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

Session 3 of 4

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Okay, good evening, everyone.

Welcome back.

Here we are Tuesday, day three, or session three, on your way to building a golf swing that's going to be really productive and really efficient.

So hopefully everybody's had a good start to their week.

Hopefully everybody had a great weekend.

Hopefully everybody can hear me okay.

Can everybody hear me okay?

Sound good?

Yes, you're welcome for the shoes.

Tried to go a little flashy tonight.

Draw attention away from some other attributes that aren't so fine.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Hopefully everybody's had a wonderful, wonderful week.

Tonight is a very big night.

In fact, I think I'm just going to go ahead and say it to you guys right now.

Tonight is the most important night of camp.

Because we are going to take your lower body movements, and we're going to take your hitting area movements, and we're going to blend them together.

And we're going to get you guys into some full nine to three swings tonight.

That's our main goal, is to get you moving into and through positions from nine to three.

If you can do this stuff right, then there is a very, very good chance that you're going to hit the golf ball very well.

So I'm excited about tonight.

I know that the first session had a lot of information jam-packed into it.

The second session kind of left you guys kind of wanting a little bit more, kind of understanding, you know, What side of the body you wanted to release the club from?

Hopefully, a lot of you kind of caught my drift.

Where a lot of you wanted to stay more towards the lead side, maybe some of you wanted to stay on the trail side.

We saw a little bit of both this week.

So I see in the notes or not in the notes, but in the questions.

What is the video of Chuck showing a down the line video of Tiger marks his hands at address and then shows the hand path?

Greg, you can go ahead and answer that one.

So now is a great time.

John, welcome from Melbourne, Australia.

John has been a longtime student of Rotary Swing.

Welcome, John.

Nice to see you.

Hopefully everybody's doing well.

I've seen quite a few of our students in here tonight that I've worked with.

So we're going to let everybody get settled for the first three or four minutes.

One thing that you guys can do at this point is now you guys can start asking questions.

It would be very helpful if you kept the questions related to what we did the first two sessions.

But if there's something pressing that you want answered right away, then I can do my very best.

Otherwise, save it to the end.

Craig and I will stick around tonight and we will answer as many questions as you need.

So I see in the notes, Warren, great question.

Where do we send videos for review?

On the website, You go to the little menu tab on the right-hand side of the top right-hand side.

After you've logged in, and you hit that button, and you scroll down to where it says Swing reviews.

You hit that button.

It is a very, very seamless process.

The only things that we ask of you are that you send in a face on and down the line video of your swing.

You're wearing clothes.

A little joke for you guys at home.

We've had, you know, in the past 10 years of doing swing reviews, we've had some things come through as far as swing reviews are concerned.

And we just ask that you wear clothes.

Okay.

And we want you to keep the videos under 30 seconds.

That's it.

You can film these videos with your iPhone or your droid.

Doesn't matter.

Doesn't need to be fancy.

Just send us a face on and down the line and then let us know that you're in boot camp.

In fact, that's one of the things that I'm going to start off by saying to you guys tonight because we haven't had that many swing reviews submitted this camp, which is kind of fun and it's kind of scary at the same time, as I said to you guys in session number two, because we use the reviews as kind of a barometer as to where we're at in this process.

Now, I will tell you this right now, that after session one with the people that did send in reviews, we saw some really great stuff.

session two, both Craig and I came to an agreement where we might've had a few of you try to add the golf ball back a little bit too early.

That's common, extremely common.

So we're going to talk a little bit about that tonight as we get into it.

So my pleasure, Ted.

So left hand sometimes doesn't get completely flat at the end of the release.

Is it okay?

Back and impact any thoughts?

So really good question here.

So when you're working on the release and you have your lead arm working through the hitting area, and you notice that at the completion of it that your left wrist might be a little bit cupped.

So you can see how my left wrist is a little bit cupped here.

As long as it's flat down at the point of contact or slightly bowed and for a couple frames post impact, so what that means a couple frames is until the hand gets outside the lead thigh here, as long as it's not cupped during any part of that part of the swing, then you're fine.

We understand that momentum and inertia is going to try to pull the club into this sort of hinged position of the left wrist.

Again, that's something we would expect, especially when your arm is trying to slow down and the club's got a lot of force to it.

Totally fine.

So Brian, on the post-up, after practicing for a while, my left hip feels uncomfortable.

Is that an indication that it's an incorrect move or just a new movement?

It could be a little bit of both.

It could be.

So the safest position for your hip to be in is in neutral.

So if you find the center of your hip socket, think about it this way.

If you find that pointy pelvic bone in the front of your body, okay, and then you take two finger widths inside of that, that's generally going to be where your hip socket is.

You want your hip socket, the center of your knee and your center of your ankle to be right on top of one another.

But you also want to make sure that your weight is underneath your ankle joint.

And if your hip, is rotating in neutral, you shouldn't feel any sort of stress on it.

Now, if it's outside of neutral and you're rotating, then you can feel a lot of stress on the outside part of the hip girdle.

Or if it's inside of neutral as well, you can feel a lot of stress on the inside part of your groin here.

So it's really important that you get it perfectly to neutral.

So what I would suggest that you focus on is at an address position is move the hip to close to neutral and then rotate the hip back.

And just make sure that the center of the hip socket is directly over the top of the knee and the top of the, or the center of the ankle, and that you feel your weight underneath your ankle joint.

Okay.

Really important.

So a lot of times people quantify 45 degrees open of their hips, like they need to be 75 degrees open with their hips.

Not necessary.

Okay.

If you look and I got a big booty here, when I shift my hips left and I pull my hips open.

This is 45 degrees open in relationship to my foot line.

So if any of you have built anything at home that needs a 45 degree angle, pretty clear to see that just with my butt cheek popping out there on the backside, that's pretty much 45 degrees.

So back in the questions, I should say, definitely notice that my right hand trying to take over when I add, really focusing on the last two fingers on the left helps for sure.

So definitely difficult when you put the troublemaker back on the club to see how much it wants to influence things down through the bottom of the swing arc.

It's kind of crazy, isn't it?

So, And that's one of the things I talk to my students about.

Quite a bit is that it doesn't take a lot of grip pressure from the trail hand to get some sort of function going from the right arm, right?

So I could take this club and hold it in my two fingers in my right hand and I can extend it and move it away.

I can swing my arm.

most of those movements are being facilitated by the shoulder first.

That's why we call it casting, right?

So if you've ever casted a fishing pole, right, the first movement is your arm is going to extend out away from your body, which is being facilitated by the muscles in the shoulder, and it's working its way down the chain.

And it's very easy for you to keep your grip pressure and your wrists supple and have all of this force coming out through the right hand.

So don't be fooled by the right hand being soft on the club.

and think that your right arm isn't doing anything.

Very, very common mistake.

Now, one of the things that you can do to override that is to create perfect function from the lead side.

So those of you that are going to be lead side releasers of the golf club, if you keep your left arm moving from one side of the body to the other without any sort of hang up, and you know that your left wrist is flat, and you know that it's rotating, then you know that the right hand didn't disturb that.

Now, if you all of a sudden feel your left arm slow down or Maybe you felt some added flip of the wrist at the bottom.

And there's a pretty good chance that you're not focused on your left arm enough or your right hand, right arm started to party too much.

So we always describe our lead arm as kind of your conservative brother, one that always pays his taxes on time.

He's a CPA, right?

And then your trail side is your, I'm not going to use the terminology, but.

All right, I'll do it.

He's your crackhead brother that likes to do a little bit too much here at the party, right?

He likes to show up to the party a little bit late, gets a little crazy, and then everybody likes to leave because he's just screwed everything up.

So again, we want you to do everything from the conservative side from a lead side release.

Now, for those of you that have gone down the pathway of being trail -sided, and I've seen a couple of you that's in swing reviews over this last couple of days, you're going to feel a lot of activity coming from that right side of the body.

It's super important though that you don't try to get in the way of it with the left arm.

If you start trying to create a lot of resistance from the left shoulder or lots of resistance from the left wrist and forearm, then it's going to be very difficult for the club base to want to rotate through the hitting area.

So again, super, super important that you try to keep the opposite side that you're going dominant very, very chill through this process.

Okay.

All right.

So a couple of questions here, and then we're going to go into tonight's program.

So tonight's program is going to be a little bit on the fast side, but I'm going to do a lot of work up front going back through the information that we've already covered.

And I'm also going to talk to you guys about some of the faults that we've seen over the last couple of days.

So Kevin says, squat to square is a huge struggle for me.

I feel I move.

Sorry, let me get too much.

Okay.

So Let's look at the nuts and bolts of squat to square.

What we're trying to do in a squat to square movement is we're trying to get about 70 to 80% of our weight over to our left ankle.

Okay.

We know it's not going to go fully to your left ankle.

The weight's going to try to go to the ball of your foot, not to the extreme toe, but towards the ball.

And it's going to dynamically start to shift underneath your ankle joint.

So we want 70 to 80%.

But we also want the head to come back into position, right?

So if I set up, and if you look at my head in relationship to the TV here in the background, and I pressure shift to my right, you can see that my head has moved off the ball, right?

Now, if I squat to square, you're going to see that my head drops down ever so slightly, about an inch.

And you're going to see that my head comes back into position slightly in front.

Now, I will tell you this.

As a golf instructor that cares about your success, I would always try to err on the side of getting your head slightly in front of where it was at address.

Because everybody on this website, and Craig can vouch for me, does this.

Okay?

That is not going to do you any good.

I promise you.

It's bad for your back.

But also, if you think about this very, very black and white, if you're trying to transfer, your weight to your lead side and you shift your pelvis.

Yes, there's a lot of mass down here, but you also have a lot of mass upstairs.

And so you're not really transferring as much weight as you might feel.

So you want to quantify your squat to square as a couple of things.

70 to 80% of your weight underneath your lead ankle, your head position coming back to where it was or slightly in front of where it started.

Now, the other piece to that is just making sure that your shoulders are still closed.

Now, a lot of times when people do this movement correct, it actually feels like less movement.

Where people that do it incorrect, it feels like a lot more movement, right?

Why does it feel like a lot more movement?

Well, because it is.

You're moving the incorrect way.

It's okay for the upper body to move into position.

Do not feel like you have to get stuck in that barrel that we've heard so much about.

So squat to square is a difficult move.

And as I said to you guys, On night one, on a scale from one to 15, or a scale from one to 10, I should say, 10 being difficult, one being easy, it's a 15.

Because we're moving through that position so fast, it's hard to get the proper blend of downward movement, lateral movement, and rotational movement.

Very difficult.

Very, very difficult.

Now, how did we make that movement a little bit easier, right?

We gave you that.

kind of that secret sauce.

And Craig called me after the first camp.

He's like, hey, hey, hey, you know what?

I need a little stake in the Christian because I've been teaching that for quite some time now.

It's all that I gave you guys in that first session where we talked about using your trail leg to push as hard as you want, driving from that right side to that left side, counterbalancing it with your left butt sitting down and back.

And that first move in transition, helps you initiate that squat to square.

But also the more important part is it helps you move through that position.

It helps you move through it so fast that you don't have to think about it.

And that's the beauty of the axiom coupled with a clamshell drill.

That's where a lot of students get lost.

And I think there's quite a few people that have probably seen our instruction for quite some time now.

I see quite a few of our students that have been around for a while that have really kind of gone through things.

like struggle to get squat to square and then get to post up.

Again, those movements taught individually are a little bit easier for you to be able to achieve, but moving through positions.

Okay.

That's not an easy thing to do, especially when we have our hands and our arms and our golf club moving around in space.

So that's what we're going to do tonight is we're going to reemphasize how important it is for you to focus on your trunk, right?

Your trunk is where it's at.

You get this stuff right, you couple it with the proper release drills, and all the rest of it is just details adding speed to it, okay?

