend.

Now I know there's somebody in this room right now.

Maybe it's many of you that are going to be like, well, what should I do?

What's my practice program?

Your practice program is going to be far different than the other 22 people that are standing behind you or the other 50 people standing behind you.

Why?

Because you're at different phases.

You're at different phases of your swing change.

So if you want me to give you the way that I would practice it, then I would start out by doing my lower body movement.

I would make sure that my setup is good.

I would make sure that I'm pressure shifting, turning, aggressively moving to this spot.

I would check to make sure my impact position was good.

Hold that static.

Good.

Now I'm going to get my left arm hanging freely.

I'm going to do some reps like this.

Then I'm going to start blending them together, right?

Making these little small swings.

And I'm going to bring the club back in.

And you can see that I'm going pretty fast.

Why?

Because I'm ingrained.

I'm ingrained to do so, right?

You at home, maybe not ingrained to do that lower body movement even perfect yet.

So that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be practicing or you should just stop doing what you're doing.

Keep working on it.

And then get to the point where now you get your arm freed up and then slowly start blending them together.

Even if you're at the point where you're pressure shifting, keeping your arm here, getting to impact, and then letting it release, totally fine.

Work at the speed that you're comfortable with.

I gave you all of the tools.

We gave you all of the tools that you need to build the swing.

Movement is easy for me to teach you.

Positions are easy for me to teach you.

Blending them together is the hard part.

You have to know when to go and put it on the accelerator.

So after you get proficient with that, You get the club back in your hands.

You're really starting to let it release on through.

You get the right hand back on there.

These are just hip high to hip high swings.

Then you can start going into nine to three.

Once you look at it and you know that you're doing these things right, then you can start making the swing longer.

You can start getting into those full backswing positions and aggressively moving through them.

You're going to get to the point where this is going to be a full swing.

That's the whole point of what we're teaching you is to take, do the important things first, start small, keep things stripped down, blend together, add more to it as you get more proficient with it.

And that's it.

That's it.

How do we do, right?

How do you guys feel about it?

I hope that you guys took this session as an understanding of.

All we're doing is just giving you the pieces of the puzzle that get you from shoulder height to shoulder, right up to the finish, which is now a piece of cake.

I gave you a lead side dominant way and I gave you a trail side dominant way.

You're just going to make clockwise circles.

Okay.

You're going to bring the arm back in and the club back in, and you're going to do the same thing with your lower body.

Lower body is going to be working off of pressure, secret sauce movement into the left side, and you're good.

It's all coupled back with just this little bit of elevation with the left arm or this little bit of clockwise circle with the right arm.

That's it.

So now, I'm going to answer some questions because I'm sure there's a lot.

Today is a very, very important day for questions because nobody in this room should leave without having everything answered in their brain.

Do you want me to demonstrate something?

By all means, ask me to demonstrate.

I'm here to get all, this is a day that's for you.

This is not about me.

And so if I have to stay on here a little bit extended to help everybody get their stuff answered, so be it.

If you want to jump off now and you want to come back and read the, or come back to the Q&A.

at another time.

That's totally fine.

I want to say thank you to you though.

I want to thank you guys for sitting through these four sessions and having a better understanding, hopefully having a better understanding of how you're going to build this stuff.

Okay.

I know it sucks to go slow and start kind of chunky like this, but it's the best pathway, right?

It gives you the foundation.

It gives you a way to be able to move and it gives you the important parts first so that you can start hitting golf balls right away.

Now, I will say Q&A is really, really hard on this platform for some reason for us to manage.

So if I miss your question, please don't think that I'm trying to bypass your question.

I can't keep going back and forth between monitors and scrolling and still see where everybody's at.

So if I miss your question, then please just copy and paste it.

Okay, I'll get to it.

Now, I would emphasize to watch the reverse bike video.

It shows very clearly exactly.

backwards brain bicycle.

Thank you, Michael K.

Appreciate that.

Driver, you said you would talk about it.

So you guys are funny.

You guys have been, I'll tell you right now, the questions have been phenomenal.

The questions have been great.

They really have.

Shows that you guys are really, really golf nutty and shows that you guys want to have an understanding of this stuff, right?

So driver swings.

