AXIOM BootCamp 2, Chris Tyler, Nov 2021, Session 4

Session 4 of 4

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Good afternoon, good morning, and good evening to some of you.

Welcome back.

Bootcamp session number four.

I'm excited to have you guys all back here joining me on this fine Saturday.

Hopefully everybody's had a wonderful week so far.

Hopefully everybody's having a great start to their weekend.

Today is going to be a jam-packed day.

We got a big day because this is the end, right?

This is where we put it all together.

And we start sending you out into the world like beautiful blossoming butterflies that are all going to be out there compressing the golf ball.

And I have seen some absolutely remarkable progress this week.

And I'm sure Craig will vouch for it as well.

We've seen some very good stuff from the lower body.

We've seen some great stuff from the release.

We've seen some people getting kind of frisky enough to try to put those two things together and really make some good looking golf swings.

We've seen people be disciplined.

We've seen people still working on getting the lower body stuff right.

Why?

because they want to get success.

And so I got to commend you guys because we've done this quite a few times in the past, right?

And so the questions that we've been answering, the reviews that we've been doing have all looked very good.

So welcome back.

Hopefully everybody's had a wonderful, wonderful start to their weekend.

And today, like I said, It's a jam-packed day and I'm going to try to get us through this.

So that you guys don't have to spend any more of your time on Saturday.

Before we got Thanksgiving coming up with me.

I want you guys to be able to get out there and work on things and get things rocking and rolling.

So I did see a question about getting the hips to fire first to help move the hands and arms down into the hitting area.

That's exactly what we want.

The hips and the golf swing are going to help add speed to what the hands and arms are going to be doing from one side of the body to the other.

So if you think about it, if I'm not going to move my body at all, and I'm just going to have my arms swinging back and forth from one side to the other, without me getting tense and without me.

trying to actively speed my arm up.

How would I speed my arm up?

Well, I would take that same movement and now I would start adding some hip work to it, right?

Now, if you look, I'm not trying to get more tense through my hand and my arm.

It's just actively speeding up for us.

So can everybody hear me all right?

I did see somebody that just say muted.

Everybody hear me all right?

Okay, sounds good.

Awesome, awesome.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

We have a jam-packed day.

So for those people that are getting settled into the room now, we'll just give you a couple minutes.

I know some of you will be in a little bit of a hurry today to try to get me into the nuts and bolts of it, but we got a lot of stuff to cover up front.

So basically the format today is going to be, we're going to take Q&A, we're going to talk about some of the faults, and then we are going to get into a warmup, right?

I'm going to start walking you through a good warmup to get your lower body working.

We're going to tie the release back into it.

And then we're going to finish this golf swing off.

And you're going to still hear me lead towards the lead side dominant release.

And I think most of you have really gone down that pathway.

I saw a couple of people working on the trail side stuff.

Totally fine.

Remember, we're not objectionable to that.

That's why we've introduced it.

But you're going to see a bulk of the presentation today really centered around the lead side stuff that you've always heard from us.

Um, I will show you at the end a good way to be able to get the trail side working for you.

If you're one of those habitual offenders where you've swung the club over the top and you've created a big old slice, I get it.

We're going to give you some of that stuff to be able to help you work you through that.

So letting everybody get settled.

On the nine to three, where should the pressure be in my foot?

be at at the three or the six?

So on the nine to three, where should the pressure be in my foot?

So when you're moving, your pressure should be.

If you're working to get shifted back over to your lead side, it's going to start into the six o'clock region and then it's going to move up through seven, eight, nine.

And that in turn, if you couple that with that special sauce sort of movement that you've heard me talking about for the first few sessions, that's a good way to get your hips to be able to work dynamically.

So when you start moving from one side of the body to the other, you want to get back into six o'clock and then you want to aggressively move through seven, eight, nine.

You want to think about.

that 7, 8, And 9 right?

So that's where you want to really try to fire and try to get the hips moving in that direction.

So definitely don't want you to get lost in thinking about what position you have to be in in the clock.

That can kind of take away from the whole purpose of Axiom.

Axiom is just, again, that's that vortex generator that helps us create that big movement, right?

So, getting your weight to move around that foot and then understanding that six So please repeat the special sauce, Dennis.

No problem, sir.

That's coming right out of the gate.

No problem.

So, all right.

Another question coming in.

I'm in the backswing.

In the backswing of a five to 10-yard chip, the weight doesn't quite move all the way to the back, to the trail heel.

How does Axiom apply to those?

So you're going to think about with smaller shots, and this is going to be true to when you get really, really proficient with the movements, is thinking about that circle becoming smaller and smaller and smaller.

When you first start out, we want you moving around the whole perimeter of the foot, right?

And the same thing when we start introducing that arm movement, you're going to see a very overcooked movement that eventually is going to be tightened down.

You just want to think about that circle becoming smaller and smaller and smaller, okay?

So Andrew says, Chris, at post-up, the left hip goes back up and away, as you said in the first session, or down and back, as you said recently.

They feel different to me.

Okay, so I like to use a combination of both of those, but to be honest with you, there's not a lot of time to be able to make that stuff happen because we know that you guys have your speed demons, you know, attached to your shoulders that want to get active.

So the way that I've been describing it to people is when you start moving from your right side to your left, if you think about the left butt going down and back initially, that first initial movement while you're driving from that trail foot is what helps maintain that deeper sort of tush line.

And if you think about the butt moving back simultaneously, with that push movement that you're getting from the trail side, you are getting the hips fully cleared out and you are getting that lead leg to a passively straight position.

Now, we understand that in the world of post-up, right, that we should be moving this left hip up and away.

So I'm using kind of a combination of both of those at some points, just because some people are going to resonate with one side, some people are going to resonate with the other.

But to be honest with you, what I really like is when you start moving from six up through seven, eight, nine, and you start really pushing, okay, thinking about that entire body being moved in the direction of the target.

If you counterbalance that movement with the butt moving down and back, okay, then you're going to end up into that post-up position because this movement from the trail side is helping clear the hips out.

Okay, so great question there.

So I see, Craig, can I still have next swing reviews?

Okay, Luke's asking a specific question.

Okay, so it looks like the questions are coming to a halt here.

So I've been to a part of swing reviews.

Okay, Mark Lester, on the release at the top of the swing, pros finish with a club parallel to the ground.

Is that important or can I finish straight up?

So on the release at the top of the swing, pros finish with a club parallel to the ground.

Is it important or can I finish straight up?

I'm not sure I understand the question, Mark.

Sorry.

So at the top of the swing, pros finish with a club parallel to the ground.

So that's a big misunderstanding in the world of golf instruction.

that we have to get the club to parallel, okay?

You don't have to get the club to parallel at the top of the swing in order to be able to produce speed, right?

Look at Jason Day.

Jason Day was notorious for having a very short backswing, right?

And that guy produced tons and tons of speed.

All that added movement, I should say, is just added movement that can create timing in the golf swing, right?

That's just your wrist getting fully set at the top of the swing.

And that in turn generally starts sending people down this pathway where you start stretching out the muscles in your wrists and your forearms.

That's the stretch shortening cycle going to work.

And it's going to start forcing the club to work back in the other direction.

I personally, as a kid, when I grew up, I tried to get the club to parallel or pass parallel.

Why?

Well, because I saw John Daly.

I saw all these long drive guys, you know, getting the club wrapped around their neck.

Is it needed to be able to produce efficiency in the swing?

Absolutely not.

So the question is about the finish.

So when the hands and arms are extended out in front of the body, the club parallel to the ground, you're talking about should the club be straight up then?

Is that what the question is?

I'm sorry, I'm just not following the question.

