AXIOM BootCamp 3, Chris Tyler, Dec 2021, Session 2

Session 2 of 4

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Good afternoon.

Happy Saturday, everyone.

Welcome back.

Hopefully, everybody's had an absolutely fantastic week.

We have seen some absolutely amazing progress with some of you that have submitted for Swing Review, so my hat's off to you guys.

Hopefully, everybody can hear me all right.

I've made a little adjustment to some microphone settings, so if you guys can't hear me clearly, please post that up.

We're going to wait for a few minutes.

just to let everybody get settled in the room.

Those of you that are joining us, please check in and let us know where you guys are checking in from.

Anna, welcome from Switzerland.

Peter, check it in.

Welcome, welcome, everybody.

Hopefully everybody's having a wonderful start to their weekend.

A little nerve-wracking before coming out on stage today.

I was having some little bits of technical issues here, but seemed to have gotten things resolved.

Welcome Anthony or Tony.

Welcome Peter.

Welcome Robert.

Got a day for you guys today.

I'm pretty excited about today's presentation just because this is my favorite part of the golf swing.

So as usual, just going to let everybody come in and get settled down.

So once we get everybody settled, we can get the chat nice and quiet and then we are going to get busy because we've got.

A jam-packed hour this Saturday afternoon.

Well, some of you it's morning time, some of you it's later in the evening.

So welcome everybody.

Hopefully everybody's had a fantastic week.

Again, as I said to you just a moment ago, I am super, super excited about delivering today's information.

And I'm actually even more excited about the format.

Craig and I had a chance to talk a little bit more about this this week, and we got to watch a lot of people make better progress.

on what their legs and their hips were doing.

And we're going to start off by talking about some of the common mistakes and some of the common faults that we saw.

We're going to address those because it might pertain to you.

And then we are going to go and pull it down a gear and we're going to be working on.

What I consider the most important part of the golf swing, and that is impact.

So if you have really a poor impact position or maybe you've been a really, really good ball striker, it doesn't matter.

The stuff that I'm going to teach you today is something that you can never do enough of.

Okay, so I'm excited about that.

So hopefully everybody is coming in and getting settled down.

Is there any good games on this afternoon?

I haven't even looked at the football schedule at all.

Seems like everybody's checking in.

Craig, is the mic quality all good on your end, bud?

Mic boo.

Everybody checking in?

Peter, Thomas?

Thomas, been making some good progress this week.

Good job to you, Thomas.

I get to look at your golf swing a little bit this morning.

Hopefully you get those reviews back.

Stephen checking in.

Welcome, everybody.

So just a couple more minutes.

Also, now is a good time to start asking some questions that you might have come up with from Tuesday's session into today.

I know that there's been some questions I've been posting in the community forums.

Craig's been doing a good job with handling those.

So we do want to answer some, you know, some of the common questions that we've been running into.

Make sure everybody's got a clear sort of picture of what we're trying to achieve here.

All right.

Yes, Mike, the rep sheet did have three lines using body and arm and the club only did the body reps.

That's perfectly fine.

We like to give you a little extra space on there so you can kind of play around with it.

Totally fine.

So Ted says, I noticed on post-up that I still didn't get my weight shifted, reverse pivot sort of.

I noticed on post-up that I still didn't get my weight shifted.

Okay, so you didn't get your weight shifted, you're kind of reverse pivot.

So if you're not loading to your trail side properly, okay, if you're not shifting an adequate amount over into your right hip and then you start rotating, then your spine is going to walk.

start to work back in the opposite direction.

And then from there, you don't really have a place to be able to move to.

I'm not sure I understand the question.

If you're having a hard time getting to post-up though, chances are that you didn't load properly and you certainly didn't transition properly.

That transitional phase of the golf swing helps start the initiation of that post -up.

Because now you've transferred weight underneath that lead side foot that you're going to be using to help push into the ground and then rotate the hip open.

So if you're finding that you're not getting that sort of action, then chances are you didn't do something early on properly.

Setup question.

I need to bend more at my hip because I'm too upright.

Club feels too long aside from fitting.

Any thoughts?

So I need to bend more from my hip because I am too upright.

Club feels too long aside from fitting.

Any thoughts?

The big thing that I want you to understand is that your setup is going to change based off of the length of the club, very, very small amounts.

So right now I have an eight iron in my hand.

And if I hinge from my hips and get myself over the golf ball and my arms are hanging freely, I'll turn down the line so you can see that.

My hands and arms are hanging freely.

Okay.

If I have a driver in my hand, it's going to look much more upright.

So you want to be able to hinge enough to where you can see the golf ball.

You can make some adjustments here.

So if you feel like you're getting.

Two over it and now you feel like your arms and the club's got the toe way up off the ground.

Then you can make an adjustment there, you can come up with your spine angle just a little bit now.

One of the big misunderstandings that I run into quite a bit is that we want to have the.

The club perfectly sold flat on the ground at address, which is not the case.

Okay, the toe of the club actually should be up off the ground.

And the reason for that is is because there's something that happens in the downswing that you don't hear a lot of people talk about.

The club kind of flexes in this direction, so you'll see, It kind of flexes down.

And when it flexes down like that, that's what we call shaft droop.

Now, shaft droop is just basically the center of gravity and the handle lining itself up with one another.

So that's why you'll see golf clubs at a dress.

You'll see the toe of the club up off the ground.

It pulls itself down, down in the hitting area.

You just don't see it.

So, so I see we got, we struggled with flat shoulders.

Well, I'm going to go back and see that comment.

Struggle with flat shoulder backswing, feel tilt and turn okay.

I think tilt is okay as long as I'm rotating.

Oh, we're going to be addressing that one right out of the gate today.

Because we are going to be talking about some common faults and fixes.

Prior to swing reviews, my swing reviewer always told me the squat wasn't pronounced enough.

He pointed out my head wasn't dropping enough.

Is it a two-inch drop and the head mandatory proof of a proper squat?

No, absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

The squat move, the downward movement that you would see from the head and the chest is very much a variable.

And I think a lot of times people overcook it.

So when you watch me move here from a loaded trail side into my downward half, I'm dropping down very minimally.

Now, there are going to be some cases where some students want to squat down more.

But remember, when you start squatting down more, you do run the risk of jumping up out of posture, which is a fault that we saw this week quite a bit.

So we're going to talk about those faults here now, and then we're going to come back and answer some more Q&A at the end.

So for those of you that sent in swing reviews this week, I got to tell you, I was very, very, very pleased.

And I know Craig was pleased too, because Craig and I jumped on the phone yesterday and today.

And when we see people moving into and through positions dynamically and moving into the correct positions, that gives us like a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

That's what we're trying to do is we're trying to teach your body how to move.

And the reason why we've structured this bootcamp the way that we have is so that over the two-week span that you're with us, so that you can work on refining the hardest part to refine.

And that's your legs and your hips.

It's a very difficult part of the golf swing to get right.

Why?

Well, let me answer that question for you.

We're just not sensitive down in our legs and our hips.

We just aren't.

For those of you that have ever seen the homoculus model, which is just basically a caricature of a person that's blown up in the areas where it's most sensitive, you should see this thing.

The hands are gigantic.

The lips are big.

The nose is big.

The ears are big.

The legs are really small.

So we want you to spend as much time as you possibly can during this two-week span and even beyond working on the hardest part because, again, as I said to you guys on Tuesday, this can create a massive amount of faults in the swing.

But now what we're going to do today is we're going to shift gears.

to the most important part of the golf swing.

And that's impact, right?

Impact is where we put the rubber to the road.

And I'm actually going to give you guys two different ways to move through impact.

That is going to allow you to actually pick your trail side or your lead side dominance as you move forward in your golfing life.

Because quite honestly, you've always heard us talk about lead side, lead side, lead side, pull, pull, pull.

But we also, we don't live on a rock, right?

We don't.

We understand that there are just.

very, very frustrated right side dominant people in this world.

And those right side dominant people want to be able to compress the golf ball.

Nobody in their right mind wants to go work on something and do it poorly for rep after rep after rep.

Now you guys might sit there and tell me like, okay, Chris, I know it's a process.