This is the only golf club in our bag.

that is set up for positive angle of attack, okay?

It's the only club.

What positive angle of attack means is that we're trying to hit more up on the golf ball, okay?

So we're trying to get the ball launching in the air.

Now, some adjustments that we make with the driver, so for two inches outside of neutral, okay, for our iron swings, okay?

You can get a little bit wider.

Now, stance width, I don't want you guessing on this stuff.

Okay, you can play around with it.

Have some free reign with it.

Same thing with ball position.

This is typically what my driver's stance width looks like.

I get pretty wide.

My ball position, I generally play around with it on the lead toe all the way back inside the lead heel.

It's just very dependent on what kind of shot I'm trying to hit.

Sometimes I even move it back into the left ear just if I'm trying to hit like a squeeze cut or something of that nature.

Now, the reason why we increase our stance width is multifaceted.

It provides more stability.

If I came over and tried to knock you over from a wider stance, you're a little bit more stable to the ground.

But what it also produces, if you think about this, when my hips are moving further left to neutral, my spine is going to now have more what?

Well, we call this secondary axis tilt, right?

So more secondary axis tilt means what?

Well, it means the swing plane is more shallow, and it also helps get the club more on an ascending blow than a descending blow, right?

So most golfers, you're going to see that optimize with their driver, And I'm not going to go through all of the nuts and bolts of this because I've got a driver optimization workshop coming up that most of you are attending.

Most of them will see that are up between four and six degrees.

You'll see some people upwards of eight, nine, 10 degrees.

You'll see on the PGA Tour right now, which is baffling to me because these guys all have TrackMan.

They all have TrackMan out there on the range with them or GC Quad or FlightScope.

Go to a PGA Tour event and look at them.

Every one of them's got it back there.

The PGA Tour average right now is down 1 .

3 degrees.

What?

So they're still hitting down on the golf ball.

Now, if you go watch them, there's still a very, very large amount of them that hit up on it.

Bryson is way up on it.

There is plenty of people still hitting up on the golf ball, but the fair amount of them still hit down on it.

Why?

Well, if you look at their ball flights, okay, playing professionals know that they have to have a club de-lofted.

You go out there and you watch your ball flight, it comes out flat, right?

You don't see a lot of this poofy stuff.

Now, You will see it from the guys that are launching the ball, right?

You'll see their launch angle is quite a bit higher.

But you'll see a lot of guys when they're out there hitting stock drivers that go out there really, really flat.

It's kind of fun to watch, right?

It's far different than a lot of the stuff you've ever seen.

So there is still a good portion of those guys that are hitting down on it.

So the adjustments that we make with the driver is we're going to get a little bit wider in our base.

We're going to have the ball position a little bit more forward.

Both of these things help promote more of an ascending blow rather than descending.

But remember, the more the ball position is forward, the more the path is left.

So sometimes you have to make adjustments where if I'm set up down the target line and I got my ball position forward, you're going to have to set up a little bit closed.

These are things that you need to play around with, right?

Because everybody's path might be a little bit different.

Everybody's launch angle might be a little bit different.

Everybody's release might be a little bit different.

So driver swings are not going to be any different as far as where movement and movement comes from, but you're going to produce different results down at the bottom because of the wider stance width and the ball position be more forward.

This is secondary axis tilt.

It helps get the club more on the ascending blow rather than descending.

Please review ball position for irons.

Ball position for irons and fairway woods and hybrids is going to be off of your left ear.

Sorry, I'm trying to get this in sight.

Now, I did talk about the importance of the lead shoulder.

Okay.

So ball position is going to be off your left ear.

Okay.

Everybody see that?

So you have to make sure you have a little bit of axis tilt here.

Ball position should be right off the left ear.

Okay.

The reason for that is, is because we want to be able to hit down on the golf ball.

So we want the bottom of the arc.

It's not necessarily all the way in front of the ball, just so you guys understand.

This is like three quarters of the way through.

That's the bottom of the arc.

So if you think about that, now we understand that the lead shoulder, I was doing a left arm only swing.

The club should bottom out underneath my left shoulder.

But as soon as my right hand is on the club, it moves that pivot point back slightly just inside my lead shoulder.

So obviously this position right here is just in front of my lead ear, right?

