AXIOM BootCamp 3, Chris Tyler, Dec 2021, Session 4

Session 4 of 4

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All right, welcome back.

Happy Saturday.

We have a jam-packed hour for you guys playing today.

So hopefully everybody's had a wonderful week so far.

And I have to believe that everybody is doing very well with their movements because nobody took the time to email me.

That said, they needed additional help on Thursday.

So congratulations to you guys.

Hopefully you guys are having a wonderful start.

Hopefully everybody can hear me okay.

We are going to be very busy today.

I've been going through some format changes in my brain about how I'm going to be able to go through all of the pieces of the puzzle that we've developed so far, talk to you really quickly about some of the faults that we've seen, and then really start finishing this golf swing off.

But I also want to make sure that we have a point today where we understand exactly how to move through this process.

And that's what session number three was really about was not teaching you guys new movement, but teaching you guys how to practice properly.

So hopefully you guys enjoyed that because I know a lot of times you'll hear us as instructors say, hey, you know what, you already know these movements.

Now's the time you've got to put the reps in.

And if you're not putting the reps in the correct way, then there's not going to be an end in sight anytime soon.

So you've got to practice this stuff properly.

And so when we get all done today, we will definitely open up for Q &A.

I'll stick around with you guys for a good bit here.

We do have, I am, for some of you that are going to be joining us at the 2 o'clock time frame for the putting webinar that I'm doing, RSA Live is.

Really, really awesome.

It's a it's a chance for us to be able to put on some condensed formats where we get to talk about other areas of the game.

Like today, I'm going to be talking about putting specifically, I know Craig's got a lineup of webinars that are upcoming.

I know Chuck is also going to be putting some stuff on the docket as well, so and this is going to be all the way in through next year.

So if you guys haven't checked out the RSA Live stuff, I'd encourage you to do so.

Because we have some really cool topics that we're going to be speaking on.

So hopefully everybody's had an awesome week so far, I see people getting settled.

Hopefully everybody hear me all right?

Sound all right?

Mike checking in.

Robert checking in.

Celia, welcome everyone.

Welcome, welcome.

All right.

Sounds like you guys can hear me.

Hans from the Netherlands, welcome.

You guys are proud of your Max Verstappen, huh?

Craig S.

here.

Welcome, Craig.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

So I'll give everybody a couple more minutes to get settled, and then we are going to get underway.

Billy G, welcome.

So if there's a Phil S.

here in the chat, I have to start off by apologizing to you on session number one or two.

One of our lead programmers' name is Phil S.

, and so I thought he was messing with me in the chat when he asked that question, and I learned that there was another Phil S.

present, so my apologies to you.

If you still need additional help on trying to get swing reviews loaded, let me know.

Jacksonville, Wyoming, one of my favorite places to ski.

Awesome place.

Another person checking in from the Netherlands.

All right, so one or two more minutes, and then we are going to get underway.

Richard checking in from Florida.

Welcome, sir.

I don't know if any of you guys caught the father-son, the PNC Championship with Tiger and his son being back, but I got to watch some of the videos from yesterday.

We actually, we used to be stationed out of the Ritz Carlton here in Orlando.

And so that was always a really fun event to be around or be at for the entire week leading up to it because it's all of the game's great, right?

So you get to rub elbows with, you know, you see Jack Nicklaus, you see Tiger, you see.

Justin Thomas.

You see all of these legends that I saw.

Lee Trevino would always come back and talk to my students.

And so I definitely missed that week.

But I don't know if any of you got to see Charlie Wood's golf swing.

But pretty scary player.

Another absolute legend that you get to see out there.

But if you got the chance to see Charlie Wood's golf swing, I know there's a lot of highlights on him last year, but it's even gotten better this year.

I think we're going to see some good things from him as he gets older.

He's just got it in his DNA, right?

All right, are you guys ready to rock and roll?

Let's do it.

So here's our objective today.

I'm going to run you through everything we've already talked about.

Okay, I'm going to run you through the setup.

I'm going to run you through the key points of setup.

I'm going to run you through a loading process of your backswing, I'm going to run you through transition into impact.

Then I'm going to teach you that clockwise movement and how to blend those two together, or, I'm sorry, blend the downstream movements together.

And then we're going to talk about the important pieces of the release now when we get to the important pieces of the release and we start kind of moving through those positions.

I'm not going to spend as much time in that condensed format because I do know that.

Some of you are here to to get the full backswing stuff, and some of you do want me to talk a little bit more about a trail side, sort of dominant swing, where you know it's going to help you shallow the swing out.

It's going to help you with, you know, maybe some issues that you might have had with lag in the past, or, um, you know, just getting into a good delivery point down to the bottom.

So we're going to supercharge our way into the full swing stuff after I go through all the nuts and bolts, stuff that we've already talked about and then what we will do is is after that is.

I'm going to lay out a good way for you guys to practice this at home, which hopefully you guys get the gist of.

When we had Tuesday's session and then finally, when we wrap up.

At the end of that, we will stick around and answer some questions.

We'll talk about some of the ongoing support that we will give you as you go through this process.

So on Tuesday, you talked about practicing small clockwise movements with the hands.

Was that intended for the trailside swingers?

Yes.

So I'm going to revisit that here in just a little bit because I know I went through that pretty quickly.

I did have a couple people that sent me some private messages this week that did talk about wanting to go towards the trailside.

And much different than the previous camp, we didn't have anybody that wanted to go trailside.

We had everybody that wanted to stay lead side, so I didn't speak on it as much.

So for those of you that are going to stay on trying to be a really trail side dominant player, I'm going to go a little bit more in depth with it today.

Now, unfortunately, for me to make big clockwise circles with my right arm and a golf club in my hands, there is a giant fan that's above my head right now that you guys can't see.

I will do my best to be able to do the full movement there, but I am not interested in taking this fan out.

So I had somebody, just so you guys know, on one of my first.

webinar lessons that I did with a student after we released Axiom, I had this guy in his garage doing his first swing and he took out his entire garage door opener, came right out of the ceiling.

So it was kind of funny to see.

So, all right, so now that we're gonna get underway, if you guys can do me a huge favor, okay, just because this is extremely helpful to myself and you students, is let's keep the chat really quiet for me because if we start getting a lot of distraction from it, that it can take away from the presentation.

And I've got this stuff.

I got a lot of stuff going through my brain today.

And I was actually talking with Craig last night about the way that I wanted to deliver the format today.

And we both were in agreement that we're going to go and just really streamline this stuff together and get you guys to talk about.

Or let me talk about a lot of the nuts and bolts of things that people might struggle with right from the setup position.

Okay, so we're going to get right into that, walk you through how to get into a good setup position.

go through the pieces of the puzzle with load, transition, and post-up.

Then we'll talk about the movement, the secret sauce that everybody's been talking about, and then we're going to get into finishing off this golf swing after we start going through some compression drills.

So I'm excited to be able to bring this to you guys today.

So some of you are going to get an overdose of me today because I did see a fair amount of you.

Signed up for the two which it's one of my favorite topics because I think we often overlook.

How important short game is?

Right?

Short game is 75 of your score most of the time.

I know I get it.

If we don't become good ball strikers, that we put more stress on our short games.

So we want to be able to build a good, solid golf swing from beginning to end, I'm on board with that.

This is how we hit the golf ball far, it's how we get a fishing ring.

Okay, so for those of you at home that missed anything on setup, the key points with setup is just making sure at address that you're two inches outside of neutral.

Join one.

Okay, you've got to get wide enough here to where you're going to be stable, you've got to get wide enough to where you can actually shift your weight without your head moving all over the place.

Now, if you get too wide, this is going to start allowing your center to move all over the place when you are shifting in the swing.

So two inches outside of neutral, so the way to find neutral?

Just stand there with a line down from the center of your hip socket, down through your knees, into your ankles, and just take a little tiny step out just two inches outside.

Okay, You can be too narrow.

I have seen a few swing review submissions where you were a little bit on the narrow side, okay?

So don't be afraid to get a little bit wider here, okay?

You need stability, and you need to be able to shift your weight in the swing.

If you get too narrow, you're going to create a lot of rotational force, and you typically start substituting weight shift out of there, and then all hell breaks loose.

You just start overusing your upper body, and then we're back to square one, okay?

So two inches outside of neutral, and remember, the big key here, Is that when you start to get yourself hinging?