I know it's a process.

Okay.

I'm going to call BS.

Okay.

Because if you go out there and you start working on something, let's just say for two or three weeks and you're just continuing clunk the golf ball all over the place.

nobody's going to commit to those movements.

So what we're going to do today is we're going to start working on the nuts and bolts of impact in the hitting area, which is my favorite part of the golf swing to work on.

Why is it my favorite part of the golf swing to work on?

Because if you get this stuff right, then all we're doing with the rest of the movements in the swing is just adding speed to that movement through the hitting area.

Think about that, right?

If you watch some of these crazy golf swings on TV, like Jim Furyk or Matthew Wolf, if you strip those guys down, and you just look at how they're moving the golf club from one side of the body to the other down here in the hitting area, you're going to see that they're doing things exactly the same.

We're going to get to that here in just a minute.

What I want to do first is I want to address some of the common faults that we saw this week.

Craig and I were in agreeance on these faults.

The first one that we saw was after you hinge from your hips.

Once you start hinging from your hips and get yourself over the golf ball.

Okay.

When you add your knee flex, we were seeing people's spine do this.

So what we want you to do is when you hinge from your hips and your butt goes back and chest goes over the ball and you soften your knees, keep your head and your chest down.

Okay.

Do not allow yourself to come up and out of posture.

Again, there's going to be some small adjustments for spine angle based off of the length of the club.

Okay.

We just want you to make sure that when you get yourself over the golf ball, number one, you can see it.

Number two, you're in neutral posture.

And number three, your hands and your arms are hanging down freely underneath you.

That's your goal.

With the main goal of all of that being anchored to the ground, we want your lower half to feel stable.

We want you to be able to start moving through the positions accurately.

So that was number one.

Number two, I knew you guys were going to do this.

Too much axis tilt.

What I want some of you to think about, some of you that have played golf for a long period of time, is that there's a very strong possibility that you already have axis tilt embedded into your setup.

So don't start trying to add some.

So if I set up, we all agree that I have a little bit of axis tilt here without me having to do any sort of hip bump.

I have axis tilt pre-embedded into my golf swing.

Why?

Well, because I've played golf most of my life.

I've played golf for 34 of my 39 years in existence.

And so that's just something that I have part of my setup.

If you already have it in your setup and then you start adding more to it, you're going to make it very difficult for you to move perfectly.

Now, The first thing that Craig and I saw this week was, we saw.

When you ended up getting too much axis tilt, that it made it harder for you to shift enough to get over to your trail side.

So your shift became shorter.

And then all of a sudden you counterbalanced it with trying to move your upper body too far off the golf ball.

It makes you turn really flat this way.

So axis tilt is to not be over abused, okay?

Look at it on camera.

Remember, if your feet, your hips, and your shoulders are all square and your right hand is lower on the club, then chances are you're going to have a little bit of axis tilt.

That's all you need.

If you overcook it, you're going to make this whole process of loading and turning your body properly, you're going to make it really difficult.

Okay?

So that was number two.

Third fault.

And this is something that was back on me.

And this is.

This is how, you know, when I'm doing these presentations, it's a little bit nerve wracking, right?

Because there's a lot of things that, there's a lot of moving parts that you guys don't see around me right now that's behind this direction.

And also when we're delivering this new style of, or this new format of the Axon Bootcamp, I have to fit a lot of information in a small amount of time.

And so I missed one really key piece and that was at post-up.

So what we saw a lot of, was when people got through transition and they were getting ready to make their post-up move happen, we saw a lot of vertical movement from the head and the chest.

What we want to remember is that after you get down into transition, there's a little increase in spine angle.

So when I make my move to my lead side, you can see that my head's dropped down.

I've increased spine angle just a little bit.

Now, when I make my post-up move happen, I'm trying to keep my head and my chest down and quiet.

If you start moving vertically, What that's going to do is it's going to force your hands to become really reactive.

It's going to force swing plane to start shifting around.

So what I mean there is if I go to the top of my golf swing and I lean my spine away, you can see that the shaft plane starts to flatten.

Same thing.

When you come up out of posture, you start affecting the whole complexity of the hitting area, which is going to make today's work much more difficult.

So really, really key for you to make sure.

That after you transfer your weight into your lead side and you begin that post-up move, that you are staying down in posture as long as you possibly can.

Even when you get your hands and arms passing in front of your body, you want to keep your head and chest back and keep it down as long as you can.

That's a position that obviously is not very comfortable because it's got some side bend in it.

You feel some stretch maybe in your lead side obliques.

But again, you move through that position so fast that you never really even feel it.

Okay, so let me recap.

First things first, you guys did awesome.

We were, Craig and I were a little bit concerned when Wednesday rolled around and we didn't see many swing reviews coming in, which we typically see a lot of swing reviews coming in because people want us to look at their movements and we're like, okay, This is either a really good sign or a really bad sign, because either I left.

People kind of hung out to dry.

And they had no idea what they were doing.

Or people were actually getting some good success with it, and they knew what they were working on.

And so when the reviews started to filter in on Wednesday, Thursday, into Friday, and then some this morning, I saw some absolutely magnificent work.

I saw people moving into and through transition without any sort of hang up.

I saw little tiny squats happening.

And I also saw people being disciplined.

I saw people that weren't ready to start moving through the positions yet because they were working on trying to make the load process or the transition right.

That's totally fine.

Okay, that's totally fine.

Yes, exactly, Luke.

You had to practice it first.

So that's what we want, because we want you guys to be able to take the information and make it work.

And so we basically, we use these boot camps as a way for us to be able to understand if our delivery of information was correct.

So I got to tell you, I think we did a decent job because what I saw was hands down probably the best in all of the camps with movement.

So we just had a few little problems that popped up.

that we're trying to get in front of.

So I do see a question coming in from Dennis and then we're going to get into today's work.

How much shoulder tilt angle should you have at full takeaway if you're looking from the front view?

How much shoulder tilt or angle should you have at full takeaway if you're looking from the front view?

So full takeaway is going to be when the shoulders reach 45 degrees, right?

The amount of tilt that you're seeing, probably from a face-on perspective, is not going to be increased by any means from the tilt that you have at Address.

So when you make a little, little, tiny shift to your right side and you start turning your body, it's going to be roughly the same amount of tilt that you saw at Address.

We're not going to give you a number of degrees because that's a variable.

And if people start overthinking that phase, then they start getting themselves into kind of a locked up sort of movement.

We want you to move through positions.

So if you think about it where your right shoulder is moving up and your left shoulder is moving down without any sort of vertical or horizontal movement, that's a good way to think about it, right?

So if you see that when you make your pressure shift onto your trail side and your head drops down.

That's a typical movement for somebody that's turning their shoulders too steeply, or using too much lead side, right?

so too much leads shoulder kind of tucking underneath them.

And same thing if you see somebody's head move too far off the ball again, that's a little bit of lead shoulder push.

So you want to just make sure that you see just a little bit of horizontal movement, no vertical movement.

Okay, good question.

So where should my hands be at post-up?

Great question.

We're actually doing that today.

So at post-up, your hands should be whipping through the impact zone, right?

They should be hitting the golf ball and flying through there.

Okay, so do you push off the right foot on post -up?

So this is a loaded question.

After you transfer your weight into your lead side, we would prefer that you do a bulk of your work from your lead side, right?

Because if you get down to the hitting area and you have weight to push off of this trail foot, then you can create a mess of problems, right?

You don't want the trail side to kind of help at that point.

Now, within the confines of Axiom, we have you working really hard to get off the merry-go-round because things are happening very fast.

But within the confines of like the RST fundamentals, when you get seated on your left side, we would rather you push from the left ankle.

Really drive to pull that hip open and let the right side of the body react.

Okay, but if you're one of those people that's had really kind of stuck in the mud hips where you've never been able to move properly, then use that right side.

Just do not allow it to cause.

The three major faults, and those three major faults are extension, so early extension, right?

So if I push off my right leg and my spine moves vertically, okay, that's a big, big fault, okay.

Also, if you spin hard with your hips, you get them in this position, which is very common with what we saw in the first axiom boot camp.