Okay, so if you see, in your nine to three format, and you see us in this position, but you're like this, okay, again, things are happening pretty quickly.

So if momentum and inertia pulls your wrist into that position, We don't really care.

The thing that you want to make sure that you understand is that you need to have the lead wrist flat.

And it needs to rotate and point behind you just to this frame right here.

Everything that happens above this is the golf ball is already long gone.

What it is though, is a way for us to be able to kind of reverse diagnose where you're moving from, right?

If we see you've turned your body a lot more and your shoulders have turned flat, then we know that you actively turned through the hitting area.

So hopefully that answers Michael.

Absolutely fantastic question.

Should I be hitting a ball for the swing review or not?

Some of you can be hitting balls.

Some of you should not be hitting balls.

If you're working on refining movements and you want us to check to make sure that those are correct.

Before you start going into kamikaze mode and start hitting all these balls, then that's fine.

For those of you that are going to send in reviews with you hitting balls, I would recommend that be the first review, but then every review moving forward until we get it to the way that we want it.

we're probably going to tell you to lose the ball out of there until we get you into good, good spots.

Now, I also get a good mix of people that send in reviews where we allow you 30 seconds of video footage.

So you can make a practice swing first, okay, doing whatever you're working on so we can see if those movements are done correctly.

And then you can move the ball into frame and then try to hit it.

So we'll leave that up to you.

But I will say that, you know, the reviews that are going to be most productive, if you're starting out with us, we want to see what you're doing at first when the ball is present so we can see.

where your natural movement patterns lie.

But after that, we'll probably put you in timeout just depending on how bad things are or how good things are.

Who knows?

Okay.

So good question.

All right.

So I have a tendency to hit the ball off the toe long distance.

Any suggestions?

So there's a lot of factors that lead to toe strikes.

Okay.

So believe it or not, it could be the shoulders turning open too quickly and then you rotating the face too fast.

If that's the case, then you do expose the toe of the club to the golf ball.

And vice versa, when we see people hit the heel of the club, we tend to see them create a little bit too much secondary axis tilt, which generally leads the club coming more from the inside, which exposes the hosel of the club to the ball and forces them to try to flip it over.

So I think more times than none, it's the upper body wanting to turn open a little bit more, and you're trying to slam the face shut with the right hand, which with the rate of rotation of the club face is going to expose the toe.

But in order for us to be able to give you a 100% accurate answer, we would have to look at your golf swing specifically.

Because same thing with like a fat shot or a thin shot.

There's lots of different variables in the swing that can affect that, right?

We're going to check angle of attack.

We're going to check, you know, the direction the club is being delivered into the hitting area.

We're going to check rates of rotation in the face.

So, yep.

So if you've never done a swing review then and you want us to identify what your toe strike is, a good, good solution for you is if you get lucky enough or unlucky enough, I should say, to capture one on video.

where you get one off the toe specifically, send it in.

I deal with reviews like that on a day-to-day basis.

When I get students to the point where I'm having them hit a lot of balls, right?

And I'll give you this example of this guy, Andrew, that I worked with, worked with for a couple of years now.

He hits 50 balls a day.

He does a one-to-one ratio.

And he tells me exactly how many balls he hit on the center of the face and how many balls he hit fat, thin, towards the toe, towards the heel.

And he will send one in that says, okay, this is one of the fat shots.

Can you help me identify what it is?

a very big part of the learning process is not just understanding the movements that we want you to do, but understand where your mishits come from so that you can work yourself away from that.

That's a huge part of this process, right?

Because again, there's lots of different variables to be able to, you know, that can affect what's going on down in the hitting area.

Tons of them, right?

Tons of them.

All right.

So could that be early extension?

I have early extension.

I hit off the toe often.

So Early extension can lead to it again, but it's very dependent on where your hands and your arms are in space, right?

So if I come down and my hands and arms work out away from me, and then I start standing up out of posture, right?

Then you can see that there's a lot of plane shift and a lot of rerouting.

So people think about the golf swing is, you know, this sort of arc, right?

And I agree with that.

There's a big arc to the swing.

And you think about, you know, a two -plane golf swing versus a one-plane golf swing.

What you want to remember is that there's.

Every single little body movement that you make in the swing can ultimately affect the plane that the club is being delivered on.

And you've heard us talk in the past about swing plane being completely consequential to body movements, which it is.

But as instructors, what we're looking for, we're looking to do is help you balance the swing plane so it doesn't have all these peaks and valleys to it.

You want it to be very, very under control so that your delivery through the hitting area is much easier for us to be able to manage.

So hopefully that makes sense.

I think we're ready to get underway now.

We're about 15 minutes in with questions.

Please remember at the conclusion of today, when I'm done wrapping things up so that I can get you guys to do things with your families or if you guys want to go work on things, that for those of you that want to stick around and ask questions, by all means, stick around with us.

All right.

Craig is answering questions diligently in the chat right now.

I'm also going to stick around as long as we need to because today is graduation day, right?

We want to make sure that when we get done today, that you know exactly what you're doing, why you're doing it, and how you're going to get it done.

If you don't have those three things answered in your brain, then stick around because it's super important to me.

And this has been, obviously, some of you probably have noticed this.

It's been a pretty nerve-wracking experience for me because we changed the program dramatically from the first.

Axiom Bootcamp to where we are now.

And the reason for that is, is because we know that this process is going to work.

And the proof has been in the pudding.

I've seen a lot of great success, which I'm excited to be able to report back to Chuck and be able to continue on the forward path with the students.

So it's been a very kind of, it feels like it's been a little bit all over the map at times with me, because again, it's just a different delivery.

But I'm very confident that if you follow the procedures that we're going to outline for you, and you go back through it, and you just kind of work through Um, even when I do the warmup today, if you do this every single time that you get ready to start practicing, then you're practicing with a purpose and you'll get to the end result and you'll make sure that your lower body works good.

You'll make sure that you've got control of the hitting area and then you can build upon it.

And that's the fun part is that it allows you to stay moving.

It allows you to hit golf balls and it allows you to build this into a full swing.

So that you go out there and play some good golf.

Because, quite honestly, I don't want you guys to suck at this game.

Okay.

So now that we're getting ready to get underway, if you guys could do me a big favor, because The chat can get a little distracting and I want to make sure that we don't have everybody getting lost in what's going on in the chat.

Try to keep that quiet unless there's something extremely pressing.

We do have an absolute crappy day going on here in Florida where you get a lot of rain, a lot of wind, which you guys know how that works in the world of internet.

So if something pops up where you guys can't hear or see me, then obviously let me know.

So with that said, so let's talk about some of the faults that I saw this week.

One of the biggest faults that I saw, and this is again, My fault for not pressing you on this hard enough is that for those of you that were doing a lot of body drills specifically, so when you were working on getting your hips cleared out, I saw a lot of people turning their chest to finish.

Now, obviously in a perfect world, this is where we're going to finish our golf swing.

We're going to be up onto our right toe.

Okay.

We're going to be in a position where we don't have any creasing in our toe box.

This is the finish of the golf swing.

We're not teaching you to get to that finished position.

We're teaching you to get to the most important part, and that's impact.

Everything that happens after impact should be the club pulling you into that position.

Now, again, as I said to you guys in session three, I don't live under a rock, okay?

Some of you aren't going to produce enough speed, enough to pull you into a finished position.

And the last thing I want you guys to do is start trying to make all this speed down here, and you kind of deadlock your right foot on the ground, and then you start compressing your lower vertebrae.

That's going to hurt you.

So for some of you, if you can get your chest to stall enough to where you can get your hands and arms to extend out in front of your body, just like I have, this is perfectly fine.

