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

Session 3 of 4

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All right, welcome back everyone, Happy Tuesday day number eight of 14, session number three of four and we have got a absolute supercharged session for you guys tonight.

In fact, I'm going to make a big, big change to the format and we're going to jump right into things tonight very early.

We're not going to actually open up for Q A at the start of the session, we're going to wait for that to the end of the session tonight for various reasons.

But I'll go into that here in just a minute.

But so what I want to do here out of the gate is, I want to let all of the people that are coming into the room get settled.

Before we get started because there's a couple of housekeeping items that I want to go through before we get started.

So hopefully everybody had a wonderful weekend, hopefully everybody got a chance to work on these things the last couple days.

I'm going to be as crystal clear as I possibly can about what I want you to achieve tonight, tomorrow, Thursday, Friday into Saturday to get you guys ready to graduate on Saturday afternoon.

So I'm excited about tonight's session.

Got some really good feedback this week and really, really looking forward to hearing the feedback on the change of plan through this session tonight.

Because again, like I said, We're going to get right into business tonight and get people rocking and rolling, rather than just doing all this fiddling around and answering a bunch of questions.

Because there are some people that have things to do in their lives and they want to be able to get back to it.

There are some people that, um, do you want to stick around for some lengthened up?

Q A And I'll be.

I'll stick around as long as you guys need me to to a certain degree.

To answer all those questions, make sure you guys have everything in your brain that you need to.

So, welcome to tonight's presentation.

Anthony welcome, Robert welcome.

Hopefully everybody's having a wonderful, wonderful start to be.

Hopefully everybody can hear me clearly tonight.

Like I said to those of you that got in here early, we are going to supercharge this stuff right into business tonight.

We're going to go ahead and make sure that you guys understand exactly what you're doing, why you're doing it, and how you're going to get things done.

So welcome, Jimmy.

Hello, Gregory.

Welcome, guys.

Hopefully everybody's had a wonderful, wonderful start to their week so far.

So loud and clear, Pompano Beach.

The weather's pretty nice here in Florida right now.

I don't know other parts of the country how the weather is, but it's been very, very nice here.

I'm not trying to rub it in.

Trust me.

Okay, I grew up in New Hampshire.

I know what it's like to have.

cold snowy weather and be out there working on the snowblower this time of year trying to get it moving.

So just a couple more minutes to let everybody get settled.

And then we will get underway.

Craig, welcome.

Craig S.

Not to be confused with Craig M.

All right.

So let's go ahead and jump right into it.

So I had a very important question.

Asked to me in the last session and I'm not sure if you guys caught it or not, but it was at the tail end of the session.

So if you guys were joining us live, or you guys went back and watched the replay.

I had a very important question that was asked to me.

That weighed very heavily on me as a golf instructor, and the question was, What do you want me to master?

Between now and Tuesday?

And so, right then and there, I was kind of taken back.

But that's not your fault.

At home.

That was a fantastic question.

Because that tells me that I'm not giving you guys a full, crystal clear picture of what we want you guys to get done.

And so what we're going to do out of the gate tonight is.

I'm going to talk to you about what your objective is from tonight's session and what you're going to be trying to get to by Saturday.

Now, Your objective between now and Saturday is to be able to perform really solid lower body movement within the Axiom.

And that little special sauce that we talked about.

And also be able to release either lead side or trail side and trying to blend those together.

Not in full swing format, but a maximum of nine to three.

Now, here's the kicker to that.

Whether it's done with a golf club in your hands or whether it's done without a golf club in your hands, that's up for you to decide.

So all I want you to be able to do tonight is I want you to be able to start working towards blending the axiom movement together with the side of the body that you choose.

That you're going to release the club front.

In fact, I'm going to jump right in and give you guys some of the trail side dominant release stuff.

Because I did have some people mentioned to me that they are interested in staying on a trail side dominant release.

As much as I want to push, push, push you over to lead side, I know that I've got to be able to give you the trail side stuff as well.

So that was a very important question because as I said to you guys in session number one, I want to make sure you guys have that.

That picture, right?

That map about how we're going to get to the end result.

What you're doing, why you're doing it, and how you're going to get it done.

Okay, so I'm going to make sure you have that question to your brain right away.

The second and final piece is something that I mentioned in the first session, it was very apparent in the last session.

Um, that I got easily distracted.

And my wife even put a little fern over here in the corner, a little calming fern, that's what she called it.

Um, here in the golf studio, um, to help keep things zen-like.

And the reason why things felt a little bit distracted last time is because of the chat, okay?

I too, as a golf instructor, can be distracted by what's going on in the chat.

And so if you guys can do me a huge favor tonight when we get underway, a huge favor, let's keep the chat extremely quiet, unless it's extremely urgent, okay?

And what that will allow me to do is deliver the clearest presentation that I possibly can.

And then what we'll do at the end of the session tonight is I will, like I said, I will stick around as long as you need me to.

In fact, I think what you're going to probably find is that the way we go through this session tonight, we're going to be done inside of an hour.

But we're going to have a bunch of questions that come at the end of this and I want to make sure that you guys have all those questions answered.

Because tonight is is what I would consider the most important night of camp.

And I probably have said that about night one and night two, right?

or day two.

But tonight is where you're really going to kind of get the guarantee from my side and Craig's side and Chuck's side.

If you can do these two movements together, then you're cooking with some major fire, okay?

All right?

If you can get your lower body working properly and you can sync up some hand and arm movement and you can get the club back in your hands, if you're bold enough to be able to get the club back in your hands, and hopefully you guys will be bold enough to try to take that on, then Saturday, there's no reason why we can't send you off into the golf world.

Be assured that you guys are going to be or, or.

There's no way that we could send you off into the golfing world and not have the confidence and the fact that you guys are going to golf all better.

All right, I promise you.

So, if you do this lower body movement correctly and you have a very good understanding of how to release the club in the confines of lower body movement.

We're in the business, okay, so those are the two housekeeping items, so we're going to get right into business.

I'm going to teach you guys how I want you to practice this stuff.

And I had a big, long talk with one of my students yesterday about Understanding and Learning movements, right?

I can teach you guys movements very quickly.

I can teach anybody how to rotate their wrist or their forearm, or get it into a good back swing position, or load into their trail leg and maintain some flex.

But it's how we practice those things that allows this stuff to come to life.

If you're out there and you don't create awareness and you're just kind of flopping like a fish out of water.

And you're more or less relying on the feel versus real aspect of the swing, or you're leaning on that too much.

then chances are you're going to have not as much success as the person sitting next to you.

So how you practice this stuff is very key.

Now, I might have said this to you in session number two, that unfortunately, myself and Craig and Chuck don't have enough time in our day to be able to sit with you guys, each and every one of you individually, and watch the way that you practice this stuff.

So we're going to give you the flexibility and the freedom.

To change your practice sessions and structure them in a way that all you're doing is number one.

Going in there with a game plan about what you're going to try to focus on, right?

So if it's the lower body movement specifically, I want to become really proficient with that tonight and that's all I want you to focus on.

You start with your arms across your shoulders, you focus on moving this part of your body properly.

Like we talked about in session number one.

And there you go, okay, If you want to go out there and you want to work primarily on the release, then you get really focused going through exactly the steps that I laid out for you in session number two.

If you want to try to blend them together, I'm going to walk you through how to blend that stuff together tonight.

But remember, you do not need to make big, long golf swings between now and Saturday.

The maximum we want to see you moving your hands and your arms in your golf club would be at 9 to 3, which if you look at my arms, they're straight out.

It's about chest tight on both sides.

Okay, this would be your nine o 'clock position over here on your trail side.

This would be your three o'clock position on your lead side.

Nine to three.

Okay, that's the farthest you need to make a swing.

Now, the good thing about a nine to three golf swing, if it's synced up properly, you're preserving and releasing lag properly, then you can hit it right around 80% of your normal distance, which is something I alluded to in last session.