Again, you want to want to kind of refrain from that excess right side movement and then the push past neutral.

This is dangerous, okay?

When you start pushing too hard off the right leg, down through the point of contact, you can get your left hip in a really compromised position.

And I don't want anybody to get hurt.

Okay, so all right, final two questions and we're going to get into it.

So does the left foot stay flat during the post-up?

At times, I notice that I'm on the inside of my left foot comes up.

What am I doing wrong?

So you're getting a lot of rotational force.

So if you get your foot to look like that, okay, if you look at my lead hip, it's not fully to neutral.

So if you get your lead hip over to neutral and then rotate, you can keep this foot flat to the floor.

But the minute I move my foot or my hip inside of neutral, okay, you're going to see that.

Okay, there's also, again, there's a lot of forces that are taking place.

that can start to roll you to the outside part of that foot.

All right.

So at post-up, shoulders are square or the lead shoulder can be higher than the trail one.

So Craig already answered that one.

Okay.

All right.

So now here's what I want you to do.

I know that a lot of you have some questions that I didn't even get to.

Hang on to your questions because at the end, we're going to stick around.

I want to get going in today's program because I have a lot of information to deliver.

Okay.

And so I know that not everybody wants to sit here for hours on end.

And so I'm going to go ahead and go through the next piece of the puzzle.

And then at the end, for those of you that want to stick around with myself and with Craig and ask all the questions that pertain to last session and to this session, please hang out.

I'll stay here all day with you guys.

I want to make sure that you guys have all the information that you need in order to be able to move forward.

Now, let's get busy and let's have some fun.

Okay, because today, as I said to you, for those of you that were in the room at this point, this is the most important area of the golf swing, impact.

This is my favorite thing to teach.

Why?

Well, because this is where we start getting you guys to hit the golf ball with some compression.

This is where we get to see you guys, you know, see that thing fly through the air.

But also it's my favorite because all of the small little details that go into the hitting area.

all of the small details.

There's a ton of cause and effect relationship to this stuff, right?

So when we get to what we call optimizing, optimizing your ball flight, what does that mean, right?

Well, that's where we start balancing your equation, right?

So you have your path, you have your face to path, you have your angle of attack, right?

You have, those are club data measurements, right?

And when we make one little manipulation to, let's just say a path or a face to path, that can actually change the direction of your golf ball very quickly.

It can change how much spins on the golf ball.

And so what we want to remember is that if we can get you into a good, solid impact position with a club face that's square and de-lofted by somewhere between 25% and 30%, then you are going to hit the golf ball very well.

But it's not just getting to impact that matters, right?

Because you guys heard me talk about this at the last session, is that we never hit positions in the golf swing.

We move through positions.

So basically what I'm going to teach you today is if you were to go into a static address position, and some of you at home can stand up and try this out.

From a static address position, providing that you have a good grip, if you take your hands and you move them over towards your lead thigh to where they're in the center of your lead thigh here, okay, and you have the club face square, this is the position that we're going to get you into and through.

Now, we are going to give you two options, but you're going to hear me.

be very biased in one direction.

Why?

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

Craig has been teaching this stuff for a long time as well.

You're going to see me preach a lot of lead side dominance.

Why?

Well, because we understand that the lead side is the one that's in front of the club, right?

The death move in the golf swing, whether you guys know it or not, is getting down to impact and having your hands look like this.

How many of you at home have an impact position that looks like this?

If you do, This is the reason why you struggle.

Why?

Well, because you're adding loft to the club.

You're changing the rate of rotation.

You can't compress the golf ball that way.

And so you're always going to find not just from a side to side standpoint, but from a front to back standpoint, as far as your dispersion is concerned, that you're going to have all of these really big misses.

In golf, I'm sure you've all heard this expression before.

Golf is a game of misses.

Okay, it is.

I actually heard Tiger before he had his accident on a TaylorMade video say, The guys that are missing at the smallest are the ones that are out in front.

Exactly.

So what we want to do is we want to understand how to get to that impact position and how to move through it.

And so the reason why we've designed this program to backtrack and kind of reverse engineer it back into your swing is for two reasons.

Number one, it's going to keep you working on your lower body for the entire two-week span.

Number two, it's going to teach you how to start working on release drills in the confines of that.

And what we're gonna do on Tuesday into next Saturday is we're gonna take these release drills and we're gonna blend them together with your lower body movements.

And you're gonna start hitting a lot of golf balls, especially starting next Tuesday, moving into next Saturday.

And Saturday is when we're gonna finish it all off.

So what I want you to do at home today is I want you to really start thinking about what side dominant you want to be.

Because we're gonna give you that option.

But I'm going to press in your brain that, and for a bulk of the people that I work with, I think it's pretty close to 100%.

I'm not going to tell you exactly the number, but 100% of the people have stayed lead side because the lead side is a little bit more free-flowing.

It's a little bit more relaxed.

It's a little bit more efficient, where the trail side stuff that we're going to talk about at the tail end of the session is a little bit more brute force, right?

You're going to feel a little bit more activity.

But some of you just can't get past.

using the right side of your body.

And that's totally fine.

And that's one of the things that Chuck said to both Craig and I is like, we got people that want to have both hands on the club and be able to move the club from one side of the body to the other and not struggle.

We get it.

We understand that.

Okay.

So first thing, for those of you that have the PDF at home, okay, the release from the lead side is going to be very free flowing.

It's going to be very relaxed.

To be out of control of something that you want to be in control of, is very difficult, okay?

Let's just be honest.

Because if you think about golf, okay, To get these two little things lined up at the bottom and get them to where the club face is really square.

And it's moving through the hitting area at a proper rate of rotation, it's pretty daunting.

So we always try to do more with our hands and arms.

Why?

Well, because this is where we're connected to the club, right?

I can very easily move that club around in space.

But that's where all hell breaks loose, okay?

Quite honestly.

So for those of you that are going to go down the lead side release, you're going to find that this is going to feel really, really relaxed, very relaxed, like a Kenny G concert.

How about that, huh?

Your primary grip pressure is going to be in the back three fingers of your lead hand.

I like to say back two, back three.

And the reason why I say back two, back three is because for those of you that are habitual offenders of having too much grip pressure, then try to focus on the back two.

Now, you're probably sitting at home going, what fingers are you talking about here, Chris?

Back three fingers are going to be your pinky finger, your ring finger, and your middle finger.

Those three fingers are we want your pressure.

How much pressure do we want?

So on a scale from one to 10, 10 being rigid and tense, one being overly supple and relaxed, we want you between a two and four.

Now, we know that that's relative because there are some people that will square up and down and this happens probably more times than I can count.

where people are like, Chris, I'm a solid six on my attention level.

And then I'll grab a hold of their hand and their forearm.

And I'm like, holy smokes.

Like it's beyond belief.

And the first question I was asking them was like, how many kids do you have at home, right?

Because kids always make us tense.

So the grip pressure, you want it to be very, very light.

Back three fingers of the left hand, as light as you can.

When you start going through this, you're going to feel the club wanting to do things on its own.

But here's the beauty of it.

The golf club.

is designed to do a couple things for you.

It's designed to rotate, okay?

And it's also designed to be swung on an inclined plane.

So if you get out of the way of it and you allow it to do its job, then guess what?

The club face lines itself up.

Think about that.

I mean, all this time, all of these years, I've been trying to do way too much.

I've been trying to get things lined up.

Yeah, now that's not your fault, okay?

Because, well, maybe it is.

There's an old way of golf instruction.

And I'll tell you, I used to teach it myself that when you come down to the hitting area, you've got to be in a firm left wrist position, firm, firm, firm, okay?

Club shaft leaning forward.

And all you do is just kind of turn your body through the hitting area.

Now, that's great, but that is very inefficient and also very stressful on the body.

Because if you're hanging on to the release, which think about what the definition of release means, it means to let go, then you're relying on something else to keep the face rotating.

The face always has to rotate, no matter what you hear some of these talking idiots say on TV.

It's one of the most frustrating things because I can't tell you how many times I've heard this, but, oh, this person holds a club face square to the target line longer than anybody on the planet, right?

Longer than anybody on the planet.