So are there any other questions?

Looks like everybody's calmed down.

So from the top of the backswing, we should do the axi move and then focus on first pendulum, which is to let the lead hand swing down the shoulder while lag taking care of automatically.

So yeah, exactly.

So we haven't gotten into the full swing kitten caboodle yet, but lag is one of those things that we all search for.

We all think it's like this mythical creature, when in fact, lag is extremely easy to develop and preserve and get rid of if you just do as little as possible as you can with your hands and your arms.

To get your hands and your arms set at the top of the golf swing, okay, and then to be able to maintain that angle on the way down.

All you're doing is literally letting your legs and gravity pull your hands and arms down in front of you.

Okay.

Now, when you get advanced level and you start trying to rip away and we need to add some, you know, maybe some active pull down from your arms, but we can talk about it.

There can be some different sensations that come out of that, but most of you are probably just going to rely on the gravity aspect.

Okay.

So if you just do everything down here, remember you're not contortionist.

And if you are, I'm sorry, maybe some of you are contortionist.

And I'll show you again, as an example, when I go to the top of my golf swing.

Okay, if I try to hold my hands right here, I shift left and I clear my hips, where are my hands?

Okay, I didn't try to do anything, they just came down to this position and all I do is let go.

So what the hips are doing is is they're adding acceleration to that movement.

Just like any other hitting or throwing sport.

But again, Golf is one of those sports.

That because we have this little white devil on the ground, that we want to try to go get it.

And I get it because it feels like if we don't try to use our control aspect and we don't try to use our hands and arms, then we're not going to produce any speed and we're not going to have any sort of control.

But this is where the only thing that you're going to be able to gain trust in is actually seeing the proof in the pudding.

And that's what I hope you guys were able to get some success with, with the release drills.

starting to see for those of you that stayed lead side that, hey, I don't really have to do much.

And the club is actually squaring itself up.

So I'll be interested to see what sort of results you guys get moving forward.

Now, I'm going to make you guys a deal because Craig and I were talking a little bit before I came out tonight.

And it's really important to us, whether you've been a member for eight years, nine years, or you're a new member, that you guys get success from this camp.

We went back and we wrote this program.

We did it in a way where we were like, this is going to be the most foolproof way of being able to get results.

Now, if you find that you're struggling between now into Saturday and you want to come on stage with me and you want to be a case study on Saturday, then let me know because I will love to have you dial into the session and we as a group will be able to go through things with you.

And we actually beta tested this back when Dedra was a thing.

It was very popular.

But what we found was is that it kind of bogged the session down because people didn't have good internet connections or whatever.

So we're not going to do multiple people.

But if there are, you know, a couple people that want to jump up on stage and want to be case studies, then we'll go ahead and work with you as a group and get you guys rocking and rolling.

But also, I want to go ahead and let you guys know if you want to be part of a before and after contest with the stuff that we're working on, then please, please, please get with Craig and I at the end of the session because we want to be able to showcase you.

And there's actually some pretty decent prizes that we're going to be giving away for that.

So we'll talk about that further on, on Saturday.

All right.

So a couple more questions.

Okay.

Craig's already got that one.

Chick McEwen.

I think that's Chuck.

I like the word chick though.

So I struggle to get my hips open at impact.

Any thoughts?

So Chuck, so if you're struggling to get your hips open at impact, then there's a couple of things that are happening.

Number one, your force of movement is coming from some other part of your body, right?

So if you load to your trail side and you squat to square and your hands and your arms come down to about parallel to the ground, it is very easy for us to be able to pick up the work and start moving very quickly from the upper body.

And then the lower body wants to shut down.

It's much harder work.

to get shifted and clear the hips out to then let the hands and arms go.

And I want you to think about this just as it is for a backswing.

Now, how many of you in this room tonight have battled or have heard us say that you have lead arm, lead shoulder push going back?

How many of you, right?

Where you take the left arm and you push it across your center.

Now, if you think about that, I go to the top of my swing.

Okay, this looks like a pretty decent back swing position, right?

But the minute I turn face on, what have I not done?

I haven't turned my body at all.

So think about that.

We always look at the golf swing from this position, right?

We look at it from like, okay, how does it look at the top of the swing?

Where is the club?

Where is it in transition?

Is it in the slot?

Where is my lag on the way down?

We don't care about that stuff, okay?

Yes, we do care what it looks like, but we care about how you get there.

So for those of you that have ever had a lesson with me in person, understand that to get your arms to move from here up to the top of your swing by body turn, it feels like a lot more work.

Why?

Because it is more work.

It is.

Think about that.

I can take my arms and I can swing them back and forth pretty quickly.

My body doesn't really do anything.

Piece of cake, right?

But what's the problem with that?

Well, it's going to lack efficiency.

So if your hips aren't opening up in the downward half, then chances are you're moving from your belt line up, which is extremely common.

I can't tell you how common that really is.

So if the pivot point concept helpful here for understanding the hip opening movement, so is the pivot point concept helpful here for understanding the hip opening movement?

So kind of, sort of, I mean, your lead shoulder should have come back into position, right?

If you're allowing your head to come back with your hips in that transitional phase, and then when you start opening the hips up, I mean, your pivot point should be established at that point or as far as, you know, the bottom out point is concerned.

So yeah, they can tie hands with one another.

So trying this release position is creating closed position of my club face at impact to around two degrees.

If I try to slow it down, it kills my natural rhythm.

Any suggestions?

All right.

So without seeing it, it's hard to tell you.

But if you want to double check a few things, number one, make sure that your grip isn't too strong.

Make sure that you have the V in this left hand kind of up towards your right ear.

Then what you want to also make sure is that you have the club face toe of the club up to the sky here.

Don't have it towed down.

But also, here's another thing that could hit you.

For those of you that want to really start understanding the nuts and bolts of the release, if you go back and you start fanning the club open, Right, so you see how my left wrist is kind of pointed up towards the sky.

Okay, that?

What that actually induces on the way down is it starts to induce a much more active sort of release as far as wrist and forearm rotation is concerned.

And that can start to shut the face down.

So you want to double check that the toe of the club is up to the sky over here.

And then you want to make sure that the toe of the club is up to the sky here, maybe slightly toe left.

If you're still seeing that the ball's going left and it's two degrees shut, then I would probably think about getting it in for a review.

Let us look at it very closely.

But remember, in order to get that wrist, if it's in that perfect position, in order to get it shut, you would have to slow your arm down and actively try to flip your wrist over, which is really hard to do.

Supination, for those of you that don't know, supination is a very weak movement, right?

It's not a very dominant movement.

Where pronation is a very, very dominant movement.

It sits in behind the club.

It wants to help flip it over.

So, Leon, can you get on with this lesson?

Yes, sir, I can get on with this lesson.

Sorry if I was boring you.

I'm just answering questions because tonight is a big night, right?

Tonight is how we're going to take the stuff that we learned from session number one and the stuff that we learned from session number two and put it together.

So I'm ready to get started.

So for those of you that have questions, please hold on to those to the end.

If you find that there's any sort of issue that pops up during the session, please go ahead and feel free to post those up.

At the end of the session, Craig and I will stick around as long as we possibly can to answer all the questions you guys might have.

But for those of you that were here at the start, I said to you that tonight is what I consider the most important night of camp.

Why?

Well, because now we're going to start blending that lower body movement with the hitting area stuff.

Now, if you think about this and the reason why I broke those two pieces apart from one another, is because they're both sort of complex movements, right?

But they're very different from one another.

So now what you want to remember is that if you do anything at all, if you focus on anything at all over these next four days, you need to get this stuff right, okay?

You need to.

Now, For those of you that have been kind of going back and forth and trying to figure out your way in this program.

And maybe not understanding where you should be at, if you find that you're getting bogged down and not doing one or the other correct, then just pick one.

Stay focused on what your lower body's doing.

I can't emphasize how important it is to get this stuff right because as you guys heard on night one, this can create catastrophic faults.

If you don't do this stuff right, it can make all of the stuff that you're doing with your release a moot point, right?

So now, for those of you that are having a hard time getting your release down and you've got your lower body pretty sound, then what I want you to do is isolate.

Okay.

I don't want you to even add movement to it.

I want you to be able to pick what side of the body you want to be able to work from, whether it's lead side or whether it's trail side.

And I want you to be able to do that movement perfectly.

Okay.

So if you need to spend the next four days working on just predominantly the release, that's perfectly fine.

Okay.

Now let's talk about your program over the next four days.

What I want you to do is I want you to follow exactly how I'm going to walk you through this stuff.

So for those of you that at home, that wanna be interactive, then I encourage you to stand up and I'm gonna walk you through these movements piece by piece.

And then we're gonna talk about how to get them blended together.

So you're not gonna learn any new movements from me.

You're gonna learn how to put them together and you're gonna learn how to practice properly, okay?

So let's go ahead and get our setup.

We're gonna make sure that we're two inches outside of neutral joint alignment.

We're gonna make sure that we have our shoulders in neutral.

So we're not gonna have our shoulders rounded forward, okay?

We're going to make sure that our chin is up.

We're going to go ahead and keep our legs locked out.

We're going to hinge from our hips.

Get our chest over the ball.

We're going to soften up our knees.

We're going to make sure that we have a little bit of axis tilt.

Now we're going to go ahead and pressure shift to our right.

So you're going to feel that right hip move towards the right.

And you're going to press down on your right ankle.

And you're going to take the right shoulder and pull it back behind your head.

So you're just going to do a little pressure shift, right shoulder back.

So we're going to do about 10 of these.

Pressure shift, right shoulder back.

Pressure shift, right shoulder back.

Let's look at it from down the line.

So you want to have just a little bit of knee flex.

Pressure shift, right shoulder back.

Okay, you don't want to see any big downward movement from the head.

You don't want to see any big lateral movement just a little bit off the ball.

Pressure shift, right shoulder back.

All right, three more.

Right shoulder back.

Okay, so feel that right hip move a little bit laterally, a little bit back towards your right ankle.

Okay, for those of you that have done a lot of reps of this over the last 10 days or so, you can start trying to increase the speed.

Okay, now, next 10 reps we're going to do, we're going to work on squat to square.

So we're going to get into our good setup, two inches outside of neutral.

We're going to hinge from the hips.

Pressure shift right, right shoulder back.

Now what we're going to do is we're going to feel our weight move to our left ankle.

So we're going to kind of sit down onto our left side.

Make sure our head and chest come back into the position.

Make sure your right shoulder is up, your left shoulder is down.

Pressure shift, turn.

Sit down.

Sit.

Shoulder staying closed.

Good.

So let's look at it from down the line.

Pressure shift.

Sit down.

Feel that butt kind of go back a little bit.

See how my shoulders are still closed here?

I've got 80% of my weight to my left ankle.

Okay.

Pressure shift.

Sit down.

Okay.

Now, post up.

Same thing.

We're going to do another 10 reps.

Pressure shift right.

Squat to square.

Post up.

Now, when we post up, remember, you want to push the left ankle in the ground.

You want to straighten the left leg and you want to open the hips up.

At the same time, you want to keep your shoulders from turning past square.

Okay, so we're going to pressure shift right, squat to square, post up.

Pressure shift right, squat to square, post up.

Okay, pressure shift, squat to square, post up.

Now, let's start moving through it.

How are we going to move through it?

Well, we're going to wake the axiom up, right?

This is the fun part.

So we're going to wake it up though, outside of golf posture.

We're going to get in proper stance with, and we're going to just start moving the weight around our perimeter of our trail foot.

Excuse me.

Now, remember, it's okay to feel this is really, really robust, really big movement.

It's okay.

All right.

Allow your legs and your hips to free up.

Your wives or your husbands may be looking at you like you're doing something weird, but just tell them to deal with it.

You're working on your golf swing.

Okay?

