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 2022.

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 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 1000 get 10 in a row at the at the midsection.

1001 Once you do that, then you can advance up 1002 to the top level.

All right.

If you find 1003 that you're really struggling in the 1004 midsection, then pull yourself back down 1005 and go back through the processes.

Then 1006 there's no reason to race.

When you're 1007 working on the hitting area and really 1008 getting things synced up, right?

That's 1009 what this is all about.

Is now syncing 1010 your arm movements to your body movement.

1011 Now, putting the club in there and then 1012 letting the golf ball react.

If you want 1013 to start hitting compressed shots and you 1014 want to start really, really hitting some 1015 efficient shots, if you don't have to 1016 feel like your brute force driving it 1017 down the runway as hard as you can, then 1018 this is how you build a golf swing, 1019 right?

This is how you get it into full 1020 speed, full swing territory without 1021 creating a lot of faults, right?

And 1022 that's why I said to you guys in session 1023 number one that we learned very quickly 1024 that when we give you guys a lot of 1025 freedom, That you guys can create some 1026 faults that are difficult to fix, some 1027 really big faults.

So let me recap again.

1028 Okay, because there's only one slide 1029 tonight is play around with your practice 1030 sessions.

But do me and Craig and Chuck a 1031 big favor?

Leave the club out of the 1032 equation.

On your first night, whether 1033 it's tonight or tomorrow night, focus on 1034 getting the left arm or your trail arm 1035 the way you're going to release.

The 1036 club.

Synced up with your lower body 1037 movements, getting yourself into some 1038 very solid impact positions, whether it's 1039 going to be lead side or whether it's 1040 going to be trail side, 1041 okay?

Making sure that you can do that as 1042 synced up in sequence as you possibly 1043 can, okay?

Then the next day, you start 1044 out stripped down, you go through the 1045 movements, and then you start putting the 1046 golf ball back in there, okay?

Don't stay 1047 long with just one arm in the club.

I 1048 want you to make sure that when you bring 1049 the lead arm or the trail arm back onto 1050 it, That you're still staying focused on 1051 the body movements and being synced up.

1052 Let's start feeling the club moving 1053 around pretty quickly.

You'll feel like 1054 there is maybe a little bit of lack of 1055 control in it.

For you.

Lead side 1056 dominant releasers, that's okay.

Once you 1057 feel like you've got it synced up, then 1058 don't be afraid of the golf ball when the 1059 golf ball comes back into your practice 1060 sessions.

Start small right, hip high to 1061 hip high, get 10 in a row, move into the 1062 mid section here and then into nine to 1063 three.

Okay, make it a game right.

That.

1064 I find that doing things where you put 1065 yourself in these high stress 1066 environments 1067 makes it more realistic for you.

And 1068 that's something that, you know, if the 1069 golf instruction world could solve, we 1070 would have a billion-dollar idea in our 1071 hands.

And I worked with the lead sports 1072 psychologist out of Cornell University, 1073 and he's a funny guy.

1074 But the hardest thing in the world to do 1075 is to translate your practice swings onto 1076 the golf course.

How many of you have 1077 struggled with that at home, right?

Why?

1078 And that's a question that I'm sure 1079 everybody is asking themselves.

Why is my 1080 practice swing.

So freaking good.

And 1081 why is my golf ball spoon just a 1082 disaster?

Well, there's a second level 1083 stress, right?

There's consequence 1084 there's.

Your subconscious is very, very 1085 powerful.

Unfortunately, we'd like to 1086 kick our subconscious right in the rear 1087 end and tell it to go take a nap.

But one 1088 thing that was brought to my attention 1089 was he was like, Chris.

Think about the 1090 reason why Navy seals are trained, the 1091 way that they are, think about it.

I go 1092 through their their program.

1093 Um, they are put through some of the most 1094 ridiculous testing, right?

Stuff that 1095 they probably would never see in the real 1096 world situation.

Why are they put through 1097 stuff in that nature?

Why?

Well, because 1098 when they get in the heat of the battle, 1099 right?

When they're out there and 1100 they're, you know, having to deal with 1101 people that want to kill them.

They need 1102 them to be able to react subconsciously 1103 and be able to get the job done.

That's 1104 why they do it.

And I know that's a very 1105 outlandish sort of, um comparison, 1106 because we're talking about golf versus 1107 in our Navy SEALs.

But that's exactly the 1108 reason why you don't get much success.

So 1109 I have plenty of students that do that 1110 ladder drill.

I have another student that 1111 hits 50 balls a day.

And I made a post 1112 about him recently with some of his 1113 before and after work.

He's been working 1114 on trying to get his left wrist in a 1115 really solid spot down to the bottom.

1116 And he set out and he was doing his golf 1117 swing in three phases.

So he was 1118 basically, you know, kind of half swing, 1119 three quarter, and then full swings.

This 1120 is something he came up with and we 1121 talked about it together.

1122 And so each of these phases, he hits 50 1123 balls a night.

He does a one-to-one 1124 ratio, and he will not move to the second 1125 phase until he hits 50 in a row, which to 1126 me, I'll be honest with you, I mean, I 1127 play a lot of golf.

I play golf 1128 professionally.

1129 I would have a hard time hitting 50 balls 1130 solid for an entire session.

I probably 1131 could do it, but I just, I don't know.

1132 So he will not move on to the next phase.

1133 And so I'll get reviews in from him that 1134 say 46 out of 50.

Here's what I ended up 1135 with.

1136 48 out of 50, 49.

You finally get 50, 1137 right?

And this is a three-quarter 1138 territory.

And I was like, all right, 1139 Andrew, are you ready to start moving 1140 forward into full swings?