80%, think about that.

80%.

So if you're normally used to hitting a lob wedge, 100 yards and you go out there and you do it in nine to three format, and you do it really well.

Synced up with the stuff that we're going to talk about tonight.

Then you can hit it 80 yards, right?

So that's pretty good now.

Think about that through the entire bag, Okay, so, and again, people ask us this question, Well, why can't we just go out there and play golf in nine to three?

Well, you can.

And you'll be very surprised that when you start looking at your swings this week.

As you go through the next few days, that you're going to swear up and down, You guys are going to swear up and down.

I promise you this.

You guys are going to be like, Chris, I'm only swinging back chest height to chest height.

But when we look at it, your hands and arms are wrapped around your head.

It's the most common thing that we see on a day-to-day basis, right?

Because all of this momentum and inertia that we have in the golf club, when things start moving really fast, it's very easy for us to lose sight of how far or how long the swing is, okay?

So you just want to feel things toned back in a way, okay?

How I want you guys to practice this is I want you guys to stand up at home and I want you to do this stuff with me.

Okay, I want you to stand up tonight and I want you to follow along because you're going to find that.

This stuff is very easy to do if you keep things simple and you listen to my keywords.

So your first session, whether it's tonight or tomorrow night or tomorrow during the day or tomorrow morning, whatever you choose, you're going to start out by getting yourself into an impact position.

So you're going to have your hips opened up 35 to 45 degrees.

Your shoulders are going to be nice and square.

And if you're going to be a lead side dominant releaser, you're just going to do 25 reps or so from hip high to hip high.

Just get your left arm moving back and forth.

And yes, I'm allowing you to rep string.

Everybody get excited, right?

Now, what you're trying to accomplish here is one specific thing.

Is you're trying to eliminate tension from your left arm and your left wrist.

And you're just trying to keep your arm moving back and forth.

That's the only objective that I want you to be able to.

Um, get burned into your brain and say, you're just going to keep the left arm swinging freely.

Okay, 20 to 25 reps.

okay, if you want to do a little bit more than that, you can.

You should not be tired, you should not feel fatigued, you should not feel like, man, your arm is sore after those reps.

That is a very relaxed movement, it's done from hip high to hip high.

Okay, now the second thing I want you to do is I want you to do another 25 to 50 reps or so.

Just focusing on lower body movements.

Okay, just focusing on the axiom and how to get the the right side to help the left side move out of dodge.

Okay, now, I know some of you have had some questions and maybe not have as much success with the secret move that we've been talking so much about.

And I think what I've found, with some of the reviews that I've seen, and some of the questions that we've answered, is that people are overthinking it.

Right?

If you think about your impact position and where you are right, so your lead hip is open 35 to 45 degrees.

I'll turn off the line for you to see.

Okay.

My lead leg is passively straight.

If you think about this position, okay, that's the position that you're going to be moving to.

And hold that static for a second.

Okay.

And then kind of tell yourself, okay, I'm going to be moving to that spot.

But now what I want to do is I want to use my right foot and my right leg as I start working around the merry-go -round.

And as I start moving up through 6, 7, 8, 9 o'clock, Okay is I'm going to start working to really feel that left, button down and back, and I'm going to get into that posted up position.

Okay, so start out by feeling where you're going.

Put yourself into an impact position, right, put yourself into that that really good solid lead, lead, lead, leg position.

Try it out and then close your eyes.

One of our students said this in the last session, where they like to do things with their eyes closed.

I think that is a very, very good idea.

Because for those of you that aren't necessarily as kinesthetically aware as the next person, it's a great way for you to be able to kind of feel your way through these movements.

Now, unless you've got too much to drink at night, right?

Then you don't want to leave your eyes closed.

Because then you'll be falling all over the place and I'm not coming to pick you up off the floor, okay, I appreciate the enthusiasm on the good joke there.

So if you think about where you're going.

And then you start moving around the merry ground, okay, and you start letting your legs and your hips kind of chill out.

You're making some big circles here, And then you start thinking about, okay, now I want to get my left butt to move down and back, and I'm going to get to that impact position, okay?

Notice how I'm not doing anything with my upper half.

I don't have my arms across my shoulders.

I've just got my hands on my hips here.

I'm just trying to feel some movement, okay?

Now remember, as you're driving from 6 o 'clock up through 789, okay, you can continue to push, right?

You want to allow this leg to push you through to that impact position.

Don't be afraid to push.

I know you guys have heard at home, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull.

Things are happening insanely fast in the golf swing.

If you don't use a little bit of right side, then you're going to be a little bit on the powerless side.

You've got to get things trying, okay?

Your hands and your arms are speed demons, right?

Your legs and your hips are going to be fast to a certain degree, but they're not going to be wanting to just get pulled to this 35 to 45 degree open position.

Before your hands and arms go racing past you, it's very difficult to do unless you get.

You're like, one of the most patient people on the planet.

And I know that this sport doesn't necessarily breed patience because we get so frustrated with, right?

So what I'm trying to tell you is is that if you watch the way that I'm practicing stuff, I'm just trying to create some awareness.

So now you've done 20 to 25 reps left arm, only now you've done 20 to 25 reps.

Just kind of feeling some movement here, getting yourself into that impact position.

Now what you can start doing is you can start blending those two things together, right?

And this is where I want you to start really pinning down which side dominant you want to be.

And I can sit here all night long and tell you all the benefits for being a lead side dominant releaser.

But that doesn't mean that every single person in this room needs to be a lead side dominant releaser.

So I'm going to give you the examples from the trail side because you guys deserve good instruction as well, right?

I'm not just going to kick you guys to the curb and say, I'm not going to teach you this stuff.

When you start picking out and you want to be a lead side dominant releaser, now what you're going to do is you're going to allow your body turn to move your left arm into right around a 9 o'clock position.

Now, remember, 9 o'clock is chest height.

If you go a little bit shorter than that, totally fine.

If you go a little bit above it, totally fine.

Always err on the side of keeping things small.

I don't want your brain to be distracted thinking about how far you feel at your arms from that.

Okay.

So a good way to focus on this and bring this all together is now you're going to start moving around the merry-go-round, right?

Or if you want to use that sort of hybrid approach where you pressure shift right to six o'clock.

Now what I want you to do is turn your body to where your lead arm is parallel to the ground.

So as your lead arm gets to this position, I want you to now aggressively move from six o'clock.

So you're turning your body.

Left arm is now parallel to the ground.

You're going to now aggressively move through 6, 7, 8, 9, and you're going to go ahead and let your left hip and left leg move down and back, and then you're going to let your arms swing through.

You're going to feel like this is happening first.

Oh, Chris, I was told that those two things happen together.

Well, they do.

They absolutely happen together.

In fact, you want to always be moving in the opposite direction.

Now, let's talk a little bit about what we as instructors see on a day-to-day basis as we see this.

Now, if any of you caught that, what did you see?

Well, you probably saw my arm moving first, and then all of the momentum and inertia that I just created in the arm pulled me over to my lean side.

So you just get these false senses of where you're moving from.

I see that more often than I care to admit, because it feels like you're doing things correctly.

You're going to have this very big desire to try to do more with your arms than we want you to.

You're going to.

Everybody in this room.

Okay.

If you think otherwise, then let's have a private conversation afterwards.

You're going to always try to do more with your arms than we want you to.

Okay.

So what I want you to remember is when you go into this third piece, okay, when you're choosing the side dominant that you want to be on, I want you, if you're going to be a lead side dominant, you're going to turn your body to get the lead arm into this parallel position.

Okay.

Then you're going to aggressively move from six o'clock up through seven, eight, nine, and you're going to get your left butt and left hip to kind of pull back down and back as you're doing so.

Get to the spot and let your left arm swing through it.

