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

Session 3 of 4

---

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 foot to where your weight's on your big toe.

Do it.

What did that do to your hips?

That moved them more laterally, right?

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

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

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

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

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

Ask yourself that question.

Do you not push off of your right leg?

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

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

This anatomic terminology is internal femur rotation.

So that's happening.

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

Nobody would do that.

It doesn't make any sense.

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

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

Think about your entire body moving too far left.

So push your entire body left.

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

I encourage you to try this at home.

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

You're going to be mesmerized.

You'll be like, holy smokes, Chris.

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

I have a little bit of squat.

I got a little bit of rotation.

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

Break it into two pieces.

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

Ask Craig.

Craig, post in the comments right now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then we ramped it up into nine to three.

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

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

Then we started going through the dead drill.

And here we are at Axiom.

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

of all of this big, big arm movement.

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

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

Okay, why?

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

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

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

So it's a nine to three swing.

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

Okay.

So what it looks like is kind of like this.

Okay.

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

Think about that, 80%.

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

Of course you can.

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

Totally fine, right?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, I usually work in four phases.

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

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

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

Phase three, shoulder height, shoulder height.

And phase four is gonna be into full swing.

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

I don't want you to until Saturday.

Let us get some reps built into you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay.

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

Okay.

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

Okay.

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

So your lead wrist is about hip high.

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

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

So your left butt's moving down and back.

And then I want your arm to swing through.

That's it.

So you're going to pressure shift.

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

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

Hips open up.

Let your arm swing through.

Okay, so pressure shift.

Turn.

Move.

Down and back, put your arms swing through.

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

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

I get it.

Do this first.

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

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

Why?

Well, think about that.

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

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

Feels like a piece of cake.

Move from your legs first, okay?

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

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

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

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

So now we're gonna really get dynamic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So now think about this.

We are now 45 minutes into a session.

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

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

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

So now what do we do after that?

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

Or like this, okay?

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

I want you to get the club back in here.

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

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

Why?

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

Okay.

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

Okay.

Plus we want it to feel like a golf swing.

Okay.

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

I will sprinkle in some trail side at the end.

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

You're going to pick up the club.

Make sure you have your grip pressure light.

You're going to pressure shift right.

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

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

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

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

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

And then release.

Okay?

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

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

I'm not making long swings.

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

Why?

What's your rush?

Okay, I know you guys want to be Ferraris.

I get it.

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

But be perfect with the movements from here to here.

Do it.

If you can, then come Saturday, guess what?

You're going to get some amazing results.

I can't make this stuff up, okay?

I really can't.

I've been doing this for a long time.

I can't make it up.

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

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

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

Why?

Because you're taking your time to be meticulous.

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

Now watch what that looks like from up the line.

Looks pretty cool, right?

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

You see your left hip working down and back.

You see yourself maintaining posture.

You look at it from a down the line perspective.

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

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

This is the fun part.

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

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

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

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

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

Get some Dr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can do those movements, right?

I get it.

I can do those movements.

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

That's fine.

I'm not in a rush.

Chuck's not in a rush.

Craig's not in a rush.

We're not in a rush.

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

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

That's totally fine.

Don't add the arms in.

Don't add the club in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

80% on like a half swing.

It's crazy.

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

And that's.

forward shaft lean, and a square club face.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I would think all of you can, right?

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

I want you to try this stuff out.

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

Okay.

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

So great question.

I'm going to answer that one.

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

If you have it here, that's fine.

We don't want it out here.

You need to have some set.

So somewhere between here and 90 is fine.

Okay.

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

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

It starts the stretch shortening cycle.

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

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

Much harder for you to maintain lag.

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

Okay.

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

or just a slight above it.

That's it.

So good question.

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

Think about it.

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

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

You drive hard from.

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

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

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

Get your weight moving.

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

Little small swings.

Okay, I got it.

I feel my legs working.

I can feel my release starting to happen.

Everything feels pretty free flowing here.

Look at it on camera.

Everything's rocking and rolling.