Now, you feel that movement through your trail foot?

That's going to be the engine.

Now, let me stop for a second because I had a good question come in yesterday.

They said, Chris, I don't like to feel that big movement around the perimeter of my foot for my takeaway and backswing.

Is it okay if I take the pressure shift from the dead drill?

So allowing my trail hip to move a little bit on the lateral side, kind of feeling like it moves diagonally.

Am I allowed to use that pressure shift and push down to my right ankle as my starting point for the swing?

And I was like, absolutely.

That's the beauty of Axiom is that we don't want you to have to get wrapped up in where you're moving to in space.

We want you to get into positions and move through them very quickly.

So I actually teach this, believe it or not, is I teach your pressure shift to your right and then using the perimeter shift for six, seven, eight, nine up onto the toe as your transitional phase of the swing.

So that's totally fine as well.

So for those of you at home that want to use just a simple pressure shift to get things moving, that's totally fine.

So now what we're going to do is we're going to use that.

that clockwise movement around the right foot or your pressure shift, and we're going to start aggressively moving from your trail side to your lead side.

But now remember, the key ingredient to this, the secret sauce as we call it, is to remember to think about that lead butt and that lead hip going down and back.

So for those of you that are standing up and doing this stuff with me, okay, if you just set up at an address position and you think about your left butt kind of sitting down and back for a couple reps here, I know it feels kind of goofy, right?

But what we're doing here by doing this movement is we're creating awareness.

That's all swing changes are all about is creating awareness, right?

You create awareness and then you retrain your brain on how to do those movements repetitively.

Okay.

So by doing this movement right here, okay, now I can feel that.

Now, what I want you to start doing is I want you to start moving that weight around the perimeter of your foot.

And I want you to start going up through six, seven, eight, and nine, getting up onto the big toe.

Okay.

And I want you to think about that left butt going down and back as you're moving.

Okay.

And you're going to be able to move a little bit faster.

Okay.

A little bit faster.

Okay.

So now you can see that I'm moving through these positions and it looks pretty simple.

Now, if you look, I'm not doing anything with my upper half.

I'm just focusing on the legs.

Okay.

So around the perimeter.

Okay.

Now let's look up the line here.

Around the perimeter.

Okay.

Okay.

Now put it together.

Use your upper body or I'm sorry, turn your upper body.

So as you start either pressure shifting or working around the clock, turn and start moving through it.

So you can see how I isolate.

I want you to start doing the movements slow and chunky, then put the movements together, then put the lower upper body back in it.

Now, what do you think we want to do here with the arms?

Well, we got to start getting the arms woken up and start getting that Golf club back in the mix as well.

So doing things this way at home, even if you're a seasoned veteran, is perfectly fine.

We want you to go through those steps, not as a workout program, as a way to create awareness so that you know how to get your body working in the correct order.

So for those of you that stood up and did those reps, probably feels like a little bit of work, right?

So we loaded our right side.

We worked on transition.

We worked to post up.

Then we started moving through it.

Now we've got the whole body working.

So what it should look like for you guys at home is when you start getting to your working reps.

What I call working reps are is when you're trying to do the whole sequence as one, right?

So what it's gonna look like is piece of cake, right?

So if you think about the lower half working through the axiom, working that lead butt down and back, and then getting yourself to post up, you're going to have squat to square, post up, and the starting point of the golf swing in a very good spot.

Think about that.

How many people have struggled with getting themselves to maintain posture?

How many people have struggled getting themselves to this impact position period?

How many?

Right?

If you do it in slow pieces, and then you immediately use the axiom footwork as a way to be able to move through those positions and think about it very, very simplified, like I'm explaining it to you, then you're going to be there.

Now, let's start talking about how I want you guys to get your arms back in there.

So when I push off my right foot, my top half often sways left.

So it's okay for your top half to move left, right?

If it's moving too far laterally, then you are not.

getting your left hip to open up enough.

You can balance out lateral movement with rotational movement.

Same thing with the hips.

If the hips are moving too far laterally, you can think about the hip opening up a little bit more.

Totally fine.

If your hips open too much, then you need to feel like your trail side is moving your entire body too far this way, right?

If you think about this, if you're rotating too much like this, which I see very often, then what are you not doing from your trail leg?

Well, stand up at home and do this, right?

Do this.

Feel how much weight you have on your right foot.

Now move that weight off of your right 1000 foot to where your weight's on your big 1001 toe.

1002 Do it.

1003 What did that do to your hips?

1004 That moved them more laterally, right?

So 1005 if you're not getting your hips to move 1006 far enough laterally, then you're not 1007 really using enough of the right side to 1008 help transfer the weight to your left.

1009 Now, I had this argument today with 1010 another person because, again, I like to 1011 have things very black and white in my 1012 life.

I don't like things very gray area 1013 -like.

1014 For those of you that have thrown a ball 1015 before, 1016 if you've thrown a ball, you load to your 1017 trail foot and then you immediately start 1018 moving off of it and you stride towards 1019 home plate.

1020 When you stride towards home plate, do 1021 you not push off of your right leg?

1022 Ask yourself that question.

Do you not 1023 push off of your right leg?

Of course you 1024 1025 Now, the lead leg is doing some things 1026 here as well.

That lead leg as I start to 1027 stride is externally rotating.

This 1028 anatomic terminology is internal femur 1029 rotation.

So that's happening.

1030 But you don't sit on your right side and 1031 then throw your arm.

Nobody would do 1032 that.

It doesn't make any sense.

1033 So you want to use that side of your body 1034 to help.

So if you break this into two 1035 pieces, and here's a great way to do 1036 this.

1037 Think about your entire body moving too 1038 far left.

1039 So push your entire body left.

1040 But now when you go into golf posture and 1041 you think about your entire body moving 1042 left, but you move your left butt down 1043 and back, try it.

1044 I encourage you to try this at home.

So 1045 push your entire body left and pull the 1046 left butt back down and back.

You're 1047 going to be mesmerized.

You'll be like, 1048 holy smokes, Chris.

1049 I now move from my trail side to my lead 1050 side.

I have a little bit of squat.

I got 1051 a little bit of rotation.

1052 And I got a little bit of shift and I'm 1053 in the perfect spot.

Break it into two 1054 pieces.

Think about lateral movement and 1055 then down and back with your left butt.

1056 Ask Craig.

Craig, post in the comments 1057 right now.

How many people have you seen 1058 just absolutely master that movement by 1059 those two little simple thoughts?

It's 1060 crazy because I've struggled over many, 1061 many years of teaching people that those 1062 three pieces, trying to get them to blend 1063 it together because it's very difficult 1064 to feel these things.

Now, for those of 1065 you that actually tried this out at home, 1066 This movement should feel really 1067 athletic.

1068 It should feel like, oh, that's a piece 1069 of cake, 1070 right?

1071 Now, let's put the arms in the golf club 1072 to the mix.

So for those of you that have 1073 checked out the compression drills on the 1074 website, this is one of my new favorite 1075 videos.

1076 This is kind of a combination of the way 1077 that we used to teach this golf swing, 1078 but now with a little bit more movement.

1079 And what Chuck and I used to do when we 1080 were teaching clinics with each other 1081 back, I think I did 38 clinics with him, 1082 is we did five minutes to a perfect 1083 release.

And then we ramped it up into 1084 nine to three.

But we realized that by 1085 giving people hand and arm movements, 1086 that they were never going to use their 1087 lower half properly.

1088 So we went and we explored some different 1089 ways to get their lower half working.

1090 Then we started going through the dead 1091 drill.

And here we are at Axiom.

Now with 1092 Axiom, what we learned through the first 1093 bootcamp is that we gave people a little 1094 bit too much freedom.

1095 of all of this big, big arm movement.

So 1096 that's why we went down to this sort of 1097 condensed.

So the compression drill is a 1098 very, very good way for you to make your 1099 practice sessions really fun.

1100 Okay, why?

Well, because it teaches you 1101 to move your lower body just like I was 1102 talking about, but it also allows you the 1103 freedom of having your hands and arms 1104 back in the mix and hitting good, tight, 1105 compressed shots.

Now, for those of you 1106 that have ever worked on the nine to 1107 three drill, Okay.

And just so you, for 1108 those of you that have never heard of the 1109 nine to three drill, A good way to 1110 understand nine to three is if your lead 1111 arm is parallel to the ground, coming 1112 back to the lead arm being parallel to 1113 the ground on the way through.

So it's a 1114 nine to three swing.

1115 For those of you that have worked on that 1116 drill and you've sequenced it properly 1117 and you've released the club properly.

1118 Okay.

So what it looks like is kind of 1119 like this.

1120 Okay.

1121 that shot right there, I know it seems a 1122 little ridiculous, will go right around 1123 80% of your normal distance.

Think about 1124 that, 80%.

We had some people that would 1125 leave our clinics and be like, can I just 1126 play golf like that?

Of course you can.

1127 If you have that much commitment to it, 1128 by all means, go out there and play with 1129 80% of your normal swing and hit the golf 1130 ball really tight and really compressed.

1131 Totally fine, right?

The rest of the 1132 stuff that goes above nine to three, As I 1133 said to you at the start of the session, 1134 everything above this is just adding 1135 speed to the mix.

So the compression 1136 drills in the video that you'll see 1137 teaches you exactly the way that I walk 1138 you through the process in this camp.

We 1139 want to start small and add little pieces 1140 to it.

Now, I want to give you guys some 1141 benchmarks before we start putting the 1142 arms in the club to the mix.

1143 If you can go out there and you can feel 1144 a little bit of lower body movement and 1145 you can get your release to look like 1146 that and you can hit.

1147 80 to 90% of your shots, 1148 right dead nuts on the center of the 1149 face, 1150 then you can start making the swing 1151 longer.

Now, I usually work in four 1152 phases.

People ask me this all the time, 1153 like how would you work your way through 1154 the drill?

So I want you to think of step 1155 one, 1156 hip high to hip high, as being phase one.

1157 Phase two is gonna be right around the 1158 chest height to chest height.

1159 Phase three, shoulder height, shoulder 1160 height.

And phase four is gonna be into 1161 full swing.

Now, I do not want any of 1162 you, and I repeat any of you, going to 1163 phase three and four.

I don't want you to 1164 until Saturday.

Let us get some reps 1165 built into you.

What we're going to be 1166 working on is getting you to phase two.

1167 We're going to be working from phase one 1168 up to phase two.

Now, as I just said to 1169 you a moment ago, you must get your lower 1170 body correct.

So now we're going to 1171 practice this with just your lead arm and 1172 your trail arm.

because we know that we 1173 have some people in here that are going 1174 to be trail side dominant.

1175 So for those lead side dominant people, I 1176 want you to stand up out of your chair 1177 and I want you to work through this drill 1178 with me.

Okay.

What we're going to do is 1179 we're going to pressure shift onto our 1180 right ankle.

Okay.

So we're going to feel 1181 our right hip move towards the right, or 1182 you can start moving your weight around 1183 the perimeter of your foot.

1184 Okay.

And I want you to turn your body 1185 back to where your lead arm is about hip 1186 high.

So your lead wrist is about hip 1187 high.

1188 Then what I want you to do is I want you 1189 to move from your right side to your 1190 left.

Thinking about your left butt 1191 moving down and back as you're pushing 1192 from your right.

1193 So your left butt's moving down and back.

1194 And then I want your arm to swing 1195 through.

1196 That's it.

So you're going to pressure 1197 shift.

1198 You're going to work to get off the merry 1199 -go-round.

Five, six, or I'm sorry, six, 1200 seven, eight, nine.

1201 Hips open up.

Let your arm swing through.

1202 Okay, so pressure shift.

1203 Turn.

1204 Move.

Down and back, put your arms swing 1205 through.

You want to feel like the hips 1206 are happening first before your arm goes 1207 passing in front.