Now you can see that those two components were a little bit slow and choppy.

It's night one, right?

It's night one of you guys blending this stuff together, if I put you guys all in manual transmission cars when you were first learning how to do this.

And I said, I want you guys to go out there on an F1 track and I want you guys to set some lap records here.

None of you guys would be able to do it.

You, you have to remember.

You've got to take the time to go through these little small pieces and do them slow and chunky.

But you're going to find that as you start going further into your practice session, then now you're going to be able to start doing those things a little bit quicker.

So you're going to turn your body.

And that's how you're going to be able to blend it together.

So you start really broken down.

Left arm freely.

I feel my arm being relaxed.

I feel the freedom.

Then you focus on getting your hips and your legs working for you, right?

Put yourself in that impact position to feel where you're going.

And you're going to start trying to move into it.

Get you into that spot.

Then you can start going and making sure that you're going to do these two components together, but keep them separate to a certain degree.

So you're going to pressure shift or you're going to use that movement around them, merry -go-round.

You're going to turn to where the lead arm is parallel to the ground, aggressively move through 6, 7, 8, 9, get to post-up, and then let your arm pass in front.

Once you start getting really proficient with it and you know that you've got your body lines all worked out, then you can start moving through the positions faster.

So you can do these next 20 to 25 reps.

And this is on day one, where you're literally going to look like this.

Okay.

Okay.

Not big long spins.

Not trying to set records here.

If you can do that after night one, then you're going to start day two doing the exact same thing.

But you're going to consolidate down your reps.

You're going to try to get that stuff warmed up very quickly so that you can now bring the club back in.

I don't want you putting the club in your hands on day one.

Why?

Well, because you're going to lose sight of the sequence, right?

Sequence is everything.

And I actually had an email correspondence with one of our students that worked with me a few years ago.

And I said to him, you know, be patient because you're going to see on night three that we're going to aggressively start letting you guys move into and through these positions.

We're going to start blending it together.

And that's why I say tonight's an important night.

If you can do these things together, then you have the most important area that's also uncovered, and that's the hitting area.

Now, with a way to be able to add speed to it, that's what your hips are doing, your hips are helping you generate speed for your hands and your arms.

Not tons and tons of speed, but it's adding a lot of speed to the mix, right?

If you take your hips out of there and you just swung with your arms and shoulders.

Yeah, you can produce a lot of speed, but it's inefficient.

Speed efficiency is really a combination of where you're moving from and how to get it perfectly timed up, right?

And I actually hate that, that expression, timing, I really do.

Why?

Well, I used to hear it all the time.

I was the director of golf at a 55 and up community.

Um, which was?

This was for seven years of my life, um, I got some funny stories about that place.

But I used to have every single day of my life I would ask a question to like Mr.

Haberkamp, how'd you play today?

And he'd be like, oh, my timing was off.

I played terrible.

Terrible.

I hate this place.

And I'd be like, okay, well, why is your golf swing so relying on timing?

You want your golf swing to do the same thing every single day.

I would assume you do, right?

Unless it's really bad, then you want to move it away from you.

And that's why if you look at the PGA Tour, and you look at the players, even when they're not working on things, what are they doing?

Well, they're hitting balls.

They're reinforcing movement patterns.

They take very few days off, even in the offseason.

a bulk of them will hit balls all the time.

Unless it's Christian Marco, where I know he doesn't practice, but a lot of them, and he just likes to go out and play periodically, right?

So my point of what I'm trying to tell you is, is that if you focus on the plan and you allow yourself some freedom, but you stay consolidated and you allow this sort of holistic or sort of like gradual way to be able to get yourself to the end result, then come Saturday, all I'm doing, All I'm going to be doing is just finishing the puzzle off here or finishing the pie off.

And that was a really bad expression.

I'm finishing the whole kit and caboodle.

How about that one?

That's all we're doing is we're going to literally finish off your body.

Turn and get your hands and arms into a good spot.

And give you a couple of key checkpoints that you can look for and some different ways to practice it.

So if you can do this stuff right tonight and through to Saturday, then you have got a very, very good chance to play some of your best golf in Okay.

I know you guys are probably sick and tired of saying that, but that's the truth.

Now, for those of you that are going to be trails high relacers, I told you I was going to give you the information.

Okay.

Now I was going to save this information for the session on Saturday.

I'm sure Craig Morrow was sitting in the chat.

What the hell is Tyler, Chris Tyler doing right now?

I'm going to do this just because you need to start feeling a little bit of thought, work, movement coming from your hand in your arm to start helping understand how you're going to be moving.

From this nine what I want you to think of is a clock being in front of you.

Okay, so 12 o 'clock up top, 6 o'clock down below.

And I just want you to start making some smaller circles, right?

Just in small circles down in front of you.

Like wax on, wax off.

Okay, so small clockwise circles.

And that's going to be your means to being able to move your hand and your arm into your 9 o'clock position.

Now, I obviously know that your arm is going to go way up here to 12 o'clock, and you're going to have your hands and arms above the 9 o 'clock position.

That's fine.

Don't get bogged down in that.

But I still want you to keep the circle small.

And what you're going to think about is as you're working to get off the merry-go-round.

And you're transferring your weight from your right side to your left side with that really good, aggressive move from 7, 8, 9, is that as you're starting to get off the merry-go-round is that you're going to start skipping a stone down the target line.

Okay?

So you're going to kind of look like that.

Okay?

And you can do that.

As many reps as you would like, right?

You want to make sure that you have this stuff synced up.

It's done the same way as far as the lower body is concerned, and then the right arm coming in last, so you're going to make little small circles now.

There is some benefits for right side dominant releasers, especially for those of you that have battled with over the top.

Or not being able to preserve lag, or finding no ability to become lead side right, there is some benefits because it does help you shallow things out, it does help you get some sensations for lag, but lag is not a mythical creature by any means.

I promise you, it is a very, very easy thing to get in a golf swing.

It is very easy to preserve and it is very easy to get rid of it.

If you just stop trying to do things with your hands, your arms.

Now, I heard I watched the video, unfortunately today.

And I'm just going to say the name of the company, V1, which is a very huge company.

And they're doing the 12 days of golf instruction, which I was absolutely mind blown how bad the golf instruction was today on day two, It was like, it was talking about lag and how we don't ever create lag.

I was like, so again, golf instruction just is not awesome because nobody agrees on anything.

And I'm not here to bash other methodology, but lag is something that's super, super easy.

And you're going to see that by doing the drills in this manner today, and we start adding the club back in, that your job is just to let your wrists kind of naturally start to support the club like they would.

And then when you feel your left hip.

Starting to move down and back into that solid position is you just let go of tension, let go.

I know that's hard for a lot of us to stomach because we're not going to have that sort of control aspect, right?

We're not going to have that in our, in our DNA anymore.

But you got to trust it, you got to just let the club pull itself down the bottom of the arc.

And I showed this example the other day with a student, where again, I've had him moving his arm back and forth.

Okay, nice and slow, and I'm holding the puck back in the pinky and I showed him.

If you look at the bottom of the swing arc, what the club is doing is it moves itself to square as it pulls itself down to the bottom.

Right, there, right.

Everybody's just like, How the heck does that happen?

That's what the golf club is designed to do.

Okay, that's why the golf guts gave us this shaft.

Coming off at an angle, right?

It's designed to be small and inclined plane, and that's why it comes down.

And it's meaning it's pointed in an axis, right?

So that's why it can rotate around its axis.

Pretty awesome, right.

So now to answer the question that I got last session.

You want to become proficient with your lower body movement synced up with either a lead side dominant release or a trail side dominant release.

You're going to be doing that on night one.

Night two, you're adding the club back in, okay?

So for those of you that really feel like you're ready to put the club back in your hands, please do so, okay?

Don't go past night one and stay in there in night two, night three.

Okay, get the club back in there.