Then you get the golf ball going.

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

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

I was hitting the ball left really quickly.

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

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

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

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

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

It's probably from some other factors.

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

Now, much easier said than done, right?

Work on it.

Break it apart.

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

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

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

We're not going to make fun of you.

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

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

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

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

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

That's what I teach personally.

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

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

Okay.

It's okay to be trail side dominant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's it.

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

Then start moving through the compression drills.

Watch Chuck go through that video, okay?

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

I know Craig uses that series.

I use that series.

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

But tie that back in.

Remember, focus on your legwork.

All right.

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

Why am I not teaching you different movements?

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

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

We want you to blend.

We want you to start feeling the movement.

We want you to hit shots, okay?

Let us know what you're hitting for shots.

Maybe I'm hitting it a little bit thin.

Maybe my ball is hooking.

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

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

Okay.

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

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

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

Nine to three.

Right here.

You get here by Saturday.

I'm sorry.

That was a big, big version.

You get here to here.

Okay.

Where you can literally go load, right?

Let those arms swing through with proper lower half movement.

You're cooking.

All right.

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

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

I get it.

I'm sorry.

I talk a lot.

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

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

Because we rewrote this program to take.

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

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

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

They are.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All right.

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

We're going to answer some questions.

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

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

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

We're working on the compression drills.

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

You follow how I want you to blend it together.

Follow that plan.

You'll get some success.

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

Move up, come back down.

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

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

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

I was like, yeah.

That's to create awareness.

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

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

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

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

I want you to get there.

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

All right.

So I wish you all the best of luck.

Have a wonderful couple of days.

All right.

Don't get overwhelmed by the information tonight.

Again, I know it wasn't new.

It's just putting it together.

So let's answer some questions.

All right.

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

Sorry, I'm going to answer that one.

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

And back to the ankle.

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

Okay.

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

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

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

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

It has to move there.

Otherwise you're going to blow your knee out.

So it kind of works like a figure eight.

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

Perfect.

Yep.

So nine to three pressure shift, right?

Or use the merry-go-round.

Okay.

Both of them are creating pressure shift.

Okay.

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

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

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

So people are pretty good about getting there.

So where should the ball position when doing these drills?

Tom, really good question, sir.

Thank you very much for asking that question.

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

I want that off of your lead ear.

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

Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay?

So back.

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

Is that what's supposed to happen?

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

Okay.

We don't really want that.

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

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

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

So we want you to keep it passively straight.

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

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

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

Offers a little bit of support to it.

Okay.

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

So, Charles?

Great question.

And you are one of my students, sir.

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

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

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

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

Okay.

And then you can start blending.

Really, really good, simple little drill.

where are the shoulders during these drills?

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

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

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

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

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

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

So where can we learn advanced stuff?

Just asking, is there a segment on the website?

Well, I like that question.

So advanced stuff.

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

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

Start hitting balls there.

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

I played golf professionally, right?

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

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

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

Why?

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

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

It's broken down into sections.

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

Is it, you want to start shaping the ball?

Is it where you want to start?

Whatever it is, let me know.

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

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

left bicep moves away from the pack?

Great question.

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

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

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

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

Okay, so you see me reach underneath.

This is what it would look like.

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

So I let my arms swing through.

Now watch when my right hand goes.

See how my shoulders are really, really steepened here?

This is what we call side bend, okay?

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

That's all a position that's.

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

Okay.

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

What is too much?

So you guys got some great questions tonight.

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

Okay.

That's just too much.

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

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

So it's all about action versus reaction.

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

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

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

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

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

also that position?

Do we have the lead foot flat on the ground?

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

So if you look, Okay.

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

Okay.

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

Yes.

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

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

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

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

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

Okay.

It's pretty flat to the ground.

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

So, all right.

So I understand what you're saying.

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

So our hands and arms are being propelled.

by what the hips are doing.

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

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

And that is plenty of speed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, so hopefully that makes sense.

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

What does that indicate?

Doesn't seem to naturally open left.