Oh, Chris, those things 1208 are supposed to be happening together.

I 1209 get it.

1210 Do this first.

You will be very surprised 1211 at home when you start trying to move 1212 that your arm is going to want to do 1213 this.

1214 And it's going to give you these false 1215 senses of where your movement's coming 1216 from.

Why?

Well, think about that.

If I 1217 start moving my arm in the direction of 1218 the target, 1219 like this, it can pull me to this side.

1220 My brain goes, oh man, I just moved 1221 there.

Feels like a piece of cake.

1222 Move from your legs first, okay?

Now, 1223 let's try to blend that together to make 1224 it one smooth movement.

1225 So we're gonna pressure shift or you're 1226 gonna work around the merry-go-round, 1227 okay?

And you're just coming back into 1228 about hip high and then you're gonna work 1229 to aggressively move from the right to 1230 the left, okay?

And you're gonna let the 1231 left arm swing through, okay?

So now 1232 we're gonna really get dynamic.

1233 Now, for those of you trail side, same 1234 thing, except for when you're moving from 1235 your right to your left, what I want you 1236 to remember is that your shoulders are 1237 going to open up a little bit.

So what 1238 that looks like from up the line is that 1239 my chest is going to be kind of facing 1240 towards you, not fully open, but my 1241 buttons are going to start to turn open, 1242 and then we're going to extend the right 1243 arm.

1244 So we're going to work around the merry 1245 -go-round, pressure shift.

We're going to 1246 move our left butt down and back.

1247 And then we're going to extend down the 1248 line.

1249 Okay, I want you guys to do five or 10 1250 reps just like that.

So now think about 1251 this.

1252 We are now 45 minutes into a session.

1253 And I know like the first 20 minutes or 1254 so, we're going to be talking and 1255 answering questions.

But what we've done 1256 so far is we followed this very kind of 1257 broken apart program that's now.

tied 1258 back into movement that now has the arms 1259 back in the mix.

So now what do we do 1260 after that?

So once you've done your reps 1261 where they're lead arm only or they're 1262 trail side only, and you're able to move 1263 like that, okay?

1264 Or like this, 1265 okay?

Whatever movement you decide, 1266 what do I want you to do?

1267 I want you to get the club back in here.

1268 Now, 1269 excuse me, let me get some water here.

1270 When we get the club back in our hands, I 1271 want both hands on the club.

1272 Why?

1273 Well, because we've learned that people 1274 need to feel a little bit of control of 1275 this stuff.

Okay.

As much as we don't 1276 want you to be in control of it, the 1277 trail hand offers or the lead hand offers 1278 a little bit of support.

Okay.

Plus we 1279 want it to feel like a golf swing.

1280 Okay.

So I'm going to start demonstrating 1281 this lead side.

1282 I will sprinkle in some trail side at the 1283 end.

1284 But I want you guys to be able to do this 1285 now.

You're going to pick up the club.

1286 Make sure you have your grip pressure 1287 light.

1288 You're going to pressure shift right.

1289 You're going to turn so you have your 1290 hands just outside right about belt 1291 height.

You're going to move from your 1292 right to your left.

And you're going to 1293 think about that left hip moving or that 1294 left butt moving down and back.

And then 1295 you're going to let your wrists and 1296 forearms release through.

1297 Remember, when you're moving with your 1298 lower half, you want to get this done 1299 first.

And then release.

1300 Okay?

1301 So you're going to do this kind of choppy 1302 at first.

1303 And then you can see that now I'm 1304 starting to blend together.

1305 I'm not making long swings.

I've seen a 1306 lot of you send in reviews making long 1307 swings already.

Why?

1308 What's your rush?

Okay, I know you guys 1309 want to be Ferraris.

I get it.

It's fun 1310 to get out there and bash the ball.

But 1311 be perfect with the movements from here 1312 to here.

Do it.

If you can, then come 1313 Saturday, guess what?

You're going to get 1314 some amazing results.

I can't make this 1315 stuff up, okay?

I really can't.

I've been 1316 doing this for a long time.

I can't make 1317 it up.

There's a bunch of people in the 1318 room that have worked with me for a 1319 while.

They know when I'm talking about 1320 stuff in relationship to the golf swing 1321 that I mean it because they see their own 1322 results.

So if you start slow, and this 1323 is something Craig will vouch for, the 1324 people that go the slowest are the ones 1325 that get to the end results fastest.

Why?

1326 Because you're taking your time to be 1327 meticulous.

So if you watch and you do 1328 your movements broken apart, then you're 1329 going to be able to do this.

1330 Now watch what that looks like from up 1331 the line.

1332 Looks pretty cool, right?

1333 Now, 1334 once you've looked at it on camera and 1335 you see your hips 1336 staying there.

You see your left hip 1337 working down and back.

You see yourself 1338 maintaining posture.

You look at it from 1339 a down the line perspective.

You look, 1340 you see that you've got a lot of space 1341 for your hands and arms to pass in front.

1342 Now what I want you to do, I want you to 1343 start hitting some balls, right?

This is 1344 the fun part.

You're going to start 1345 hitting balls and you're going to give 1346 yourself these benchmarks.

Like I said to 1347 you before, 80% is a good number.

So when 1348 you start hitting balls, okay, you're 1349 going to be going through the movements 1350 and that one, well, but further than I 1351 wanted to.

1352 When you start doing that, that was hit 1353 right on the screws.

For those of you 1354 that don't have like regular golf balls 1355 to hit and you're hitting plastic balls, 1356 here's a little tip for you.

Get some Dr.

1357 Scholl's foot spray, spray all over the 1358 club face.

It'll show you where you're 1359 hitting the ball.

1360 So I just did one rep there, lead side 1361 dominant, 1362 tied into my hip work.

1363 All I did to get there was I broke things 1364 apart.

Yes, I know you guys are probably 1365 sitting at home.

Well, Chris, 1366 You've done this for a long period of 1367 time.

You can do those movements, right?

1368 I get it.

I can do those movements.

Some 1369 of you, it may take a lot longer going 1370 through those three chunky pieces at 1371 first.

That's fine.

I'm not in a rush.

1372 Chuck's not in a rush.

Craig's not in a 1373 rush.

We're not in a rush.

1374 We're here to get you to where you need 1375 to go.

So if you start out and you're 1376 still working on the load process or 1377 you're working on transition, or maybe 1378 you're having a hard time feeling that, 1379 that left butt move down and back as 1380 you're working from your right side to 1381 your left.

That's totally fine.

Don't add 1382 the arms in.

Don't add the club in.

You 1383 have to stay disciplined at home in order 1384 to get to the end result.

1385 Only you are going to know where you're 1386 at in this program, excuse me, 1387 unless you're sending in swing reviews.

1388 Now, I know tonight it's like, well, how 1389 am I going to take and do this?

Well, 1390 you're going to be working and building 1391 into this.

Remember, 1392 phase one is hip high to hip high to 1393 swings.

whether it's right side or left 1394 side, okay?

But it's focused on lower 1395 body and then the arms releasing.

1396 Phase two, it's going to look kind of 1397 like this.

So we're going to pressure 1398 shift or work around the very ground.

I'm 1399 going to be at nine o'clock.

I'm driving, 1400 posting, and then I'm letting it release, 1401 okay?

1402 Okay?

1403 Now, again, I can work fast because I've 1404 done these things.

Now, if you look at my 1405 lower body, 1406 I'm always prioritizing the shift.

I'm 1407 getting into that nine o'clock position.

1408 I'm shifting, getting my hips out of the 1409 way.

And then the arms feel like they're 1410 passing in front.

1411 If you do this right, then you should be 1412 able to keep your hands and your arms 1413 relaxed.

And like I said, you should be 1414 able to produce right around 80% of your 1415 speed.

1416 80% on like a half swing.

1417 It's crazy.

Now you'll also be able to 1418 produce the most important part.

1419 And that's.

1420 forward shaft lean, and a square club 1421 face.

If you're not producing a square 1422 club face and forward shaft lean, then 1423 how do I want you to approach the next 1424 phase?

I want you to pull yourself back 1425 from phase two down to phase one, and I 1426 want you to do a lot of small drills like 1427 we talked about in the previous session.

1428 Training your hands and arms how to work 1429 perfectly, whether it's trail side or 1430 lead side, is imperative because you have 1431 to have the proper function tied into 1432 what your hips are doing.

If you start 1433 going out there and you start firing your 1434 arms and all over the place, or you're 1435 doing all this extracurricular activity 1436 with your hands that we don't want you to 1437 do, then all hell is going to break 1438 loose.

So you isolate, you do some 1439 release drills, you come back, you tie it 1440 into your legwork.

Now, how many of you 1441 at home think that you can take this 1442 process and keep it simplified and start 1443 working to hit some golf balls?

I would 1444 think all of you can, right?

Now, that's 1445 how I want you to approach the session 1446 between now and Saturday.

I want you to 1447 try this stuff out.

1448 I'm going to do some more examples here 1449 in a minute.

1450 Okay.

1451 So Mike, at phase two, club is 90 degree 1452 angle, naturally you're manipulated.

So 1453 great question.

I'm going to answer that 1454 one.

So at phase two, I'm not going to 1455 tell you that I want the club a hundred 1456 percent perpendicular to the ground.

If 1457 you have it here, that's fine.

We don't 1458 want it out here.

You need to have some 1459 set.

1460 So somewhere between here and 90 is fine.

1461 Okay.

If you start getting too much 1462 reset, 1463 Here's what's going to happen.

1464 You're going to start stretching out 1465 muscles in your wrists and your forearms.

1466 It starts the stretch shortening cycle.

1467 And those muscles work just like any 1468 other muscles in our body.

You stretch 1469 them out, they want to go back in the 1470 other direction.

Much harder for you to 1471 maintain lag.

So a good sort of visual is 1472 if this is 100% perpendicular to the 1473 ground, okay, then just a little bit 1474 short of that is totally fine.

Okay.

At 1475 hip high, we want the club right around 1476 parallel to the ground.

or just a slight 1477 above it.

That's it.

So good question.

1478 So the big objective for this camp is to 1479 get this stuff right.

1480 Think about it.

Load right, move left, 1481 counterbalance it with movement, right?

1482 You're counterbalancing this drive from 1483 your right side and thinking about 1484 getting deep into your left butt and 1485 getting it down and back, right?

You 1486 drive hard from.

that right side, using 1487 the merry-go-round, working from six o 1488 'clock through seven, eight, nine.

You do 1489 not want weight underneath this right 1490 foot when you're moving, right?

If you're 1491 leaving weight back on the side, you 1492 haven't shifted at all.

Get your weight 1493 moving.

1494 Then once you get that done, get the arms 1495 back to it.

Little small swings.

1496 Okay, I got it.

I feel my legs working.

I 1497 can feel my release starting to happen.

1498 Everything feels pretty free flowing 1499 here.

Look at it on camera.

Everything's 1500 rocking and rolling.

Then you get the 1501 golf ball going.

If you find that 1502 you're doing these movements correctly 1503 and you're not hitting the golf ball in 1504 the direction that you want to, 1505 then I would not proceed without getting 1506 a swing review.

Because I did get one 1507 question today where they said, every 1508 time I was doing the release drills, I 1509 was hitting a snap hook.

I was hitting 1510 the ball left really quickly.

But when I 1511 looked at his full swing review, his 1512 weight was on his right foot.

1513 When your weight's on your right foot, 1514 the bottom of the swing arc's moving 1515 back.

And that also, if you look at it, 1516 it shallows the plane.

It's going to 1517 force the hands to become very, very 1518 active.

So if you're hitting a snap hook, 1519 it's not just because I'm teaching you 1520 this wrist and forearm rotation.

It's 1521 probably from some other factors.