He's like, 1141 nope, I want to do it one more time.

1142 Now, I know that these stories feel like, 1143 Chris, come on.

1144 That's how I want you guys to approach 1145 this stuff.

So tonight isn't me teaching 1146 you anything differently that you haven't 1147 learned from session one and number two.

1148 It's teaching you how to practice it and 1149 get this stuff working together, right?

1150 You have to be able to do these two 1151 movements together.

To be able to make 1152 this little white double on the ground, 1153 fly as far as you want it to.

And you 1154 start going through this and you ingrain 1155 this.

And this is a drill that you can 1156 come back to for the rest of your life.

1157 And I'll be the first person to admit it 1158 to every single person in this room.

If I 1159 go out and play golf and I have a bad 1160 ball striking day, I will come right back 1161 down.

And I will work on little, small 1162 nine to three swings.

Okay, where I'm 1163 really focusing on my hands and arms, 1164 being relaxed and getting my legs, my 1165 hips, working for me.

I will do it until 1166 I get a very high quality golf shot 1167 coming off the buff base.

Why?

Because 1168 speed is sometimes not our friend.

Okay, 1169 sometimes when you start moving into and 1170 through positions really, really quickly, 1171 you get false senses of where you're 1172 moving from.

And the number one mistake 1173 that we'll see, especially if you haven't 1174 played a lot of golf recently, is that.

1175 Your legs will get really sleepy.

And 1176 your hands and arms will get going really 1177 fast when your hands and arms get going 1178 really fast.

To try to produce your 1179 speed, then you're basically relying on 1180 your coordination factor, and some of you 1181 might be really coordinated at all.

I 1182 find myself, I, 1183 I would say that I'm pretty coordinated, 1184 but I don't want to rely on my 1185 coordination.

Okay.

I want to rely on my 1186 movements really, really allowing the 1187 club to accelerate free freely.

And I 1188 want to let my movements, let the club 1189 face square itself up without having to 1190 work so hard.

Okay.

1191 So with that being said, I'm sure that 1192 everybody in this room wants to see me 1193 demonstrate a certain phase of this, or 1194 they want to see, or they want to hear a 1195 little bit more about their plan.

Your 1196 plan.

It's just night One is the only one 1197 that is really going to set the tone for 1198 the rest of the week.

Okay, if you go 1199 into Night One and you strip things down 1200 and you follow this and you get it really 1201 synced up, then night two, three and four 1202 into Saturday is all about just being 1203 able to move your way into and through 1204 the practice sessions.

To be able to get 1205 really good quality impact positions and 1206 a really good, solid release through 1207 those impact positions.

Okay, now, 1208 remember, the right side dominant release 1209 is going to have your shoulders open a 1210 little bit more, your right arm extending 1211 down the target line.

The lead side 1212 dominant releasers are going to get their 1213 upper body to really feel stalled out and 1214 let.

When the right hand's on the club, 1215 let it follow along with it.

And you're 1216 going to get maybe a little bit of side 1217 bend right on your right side.

You get a 1218 little stretch in your lead side plank, 1219 but you'll definitely feel a lot more 1220 relaxed.

Okay, so how many of you at home 1221 have questions in relationship to trying 1222 to get these two things blended together?

1223 If you have questions, you can see that.

1224 Now we're ready to start opening up for Q 1225 1226 and now I'm going to sit here with you 1227 guys and make sure that you guys have 1228 everything answered, everything 1229 demonstrated.

That you could possibly 1230 imagine you have again a reference point 1231 here that you can use and then you have a 1232 Rep tracker on the following page.

But 1233 again, I gave you guys a very crystal 1234 clear plan on how to work from tonight 1235 and tomorrow and through the next three 1236 days.

So let's go ahead and open up for 1237 questions.

You can ask any questions that 1238 you want tonight.

Okay, I want to make 1239 sure you guys have everything answered in 1240 your brain.

1241 All right, which release has less side 1242 bend?

So this is a great question, Barry.

1243 So theoretically, when your right side is 1244 firing through the hitting area and your 1245 right arm is extending down, your 1246 shoulders are going to turn a little bit 1247 flatter, 1248 okay?

When you're standing back in behind 1249 the shot and you're letting your left arm 1250 free up, 1251 this one's going to produce a little bit 1252 more side bend post impact, but it's a 1253 position that you should be moving 1254 through so fast that you should never 1255 feel it.

Okay, 1256 So really, really important that if if 1257 you're getting kind of caught up and 1258 you're feeling a lot of pressure on the 1259 on the.

On the lower vertebrae.

Because 1260 you're in the side bend position with 1261 extension, then you can allow yourself 1262 when your hands and arms.

I actually kind 1263 of move up on my right toe, just a little 1264 bit on purpose, because I don't like 1265 feeling that pressure on my back.

Okay, 1266 Should there be a full shoulder turn in 1267 the 9 to 3 drill, Chuck?

At nine to three 1268 said there should be about 45 degree 1269 shoulder turn.

So how does that relate to 1270 the axiom of getting off at six 1271 1272 don't get lost in how many degrees of 1273 rotation that you're going to try to get 1274 to get your arm into that spot.

You just 1275 keep your arm relaxed and let it hang 1276 here.

And you turn your body, your arm is 1277 going to move in at 9 o'clock.

So you can 1278 see that it's a little bit more than 45 1279 degrees.

This would be 45, right?

This is 1280 where the takeaway is complete.

1281 So if I didn't answer all of my 1282 questions, please post that up again.

1283 I want to make sure I get that one.

So 1284 I've been fighting a cup lead wrist from 1285 the top to impact.