To get over?

The golf ball is keep your chin up.

Don't look down to try to find it.

Keep your chin up and hinge from your hips until you can see the golf ball.

Your weights back towards your heels.

Now you soften your knees, your hands and arms will now hang down freely.

Do not pick your hands up.

Okay, keep your shoulders back in a neutral position and just let your arms hang there freely.

Now.

You guys have been absolute freaking rock stars and I can tell you this right now.

Every single presentation we do moving forward, I'm going to talk about axis tilt the way that I did on Monday because I don't think I had one single person that sent in with too much tilt, which is great because we talked about how important it is not to get into a position where you're leaning on your right side.

This makes it very hard for you to move.

It tends to turn the shoulders really flat, and it makes it almost impossible for you to get into this really good, solid backstroke position that you're going to see at the end of today.

So my hat's off to you.

So it's two inches outside of neutral.

Hinge until you can see the golf ball.

Soften the knees.

Hands and arms hanging down freely, okay?

If you are too upright with your spine, you can nudge your hip to the target just a little bit.

And when I say nudge, you can barely see it.

It's just a small movement, okay?

What you want to notice is that your spine should be just inside your lead knee here, okay?

That's it.

Now, you should feel about 50 -50.

Okay, if you feel five or ten percent one way or the other, totally fine, okay.

So again, two inches outside of neutral hinge to get over the golf ball, you're going to make sure that your arms are hanging down freely.

You're going to be 50 50 at address.

And the final piece I want you to write this down is that you only want enough.

Knee flex to soften the knees and have the back of the knee over the center of the ankle.

Okay, don't sit too far down your knees like this and counterbalance it by sitting back in your heels.

I saw a lot of that last camp and I saw a few people doing that in this camp.

Too much knee flex and sitting back in your heels at a dress is going to lock you up.

It's not going to allow you to move.

Okay, it's going to make it very hard for you to turn your hips.

we need the hips to turn in this golf swing.

Okay, so those are your key points, so the good news is is that you can go back and listen to today's session.

If you missed any of these key points or you haven't written these things down.

You can kind of understand why I'm I'm harping on these points because that's what we see from you guys.

If we went through all of the small little nuts and bolts of setup, like all the way down through the grip, we would never get through a session, right?

So that's why it's really important that you listen to those key points that you hear us talk about in this session.

Because that's what's geared towards you guys specifically.

Okay, now backspin position.

What we're going to do is we're going to work off of a pressure shift at first.

We're not going to use the merry-go-round feeling yet.

We're going to work on a pressure shift by just taking our trail ankle, and we're going to push down into the ground.

But when you do that, allow for that belt loop on the right side of your pants or your shorts to move towards your right ankle.

So it's not going to move just laterally, and it's not going to move straight back.

It's going to move kind of diagonally, okay?

That little pressure shift right there, it's about an inch of diagonal movement.

You're going to feel about 70% of your weight now underneath your right ankle.

Now from there, after you make that pressure shift, if you pull the right shoulder back behind your head, you should feel upwards of 85% to 90% of your total body mass underneath your right side.

You should feel like your butt's starting to light up.

You should feel your midsection.

If you don't feel either one of those, Then there's probably a pretty good chance that you're either already ingrained with proper movement, or you're making the fatal mistake.

That we see day in and day out.

What is that?

That is this move right here?

Watch, what are you wrong?

If you see this big window here between my legs, okay, see that window there.

That, with your right leg being straight, is a good indicator that you have really, really destabilized your pelvis, right?

So you've created a very unstable rotation from your hips.

Your pelvis is going to have a lot of tilt to it, your hips are going to over rotate.

And you're not necessarily creating enough separation between your hip line and your shoulder line, so we're looking for some separation now.

Some of you at home are not going to be dancers like me.

You're going to be pretty tight your hips and get it okay.

So you can allow for a little knee flex or a little loss of defense.

You don't need to to lock yourself up to where you can't move.

Remember, we're here to move, we want to have some freedom to move.

If you get really stiff down here, then you're not going to be able to move through the golf swing with this part of your body.

And this is where we're driving things from.

Okay?

So what you want to focus on is after you make that pressure shift.

So watch my right butt and my right hip.

If you look at my hips, you can actually see my lead thigh is now kind of poking out here a little bit.

See?

So that's what your pressure shift is going to look like.

So it's just a little increase by pushing down your right ankle.

Okay, you're taking that right hip and moving it back diagonally towards your right ankle, and then from there you try to keep your right leg flexed.

And you just turn.

Okay, hold that right shoulder back behind your head, so pressure shift there you are, so back swing positions.

The things that you need to focus on is a little pressure shift and pulling this right shoulder.

Let me show you from face on here, as far behind your head as you possibly can.

So you're going to try to get it to where it's popped out on the other side.

Okay?

Now, if you can get your shoulders to 90 degrees and you can get a little bit of separation between your hip line and your shoulder line, you're cooking.

Now, remember, when the backswing is complete, you should feel your weight towards the trail side of your foot.

You should feel it back underneath your ankle joint, back towards the heel, not towards the extreme heel where your foot's coming up off the ground like that.

Okay?

So those are your checkpoints.

Checkpoints for transition.

Squat to square, right?

We've all heard that before.

The way the squat to square is going to work is the objective is to get that 85 to 90% of our weight from our right side over to our lead side, right?

So we're going to take that weight and we're going to transfer.

How are we going to do this?

Well, we're going to think about squatting down ever so slightly, okay?

And we're going to allow our hips and knees to come back to a square position.

Now, if you.

Look at the upper body here.

What you want to make sure is that the upper body stays very, very closed.

But remember, this is the key piece that so often we see people miss.

This is one.

I want you to write in big, bold letters all over your PDF.

I want you to write it on your forehead or on the brim of your cap, wherever is that.

I want my head to come back into position, fully, into position where it wasn't addressed, or slightly in front.

Totally fine.

I'm not teaching you.

Craig is not teaching you.

Chuck's not teaching you a slide.

We're teaching you how to shift your weight, okay?

So it's always best to try to err on the side of getting too far over there.

It's much easier for us as golf instructors and you as students to get this tone back.

If you go a little bit too far, it's much easier for us to tone that back than it is for us to fix you chipping away under your upper half, okay?

I promise you.

So the way that you're going to quantify your success with your transition is you're going to feel right.

Around 70%% of your weight now underneath your lead ankle.

Your hips and knees are going to be back to square.

Your head is going to be fully back or slightly in front of where it was at address.

And your shoulders are going to be closed.

So the way I teach this to people is if you think about when you complete the transition, you want your right shoulder up, your left shoulder down.

You want your head fully back into the spot, and you want your hips and knees as close to square as you possibly can.

Now, what that looks like from a down-the-line perspective is you can see that I'm not fully back to square, but I'm pretty close, okay?

So 80% of your weight to your left ankle.

Hips and knees back to square.

Head position back in the spot.

Don't forget that piece, okay?

And shoulders close.

Right shoulder up, left shoulder down.

Write that down.

As I said to you guys on session number one, the transition is what we consider one of the hardest moves in the bell swing.

Why?

Well, because there's a lot of things that are going on here, right?

There's a lot of different ways for us to teach the transition, right?

I'm sure some of you have seen the video that I put out years ago called, I think it was like fixing your weight transfer, where I talk about using your inductors to help pull.

You can do that.

We've talked about squat to square.

We've talked about sitting into the left side.

All of those methods.

are getting you to the same end result.

Now, in just a few minutes, I'm going to show you how to move through that position without really having to think about it.

And some of you, with what I saw, and I'm sure Craig will vouch for this as well, got some really freaking good success with that sort of secret sauce and that counterbalance movement.

But let's finish this off, right?

So what do we do after we transition?

Well, this is where the post-up happens.

Now, a post -up, again, is just your left leg or your lead leg.

I'm sorry, I'm talking about the right-handed.

player all day, is your lead leg moving to a passively straight position and your lead hip rotating open to about 45 degrees or so.

35 to 45 degrees is fine, okay?

But when you do this, you need to make sure that your lead hip is in neutral joint alignment.

Neutral joint alignment, right?

So left hip socket, left knee, left ankle.

Your lead foot should be flat to the ground, okay?

It shouldn't be rolled out.

It should be flat to the floor, okay?