1522 If you move your lower body properly into 1523 that spot and you have your hands and 1524 your arms, whether it's lead side or 1525 trail side, working into a good, solid 1526 forward shaft lean position and through 1527 to the position that I've been showing 1528 you, you will hit the golf ball very 1529 solidly.

Now, much easier said than done, 1530 right?

1531 Work on it.

Break it apart.

We give you 1532 the flexibility in this program to be 1533 able to understand where you're at in 1534 this process.

1535 We can't help you unless you want us to 1536 help you.

If you are feeling like you're 1537 falling behind, send it in.

We're not 1538 going to make fun of you.

1539 In fact, that's the antithesis of what 1540 will happen.

I want to help you, and 1541 Craig wants to help you, get to the end 1542 result of this stuff.

But I want you to 1543 remember that the slow, chunky stuff 1544 needs to become movement.

The release 1545 drills, you need to choose a side which 1546 which side you want to be dominant with.

1547 We would always recommend, well, I'm 1548 going to always recommend that you become 1549 lead side dominant because that's what I 1550 do personally.

That's what I teach 1551 personally.

That's what I've seen be most 1552 productive from my side.

1553 It doesn't mean that I haven't taught 1554 some trail side dominant people.

1555 Okay.

It's okay to be trail side 1556 dominant.

If you're going to be one of 1557 those trail side dominant people, 1558 remember the movement, when you get 1559 yourself from your right side to your 1560 left, Is to let your chest turn open.

And 1561 then you're firing that rocket booster 1562 and trying to keep the club head down the 1563 target line as long as you possibly can, 1564 okay?

1565 Same lower body movements with just a 1566 different hand and arm function.

The 1567 lower body movements do not change 1568 regardless of what side dominant you 1569 wanna be.

1570 So for those of you at home that are 1571 struggling with anything that I've talked 1572 about, whether it's lower body movement 1573 or release drills, 1574 phase one, phase two stuff, please stick 1575 around because I want to be able to 1576 answer questions.

But I want you guys to 1577 make it all a big goal that you get this 1578 movement 100% right.

1579 That's it.

1580 Then for those of you that want to put 1581 the release stuff to it, add it in there.

1582 Then start moving through the compression 1583 drills.

Watch Chuck go through that 1584 video, 1585 okay?

If you need some sort of like maybe 1586 a little bit more of a broken down or 1587 condensed version of some release drills, 1588 then go check out the Perfecting Your 1589 Impact series.

I know Craig uses that 1590 series.

I use that series.

It's a series 1591 that I did a long time ago that teaches 1592 you some smaller steps, 1593 kind of trains you some different things 1594 with your hands and your arms.

But tie 1595 that back in.

Remember, focus on your 1596 legwork.

1597 All right.

Now, 1598 tonight's session, like I said, about 20 1599 minutes ago, maybe 30, I'm not teaching 1600 you different movements, which is kind of 1601 fun.

1602 Why am I not teaching you different 1603 movements?

Because we want you to 1604 continue to drive this puppy down.

1605 We want you to get the release stuff tied 1606 to it.

We want you to blend.

We want you 1607 to start feeling the movement.

We want 1608 you to hit shots, 1609 okay?

Let us know what you're hitting for 1610 shots.

Maybe I'm hitting it a little bit 1611 thin.

Maybe my ball is hooking.

Maybe I'm 1612 hitting it a little bit back in the heel, 1613 okay?

If you send us that information, or 1614 on Saturday, if you let us know that 1615 information, well, there's a pretty good 1616 chance that we're going to be able to 1617 help you.

Okay.

So I don't want you to 1618 think that tonight is like a loss.

Like, 1619 man, I was hoping to learn something 1620 different.

Tonight is where you start 1621 getting more reps and you start making 1622 the swing a little bit longer.

Nine to 1623 three.

1624 Right here.

You get here by Saturday.

I'm 1625 sorry.

That was a big, big version.

1626 You get here to here.

Okay.

Where you can 1627 literally go load, right?

1628 Let those arms swing through with proper 1629 lower half movement.

You're cooking.

1630 All right.

1631 Now, what I'm going to do is I understand 1632 that there's a lot of people that 1633 probably have some questions.

1634 There's a lot of people that want to get 1635 the heck out of here because they're 1636 tired of listening to me talk.

I get it.

1637 I'm sorry.

1638 I talk a lot.

1639 But I want to be able to answer as many 1640 questions as we possibly can.

Because 1641 again, tonight is very important to me, 1642 to Craig, to Chuck.

1643 Because we rewrote this program to 1644 take.

the movements that were causing 1645 faults out of the mix to bring back 1646 really condensed environment to build 1647 this back up.

Because again, if you get 1648 this stuff right and you put the small 1649 nuts and bolts to the release right, 1650 you're going to have success.

1651 If you start going and creating all of 1652 these other faults because you're making 1653 bigger swings, then those faults, I'm 1654 going to be upfront and honest with you, 1655 are very difficult to fix.

They are.

I've 1656 seen a number of faults where people are 1657 getting their hands and their arms stuck.

1658 I've seen a number of faults where people 1659 are just really botching the lower half.

1660 And that's, again, because we were giving 1661 too much freedom.

In this bootcamp 1662 environment, we're consolidating it down, 1663 but we're also getting you to a point 1664 where we're gearing you up to hit balls.

1665 You should be able to hit golf balls 1666 tonight or tomorrow.

If you can't, let us 1667 know what's going on because we'll help 1668 you.

All right.

So here's what we're 1669 going to do.

We're going to answer some 1670 questions.

I want to thank all of you 1671 that are going to take off and maybe 1672 catch the rest of the stuff on replay for 1673 joining us tonight.

I'm sorry that I 1674 talked so much at the beginning.

1675 Tonight was a short program anyways 1676 because we had one slide, right?

We're 1677 working on the compression drills.

You 1678 follow this slide here and then you get 1679 your reps in.

You follow how I want you 1680 to blend it together.

Follow that plan.

1681 You'll get some success.

Don't be afraid 1682 to move up the ladder and then come back 1683 down the ladder.

Move up, come back down.

1684 When you come back down, 1685 that is to create awareness.

1686 Not just to say, hey, guess what, Chris?

1687 I came back and I went back and did all 1688 these little small reps and I was like, 1689 great.

I was like, yeah.

1690 That's to create awareness.

I want you to 1691 progressively work into that nine to 1692 three range.

I want you all to be able to 1693 do this at first, 1694 okay?

1695 Then I want you to be able to make it a 1696 little bit longer.

1697 I want you to be able to make it a little 1698 bit longer.

I want you to get there.

1699 But do the steps that are going to help 1700 you stay aware of your lower half and 1701 what your arms are doing.

All right.

So I 1702 wish you all the best of luck.

1703 Have a wonderful couple of days.

All 1704 right.

Don't get overwhelmed by the 1705 information tonight.

Again, I know it 1706 wasn't new.

1707 It's just putting it together.

1708 So let's answer some questions.

1709 All right.

1710 So you don't shift the weight to the toe.

1711 Sorry, I'm going to answer that one.

1712 So you don't shift the weight to the toe 1713 of the lead leg on the transition.

1714 And back to the ankle.

So Ted, 1715 the weight, your weight transfer is going 1716 to work kind of like a figure eight.

1717 Okay.

If you look at my feet, my waiter 1718 is going to move kind of towards my trail 1719 ankle, not to the extreme heel.

In 1720 transition, it's going to move kind of to 1721 the forward part of the foot up towards 1722 the ball.

And then it's going to 1723 dynamically shift back towards the ankle, 1724 more towards the trail side heel, not to 1725 the extreme heel.

that's where it's going 1726 to move to.

It has to move there.

1727 Otherwise you're going to blow your knee 1728 out.

So it kind of works like a figure 1729 eight.

1730 So is it correct for nine to three 1731 pressure shift to the right and right 1732 shoulder back into left arm parallel?

1733 Perfect.

Yep.

So nine to three pressure 1734 shift, right?

Or use the merry-go-round.

1735 Okay.

Both of them are creating pressure 1736 shift.

1737 Okay.

And then you turn your body to get 1738 your lead arm to that nine o'clock 1739 position.

Probably should have mentioned 1740 that before because I know a lot of you 1741 are going to swing your arms across your 1742 body.

But typically when you start 1743 loading into your right hip, that does 1744 induce a little bit of rotation.

So 1745 people are pretty good about getting 1746 there.

1747 So where should the ball position when 1748 doing these drills?

1749 Tom, really good question, sir.

Thank you 1750 very much for asking that question.

1751 I want the ball position because we have 1752 both hands on the golf club and we're not 1753 doing these one armed.

I want that off of 1754 your lead ear.

So I want your ball 1755 position off of your lead ear.

Okay.

1756 Always err on the side of having it a 1757 little bit more forward than back.

1758 If you err with it back, it creates a 1759 trickle-down effect of bad stuff, forces 1760 the upper body to hang back.

So if it's a 1761 ball forward of your left ear, totally 1762 fine.

Okay, just remember that's all 1763 that's going to do is move the path a 1764 little bit more to the left, but it'll 1765 also make the club face a little bit more 1766 shut by the time it gets to the ball.

So 1767 don't think that you're doing anything 1768 catastrophically wrong.

But if you want 1769 to be perfect with it, which I would 1770 prefer that you are, 1771 off your left ear.

1772 Okay?

So back.

1773 When my arms are soft, my lead arm seems 1774 to break down rather than staying 1775 straight.

Is that what's supposed to 1776 happen?

1777 So if your lead arm breaks a little bit, 1778 going back, 1779 okay, you see this happen.

1780 Okay.

We don't really want that.

You're 1781 just introducing another angle to the 1782 swing that you have to time up and get 1783 rid of.

If you notice that you have way 1784 too much right arm flexion.

like you go 1785 up to the top and you start flexing your 1786 right arm too much, then yes, that's 1787 going to happen.

So we want you to keep 1788 it passively straight.

It's a good way to 1789 kind of think about it.

So if you're here 1790 at a dress, okay, it's hanging here and I 1791 turn my body, it should still be able to 1792 stay passively straight.

It's easier to 1793 keep it straighter, to be honest with 1794 you, when the right hand's on the club.

1795 Offers a little bit of support to it.

1796 Okay.

1797 During the hip-high swing, how much 1798 should the hips be open at impact?

1799 So, Charles?

1800 Great question.

1801 And you are one of my students, sir.

So 1802 even with these little hip high swings, 1803 you still have plenty of time to be able 1804 to get the hips open to 45 degrees.

If 1805 you're not, then you're moving from your 1806 hands and your arms.

So what I would 1807 encourage you to do is do it really slow 1808 and choppy at first.

So when you start 1809 moving, keep your hands where they are, 1810 shift left, get your hips open and then 1811 release.

1812 Okay.

And then you can start blending.

1813 Really, really good, simple little drill.

1814 where are the shoulders during these 1815 drills?

1816 Shoulders should be square if you're a 1817 lead side dominant, 1818 okay?

So when you're coming down and 1819 you're letting the hands and arms pass in 1820 front, your shoulders are gonna be square 1821 at the point of contact, okay?

If you're 1822 trail side dominant, your shoulders are 1823 gonna be turned open just a little bit, 1824 okay?

Because you're gonna be, This is 1825 what you're using to square the club, and 1826 you're counterbalancing that with a 1827 firing or a push movement with your right 1828 arm working down the line.

1829 Now, when you're hitting shots, and 1830 you're letting your wrists and forearms 1831 release through, if you look at my 1832 shoulders, they're turning, but they're 1833 steepening post-impact.

So you want to 1834 try to keep your head and your chest back 1835 behind the golf ball as your heads, hands 1836 and your arms are extending out in front 1837 of you.

1838 So where can we learn advanced stuff?

1839 Just asking, is there a segment on the 1840 website?

1841 Well, I like that question.

So advanced 1842 stuff.