That's why we want to have the ball position on the left ear.

Okay.

That's the bottom of the swing.

That's actually your square point too.

All right.

So I'm going to answer questions, more questions here.

Do you need to release the driver sooner when you do release it with it?

So this is a good question.

This is a tough one.

I got to be careful how I got to tread lightly.

So lag, obviously, the further you maintain lag, the more forward shaft lean you would have.

Theoretically, the release should start at the exact same time.

Now, when you have more secondary axis tilt, you're going to feel like the release is happening a little bit sooner.

But the post-up movement is the signal to make it happen.

It's going to happen at the same time.

But I'm going to tell you that there are some people that want to get the club really, really working where it's up.

I'm one of those people where I try to feel like I'm throwing the club a little bit sooner.

And the reason for that is because I'm not playing a lot of golf.

So when I was playing my best golf and I was out there, I was right around 115 to 118.

I was never one of those 120, 124, 125 guys.

It was just 115 to 118.

I hit decent.

But now I'm not playing as much.

And so my swing speed would be down 110, 112.

And so to take advantage of the lack of speed, to help myself with lack of speed, then I swing it more from the inside and I release the club really hard.

So I get a lot more.

So I hit an in-to-out draw that helps kind of make up for some of the distance loss that I get for a lack of speed, right?

So there's some variability in there.

You just got to be careful with it.

So doing nine to three range, I had lots of great ones, but I had two bad shots, the pull left and the shank.

Thoughts?

Okay, Kim, awesome, awesome question.

Okay.

So the shank generally is caused when you're working on nine to three swings from this movement right here.

So I want you to check that your left knee is not moving in towards the ball.

You don't want your knee going in that way.

Okay.

I actually did a video on the shanks years ago.

It was like three cures to the shanks or whatever.

I hated making that video, by the way, because I don't even like saying the word.

Okay.

I had the shanks at one point in my life.

It's so funny.

So.

The right knee moving in towards the ball is a good way for you to kind of get that happening.

That starts to shift it a little bit into out.

Now, when that starts to happen, you generally try to get your hands to become really reactive.

Okay.

And you try to flip the club face over really fast.

And so anytime somebody shanks a golf ball, what's their next miss?

Well, you always see the ball go left really quickly.

So double check that first.

Now, if you're a hundred percent on the idea that the shank is coming, not from the inside.

And you're moving on top of it.

It could be a lot of right shoulder action and just way too much tension through the hands, the arms.

So you're going to want to try to reduce that tension and maybe think about kind of keeping your right shoulder back in behind your right ear.

When you're letting the club release, okay, so hopefully that helps you.

Um, another super like, big, big shout out to Master certified instructor Craig Morrow.

Craig is like an absolute rock star.

He's been around for a long time.

He's been a great help to me in these boot camps.

He's a phenomenal instructor.

He's got one of the best eyes in the game.

So thank you very much, Craig.

I would encourage you guys, if you guys want the hand-holding experience after camp, both of us have spots open in our groups right now.

Utilize us.

We'll help you in this process.

So thank you, Craig, for everything, man.

You've been awesome.

So other questions?

I'm encouraged after the first session.

Good.

I've accepted an invitation to play at WGV.

I've been scoring in the low 100s and implementing the weight shift.

I shot 85.

Freaking awesome, John.

That is awesome, man.

I'm so pumped to hear that.

Not always pretty, but I can see.

That's awesome, John.

Thank you so much for the note.

Listen.

Success is what we're here for.

We want you guys to get better at this stuff.

A lot of times, it's difficult because we don't know how you guys are doing in these things.

When we hear stuff like that, that's the best feeling in the world to a golf instructor that really cares.

I don't think you know what sort of feeling that really creates because that's what we're here for.

Now, I understand that there are people that are going to have a little bit of struggle periods.

Those hit us the hardest.

They really do because We know how frustrating this sport could be.

It's a pain in the ass, right?

So thank you very much for the note.

When you rotate, should you rotate the maximum?

So 90 degrees is fine.

If you can rotate past 90, like you can get to like 95, okay, you can get to 100.

But don't start losing stability in your lower half to sacrifice that, right?

You still want to try to restrict your hips as much as you can at that point.