So understanding where you're trying to go, like I talked about in the last session, is a great way for you to be able to get there, right.

That's why so many people get success.

If you go to a static address position, you shift your hips left and you open them up and you hold that static for a second.

Okay, hold there and feel what it's like to be in this good, solid left leg position.

Okay, feel it for a second and say, Okay.

Now.

What I want to do is I want to turn my body to my right side, squat to square, And all I want to do is drive my ankle through the floor, and I want to rotate this hip back up and away from where the ball is.

Now, I do realize, based off of some of the questions that I've gotten during this camp, that it can be kind of confusing because the left hip is moving back up and away, and Chris keeps telling me that my left butt needs to move down and back.

The down and back part is helping you in the transitional phase.

As you're moving through that transitional phase, if you keep rotating the hip, it's going to move up and away.

That's why I've been explaining it to you guys like that.

This right side is helping facilitate that movement.

It all comes to that stopping point, right?

So I know it can be counterintuitive, but if you've taken the time to try it out and you didn't get success with it, then that's where I want to talk to you because I want to look at it to see if there's a different way that I can describe it to you specifically.

So there you have it.

You have the three key movements of your golf swing to get you into an impact position.

Now, what does impact look like?

Well, For a lead side dominant release, what impact is going to look like is the hips are going to be open 35 to 45.

The shoulders are going to be very square.

The head is going to be back in behind the golf ball.

We're going to have a little bit of secondary.

And my lead wrist is where?

It's over in the middle of my left thigh.

This position right here is what we're going to talk about next.

Now, with a trail side dominant release, your impact position is going to look a little bit more open with your shoulders.

Chuck calls it in the tape drill, kind of like a three-stage rocket booster, where you start really moving from your hips, your shoulders turn a little hard, and then you fire your arm down the line.

So your impact position is going to look a little bit more open with your shoulders.

Okay, just a fraction.

You're not opening up like 35 degrees when you're doing this.

But as you're doing that, you're going to be working to really push the club down the target line, trying your best to hold the club face square, even though that's not what's going to be happening.

Okay?

So if you get into a really good impact position and then you can move your weight to that spot, then this game becomes a lot more easy for us to manage.

Now, that doesn't mean we're going to live in a world of rainbows, flowers, and cupcakes.

Let's be honest with you.

Because there's a lot of you guys at home that have really improperly trained your hands and your arms, right?

That's why when you go out there, it's really frustrating because you're like, Chris, I've looked at my legwork.

I'm like, I really got in a good spot.

That doesn't mean that you can't start creating chaos with your upper body, right?

It doesn't mean that you can't get down to hitting your hand and start flipping your hands at it because you're trying to get these things lined up.

The less that we do with our hands, the better success you're going to get with this game.

When you think about trying to get these two little things lined up, this club head and that ball on the ground, it's a tricky sport, okay?

So what you want to remember is that the next piece that I'm going to talk about, the release, is.

going to be done in a way where you isolate it because you have to be perfect on this piece.

This is the delivery.

So now there's two really key points.

And I probably, in hindsight, on Tuesday should have explained it this way.

The delivery point, so when we get ready to come down into impact, okay, we want to have the club in line with the hands, okay?

We want to have the club shaft parallel to the ground.

I'm going to keep turning back and forth.

We want to have the toe of the club.

virtually up to the sky.

If it's towed down ever so slightly, that's totally fine.

This point right here is extremely important to the way that you release the golf club.

Why?

Well, because if you have your hands out away from you, and you've got the club outside your hands coming down, you're going to have a bad, a really, really difficult time being able to square the place.

Vice versa.

If you have your hands out away from you, the club waiting behind you, same thing.

You're going to come way too far from the inside, and it's going to make it much harder for you to be able to manage.

that rotation of the hook base.

So your delivery point plays a very important role with the most important part.

What is that?

Impact, right?

You guys should all be able to answer that.

Impact is the most important part about this.

So that's why, if you listen to the stuff I was saying on session number one, is we revamped the camp the way that we did it.

Because you need to be able to get your left wrist into this position.

If you can get it into this position right here, where it's flat, And point for a slightly bow and point it down the target on.

Not like this, not like this.

Okay, then you can play golf, I promise, okay.

So if you can get into this good delivery point and you can get to this spot, then all of this.

Other stuff that we're doing is adding speed to your golf swing, that's what it's doing.

So we always want to train the release in a condensed environment.

Now, what are the kind of nuts and bolts of the release?

Well, We're going to show you from face on here first.

I'm going to show you the key points.

It's going to be glove logo.

Let me put a glove on.

I know I sound very redundant today, but there's a reason for this.

Glove logo is going to be flat and pointed directly out in front of you.

Your wrist is anatomically flat at this point.

Down to impact, it's going to rotate to where it's pointed directly down the target line.

My Globe logo is pointing down the target line here.

Okay, you can see that my wrist is slightly bowed.

If you look at the club face, it's really square.

I've got a lot of forward chaffling.

Okay, so it's out in front of us, pointed down the target line, and it is flat and pointed directly behind us.

Now look how far my hand and my arm are past my body, my arm is not way up here.

Why?

Because if you're pulling your arm up into that position, okay, and you're trying to get all of this stuff lined up with each other, You're literally missing the point.

The release is from here to here to here.

That's it.

And I know a lot of you at home are like, well, why do I see all these bigger swings happening?

The key point of any good golf swing is where you move from.

And a lot of you got, I actually got more comments on this camp than I've ever gotten, where people were like, okay, I don't know if you remember this example, so I'm going to lower it to 9.

5.

If I take my hips and I shift my hips left, And I get my hand side of the way, look at what just happened.

I turn face, almost look at where I just got my hands and arms to.

I didn't try to move my hands and arms from this spot down, I just let them hang out there.

So when you hear that position, the slot position, or when we're supposed to deliver the club, when is all this stuff supposed to happen?

You can remove that from your brain if you're allowing your arms to come down from this position.

That I'm going to teach you guys here in just a little bit.

By driving things through your legs and doing as little as you possibly can with your arms all the way down, other than just supporting the club, then again, golf is going to be much more manageable.

So the key points of a good release is going to be left wrist pointed out in front of you.

This is a lead side dominant release.

Left wrist pointed down the target line.

Left wrist pointed behind this.

Now, the same applies for the trail side dominant release.

The hand position, or I'm sorry, the club and hand position at delivery.

I'm sorry, I saw no pop up there.

The club position is going to be in the same spot.

It's going to be.

Now, when we start delivering the club from one side, the left wrist is still going to turn down the target line.

But if you notice my upper body, what is it doing?

My upper body is turning with my arms.

And simultaneously, what I'm doing is I'm trying to fire the club head down the target line.

So my body lines are going to look much different.

And what that looks like from face on, you're going to see a little bit more of my glove logo.

I'm sorry, not my glove logo.

But you're going to see a little bit more of my glove, right?

Why?

Well, I'm using body turn to rotate the face.

Remember, club face always has to rotate.

I had somebody send me, I'm not going to, we're not here to bash methodology.

Somebody sent me a video with a review this morning and said, what do you think of this?

And some of you may know Aaron Overholzer is a very good player, but he actually said it in the video where if you can hold a club face square to the target line, then you're good all the way through.

And he was talking about also having a broken left arm.

And some of you know this methodology.

And I was like, we're still teaching this.

We're still, even with data and understanding the hitting area, we're still teaching holding the club face square in the target.

Club face cannot stay square.

It's got to rotate.

So you have two options to rotate the face.

You've got wrist and forearm rotation, okay?

Or you've got a little bit of body turn and pushing the club down the target line like the tape drill would emphasize.

Both of them, as I just said to you, are going to have the left wrist in the same spot at the point of contact, okay?

I promise you, you have to have the club shaft leaning forward, and you have to have the club face square.

I don't care how you move it from one side to the other.

If you want to be trail side, then you're going to have to turn a little bit more because that's your source of being able to rotate the face.

At the same time, you're going to be firing your arm and trying to push the thumb head down the target arm, okay?

For those of you that are lead side dominant releases, You're going to just focus on getting your wrists and your forearms to rotate and keep your freaking arms moving.

Don't come down here and do this.

Okay?

Don't do that.

The only way that you can get the club head past your hands is to stop your arms from moving.

Your arms are being moved by your body, right?

As I go back and I turn my hips, if I stop my chest from moving, what did my arm just do?