They don't hold it square.

If you hold the club face square to the target, your golf ball is going to go four right, okay?

The golf swing is being swung on an incline plane, so the club has to rotate.

It's just going to rotate at a very, very small rate.

Somewhere between, you'll see with the best ball strikers in the world, they have the club face rotating between 250 to 350 degrees per second.

Amateur golfers, they're going to tend to have the club rotating upwards of 800, 900 degrees per second, which is going to create a whole bunch of instability.

And believe it or not, rates of rotation in the club face can actually produce off -center strikes.

Pretty crazy, right?

What you're going to find is that when you go through the processes of this change, if you get to a good delivery point in the swing, so when you come down, okay, and you've got the club pretty close to being right through the middle of your hands, okay, right here, and you're starting to let things go, the club is going to do a lot of that work for you, okay?

Now, if you have the club on one side of the plane line or the other, like let's just say you have it coming down outside the hands, then we're going to typically see the club face want to rotate less, vice versa.

We see the club coming way too far from the inside.

We're going to see the club face rotate very quickly.

So what we want to remember is when we get further into this process come next Saturday, is when we start getting this swing longer, you're going to want to check your delivery points.

What I mean by delivery points are, is as your hands start to work down in front of your trail thigh, this is what we consider your delivery point.

So when your hands start to get into the hitting area, and I want you to think about the hitting area as basically being when your hands are hip high to hip high.

So on bullet point number two, if you keep your grip pressure light and you allow the club to do what it's designed to do, then you don't have to be in control of this thing anymore.

There's a couple of things that are going to happen, right?

The first thing that we have to understand is that that position that we worked really hard to get you guys into from Tuesday to today, where you're stacked on your left side, well, your lead shoulder is your primary pivot point in the golf swing.

It's the determining factor where the club is going to bottom out.

So if I have my bottom out point in the correct spot, then as I get to the hitting area, the club is going to pull itself down to the bottom of the arc and it's going to rotate.

That's it, right?

So you have bottom of the arc control and you've got no control to get the club face to do what you want it to do.

Now, when you start getting to be advanced level ball striker, you can do some active manipulation in there.

You can try to release it harder.

You can try to hold the face off to try to hit some cuts.

that's perfectly fine.

But what we're doing here in this bootcamp is we're teaching you how to develop a stock shot that's going to fly tight and straight.

And the lead side releasers are going to probably have a ball flight that errors on a draw bias.

You're going to see the ball wanting to move a little bit more right to left.

Okay, so just remember that.

Bullet point number three, taking the club outside the trail thigh, your lead wrist should be flat.

flatten or slightly with the golf logo pointed directly in front of you.

Let me actually wear a glove today.

I think that'll be helpful.

So a lot of you at home, when you start practicing this, I want you to do it without a golf club in your hands.

Why?

Well, because we got to train the body how to move.

So the first thing that you want to do is if you were to go ahead and take your setup, okay, you're going to have a little bit of cupping in your left wrist with a proper grip, right?

We're not going to go through all the grip details today.

If we need to talk about the grip, let's save that to the end.

So we're going to start to have a little bit of cupping.

Now, as we start to let our left arm swing back and we get our glove or our hand just outside of our trail thigh, this left wrist is beginning to flatten.

At this point in the swing, it's not going to be fully flat, but it's going to begin to flatten.

Now, what we're going to do from this position is when we allow our left arm to come down is we're going to get our glove logo.

pointed down the target line, but kind of pointed down at the floor simultaneously.

So the direction is down the target line, okay?

But it's also pointed down towards the ground.

So I'll turn up the line for you guys.

So when my arm swings down, you're going to see that this glove logo is pointed down to the ground.

Now, here's a good little focus point for you guys at home.

When you allow this left arm to stop in front of your lead thigh, if you think about a hole in your palm that you could look down and see the ground, that's a pretty decent position, right?

This is going to be slightly bowed.

It's always best to start training it slightly bowed.

Why?

Well, because all of you at home do this, right?

You have the cupped position, right?

This is the death move.

So we want you to be able to do this.

First starting point is left wrist, slightly flat or close to being flat, down in front of you in the front of the trail thigh, sorry, in front of your lead thigh, flat or slightly bowed.

making sure that it's pointed in the direction of the target.

Got it?

So just a little simple step from here to here.

Okay.

So that covers three and four.

At finish of the release, the lead wrist should still be flat with your glove logo pointed directly behind you.

This right here is A1 important.

Okay.

When you're training this, I want you to make sure that you look over and you see your lead wrist flat and pointed directly behind you.

Okay, so what this is gonna look like is your lead wrist is gonna be outside your trail thigh.

It's gonna move down to impact.

Then as your arm moves past your body, when it's just outside my lead thigh in this direction, you're gonna see that it's flat and pointed behind me.

Let's turn up the line so you can see that.

So as I come down to impact, you can see that it's flat and pointed behind me.

Now, what do you think that's gonna make the club do?

Well, that's going to make the club actually want to rotate through these positions.

Now, a big, big problem that we see from a lot of our golfers at home is that they think that they get to impact and they just stop everything.

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

When you're getting ready to release the golf club, okay, your body stalls so that your hands and your arms can become independent.

Your hands and your arms need to continue to move through the hitting area.

If you come down, let's just say I'm doing a release drill.

Okay, watch very closely here, okay?

And I just take my arm and I stop What's that gonna do?

Well, that's gonna flip it.

So I want you to think about your lead arm swinging underneath your shoulder, just like a grandfather clock, okay?

Back and forth, just as relaxed as you can.

It shouldn't be tense.

You shouldn't be squeezing through your fingers.

You should keep those things relaxed.

So what it's going to look like when you get really proficient with it, This is going to look just like this.

Okay.

So I'm going to take it back just outside my trail thigh, let my arms swing through.

Now, a lot of you at home are probably thinking that I actively manipulated my wrist to get it to that position, right?

When you slow it down and look at it on camera, when you guys go back and watch the replay, you're going to see that my hand looks like that.

Yes, it's going to be a little bit further forward because I don't have the right hand on the club to pull it back into position.

Totally fine.

But I did not actively manipulate.

my wrist from one side of the body to the other.

I virtually just kept my arm moving.

We give you those checkpoints just as a way for you to make sure that you're doing the correct things.

Okay.

I know that's counterintuitive, but so you want to start out by training the left wrist to move from here to here.

Then you want to train the left arm to do this, not this.

Okay.

That's not doing any good.

Okay.

We'll get to that part.

Okay.

This is not doing any good.

Okay.

Train it small.

Okay.

You're putting your training wheels on for a reason.

Why?

The hardest part right here, well, besides your legs.

This is the most important part, right?

You've got to get this right.

Little small details go a long ways, okay?

So now, once you're able to get your left arm to do this without the club, I want you to start putting the club back in there, okay?

I want you to put the club back in there and let it follow along, okay?

Now, I am a very, very big advocate for not rep stringing.

Now, what's rep stringing?

Rep stringing is this.

Just doing a bunch of reps back and forth.

Now, when you hear me or watch me demonstrate, you're going to see me do a few reps in a row.

You're going to see me do this.

Why?

Well, because I'm trained to do it.

I want you guys to be able to do one rep at a time.

If you can do this and make sure that your wrist is flat and pointed behind you, you're golden.

Do it one at a time.

Okay?

Now, what do you think I want you to do from here?

Well, I personally prefer that you guys get your troublemaker back on the golf club.

Why?

Well, because it adds a sense of stability, number one.

But number two, it's what you're doing in a real world situation.

When you're out in the driving range or you're on the golf course, you all have your right hand on the club.

But I want you to still get your brain to stay focused on what your left hand and left arm are doing.

For those of you that have not seen the Perfecting Your Impact series, Perfecting Your Impact was a five video series that I did years ago.

And it was a spawn from five minutes to a perfect release, which is quite honestly the most important video that we have on the website.

That teaches you exactly what I'm teaching you today.

The Perfecting Your Impact series teaches you how to get these drills onto the driving range and on the golf course.

I'm teaching you today a good, simple way to be able to practice this at home.

so that when you go and you start working on trying to hit some balls that you know exactly the positions that you're going to look for.