Because you don't need that added movement, right?

If you get to 90 degrees, that's plenty of movement to generate plenty of speed.

Swing speed is a compilation of rotation, oops, rotation, width, and leverage.

And so we always like to balance the equation.

We like to give, you know, the kind of the middle of the road approach.

If you want to go and turn at, you know, 100 degrees and go to more width, by all means, you can do that, right?

We're totally fine with that.

Just don't put your body in harm's way.

And remember that when you are going into more rotation and more width, the equation is going to have to be rebalanced.

You're going to have to be a lot more patient to let the hands and arms work down in front of you.

You start being a little less patient, then you can have a little bit of a sequence-related issue through the bottom.

So we like to kind of keep things down the middle of the road.

That doesn't mean that we can't work within those confines, though.

If you want to be a little bit more rotational, we can do that.

Same thing with people that are getting a little bit older in years, right?

You don't have to get to a full 90 degrees.

You can sacrifice a little bit of that body turn.

right?

If that's, if you're just a little bit limited to mobility or maybe your hips are getting a little bit tired, then we can make some adjustments for this stuff.

All right.

So Craig told me I'm too tense in my backswing and I have no lag.

How in layman's terms can it be corrected?

So Craig told me I'm too tense in my backswing and I have no lag.

How in layman's terms can it be corrected?

So this is a good question.

And I'm sure Craig already answered this one.

Nope.

I'm going to answer it for him.

If you think about where you're probably moving from when you're too tense, is you're probably moving from your hands and your arms.

Your hands, your arms, and your wrists are all just like every other muscle group in the body.

That's why if you think about people that start setting their wrists really early, right?

If you look at it from face on, they move the club like this.

That's an exaggeration, right?

They get a lot of wrist action.

What's that doing?

Well, that's loading up your fast twitch muscles.

That's starting the stretch shortening cycle.

That's starting to move.

And so when you start getting up there, if you really created all that tension, you're going to start moving from there.

So that's in layman's terms what's happening.

So you're not loading your body up in the correct order.

That's what today's session was, was to teach you how to get things moving in the correct order and then slowly bringing the arm movements back in.

If you're firing from the top with your hands and your arms too much, then you're not focused enough down here.

Remember, you're going to create force of movement.

from your lower half, right?

This is where we want you to focus on.

If you don't do this stuff right, okay, you have no idea where these things are moving to and you never get to that post-up position, then you're moving from your upper half.

So in layman's terms, you're just moving really early on from your smaller muscles because you're really tense there.

And then when you start moving there, you're going to move from there in the downswing.

It's cause and effect.

All right.

So can it see when the trail knee is going towards the ball during the downswing, should your thought be to Bank the trail foot more on the transition or get off the merry-go-round sooner.

So if the trail knee is going in towards the golf ball, should the thought be to bank the trail foot in more on the transition or get off the merry-go-round sooner?

So I actually like the idea of more instep roll to the right foot, right?

So if you feel like you're rolling more to the instep here and with your weight finishing to nine o'clock, that should keep the right knee from moving in.

All right.

So if you look at this movement, my right foot rolls in.

Now this movement right here is the knee kind of moving in towards the shot.

Another way to correct that is actually the real axiom movement from the right side would be the knee moving towards the left to replace this, not in towards the golf ball.

I don't like that movement per se because when people were doing it, I saw a lot of people going into early extension.

I saw a lot of people not being able to control rotation at that point and just being a little bit late to release the club.

So that's why we kind of tone things back for these camps.

So there's a lot of talk about hand movements throughout the swing.

I understand flexion and hinge with axiom.

Do we consciously need to hold our hands and wrists?

So do we actually need to hold our wrists in a certain way from the top of the swing?

So no.

So your job, in order to preserve lag, is set it and forget it, right?

If you get to a position at the top, like this is 80% of my max range of motion.

That's max range of motion.

So this is a position where I'm just trying to get things set.

Yeah, I've got a little bit of control of it.

But if I've got a little bit of control of it and I'm not overusing my hands and my arms to get there, then your job is just to let your hands and arms come down.

Now, for those of you that want to actively try to move the club out away from you, you might have to have some focus there on trying to maintain that connection between the wrists and the club shaft, right?