And then from here, you can move up into a finish.

So I did see a lot of people actively turning their chest.

So when we go through our warmup out of the starting point, when we get to our finish position, I want you guys to make sure that your shoulder line is square when your hips are open 45 degrees.

Don't allow your chest to turn open because that is going to make the club very late to release.

Now, for those of you that are going to be a push releaser and that are going to stay on the trail side, the most I want to see your shoulders open is going to be somewhere in the ballpark of like 15 to 20 degrees.

And so what that looks like from an up the line standpoint is my chest is going to be pointed just out in front of me, not nearly as open as my hips.

Okay.

So that was the first fault.

Second fault, stopping the arms.

Super common.

Right?

Because all of you guys want to do a lot with your hands.

I get it.

It feels coordinated.

It feels fast.

I can't press this into your brain enough that you don't have to do this work.

Okay?

You don't have to.

If you try to do that, then you're going to make the club face insanely unstable.

Okay?

You can hit good shots like that, but you're just more reliant on timing.

And timing is something we're trying to extract from your golf swing.

So it does the same thing every single day.

Okay, just bottom line.

So if you noticed on camera that when you were doing some sort of release drill, okay.

That your hands weren't over towards the middle of your thigh or towards the end of your thigh.

At impact, okay, there's a pretty good chance that you didn't have enough angle going back, so I saw a lot of people coming down with angle like this.

So you can feel like you get a little bit more set.

Or you stopped your arms to make time for the club to flip over.

Okay, think about that Now, in order for me to keep my hands in front of the golf club, I need to keep my arms moving, okay?

So you want to feel like your arms are moving.

Now, it's going to feel maybe a little less fast to some of you at home because I can sit here all day long and do this and feel the club really fast.

I can feel that whip-like sensation.

But step back for a second.

Remember, things are going to be happening really fast in the golf swing, really fast, okay?

Milliseconds.

So if you're trying to make that movement happen and you're stopping the arms, then the golf ball is going to go all over the place.

So this is a fault fix for you is think about both arms continuing to move past your body.

You're going to try your best for those lead side dominant people to keep your head and your chest back behind the golf ball as long as you can.

And what it's going to look like is your hands and arms are extending out in front.

You're going to create this side bend.

So don't be afraid to get the arms to move as one unit over to the other side.

If you stop and do this, and then the club pulls you out away, it's the death move in the swing.

Remember, I said that to you guys when we started taking on the release drills.

Is that the only thing that really matters is your face angle down here at impact, okay?

20% of it is the path, 80% is face angle, okay?

So the other fault that I saw, and this kind of sets off that negative chain reaction of events that I talked about, is in transition, you started moving your hips left and your upper body hung back.

Now, what's the problem with this?

This thing right here, your lead shoulder, is your determining factor where the club is going to bottom out.

And I assume that you guys are setting up in a way where you want the ball, or I'm sorry, the club to bottom out in front of the ball, right?

We always heard that expression, you take a divot in front of the ball.

If your bottom out point is moving back because your shoulder is moving back, then that's going to force your hands, again, to become a little bit more active.

So a good way to overcome that, again, I'm giving you some fault fixes today, is to actually think about your lead shoulder.

staying down, but think about keeping it down past impact.

Now it's not going to stay lower than your right.

It's always going to, your right shoulder is always going to be lower than your, than your, your lead shoulder, but you want to feel like it stays down until your hands get just outside your lead thigh.

Okay.

Again, a lot of times people try to create that secondary axis tilt too quickly.

And that just looks like this.

Okay.

So you can see how I lean back and the club flips, right?

That's no bueno.

I'm bilingual, huh?

How about that?

I'm not really.

So the other final fault that I saw is that when some of you tried to blend this together, you started being less aggressive with your hips.

I saw some people that were at the start of the week before they started adding their hands and arms to it, they were being really aggressive with hips, okay?

But when you start getting the arms to move, you just kind of started fluffing around a little bit.

Get your legs and your hips to be the primary focus.

This hand and arm function, that you're doing from one side of the body to the other, yes, it's extremely important.

It's the face angle stuff.

But when you're trying to get this dynamic and you're trying to make the swing longer, use your legs and your hips properly.

Do not start thinking so much about this.

If you want to think primarily about the release and you're uncertain if you're doing the lower body stuff, then preset yourself at impact and just work on the release drills.

Don't have movement there yet.

You can work on this as two separate components.

And I actually gave a golf lesson yesterday to a person.

where I did that exact same thing, is I had him work on two separate components of his swing to ultimately blend it together at the end of the session, right?

Think about that.

Think about how much more productive we were in that two -hour time frame when we were together.

Worked on the first fault, worked on the second fault, and then blended them together.

And then I told him, I was like, you have the ability now to be able to go back and forth between the faults and try your best to be able to get the best success with the movements, back check them on camera.

So that's it for false.

Okay.

So as I said, you guys at the start, I have to, if I, I'm going to clap for you guys because, and I'm not trying to sound corny or cheesy, right?

Just work with me for a minute.

The questions that were asked, the movements that we've, we've seen and the people that have a desire to really get this stuff.

Great.

I, I, it's just, it's blown me away.

Okay.

It really has.

So I thank you guys because it's helped make this process a little bit easier for me to be able to deliver it to you today.

Because if I walked in here on this final session and I just saw mass chaos, I would be like, man, what did I do to this program, right?

But I saw exactly what I was hoping would happen.

And I think Craig did too, because Craig and I speak on a day-to-day basis and we get to kind of talk back and forth about the stuff that we've seen.

Even the questions in the community forum are all great.

You can really, really get a lot of success with this if you use all the resources on the website.

The community is a great place for you to be able to ask questions, right?

And I'll give you those options when we get done camp because we don't want you just to think that, all right, I've done four sessions.

Let me go back and watch all these replays and that you're going to be, you know, left on your own.

You have support.

We're going to help you.

Okay.

So the format today, what we're going to do is we're going to warm up first.

Okay.

We're going to get really focused on how to get this lower body stuff, a hundred percent perfect.

And I'm going to give you a different way to practice it.

Those of you that liked what we did in the first two sessions, you can stay with that.

We're going to be doing the same thing.

I'm just.

restructuring it a little bit.

And then after we do that, we are going to finish the backswing.

Now the backswing position, when I have you go through this with me, and I'm in fact, if you guys are following along with the PDF, then skip ahead, go to page 19.

This is where we're going to start and we're going to work backwards.

And the reason for that is, is because we don't care if you're going to be lead side or trail side dominant, either way, you're going to get to the same position at the top of the backswing.

but vastly, and I mean vastly different ways, okay?

And so this is where you're gonna have to make sure that you get to that spot.

Because what we saw in the first Axiom Bootcamp is we saw when we gave that free range of movement.

That a lot of people started creating faults in the backswing that can lead to absolute catastrophic faults on the downward half, all right?

So that's why I'm gonna have you guys skip ahead and use slide 19.

So for those of you that wanna be interactive and start warming up with me, we're actually gonna start today with feeling the axiom movement through our right foot.

Those of you that are left-handed, you can do it through your trail foot.

But we're gonna do this not in golf posture.

We're gonna do this.

You can put your hands in your pocket, okay?

Oh, Troy, thanks very much for joining us.

You can do this with your hands in your pockets.

You can do this with your arms across your shoulders.

I'm gonna do it with my hands in my pockets.

And I just want you to just feel this just for a minute, okay?

I want you to feel the weight move around the perimeter of your foot.

Allow your lower half to move a little bit here.

Now, what I want you to do is visualize, okay, visualize this with me for a moment.