So when you start getting past this, when you can do it with left arm only, you check your positions, and then you get the club back in there and you're checking your positions, then I want you to bring the right hand back to the side of the club.

For some of you that have always been a little bit too right-sided, just touch it.

Just hold the club with your pointer finger and your thumb.

Just touch it and let it follow along.

Now, when you do these, You're supposed to be just making small little tiny swings, okay?

Now, I want you to still be able to check that your left wrist is flat and pointed behind you, right?

I'm going to do this from up the line so you can see.

Hopefully, I'm in a good spot.

So you can see that my left wrist is flat and pointed straight behind me.

If you look at the club, the club is going to be slightly toed left, right?

Slightly toed left.

It's not shut drastically.

And it's certainly not open, okay?

Now, when you get to the point where you can do those checkpoints with your trail hand on the club, then I want you to start hitting balls.

Now, there's some other points here that are gonna be extremely important because when the right hand is on the club versus when it's left arm only, some different things happen, okay?

If you look at my chest, when I let my left arm go freely on its own, my chest stays right here.

But if I take my right hand and I let it follow along with those movements, what does my chest and my shoulders do?

Well, my chest and my shoulders move, right?

I don't want you to actively try to turn your body to this position.

If you do, if you're trying to turn your body to that position, you're going to make the club face really late to rotate, okay?

What's going to happen is you're going to continue to turn and the face is going to be open and then you're going to scramble to try to square it.

So what we want you to do is we want you to feel the left arm continuing to move.

When the right hand comes back on there, feel that left arm move with just no help from the right side.

Let it follow along with those movements.

Now, a lot of you at home are like, well, what the heck does my right arm do in the swing?

Well, most of you, it causes trouble.

Your right arm for today, in through the compression drills, for those of you at home that want to be lead side dominant, is going to be a passive conduit that's transferring energy from your body for you.

Right?

So when you go back, you're going to have this little, tiny angle in your right wrist.

You're going to have some angle between your forearm and your bicep.

And you're going to see that those angles are depleting.

Without you trying to make active movement.

Now, when you get to be an advanced level ball striker, you can certainly add a whole lot of assistance from the right hand.

For those of you that have been some lifelong rotary swim fans, you've probably seen a couple versions of the throw the ball drill.

That is a very, very good drill to help add speed and thrust to what your lead side is doing.

That's why if a lot of you at home have watched golf on TV and you've seen Freddie Couples or Phil Mickelson, or maybe you've seen BJ, he's notorious for this as well.

When they get to impact, their trail hands are coming completely off the club.

They're separating from the golf club.

Why?

Because they're trying not to use it to control the face or get in the way of it.

The right side can actually add drag to a certain degree, believe it or not.

Think about that.

So if you swing left arm freely, you can feel the club really fast.

The minute the right hand stays on, it feels like it slows it down a little bit.

Pretty crazy, right?

So that's the nitty gritty of the lead side sort of release.

I'm going to walk you back through how to do this in just a little bit.

So be patient.

I had to get some water there.

I talk a lot.

I know somebody said that I talk too fast.

You think?

So now.

Lead side versus trail side.

Both Craig and I are very big lead side people.

That's how I swing the golf club.

That's how he swings the golf club.

I played professional golf about 20, 21 years ago.

And even at that point, before I even knew what I was doing, I was a lead side dominant releaser.

If you watch golf on TV, you'll always see playing professionals kind of standing there on the back tee with each other doing this, or they're standing on the driving range like this.

Sorry.

Yeah, we did some changes to our mic.

The microphone was trying to be added last time.

But when you're getting ready to go on stage and the microphone's not working, we're going to cut it out of there.

So when you see the pros on TV, you're going to see them doing this stuff, right?

Why?

Well, because that's where they're controlling the club face.

There's a few of them that do it with their right side.

They openly admit it.

So you're going to find that because I have a lot of.

personal experience with my lead side dominant golf swing.

And I have a lot of personal experience from the instruction side that you're going to always try to get, you're going to hear me push you in that direction.

That doesn't mean you have to.

Now, what we've done up here is we've outlined some of the differences.

The lead side dominant release is going to be shoulders are going to be squared impact.

The club is releasing on its own.

We're not trying to force it through the hitting area.

We're just letting those things fly, right?

So when you really get proficient with it and you're stalling the body out.

That movement that you just saw down here is me letting it go.

I'm not trying to control it.

Allow the club to release independently from the body.

This is one of the most efficient ways for you to swing the golf club.

Think about that.

We've always been told to turn our chest through the hitting area.

All that does is it slows the club down and delays the release.

Your club can only move at the rate that your body can turn.

If I'm turning my body, this is as fast as I can do that.

I can take my wrists and go a lot faster, right?

So one is way more efficient.

Now, the trail side releasers, what you're going to focus on is your right arm is going to extend from the shoulder like throwing a ball.

So you're going to be working down the hitting area and you're going to be working to push the club down through impact.

So some of you have actually seen the tape drill on the website.

We have it up here on the images where you're going to feel like when you're extending the club.

that you're pushing it straight down the target line.

It's not going to be working straight down the target line.

It's a feel because again, it's got to work on a slow arc.

It's a feel, right?

What you're going to find is the right hand is going to add a little bit more stability to the field.

It's going to give you that sense of control.

To be honest with you, you can still create a lot of club face stability from the lead side.

You really can because forward shaft lean in a proper angle of attack, which is they're synonymous with one another.

If you get the club shaft leaning here, whether it's left-hand dominant or it's right-hand dominant, the clubface is stable.

All right, the clubface is stable.

What we mean by an unstable clubface or an unstable hitting area is when the club is starting to get past your hands and it's rotating too quickly.

That's an unstable environment, right?

That can produce mishits of all sorts.

So in order to be able to maintain stability in the clubface, what you have to do is you have to be into a good delivery point.

And so when you let your left arm swing freely from the chest and move through, okay, now by the time it gets to contact, it's going to have a club shaft leaning forward somewhere in the ballpark of like 25 to 30%.

That's what the best ball strikers have.

Now you have two options to move from here to here, right?

The first option is the lead side dominant option where you keep your left arm moving and you keep your grip pressure light.

The second option.

is going to be you actively trying to turn your body with it and trying to fire your right arm simultaneously.

So it's going to be like a three-stage rocket booster.

And what that looks like from down the line is that the hips open up first, the shoulders turn, and then we are releasing and trying to extend the club down the target line as long as possible.

This is a productive release for those of you at home that have always struggled getting to be left-sided.

So if you know that you've got no freaking way to become a lead side dominant person, then start out and trying to do some trail side release, okay?

So these drills, when you do them trail side release, are going to be working on feeling like there's a piece of tape in front of you.

You can even put a piece of tape in front of you.

And when you do these reps, you're still going to get to the same delivery point, but you're going to turn your shoulders and you're going to push the club head through the hitting area.

So it's going to feel like there's less rotation.

So it's going to be a little less of a swing.

Because again, this release itself on the lead side is helping the clubs moving a little bit further.

But with the trail side, when you do these small drills, it's going to move a little bit less.

Okay.

So now is the time that you're going to start thinking about which side you want to be on.

My personal and professional recommendation is stay lead side.

Got it?

Okay.

Glad we had that talk.

Now, simple little drills for you guys.

Start out left hand only.

For those that are going to be lead side releasers, you're going to do somewhere between 50 and 100 reps just like this.

If you find that you're still flipping it or scooping it, get the club out of your hands and just do this right to here.

It's the first step in five minutes to a perfect release.

It's the first step.

Five minutes to a perfect release, we have you stop your hand right here just to check that it's perfect.

Then once you get the hang of it, start letting your hand move through.

Okay.

And you start letting them move through.

Okay.

And you start putting the club back in.

Yeah.

So I'm going to answer that here in a minute, Peter.

Okay.

Then you get the club back in there.

You do these reps.

Make sure that it's perfect.

Okay.

Try to keep your chest quiet and you let the right hand start following along.

Now, what do you think I want you to do from here?

Cause I want you to start hitting balls.