You need to feel that.

But most of the time, You should just feel like you're sitting in the club and not trying to get max range of motion up there and just letting your hands and arms work down in front of you.

So you should just kind of like that, right?

I'm not trying to feel my wrist.

It's just they're supple when they come down to the spot.

They really are.

Okay, I'm not like, if you're squeezing it, you're making it harder for yourself.

You talk about after we get movements correct, then we should work on speed.

How do we do that?

Awesome question.

Great question.

You guys are awesome with questions.

Speed is something that will come to you after you start moving through these positions faster, right?

So if you look just in this small format, okay, I can make it go faster by moving faster, right?

Same thing with moving into nine to three, then adding more width and rotation to it.

When you start doing these things slow, do them at moderate speed, right?

Or slow to moderate and then into where you would feel like your golf course speed is.

Everybody's going to have a little bit different tempo, though.

I actually am very, believe it or not, I'm very fast-tempoed, huh?

A lot of you at home probably didn't know that, huh?

So you're going to get your speed from, and this is something I want you to do more at a subconscious level, is start moving through those positions faster, right?

You start practicing, you become really proficient with it.

You can move into and through positions like you can sit there and talk about you had pancakes for breakfast or you had avocado toast.

something of that nature, and it's all a piece of cake.

Okay?

So I feel that it helps me reduce my early extension back swing weight on right, back, downswing.

So Mike R, that sounds to be kind of what I'm thinking about here.

So in back swing, weight on right, butt goes back.

Through downswing, I try to keep the right butt back and bring the left butt back.

Is that a feel accurate?

Sure.

That's actually a video that I did a long time ago.

It was called the Tush Line Chair Drill.

where I had you keep your right butt back on the chair as you're trying to keep and move this left butt back.

Okay, perfectly fine.

So any thoughts on starting foot forward pressure to 9 a.

m.

, then back and through pressure foot to improve flow?

So that would be the whole, you could do that.

So if you're talking about, so pressure to 9, and then back through pressure foot to improve flow.

Fine.

So yeah, you can do that.

So the hybrid movement that I taught you doesn't mean you have to go right to six o'clock.

If you need to feel like some flow to help get things moving, totally fine.

Just remember what you're trying to achieve is you're trying to achieve stability in this side, but you're trying to achieve load as well.

The ultimate goal is to not have your hips continue to slide, right?

You want to get loaded and stay stable.

So you can play around with that for sure.

You want to get 90% of your weight underneath your right heel, right ankle at the top of the swing.

That's your goal with a little bit of stability in your right knee so that your hips are not over rotating.

Okay.

For lead dominant, should we try to incorporate any of the clockwise motions at the top of the back?

So I'm confused on this point.

So no, if you're a lead side dominant, you don't need to do the clockwise movement of the trail arm.

Okay.

If you're going to be a lead side dominant releaser, what you're going to do is you're going to be making sure that you turn your body, allow your left arm to move above your right shoulder.

And then from there, You're just sequencing your downswing by focusing on the legwork, right?

So don't try to get confused on that.

I'm sorry if I did a terrible job of demonstrating.

I only want the people that are going to stay doing full trail side releasing that have a hard time getting the club not to go over the top, wanting them to do the circles with their arms.

Okay, my apologies for not being clear on that.

But good question.

When you release the club, you throw the club with your wrists and allowing the wrist to turn over.

That's another good question.

So I'm not trying to actively do things from my wrist, okay?

Lead side dominant release, this is a double unhinged release.

So my arm becomes independent from my body.

So it's unhinging itself from its shoulder.

And at that same time, as my arm is unhinging itself, well, the wrist is uncocking.

So I'm not trying to make that movement happen.

That's happening as a result.

Now, you can, when you get advanced, use your right hand and your right arm as a way to add thrust, right?

Where you can actually throw the club head at the ball.

There's a video on the website called the throw the ball drill.

That was one of the more, that was a big, big bane in our existence because a lot of times people showed up at the door and they were trying to do too much from the right arm, way, way too much to begin with.

And they started working on that drill and it just became worse.

But there is some merit to being able to train the right hand and right arm, what it should be doing in the swing.

So yeah, you can add a little bit of thrust to it, but remember, you're not going to get huge bursts of clubhead speed, right?