1843 So what sort of advanced stuff do you 1844 want to learn, right?

The stuff that I'm 1845 giving you right now, if you're advanced 1846 with your lower body and you're advanced 1847 with hitting golf balls where you're 1848 hitting really, really tight shots, then 1849 start moving into phase three.

Start 1850 hitting balls there.

1851 Advanced is a very relative sort of 1852 statement though, right?

I played golf 1853 professionally, 1854 right?

I teed it up and was getting paid 1855 to play this game.

That doesn't mean that 1856 I'm ever going to stop doing nine to 1857 three drills.

In fact, it's a drill that 1858 I do personally when I haven't played a 1859 lot of golf.

Why?

Because if I can get 1860 the hitting area under control, I can 1861 create some compression and it's easier 1862 for me to be able to build it back into 1863 full swing.

So advanced stuff, there's 1864 stuff on the website.

1865 It's broken down into sections.

1866 Let me know what kind of advanced stuff 1867 you're looking for.

Is it, you want to 1868 start shaping the ball?

Is it where you 1869 want to start?

1870 Whatever it is, let me know.

1871 Does the lead arm move out away from the 1872 body at impact on the release?

When I 1873 add, 1874 you mentioned the little grandfather 1875 clock the other day.

left bicep moves 1876 away from the pack?

Great question.

1877 So when it's left arm only and your 1878 shoulders stop, 1879 yes, the left arm is going to extend out 1880 away from you.

1881 When the right hand is on the club, now 1882 watch.

If I go get this club with my 1883 right hand, look what my left arm does.

1884 See how my left arm kind of pulls back to 1885 my body a little bit here?

1886 Okay, so you see me reach underneath.

1887 This is what it would look like.

So 1888 you're not going to feel that separation 1889 when the right hand is on the club 1890 because the shoulders are going to start 1891 turning a little bit, but they're turning 1892 in a way, if you look at it from down the 1893 line, 1894 okay?

1895 So I let my arms swing through.

Now watch 1896 when my right hand goes.

1897 See how my shoulders are really, really 1898 steepened here?

This is what we call side 1899 bend, okay?

For a lot of you that have 1900 seen this face on, this is lead side 1901 oblique stretch, okay?

That's all a 1902 position that's.

a little bit 1903 uncomfortable, but it's a position that 1904 you move through so fast that you never 1905 really feel it.

1906 Okay.

1907 I feel like my trail knee is moving too 1908 far forward toward my lead leg and squat 1909 post-up.

1910 What is too much?

So you guys got some 1911 great questions tonight.

1912 If your right knee is all the way over 1913 towards your left and you don't have any 1914 space here, that's too much.

Okay.

That's 1915 just too much.

1916 So when you start moving from that right 1917 side to the left, When you get up onto 1918 that right toe, you want your right knee 1919 to move towards your left, but you want 1920 to make sure that you're allowing your 1921 left hip to continue to clear back.

If 1922 your left hip stalls and it's very easy 1923 for you to do this, okay?

So it's all 1924 about action versus reaction.

Once you're 1925 transferring that weight, pick up the 1926 slack from the lead side.

That's why we 1927 introduced that special movement, right?

1928 Thinking about that left butt moving down 1929 and back while you're driving.

That 1930 should keep the right side from 1931 collapsing so far over to the left.

Okay, 1932 good question when you stop at post up, 1933 is the trail leg still bent bit or 1934 totally straight?

also that position?

Do 1935 we have the lead foot flat on the ground?

1936 Yep, so the trail leg is not perfectly 1937 straight, but it's moving to a passively 1938 straight position.

So if you look, 1939 Okay.

You can see that I still got a 1940 little bit of flex in it.

1941 Okay.

1942 So the other part of the question is, is 1943 the lead foot flat to the ground?

Yes.

1944 The lead foot should be very, very flat 1945 to the ground.

If you notice this or 1946 this, 1947 okay, 1948 then chances are you've not in neutral or 1949 you've shifted your weight too far back 1950 to the heel.

So you want to make sure 1951 that you get your weight underneath your 1952 ankle joint.

So a good way to kind of 1953 test where you should be is if you start 1954 from a static address position, You move 1955 your hips left, feel the weight 1956 underneath your ankle, open the hips up.

1957 This is what your foot and your leg 1958 should actually look like.

Okay.

It's 1959 pretty flat to the ground.

1960 So I mean, like when you said we can use 1961 hands actively from the top, once we are 1962 advanced, advanced stuff only like the 1963 tour pros know.

So, all right.

So I 1964 understand what you're saying.

1965 So we've been able to measure hand and 1966 arm speed on the way down equates to club 1967 head speed, right?

So our hands and arms 1968 are being propelled.

by what the hips are 1969 doing.

1970 So a lot of you have heard our really, 1971 really long-term instruction for people 1972 is to get proper sequencing by getting 1973 your hips to work and letting gravity 1974 work, right?

Because again, if you go to 1975 the top of your swing and you just let 1976 your arms kind of fall and you shift your 1977 hips, then you're going to have your 1978 hands way down in front of you.

And that 1979 is plenty of speed.

But now the stuff 1980 that we talk about with some active pull 1981 -down from the arms, 1982 or an active throwing motion from the 1983 right arm is what I would consider 1984 graduate level stuff.

When you start 1985 really getting, you're hitting the ball 1986 really far and you've already maximized 1987 the ground force that you're using, 1988 you've maximized leverage, you've 1989 maximized parametric acceleration, you 1990 need a little bit more speed, then we're 1991 going to search for ways to be able to 1992 get you more speed.

We're going to find 1993 ways, but we're going to do it within 1994 reason.

We're not going to do it where we 1995 start creating faults in your swing.

1996 We're going to do it where we start 1997 balancing the equation, right?

We want to 1998 increase the pull down from the hands and 1999 the arms and feel like you're really 2000 pulling arms down in front of you, then 2001 we need to make sure that you're still 2002 using your hips and getting into safe 2003 spots.

2004 Okay, so hopefully that makes sense.

2005 So through impact, my lead hand doesn't 2006 seem to naturally open left skyward.

What 2007 does that indicate?

2008 Doesn't seem to naturally open left.

2009 Does that indicate through my lead?

So 2010 If your lead hand through impact doesn't 2011 seem to naturally open, left, skyward.

So 2012 your left hand goes like this, I'm 2013 assuming, so your watch or your glove 2014 logo would be facing up towards the sky.

2015 Well, there's a couple things that are 2016 happening there.

You're too tense, and 2017 you've probably had way too much right 2018 side that trained your left arm to move 2019 through without any sort of rotation.

So 2020 you're a perfect candidate for doing 12 2021 million reps where you go from here to 2022 here.

2023 You look at it from up the line.

2024 And when I say 12 million, that might not 2025 even be enough.

2026 So make sure that you do a lot of small 2027 reps that are isolated.

And then when you 2028 get the club back in there, 2029 let it follow along.

It seems like it's 2030 so mundane and a little bit clunky to do 2031 it without the club in your hands.

Think 2032 about all of the stuff that you've 2033 learned in this world.

2034 Think about all of the things that you've 2035 learned to do.

2036 Like manual transmission, that's a fun 2037 one that we always use as an example.

2038 How many of you at home learned how to 2039 drive a manual transmission?

2040 I learned how to drive one and I loved 2041 it.

It felt like I was a race car driver.

2042 But when I first got in there, 2043 was I good at it?

Absolutely not.

My dad 2044 would take me to this hill, I remember in 2045 New Hampshire, at my school, my high 2046 school, where.

He would park me on the 2047 hill and he was like, you have to get 2048 going, but you can't ruin the clutch, 2049 right?

So he'd park you on a hill and 2050 you'd have to try to slip the clutch and 2051 get yourself going up the hill.

2052 So, but you fast forward five years later 2053 and now you can start, like you're moving 2054 through the gears really fast, right?

You 2055 have to think about the nuts and the 2056 bolts and the mechanics of movements a 2057 lot up front.

And then you have to 2058 challenge yourself, right?

Challenging 2059 yourself is something I can't emphasize 2060 enough because subconsciously, your 2061 subconscious wants to play ball, right?

2062 It loves to play.

It loves to jump in and 2063 just screw everything up.

So you have to 2064 try to push your subconscious away.

And 2065 this is something I've been, I've worked 2066 on with quite a few people.

I'm the lead 2067 sports psychologist at Cornell 2068 university.

2069 And I did a bunch of stuff back and forth 2070 one time.

And he was talking to me about, 2071 you know, how Navy seals are trained.

2072 Navy seals are trained in these very, 2073 very high, high tense environments, 2074 right?

Like much more than what they 2075 would ever face in the field.

If you've 2076 ever seen, you know, the training that 2077 they have to go through, it's pretty 2078 crazy.

But they put those guys in that 2079 situation for one reason, because when 2080 they're under the gun, they're in the 2081 heat of the moment.

2082 They want them to be able to 2083 subconsciously react.

They want them to 2084 be able to move through positions and do 2085 the stuff that they train them to at the 2086 most elite level.

And so I know that 2087 seems like, how does that relate to golf?

2088 Well, how many of you have gone out there 2089 and worked on things, then you go out on 2090 the golf course, and then you hit balls, 2091 and it goes all hell breaks loose?

Well, 2092 that's your subconscious doing the thing 2093 that it's most comfortable with.

So I 2094 always encourage people to, yes, go 2095 through the slow, choppy movements.

But 2096 look at how I walked you through it 2097 tonight.

We only did that for 10, 15 2098 reps.

You should have some pretty decent 2099 awareness at that point if you've gone 2100 through and you followed along the 2101 program.

And then you can start 2102 challenging yourself with movement.

Not 2103 every time that you go and do a movement 2104 is it going to be 100% perfect.

But you 2105 look at it and say, okay, now I feel like 2106 I'm moving through these positions pretty 2107 well.

I think Chris would be pretty happy 2108 with the way that my lower body is 2109 working here.

2110 My upper half, I feel like I'm turning.

2111 Now.

I'm going to start putting the arms 2112 back to the mix, start doing the arms, 2113 get the arms in the club, back in there, 2114 look at it, okay?

Then try to challenge 2115 your subject.

Golf balls.

Don't become 2116 complacent because you're so worried 2117 about getting these things 100 perfect, 2118 because you're not challenging the 2119 subconscious and trying to put it to bed, 2120 right?

If you haven't seen the video on 2121 YouTube, called The Backwards Brain 2122 Bicycle, okay, go watch it.

It's seven 2123 minutes in length.

Okay, It's absolutely 2124 brilliant information.

I geek out when it 2125 comes to neuromuscular re-education.

I 2126 really do.

I love the brain.

It's 2127 fascinating.

I was epileptic as a kid 2128 until I was, I think, nine or 10.

2129 And I wasn't fascinated by the brain at 2130 that point, but I spent a lot of time at 2131 Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

2132 And so they were doing a lot of studies 2133 on me.

2134 And you fast forward many years later, 2135 and I wanted to start understanding how 2136 the brain learns.

what actually goes on 2137 in this process.

And so the backwards 2138 brain bicycle is a very good example of 2139 what the brain has to go through in order 2140 to rewire, right?

Neuromuscular 2141 reeducation is absolutely a very critical 2142 part of my job because I have to teach 2143 you guys how to practice this stuff to 2144 bring it to light.

So if you haven't seen 2145 it, again, it's called the backwards 2146 brain bicycle.

It's on a channel called 2147 Getting Smarter Every Day.

It's this very 2148 high IQ engineer named Destin who does 2149 all these research projects.

They're 2150 great.

2151 but he has a bicycle built for him where 2152 the handlebars turn the exact opposite 2153 way.

And he thinks to himself, well, 2154 that's a piece of cake.

I'll be able to 2155 ride that bike.

No problem.