If you know you're doing these movements correctly, you're better to feed your brain with the club in your hands.

Why?

Well, because that's what you're doing on the buffers, right?

Right, you've got to be able to do this with the club in your hands.

And you'll be very surprised that by having the weight of the club in here, it's going to throw things a little bit haywire.

You're going to start trying to actively manipulate things, you're going to try to find different ways to support the club.

Just keep your tension levels down, right when you're sitting here and you're turning your body back into nine ball.

Okay, this is not a tense position and it won't be any more tense.

When the club comes in there.

Club's not that heavy.

I promise you it's going to feel heavy if you're holding it static for a bit, okay?

So now I want you to start doing the reps with your lead side or your trail side with just one hand on there.

But remember, I don't want you spending a lot of time doing one-arm drills with the club because we can make those look pretty all day long.

Get the trail hand or the lead hand back on the club and get back to work.

Okay, so you'll start out the session without the golf club in your hands, getting things warmed up, left arm only and lower body and blending things together.

And you're putting the club back in there.

And you want to be able to do exactly what I'm going to show you here, okay?

So you're going to pressure shift, ride.

You're going to work around the merry-go-round.

You're going to turn your body to where it's at.

Your lead arms are parallel to the ground.

You're aggressively moving off the merry-go -round, getting out to your left side, letting your arms swing through.

10, 15, 20 reps just like that, perfectly fine.

Then what I want you to do is I want you to bring the trail hand back in the club, okay?

And I want you to do another 15, 20, 25 reps or so, right?

You can get a hundred reps in here pretty quickly.

So trail hand is going to be on the club.

Okay.

You're going to pressure shift or work around, marry around.

You're going to turn your body to nine o'clock.

Okay.

You're going to then aggressively move from six, seven, eight, nine.

You're going to go ahead and let it release.

Okay.

Then you can start speeding things up.

Okay.

Okay.

Now, once you've got that done.

Okay.

And you really feel like you've looked at it on camera.

You've got that good forward chaffling position that we talked about on Saturday.

You've got really good body lines.

And guess what you can do?

You can put the golf ball in there.

You can start hitting golf balls.

Why do I want you to bring the golf ball in so aggressively and start doing this?

Because you've got to feed your brain.

This is all about practicing with a purpose, feeding your brain, getting it ingrained, and taking it to the golf course.

When you start hitting balls, I would probably suggest that you do like a one-to-one or a two-to-one ratio.

Remember what we talked about in last session.

Try to give yourself 100% score on the one practice rep that you do.

Now, here's a little secret for you guys.

Do not take a lot of time from your practice swing over to your golf ball swing.

Why?

Why would I say that?

Think about that for a minute.

Oh, Chris, I got to get reset, right?

I got to get reset.

I got to get my brain.

This is the problem.

why you guys don't get a lot of success at times, right?

Because you allow your brains to think too much.

Think about what we've done.

We've broken this stuff down and given you some simple little keys, right?

My job is to keep my left arm really relaxed.

My job is to then really feel myself really working hard for my right leg with my left butt moving down and back and just let it go.

If you think about that and that only and you get it burned in your brain and then you put a golf ball in the way of it, you're going to get success.

You will.

If you allow.

For all of the minutia that surrounds itself around the golf swing, all of the videos.

That's why I know a lot of you at home who've been around for a while have seen a lot of videos on our website.

I think at one point we had over 900 videos on the website.

Craig can recite every one of them word by word.

It's kind of funny.

I would call him the rain man of golf instruction.

He could literally say everything and give you a timestamp on the videos.

900 videos.

Right now, all of you at home.

I know this very well because we can see what you guys are looking at.

We know that you guys aren't just spending time looking at the core videos that we're talking about here.

We know that you guys are looking at other stuff.

So we're doing our best to be able to consolidate things down and point you in the direction where you need to be.

But remember, when you're in this sort of consolidated format, I don't want you to get lost in a lot of the other videos out there.

If you need a video to go back and reference or maybe you just like Chuck's explanation a little better.

Or you like his demonstration card?

Totally fine, I'm not going to be hurt by that, right?

Never.

He's the master blaster when it comes to this, right, but he's his information.

The way he delivers, it is the best of the best, and his movement is is the real deal.

So if you need to go back and reflect on that, by all means.

But remember, as a golf instructor, that sits on the front lines.

And I do this stuff every day, and Craig does the same thing every day is that we see what works and what doesn't work with some of our students.

And so That's why we were able to shuffle this format around and give it to you guys in this sense, right?

So we're working on the lower body, giving you extra time there.

Then we take it way down and give you the release.

And now we're blending it together, okay?

Now, the way the compression drills are going to work for you is that the swings are going to start out much smaller than 9 to 3.

And when you're hitting the golf ball, I always suggest that.

But remember, in smaller swings, if you're going back to hit high, Right, right in the spot.

There's not a lot of time to be able to get your hips really working for you, so you're just going to have to be really patient.

And these shots won't produce very long golf balls at all, but you can still do it, okay, you can still, and I would still always focus on starting really small and then building it into nine to three.

So if I were to backtrack a little bit and give you guys a kind of a kick in the butt, I would say, when you're going to put the golf ball in front of you during the sessions.

Then start out about hip high to hip high, and then kind of find that middle point between hip high and hip to nine to three, and then get to nine to three.

So it's like a three-phase drill.

And I have many students that work with me, and I'm sure Craig does the same thing, is we make this kind of like a ladder drill, right?

So if you want to hit 10 really good solid shots at hip high, that's your goal.

You want to get 10 in a row.

If you get nine in a row, start over.

That's good discipline, right?

Once you get 10 in a row, really good solid contact.

Right, you're feeling very confident with how your focus is and on how your body is moving.

Then try to get 10 in a row at the at the midsection.

Once you do that, then you can advance up to the top level.

All right.

If you find that you're really struggling in the midsection, then pull yourself back down and go back through the processes.

Then there's no reason to race.

When you're working on the hitting area and really getting things synced up, right?

That's what this is all about.

Is now syncing your arm movements to your body movement.

Now, putting the club in there and then letting the golf ball react.

If you want to start hitting compressed shots and you want to start really, really hitting some efficient shots, if you don't have to feel like your brute force driving it down the runway as hard as you can, then this is how you build a golf swing, right?

This is how you get it into full speed, full swing territory without creating a lot of faults, right?

And that's why I said to you guys in session number one that we learned very quickly that when we give you guys a lot of freedom, That you guys can create some faults that are difficult to fix, some really big faults.

So let me recap again.

Okay, because there's only one slide tonight is play around with your practice sessions.

But do me and Craig and Chuck a big favor?

Leave the club out of the equation.

On your first night, whether it's tonight or tomorrow night, focus on getting the left arm or your trail arm the way you're going to release.

The club.

Synced up with your lower body movements, getting yourself into some very solid impact positions, whether it's going to be lead side or whether it's going to be trail side, okay?

Making sure that you can do that as synced up in sequence as you possibly can, okay?

Then the next day, you start out stripped down, you go through the movements, and then you start putting the golf ball back in there, okay?

Don't stay long with just one arm in the club.

I want you to make sure that when you bring the lead arm or the trail arm back onto it, That you're still staying focused on the body movements and being synced up.

Let's start feeling the club moving around pretty quickly.

You'll feel like there is maybe a little bit of lack of control in it.

For you.

Lead side dominant releasers, that's okay.

Once you feel like you've got it synced up, then don't be afraid of the golf ball when the golf ball comes back into your practice sessions.

Start small right, hip high to hip high, get 10 in a row, move into the mid section here and then into nine to three.

Okay, make it a game right.

That.

I find that doing things where you put yourself in these high stress environments makes it more realistic for you.

And that's something that, you know, if the golf instruction world could solve, we would have a billion-dollar idea in our hands.

And I worked with the lead sports psychologist out of Cornell University, and he's a funny guy.