Does that indicate through my lead?

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

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

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

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

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

You look at it from up the line.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I learned how to drive one and I loved it.

It felt like I was a race car driver.

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

Absolutely not.

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

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

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

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

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

And then you have to challenge yourself, right?

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

It loves to play.

It loves to jump in and just screw everything up.

So you have to try to push your subconscious away.

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

I'm the lead sports psychologist at Cornell university.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They want them to be able to subconsciously react.

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

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

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

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

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

But look at how I walked you through it tonight.

We only did that for 10, 15 reps.

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

And then you can start challenging yourself with movement.

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

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

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

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

Now.

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

Then try to challenge your subject.

Golf balls.

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

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

It's seven minutes in length.

Okay, It's absolutely brilliant information.

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

I really do.

I love the brain.

It's fascinating.

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

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

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

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

what actually goes on in this process.

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

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

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

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

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

They're great.

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

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

I'll be able to ride that bike.

No problem.

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

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

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

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

Think about that for a moment, right?

Think about that.

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

So your vestibular process and proprioception.

It's, it's wild.

Okay.

Trust me.

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

Okay.

Practice it.

How long do you think it took him?

Took him eight months, right?

Eight months.

He was practicing this bike and he finally learns.

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

And so he goes around all these college campuses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We'd like to unlearn some things.

Unfortunately, you can't unlearn anything.

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

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

That's it.

So the brain is always capable.

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

But it's how you practice it.

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

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

In most cases, it is.

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

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

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

Because you have a billion-dollar idea.

You need to just get it to market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All right, so how does the squat coordinate?

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

Exactly.

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

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

Because transition is happening so fast.

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

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

So yes, good, good question there.

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

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

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

Yeah, Wayne.

So email me directly, okay?

My email is on my profile.

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

Please don't spam me, people.

I get a ton of emails every day.

It's chris at rotary swing.

com.

Pretty difficult, right?

So email me and let me know.

And then we will try to get you set up.

Definitely love to work with you.

Nicholas, thank you guys so much.

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

Mark, absolutely perfectly fine to do so.

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

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

Hitting reps after rep after rep.

Keeping your eyes down where it is.

That's a good technique.

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

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

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

Why?

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

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

I know mats are not ideal.

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

Why?

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

Think about that.

Sorry, excuse my mouth.

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

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

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

All of these methods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is.

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

You do that and it becomes much easier.

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

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

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

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

I see your lead hip moving up and away.

I don't see it moving down and back.

What am I missing?

It's happening so fast, Thomas.

So let me show you exactly what's happening.

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

And then I post up.

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

See, I move through that so fast.

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

Just watch.

You see how my head was very pronounced going down?

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

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

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

But you're moving through that position.

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

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

And yeah, you're going to see it.

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

So is that it are?

We are you guys all done?

Awesome questions tonight.

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

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

What can be causing that?

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

Okay.

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

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

Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All right.

well, thank you very much.

I really appreciate it.

Awesome insight for transitioning, pulling left hip back.

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

Good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So phase one, 45 degrees or so.

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

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

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

If your arm, this is so common.

I can't tell you how common this is.

I'll have people swinging.

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

And they do this.

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

Holy smokes.

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

Imagine that, huh?

It's hard.

It's hard.

I get it.

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

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

Okay.

All right.

I think I'm actively pushing the right hand.

Good catch.

Well, thank you.

All right.

So it looks like you guys are quieting down.

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

Any thoughts on right?

Dominant short shots and left on mid to long.

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

I do use my trail hand in my golf swing.

I do.

I use it in certain circumstances.

I use it a lot in bunker shots because I'm trying to get the club head past my hands.

So you'll see me set an angle and then I'm actually trying to let the club get past my hands.

You'll see me do it when I'm trying to hit a flop shot.

You'll see me do it when I'm actually trying to hit a cup, believe it or not, where I actually will hold the right hand and try to hold it off a little bit.

So I'm trying to drag the hand a little bit.