Which release would 1286 help flatten the lead wrist at impact?

1287 So neither one of the releases is going 1288 to help flatten the lead wrist, 1289 okay?

1290 I would strongly suggest that you train 1291 your left wrist to get flat at the top of 1292 the golf swing or at least into your 9 o 1293 'clock position for now.

And then make 1294 sure that when you're coming down, you 1295 stop in that spot that we talked about in 1296 session number two, okay?

So this is the 1297 spot that you want to be.

You want to 1298 make sure at the 9 o'clock position, it 1299 shifts and you come down into that spot, 1300 okay?

And then train that, train it, 1301 train it over and over and over again.

1302 And then bring the club back in there.

1303 Same thing.

Make sure that you use your 1304 trail hand on the club when you're doing 1305 this, when you bring the heavy end of the 1306 club in.

Why?

Well, because it's going to 1307 take and offer some support to that.

It's 1308 not going to feel so heavy, it's a little 1309 bit easier for you to be able to commit 1310 to it.

So either one of the releases is 1311 going to help you get away from, you 1312 know?

A couple efforts at the top of the 1313 swing and then a couple one down here, 1314 right?

You got to train it to get flat up 1315 here, and then you got to make sure that 1316 it's either flat or slightly bowed down 1317 here.

Do that independently first and 1318 then start putting the movements back to 1319 1320 Okay.

1321 So, Tony, 1322 in terms of the release when practicing, 1323 how do you differentiate?

1324 In terms of release, how do you 1325 differentiate?

1326 1327 this is where we don't want you to, you 1328 can play around with both of them, right?

1329 The nuts and bolts of the release is 1330 really what we talked about in session 1331 number two, right?

One is going to be 1332 very free-flowing.

One is going to 1333 require you to turn your body a little 1334 bit more and then fire your arm down the 1335 target line simultaneously.

1336 All right, once you're firing your your 1337 upper body in the direction of the 1338 target, you're pushing this way, right, 1339 you can see that.

Okay, that would be a 1340 very trail side sort of dominant movement 1341 that puts a little bit more stress on the 1342 back, right?

Because it's it's rotational 1343 force that you're you're working off of.

1344 And it also has the trail hand sitting 1345 behind the club.

That can ultimately 1346 manipulate the base angle, path, the 1347 angle of attack, spin loft, dynamic loft, 1348 all kinds of things.

All right, so 1349 thanks, Chris.

But your shoulders were 1350 turned maybe 30 degrees, sometimes less 1351 at most, in your demonstration.

Hence the 1352 question, Tony, you never apologize?

I 1353 understand, so if I was only turning 30 1354 degrees, I apologize, right?

I sometimes 1355 I get in the habit of just swinging my 1356 arm back, okay, but for the most part, 1357 what I want you to do is just turn your 1358 body into this, this position.

So you can 1359 see.

My shoulders have turned, you know, 1360 60, 65, 70 degrees or so, so I apologize 1361 that my demonstration wasn't 100 on board 1362 there.

Does the hand position it impact 1363 in terms of height, mimic.

What does that 1364 address?

1365 I have a tendency to elevate my hand 1366 slightly.

Of course, the hand is.

Okay, 1367 great question, Ronald.

So, 1368 at a dress, and this is something that's 1369 really common, I'm not sure where this 1370 bit of golf instruction came from, but 1371 we'll see a lot of people that try to 1372 sole the club perfectly flat on the 1373 ground.

And to do that, they pick their 1374 hands up, right?

How many of you at home 1375 do that?

Where you pick your hands up to 1376 make the club look perfectly flat to the 1377 ground in a dress.

1378 Don't do that anymore.

1379 So, and the reason for that is is because 1380 there's something that's happening in the 1381 golf swing and you don't realize it.

The 1382 club shaft actually flexes like this on 1383 the way down, so what it's doing is the 1384 toe of the club is pulling itself down to 1385 the bottom of the arc.

So it's called 1386 shaft root.

It's how the center of 1387 gravity lines itself up with a handle.

So 1388 you want to make sure that your hands and 1389 your arms are relaxed at address and the 1390 club is just resting in your hands.

What 1391 you'll notice is is the toe of the club 1392 is going to be slightly up off the ground 1393 address.

But when it comes down, you 1394 won't be able to see this because you 1395 don't have the camera to be able to do 1396 it.

But the club shaft will flex, it'll 1397 droop.

And so that's why, with golf 1398 clubs, why lie angles become so 1399 important?

So when I was playing full 1400 -time, I would have my lie angles checked.

1401 Probably every three to six months or so.

1402 I would go through my entire bag.

And all 1403 that is is just basically, you can stick 1404 a piece of tape on the bottom of your 1405 club.

you get this little plastic board 1406 and it shows you on the bottom of the 1407 club where you're wearing.

So you want it 1408 to be obviously wearing in the middle, 1409 um, so if it's wearing out the toe or 1410 it's wearing on the heel.

They can adjust 1411 the lie accordingly for you, so that your 1412 golf clubs are working for you club 1413 fitting.

A lot of times, people often 1414 overlook it.

There's a lot of mumbo jumbo 1415 in the golf world of trying to sell you 1416 guys things every, you know, every year 1417 and every two years.

Which is kind of 1418 frustrating.

Because, 1419 I mean, I play golf with a driver who's 1420 my playing driver that's 10 years old, 1421 and it's I hit that better than anything 1422 that's not new.

I don't spin it much, so, 1423 all right, so back in the questions here.

1424 I usually have a flat lead wrist and 1425 impact, which what is the technical 1426 correct method to have a slightly more 1427 bowed so 1428 So either method, you can still get a bow 1429 with left wrist.