My arm moved independently.

It unhinged itself.

Unhinged itself from my shoulder.

If you stop your arm, then the only thing you can do is move with your hands.

And how many of you cup and scoop it, how many?

You guys can tell me in the chat like, I do right?

I know it's hard to think about that because you heard us talk about it so much before.

Or you just get into this point, just let things go.

For sure, that's what should be happening.

But you have to let go of your arms as well.

Don't keep tension in your arms and your shoulders.

tension is your worst enemy.

When it comes to the release, Think about what release means.

Greg, thank you very much for being honest.

So think about what it means.

It means to let go.

It does not mean to hang up, right?

It's just how you have to kind of get out of control to get some control, okay?

So the most important part of the release is getting yourself set up with a good delivery point.

A good delivery point is going to look like your hands and your arms are down underneath you, not out away from you.

Not back into your body, they're going to be hanging down underneath you.

You're going to have the club in line with your hands, okay, not back and behind the hands, not out in front of the hands.

Right here is a good spot, club is going to be towed up or slightly towed down.

Okay, see that that sets you up for when you do let your release happen.

When you're letting things go.

To get into the spot where you've heard me just preach it for the last 10 minutes of your life, Right?

So good delivery spot, good impact, good release.

Okay?

When you think about what a good release is, left arm, just keep that thing moving if you're going to be lead side dominant.

Keep your attention levels as light as you possibly can.

Let the club do what it's designed to do.

I'm sure a lot of you have heard of Homer Kelly, right?

He actually had this video back in 1982, which was a year I was born.

And he showed a golf club on the end of a string.

And he started swinging this club around.

And what you would notice is that every time the club reached the bottom of the swinger, the club was perfectly square.

So even back then, people understood that we don't have to do anything to get the club to that spot.

It does it for you.

If you really take that sort of notion, then all you're doing at that point moving forward after you develop a stock shop is now you're making little subtle manipulations to do what?

Well, to flight your golf ball, right?

The position of your lead wrist, Is going to ultimately dictate the the facing right?

It's going to dictate how much forward shaft can you have.

okay, it's going to dictate where the face is pointed.

So if somebody, if somebody asked me how I hit a cup, remember the old school methodology was open the stance up, swing to the left right, swing across your body.

You can actually hit a cup if you just take your normal setup and then hold the left wrist position a little bit longer through the hitting it.

So you're kind of delaying off some rotation, okay, now there's some adjustments that you can make to ball position as well.

But we have uncovered this information because of what?

Because of data tracking devices, TrackMan, FlightScope, JC Quad, the big three, which to be honest with you, all three of them are way overpriced.

But it is what it is, right?

That data is extremely important for us to understand what the club head was doing, right?

It gives us what club data, right?

I used to teach the Jimmy Ballard nine ball play laws.

That's how I first started teaching golf when I was 20, 21 years old.

And if you go back in time and you look at how those were taught and you fast forward to where we are today, the Jimmy Baller nine ball play laws were blown out of the water.

They're a farce.

They're a farce.

And I'm sorry if that just hurt some of y'all's feelings that you guys built your golf swings around what Jimmy Baller was talking about.

But we didn't understand that there was gear effect.

We didn't understand that where the ball was being hit in relation to the face.

We certainly didn't understand deep playing.

Deep playing is not a rabbit hole I want you guys to go down.

So my point of what I'm trying to tell you is that the release is all about your delivery point and getting your lead wrist to that spot.

You want to be a lead side dominant releaser, keep your left arm moving, keep your grip pressure light.

It happens automatically.

You can see it.

I'm just holding the club in my pinky and my ring finger.

And if you hear it, you can actually hear the club pulling itself down here at the bottom of the heart.

You should be able to sit there all day long and do that.

If you feel like you're getting tired or fatigued, then guess what?

You're too tense.

Same thing with the right side down the release.

You're going to feel a little bit more effort, but you should be able to turn your body and extend your arm down the target line just like I'm doing here.

Okay?

You do that.

You look at it on the camera.

You got forward shaft leg.

You got the face square.

Bring the other hand back to the club.

Put it on the club as quickly as you can.

Because you need to train these two things to coexist with each other.

They don't like each other most of the time.

Because one's trying to do one thing.

The other's trying to do everything it can to screw it up.

That's why we're here, right?

That's why we have all of this talk about lead side versus trail side.

That's why.

Because you can't get these two things to marry one another.

I get it.

I understand.

I had somebody send a review this morning.

It was yesterday.

This guy named Brandon, you're in the chat tonight, or if you're here today, congratulations on one of the funniest comments I've heard in quite a while.

He goes.

I've learned after I created some awareness here, that my trail hand, my right hand, is like a bad ex-girlfriend.

Always just being really annoying and trying to create chaos when I don't want her to be around anymore.

And I was like, that was pretty fun, that was a good way to kind of describe it.

So just a little community for you guys, all right, so now you guys have Delivery, release.

You've got all of the core movements to get you to this delivery and release.

Now, how do we put it together?

Well, this is where we need to start using the Axiom movement.

Axiom was designed to get you guys to stop being so technically minded about each and every nut and bolt of the golf swing.

There is a ton of stuff that's important for sure.

From a golf instruction standpoint, there's a lot of things that can be that can go wrong.

But what we want you to remember is that there's also this kind of window of opportunity, right?

You get it into a decent spot on the top, okay, and you manage to get yourself into a good delivery point, then that's it, right?

You can get away with some things, right?

That's why we said to you before, your takeaway and your backswing don't have to be 100% perfect, the ideal if it was, But you can get away with a backswing that has maybe a little bit of fault in it.

And still get yourself into that delivery point where you can let things fly.

I see it all day, every day.

I see a lot of great players that don't have a technically sound backswing, but they get their hands and arms into a good delivery spot.

They come down in that slot position, right?

And they can golf their ball.

So the way that we would work through those changes, and this is how I want you guys to all approach your golf swing moving forward, is you have to pick and choose your battles.

The most important thing for you guys, I know this, and you can sit there and argue with me all day long, is when you leave golf instruction, okay, when you get out there and work on something, and you're at the point where you're hitting balls, You want to be able to hit the ball on the buffets, right?

If you're out there working on things, chopping wood, you're going to find yourself going down like, why am I even doing this, right?

So you have to be able to hit the golf ball well.

So you have to remember that all of these little small things that we change in the golf swing can ultimately affect what you're doing down from the bottom of the swing arm.

So that's why it's always best to use one of us instructors in this process to be able to say, no, this is what you should actually be focused on.

Because as much as you guys might know the cause and effect relationship, this stuff can really send you down the wrong radical.

It really can.

If you start working on, you know, right elbow position or left wrist position and yada yada.

And it affects the whole complexity of what you're doing down through here, then you're going to find yourself in this constant battle.

So that's why we trained you guys in this order.

Get the lower body stuff driving, because that's what's going to move arms down in front of you.

Get to the point where you can deliver the club into a good, solid impact position and now you've got to move through it, right?

And so that's what axiom is, so remember, The way that you're going to use the axiom is you're going to start with big clockwise circles.

These big circles are here to do what?

Ask yourself that question.

Why is Chris making this big clockwise movement around his foot?

Well, if you look at my legs and my hips, what are they doing?

Well, they're moving.

I look like Elvis.

I got big Elvis pelvis right now.

So this movement right here is how you're going to engine your golf swing.

When you start moving around the clock, you can see that my weight shifts to my trail side.

As it starts going back to 6 o 'clock, okay, up through 7, 8, and 9, I'm not getting off the merry-go-round.

What are my hips doing?

Look at how far over my left hip just went when I went through 7, 8, and 9 o 'clock.

Look at it.

I'm not trying to push my hip over here.

I'm just literally moving around the clock.

Okay, so you can see that there's a lot of freedom in this movement.

Okay, this movement right here, if you do that correct, and you start working to get off the merry-go-round, okay, and we're going to talk a little bit about this when we get some of the faults that you can come out of this.

When you work to start getting off the merry-go-round, if you think about what your lead side of your body is trying to get to, right, that impact position, and you do it by pulling that lead hip, that lead butt, down and back, as you start moving around the clock.

You move this down and back, okay as you run, okay, you're going to get to that spotted impact.

It's the secret sauce that you heard us talking about.