When you start moving around to six o'clock, right, which should be back towards your trail heel, okay, when you start going up through seven, eight, nine, I want you to think about your entire body being pushed in the direction of the target, okay?

Even if you go too far, right?

We're not doing a violent movement here where you're gonna put stress on your hips, okay?

What I want you to do is just start waking your legs up.

But I also want you to visualize that that movement from six, seven, eight, and nine is aggressively helping you push your body in the direction of the target.

This is how I want you to warm up, okay?

Now, the reason why I want you to start warming up this way is because feeling movement is exactly what we want you to do within the axiom.

We don't want you to get locked up, okay?

If you start getting locked up, then you're going to start using your arms and your shoulders.

You gotta get this stuff moving, okay?

So Alan, that is definitely a big issue when your PDF is only 16 pages and I just asked you to go to page 19.

So maybe I have a mistake on my end.

We'll address that, but I'll show you the slide that we're gonna work off of, okay?

So now, once you've warmed up, I just gave you the movement of loading and then weight transfer.

Now, how do you think I want you to finish it off?

Well, here comes the secret sauce that you heard us talk about.

Right, this is the move that has really helped blend all of this stuff together.

So you don't have to think about your hips and your backswing.

You don't have to think about squat to square, and you don't have to think about post-up.

You're moving through those positions, right?

We're like, we don't have to think about squat to square, we don't have to think about post-up.

No, you don't have to.

That's why, if you think about this, it's two separate pieces and then putting them together, we're cooking with some major hot sauce here now.

The Secret sauce, I'm going to turn up the line for you, is I want you to imagine that you have a chair sitting back behind your left butt, right?

And all you're trying to do is you're going to take your left butt and sit back in the chair, okay?

Just like that.

Left butt sitting back in the chair.

That's it.

So if you think about your left butt sitting down and back on that chair, not going all the way back to where your heel is coming up off the ground, sit down and back.

That's all I want you to do.

within the confines of that big axiom movement that we just worked on.

So when we start going into this, you're gonna focus on that weight moving around the perimeter of your foot, and you're gonna make sure that you feel your whole body aggressively moving when you get to seven, eight, nine, but you're gonna counterbalance it with the left butt going down and back.

That's it, and you're gonna end up in the spot, okay?

So now what I want you to do is I want you to go ahead and get into your golf posture.

Okay.

And I want you to get your arms across your shoulders.

And we're going to start moving around the merry-go-round, and we're going to start going to six eight, nine.

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

Okay.

Looks like a little small movement, right?

Okay.

Now what you can see here is that this is all lower body driven.

I'm not doing anything with my upper half.

Okay.

We're going to add that in just a moment.

Okay.

Let me turn up the line.

Okay.

Round the clock, six, seven, eight, nine.

So for those of you at home that are watching that demonstration, it doesn't look like this, right?

They don't see a lot of excess movement.

Why?

Well, because it's a blend, right?

When this is all said and done, when you get really, really proficient with it, it's going to look like that.

Okay.

It's not a big movement.

Now let's talk about that.

It's a big movement at first, but we consolidate it down.

We were founded on the idea that we are going to protect and preserve your body.

Having all of these added moving parts is going to put stress on the critical joints if you don't do it accurately.

So you have to have a good blend of the hip shifting and rotating.

But also, if you think about the left butt going down, that adds that component in where now you've maintained tush line.

And how many of you at home, how many of you at home battle with this?

Okay, how many?

A lot of you, right?

Everybody wants to bring their hips forward.

So left hip down.

So left butt, left hip, right?

I want you to think about your left hip going down and back, right?

Left butt, down and back, same thing, okay?

I want you to think about it going down and back.

That coupled with you moving aggressively from your right side to your left is going to get you into the same position, right?

So my left butt, my left hip, everything's going down and back as I'm moving hard from six, seven, eight, nine.

It's going to give you the same results.

I encourage you to get up out of your chairs and try it out if you haven't, right?

And we're four sessions in.

Hopefully, you guys have tried this out.

And some of the guys that I've worked with that have sent me some really nice notes over the last few days, it's been pretty awesome to see.

I know there's a guy in the chat, Charles, who's made some absolutely insanely good progress.

And he's been a person that's always said, how am I going to get my hips more open?

Well, We got to get you working, right?

We got to get you using your legs and your hips the proper way.

We got to prioritize where that movement comes from.

So if you think about it as kind of two separate pieces, right?

You have the axiom movement and then where you're going to be moving and pressure shifting through seven, eight, nine to help get your body moving this way.

And you counterbalance that with what your left butt or your left hip are doing in transition.

Think about it from your left butt.

Sorry that I said left hip, but work with me.

Think about that left butt moving down and back as you're driving hard from that right side, and you're going to end up where?

Well, you're going to end up in that post -up position that you hear us talk about.

Now, what's a post-up position?

Post-up position is just the left leg moving to a passively straight position.

What does passively straight mean, Chris?

Well, you're sitting there having a conversation with me.

We're just sitting here talking.

I don't lock my legs out straight, right?

It's just a passively straight position.

If you try to snap it into this ramrod straight position, you're going to blow your knee out like Tiger did.

right?

That's not good for your body.

There's a lot of rotational force that's going to be taking place.

Okay.

So that's the secret sauce movement that you've heard us talk about since session one.

Okay.

It's using the axiom, thinking about when you start moving through seven, eight, nine, that you're using that to aggressively move your entire body, not just your hips, your entire body, but you're counterbalancing that with your left butt moving down and back.

And you're going to end up in the spot that you need to be.

Okay.

So first down and back or at the same time?

1000 Down and back, man, all same time.

So 1001 down and back towards the chair, 1002 okay?

Down and back there, okay?

That 1003 coupled with the drive off the right side 1004 and you are in the spot.

1005 Now, after you get that warmed up, what 1006 do you think I want you to do?

1007 I want you to start adding the shoulders, 1008 right?

I want you to start getting the 1009 shoulders to turn so you can start doing 1010 this, right?

Now, I know that every one 1011 of my reps, 1012 If you look at me, my chest looks like 1013 it's turned open.

1014 If you look at it from a down-the-line 1015 perspective, 1016 my shoulders are going to give you the 1017 appearance that they're trying to open up 1018 a little bit.

I am very, very tight and 1019 restricted in my hips.

1020 I just am.

1021 In order for me to get to that full post 1022 -up position, it tries to pull my 1023 shoulders around.

When I have a golf club 1024 in my hands, I restrict that as much as 1025 possible, and I try to stay closed.

For a 1026 lot of you at home when you're doing 1027 these drills, I want you to use.

the 1028 golf ball as your point of not trying to 1029 let your shoulders turn past.

Okay.

Use 1030 that as a focus point.

1031 Now, after you've done the axiom 1032 movement, you've coupled it with your 1033 special sauce.

1034 You've now added the body turn.

Now, what 1035 do we add to the mix?

1036 Well, we add the lead arm, right?

We add 1037 the lead arm or the trail side.

When we 1038 get the lead arm in the mix, I want you 1039 to remember when you start moving, okay, 1040 and you start turning your body, I want 1041 your arm to come back to nine o'clock.

No 1042 further back than nine o'clock, 1043 okay?

Now, as we get to this position, 1044 okay, we're going to make sure that we 1045 work from six up through seven, eight, 1046 nine.

We're going down with our left 1047 butt, down and back, and then we're 1048 letting our arms swing through.

So you 1049 can see that it's done really, really 1050 slow and chunky, just trying to focus on 1051 getting the mechanics put together.

1052 Okay, same thing.

1053 Okay, 1054 now you want to feel like your hip.

and 1055 your left leg are getting to that post-up 1056 position as your lead arm is passing in 1057 front.