So as far as short shots versus, just depends on where you can develop feel from.

So feel, no matter what any golf instructor tells you, is not something a golf instructor can really teach you.

Okay, feel is developed through practice, right?

Some people always ask me like the clock reference, right?

If I take it back to nine o'clock or three o'clock, how far is that going to go?

Well, that's very relative, right?

That's very relative on how much swing speed you're creating, how much your D loft in the club, what your D plane looks like.

All of those things are variables, right?

So feel is again, something that you develop through practice.

And as a kid, I developed really good feel for just going out there and really walking myself around a green.

I actually grew up with this really podunk golf course.

That was nine holes.

We had, two markers on the entire golf course.

And this is before we had range finders.

We had 150 yard marker on one and 150 yard marker on four.

Both those holes were like just about 400 yards.

They went out and they went straight up a hill.

Those are the only markers behind the course.

So I, as a kid, I had to learn like a lot of feel through just trying to hit distances.

And then we get, you know, you fast forward 20 years down the road or 25 years down the road, we got, you know, devices that help us do that stuff.

So, which You know, again, that helps develop feel.

And so I can't teach, I can give you drills.

I can give you drill after drill after drill to teach feel.

So that right, I know this is a roundabout way to answer your question.

If you can feel more from the right side, great.

You can use that for short game.

If you like the left side stuff because it's free flowing, gives you the efficiency aspect, that's totally fine as well.

So I know I'm dancing around a little bit, but I will tell you this right now that with my short game specifically, I actually turn my body a little bit harder through the hitting area to take a lot of my hands out of it.

I'm sure Craig is the same way.

So does the axiom move start before the completion of the backswing?

It's a great question.

So the axiom movement, 110% starts as soon as you start working around that merry-go-round and you're finishing off your turn, you're working to get off of the merry-go-round as quickly as you possibly can.

So it's that starting the downswing before the backswing is complete.

Now, a lot of times when people are like, well, when does that actually happen, right?

Well, if you do this, if you're moving around the clock, then you don't have to think about it, right?

As soon as you hit six o'clock and you're moving up to seven, eight, nine, you should be getting there.

Now, if you look at it on camera and you're only turning like that, going back, then you would want to increase your turn, okay?

What's the best way to get lessons from you guys when a student gets advanced level?

Is it through swing reviews or is it a secret segment on the website?

It's a secret door.

that we only unlock for certain people.

I'm not advanced, but I just want to know.

So the best way to do that is we offer online live lessons through Zoom, which is on the website, and we offer swing reviews.

We offer unlimited swing reviews, which is where a bulk of our work is done.

So I'm not a salesman.

I'm not going to sit up here and sell you a juice machine or whatever.

I think that's horseshit.

Excuse my mouth.

But the unlimited swing review group is where a bulk of the reviews that we handle on a day-to-day basis, those are students that that are either advanced, working to get advanced, or they're starting out and they want a day-to-day sort of assistance.

They have unlimited access to us.

So that's where we can start customizing your program.

That's where we really start getting into what you're doing specifically and start giving you plans to be able to overcome it.

swear to God, Chris.

I know, man.

I got it.

Sorry.

Sorry, guys.

All right.

Notice I'm pushing against my club with my left thumb.

Best ways to fix it and retrain this.

So great question.

You guys have asked, this is the best group of questions that I've answered since we've done this.

And that's probably because I was a little bit all over the map in tonight's session.

But so a good way to train this is to cut it off like Craig said.

Or if you look, I'm actually doing these reps, my left thumb completely off the shaft, right?

I'm just doing, now if you get really, really kind of trusting on this process.

If you look really closely now, I don't know if you can see it, probably can't, but I'm holding the club in just my pinky and the release is still the same, okay?

So a lot of us want to get squeezing on it.

Now, as far as getting it back on there and still making sure that it's not doing anything, well, we talked a little bit about what short thumb means.

So short thumb, if you kind of squeeze thumb into where the point of finger is here, kind of make the V, this is what we call short thumb.