I know probably you guys are at home throwing stuff at your computer screen, saying, Chris, just stop with that again.

What we're trying to do is simplify movement, We're trying to get you to stop thinking about low squat to square post up.

If you think about all that stuff that's happening in the golf swing, how easy is it going to be for you to swing?

Both?

How easy?

It's not going to be easy.

You're going to find yourself all disheveled all day long.

You've got to be able to move.

After you go through the processes of what I walked you through today.

You've gone through.

You've got your setup position.

You've got your load.

You've got your transition.

You need to still do reps slow and chunky so that you get these things into a pretty decent spot.

Get to a good post-up.

Now you've worked on your release.

Now you start trying to move.

I would always suggest that you do this just by focusing on the legs first, just like I was doing.

So move around, merry ground.

As you go to six This is a bit of an overcooked movement from the RST fundamentals.

Everybody's like, holy smokes, really?

Yes, it's a big move, but it's there in place to help you do well, to get your legs and your hips working.

Because remember what I talked about last session, is that people want to shift, and then they want to start doing things with their arms.

You shut this stuff down, you have no choice but to start moving the club from your hands and your arms too early, and that results in the flip, the scoop, and all kinds of plane shift.

Okay?

So this helps you finish that movement off.

Now, when you get really proficient with this, okay, and you start moving around the clock, okay, and you're moving this left hip down and back, your foot is going to progressively get lower to the floor.

Why do I want this on the floor?

Well, because it acts as a multifaceted sort of helper in your bell swing.

Number one, for lead side dominant releasers, it helps you stall the body out.

It acts as a break.

Number two, it helps you stay in posture.

Every one of you at home have heard the term early extension.

Where does that come from?

Early extension comes from you driving off of your right leg in towards the golf ball.

So it helps you fix those two areas.

So yes, we start out by giving you dramatic movement, right?

So my right foot, my right heel is up off the ground.

But as we start getting better with this, it's going to start getting smaller and tighter.

That's what you're going to find even when I start introducing the arm movements, is that the circles are going to start getting smaller and tighter.

We want you to feel movement first.

We want you to feel how big of a circle you're actually supposed to make.

We want you to feel what it's like with this right foot driving to help you move into that position.

But if you watch, as I start getting really proficient with it, you're not even going to see this big clockwise movement.

This is what it's going to look like.

Okay?

It looks like a lot less.

Right?

We all agree with that?

Okay?

That's what it is.

And I deliberately felt my weight moving in one direction.

Counterbalance with my lead hip and my lead left.

We're doing so.

Hopefully everybody catches the point of that.

You want to start out by introducing a lot of movement, get it to where you get into the great spot.

Down at impact.

Make sure that you haven't caused any faults like early extension, and then start working on consolidating.

You want your golf swing to feel free-flowing, but you don't want it to feel like a floppy fish out of water, right?

You need to have it feel like it's put together.

So that does the same thing every single day.

And finding that middle point is much easier when you allow yourself to move.

Because if you're frozen in your lower half, then where are you going to move from?

You're going to move from your upper back.

So now you've started to go through and introduce the movement.

Now you can bring the release back in.

So you can start turning your body back to 9 o'clock.

Doing these left arm only.

Or if you're going to do a little bit of trail sight, so you can do a little bit of clockwise circle.

Okay?

So just little small circles.

Okay?

Same thing.

You're doing that without a club at first, then bring the club back in, go back through the processes.

Little small swings, right?

Don't try to make big swings.

When you're trying to get these things synced up, I know smaller swings don't leave you a whole lot of time to be able to get this stuff done, but prioritize where your movement comes from.

Okay?

That's the most key part of this.

And then as you get really progressive or as you get proficient with it, then get the other hand back on the club and start trying to hit some golf balls.

I can't emphasize enough how important it is for you guys to try to challenge yourself to get the golf ball present.

Don't try to get it in there right away, though.

Take your time.

It's not about, I don't want to see you out there rifling ball after ball after ball.

That's not doing you any good.

That's just ingraining the old movement patterns.

Your job is to go through these processes at the speed that you feel comfortable with to create awareness.

You create awareness.

You've got the movement synced up.

Get the club in there.

Stay aware.

Put the ball in.

Piece of cake, right?

Right.

So now let's talk about how we finish this off.

And I did a lot of soul searching on this part because, again, this can create a lot of faults if we start thinking much higher up in the golf swing.

If you start thinking about where your hands and your arms are in space and you're not really good down here, then I would suggest that you don't go past that 9 to 3 of those compression drills for a while because you've got to get that area right.

You've got to get this stuff synced up from here.

You've got to be really good down here.

Now, the end result, once you guys have spent the time going through either a trail side or a lead side dominant release, all of these checkpoints up here are going to lead you to the exact same result, which is on your final slide, which shows you the bathroom position looking just like this.

Now, let's talk about this position.

What do you see here?

Well, we see my right elbow in line with my torso.

We see my left wrist is anatomically flat.

And we see that my hands are right above my right shoulder.

That's what it's going to look like when it's done.

But you, at home, can't just look at your hand and arm position.

Why?

Watch this very closely because I'm very well changed to do this, right?

I know where my hands and arms are supposed to be.

But look at this now.

What did I not do?

Well, I only turned 30 degrees, right?

So I know somebody got me on that last time.

It's not just about building a pretty looking backspin position or being on a plane.

It's not.

I get this all the time.

I'm sure Craig does as well.

How's my backspin look?

And we'll look at it in a static position.

I'll be like, it looks great.

But how you got there was absolutely a mess.

How you start moving your body and where you move into and through these positions is how we look at the golf swing.

Yes, static positions do unfold some things for us, but if I look at pictures of your golf swing and not a video of your golf swing, I would never be doing you any service.

It's how you move through this stuff, okay?

Because again, as I said to you a moment ago, you have kind of a window of opportunity that you need to be in.

So for you lead side dominant releasers that want to become.

A good, good, solid back swing position, you're just going to start out with your left arm hanging down here freely, right hand behind your back.

Okay, and you're going to pressure shift to your right and you're going to make that big turn.

Remember, your shoulders are going to try to turn to 90 degrees, and you're going to feel like your left hand now reaches up above your right shoulder.

Make sure your left wrist is flat.

Some of you had some comments and questions on that.

This is where you want to check at the top of your swing that your left wrist is anatomically flat.

You need to allow your wrist and forearm to rotate up a little bit.

Okay, so again, it's going to look like pressure shift.

Turn your body and an arm up to the top, big, big body turn, teeny, tiny, little baby arm movements, small arm movements.

The only thing that arms are doing in the golf swing, just so you understand this, is elevation.

There's a little flexion from the truss side, a little wrist and forearm rotation, and a little bit of set, that's it.

Okay.

If you try to do all of these big movements with your arms.

You're going to shut your body down, so always tell yourself.

My goal is is to pressure, shift and turn load.

Rotate the left hand above the right shoulder.

Now some of you at home are going to go, Oh, Chris, that's pretty.

Like I can feel some tension in my arm and my shoulder.

Of course, you are, you're elevating your arm, right?

I could feel it when I was just doing that for you then.

But when you bring your right hand back to the side of the club, okay, if you watch and I do this, Rep.

Okay, just by taking and touching the club up here.

Now, it takes so much of the stress off.

It makes it much easier for you to be able to maintain that position.

Now, after you get the left arm to move into that correct spot, and you add the golf club just like I did there, you want to do a bunch of reps, where you keep the right hand behind your back, pressure shift, turn, bring the right hand in.

Then you can get to a point where you start from a static address position, and then you turn, moving into the spot.

Now, how do we get down from that spot?

You keep your freaking arms relaxed, right?

So that shouldn't be a tense position.

And you do the lower body axing movements.

Those movements, if you keep your arms relaxed, move your hands and your arms all the way down in front of your body into a good sort of release position.

We just talked about this for probably way more minutes than I needed to.

This is the position that sets you up for this position.

Remember, all the way down in front of your trail thigh is perfectly fine.

Not out here.

Let them come down.

If you get this spot and the club's in line with your hands, and you get the face square, have a party.

Have a ball.

You'll hit the ball good.

All of the stuff that we used to teach within the Dead Drill, as far as our movements are concerned all the way down, are now more or less a move point.

Because we've got you to understand that your legs and your hips are going to move them into that spot.

That doesn't mean that we didn't give you what the checkpoints should look like on these slides.