1058 Okay?

1059 Now, remember, after you've decided that 1060 you're going to be lead side and you've 1061 gone through that process, and I'm not 1062 going to give you a specific number of 1063 reps that I want you to do.

And for those 1064 of you that have listened in on some of 1065 the Q&A, I want you to be able to play 1066 around with the numbers of reps that 1067 you're doing on each one of these phases, 1068 right?

If you need 30 or 40 reps with 1069 just doing this, That's totally fine.

1070 What are you trying to do in your 1071 practice session?

I want you to ask 1072 yourself that question.

1073 Well, I hope that you guys are all trying 1074 to get your body to move a different way, 1075 but you also want to be focused, right?

1076 You want to be focused and you want to 1077 start creating awareness.

Now, I 1078 understand that there are going to be 1079 some people that aren't kinesthetically 1080 aware of their body.

I'm one of those 1081 people.

So you have to start real slow.

1082 You have to use a mirror.

You have to use 1083 a camera, 1084 okay?

Otherwise, you don't know what 1085 you're doing, right?

1086 work at the pace that you feel 1087 comfortable with, but you wanna challenge 1088 yourself, right?

So today I'm gonna be 1089 working on getting my nine to three swing 1090 with some really good axiom movement 1091 through my foot.

I'm gonna try to get to 1092 that good solid position that Chris was 1093 talking about.

I'm gonna make sure that I 1094 get that stuff right without the golf 1095 club, 1096 okay?

Then what I'm gonna do is if I get 1097 really good results on camera, I want you 1098 to put the club back in your hands.

When 1099 the club comes back in your hands, I want 1100 you to have your troublemaker back on the 1101 club.

1102 Okay.

I know that you guys, some of you 1103 caught the terrible thing that I called 1104 it last session, but it is what it is.

1105 Okay.

1106 So I want this back on the club.

Why?

1107 Well, because it needs to feel like a 1108 golf swing.

I know that every single one 1109 of you can go out there and make this 1110 really nice looking left arm only swing.

1111 And you can have lots of lag and lots of 1112 release.

That's awesome.

Right.

But how 1113 many of you are going to go out there and 1114 commit to hitting golf balls like that?

1115 Not many.

And so this is one of the 1116 things that, you know, we've, we've been 1117 discussing on the backend is that we need 1118 to get.

The the both hands and arms on 1119 the golf club, because it has to feel 1120 like a golf swing for it to be able to 1121 translate.

That's the whole big picture, 1122 right?

So you're working to get this, 1123 this whole movement into a golf swing 1124 format.

And so then you start getting the 1125 club back in there, you start moving 1126 through the position.

So I'm not going to 1127 go and do a whole bunch of reps right 1128 now.

But again, what you're going to do 1129 is start moving around the perimeter of 1130 your foot.

You're turning into the nine 1131 to start getting the ball back in the 1132 mix.

Once you start getting the ball back 1133 in the mix, start hitting some shots, pay 1134 attention to how you're hitting the golf 1135 ball.

If you want to start real small and 1136 build your way up, that's the beauty of 1137 this is that we're not giving you this 1138 really, really iron clad sort of way that 1139 you have to practice.

We want you to be 1140 able to use the information that I gave 1141 you and be able to control your own 1142 practice sessions.

You have to go out 1143 there with a plan.

You have to try to 1144 create awareness.

And you have to go 1145 through the movements just like you would 1146 if you were learning anything else in 1147 this world.

For those of you that have 1148 ever learned how to do, think about a 1149 manual transmission.

I've used this 1150 example before in this camp.

But you 1151 don't go out there and start heel-toe 1152 shifting and rev matching.

And then all 1153 of a sudden, you're ripping through gears 1154 when you first start learning out the 1155 processes of a manual transmission.

What 1156 do you do?

Well, you learn the whole 1157 mechanical movement of it.

It's slow, 1158 chunky format.

And then you practice it.

1159 It's the same thing here.

Okay.

If I had 1160 some sort of magical pill to give you 1161 guys to get this stuff done, then I would 1162 give it to you because it would make my 1163 life a whole lot easier and your lives a 1164 whole lot less frustrating.

Right.

But 1165 that's just not the way it works.

Let's, 1166 let's, let's be, let's live in a world of 1167 reality.

You have to take time.

And plus 1168 what you have to understand too, is that 1169 you guys are wired with so much bad stuff 1170 in there sometimes that you have to just 1171 take the time and go through the unsexy 1172 part of this.

Right.

I know, I know it 1173 sucks to hear that.

Right, so, like, the 1174 guy that came in yesterday, okay, came in 1175 from um, Boca Baton.

And he says, Okay.

1176 I'm going to be back in like three or 1177 four weeks to have this done.

I was like, 1178 I'm going to be honest with you, I don't 1179 want to see you because in three or four 1180 weeks time you're not going to have this 1181 done.

But if you want me to sit out here 1182 for two hours in two straight days each 1183 session, and you want me to watch your 1184 movements, then I'll gladly do that 1185 right.

I will gladly do that where I'll 1186 sit there, but I don't like wasting 1187 people's time or money.

And I'm sure 1188 Craig and I'm sure Chuck are the same 1189 way.

So I know that business model sucks 1190 because I'm sure most of you in this room 1191 have been sold a series of lessons 1192 before, right?

How many of you walked 1193 into a pro shop and they're like, five 1194 golf lessons for whatever the price is.

1195 You're like, yeah, that's it.

I'm going 1196 to have like five weeks.

I'm going to be 1197 a golf superstar.

Okay.

1198 If that instructor knows what they're 1199 doing and they teach you how to train 1200 your body.

and they get you a solid plan 1201 that's going to allow you to make all 1202 these changes in that short period of 1203 time, fine, great.

They've solved world 1204 peace when it comes to golf.

1205 This stuff takes time, But that's the 1206 good thing about Axiom is that being able 1207 to start moving into and through 1208 positions and doing it the correct way.

1209 Without having to do a lot of this 1210 mechanical thinking about where you're 1211 trying to move to in space, it's going to 1212 change the golfing world.

I'm going to 1213 tell you right now, and we've seen it.

1214 I've seen a lot of people that just, 1215 quite honestly, sucked with lower body 1216 movements and had early extension their 1217 entire life, now are starting to make 1218 golf swings, staying in posture.

Think 1219 about that.

1220 Right?

Pretty crazy.

1221 So here we are at graduation day.

I just 1222 walked you through a step-by-step process 1223 on how to get yourself warmed up.

Now 1224 what we've got to do is we've got to 1225 finish this puppy off.

1226 And a lot of you are going to try to do 1227 this too early.

1228 A lot of you will.

1229 I've seen some of you guys at home trying 1230 to hit golf balls too soon.

1231 Take your time.

1232 Don't try to have the golf ball in the 1233 mix.

1234 So as I said to you just a moment ago, if 1235 you find this slide, 1236 I think it's slide 19.

If this is off on 1237 your PDF, I apologize, but it's just 1238 going to be Chuck in a completed back 1239 swing position.

And the reason why I want 1240 to start here is because the back swing 1241 position that we're going to be working 1242 towards, whether it's trail side or lead 1243 side dominant, is going to go to the 1244 exact same spot.

Okay, if you look at my 1245 right elbow, it's in line with my torso.

1246 It's not back here.

1247 If you look at my right elbow, it's more 1248 or less at the base of my chest.

1249 If you look at my left wrist, my left 1250 wrist is anatomically flat.

1251 Okay, so both movements are going to get 1252 you to that same spot.

1253 If you found that you have a right elbow 1254 that flies away from you, if you find 1255 that your hands and your arms are deep, 1256 If you find that your hands and arms are 1257 too far in front of you, then you need to 1258 be able to kind of play around with which 1259 side dominant you want to be in.