That's a good way to help try to keep the left arm from being active on the way down.

I have found that that's anecdotal.

It doesn't work across the board.

People can still push on it.

So good question.

All right.

So deal off the club with lead wrist only low shots.

Okay.

Well, deal off the club with lead wrist only really low shots would need to set up adjustment.

Yep.

Very good, Gregory.

Should your eyes be focused on the back of the ball in front of the ball when hitting?

I.

Use the back of the ball.

I've always used the back of the ball.

Doesn't mean that that's the right way.

Some people like to focus on the top.

Some people like to focus on the inside.

I like my eyes pretty quiet.

I like to have my left eye focused on the back of the ball.

That's just where I have it.

I did a video on that, I think, years ago.

Is that it?

Oh, no.

So, Luke, if you feel like you're bogging behind, that's okay.

Go back to session one and do the stuff that we focused on through the lower body.

Get this right, okay?

You can give yourself a big Christmas present by doing this right.

The other stuff that we're doing with the hands and the arms can come in due time, right?

Adding the golf ball can come in after camp.

That stuff, we want you to be able to work at pace, but we also want you to know that if you're close, right, which most of you have played golf before, you should be pretty close.

If you do this stuff right and you kind of get the arms kind of flowing along with it, then come Saturday, you should be at least going nine to three or into full swing.

And if you're not there, that doesn't mean we're cutting you off and saying, hey, get out of here.

We'll help you.

All right.

So it looks like we are winding down.

You guys are awesome.

You guys are awesome.

Thank you for putting up with me.

I know that it can feel a little bit, it can feel like a lot.

because of the way I speak.

But I do appreciate you guys.

The questions have been awesome tonight.

So hopefully the people that bugged out of here early will go back and watch some of it.

And so they can get some more of the stuff answered in their brains.

Saturday's a big day for us.

We're going to take all of the stuff that we worked Plan on the session being just a little bit over an hour.

I've gone through it multiple times and I can't get it condensed down.

But plus we're going to have a lot of questions.

I'm probably not going to do a lot of questions out of the gate unless it's absolutely catastrophe these next four days.

And I can't imagine that it will be.

So I will get into it and then we will stick around and this is where we'll make sure that the end of it.

We have as many questions in.

And on Saturday when we end, we will make sure that you have all of the resources that you need and all of the information that you need.

In order to be able to do the axiom, lower body movement in order to be able to do the release and be able to work on getting your full swing through the axiom.

And those proper hitting area functions as we've talked about.

All right.

Final questions here.

Is any issue opening the left foot at impact to remove pressure from the knee?

Yep.

So you can open your left foot at impact.

So you're talking about the left foot sliding out like that.

So if you're talking about it's splaying out of the dress is fine.

It's actually just allows for more mobility in the hips.

If it's turning out, be careful.

That rotational force can go and start to deteriorate things.

So I would say.

Don't allow your foot to do this on the way down, okay?

Be careful with that because there's a lot of force that's taking place in the golf swing, okay?

And if you look at like the Jack Nicklaus era of golf, if you look at the whole big picture of what their swings were like, there's lots of big, big body movements, right?

But look what those guys all battle with.

Well, they're all blown out on their hips and they're blown out on their knees, right?

Why?

Well, because now they had a lot of active movement.

Now the golf swing, because we have a lot of science and a lot of data and a lot of study on biomechanics.

We understand that we can move the body in a certain way that doesn't have to be this big, long movement so that we can protect and preserve the body.

And that's the whole foundation of what Rotary Swing was founded on is that we want you to be able to move as little as possible, but be able to hit the golf ball as far as possible.

And the little as possible, think about that, puts the body in less harm.

Right?

The golf swing, if you're moving a lot, can put some critical joints in some really, really funky places.

Okay.

So that's it.

I'm out of here.

I'll see you guys on Saturday.

Thank you guys very much for an awesome session.

Thank you guys for the awesome questions.

Talk to you later.

Greg, thank you very much for your help.

You're the best.