But the hardest thing in the world to do is to translate your practice swings onto the golf course.

How many of you have struggled with that at home, right?

Why?

And that's a question that I'm sure everybody is asking themselves.

Why is my practice swing.

So freaking good.

And why is my golf ball spoon just a disaster?

Well, there's a second level stress, right?

There's consequence there's.

Your subconscious is very, very powerful.

Unfortunately, we'd like to kick our subconscious right in the rear end and tell it to go take a nap.

But one thing that was brought to my attention was he was like, Chris.

Think about the reason why Navy seals are trained, the way that they are, think about it.

I go through their their program.

Um, they are put through some of the most ridiculous testing, right?

Stuff that they probably would never see in the real world situation.

Why are they put through stuff in that nature?

Why?

Well, because when they get in the heat of the battle, right?

When they're out there and they're, you know, having to deal with people that want to kill them.

They need them to be able to react subconsciously and be able to get the job done.

That's why they do it.

And I know that's a very outlandish sort of, um comparison, because we're talking about golf versus in our Navy SEALs.

But that's exactly the reason why you don't get much success.

So I have plenty of students that do that ladder drill.

I have another student that hits 50 balls a day.

And I made a post about him recently with some of his before and after work.

He's been working on trying to get his left wrist in a really solid spot down to the bottom.

And he set out and he was doing his golf swing in three phases.

So he was basically, you know, kind of half swing, three quarter, and then full swings.

This is something he came up with and we talked about it together.

And so each of these phases, he hits 50 balls a night.

He does a one-to-one ratio, and he will not move to the second phase until he hits 50 in a row, which to me, I'll be honest with you, I mean, I play a lot of golf.

I play golf professionally.

I would have a hard time hitting 50 balls solid for an entire session.

I probably could do it, but I just, I don't know.

So he will not move on to the next phase.

And so I'll get reviews in from him that say 46 out of 50.

Here's what I ended up with.

48 out of 50, 49.

You finally get 50, right?

And this is a three-quarter territory.

And I was like, all right, Andrew, are you ready to start moving forward into full swings?

He's like, nope, I want to do it one more time.

Now, I know that these stories feel like, Chris, come on.

That's how I want you guys to approach this stuff.

So tonight isn't me teaching you anything differently that you haven't learned from session one and number two.

It's teaching you how to practice it and get this stuff working together, right?

You have to be able to do these two movements together.

To be able to make this little white double on the ground, fly as far as you want it to.

And you start going through this and you ingrain this.

And this is a drill that you can come back to for the rest of your life.

And I'll be the first person to admit it to every single person in this room.

If I go out and play golf and I have a bad ball striking day, I will come right back down.

And I will work on little, small nine to three swings.

Okay, where I'm really focusing on my hands and arms, being relaxed and getting my legs, my hips, working for me.

I will do it until I get a very high quality golf shot coming off the buff base.

Why?

Because speed is sometimes not our friend.

Okay, sometimes when you start moving into and through positions really, really quickly, you get false senses of where you're moving from.

And the number one mistake that we'll see, especially if you haven't played a lot of golf recently, is that.

Your legs will get really sleepy.

And your hands and arms will get going really fast when your hands and arms get going really fast.

To try to produce your speed, then you're basically relying on your coordination factor, and some of you might be really coordinated at all.

I find myself, I, I would say that I'm pretty coordinated, but I don't want to rely on my coordination.

Okay.

I want to rely on my movements really, really allowing the club to accelerate free freely.

And I want to let my movements, let the club face square itself up without having to work so hard.

Okay.

So with that being said, I'm sure that everybody in this room wants to see me demonstrate a certain phase of this, or they want to see, or they want to hear a little bit more about their plan.

Your plan.

It's just night One is the only one that is really going to set the tone for the rest of the week.

Okay, if you go into Night One and you strip things down and you follow this and you get it really synced up, then night two, three and four into Saturday is all about just being able to move your way into and through the practice sessions.

To be able to get really good quality impact positions and a really good, solid release through those impact positions.

Okay, now, remember, the right side dominant release is going to have your shoulders open a little bit more, your right arm extending down the target line.

The lead side dominant releasers are going to get their upper body to really feel stalled out and let.

When the right hand's on the club, let it follow along with it.

And you're going to get maybe a little bit of side bend right on your right side.

You get a little stretch in your lead side plank, but you'll definitely feel a lot more relaxed.

Okay, so how many of you at home have questions in relationship to trying to get these two things blended together?

If you have questions, you can see that.

Now we're ready to start opening up for Q and now I'm going to sit here with you guys and make sure that you guys have everything answered, everything demonstrated.

That you could possibly imagine you have again a reference point here that you can use and then you have a Rep tracker on the following page.

But again, I gave you guys a very crystal clear plan on how to work from tonight and tomorrow and through the next three days.

So let's go ahead and open up for questions.

You can ask any questions that you want tonight.

Okay, I want to make sure you guys have everything answered in your brain.

All right, which release has less side bend?

So this is a great question, Barry.

So theoretically, when your right side is firing through the hitting area and your right arm is extending down, your shoulders are going to turn a little bit flatter, okay?

When you're standing back in behind the shot and you're letting your left arm free up, this one's going to produce a little bit more side bend post impact, but it's a position that you should be moving through so fast that you should never feel it.

Okay, So really, really important that if if you're getting kind of caught up and you're feeling a lot of pressure on the on the.

On the lower vertebrae.

Because you're in the side bend position with extension, then you can allow yourself when your hands and arms.

I actually kind of move up on my right toe, just a little bit on purpose, because I don't like feeling that pressure on my back.

Okay, Should there be a full shoulder turn in the 9 to 3 drill, Chuck?

At nine to three said there should be about 45 degree shoulder turn.

So how does that relate to the axiom of getting off at six don't get lost in how many degrees of rotation that you're going to try to get to get your arm into that spot.

You just keep your arm relaxed and let it hang here.

And you turn your body, your arm is going to move in at 9 o'clock.

So you can see that it's a little bit more than 45 degrees.

This would be 45, right?

This is where the takeaway is complete.

So if I didn't answer all of my questions, please post that up again.

I want to make sure I get that one.

So I've been fighting a cup lead wrist from the top to impact.

Which release would help flatten the lead wrist at impact?

So neither one of the releases is going to help flatten the lead wrist, okay?

I would strongly suggest that you train your left wrist to get flat at the top of the golf swing or at least into your 9 o 'clock position for now.

And then make sure that when you're coming down, you stop in that spot that we talked about in session number two, okay?

So this is the spot that you want to be.

You want to make sure at the 9 o'clock position, it shifts and you come down into that spot, okay?

And then train that, train it, train it over and over and over again.

And then bring the club back in there.

Same thing.

Make sure that you use your trail hand on the club when you're doing this, when you bring the heavy end of the club in.

Why?

Well, because it's going to take and offer some support to that.

It's not going to feel so heavy, it's a little bit easier for you to be able to commit to it.

So either one of the releases is going to help you get away from, you know?

A couple efforts at the top of the swing and then a couple one down here, right?

You got to train it to get flat up here, and then you got to make sure that it's either flat or slightly bowed down here.

Do that independently first and then start putting the movements back to it.

Okay.

So, Tony, in terms of the release when practicing, how do you differentiate?

In terms of release, how do you differentiate?

So, this is where we don't want you to, you can play around with both of them, right?

The nuts and bolts of the release is really what we talked about in session number two, right?

One is going to be very free-flowing.

One is going to require you to turn your body a little bit more and then fire your arm down the target line simultaneously.

All right, once you're firing your your upper body in the direction of the target, you're pushing this way, right, you can see that.

Okay, that would be a very trail side sort of dominant movement that puts a little bit more stress on the back, right?

Because it's it's rotational force that you're you're working off of.