But he gets 2156 on that bike and he can't ride it.

2157 And it's like, he's falling all over the 2158 place.

Now, he's just like every other 2159 person in this world where we 2160 disassociate how many moving parts?

As 2161 children, we learned how to synchronize 2162 to make a bike work.

Think about that for 2163 a moment, right?

Think about that.

Think 2164 about what your legs, your arms, your 2165 eyes.

So your vestibular process and 2166 proprioception.

2167 It's, it's wild.

Okay.

Trust me.

2168 So he takes the vow that he's going to 2169 practice how to ride this bike every 2170 single day.

Okay.

Practice it.

How long 2171 do you think it took him?

2172 Took him eight months, right?

Eight 2173 months.

He was practicing this bike and 2174 he finally learns.

And he has one built 2175 for his kid where the plasticity of the 2176 kid's brain is a little bit different.

2177 And so he goes around all these college 2178 campuses.

He's betting kids 200 bucks 2179 that they can't ride the bike.

2180 But you fast forward to the end of the 2181 video and he goes out to Amsterdam where 2182 there's thousands of bikes, right?

And he 2183 gets on a regular bike and he can't ride 2184 it anymore.

But after 30 minutes of 2185 trying, his old movement pattern fired, 2186 which is kind of one of those moments 2187 that it's disheartening as a golf 2188 instructor to tell you why.

Because you 2189 can grind away for eight months, grind 2190 away, get this stuff right.

But that old 2191 movement pattern is sitting on the bench 2192 ready to come in.

You can't, 2193 unfortunately, I think my wife tells me 2194 this all the time.

There's a lot of 2195 things we'd like to forget, right?

We'd 2196 like to unlearn some things.

2197 Unfortunately, you can't unlearn 2198 anything.

And the brain, for those of you 2199 at home that are sitting there maybe a 2200 little bit on the older side, the brain 2201 is always capable of learning, just so 2202 you understand that.

The only time where 2203 the brain stops the learning processes or 2204 the rewiring is if there's any sort of 2205 brain disease present.

That's it.

So the 2206 brain is always capable.

2207 But a lot of you have some very deep 2208 -seated, ingrained movement patterns that 2209 are very tricky to break.

But it's how 2210 you practice it.

2211 Craig will probably vouch for this, that 2212 if we could just fly to where you are and 2213 teach you how to practice, then you guys 2214 would probably be already to the end 2215 result.

Because teaching somebody a 2216 movement like a backswing position or a 2217 lead wrist position is all very easy, 2218 right?

In most cases, it is.

I mean, I 2219 have a few people that are not 2220 necessarily kinesthetically aware of 2221 their body, but getting them to kind of 2222 relate to a different movement pattern is 2223 all very easy to do.

But getting you to 2224 do that in a sequence when the club is 2225 present and when the ball is present is 2226 the most difficult thing, I promise you.

2227 And if any of you guys could figure out a 2228 way to be able to move this stuff from 2229 practice swing format to golf ball format 2230 right away, instantly, instantly where 2231 it's perfect, then tell me.

Because you 2232 have a billion-dollar idea.

You need to 2233 just get it to market.

But that's the 2234 beauty of Axiom, is that the Axiom has 2235 finally done a lot of that work for you.

2236 It's helped you free up a lot of these 2237 movements.

If you think about the way 2238 I've been describing Axiom II, I know 2239 Craig wants some royalties on the 2240 Chrysium.

2241 If you think about that, 2242 okay, I'm allowed to use my right leg 2243 finally.

2244 I'm allowed to use a counterbalance 2245 movement from the lead side.

You are now 2246 going to be in the position where your 2247 lower body is working for you.

Now you 2248 couple that with some good solid hand and 2249 arm movement from one side to the other, 2250 all great.

2251 All right, so how does the squat 2252 coordinate?

2253 with the axiom rotation around seven, 2254 eight, nine o'clock and then get off 2255 Marigold?

Exactly.

2256 So Greg, the idea of axiom is that we 2257 don't necessarily want you to have to 2258 think about which position that you are 2259 in the clock.

But a good way to think 2260 about this is that when you move from six 2261 o'clock up through seven, eight, and 2262 nine, is that that's when transition is 2263 starting to happen, right?

Because 2264 transition is happening so fast.

If you 2265 counterbalance that with the left butt 2266 moving down and back, now you're all the 2267 way to post up.

And that's the beauty of 2268 being able to move into and through 2269 positions, right?

So yes, good, good 2270 question there.

2271 So you mentioned that you will be going 2272 to work with a couple people live on 2273 Saturday.

How do I throw my name in the 2274 hat to do that?

I was a professional 2275 tennis player who had both hips replaced 2276 after one.

Yeah, Wayne.

So email me 2277 directly, 2278 okay?

2279 My email is on my profile.

I'm just going 2280 to tell you what my email is.

Please 2281 don't spam me, people.

I get a ton of 2282 emails every day.

It's chris at rotary 2283 swing.

com.

Pretty difficult, right?

So 2284 email me and let me know.

2285 And then we will try to get you set up.

2286 Definitely love to work with you.

2287 Nicholas, thank you guys so much.

So why 2288 don't we practice with a golf ball on the 2289 ground as a visual to help train the 2290 brain so it's easier once we hit real 2291 shots?

Mark, absolutely perfectly fine to 2292 do so.

In fact, that's a technique I use 2293 is getting yourself comfortable seeing a 2294 ball there, right?

I have a ball down on 2295 this mat and still working on.

Hitting 2296 reps after rep after rep.

Keeping your 2297 eyes down where it is.

That's a good 2298 technique.

Also, 2299 a technique that I use that I don't know 2300 if I've mentioned this during the session 2301 tonight.

2302 It's hard sometimes getting all the 2303 information out because you know we get 2304 people in a rush.

2305 But I use plastic balls or foam balls 2306 when I'm starting to change.

Why?

Well, 2307 because it takes a little bit of the 2308 consequence out of there.

Same thing when 2309 you go to a driving range and you have 2310 mats available.

I know mats are not 2311 ideal.

But think about when you go hit 2312 off of a mat versus when you hit off the 2313 grass, how much easier it is.

Why?

2314 Well, because it's easier to commit to 2315 change because you know that you can get 2316 away with some bad shit down at the 2317 bottom, right?

2318 Think about that.

Sorry, excuse my mouth.

2319 But you can hit some really, really bad 2320 shots that turn out pretty decent.

2321 I have no problem starting on a mat 2322 because as long as I get my movements in 2323 the right way, then I can start moving 2324 myself to grass.

Another good way, put 2325 the ball up on a tee.

All of these 2326 methods.

2327 take and make the whole subconscious 2328 start to relax a little bit.

That's all 2329 you had to do is you got to relax the 2330 subconscious so that you can stay aware 2331 of your body.

If you can stay aware of 2332 your body, and that seems to be the 2333 common theme of what I'm preaching 2334 tonight, then you're going to get 2335 results.

If you move through positions 2336 and you just stay aware, the club is 2337 reacting to these movements.

That's why 2338 if you look at golf instruction, because 2339 it sucks, all these guys talk about the 2340 club, where it's moving to, where it's 2341 at, the slot, yada, yada.

2342 That stuff is all consequential of the 2343 way that your body's moving.

2344 It is.

2345 There's nothing like, I'm not going to go 2346 into it, but you've got to focus on what 2347 your body's doing.

You do that and it 2348 becomes much easier.

Now, we obviously 2349 understand that there's auditory, there's 2350 visual, and then there's kinesthetic 2351 learners.

2352 Some people need different ways to be 2353 able to learn through the process of this 2354 stuff.

That's what we're here to help you 2355 with.

I have very little kinesthetic 2356 awareness of my body, I promise you.

2357 I see your lead hip moving up and away.

I 2358 don't see it moving down and back.

What 2359 am I missing?

It's happening so fast, 2360 Thomas.

So let me show you exactly what's 2361 happening.

2362 Because we don't, in the golf swing, if I 2363 go and squat to square, okay, look at 2364 where my hips are.

And then I post up.

2365 Okay, now watch as I think about my left 2366 butt moving down and back.

2367 See, I move through that so fast.

If you 2368 look at it from face on, now just watch 2369 my head position here real quick.

Just 2370 watch.

2371 You see how my head was very pronounced 2372 going down?

You wouldn't know that I was 2373 squatting there, right?

2374 Now, if you watch it from the lower half, 2375 it looks so fast to move through that 2376 position.

2377 So that down and back would look like 2378 this and then like this if it was two 2379 pieces.

But you're moving through that 2380 position.

Yeah, when you're first 2381 starting out the processes, you're 2382 learning these things.

2383 Like, okay, how do I get to that specific 2384 spot with your shoulders staying closed, 2385 making sure that your head's in the right 2386 spot?

And yeah, you're going to see it.

A 2387 little bit more pronounced, but move 2388 through it as quickly as you can.

So is 2389 that it are?

We are you guys all done?

2390 Awesome questions tonight.

Oh, I use this 2391 divot board and all my shots seem to be 2392 fat rather than front of the ball.

Um, 2393 hold on, let me read it from here, my 2394 hips being rotated back on the post.

What 2395 can be causing that?

So if you're hitting 2396 it fat, there's a few things.

Okay.

2397 Number one, your lead shoulder can be 2398 back a little bit.

So that's moving the 2399 bottom of the swing arc back just a 2400 fraction.

2401 Okay.

Number two, you could be early 2402 releasing the club where you could be 2403 pushing the left thumb on it, or you 2404 could be trying to fire it from the right 2405 hand, right arm.

2406 Those are the two main culprits that 2407 we'll see is people kind of hanging their 2408 upper body back just a fraction.

So if 2409 I'm trying to intend on my left shoulder 2410 being right here at impact.

2411 Okay, and it's back here may not look a 2412 lot different from here to here.

That's a 2413 world of difference in bottom art sort of 2414 scenario, right?

It's hard to see exactly 2415 what my positions were, but you can 2416 understand what I'm going after that.

Or 2417 the other end of the spectrum is is that 2418 you could be draining, like dragging the 2419 handle in there and steepening the angle 2420 of attack.

Quite a bit, which I would 2421 find is probably the least common of 2422 those faults.

So, double check that 2423 you're not pushing down the shaft of the 2424 left thumb 2425 or you're actively trying to push the 2426 hand, the right hand and the club head 2427 down the ball too soon.

2428 All right.

2429 2430 well, thank you very much.

I really 2431 appreciate it.

Awesome insight for 2432 transitioning, pulling left hip back.

I 2433 would focus too much on pushing left from 2434 the ground.

Good.

Are we worrying about 2435 shallowing the swing or should we just 2436 park that for now of these release 2437 drills?

So the shallowing the swing is 2438 coming on Saturday, right?

So I'm going 2439 to give you an option to shallow it.

2440 I'm going to give you two options to 2441 shallow it.

The shallowing of the swing 2442 is actually very, very easy if you just 2443 chill out, right?

So the shallowing of 2444 the swing, I know it's a fancy 2445 terminology that you hear us talk about a 2446 lot.

2447 Let's talk about that on Saturday because 2448 I'm going to talk to you exactly what 2449 that means, 2450 okay?

2451 How far do you rotate the shoulders back, 2452 phase one, phase two?

So phase one, 45 2453 degrees or so.

2454 Phase two, almost, you're like kind of 2455 like 75 degrees, almost nine, like you're 2456 working your way up to 90.

2457 Don't try to think about the amount of 2458 degrees of rotation that can kind of bog 2459 you down.

Same thing with like phase two 2460 sort of movement, right?

If your arm, 2461 this is so common.

I can't tell you how 2462 common this is.

I'll have people 2463 swinging.

2464 I'm like, all right, make a hip high to 2465 hip high swing.

And they do this.