You're just going to 1430 have to actively try to put the lead 1431 wrist into that position, right?

I don't 1432 like a ton of bowing of the wrist because 1433 if you watch, so this is anatomically 1434 flat, 1435 right?

Watch what happens when I bow my 1436 wrist, right?

1437 So you can see how much more I deloft in 1438 the club.

1439 Deloft in the club is a good thing, 1440 right?

That's part of how you compress 1441 the golf ball, how you hit down on it, 1442 how you flight it.

1443 But if you think about it too, from the 1444 back end of it, it is, Considered a 1445 steepening movement.

So you've got to be 1446 able to kind of balance it out and help 1447 shallow things out.

And I see a big 1448 mistake that people make is they get this 1449 bowed wrist and then they do this post 1450 impact, right?

Well, where's, where's?

1451 How's the face going to rotate?

I think I 1452 rotate like that, right?

So you need to 1453 make sure that when you're coming down, 1454 you're going the wrist, that you allow 1455 your wrist and forearm to still rotate.

1456 It's going to kind of feel like your 1457 knuckles rotate underneath just a little 1458 bit.

Okay, that's how you control your 1459 spin lock and your dynamic members, 1460 All right.

So still stuck on the secret 1461 sauce.

How do you sit and go down onto 1462 the lead left, post up on the lead leg?

1463 Exactly.

David, I want them to be 1464 dramatically opposed, 1465 like I want them to be contradictory to 1466 each other because you're missing the 1467 point.

If you're moving from this side to 1468 this side, okay, that is a very big 1469 lateral movement that's happening, right?

1470 And if your left butt's moving down and 1471 back, Okay, so if you think about my left 1472 butt moving down and back, and I take my 1473 right leg and simultaneously push, okay.

1474 What's going to happen is is this leg is 1475 going to begin to straighten up now.

1476 Something that you probably haven't heard 1477 us talk about before is the head movement 1478 in the swing, right as far as what's 1479 happening.

So what actually happens is we 1480 turn our body over our trail side.

The 1481 head drops down slightly and then when we 1482 make our post-up move, our head stays in 1483 that downward position.

1484 Well, you just increase spine angle, 1485 right, exactly, there's a small amount of 1486 spine angle that's increasing in the 1487 downswing, and when you increase that 1488 spine angle.

We don't want you moving up 1489 and out of it, so I don't want you to 1490 think about, you know, how's my left hip 1491 going to go up if my left butt's going 1492 down and back?

If you continue to move 1493 through the position, what it's doing is 1494 just rotating the hip open.

And now 1495 you've got that position where, yes, the 1496 left hip did go up as a result of you 1497 still driving through it, that's the 1498 beauty of that sort of secret sauce 1499 movement.

We've seen a lot of people make 1500 a very, very big change to their way that 1501 they move dynamically.

It introduced a 1502 squat move and it introduced a post-up 1503 move to a really stable lead side 1504 position by not being too complex with 1505 moving, right?

If you find that that 1506 doesn't work for you specifically, that's 1507 fine.

That's fine.

We will figure out a 1508 different way to get you to that end 1509 result.

But I would encourage you at 1510 home.

1511 To go about the process, like I just 1512 demonstrated in tonight's session, 1513 put yourself in impact, right?

So from 1514 address, move your left hip over into 1515 neutral, 1516 okay?

1517 Get your hips opened up and lead leg into 1518 a passively straight position, okay?

Make 1519 sure your head and your chest are down.

1520 Hold that there for a second, okay?

Now 1521 think about what I've been trying to tell 1522 you.

1523 Push yourself from that right side and 1524 feel that left butt go down and back and 1525 get into that same spot.

1526 Try it out.

Stand up at your computer and 1527 try it out right now.

If you don't get 1528 success with it, then let's set up some 1529 time this week to talk, and I'll go 1530 through some videos with you, and we'll 1531 look to see where you're missing the boat 1532 on it.

1533 Okay, what should the release feel like?

1534 I have an ingrained chicken wing, but I 1535 am not sure why.

1536 So the release, I don't know where that 1537 question is.

The release should feel very 1538 free flow.

Where is my golf club?

1539 If you're going to be a lead side 1540 dominant releaser and you have a chicken 1541 wing, okay, the reason why you have a 1542 chicken wing, just to understand this, is 1543 two things are happening.

Number one, 1544 you're pushing very, very hard from your 1545 trail side.

So if you hold your hands and 1546 arms out in front of you, okay, and you 1547 put your palms together, you don't move 1548 your chest, right?

You push your arm 1549 across your center.

What does your left 1550 arm do?

1551 Well, it breaks, right?

It breaks away.

1552 Now, when you do this movement, when 1553 you're pushing across center, there's 1554 also something that's not happening.

Your 1555 wrist and forearm stop rotating.

1556 So if you just think about your wrist and 1557 your forearm, okay, they'll be rotating 1558 together.

Think about them rotating to 1559 where your glove logo or your wash are 1560 facing directly behind you, or maybe even 1561 a little bit more.

Then you put the right 1562 hand in the club and you do that same 1563 thing.

You can't chicken wing it.

Try it.

1564 It's the stopping of the rotation of the 1565 wrist and the forearm that causes you to 1566 get in that position, but also the 1567 really, really trail side dominant sort 1568 of push past impact.

So that's why you 1569 have a chicken wing.

So the release 1570 should feel free-flowing, relaxed, 1571 letting go.

That's what it should feel 1572 like.

Now, I don't live under a rock, 1573 okay?

We still have to catch the club.