And it also has the trail hand sitting behind the club.

That can ultimately manipulate the base angle, path, the angle of attack, spin loft, dynamic loft, all kinds of things.

All right, so thanks, Chris.

But your shoulders were turned maybe 30 degrees, sometimes less at most, in your demonstration.

Hence the question, Tony, you never apologize?

I understand, so if I was only turning 30 degrees, I apologize, right?

I sometimes I get in the habit of just swinging my arm back, okay, but for the most part, what I want you to do is just turn your body into this, this position.

So you can see.

My shoulders have turned, you know, 60, 65, 70 degrees or so, so I apologize that my demonstration wasn't 100 on board there.

Does the hand position it impact in terms of height, mimic.

What does that address?

I have a tendency to elevate my hand slightly.

Of course, the hand is.

Okay, great question, Ronald.

So, at a dress, and this is something that's really common, I'm not sure where this bit of golf instruction came from, but we'll see a lot of people that try to sole the club perfectly flat on the ground.

And to do that, they pick their hands up, right?

How many of you at home do that?

Where you pick your hands up to make the club look perfectly flat to the ground in a dress.

Don't do that anymore.

So, and the reason for that is is because there's something that's happening in the golf swing and you don't realize it.

The club shaft actually flexes like this on the way down, so what it's doing is the toe of the club is pulling itself down to the bottom of the arc.

So it's called shaft root.

It's how the center of gravity lines itself up with a handle.

So you want to make sure that your hands and your arms are relaxed at address and the club is just resting in your hands.

What you'll notice is is the toe of the club is going to be slightly up off the ground address.

But when it comes down, you won't be able to see this because you don't have the camera to be able to do it.

But the club shaft will flex, it'll droop.

And so that's why, with golf clubs, why lie angles become so important?

So when I was playing full -time, I would have my lie angles checked.

Probably every three to six months or so.

I would go through my entire bag.

And all that is is just basically, you can stick a piece of tape on the bottom of your club.

you get this little plastic board and it shows you on the bottom of the club where you're wearing.

So you want it to be obviously wearing in the middle, um, so if it's wearing out the toe or it's wearing on the heel.

They can adjust the lie accordingly for you, so that your golf clubs are working for you club fitting.

A lot of times, people often overlook it.

There's a lot of mumbo jumbo in the golf world of trying to sell you guys things every, you know, every year and every two years.

Which is kind of frustrating.

Because, I mean, I play golf with a driver who's my playing driver that's 10 years old, and it's I hit that better than anything that's not new.

I don't spin it much, so, all right, so back in the questions here.

I usually have a flat lead wrist and impact, which what is the technical correct method to have a slightly more bowed so So either method, you can still get a bow with left wrist.

You're just going to have to actively try to put the lead wrist into that position, right?

I don't like a ton of bowing of the wrist because if you watch, so this is anatomically flat, right?

Watch what happens when I bow my wrist, right?

So you can see how much more I deloft in the club.

Deloft in the club is a good thing, right?

That's part of how you compress the golf ball, how you hit down on it, how you flight it.

But if you think about it too, from the back end of it, it is, Considered a steepening movement.

So you've got to be able to kind of balance it out and help shallow things out.

And I see a big mistake that people make is they get this bowed wrist and then they do this post impact, right?

Well, where's, where's?

How's the face going to rotate?

I think I rotate like that, right?

So you need to make sure that when you're coming down, you're going the wrist, that you allow your wrist and forearm to still rotate.

It's going to kind of feel like your knuckles rotate underneath just a little bit.

Okay, that's how you control your spin lock and your dynamic members, All right.

So still stuck on the secret sauce.

How do you sit and go down onto the lead left, post up on the lead leg?

Exactly.

David, I want them to be dramatically opposed, like I want them to be contradictory to each other because you're missing the point.

If you're moving from this side to this side, okay, that is a very big lateral movement that's happening, right?

And if your left butt's moving down and back, Okay, so if you think about my left butt moving down and back, and I take my right leg and simultaneously push, okay.

What's going to happen is is this leg is going to begin to straighten up now.

Something that you probably haven't heard us talk about before is the head movement in the swing, right as far as what's happening.

So what actually happens is we turn our body over our trail side.

The head drops down slightly and then when we make our post-up move, our head stays in that downward position.

Well, you just increase spine angle, right, exactly, there's a small amount of spine angle that's increasing in the downswing, and when you increase that spine angle.

We don't want you moving up and out of it, so I don't want you to think about, you know, how's my left hip going to go up if my left butt's going down and back?

If you continue to move through the position, what it's doing is just rotating the hip open.

And now you've got that position where, yes, the left hip did go up as a result of you still driving through it, that's the beauty of that sort of secret sauce movement.

We've seen a lot of people make a very, very big change to their way that they move dynamically.

It introduced a squat move and it introduced a post-up move to a really stable lead side position by not being too complex with moving, right?

If you find that that doesn't work for you specifically, that's fine.

That's fine.

We will figure out a different way to get you to that end result.

But I would encourage you at home.

To go about the process, like I just demonstrated in tonight's session, put yourself in impact, right?

So from address, move your left hip over into neutral, okay?

Get your hips opened up and lead leg into a passively straight position, okay?

Make sure your head and your chest are down.

Hold that there for a second, okay?

Now think about what I've been trying to tell you.

Push yourself from that right side and feel that left butt go down and back and get into that same spot.

Try it out.

Stand up at your computer and try it out right now.

If you don't get success with it, then let's set up some time this week to talk, and I'll go through some videos with you, and we'll look to see where you're missing the boat on it.

Okay, what should the release feel like?

I have an ingrained chicken wing, but I am not sure why.

So the release, I don't know where that question is.

The release should feel very free flow.

Where is my golf club?

If you're going to be a lead side dominant releaser and you have a chicken wing, okay, the reason why you have a chicken wing, just to understand this, is two things are happening.

Number one, you're pushing very, very hard from your trail side.

So if you hold your hands and arms out in front of you, okay, and you put your palms together, you don't move your chest, right?

You push your arm across your center.

What does your left arm do?

Well, it breaks, right?

It breaks away.

Now, when you do this movement, when you're pushing across center, there's also something that's not happening.

Your wrist and forearm stop rotating.

So if you just think about your wrist and your forearm, okay, they'll be rotating together.

Think about them rotating to where your glove logo or your wash are facing directly behind you, or maybe even a little bit more.

Then you put the right hand in the club and you do that same thing.

You can't chicken wing it.

Try it.

It's the stopping of the rotation of the wrist and the forearm that causes you to get in that position, but also the really, really trail side dominant sort of push past impact.

So that's why you have a chicken wing.

So the release should feel free-flowing, relaxed, letting go.

That's what it should feel like.

Now, I don't live under a rock, okay?

We still have to catch the club.

The club's going to be going pretty fast.

You still got to have a little bit of grip pressure in the back three fingers of your left hand.

But everything else should feel like you're just letting go.

Think about when you're getting ready to whip a towel, right?

You're not tense in the hand and the wrist, right?

You're subtle, right?

You're letting things go.

So don't try to feel strong through your hands and your arms, okay?

Let the body help propel the hands and the arms.

So when practicing, how do you differentiate between keeping the left arm moving in the release drill versus dragging the handle and not releasing?

So if you're dragging the handle, the only way you can drag the handle is to be tense in your wrist and to hold on for dear life in your grip.

That's what we call a handle drag.

If you pull your arm past your body and you don't have any tension here, then you can't drag the handle.

The club's going to pull itself down.

Very, Very important that you understand that the only way you can pull the handle past the body and not let the club release is you're trying to be in control of the club simultaneously.

Okay.

So kind of got disjointed.

Are we working on the same release from Saturday?

Could you just show quickly what you want us to work on?

So yeah.

So I'm sorry that I missed the boat on this one because again, that was my point tonight is to show you exactly how I want you to do things.