We gave you those, of course, right?

There's some things that you can see when you get further into the slides.

But you have to understand that those positions are going to be easy for you to attain.

If you get your arms into a good spot and you just let your legs and your hips drive you to impact.

Impact is 45 degrees open, left leg straight, shoulders square or slightly open.

If you're trail side now, how do we finish it off trail side?

Big clock.

I have not personally had a lot of success with trying to get this into my game because I'm the lead side dominant releaser.

I had to try it though because I'm teaching it.

And so I found that this movement was very distracting to me, but I had to understand that this was not about me.

This is about you guys.

And so this clockwise movement that you're going to hear us talk about, right?

This is a big circle, just like it would be if it was starting down with your feet and your hips.

It's a big circle.

This movement right here is always moving in one direction.

It's a clockwise movement.

You couple that with what your legs and your hips are doing, and you want to think about, as you're working to get off the merry-go-round, that you're going to be strumming up on the guitar, right?

So this is what we call the air guitar move, or guitar hero move.

So that movement right there is how you're going to get your back swing position.

If you watch this clock, as I start going up, You can see that my hand went up above my right shoulder here, right?

Now, this is obviously very pronounced.

When I bring my left hand in there, it's not going to allow me to get all the way up and back and behind me, okay?

It's going to help create a little bit of drag to what your left arm is doing.

But that's what you would want to feel when you start moving around.

The merry-go -round is you want to start feeling your right arm doing a clockwise circle and strumming up as you're getting off the merry-go-round.

That's the whole sequence.

That's why people got some really good early success with it.

Early success was what we were looking for, right?

We wanted to see how fast people could implement this in their swing to do what?

To overcome the major faults that we see in golf, right?

So you guys aren't living under a rock.

You know that people struggle with being over the top and struggling with lag and struggling with all that minutiae of the hitting area, right?

So this gave people or gives you guys a fighting chance.

Now, as we started putting the club back in here, remember, I got a fan.

I'm going to have to choke me down on them.

To be able to shallow things out.

Okay, and then be able to release the club with some lack again.

That's not a bad movie, a bad way to move, right?

That's that's what the the nuts and bolts of the action mark.

But you can understand from my perspective as a golf instructor.

And somebody that's been lead side dominant, and somebody that's been around for a while, that that added movement can also screw some people up, right?

It can get you kind of like, Wow, I got.

I got way too much freedom, and that's what I saw.

I personally saw a lot more freedom.

Where People were getting their arms a little bit on the deeper side.

They were kind of getting stuck on the right side and not really getting things synced up as well.

But again, if you feel like you're never going to be a lead side dominant person, you're always going to have to rely on your trail side, then go ahead and start making those clockwise circles.

But what you'll notice is, it's just like I talked about a moment ago with the footwork, is that your circles are going to get tighter.

So you're going to start feeling it.

Your circles are going to get tighter.

Looks like kind of Matthew Wolf at first.

So now.

I'm going to start turning, so you're not going to feel as much of a dramatic circle, okay?

It's going to get progressively tighter and tighter.

It's still going to move you to the spot that I just demonstrated just a moment ago, it's going to move you into this spot.

Hands above the right shoulder, right elbow in line, left wrist spot on the top.

Both of them will move you to that spot if they're done correctly.

I prefer to teach lead side dominant.

Because Giving people the freedom of a circle does create a big fault that I dealt with myself when I played golf professionally.

I came down stuck with my arms.

I admit it, right?

That forced me to hit a hook.

So that's how you finish the back side.

Now, as I said to you at the start of today's session, I'm going to give you a way to practice this.

The way that I want you to practice this is work at the pace that you feel comfortable.

Work at the pace that you feel comfortable at.

Don't feel like you have to go and get all of this stuff done the next day.

Don't.

Just don't do that.

Focus on getting your setup right.

Then focus on, okay, I'm going to start working on my load to my right side, making sure I have those key checkpoints that Chris spoke about.

What are those key checkpoints?

Well, I want to maintain a little bit of flex.

I want to get 70% of my weight as I pressure shift.

I want to make a good 90-degree turn, and I'm going to have right around 85% to 90% of my weight underneath my right leg, right?

So it's going to build pressure as you're turning your body on that side.

So you have those checkpoints in your brain.

You do that really proficiently.

And you start moving into transition.

And you start moving into post-up.

And you start moving into and through those positions.

And you start working on release.

That's how I want you to practice.

And I know a lot of you guys at home are looking for me to say a structured number.

I'm not giving you a structured number because everybody's a little bit different.

Yes, we do want you to get somewhere between 100 to 300 reps per day when you're working on this stuff.

But I know some of us don't have time to do 100 or 300 reps.

So doing some reps does help you.

But you want to remember, those 100 or 300 reps, if they're done properly, is going to have a payoff at the end of it.

If you start introducing it and it feels like a movement and it's a pattern that's tied together, you're at the end result.

You'll get to the end result finally.

You'll stop having to listen to me yak at you.

The other piece that I want you guys to focus in on is using the swing reviews on the side.

I hate salesy stuff.

I really do.

In fact, the putting webinar that I'm going to give, I'm going to say that out of the gate because I'm not a salesman.

I'm just a person delivering information and I know this stuff works.

The swing review system is there for a reason.

It allows us to customize your swing and your changes to your swing.

Craig and I, I'm going to just tell you this right now, we're really, really freaking good at it.

We really are.

We've worked with a lot of instructors.

We've trained a lot of instructors.

We're really freaking good about helping you specifically.

Okay.

No, no, no, no.

There's some people in the room that have worked with me.

There's some people that have worked with Craig there.

There's no substitute for having support in this process because yes, I gave you all of the tools that you guys really have to have in order to be able to succeed.

You know exactly the spots that you're going to be looking for.

Okay.

You know exactly the point of getting into a good delivery and how to get it into a good left wrist position at impact.

But if you start going through things in a way and you start going down these rabbit holes that isn't leading to your success, then you're going to find yourself getting frustrated.

And we want to get ahead of that first.

Plus, it also helps us.

It helps you get practice programs that might be specific to you.

So I can tell anybody to do 100 reps or 300 reps of all the stuff I just talked about.

But everybody's going to be at different points of the blending process.

So I'm not going to give you that specifically.

That's what I'm moving myself away from.

This year is that saying everybody's going to pick this up right away?

I'm going to tell you, right now, people are picking it up pretty quickly.

To just follow these little checkpoints and understand that I don't give a about the club and the ball.

First, excuse my mouth, I don't.

I care about how your body moves, you train your body to move properly.

You're going to look just like you're going to be able to do this at the blink of an eye, right?

I can sit there and have a conversation with you and do it.

Not just because I teach it, but because I've done it myself.

So you have to use the support.

If you don't, then remember.

Just make sure you're working on things in the order that we outline, because that's how you'll get some success with this stuff.

You start trying to go into this too fast, hitting long, big shots, and don't create the awareness, then all bets are off.

Now, as I said to you guys at the start, we also have the new RSA live webinar.

I really love this format.

I really do.

Again, not a sales pitch.

It's just a different way for us to introduce new topics to you.

If you're interested in that, I know Craig has been.

Craig just got me on the square jar, sorry.

Craig has been posting links up there.

He's posting links to the videos.

You guys can go back and look at that.

This is a great opportunity for you guys to take advantage of being able to see, even if you missed Chuck's first webinar on speed, he talks a lot about what the right arm is going to be doing in the downward half to help facilitate more lag.

That video is available.

So I wanted to close with that.

I wanted to also thank you guys with everything that I am because this stuff is really hard to deliver.

Okay, because it's nerve -wracking.

I don't know if any of you have done like, sat in front of a camera before, but it's funny.

Like anytime I used to film for the website.

Like you, just you think about it, you're out there with yourself and a camera, maybe one other person, and the minute the camera comes on, you change.

And so I thank you guys for taking the time to listen to me yak with you guys for the last two weeks.

I hope, I sincerely hope you guys enjoy the stuff that you heard from me.

Um, I really enjoyed working with every one of you, I really do, it's, it's my passion, it's.

I have such a great love for this game.

And I can sit there and talk to each and every one of you individually.

And and probably bore you.

But I would.

I always like to help you guys, so please make sure that you understand I'm here to help.

Craig's here to help if you guys have any questions, any questions at all, as far as the stuff that we talked about here today.