Now, most of you at home are like, well, why did we just do all this lower body movement stuff from Tuesday to today?

Well, because you're still going to work on that as a separate component.

Now, I actually walked in today.

I was doing a little bit of soul searching.

Actually, I was doing a lot of soul searching.

If I was going to start letting you guys have some freed up lower body movement and feeling the axiom within these release drills.

In fact, I don't want you to.

I want you to continue to work on that as a separate component with your arms across your shoulders.

What I want you to use with the release drills specifically right now.

Unless you're advanced, unless you really feel like you've got to hang in the lower body movement, you can tie it in there.

But for most of you at home, I just want you to think a little bit about pressure shifting.

So as you were watching me demonstrate this, when I turn my body back, my weight is going over to my right foot.

You see my weight shifting left and then I'm releasing it through.

This is going to simplify it because you have a lot to focus on with getting your hands and your arms from one side of the body to the other.

I want that to be perfect.

So that's where I did the soul searching.

I was like, they're going to get.

you're just going to have too much in your brain.

This is the time that we want you to actually focus on what your hands and your arms are going to be doing or not doing through the hitting area.

So that's why I'm giving you kind of the, I'm not calling it the piecemeal way, but I'm calling it a kind of a broken down way.

So left side releasers, you start out without the club.

Get your left arm moving from one side of the body to the other.

Make sure your left wrist is flat.

Do not send us videos doing this or I will fly to where you are and I will punch you.

Because this right here is not doing you any good yet.

You're not that advanced, I promise you.

Start out small, little hip high to hip high.

We've got all kinds of reference videos on the website.

Five minutes to a perfect release.

We've got the new axiom videos.

And then also, for those of you that didn't realize it, there is a search tab on the website in the top right-hand corner.

Looks like a little magnifying glass.

You click on that puppy and you can start typing any of the videos that I talk about.

in a session, like perfecting your golf impact.

You can just type perfecting and you'll see it.

I know that some of the videos that you'll see me in, I wore horrifically awful pants, like some red pants and some green pants.

I was trying to find a wife at that point.

So I figured I had to be more fashionable, just deal with it.

Okay.

But the videos that you hear me mention are still there.

Okay.

Now, for those of you that are going to do the trail side release stuff, you don't need to do these left arm only swings, obviously.

You need to start doing these things right hand only.

So what I would do is take the right hand and right arm and come down to impact and make sure that the club face is square behind the golf ball.

Then what you want to do is you want to start trying to turn through it and extend the arm down the target line here.

So you're going to use the tape drill.

And then what do you think I want you to do at that point?

Right?

Well, I want you to get your left hand on there and I want you to do the same thing.

Right?

Once you can do that, start hitting golf balls.

Now, the reason why I say start hitting golf balls is because You need to challenge your subconscious.

This is a fun drill.

Why?

Well, you get feedback from the golf ball.

You can hit little shots.

These shots are not designed to hit out of the back of the range.

In fact, I have plastic balls here that when I do this drill, I'm just trying to hit them.

Just really good, solid golf shots.

You can feel that stuff even from plastic balls or foam balls.

Now, if you can become proficient with this drill right here.

whether it's a right side or left side.

And you can get your hands and your arms to move through the position properly to where you have your left wrist flat or slightly bowed at impact and it rotates properly through the hitting area, or you have your right wrist controlling and doing the tape drill.

If you can do that by Tuesday, that's when the fun is going to start to happen because now we're going to start putting the movement to it.

And this is where we're going to ramp you up through the compression drills into nine to three.

And then next Tuesday, you're going to graduate by moving into full swings.

So you can kind of see how we're putting this stuff together now.

If we start condensed and we work on the area that you guys screw up the most, sorry, I'm not trying to be mean, but you screw it up because you're helping it with your hands too much and you get this really flippy, scoopy position, then golf is just not going to be enjoyable, okay?

So for those of you at home, we're letting you hit balls.

Small swings.

We're not wanting you to make big gigantic swings.

Hip high to hip high is perfectly fine, okay?

For those of you that want to try to tie your axiom body movements in there, more power to you.

But I would just do it simply by feeling a little bit of pressure.

So pressure your trail side, turn your body back, get your lead hand outside your trail thigh, and then choose the side you're going to release.

And do this as many times as you possibly can.

This is not a drill that requires a lot of effort.

This is a drill that's going to set you up for a lifelong change in the game of golf.

And this is one of those things that I talk to my buddies about because my buddies are just not good at golf, right?

They know it.

They're just not.

And I don't get a chance to play much golf these days because life is busy, right?

Busy with teaching you guys and wife and a son.

But if I get a chance to go out and play, I still have the ability to be able to get it around the golf course because I know that at impact, my left wrist isn't going to look like this, like my buddies.

My left wrist is going to look like this.

Okay, now again, as I said to you guys just a few minutes ago, or at the start of the session, is that?

If you do this right, then all of the other stuff that you're doing in the golf swing is to set up to help you add speed through that position, right?

That's all we're doing.

So what I want you guys to do for the next couple days?

Oops, Well, for some reason, this is frozen.

Um, is I want you?

To go back and forth, I want you to do more movements with your arms across your shoulders and working through the axiom movements that we learned on Tuesday.

I want you to break it up and do a bunch of release drills.

I want you to pick, I want you to come to next Tuesday with the side dominant that you're going to be with.

Okay.

I would, again, I hope that a lot of you kind of saw the direction I was pushing.

I'm sure you should.

I'm sure you could pick it out.

You guys are all smart at home.

Right.

And the reason for that is because when the lead side's in command of the club, We don't have to worry about the club going whipping past your body.

When the trail hand is sitting behind the club trying to do these drills, it can force the club to get out in front of you very quickly unless you do this tape drill 100% accurately.

And that in turn is just, it's scary because when you have the club getting past your hands, all hell can break loose.

So I want you to make sure that you feel some freed up movement here if you feel like you want to put the axiom in there.

But for most of you, you can just use a little pressure shift.

So the way I describe it to people is feel a little pressure right side, shift left.

Okay, let it release on through.

Okay, hit some golf balls like that.

Have some fun with it.

And then send in some video if you need to.

Send in video if you're still working on the lower body movements.

Okay, remember when you're doing those lower body movements, it's important that at impact at post-up, you stay in posture.

Do not overcook axis tilt.

Do not, and I repeat, do not allow your upper body to get too far off the golf ball because you're trying to get shifted to the side.

Allow those hips to move a little bit.

Okay, freedom is good, right?

Have some freedom to move, okay?

Then do the release drills, hit some balls, come back, and then get ready to start putting it together.

Okay, this is where we're going to start getting really busy on Tuesday, but we wanted to give you a few days to kind of sort your way through the release drills, really go back through and watch the positions that we're trying to work into and through.

Be meticulous.

For those of you at home that want to get success with this stuff, go slow, right?

I don't care.

I really don't care if you're a plus two or a 30.

If you go slow and you retrain this area of the golf swing, It will be a lifelong change that you can take to the golf course and you will not hit the golf ball in 35 different directions anymore.

Okay.

So with that being said, I'm going to open up for questions.

For those of you that don't want to stick around for Q&A, I don't blame you.

There's probably other things that are important in your life.

Get out of here.

You can go watch the Q&A on the replay.

For those of you that want to stick around for Q&A, love it.

I'll stick around.

Craig and I will stick around.

We'll answer some questions.

I'll do some demonstrations if I need to.

But I do want to end with this.

I know that today feels a little bit slowed down from the aggressive sort of behavior of what we've been teaching and preaching through Axiom.

But the importance of this drill should never be overlooked, okay?

This is why if you look at all of the playing professionals in the world that play this game at a high level, whether it's male or female, whether it's legends of the game, or whether it's the new up-and -comers, they all have the same exact club -based position at Impact.

I promise you, okay?

You can go study all the data that's out there.

You can even look at KVS crap, okay?

And just understand one thing, it's face angle, right?

When you have the face angle in a good spot, you can play golf, all right?

So for those of you that are getting out of here, I hope you guys have a really good couple of days.

Make sure you use the swing review system if you need help, okay?

We're here to help you.