So we're working on the same release from Saturday.

Yes.

So Saturday was, Just getting you to do this right, just doing this, okay?

And if you remember correctly, what I said at that session was, I'm not going to give you guys the lower body movement with that because I felt like it was a two.

It was too premature.

I did allow you guys to work on your your lower body as a separate component so you could still get more reps on that.

That was our goal now tonight is blending your lower body movement with the release.

So it's going to look like this.

Okay.

That was the small swing.

That wasn't me turning to a full nine o'clock position, right?

Okay.

You can see that I'm still getting into that good spot.

So it's using the axiom movement and letting your arm release, right?

Really, really important that you get those two things blended together.

How are you going to get them blended together?

Isolate, isolate, isolate, and then slowly start bringing them together.

So let me just walk you guys through this, this practice program again.

Start out, get yourself into an impact position, lead, hip open, 35 to 45, shoulders, nice and square.

Let your arms come back and forth freely.

Okay, and what I want you to do is I want you to now start adding some movement to that, so you're going to start getting your axi movement.

Okay, you can break these up into pieces and then let your arm release, And then you can start going back into nine Okay.

Then you can start adding the club back in.

Okay.

And the right hand comes back on there.

Okay.

Then you can start hitting balls.

All of those movements that you just saw there are not going to be done as fast as I just did them.

Why can I do them fast?

Because I'm training, even if I did only turn 30 degrees.

I'm trained, so I can do these things a little bit quicker than you guys can.

In two weeks or three weeks' time, or maybe some of you in two to three months' time, you're going to be able to do it just as fast as I did.

The processes and what you have to follow are entirely up to you.

That's the whole purpose of tonight's session, is to teach you guys that your job is to create awareness.

and start putting these two pieces together.

When you start creating the awareness, I got my left arm sorted out.

Now I want to start getting my lower body working with it.

Now you have to look at it on camera.

We said that on night one.

You got to use a mirror.

You got to use a camera because you have to be able to back check to see if you're in those spots, right?

You know what impact is supposed to look like.

You know what the release is supposed to feel like.

Put those two together and then you start putting the club back in there, okay?

Doesn't trail side release cause cupping of a lead wrist?

No.

No, not at all.

You don't have to.

You can push really hard from this side and still keep your left wrist bowed off, right?

Or flat.

So you can push down the tire line.

It's not going to necessarily mean.

You're going to maybe feel a little more firmed up on that side.

I will tell you this right now, that most trailside releasers are going to start trying to do that movement too soon, and you're going to see that the left wrist gets cut at impact.

So help with the definition of arm rotation.

I can rotate my left hand without rotating my elbow, and I can rotate my left hand and the left elbow, which is arm rotation, so I can rotate my left hand without rotating my left elbow.

Yeah, so the wrist and forearm will rotate together independently from the rest of your arm, right?

so we have external and internal rotation of the arm.

Okay, you can rotate this independently.

The wrist and forearm are going to rotate based off of the radial distal owner joint you want to.

Keep your elbow pointed down the target line to impact and let your wrist and forearm continue to rotate.

And after that, when your elbow actually externally rotates, which I know is counterintuitive, this is external rotation, that's fine.

You won't put any stress on the elbow at that.

So the wrist and forearm are rotating together.

So if you think about the key checkpoint of being out in front of you right here, okay, to being behind you on this side of the body, you're in the business, okay?

So at what stage in the follow-through does the lead wrist start to get out of line?

At what stage in the follow-through does the lead wrist start to get out of line?

I do not know.

I don't understand the question.

We're not talking about follow -through.

We're talking about getting into 3 o 'clock.

So if you get into 3 o'clock and you see, this kind of ties back into what I talked about in session number 2.

My wrist is flat here.

And it's flat here just outside my lead thigh.

It's rotated.

The golf ball is already long gone.

Okay, momentum and inertia is going to pull this wrist into a cup position.

You want to try to fight that off a little bit when you're first training this and be a little bit more meticulous with it.

But then once you start letting things fly, if you see that any cupping happens in this left wrist before this point, like, you see this, that's no good, all right?

So as soon as your hand gets outside your lead thigh, as long as it's flat and rotated, and then it's continuing to rotate.

Post that position, you're cooking with some major fire.

So turning the knuckles down with the left lead side release feels like every hook I've ever hit.

So this is where you could probably get lost in looking at the club face.

When you start going down there and trying to get your knuckles and wrists down to the ground like this, you're going to see the club face is really shut, right?

I get it.

I understand that.

But you have to remember, what's not on the club?

The right hand.

Your right hand's not on the club, and you don't have secondary.

So it's going to look really shut.

It's going to, if you're hooking the golf ball with that position, with blowing it off and getting it turned down the target line, there's other factors.

It's either, you know, a byproduct of maybe a grip issue.

Maybe the club face was shut coming into the entry point.

Maybe you were actively trying to help the left wrist turn through that.

But if it's, if you have an anatomically correct grip, I have a dress, okay, which I'm not going to go into the nuts and bolts of the grip tonight.

You can go watch the grip videos on the website.

If you have an anatomically correct grip and you come down into the position that we were training you on session number one, or, sorry, session number two.

And you hit it left.

It's not because of the wrist position, okay, it's because of a grip.

Or your club face was shut somewhere and you were actively trying to slam the face shut down through there.

I agree with you, though.

It does feel like the ball is going to go left, and especially when you look down at it for the first time.

You don't have access to it, you don't have on the right hand of the club, I fear.

And everybody that knows me knows this.

I fear the ball going left.

It took me under professional golf.

And that and my inability to be able to pull the trigger because I was shaking so bad.

Okay.

So how relaxed should the hands be through impact?

Is properly moving from seven to nine supposed to cause correct releases a chain reaction?

The hands are relaxing?

Exactly.

So really, really great question there.

So the release is going to be a byproduct.

Of what you're doing with your legs and your hips.

Okay, your job is to set or create lag, right, right, which we were told that we don't create everything else.

Okay, then preserve, okay, and then to release.

If you look, if I try to hold my hands and arms in this spot, you guys can try this at home.

Nine If you keep your hands and your arms relaxed and you let the legs and hips drive away and you keep your shoulders relaxed, then your arms get pulled out of the air and all you gotta do is just let it go.

That again is why we have so many still images of people where their trail hand is coming completely off the cliff.

You don't need it on there.

It's transferring energy and then your left hand or your lead hand is going to be taking and making sure it's controlling the face.

So very good question.

So lead side release.

Are there any points in the swing where the hands or arms are actively moving the club?

Calking is active or passive.

So cocking of the wrist in the golf swing should be very passive.

So think about it this way.

If I go into my takeaway, okay, and I turn my body to 45 degrees, what you're going to notice is that my wrist just naturally starts to support the club.

See how it's in line with my hands?

If I didn't, the club would be down here, right?

So it's a passive set.

Your brain does a lot of this for you.

Where you're like, Okay, it feels kind of heavy, so you're just going to start actually increasing the angle.

And the same thing should be true as you work up to the top of the swing.

If you keep them relaxed and you just try your very best not to feel active movement from them, then you're going to be in a pretty decent spot at the top.

Now, as far as the other part to your question, are there any points in the swing where the hands or arms are actively moving?

The club?

Yep.

There's going to be some elevation and there's going to be some flexion.

There's also going to be some wrist and forearm rotation, there's going to be some wrist set.

All of those movements that I just listed, there are never tense movements.

You can pick up a club at home and you can do this, right?

And keep the grip pressure really light.

And you can flex your right arm.

And you can certainly note your wrist and your forearm rotate and not be tense to make those movements happen.

It's a very, very passive sort of movement.

If you feel tense or, you know, you feel tired after making a golf swing, then you're actively trying to do too much from your hands and your arms.

So.

Craig, how are we doing on questions here?