1574 The club's going to be going pretty fast.

1575 You still got to have a little bit of 1576 grip pressure in the back three fingers 1577 of your left hand.

But everything else 1578 should feel like you're just letting go.

1579 Think about when you're getting ready to 1580 whip a towel, right?

You're not tense in 1581 the hand and the wrist, right?

You're 1582 subtle, right?

You're letting things go.

1583 So don't try to feel strong through your 1584 hands and your arms, okay?

Let the body 1585 help propel the hands and the arms.

1586 So when practicing, how do you 1587 differentiate between keeping the left 1588 arm moving in the release drill versus 1589 dragging the handle and not releasing?

So 1590 if you're dragging the handle, 1591 the only way you can drag the handle is 1592 to be tense in your wrist and to hold on 1593 for dear life in your grip.

That's what 1594 we call a handle drag.

If you pull your 1595 arm past your body and you don't have any 1596 tension here, then you can't drag the 1597 handle.

The club's going to pull itself 1598 down.

1599 Very, Very important that you understand 1600 that the only way you can pull the handle 1601 past the body and not let the club 1602 release is you're trying to be in control 1603 of the club simultaneously.

1604 Okay.

1605 So kind of got disjointed.

Are we working 1606 on the same release from Saturday?

Could 1607 you just show quickly what you want us to 1608 work on?

So yeah.

So I'm sorry that I 1609 missed the boat on this one because 1610 again, that was my point tonight is to 1611 show you exactly how I want you to do 1612 things.

1613 So we're working on the same release from 1614 Saturday.

Yes.

So Saturday was, Just 1615 getting you to do this right, just doing 1616 this, okay?

And if you remember 1617 correctly, what I said at that session 1618 was, I'm not going to give you guys the 1619 lower body movement with that because I 1620 felt like it was a two.

It was too 1621 premature.

I did allow you guys to work 1622 on your your lower body as a separate 1623 component so you could still get more 1624 reps on that.

That was our goal now 1625 tonight is blending your lower body 1626 movement 1627 with the release.

So it's going to look 1628 like this.

1629 Okay.

That was the small swing.

That 1630 wasn't me turning to a full nine o'clock 1631 position, right?

1632 Okay.

You can see that I'm still getting 1633 into that good spot.

So it's using the 1634 axiom movement and letting your arm 1635 release, 1636 right?

1637 Really, really important that you get 1638 those two things blended together.

How 1639 are you going to get them blended 1640 together?

1641 Isolate, isolate, isolate, and then 1642 slowly start bringing them together.

So 1643 let me just walk you guys through this, 1644 this practice program again.

Start out, 1645 get yourself into an impact position, 1646 lead, hip open, 35 to 45, shoulders, nice 1647 and square.

Let your arms come back and 1648 forth freely.

Okay, and what I want you 1649 to do is I want you to now start adding 1650 some movement to that, so you're going to 1651 start getting your axi movement.

Okay, 1652 you can break these up into pieces and 1653 then let your arm release, 1654 And then you can start going back into 1655 nine 1656 Okay.

1657 Then you can start adding the club back 1658 1659 Okay.

1660 And the right hand comes back on there.

1661 Okay.

1662 Then you can start hitting balls.

1663 All of those movements that you just saw 1664 there are not going to be done as fast as 1665 I just did them.

Why can I do them fast?

1666 Because I'm training, even if I did only 1667 turn 30 degrees.

1668 I'm trained, so I can do these things a 1669 little bit quicker than you guys can.

In 1670 two weeks or three weeks' time, or maybe 1671 some of you in two to three months' time, 1672 you're going to be able to do it just as 1673 fast as I did.

1674 The processes and what you have to follow 1675 are entirely up to you.

That's the whole 1676 purpose of tonight's session, 1677 is to teach you guys that your job is to 1678 create awareness.

1679 and start putting these two pieces 1680 together.

When you start creating the 1681 awareness, I got my left arm sorted out.

1682 Now I want to start getting my lower body 1683 working with it.

1684 Now you have to look at it on camera.

We 1685 said that on night one.

You got to use a 1686 mirror.

You got to use a camera because 1687 you have to be able to back check to see 1688 if you're in those spots, right?

You know 1689 what impact is supposed to look like.

You 1690 know what the release is supposed to feel 1691 like.

Put those two together and then you 1692 start putting the club back in there, 1693 okay?

1694 Doesn't trail side release cause cupping 1695 of a lead wrist?

No.

1696 No, not at all.

You don't have to.

You 1697 can push really hard from this side and 1698 still keep your left wrist bowed off, 1699 right?

1700 Or flat.

So you can push down the tire 1701 line.

It's not going to necessarily mean.

1702 You're going to maybe feel a little more 1703 firmed up on that side.

1704 I will tell you this right now, that most 1705 trailside releasers are going to start 1706 trying to do that movement too soon, and 1707 you're going to see that the left wrist 1708 gets cut at impact.

1709 So help with the definition of arm 1710 rotation.

I can rotate my left hand 1711 without rotating my elbow, and I can 1712 rotate my left hand and the left elbow, 1713 which is arm rotation, so I can rotate my 1714 left hand without rotating my left elbow.

1715 Yeah, so the wrist and forearm will 1716 rotate together independently from the 1717 rest of your arm, right?

so we have 1718 external and internal rotation of the 1719 arm.

Okay, you can rotate this 1720 independently.

The wrist and forearm are 1721 going to rotate based off of the radial 1722 distal owner joint you want to.

Keep your 1723 elbow pointed down the target line to 1724 impact and let your wrist and forearm 1725 continue to rotate.