Maybe you'll pick up a couple miles an hour, but is that couple of miles an hour sacrificing the most important part of the swing?

And that's what you're doing with your lead wrist and your lead arm through there, right?

If your lead wrist is getting overwhelmed, then don't try to make active movement for now.

Get control, right?

I like to balance this stuff.

I don't like to go out there and try to produce tons and tons of speed first, which I know is boring, but you can find speed within control.

You have something controlled that you can start doing it faster.

And it's easier for you to be able to get this really difficult game a little bit more under control.

This is a difficult game as it is.

And so, yes, it does require a balance between those two things.

And so if somebody comes in, they're just coming in for speed drills, then I'm not going to go and try to give them all of the speed that I think their potential of.

I'm going to give them a balance of it because I got to find that threshold with how much is too much where they start losing.

the ball off the golf course, right?

So that's a way to think about it.

So lateral distance, rotational lateral distance, the pelvis will shift for six to eight inches.

Okay.

Steve, I can't thank you guys enough.

Steve, thank you so much.

I really do appreciate those kind words.

I hope this can be understood.

When I am hanging, my left is the top of your thumb pointing down to the floor, top of my thumb facing the sky.

My grip always had the thumb facing up.

When I'm hanging on my left arm is.

So your left thumb is going to be sitting in behind the shaft, right?

So it's up there to help support the club.

If you're talking about this position up here, it's okay for that left thumb to be there.

It's just offering some support.

You take it off, it's going to get a little bit droopy there, right?

But your job is just not to push back against it.

I'm not sure I understand the latter part of it.

Greg, maybe you understand that question better than I do.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Alan.

I'm not trying to evade the question there by any means.

Oh, and I owe you.

Impact position, show me, please.

Okay, so impact position is going to be.

right here.

You want me to move closer?

So does that help you?

All right, so you can see that my lead wrist, my lead thumb is still kind of on top of the shaft here.

What I try to do to reduce any push on the shaft is I use a short thumb.

So I kind of pinch the thumb and the pointer finger together, okay?

I don't like a lot of pressure there because that does get a little bit of stress in the forearm.

Yeah, so yeah, that's where it is.

It's pointing down to the floor, right?

I think I'm understanding now.

This is fine, okay?

Don't think about your thumb.

Think about your wrist, okay?

If you're thinking about your thumb and your golf swing, you're doing it wrong.

Think about your wrist.

This is what's controlling the face, okay?

Big kick in the butt for that one.

Jeremy?

So.

Do you clear your mind and grip and rip it?

Okay.

So this is an awesome question.

And it's two-sided.

So if you're in the middle of swing change, you're on the golf course, take one thought out there with you and just stay committed to it.

When you get to a point where you understand really you're not going to be able to change, the girl that you brought to the dance is the one that you're stuck with, or the boy that you brought to the dance is the one that you're stuck with, either way, okay?

You can think that you're actively manipulating things out there, but you're not.

So swing thoughts just kind of help clear the subconscious just a little bit and give you something to commit to.

Just don't change that during the round.

I can't tell you how many times I've had people, I can give you story after story where people come in, they're like, what are you working on?

They're like, well, whatever the latest video Chuck put out is.

And I'm like, that's not what I told you to work on.

And he's like, well, I got quite a few swing thoughts going on here.

And I'm like, okay, well, show me what you're working with.

And so he does it, he walks me through all of his swing thoughts and I put the video up and I say, okay, now I want you to think about what you had for breakfast and that's it.

And then we'd look at the videos and there's no difference.

And he's like, well, wow, that's not how I swing the club normally.

I'm like, that's how you swing the club normally.

It's the same thing.

So when you're on the golf course, you've got all this distraction, you're not gonna be able to change things.

But if you're working on something specific, let's just say it's a pressure shift or maybe you're focusing on your left arm and left wrist, then just stay committed to that.

And so what I do, this is, This is my practice program.

When I go through my pre-shot, I make a couple practice swings from behind the golf ball.

I've done the same thing for many years, for 25 of my 33 years on the golf course.

Then when I start walking in the shot, if I've already picked my number, I'm usually using really small numbers, like trying to get the yardage, figure out the wind, trying to figure out the shot.