Because 1260 the right side dominant stuff or the 1261 trail side dominant stuff, what we've 1262 noticed is when you start getting this 1263 big circular movement that I'm going to 1264 teach you at the very end of the session, 1265 that when you start going bagging around, 1266 you can start getting your arms deep.

And 1267 if you're not using your legs properly, 1268 then I don't know where the golf 1269 instruction world led.

People to believe 1270 that.

It was so much better to be from 1271 the inside hitting golf balls, like, you 1272 know, way in from here than it was from, 1273 you know.

Being a little bit on top of 1274 it, it's not that much better.

Okay, it's 1275 actually what took me out of professional 1276 golf is coming too far from the inside.

1277 Okay, so that will force you to hit a 1278 block or a quick hook.

So the point of 1279 what we want to do here is we want you to 1280 understand that.

Both movements are going 1281 to get you to the same spot, but just 1282 different ways now, the way that we like 1283 to get you up to the top of the swing, 1284 Okay, actually, let's start without a 1285 club.

1286 I'm going to show you from the lead side 1287 dominant standpoint first.

So for those 1288 of you that want to work on this with me, 1289 great.

1290 Put your trail hand behind your back or 1291 put it in your pocket, okay?

And all we 1292 want you to do is we want you to think 1293 about your left arm hanging down here 1294 freely.

1295 We want you to use that pressure shift.

1296 We're going to use pressure shift at 1297 first here because we're not going to be 1298 moving through the position, okay?

So the 1299 pressure shift, if you guys didn't pay 1300 attention to anything I said in session 1301 number one, a pressure shift is just 1302 going to be, your right hip, 1303 right?

So this belt loop is going to move 1304 kind of back towards your right ankle and 1305 you're going to push down on your right 1306 ankle, okay?

1307 Shame on you for not paying attention.

1308 So you're going to pressure shift and 1309 then you're going to take and you're 1310 going to turn your body.

So you're going 1311 to take your right shoulder and pull it 1312 back behind your head, and you're going 1313 to feel like your left hand moves up 1314 above your right shoulder, okay?

1315 Now, this is going to feel, you can kind 1316 of hear me grimace, right?

It's going to 1317 feel like some work.

because you're going 1318 to have some shoulder activation here, 1319 because your arms in the golf swing are 1320 doing this.

This is shoulder elevation, 1321 for those of you that don't know it.

1322 That elevation is going to feel like some 1323 work.

So is the body turn.

So is the 1324 loading process.

1325 Now, this is going to become easier when 1326 we bring your troublemaker back to the 1327 side of it.

It's going to help offer 1328 support to it.

But we want you to be able 1329 to do a bunch of reps where you just 1330 think about the pressure shift, body 1331 turn, and then you want to let your arm 1332 get moved up above your right shoulder 1333 and feel like your hand gets.

just 1334 above the right shoulder and make sure 1335 that this wrist is anatomically flat.

1336 Okay.

Not cupped.

You can go bowed if you 1337 want to, but you don't need to.

Okay.

1338 Anatomically flat.

1339 Okay.

So your, your left wrist or your 1340 lead wrist, I should say, I'm sorry that 1341 I'm beating up all you left handers at 1342 home today.

Your lead wrist is going to 1343 start a little tiny bit cupped here to 1344 dress.

Okay.

And it's going to start, 1345 it's going to begin to rotate and it's 1346 going to begin to start to set.

So 1347 there's going to be some wrist cock.

And 1348 by the time you get to the top of the 1349 swing, it's going to work itself into an 1350 anatomically flat position.

1351 The momentum of the club will help kind 1352 of move that into that spot.

Okay.

So you 1353 want to make sure that that left wrist is 1354 anatomically flat.

Now, remember this 1355 finishing move that we're giving you is 1356 after you become really proficient with 1357 the nine to three stuff, 1358 right?

Think about that.

Don't start 1359 trying to go into kamikaze mode.

Like 1360 you're trying to hit golf balls out of 1361 the back of the range.

I've seen plenty 1362 of people hit it far enough.

I hit it 1363 plenty far enough myself.

Go out there 1364 and get this stuff right first, 1365 okay?

And then from there, you start 1366 working on the finishing move.

So that's 1367 just a little kick in the butt at home, 1368 all right?

1369 So now, once you've done that, 1370 okay, now you can add the club back in 1371 the mix.

Same thing, same procedures.

1372 Little pressure shift, okay?

You're gonna 1373 turn your body.

1374 Left arm is gonna end up at the top of 1375 the golf swing where your left arm 1376 anatomically flat.

1377 It's gonna feel pretty heavy because the 1378 club is gonna have some momentum and 1379 inertia.

1380 But as I said to you before, this is 1381 gonna start becoming a little bit easier 1382 when you bring the trail hand back to it.

1383 Now let's talk about how I want you to 1384 bring your trail hand back to it.

1385 A good method here is you do this rep 1386 where you press your shift and you turn.

1387 Okay, now you can bring the right hand 1388 back up just to touch the side of the 1389 club.

Okay, you can see that I'm in a 1390 pretty decent spot here.

1391 Okay, just touch it.

1392 Just by touching the club with two 1393 fingers, you would be wildly surprised to 1394 know how much that takes the stress off 1395 of the left arm.

1396 Right?

So very, very important that you 1397 can understand that this is going to act 1398 like a support brace, 1399 right?

Just a little support system to 1400 1401 Then once you start getting proficient 1402 with it, you can take that right hand and 1403 you can start letting it follow along 1404 with the movement all the way to the top 1405 of the swing.

Okay?

See how I had to 1406 adjust my posture there?

I'm so fat and 1407 lazy these days sometimes because I'm not 1408 fat and lazy, but I'm a little husky or 1409 buxom, right?

1410 I sit at a computer a lot.

And so when 1411 you look at me, I'm a little bit rounded 1412 from my thoracic spine up.

So I have to 1413 remind myself when I'm on, you know, 1414 teaching you guys that I've got to get 1415 into a better posture here, right?

So 1416 we're not all perfect, right?

1417 So I appreciate the enthusiasm though.

1418 All right.

So now from here, what we're 1419 going to do is we're going to pressure 1420 shift and turn our body.

1421 Okay.

1422 And we're going to make sure that we end 1423 up at the top of the swing.

Okay.

So 1424 we're letting the right hand follow along 1425 with these movements.

1426 Okay.

1427 There.

Now.

1428 Once you get to that position, what do we 1429 want you to do?

I hope everybody in this 1430 freaking room can answer that question.

1431 We want you to start aggressively getting 1432 off the merry-go-round and doing your 1433 lower body movement properly to get to 1434 that spot.

Now, you're going to hear a 1435 lot of people ask me questions at the end 1436 where the shallowing move starts to 1437 happen.

1438 Shallowing move in the golf swing.

If you 1439 remember, 1440 the hands and the arms just did this.

1441 They're moving vertically.

1442 The trail arm is flexing a little bit.

1443 When you get to the top and you start 1444 moving aggressively from your trail side 1445 to your lead side, okay, your hands and 1446 your arms, if you keep them relaxed, is 1447 going to shallow the golf swing 1448 automagically.

If you go up there and 1449 you're fighting with tension, trying to 1450 keep things locked into space, then guess 1451 what?

Then as soon as your hips start 1452 rotating, okay, I'm going to show face on 1453 here, Kevin, don't worry.

I'm going to 1454 turn here in just a moment, okay?