Don't go out there blind because if you come back and you have really good release drills and you've got some good lower body movement, We're going to blend those two things together.

We're going to get you guys rocking and rolling.

All right.

So have a good week.

I'm going to stick around and answer some questions.

And so what do we got, Gregory?

Is there any good ones that I got to answer first?

Craig has been on here answering questions.

He's a rock star.

Thank you so much for your help, Craig.

All right.

All right.

Excellent take on how the right hand can actually slow the speed and release.

Important to always remember.

So exactly, Mike.

So when the right hand is on the club, you're having to turn your body through the hitting area a little bit harder, right?

We don't like body turn a whole lot because your spine hates two things.

It hates sheer force and it hates compression.

And body rotation is both of those things.

So the right side can put your body in a little bit more of a compromised position where the lead side stuff, we're trying to get all that stuff to stall out and let those hands and arms become really free flowing.

I can only hit half shots with the right arm only, but as soon as I add the left arm, I can't hit the ball.

All right.

So then I would say do more right arm only drills and maybe explore doing some left arm only swings, right?

See what happens when you get the left hand to do its job, focusing on training it without the club.

I think Conrad, what you're probably going to run into, especially some of the conversation that you and I had this week, is that you might be trying to get the golf ball involved with your swing changes too early.

And I know that's a tough pill to swallow for a lot of you at home because we want so badly to go out there and hit these balls.

But the condensed version of what I just gave you today in an hour's time should take you a very good period of time.

To go out there and learn how to do this perfectly shouldn't be 10 minutes.

You should do this over an extended period of time.

You need time to train your brain.

Your brain is not ready to start going out there and taking these things and putting it right to work.

That's why we give you specific checkpoints.

So if you could do those checkpoints without a club and then with a club and they're 100% right, then challenge yourself to get the ball there.

But if you're looking at it and you're seeing those positions break down where you're flipped at impact, whether you're right side or left side, then it doesn't matter, right?

You should not be hitting balls until you get the movements done 100% accurate.

All right.

Should the hips and shoulders stall out before or at impact?

It's a great question.

So the hips are working very aggressively.

To get to that 45 degree open position at that same time, the club is working out away from you, the club is always working in the opposite direction.

So it's a little physics lesson for you, right?

So the hips are helping accelerate the hands of the arms, they stall, and then the hands and arms become independent.

And that's when we put our max speed point down here, so it's you're always moving in the opposite direction, so it's happening simultaneously.

But here's the kicker.

99% of you at home are going to try to do too much with your arms, and you'll feel like you're posting up earlier.

Try to get your post-up done first.

Try to.

Okay.

Chris, discuss more of flat shoulder turn with tilt.

Okay.

Flat shoulder turn with too much tilt.

So if I show you from a down the line perspective that my shoulders are going to rotate around my spine, right?

So I'm rotating perpendicular to my spine.

We all see that.

Somebody that rotates flat is going to look like this, okay?

So you see how, watch again.

See how flat my shoulders are in relationship to the ground?

Now watch, okay?

You can do this drill with a club across your chest and just feel the club head moving upright.

Now, if you start seeing downward movement from the head, you're turning too steeply, right?

So you want to just keep your head really level.

Now, what that looks like from face on, is when you set up like this, too much tilt, and you do this, okay?

So you see how my lead side got linked and out a lot, and I'm way too far off the ball.

So when you look at it from down the line, you want to see that your shoulders have rotated perpendicular to your spine angle, okay?

Not like this.

All right.

So does this mean the one arm swing is really lower leg turn drill?

This is what might drive my arm more.

So I have the same problem as Conrad with the left arm.

Craig is telling me arms agent the power and I'm muscling.

Does this mean the one arm swing is really lower leg turn drill?

This is what drives my arm.

So yes, your hips are going to turn out of the way.

And with the Tape Drill or a trail side release.

When your hips turn, your shoulders are going to turn and then you're going to extend down through the hitting area.

You have to be able to turn your upper body to help square the face.

Okay, Because the face can't stay open, So the upper body is what you're using to square the face down through the hitting area.

I probably should have explained that a little bit clearer for you guys.

And then the extension is you trying to keep the club head moving down the target line?

Okay, it's just a way to stabilize the face.

So the hips are working The shoulders are working and then the arm is working, right?

Just don't overdo it, okay?

If you're having a hard time getting the left hand onto those movements, then maybe you should train your left hand, left arm independently, just like I talked about, and then try to marry those two things back together.

All right.

When I shift, all right, so I've always had a problem getting my weight shifted to the lead side with upper body, getting too involved and shutting the club face.

Lead side versus trail side relevant to this?

Yeah.

you're probably a very trail side person, right?

So when the upper body wants to kind of heave its way through the hitting area, body rotation feels very powerful to us for some reason.

It just feels like we just want to keep turning through the shot.

And for a lot of you that have played baseball or other hitting and throwing sports, you have to remember golf is a little bit different because we're hitting a static object on the ground down here.

We need to stop that rotation a lot sooner.

Where in baseball, when you have an object coming at you, you're moving through it and you're extending through the actual the ball that's moving in your direction.

So yes, that's a very right side dominant movement is that your right shoulder wants to kind of get on top of things on the way down.

And so you start affecting the swing plane pretty quickly, right?

So your shoulders start turning really, really hard from the top.

Okay.

You have to remember that rotation is moving the club this way and there's no way to stop it unless you figure out a way to quickly shallow it out, which is usually early extension.

So hopefully that answered your question.

So I've always been very trail side dominant, but recently tested the GC quad and saw that when I swing lead side dominant, the numbers are dramatically better with less effort.

But in Chuck's Axiom videos, everything with arms clockwise movement is the trail arm.

It's messing with my head.

How do you do it with a lead arm?

Greg, we're going to show you that next Saturday.

And I'm going to talk a little bit about it next session, right?

Yes, you've seen the axiom movement with the arm.

And what we did in axiom bootcamp number one is we introduced the right arm stuff to the movement right away.

But we found that it started creating faults.

So we removed that piece of the puzzle out of there, right?

So now when we're adding the arms and the golf club back to this, you can see exactly how I'm doing it because I'm doing it reverse engineered.

I'm giving you the way to pick out the side dominant that you want to be in.

Very condensed because it's easier for you guys to figure this out.

With Impact, right?

You should be able to figure out these little small swings, which one's going to feel better to you, which one's giving you better contact.

And then what we're going to do is start ramping that back up, so you're going to see that.

I'm going to still keep pushing for a lot of lead side dominance.

But I'll show people the right arm stuff as we get to next Saturday.

I will, because there's going to be people that want to stay on the trail side.

Does a stronger or weaker left hand grip make it easier to bow the left wrist to impact?

Neither one.

So we want you to be neutral, right?

What does neutral look like?

Well, this V in your left hand should hit you right up in the right ear.

Okay, you should be able to see two, two and a half knuckles from your perspective.

Check out the grip videos, okay?

And the reason why I say neither one is because if you go too strong, different things can happen out of the club face.

You go too weak, harder to get the club face to rotate at the rate that we want it to, right?

Look at Sergio Garcia.

What is Sergio Garcia known for?

Just tons and tons of lag, right?

Tons of it.

You ever seen his left -handed club?

Like this.

He had the strongest left-handed golf because that's the only way he can get the face back to square.

Otherwise, the face is wide open, right?

So we want you to be fairly neutral.

We want you to be neutral, not fairly neutral.

So at what point does the lead elbow start to bend and release?

Great question.

So we want you to try to keep your lead elbow.

working down the target line through the point of contact.

And you should be able to rotate your wrist and forearm independently, right?

So you can see that I can keep my elbow in a fixed position and rotate my wrist to my forearm.

And the reason for that is, is that this is external rotation.

So when the elbow kind of turns in towards the body, I know that's kind of weird, right?

But this is external humerus rotation.

And so when the elbow turns in, this is very dangerous if it turns in too early, because as you're coming down, If the elbow externally rotates to where it's pointed in, towards my rib cage, and I have all of these forces coming down.

You could start putting your left arm into a hyper extended position, right?

That is dangerous.

So some of you people at home that do a lot of left arm only drills and you start feeling some weakness.