Um, or you guys have any other, you know, added questions on?

Maybe some adjustments for, you know, your driver, which we can talk about if you want.

Um, Then I'll stick around.

But again, for those of you that don't want to stick around any longer, you guys have had enough of me.

I really do thank you guys very much.

Let's open it up for Q&A, and we will go from there.

So, Howard, I'm having a problem stalling on my body.

Momentum from squat to square and post-up doesn't stop my hips.

Continue to open for my legs and hips, moving too aggressively.

So, Howard, really, really good, good way to get that stuff under control is that piece that I talked about with the roll of the right foot.

When your right foot is rolled to the instep, Okay, if you look at any of our model swings, too, you will notice that.

Chuck is rolled to the inset of his foot until his hands and arms wouldn't be.

Well into my release, it stays down now.

This acts as a break, right?

The minute my foot comes up, look how much more mobility I have in my hips, so by having it down on the floor, it restricts the mobility.

So I would really, really strongly suggest that you specifically go watch the video on the website called The Roll of the Right Foot in the Down Swing.

For any time I mention a video, just so you guys know this at home, if you're logged into the website, there's a search tab on the top right-hand corner.

Click on that search tab.

You can type whatever you want.

If it says, you just type role, R-O-L-E, then you will see all the videos populate.

If you type lag or release, all that stuff's going to populate.

All right.

So, Stephen, thank you so much for the words, man.

I really do appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Let's see what we've got for questions.

Been stuck big time.

Single hands work great.

As soon as I get my bad brother, even with touching, get really loose and slamming the glim.

Okay.

So here's a good way to overcome that is give it a gradual kind of kick in the butt.

So I'm going to demonstrate lead side dominant.

So if you're doing this stuff really well, okay, you're looking like a rock star.

But the minute you get this hand back on there, all hell breaks loose and you start looking like that.

Allow it to follow along, but allow it to come off before impact.

It's stopping here.

This is very much what you would see in five minutes to a perfect release.

The lose the right hand VJ release drill, I'm sorry, the VJ release drill, and then the lose the right hand release drill.

That what it does is it allows you to get it to coexist with you in a smaller format.

But then what you can do is you can kind of challenge yourself.

You look at where my hand's coming off now, you watch it, it's coming off a little bit later, a little bit later.

Eventually, you're going to be able to stay on there all the way through.

So it's just about challenging yourself.

I like to get it fully back on there right away because that's what you're going to do on a golf course.

But if you find that you're just going back down the pathway of all destruction in your hitting area, then get it off the club and pick a spot that you're going to have it fall off with.

Now, I will say this.

That does take a lot of discipline, a lot of discipline, because people always feel like they have to have it on the club.

Take golf balls.

I've got plenty of players where they're sending in videos with their right hand off the club before their hands get to the front of their trail top.

They're that committed to making this change.

It just takes it takes a certain amount of fortitude and a certain amount of dedication, a certain amount of commitment, that's the key.

So please detail the trail wrist motion on the downswing from right in front of the trail leg through impact.

Okay, so the trail wrist when you come down is going to be into a little bit of flexion here.

So it's it's in that sort of set position.

So if you grab a hammer at home, if you aren't going to hinge your wrist back, it's going to kind of be down into that set spot that you hear us talk about.

So when you come down and you're in the spot, we're getting ready to release it.

It's going to have this sort of set, it's going to now start to uncock.

The uncocking movement is not a forced movement.

Okay, it's not right, you wouldn't.

You're not going to get tense in your hand to try to kind of whip the hammer, right?

There's some active movement from the wrist for sure.

But when you're starting out this process, you can actually just kind of let that happen for you because the club is going to have a lot of weight.

So as the right wrist comes down and impact at the point of contact, it's not going to be in full lower deviation.

Okay, not yet.

It will be just in front of the golf ball.

So it's going to go into this position where it's uncocked full.

Okay, so it's basically going from a sort of set position, right?

Kind of that middle point.

It's losing some of that, and then it gets to full only deviation at the bottom of the arc.

The ball is just before the bottom of the arc, right, because we want to hit down on it.

How do we know what to have our swing reviews on?

I always think I do everything right.

So awesome question.

Here's a good way to think about this.

When you get to a point where we're working on ball striking, which is quite honestly the best part of my job, where you get to send me videos of you hitting golf balls and saying, I hit 50 balls.

I feel like I'm doing everything right.

This is what my misses are.

You're going to get to a point at home where we want to start diagnosing where your little misses come from.

Golf is a game of misses.

If you think about shot dispersion, everybody thinks about shot dispersion from a side-to-side standpoint.

Yes, I think about it from side-to-side as well because we want to miss small.

But I think more about it from a front-to-back dispersion first.

Why?

Well, front to back, think about this with me.

If you go out there and you were to hit balls with me, and I'm going to hit an 8 -iron, 167.

My stock 8-iron is going to go Let's back it off a little bit.

I haven't played any golf.

Probably 162.

And I hit every single one of those golf balls, and I have really good solid action with my left wrist, and I'm letting things, I'm freed up.

All my balls are going to be right in that 158 to 162 to 164 mark.

There's going to be very little.

dispersion because I'm hitting on the face.

Now, Amateur golfers that go out there and don't have good club face control and good solid impact positions are going to find that.

Their balls are going to be 170 all the way down to 140.

You're going to have this much wider discrepancy there.

I think about that.

Yeah.

Well, what's wrong with hitting further?

Well, hitting it further than what you're expecting is not awesome to a certain degree, right?

Because if you get down and you kind of knife one a little bit.

Or you've reduced spin loft, or you've increased your spin loft, and you've increased dynamic loft numbers to a certain degree.

And your ball is kind of, it's a flyer, right?

That's not control, golf is about control, the only that's why they give us so many clubs in the back.

So to answer and compound on that is when you get to a point where you think you're doing everything right.

Let's send us videos of you hitting golf balls.

We want to see like, I want to know how you're getting the ball.

But like, this is my mix, I'm hitting a little bit thin, Maybe I'm hitting a little bit heavy.

Maybe I'm seeing a little bit more movement in the ball than I want.

And send it just because it could be one little small tweak.

But what it also does is it allows us to help you understand what your misses are so that you can be armed with a bigger arsenal of ways to practice, right?

So I love that part.

And I have a lot of people that are at that point right now where they're sending in videos of them hitting all of their folks.

So lean side sounds like it's easier on the body.

Less flexible old guy.

Absolutely, Jennifer.

I have nine, just nine screen reviews in my bank, if I use those.

Will the instructors provide similar feedback as provided by you?

Jennifer?

Yes, absolutely.

Just put in the notes that you were, um, an axiom boot camp member.

And we will definitely make sure that you have that sort of information.

So please discuss.

Shoulder plane is steeper, better.

I tend to have a good backswing plane, but it levels up during the downswing.

Any suggestions?

So Ralph, good question.

So shoulders are going to rotate perpendicular to your spine, so if you have a line coming up my back here, okay, my shoulders should be perpendicular to my spine.

On the way down, if you look at it as I come down slowly, they're going to rotate on that same plane that they rotated back on, because the way they rotate back on the way down.

Now.

If you're finding that your shoulders level off too quickly, okay in transition, this is a good indicator that you have unwound your shoulders too quickly.

Okay, so, make sure that you feel like you're trying to keep that right shoulder up and behind your head as much as you possibly can.

A few different ways to overcome that.

And I probably I will, I will actually go into this is, if you think about this, if I turn my guts in my rib cage and I've got some contraction here.

When you start shifting left and allowing your head to come back into its position, try to maintain that sort of tense feeling that you feel in your rib cage or right shoulder up.

Those are two good ways that are on top of a back to the target sort of approach that you've heard us talk about.

So I'd like to be able to give you guys some different feels to help you overcome those faults.

So at which point should the acceleration happen immediately from six It should be as aggressive as you can get it when you start moving from six o 'clock.

Things are happening fast.

This is the point where you start moving and aggressively getting your hips working for you.

The hips are helping multifaceted here.

They're adding speed to the hands and the arms, but they're also helping move the hands and arms out in front of the body.

If I go to the top of my swing and I turn my hips, my arms move this way.

As soon as you get to 6 o'clock, imperative that you start getting aggressive.

Craig, you're a rock star, man.

Thank you so much for answering so many questions.