It's very chaotic with all the questions coming in, but you guys have some really awesome questions, so thank you.

Let me see if there's.

People have answered almost all of them.

Oh, that's nice.

So I understand that we must complete the axiom shift properly before impact for independent hand release, but is the axiom and counterbalance supposed to take care of this automatically?

Or is there a chance of getting late in post-up and we're not mindful about it?

So there's definitely a chance of getting late with post-up if you start moving from your hands and your arms.

As soon as you're going back, if I'm going back at a 9 o'clock, not trying to get my arm to stay in that position, if you just kind of hang out there, your arm is going to come down for you.

Now, if you get to that position and you start moving your legs and then you try to get your arm moving this way, then your hips and your legs will shut down.

I promise you.

As soon as you start shifting where your force of movement comes around, which is very, very common, we'll see a lot of people do these really great ball strings where they shift onto their left side and then they start doing this.

They start moving their arms.

They don't finish off the movement here.

Why?

Well, because it feels super, super powerful.

We've already done this acceleration phase.

Why not keep going?

That's why you see so many people, they think the release, and this is not something you're actively thinking, right?

You make that transition move, my lead arm is kind of like at parallel to the ground now on the way down, and it's easy for me to just get the arms flying, right?

We feel like that's where we should start hitting.

It's harder to be patient to get the arms in here because it just doesn't feel as fast and powerful to some of you guys at home.

That's why you guys get really flippy and scoopy.

You know what I mean?

Definitely.

So.

Okay.

Is it okay to feel the right hand is flexing back in the back swing to find the lead wrist?

Absolutely.

So if you're talking about the top of the swing, you're going to feel the kind of set position.

Don't go into hinge.

Okay.

Don't start pulling your knuckles back here.

You'll shut the face down and create separation.

Okay.

But you'll feel the wrist kind of getting pulled into that spot.

Supple up at the top of the swing.

We'll talk a little bit about that on Saturday.

In the downswing, is there any active movement of the arms or is it a pull from the lower body and inertia?

Nope.

So right now, until you become advanced level, and there's very few people that even meet that sort of realm, you're going to allow the legs and the hips and gravity to pull their arms down.

Now, if you came to us five years down the road, your graduate level, your plus three handicap, your striking volume, you want to find a little bit more speed, then we're going to try to figure out how to get your hands and arms to go faster in the midsection, right?

So if we have to introduce an active pulldown from your arms, you bet, that's fine.

Right hand and arm speed, it's been studied, equates to puppet speed, right?

so the faster we get our arms moving through this section.

But you cannot, and I repeat, cannot do that.

If your legs and hips shut down, you're now substituting your efficiency sources around your golf swing.

That's the last thing that we want to do.

Will the thicker grip negatively affect my release?

Yes, and no.

Um, if you're sorry, I'm running all over the test trying to find.

So it can affect total amounts of angle that you set.

It shouldn't really send you down a pathway where you can't get the risk of boron to rotate though.

It does require, from what I've done and when I tested it, it does feel like you have to kind of hang onto it a little bit firmer at times in the swim, which we're trying to reduce tension.

Some people will argue the other side of it though.

Well, they're supposed to take the tension out of it.

They're arthritic grips, right?

I don't like gray area stuff.

I like things very black and white.

I would have to see like data that supports it.

So I'm not going to give, I'm not going to give you like an ironclad down advance, but I can tell you that it can affect some wrist set and it can ultimately force the tension levels to increase from what I've seen.

So I think you guys have asked some absolutely phenomenal questions tonight.

So I know tonight kind of felt a little odd, right?

Because we normally open up for Q A.

But again, my point of going through this program tonight the way that we did is that.

That important question that was asked, I don't know who asked it to me on Saturday.

Made me feel like I need to do a better job of being able to give you guys a plan, right?

And understand how to work through this stuff, and hopefully, hopefully you guys understand how to practice this stuff now.

Okay, your main goal, okay, whether it's with the club or without the club, is to be able to get your lower half synced up with either a trail side or a lead side.

Dominant release.

Now, remember, I can't emphasize this enough.

If you don't know if you're doing these things correctly, send it in for a swim review.

Send it in.

We love looking at swims.

That's my job.

And I love to be able to help you.

If you want to see if you're doing it 100% accurately, then send it our way.

If you find that you're struggling on a lower body movement, I'll make a deal.

Okay, for anybody that feels like they are not doing the lower body movement correct over the next, let's just say you get through Wednesday.

I'm going to give you Thursday.

If you feel like you're still a mess, I'm going to offer this to one of you.

Okay, I will do a free 30-minute Zoom session with you.

You'll just need to email me, Chris at RotarySwing.

com.

And don't go out there and not put your nose to the grindstone, okay, tonight and tomorrow and just show up and just send me emails.

Okay, don't do that, right?

I'll be able to tell.

Right away in our Zoom session, if you're you weren't kind of following protocol, or if you really were lost, right?

Take your time.

Okay, if you get to Thursday and things aren't working in your favor, somebody here will get a Zoom session with me.

Okay, email me Chris at worrieswing.

com I was going to say, Craig, So, so I didn't have my email address out there.

But I think it's pretty easy to figure out, right?

Um, how does that sound for a day, right?

So then I'll be able to take and show the class on Saturday what some students may have been battling with.

And we'll be able to make it a little bit interactive and talk a little bit about it.

And I think that we actually used to do that in some of the other camps with dead drills.

We had a little bit more of an interactive approach, bringing some people up on stage.

But we learned that some people just can't get their internet stuff sorted out before they go up.

So it was really kind of a slowing part of the process.

So I'm going to end with this, OK?

You guys have been awesome.

The feedback that I've got has been awesome, whether it's slow yourself down and get your Zen fern out, or if it's talking about the way that we've rewritten the program.

You guys have given me some fantastic feedback, and that's what we need.

We need to be able to understand how our message needs to change or if we're going to stay with the same message moving forward.

And I think that a lot of the questions that you guys have come up with are brilliant, right?

Because you guys want to understand.

Right now, What we're trying to do is think about the easiest possible way to be able to get really good quality movements in place.

That allow you to start hitting the golf ball and feel what it's like to actually compress the golf ball.

Because if you haven't compressed a golf ball in your life, when you actually do for the first time, it is a different world, okay?

Compression is just, it's awesome, right?

And if you have compressed a golf ball at some point in your life and you lost it, you maybe want to understand how to do it more frequently, then the stuff that I'm giving you, the stuff that we bring here, will work.

Okay.

Even if Saturday rolls around and we're going to try to make this fuller swing stuff happen.

If you're not, if you're trying to become a good ball striker and you're not ready to go to full swing, guess what?

You don't have to go to full swing.

You can stay in nine to three.

Okay.

So really, really important that you guys understand that tonight is teaching you guys how to practice.

Okay.

Learn how to practice.

Okay.

And you will find that on Saturday we'll get some good questions going.

You'll see that you, all right, now I've got things synced up.

I've got my lower body, my arms moving.

Even if it's not perfect, okay, you want to be as close to that as you can.

You start hitting some balls, and then you'll get really, really good reinforced golf instruction after the fact, right?

We're going to sit here and help you guys get to where you want to go with this stuff, okay?

It doesn't just end on Saturday, okay?

All right, guys, so get out of here.

I will see you guys on Saturday.

Get busy.

These next couple days, it's time to get busy.

Thursday rolls around.

Email me.

Okay.

I will pick one person that we need to work with.

Okay.

Just do me a favor.

Go try.

Okay.

Try to do the stuff in the way that I've outlined it for you tonight.

Okay.

Try it.

Okay.

And if you don't feel like you have any sort of success with it, then come back and we'll get you sorted out.

Yes, Greg.

If you can get out of your wheelchair, we'll get you.

You can come in for it.

All right, guys.

Have a wonderful rest of your night.

We'll see you guys on Saturday.