Or maybe you feel like you've got golfer's elbow, it's more than likely from you allowing your elbow to start to turn in towards your rib cage.

So you want to keep it down the target line through contact, and then you can let it come in, All right.

It's subconscious.

It's a subconscious thing.

Just don't seem to believe.

Be faster by letting the club go.

Yeah, so Anthony, it's really, really hard for a lot of people to understand that it doesn't have to feel powerful through your hands and your arms.

Your hands and your arms are really small muscles, right?

They really are.

32 pounds of muscle is what it takes for the club to move at 100 miles an hour.

So when we go out there, we try to brute force arm strength.

move the club from one side to the other.

You can move it pretty fast, but you're not going to move it nearly as fast as somebody using the entire sequence, right?

That's what it's all about is sequencing this stuff up.

So, and it's hard to trust the control aspect is going to be there.

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

It's called Fast the Furious Tokyo Drift.

Anybody see that?

I hope not.

I didn't see it either.

I saw the trailer for the movie, but there's this kid in the movie named Lil Bow Wow.

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

And I was like, there it is.

That's exactly what I needed to hear.

That's substance in this world that I can use.

It's getting out of control to get control, right?

So, Ted, you're one of four people that saw that movie.

Congratulations.

All right.

Let's keep bringing on the questions here.

So, Luke, when I try to let my hands close, logo on the face back, after impact, I often produce major hooks.

Close too soon or don't let my hands.

So if you're seeing major hooks, a couple things happening.

If you're getting the ball to go quickly over to the left-hand side, you're slowing your arm down to try to manipulate the face, okay?

So what that means is if you watch my arm move freely from one side to the other, it doesn't stop.

Now what I see a lot of people do is this, and then they extend their arm out.

Keep your arm moving through the hitting area, but also double check when you look over at the club face in your finished position that it is toed up.

or slightly toe left, okay?

Not like this.

That's going to hit a hook, okay?

So that's the reason why you would hit a hook is if your arm slows down and you're trying to actively do things with your wrist.

Or you are actively trying to hit a hard draw and you're just getting yourself all jammed up at the bottom.

All right.

Craig, I don't know how many.

There's been a lot of questions.

Can anybody post a question if I haven't answered it so I don't miss you?

Would the lead leg post up be before impact?

So I thought I just covered this one.

Didn't I just cover this one?

Didn't I just say this one?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did.

The lead leg is posted up at the same time as the club's working down.

That's what's making the club speed up down here.

which is exactly what we're gonna be talking about on Tuesday, right?

So this movement that you're working on independently from your release is gonna be synced back up.

And that's how you're gonna speed the club up.

That's physics working for you, right?

Physics is a good thing.

Can you speak this week or next?

The fact the shoulders seem to be different during the backswing when using the cross arms versus when the club is in the hands?

For sure.

So what you're gonna find is that your shoulders both can stay in neutral.

When you turn your body, there's no, shrugging of the shoulders at all.

When you add vertical movement to your hands and your arms, your lead shoulder is coming to protraction.

It's going to be a little bit different, but again, it's not going to stop you from moving the correct way.

All right.

So my pleasure, Mike.

How do you get back of the hand down the line with elbow rotation?

Can you go a bit into elbow position?

How do you get the back of the hand down the line without the elbow rotation?

Perfect.

So If you take your left wrist and you point it out in front of you and you let your left arm fall to the ground, but keep your elbow, like think about a laser beam being on your elbow, you can rotate your wrist and your forearm independent from this movement up here, right?

So if you take your whole arm and do this, now you're moving as one unit.

You can rotate the wrist and forearm independent from what your elbow is doing, okay?

This is all part of the distal radial ulnar joint.

So you just want to try to keep the elbow pointed down the target line to contact and you want the wrist and forearm to rotate down to that position.

After impact, then the elbow can actually start to turn in towards the ribcage.

It's fine.

It's not going to hurt you at that point because the force is going to be moving down.

So if you have your elbow turned in and you have your force going against it, that can put it in that dangerous position.

So you want to feel the elbow stay down the target line and you can rotate the wrist and forearm.

Make sense?

All right.

Can you talk about the left arm position in the back swing?

I tend to run it across my pec muscle, not angled up by my shoulder.

So I will definitely be talking about that.

I'm not going to talk about it today just because we're working on the small swings and I don't want to start getting too much into people's brain.

That's going to be Troy.

When we start working on the stuff next Saturday, I'm going to show you how to get your left arm into a perfect spot at the top of the swing.

Chris, thank you very much.

I appreciate All right.

I struggle with the concept of letting the club turn by itself, flattening the wrist.

Does the wrist flatten if I go total control of it?

Or should I be trying to actively control it?

So this is a good question.

If your wrist comes down into the hitting area and it's flat, okay, and you have your arm continuing to move, okay, and your grip pressure is starting to lighten up, then your wrist will remain flat because your hand is still in front of the club a long ways, right?

If you stop your arm, then you're in a position where your left wrist can get all kinds of whacked out.

Now, when you're starting to train this, we tell you to feel like you're a little bit bowed for one reason.

right?

Because this position right here is the death move.

If you can keep the knuckles back in behind the wrist bones here, you're golden.

This is, again, an enhancement to your ball striking if you wanted to be able to flight it lower.

I personally did not like to hit the golf ball very low unless the shot required it.

I liked having my stock shot be really high up in the air because I like to launch my longer irons.

So what you would see at impact with me is my lead risk would be right about here, where some playing professionals are going to be right there.

The few degrees of difference there is huge, right?

So I knew that if my stock shot was high, it was easier for me to be able to manipulate the club and de-loft it this way, rather than me having my stock shot here and then actively trying to hit a higher shot.

Because hitting a higher shot requires you to feel like you're releasing a little bit sooner.

And not a lot of people want to try to feel that because, I don't know if you know this, lag is a double-edged sword, okay?

Lots of people want lag, but if you take too much lag in the hitting area, it can be very daunting to get rid of.

Trust me on that one, because you have to remember.

That's steepening the angle of attack and that's leaving the club face more open.

Okay, so I like to have the wrist, my wrist comes down and flat, and then I keep my arm moving.

And yes, it does stay flat because the club's staying in behind your hands if you stall your arm, all bets are off.

So Where should my elbow point hands at my right leg?

My elbow is very rotated at impact.

Where should my elbow point when my hands are at my right leg?

So when your hands get down in front of your trail leg, your elbow should still be pointed in the direction of the target, right?

If it's internally rotated like this or external rotation where it's turned in towards your ribcage, then you either have a grip issue or you've got some very right side stuff happening that's forcing that movement to happen.

All right.

Looks like we're getting winding down here.

Can you elaborate more on the lead shoulder moving naturally downward at the beginning of the downswing?

This is a tough move for me to get my head around.

So your lead shoulder, your shoulders are rotating perpendicular to your spine.

So if my shoulders unwind back to square, My left shoulder is staying down.

My left shoulder doesn't come back and do this.

What that looks like from face on is this.

That's the left shoulder working up.

Now watch the left shoulder staying down.

My shoulders are unwinding around my spine.

I know it doesn't feel natural, but it's just the shoulders being pulled around correctly.

If you start trying to move from your upper body too much, then that's when you'll start seeing the lead shoulder want to ride up.

All right.

Looks like fist bump back to you, Nicholas.

All right.

So I'm going to wrap up because it looks like we're winding down.

You guys are awesome.

Thank you guys so much for a wonderful Saturday.

I know I talk 3,000 miles an hour.

You don't need to write that in.

Trust me, I'm working on trying to talk slower for you guys.

I just get excited, okay?

So goal-wise, come back on Tuesday with some good idea of what side you want to release it from.

come back with more reps under your belt with lower body movements, okay?

And then get ready to start putting these two things together because the compression drill, five minutes to a perfect release is my favorite video on the website, but the compression drill is becoming more and more of my favorite video on the website.

And that's what I'm gonna be walking you through.

All right, so I hope you guys have a fantastic rest of your weekend.

Please do not hesitate to ask questions.

If there was something that we missed here today, go into the community, post those questions up.

Craig or I will get back to you.

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