If you 1455 get up to the top of the swing, and you 1456 lock your arms and your shoulders in 1457 place, and you start turning your hips, 1458 where are your hands and arms going?

1459 They're going that way, okay?

They're 1460 going that way, and that is not going to 1461 do you any good.

So this position at the 1462 top should feel relaxed.

So if I start 1463 shifting, then you're going to see that 1464 my arms start coming down off of my 1465 shoulders, and I end up in the spot where 1466 I'm going to be delivering the club 1467 through the hitting area, okay?

So what 1468 this is going to look like from face on, 1469 okay, is we're going to try to get nice 1470 and wide on our right side, okay?

I don't 1471 turn that much.

1472 There you go.

1473 So remember, prioritize movement.

1474 If you start trying to pick your arms up 1475 into that spot and you don't turn your 1476 body, then your arms are going to fire 1477 fast.

1478 So how do we finish off the swing lead 1479 side?

1480 You start out left arm only.

You make 1481 sure that you turn your body to get your 1482 arm in the.

the left wrist into that 1483 anatomically flat spot.

Piece of cake.

1484 Then you start bringing the club back 1485 into the mix.

For those of you that are 1486 bothered by momentum and inertia in the 1487 club, you can start with the club upside 1488 down.

This is a very common practice that 1489 you will hear us utilize with students 1490 that are maybe battling with losing some 1491 sight of where their body is.

Why?

1492 Because when you take momentum and 1493 inertia and you add it to the mix, it's 1494 amazing how fast the brain wants to shift 1495 its attention to what the club is 1496 feeling.

So you can do these reps.

1497 Okay?

Same thing.

1498 Okay?

Now, as far as the natural 1499 shallowing of the club, Stephen, if you 1500 go up to the top of your swing, and let's 1501 think about this objectively for a moment 1502 here, okay?

1503 This movement, if you take your arms and 1504 you lift them up, straight up, right?

1505 Now, if you lift them up to where my 1506 elbows are at the base of my chest, and 1507 you let your arms settle straight down, 1508 right?

1509 This movement right here is going to be 1510 happening in the downswing.

It's 1511 independent movement from what your 1512 shoulders are doing.

Now, let's talk 1513 about how to do that.

1514 If you go up to the top of the swing and 1515 you don't move your hips and you don't 1516 move your shoulders and you lower your 1517 arms down, that's the shallowing move 1518 that will be happening.

Now, how do we 1519 have that work for us?

1520 Well, you've got to stay relaxed in your 1521 shoulders.

If you start, again, holding 1522 onto too much tension up there, 1523 then your arms are not gonna start coming 1524 straight down.

So for those of you that 1525 have maybe battled with getting the club 1526 to work in this direction of the hands 1527 and arms, then go up to the top of your 1528 swing and feel this for a moment, 1529 okay?

Feel your arms do this.

1530 Okay, then aggressively start moving 1531 through your axiom movement, okay?

And do 1532 the same thing.

So you can see that the 1533 hips are going to work on moving the 1534 hands and arms out in front.

The hands 1535 and arms, You want to feel like they're 1536 moving as vertically as possible from the 1537 top of the swing.

And allow the hips to 1538 dictate the path that the hands and arms 1539 are working back out in front.

1540 Body rotation moves the hands and arms 1541 out in front.

1542 So very important that you understand 1543 that.

1544 So that's the finish of the backswing.

1545 Now, There's going to be some specific 1546 checkpoints that you're going to see 1547 that.

If you're working on these things 1548 slow and chunky, and you want to make 1549 sure that you're in the right spot with 1550 your hands and arms on the way down.

1551 Those are referenced, but again, that's 1552 missing the point.

If you're trying to 1553 get to a certain spot midway down, 1554 that's not gonna be any good, okay?

You 1555 should already have that spot achieved by 1556 your nine to three swings, right?

1557 So don't try to think about the 1558 positions.

Now, again, If you need to go 1559 back and you need to start kind of 1560 understanding where your hands need to be 1561 down here.

And you need to work on things 1562 and reverse engineer back in there, 1563 totally fine.

That's why we give you that 1564 freedom, that flexibility.

1565 That's why the program is designed the 1566 way that it is.

So we get some questions 1567 popping up here.

1568 What if you have trouble getting your 1569 left arm across your chest?

1570 So your left arm across your chest.

I 1571 don't think I said my left arm is going 1572 across my chest.

I said, I want you to 1573 turn your body to move your arm there.

1574 Your left arm, if it's going across your 1575 chest, you're pushing from your lead arm.

1576 That's not going to do you any good.

1577 The right arm.

So if you hold your arms 1578 out in front of you, this is a good way 1579 to think about this.

This is five minutes 1580 to a perfect backswing.

1581 Craig did one called pitfalls where 1582 people, we got to watch people screw this 1583 one up.

Okay, so if you lift your arm 1584 straight up, okay, and then you flex your 1585 right arm, 1586 okay, from your perspective, I have my 1587 right eye covered, right?

1588 So I'm looking out, I can't see through, 1589 I can't see you through my right eye.

1590 Then from there, if I go into golf 1591 posture, okay, now watch.

I'm gonna hold 1592 this position.

Now watch.

1593 I just turn my body, okay?

1594 I didn't swing my left arm across my 1595 chest at all.

That's a bad, bad 1596 misunderstanding in the world.

That's 1597 actually, if you, 1598 I don't know if you guys have read 1599 through or seen a lot of our videos on 1600 some of the injuries, but the number one 1601 golf-related injury years ago was lead 1602 shoulder impingement.

Think about that.

I 1603 would have thought it was like lead hip, 1604 lead knee, or back, right?

Lead shoulder 1605 impingement.

What does that cause from?

1606 Well, I remember golf instruction telling 1607 us to shove our arm across our chest, and 1608 that was how you created your backswing.

1609 right?

That is golf instruction that I 1610 want to move away from very quickly.

1611 All that does when you start locking your 1612 left shoulder up and you start turning 1613 your body really hard, then there's a 1614 subcromial space that gets all jammed up 1615 in there and they have to go dig out.

So 1616 if any of you had the shoulder 1617 impingement, you would know how 1618 uncomfortable it really is.

1619 So back in the notes here or back in the 1620 questions.

So Chris, it seems like a 1621 slight rotation of the club left hand is 1622 required from the top to get the logo.

1623 Yeah, exactly.

So very good question.

1624 1625 If you're thinking about the rate of 1626 rotation from here down to here, 1627 probably not the best thing for you, 1628 okay?

Because again, you start kind of 1629 thinking about all the nuts and bolts of 1630 when you have to time that stuff up, not 1631 a great thing.

But if you think about it 1632 as two specific positions, here and then 1633 here, okay?

Then you're on fire, 1634 okay?

1635 Here and then here.

1636 There are going to be some cases with 1637 students that maybe they go up to the top 1638 of the swing and they start laying things 1639 off and they don't start squaring the 1640 face early.

Then that would be addressed 1641 in a very specific sort of lesson with 1642 us, right?

There's videos on the website 1643 called squaring the face early.

There's 1644 one called trace the plane line.

There's 1645 one called the knuckles down logo down 1646 drill.

1647 So, but if you're thinking about things 1648 that are happening fast from here down 1649 into the hitting area, that's a good way 1650 for you to get a little bit locked up.

1651 Remember, this is all about movement.

1652 right?

We're giving you a little bit of 1653 freedom here to have some movement, but 1654 in order to get to that big full swing 1655 anyways, you better have this stuff, 1656 right?

You better have the release stuff, 1657 right?

And you better have a good nine to 1658 three swing, right?