I'm moving into the shot.

As soon as I get into a certain spot, I don't try to think mechanically.

So I try to keep the brain clear.

I'll use one swing thought in there, and that's it, like, or one trigger point.

Okay?

But thank you for the kind words.

You've been great this camp, Jeremy.

Thank you so much.

All right.

So please show the ideal hand and club position at the top of the swing again.

You betcha.

So there.

Right arm in line with the torso.

Okay?

Not behind.

Okay?

Right up with the base of the chest.

left wrist flat, hands above the right shoulder, boom.

Kim, thank you so much for the kind words.

Thank you very much.

Can you please show me the grip at address from the front view, please?

Absolutely.

Can you see me here?

So this V right here is towards my right ear, okay?

I can see two knuckles.

From my perspective, without going to look for it, my right hand comes on the club.

This V is now up towards my right ear.

See it, that's a neutral grip.

Can you show your full swing really slow?

Sure, so my full swing really slow.

You want me to talk slow anyway?

Like, all right, just kidding.

Golf posture, Yeah, I'll do it again for you.

That's it.

Can I get a little applause from the audience, please?

I'm just kidding.

I'm kidding.

Oh, Craig, I hate you.

So face on.

He knows that I'm really restricted on body turn.

There you go, playboy.

Yeah, all right.

So, looks like questions are winding down.

Julius, thank you.

Oh, I don't even know how to take a bow.

There's a lot of stuff going on right now, so thank you.

All right.

All right, you guys have been like the best group.

Like I've gone back through every one of the camps and just read the questions.

And the questions are just awesome.

You guys are true students of the game.

And that's, I love that.

We went down, we've seen some people that just come in that you can tell that they're just like, they want quick fix stuff.

You guys can tell just by the bit, like the questions that you guys ask that you guys want to know so that you can get out there and start trying to work this stuff.

I don't like the quick fix kind of stuff.

I like you guys having an understanding how to work this stuff into your system.

And get out there and actually see the proof in the pudding and understand that there's a process in place that has to be in place, right?

So, last question, All right, thank you David for the kind words.

How will we know what additional sessions you will be offering?

So we're going to be doing a lot of the RSA mini webs that are going to be like 30 minutes long, where they're going to be on specific topics.

I think I have one that's coming up on op driver optimization and then I'm going to also chuck.

I was real sick.

I got COVID and I had to sit on the sidelines for the trust line video, which he did a completely different rendition of that.

I really, that's one of my favorite topics to talk on.

So that's going to be coming up.

I know Craig's got another one coming up here pretty quickly.

If you guys have suggestions about stuff that you would like us to talk about, We're open to that all day long.

Because we can only come up with so many ideas on our side that we think are interesting.

Or we think that you guys might find interesting.

But it's better to have you guys make suggestions.

And so other sessions will be coming up soon.

I think Craig just posted a link.

It's been great.

Doug, thank you so much for the words.

Exactly.

So this information is all out there.

It's us finding a different way to structure it and give you guys a way to be able to practice it and work through it.

So remember.

The final thing before I get ready to sign up here because I think questions are done.

And I'm telling you this because I care about you guys to get better with this stuff.

Don't feel like you need to go through this stuff alone.

The swing review system's in place.

The community forums are in place.

Utilize us.

Craig, that's our job, right?

We'd love to help you guys.

Swing reviews, it's been a part of my life for 10, almost 11 years.

I've done 75,000 swing reviews.

Okay, Craig has done a very large number of swing reviews as well.

And so there's, I want you guys to get the help that you need.

If you feel like you've got the tools and the resources to go build it, then build it.

Just keep us up to speed on how you're doing.

We like to hear that stuff.

Good, bad, or indifferent, right?

All right, so guys have had an absolutely phenomenal camp.

Thank you guys so much for everything.

If you don't have any further questions, I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

Thank you so much for joining us for these last four sessions.

Thank you so much for dealing with my fast demeanor.

Hopefully you guys got a lot of enjoyment out of the way that we presented the information.

Thank you to Craig for the absolute fantastic help.

And thank you guys for the awesome questions.

I am going to stop saying the same thing over and I'm gonna let you guys go out there and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Talk to you guys soon.