2466 And they look at it on camera like, I had 2467 no idea, Chris, that I was swinging three 2468 quarters.

Holy smokes.

And I'm like, 2469 yeah, you swung three quarters.

Imagine 2470 that, huh?

It's hard.

It's hard.

I get 2471 it.

So if you start thinking about this 2472 piece and this piece, then you're moving 2473 away from the most important things is 2474 what we just trained you to do with your 2475 lower body.

So if it's a little bit 2476 longer, a little bit shorter, totally 2477 fine.

Okay.

2478 All right.

I think I'm actively pushing 2479 the right hand.

Good catch.

Well, thank 2480 you.

2481 All right.

2482 So it looks like you guys are quieting 2483 down.

I know that some of you want to get 2484 out of here.

Any thoughts on right?

2485 Dominant short shots and left on mid to 2486 long.

So yes, my thought is, is that I 2487 like to be, I like to stay dominant.

2488 I do use my trail hand in my golf swing.

2489 I do.

I use it in certain circumstances.

2490 I use it a lot in bunker shots because 2491 I'm trying to get the club head past my 2492 hands.

So you'll see me set an angle and 2493 then I'm actually trying to let the club 2494 get past my hands.

You'll see me do it 2495 when I'm trying to hit a flop shot.

2496 You'll see me do it when I'm actually 2497 trying to hit a cup, believe it or not, 2498 where I actually will hold the right hand 2499 and try to hold it off a little bit.

So 2500 I'm trying to drag the hand a little bit.

2501 So as far as short shots versus, just 2502 depends on where you can develop feel 2503 from.

So feel, no matter what any golf 2504 instructor tells you, is not something a 2505 golf instructor can really teach you.

2506 Okay, feel is developed through practice, 2507 right?

2508 Some people always ask me like the clock 2509 reference, right?

If I take it back to 2510 nine o'clock or three o'clock, how far is 2511 that going to go?

Well, that's very 2512 relative, right?

That's very relative on 2513 how much swing speed you're creating, how 2514 much your D loft in the club, what your D 2515 plane looks like.

All of those things are 2516 variables, right?

So feel is again, 2517 something that you develop through 2518 practice.

And as a kid, I developed 2519 really good feel for just going out there 2520 and really walking myself around a green.

2521 I actually grew up with this really 2522 podunk golf course.

2523 That was nine holes.

We had, 2524 two markers on the entire golf course.

2525 And this is before we had range finders.

2526 We had 150 yard marker on one and 150 2527 yard marker on four.

Both those holes 2528 were like just about 400 yards.

They went 2529 out and they went straight up a hill.

2530 Those are the only markers behind the 2531 course.

So I, as a kid, I had to learn 2532 like a lot of feel through just trying to 2533 hit distances.

2534 And then we get, you know, you fast 2535 forward 20 years down the road or 25 2536 years down the road, we got, you know, 2537 devices that help us do that stuff.

So, 2538 which You know, again, that helps develop 2539 feel.

And so I can't teach, I can give 2540 you drills.

I can give you drill after 2541 drill after drill to teach feel.

So that 2542 right, I know this is a roundabout way to 2543 answer your question.

If you can feel 2544 more from the right side, great.

You can 2545 use that for short game.

If you like the 2546 left side stuff because it's free 2547 flowing, gives you the efficiency aspect, 2548 that's totally fine as well.

So I know 2549 I'm dancing around a little bit, but I 2550 will tell you this right now that with my 2551 short game specifically, 2552 I actually turn my body a little bit 2553 harder through the hitting area to take a 2554 lot of my hands out of it.

I'm sure Craig 2555 is the same way.

2556 So does the axiom move start before the 2557 completion of the backswing?

It's a great 2558 question.

So the axiom movement, 2559 110% starts as soon as you start working 2560 around that merry-go-round and you're 2561 finishing off your turn, you're working 2562 to get off of the merry-go-round as 2563 quickly as you possibly can.

So it's that 2564 starting the downswing before the 2565 backswing is complete.

2566 Now, a lot of times when people are like, 2567 well, when does that actually happen, 2568 right?

Well, if you do this, if you're 2569 moving around the clock, then you don't 2570 have to think about it, right?

2571 As soon as you hit six o'clock and you're 2572 moving up to seven, eight, nine, you 2573 should be getting there.

Now, if you look 2574 at it on camera and you're only turning 2575 like that, going back, then you would 2576 want to increase your turn, okay?

2577 What's the best way to get lessons from 2578 you guys when a student gets advanced 2579 level?

Is it through swing reviews or is 2580 it a secret segment on the website?

It's 2581 a secret door.

that we only unlock for 2582 certain people.

2583 I'm not advanced, but I just want to 2584 know.

2585 So the best way to do that is we offer 2586 online live lessons through Zoom, which 2587 is on the website, and we offer swing 2588 reviews.

We offer unlimited swing 2589 reviews, which is where a bulk of our 2590 work is done.

So I'm not a salesman.

I'm 2591 not going to sit up here and sell you a 2592 juice machine or whatever.

I think that's 2593 horseshit.

Excuse my mouth.

But the 2594 unlimited swing review group is where a 2595 bulk of the reviews that we handle on a 2596 day-to-day basis, those are students that 2597 2598 that are either advanced, 2599 working to get advanced, or they're 2600 starting out and they want a day-to-day 2601 sort of assistance.

They have unlimited 2602 access to us.

2603 So that's where we can start customizing 2604 your program.

That's where we really 2605 start getting into what you're doing 2606 specifically and start giving you plans 2607 to be able to overcome it.

2608 2609 swear to God, Chris.

I know, man.

I got 2610 it.

Sorry.

Sorry, guys.

2611 All right.

Notice I'm pushing against my 2612 club with my left thumb.

Best ways to fix 2613 it and retrain this.

So great question.

2614 You guys have asked, this is the best 2615 group of questions that I've answered 2616 since we've done this.

And that's 2617 probably because I was a little bit all 2618 over the map in tonight's session.

But so 2619 a good way to train this is to cut it off 2620 like Craig said.

Or if you look, I'm 2621 actually doing these reps, my left thumb 2622 completely off the shaft, right?

2623 I'm just doing, now if you get really, 2624 really kind of trusting on this process.

2625 If you look really closely now, I don't 2626 know if you can see it, probably can't, 2627 but I'm holding the club in just my pinky 2628 and the release is still the same, okay?

2629 So a lot of us want to get squeezing on 2630 it.

Now, as far as getting it back on 2631 there and still making sure that it's not 2632 doing anything, well, we talked a little 2633 bit about what short thumb means.

So 2634 short thumb, if you kind of squeeze thumb 2635 into where the point of finger is here, 2636 kind of make the V, this is what we call 2637 short thumb.

That's a good way to help 2638 try to keep the left arm from being 2639 active on the way down.

I have found that 2640 that's anecdotal.

It doesn't work across 2641 the board.

People can still push on it.

2642 So good question.

2643 All right.

So deal off the club with lead 2644 wrist only low shots.

2645 Okay.

2646 Well, 2647 deal off the club with lead wrist only 2648 really low shots would need to set up 2649 adjustment.

Yep.

2650 Very good, Gregory.

2651 Should your eyes be focused on the back 2652 of the ball in front of the ball when 2653 hitting?

I.

Use the back of the ball.

2654 I've always used the back of the ball.

2655 Doesn't mean that that's the right way.

2656 Some people like to focus on the top.

2657 Some people like to focus on the inside.

2658 I like my eyes pretty quiet.

2659 I like to have my left eye focused on the 2660 back of the ball.

That's just where I 2661 have it.

2662 I did a video on that, I think, years 2663 ago.

2664 Is that it?

Oh, no.

2665 So, Luke, if you feel like you're bogging 2666 behind, 2667 that's okay.

2668 Go back to session one and do the stuff 2669 that we focused on through the lower 2670 body.

Get this right, okay?

You can give 2671 yourself a big Christmas present by doing 2672 this right.

2673 The other stuff that we're doing with the 2674 hands and the arms can come in due time, 2675 right?

Adding the golf ball can come in 2676 after camp.

2677 That stuff, we want you to be able to 2678 work at pace, but we also want you to 2679 know that if you're close, right, which 2680 most of you have played golf before, you 2681 should be pretty close.

If you do this 2682 stuff right and you kind of get the arms 2683 kind of flowing along with it, then come 2684 Saturday, you should be at least going 2685 nine to three or into full swing.

And if 2686 you're not there, that doesn't mean we're 2687 cutting you off and saying, hey, get out 2688 of here.

We'll help you.

2689 All right.

2690 So it looks like we are winding down.

2691 You guys are awesome.

You guys are 2692 awesome.

Thank you for putting up with 2693 me.

I know that it can feel a little bit, 2694 it can feel like a lot.

because of the 2695 way I speak.

But I do appreciate you 2696 guys.

The questions have been awesome 2697 tonight.

So hopefully the people that 2698 bugged out of here early will go back and 2699 watch some of it.

And so they can get 2700 some more of the stuff answered in their 2701 brains.

2702 Saturday's a big day for us.

We're going 2703 to take all of the stuff that we worked 2704 2705 Plan on the session being just a little 2706 bit over an hour.

I've gone through it 2707 multiple times and I can't get it 2708 condensed down.

2709 But plus we're going to have a lot of 2710 questions.

I'm probably not going to do a 2711 lot of questions out of the gate unless 2712 it's absolutely 2713 catastrophe these next four days.

And I 2714 can't imagine that it will be.

2715 So I will get into it and then we will 2716 stick around and this is where we'll make 2717 sure that the end of it.

We have as many 2718 questions in.

And on Saturday when we 2719 end, we will make sure that you have all 2720 of the resources that you need and all of 2721 the information that you need.

In order 2722 to be able to do the axiom, lower body 2723 movement in order to be able to do the 2724 release and be able to work on getting 2725 your full swing through the axiom.

And 2726 those proper hitting area functions as 2727 we've talked about.

2728 All right.

Final questions here.

2729 Is any issue opening the left foot at 2730 impact to remove pressure from the knee?

2731 Yep.

So you can open your left foot at 2732 impact.

So you're talking about the left 2733 foot sliding out like that.

2734 So if you're talking about it's splaying 2735 out of the dress is fine.

2736 It's actually just allows for more 2737 mobility in the hips.

2738 If it's turning out, be careful.

That 2739 rotational force can go and start to 2740 deteriorate things.

2741 So I would say.

Don't allow your foot 2742 to do this on the way down, okay?

Be 2743 careful with that because there's a lot 2744 of force that's taking place in the golf 2745 swing, okay?

And if you look at like the 2746 Jack Nicklaus era of golf, if you look at 2747 the whole big picture of what their 2748 swings were like, there's lots of big, 2749 big body movements, right?

But look what 2750 those guys all battle with.

Well, they're 2751 all blown out on their hips and they're 2752 blown out on their knees, right?

Why?

2753 Well, because now they had a lot of 2754 active movement.

Now the golf swing, 2755 because we have a lot of 2756 science and a lot of data and a lot of 2757 study on biomechanics.

We understand that 2758 we can move the body in a certain way 2759 that doesn't have to be this big, long 2760 movement so that we can protect and 2761 preserve the body.

And that's the whole 2762 foundation of what Rotary Swing was 2763 founded on is that we want you to be able 2764 to move as little as possible, but be 2765 able to hit the golf ball as far as 2766 possible.

And the little as possible, 2767 think about that, puts the body in less 2768 harm.

Right?

The golf swing, if you're 2769 moving a lot, can put some critical 2770 joints in some really, really funky 2771 places.

2772 Okay.

So that's it.

I'm out of here.

I'll 2773 see you guys on Saturday.

Thank you guys 2774 very much for an awesome session.

Thank 2775 you guys for the awesome questions.

Talk 2776 to you later.

2777 Greg, thank you very much for your help.

2778 You're the best.