1726 And after that, when your elbow actually 1727 externally rotates, which I know is 1728 counterintuitive, this is external 1729 rotation, that's fine.

You won't put any 1730 stress on the elbow at that.

So the wrist 1731 and forearm are rotating together.

So if 1732 you think about the key checkpoint of 1733 being out in front of you right here, 1734 okay, 1735 to being behind you on this side of the 1736 body, you're in the business, 1737 okay?

1738 So at what stage in the follow-through 1739 does the lead wrist start to get out of 1740 line?

1741 At what stage in the follow-through does 1742 the lead wrist start to get out of line?

1743 I do not know.

I don't understand the 1744 question.

We're not talking about follow 1745 -through.

1746 We're talking about getting into 3 o 1747 'clock.

So if you get into 3 o'clock and 1748 you see, this kind of ties back into what 1749 I talked about in session number 2.

1750 My wrist is flat here.

1751 And it's flat here just outside my lead 1752 thigh.

It's rotated.

1753 The golf ball is already long gone.

Okay, 1754 momentum and inertia is going to pull 1755 this wrist into a cup position.

You want 1756 to try to fight that off a little bit 1757 when you're first training this and be a 1758 little bit more meticulous with it.

But 1759 then once you start letting things fly, 1760 if you see that any cupping happens in 1761 this left wrist before this point, like, 1762 you see this, that's no good, all right?

1763 So as soon as your hand gets outside your 1764 lead thigh, as long as it's flat and 1765 rotated, and then it's continuing to 1766 rotate.

Post that position, you're 1767 cooking with some major fire.

1768 So turning the knuckles down with the 1769 left lead side release feels like every 1770 hook I've ever hit.

So this is where you 1771 could probably get lost in looking at the 1772 club face.

When you start going down 1773 there and trying to get your knuckles and 1774 wrists down to the ground like this, 1775 you're going to see the club face is 1776 really shut, right?

I get it.

I 1777 understand that.

But you have to 1778 remember, what's not on the club?

1779 The right hand.

1780 Your right hand's not on the club, and 1781 you don't have secondary.

So it's going 1782 to look really shut.

It's going to, if 1783 you're hooking the golf ball with that 1784 position, with blowing it off and getting 1785 it turned down the target line, there's 1786 other factors.

It's either, you know, a 1787 byproduct of maybe a grip issue.

Maybe 1788 the club face was shut coming into the 1789 entry point.

1790 Maybe you were actively trying to help 1791 the left wrist turn through that.

But if 1792 it's, if you have an anatomically correct 1793 grip, I have a dress, okay, which I'm not 1794 going to go into the nuts and bolts of 1795 the grip tonight.

You can go watch the 1796 grip videos on the website.

If you have 1797 an anatomically correct grip and you come 1798 down into the position that we were 1799 training you on session number one, or, 1800 sorry, session number two.

And you hit it 1801 left.

It's not because of the wrist 1802 position, okay, it's because of a grip.

1803 Or your club face was shut somewhere and 1804 you were actively trying to slam the face 1805 shut down through there.

I agree with 1806 you, though.

It does feel like the ball 1807 is going to go left, and especially when 1808 you look down at it for the first time.

1809 You don't have access to it, you don't 1810 have on the right hand of the club, I 1811 fear.

1812 And everybody that knows me knows this.

I 1813 fear the ball going left.

It took me 1814 under professional golf.

And that and my 1815 inability to be able to pull the trigger 1816 because I was shaking so bad.

Okay.

1817 So how relaxed should the hands be 1818 through impact?

1819 Is properly moving from seven to nine 1820 supposed to cause correct releases a 1821 chain reaction?

1822 The hands are relaxing?

Exactly.

So 1823 really, really great question there.

So 1824 the release is going to be a byproduct.

1825 Of what you're doing with your legs and 1826 your hips.

Okay, your job is to set or 1827 create lag, right, right, which we were 1828 told that we don't create everything 1829 else.

Okay, then preserve, okay, and then 1830 to release.

If you look, if I try to hold 1831 my hands and arms in this spot, you guys 1832 can try this at home.

Nine 1833 If you keep your hands and your arms 1834 relaxed and you let the legs and hips 1835 drive away and you keep your shoulders 1836 relaxed, then your arms get pulled out of 1837 the air and all you gotta do is just let 1838 it go.

That again is why we have so many 1839 still images of people where their trail 1840 hand is coming completely off the cliff.

1841 You don't need it on there.

It's 1842 transferring energy and then your left 1843 hand or your lead hand is going to be 1844 taking and making sure it's controlling 1845 the face.

1846 So very good question.

1847 So lead side release.

Are there any 1848 points in the swing where the hands or 1849 arms are actively moving the club?

1850 Calking is active or passive.

So cocking 1851 of the wrist in the golf swing should be 1852 very passive.

So think about it this way.

1853 If I go into my takeaway, 1854 okay, and I turn my body to 45 degrees, 1855 what you're going to notice is that my 1856 wrist just naturally starts to support 1857 the club.

See how it's in line with my 1858 hands?

If I didn't, the club would be 1859 down here, right?

So it's a passive set.

1860 Your brain does a lot of this for you.

1861 Where you're like, Okay, it feels kind of 1862 heavy, so you're just going to start 1863 actually increasing the angle.

And the 1864 same thing should be true as you work up 1865 to the top of the swing.

If you keep them 1866 relaxed and you just try your very best 1867 not to feel active movement from them, 1868 then you're going to be in a pretty 1869 decent spot at the top.

Now, as far as 1870 the other part to your question, are 1871 there any points in the swing where the 1872 hands or arms are actively moving?