Do I need to make modifications for half or three-quarter wedge swings?

So, no.

You can actually do the same thing with half or three-quarter wedge swings.

That's another great question.

So, ideally, if you are using body turn to move your arms into that kind of half swing environment, and you're using that weight shift and that body turn, then you're still using your legs in the same sort of proper hand and arm function down through the bottom.

Now, if you're working on, let's just say, Let's say this very lightly.

Let me just say, maybe you're working on a shot where you're trying not to let the club release as much.

So you're going to be more of a body turn sort of release, which is very common.

I actually will be the first person to admit when I hit my wet shots, let's just say this is like a 50 degree wet, which is not okay, but let's say it is.

And I'm going to hit like a 75 yard shot, where my maximum distance is only like 105, 106 is if I'm going to hit a 75 yard shot.

When you see me hit a ball, because you're going to see me turn my body a little bit more through.

Why?

Well, when I was growing up as a kid, that's how I developed feel.

I developed feel because I thought that that was the right way to do it.

When you're into the shorter shots, finesse shots, or chipping and pitching, or taking a little bit off of it, that comes down to a lot of feel.

And feel, I don't care what golf instructor can teach you feel.

No golf instructor can teach you feel.

They can give you drills to help you develop your own feel, but we can't teach you feel.

And that's why I don't use the clock per se.

It's like, okay, you got to have the one o'clock here to be able to hit it this far.

Everybody's going to be different, right?

Everybody's going to have different amounts of forward shaft and different amounts of face angle.

So my point is, is that under a stock shot, half swings, three quarter swings, everything's going to remain the same.

If you're so used to being able to develop your feel around a little bit more body turns at the hitting area to help kind of deaden things up a little bit, totally fine as well.

We can help you with that specific shots.

How to avoid sitting down on backswing I have no space to squat, so how to avoid sitting down on backswing?

I have no space.

So you're basically, I'm trying to understand the question.

So you want to make sure that you have just enough deflex that address, you don't want to increase the flex as you're going back.

That's a big no-no.

There's, I actually used to teach this a little bit where?

If you were one of those right leg straighters like this, I would tell you to feel like you're decreasing it as you go back on that side, but then people start getting overcooked with that, so I moved away from that.

Your job is just to set up with your weight underneath your ankles, keep your right leg as flexed as you can, and just turn.

You don't want to feel any downward pressure into your knees.

Chuck teaches about the right wrist rotating clockwise during the downswing pro lead.

Lead side is the lead arm for being pulled down, or should it just feel clockwise rotation, or, well, just the trail wrist?

So that movement that you're, that you're talking about with Chuck talking and what the right wrist is going to be doing.

The top of the swing is helping shallow the plane, it's also helping you kind of get some more lag in there.

There's there's three different ways to look at this.

Okay, we're not ever going to teach different end results, we're going to talk to you about different ways to get to the end result.

Again, if you're setting it into a good spot at the top and then you keep the wrist supple, right, I've said that multiple times, then you're going to come down into the same delivery point.

So if you have to do that sort of clockwise movement to help you shallow things out but help develop a little more lag, it's still very much in line with what I'm teaching.

It's just different ways to get you there, right?

I can go to the top of my swing.

If you watch, you're very close to it, okay?

Right?

Now, if I just shift my hips left, did you see me work on any sort of.

Clockwise movement On the way down Do you see any sort of clockwise wrist movement?

Those are what we call feel sensations.

So to help get the club to kind of do certain things.

That doesn't mean that everybody in the room is going to be able to do that sort of thing.

So you have to remember these things are.

It's all going to come back the same way.

We just have different teaching styles.

Because, you know, he sees certain things, I see certain things, Craig sees certain things.

Okay, and so how I'm delivering the information from my side, I would say, is very much what we teach RST.

Fundamentally, what he's teaching is more of the feel, that kind of ties back into axiom.

To help get the club to do well, all that helps, shallow it out.

everybody always wants to shallow the club out, right, everybody.

Okay.

Do lead side dominant pros focus on hands at all?

Ah, yes, I have to ensure that the axiom swings down the lead hand counterclockwise, just so the hands don't go wrong.

That's I'm supposed to automatically bring.

So this is kind of a loaded question, but it's a good question.

I'm gonna answer it.

I think about my left wrist, and I had this question this week, actually, I think about my left wrist.

The entire golf swing, when I'm trying to flight the golf ball, what I mean by flight?

It is either if I'm trying to hit it down, or I'm trying to hit it up, or I'm trying to move it.

That's the only time I'm thinking about my left wrist, The other times when I'm hitting a stock shot, if I'm literally on a number and I'm looking down the fairway or wherever I'm looking, and I'm just trying to get a stock shot to my number, I'm not thinking of anything about my hands.

But there's a lot of times in the golf course you're having to get to the point where you're moving the ball, right?

We're trying to move the ball from one direction to the other.

So you've got to think about it a little bit.

As far as, I think that's the best way for me to kind of keep myself out of trouble in this one.

I'm not trying to oblique your question.

But there's a lot of times people can start getting lost in overthinking that.

So the left wrist, obviously the point of contact, is going to matter the most, right?

What it's doing in space is helping manipulate where the face angle is, helping manipulate the shaft and the degrees of closure in the focus.

Okay, would you recommend for one swing thought?

What would you recommend for one swing thought utilizing accent?

I love this question, Can I combine it?

So left hip, so left butt, left hip, and left wrist.

You can do this, okay, like I've been demonstrating.

That right there is the big ticket, right?

So yes, you need that load process to happen, but if you get into good stable position, you've got your left wrist in a good spot.

That's what I'm saying, when playing.

That's what I would focus on, is literally thinking about your left butt, your left hip moving down and back.

And feeling your left wrist and forearm moving through right in the spots that we just talked about.

If you have to, you have to motor the golf swing from somewhere, but you also have to be able to control the golf development from somewhere.

So that's what I like personally.

Um, that doesn't mean that that's going to work for every single person in the room.

That's kind of going back off of Tosip's comment that I have to be cautious because people can grab the information.

They start going into these pathways where I'll help you break loose.

So looks like we're winding down.

Yeah.

Did I miss any questions?

If I missed any questions, please repost.

Otherwise, I think we're good.

Anthony, thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

I really do appreciate the time words.

How can we use lead side axiom and bunker play?

So lead side axiom and bunker play stuff.

I don't like to use a lot of slow.

I don't use a lot of personal lower body movement here when I'm hitting bunker shots, but that doesn't mean that it's right or wrong.

Short game isn't art.

It really is.

You're going to see a lot of people like to use their lower body quite a bit.

I don't like to feel a lot of that big movement.

You can use this, but you have to remember the bunker shots, you want the club.

This is the one swing you want the club getting past your hands.

You want to be able to get the club really getting underneath the golf ball.

I would say that you're probably going to have to feel a little bit left arm stall down through there, you'll feel a little bit more help from the hands.

Okay, that was a roundabout answer.

All right, guys, I think that's it.

Anybody else have any questions?

Jennifer?

Thank you so much for the kind words.

You've been enjoying my work with.

How do you preserve the replace?

The replays are yours.

I'm not sure exactly what the time frame is.

We've been making some adjustments on our side.

So, but you should have them for your other.

So, shot 80 yesterday in 50-degree weather.

High-seam-swing stuff Chris just mentioned.

I'm watching my swim review with Craig beforehand.

Awesome.

That's awesome.

That's getting out there golfing your ball, man.

So, the sky's the limit.

You guys have been awesome.

So, I'm going to go.

I'm going to get ready for a putting webinar.

I'm going to get some water in me.

Thank you guys very much.

If you guys have any questions, please feel free to post those questions up in the community forums.

Craig and I will do our best to help you guys out moving forward.

Craig, thank you so much for all your help this camp as well.

Craig's a rock star sitting on the other end helping me with all these questions.

Merry Christmas to you guys.

My back swing is more like ROMS.

Could you show what it looks like compared to a full swing?

Yeah, so full back swing.

which said is a hand up above right shoulder this is a variable right so i actually have a very shallow back to myself you can see my hands didn't get above my right shoulder that's totally fine right you just want to make sure that you don't have your hands and arms getting way in behind your body you don't have the right elbow playing behind you being stuck is not fun i promise you get it from the inside all right guys thank you all very much have a wonderful rest of your day