The 1873 club?

Yep.

There's going to be some 1874 elevation and there's going to be some 1875 flexion.

There's also going to be some 1876 wrist and forearm rotation, there's going 1877 to be some wrist set.

1878 All of those movements that I just 1879 listed, there are never tense movements.

1880 You can pick up a club at home and you 1881 can do this, 1882 right?

And keep the grip pressure really 1883 light.

And you can flex your right arm.

1884 And you can certainly note your wrist and 1885 your forearm rotate and not be tense to 1886 make those movements happen.

It's a very, 1887 very passive sort of movement.

If you 1888 feel tense or, you know, you feel tired 1889 after making a golf swing, then you're 1890 actively trying to do too much from your 1891 hands and your arms.

1892 1893 Craig, how are we doing on questions 1894 here?

It's very chaotic with all the 1895 questions coming in, but you guys have 1896 some really awesome questions, so thank 1897 you.

1898 Let me see if there's.

People have 1899 answered almost all of them.

Oh, that's 1900 nice.

1901 So I understand that we must complete the 1902 axiom shift properly before impact for 1903 independent hand release, but is the 1904 axiom and counterbalance supposed to take 1905 care of this automatically?

1906 Or is there a chance of getting late in 1907 post-up and we're not mindful about it?

1908 So there's definitely a chance of getting 1909 late with post-up if you start moving 1910 from your hands and your arms.

As soon as 1911 you're going back, if I'm going back at a 1912 9 o'clock, not trying to get my arm to 1913 stay in that position, if you just kind 1914 of hang out there, your arm is going to 1915 come down for you.

Now, if you get to 1916 that position and you start moving your 1917 legs and then you try to get your arm 1918 moving this way, then your hips and your 1919 legs will shut down.

I promise you.

1920 As soon as you start shifting where your 1921 force of movement comes around, which is 1922 very, very common, we'll see a lot of 1923 people do these really great ball strings 1924 where they shift onto their left side and 1925 then they start doing this.

They start 1926 moving their arms.

They don't finish off 1927 the movement here.

Why?

Well, because it 1928 feels super, super powerful.

We've 1929 already done this acceleration phase.

Why 1930 not keep going?

1931 That's why you see so many people, they 1932 think the release, and this is not 1933 something you're actively thinking, 1934 right?

You make that transition move, my 1935 lead arm is kind of like at parallel to 1936 the ground now on the way down, and it's 1937 easy for me to just get the arms flying, 1938 right?

We feel like that's where we 1939 should start hitting.

It's harder to be 1940 patient to get the arms in here because 1941 it just doesn't feel as fast and powerful 1942 to some of you guys at home.

That's why 1943 you guys get really flippy and scoopy.

1944 You know what I mean?

1945 Definitely.

1946 1947 Okay.

Is it okay to feel the right hand 1948 is flexing back in the back swing to find 1949 the lead wrist?

1950 Absolutely.

1951 So if you're talking about the top of the 1952 swing, you're going to feel the kind of 1953 set position.

Don't go into hinge.

Okay.

1954 Don't start pulling your knuckles back 1955 here.

You'll shut the face down and 1956 create separation.

Okay.

1957 But you'll feel the wrist kind of getting 1958 pulled into that spot.

Supple up at the 1959 top of the swing.

We'll talk a little bit 1960 about that on Saturday.

1961 In the downswing, is there any active 1962 movement of the arms or is it a pull from 1963 the lower body and inertia?

1964 Nope.

So right now, 1965 until you become advanced level, and 1966 there's very few people that even meet 1967 that sort of realm, 1968 you're going to allow the legs and the 1969 hips and gravity to pull their arms down.

1970 Now, if you came to us five years down 1971 the road, your graduate level, your plus 1972 three handicap, your striking volume, you 1973 want to find a little bit more speed, 1974 then we're going to try to figure out how 1975 to get your hands and arms to go faster 1976 in the midsection, right?

So if we have 1977 to introduce an active pulldown from your 1978 arms, you bet, that's fine.

Right hand 1979 and arm speed, it's been studied, equates 1980 to puppet speed, right?

so the faster we 1981 get our arms moving through this section.

1982 But you cannot, and I repeat, cannot do 1983 that.

If your legs and hips shut down, 1984 you're now substituting your efficiency 1985 sources around your golf swing.

That's 1986 the last thing that we want to do.

Will 1987 the thicker grip negatively affect my 1988 release?

Yes, and no.

Um, if you're 1989 sorry, I'm running all over the test 1990 trying to find.

1991 So it can affect total amounts of angle 1992 that you set.

It shouldn't really send 1993 you down a pathway where you can't get 1994 the risk of boron to rotate though.

1995 It does require, from what I've done and 1996 when I tested it, it does feel like you 1997 have to kind of hang onto it a little bit 1998 firmer at times in the swim, which we're 1999 trying to reduce tension.

Some people 2000 will argue the other side of it though.

2001 Well, they're supposed to take the 2002 tension out of it.

They're arthritic 2003 grips, right?

2004 I don't like gray area stuff.

I like 2005 things very black and white.

I would have 2006 to see like data that supports it.

So I'm 2007 not going to give, I'm not going to give 2008 you like an ironclad down advance, but I 2009 can tell you that it can affect some 2010 wrist set and it can ultimately force the 2011 tension levels to increase from what I've 2012 seen.

2013 So I think you guys have asked some 2014 absolutely phenomenal questions tonight.

2015 So I know tonight kind of felt a little 2016 odd, right?

Because we normally open up 2017 for Q A.

But again, my point of going 2018 through this program tonight the way that 2019 we did is that.

That important question 2020 that was asked, I don't know who asked it 2021 to me on Saturday.

Made me feel like I 2022 need to do a better job of being able to 2023 give you guys a plan, right?

And 2024 understand how to work through this 2025 stuff, and hopefully, hopefully you guys 2026 understand how to practice this stuff 2027 now.

Okay, your main goal, okay, whether 2028 it's with the club or without the club, 2029 is to be able to get your lower half 2030 synced up with either a trail side or a 2031 lead side.

Dominant release.

2032 Now, remember, I can't emphasize this 2033 enough.

2034 If you don't know if you're doing these 2035 things correctly, send it in for a swim 2036 review.

Send it in.

2037 We love looking at swims.

2038 That's my job.

And I love to be able to 2039 help you.

If you want to see if you're 2040 doing it 100% accurately, then send it 2041 our way.

If you find that you're 2042 struggling on a lower body movement, I'll 2043 make a deal.

Okay, for anybody that feels 2044 like they are not doing the lower body 2045 movement correct over the next, let's 2046 just say you get through Wednesday.

I'm 2047 going to give you Thursday.

If you feel 2048 like you're still a mess, I'm going to 2049 offer this to one of you.

2050 Okay, I will do a free 30-minute Zoom 2051 session with you.

You'll just need to 2052 email me, Chris at RotarySwing.

com.

And 2053 don't go out there and not put your nose 2054 to the grindstone, okay, tonight and 2055 tomorrow and just show up and just send 2056 me emails.

Okay, don't do that, right?

2057 I'll be able to tell.

Right away in our 2058 Zoom session, if you're you weren't kind 2059 of following protocol, or if you really 2060 were lost, right?

Take your time.

Okay, 2061 if you get to Thursday and things aren't 2062 working in your favor, somebody here will 2063 get a Zoom session with me.

Okay, email 2064 me Chris at worrieswing.

com I was going 2065 to say, Craig, So, so I didn't have my 2066 email address out there.

But I think it's 2067 pretty easy to figure out, right?

Um, how 2068 does that sound for a day, right?

So then 2069 I'll be able to take and show 2070 the class on Saturday what some students 2071 may have been battling with.

And we'll be 2072 able to make it a little bit interactive 2073 and talk a little bit about it.

And I 2074 think that we actually used to do that in 2075 some of the other camps with dead drills.

2076 We had a little bit more of an 2077 interactive approach, bringing some 2078 people up on stage.

But we learned that 2079 some people just can't get their internet 2080 stuff sorted out before they go up.

So it 2081 was really kind of a slowing part of the 2082 process.

2083 So I'm going to end with this, OK?

2084 You guys have been awesome.

The feedback 2085 that I've got has been awesome, whether 2086 it's slow yourself down and get your Zen 2087 fern out, or if it's talking about the 2088 way that we've rewritten the program.

You 2089 guys have given me some fantastic 2090 feedback, and that's what we need.

We 2091 need to be able to understand how our 2092 message needs to change or if we're going 2093 to stay with the same message moving 2094 forward.

And I think that a lot of the 2095 questions that you guys have come up with 2096 are brilliant, right?

Because you guys 2097 want to understand.

Right now, What we're 2098 trying to do is think about the easiest 2099 possible way to be able to get really 2100 good quality movements in place.

That 2101 allow you to start hitting the golf ball 2102 and feel what it's like to actually 2103 compress the golf ball.

Because if you 2104 haven't compressed a golf ball in your 2105 life, 2106 when you actually do for the first time, 2107 it is a different world, okay?

2108 Compression is just, it's awesome, right?

2109 And if you have compressed a golf ball at 2110 some point in your life and you lost it, 2111 you maybe want to understand how to do it 2112 more frequently, then the stuff that I'm 2113 giving you, the stuff that we bring here, 2114 will work.

Okay.

2115 Even if Saturday rolls around and we're 2116 going to try to make this fuller swing 2117 stuff happen.

If you're not, if you're 2118 trying to become a good ball striker and 2119 you're not ready to go to full swing, 2120 guess what?

2121 You don't have to go to full swing.

You 2122 can stay in nine to three.

Okay.

So 2123 really, really important that you guys 2124 understand that tonight is teaching you 2125 guys how to practice.

2126 Okay.

Learn how to practice.

Okay.

And 2127 you will find that on Saturday we'll get 2128 some good questions going.

You'll see 2129 that you, all right, now I've got things 2130 synced up.

I've got my lower body, my 2131 arms moving.

Even if it's not perfect, 2132 okay, you want to be as close to that as 2133 you can.

You start hitting some balls, 2134 and then you'll get really, really good 2135 reinforced golf instruction after the 2136 fact, right?

We're going to sit here and 2137 help you guys get to where you want to go 2138 with this stuff, okay?

It doesn't just 2139 end on Saturday, 2140 okay?

All right, guys, so get out of 2141 here.

I will see you guys on Saturday.

2142 Get busy.

These next couple days, it's 2143 time to get busy.

Thursday rolls around.

2144 Email me.

Okay.

I will pick one person 2145 that we need to work with.

Okay.

Just do 2146 me a favor.

2147 Go try.

Okay.

2148 Try to do the stuff in the way that I've 2149 outlined it for you tonight.

Okay.

Try 2150 it.

Okay.

And if you don't feel like you 2151 have any sort of success with it, then 2152 come back and we'll get you sorted out.

2153 Yes, Greg.

If you can get out of your 2154 wheelchair, we'll get you.

You can come 2155 in for it.

All right, guys.

Have a 2156 wonderful rest of your night.

We'll see 2157 you guys on Saturday.