That's why we put 1659 this program back together is that if you 1660 start thinking about all of the backs and 1661 all of the minutiae that goes along with 1662 it, and you're not doing this stuff well 1663 enough, then I'm not going to guarantee 1664 you your success.

I'm not going to tell 1665 you that you're going to hit the ball 1666 well, because getting up into this spot, 1667 if you get to here and it looks great on 1668 camera, Okay, which is awesome.

1669 You can make a whole lot of mistakes on 1670 the downward half if you start driving 1671 hard off your right leg and your hips 1672 come forward, or let's say you spin 1673 really hard, whatever it is.

So very 1674 important that you understand that.

1675 So what if you're restricted with 1676 elevation of your left shoulder?

So 1677 elevation is 135% of variable.

So what I 1678 mean by variable is we like to have 1679 things kind of middle of the road, right?

1680 Where we can get the most efficiency out 1681 of the movement.

Chuck did a study on 1682 high hands versus low hands.

So we like 1683 to have the right elbow right at the base 1684 of the chest.

That doesn't mean that you 1685 have to go to that spot.

If you want to 1686 be a little bit lower, fine.

If you want 1687 to be a little bit higher, like Davis 1688 Love III, who, if you look at his golf 1689 swing back in his heyday, 1690 had heaps and heaps and heaps of 1691 elevation.

But you have to remember, 1692 having all that elevation is great 1693 because it's widening the arc.

But now 1694 you have to rebalance and say, okay, now 1695 what does he have to do in the downward 1696 half?

Well, he's going to have to be real 1697 patient with his body, right?

He's going 1698 to have to allow his arms to really start 1699 coming down without any sort of violent 1700 move from his upper half.

1701 Otherwise, he's going to move it out away 1702 from him.

So you don't need to have a lot 1703 of strength or a lot of mobility in the 1704 shoulders.

And same thing with, you know, 1705 when you see a right elbow position at 1706 the top of the swing, and a lot of you 1707 can test this in just a moment, right?

I 1708 have some humorous rotation available to 1709 me.

So humorous rotation, if you want to 1710 test this, okay, because this is going to 1711 help you set it on plane.

I know 1712 everybody wants that.

pretty looking 1713 backswing before they have good impact 1714 positions, but I get it.

1715 If you hold your right arm out in front 1716 of you, 1717 you flex it to 80 or 90 degrees, and then 1718 you move your hand out away from you, you 1719 can see that I have a lot of external 1720 humerus rotation.

1721 This at the top of the swing helps hold 1722 the right elbow in line.

1723 Now, I've seen people, I actually have a 1724 lot of people I work with, that have no 1725 mobility.

They can't move their arm away 1726 from them at all.

Because they might have 1727 had rotator cuff surgery, or maybe 1728 they've got, you know, some issues with 1729 their labrum or more, maybe they've got a 1730 frozen shoulder, whatever.

Those are 1731 variables, so variables will work within 1732 the confines of.

So, we just want you to 1733 kind of stay down the middle of the road.

1734 We want your hands to be above your right 1735 shoulder, we want the right elbow in line 1736 with your torso, and that's really it.

So 1737 all right.

So I think that if you follow 1738 that procedure, getting your left arm 1739 Into the correct spot with your right 1740 hand, then becoming a backseat passenger, 1741 those movements.

Then you're gonna find 1742 that you hit that really good-looking 1743 spot.

Everybody claps for you because it 1744 looks so good on camera right now.

Let's 1745 talk about those of you that are 1746 Trailside dominant.

And the reason why I 1747 say this in this manner is because.

This 1748 big circular movement that you've 1749 probably seen from the axiom, from the 1750 the Trail arm 1751 is a little distracting.

To me.

As a 1752 golfer, that's always been lead side.

1753 I've always been lead side dominant.

So 1754 to make this big movement with my arm, it 1755 felt a little bit unorthodox.

But I did 1756 see right out of the gate when this thing 1757 was introduced, a lot of people that 1758 swung the club over the top their entire 1759 life get this little fault fixed.

1760 So I can't do this with a golf club in my 1761 hands because of the setup that I have 1762 here in the studio here.

But I can show 1763 you with the arm.

So basically, 1764 the axiom is founded in movement in one 1765 direction, right?

So we're going to be 1766 making that clockwise circle around the 1767 perimeter of our foot.

And now, if you 1768 think about making a clockwise circle 1769 with your right arm, independent from 1770 that movement, 1771 right?

1772 This is what we call the air guitar, 1773 right?

1774 And then you try to marry those back 1775 together, right?

So you're going to start 1776 moving around the merry-go-round.

1777 And you're going to start using that 1778 special sauce, right?

Now, this is a 1779 very, very big pronounced movement.

1780 that's going to be eventually toned back, 1781 right?

Now you can see is as I'm getting 1782 off the merry-go-round, you can see that 1783 I'm strumming up on that guitar.

So for 1784 those of you that have played Guitar 1785 Hero, or maybe some of you are 1786 guitarists, 1787 right?

The big payoff there is when you 1788 start moving off the merry-go-round, that 1789 you're going to be strumming up on that 1790 thing, right?

Now, that movement, when 1791 you think about it in a golf swing 1792 format, okay, is going to help keep the 1793 hands and arms from doing this on the way 1794 down, right?

So if you're moving in one 1795 direction, you can see that it's almost 1796 impossible.

It's impossible for me to get 1797 my hands and arms to do this.

What's 90% 1798 of the golfing or 99% of the golfing 1799 population battle with?

Well, they battle 1800 from being over the top and slicing the 1801 golf ball.

But we also understand that a 1802 lot of you are very well-versed golfers.

1803 A lot of you have played golf for an 1804 extended period of time.

So most of you 1805 aren't swinging in the club over the top 1806 that much.

But if you are, you've always 1807 been one of those very big upper body 1808 driven swings that uses too much arms and 1809 shoulders, then you're going to want to 1810 go down this pathway.

You're going to 1811 want to try to get your right arm to feel 1812 like it's doing that.

Now, when you start 1813 introducing the club back to your hands, 1814 okay, and I can't do this here because I 1815 have a giant fan above me right up here.

1816 I'll break that.

1817 When you start doing that movement, okay, 1818 it's going to feel very robust.

It's 1819 going to feel huge.

But as soon as you 1820 bring the left hand back on the side of 1821 the club, it's going to feel a little bit 1822 less, right?

And then what you can start 1823 doing is you can start tightening that 1824 circle down, right?

You can start working 1825 through getting that circle to be a 1826 little bit smaller and a little bit 1827 smaller and a little bit smaller.

And 1828 that keeps you into that trail side 1829 dominant sort of pathway, right?

Again, I 1830 wanted to go down the pathway where I've, 1831 you know, I've spent a lot of time over 1832 the last 10 or 11 years within the 1833 website.

And a lot of the success that 1834 I've seen has always been through the 1835 lead side.

But again, I'm not ever, ever 1836 against taking on new ways of instruction 1837 that are going to help you guys get to 1838 the end result.

That would be foolish.

1839 That would be, I would be dead in the 1840 golf instruction world.

That's one of the 1841 things I hate about golf instruction is 1842 that none of us agree on anything, right?

1843 None of us do.

And so if you go and you 1844 watch other golf pros or you listen to 1845 other instruction, it's like, 1846 they're not willing to try to take on and 1847 understand what else is out there.

Like 1848 for instance, I saw somebody on YouTube 1849 the other day teaching reverse pivot.

I 1850 don't know if I mentioned this early in 1851 the camp, but he was teaching reverse 1852 pivot.

1853 And the following, he has a big 1854 following.

1855 He was literally teaching people to do 1856 this.

And the following of what you were 1857 seeing in the comments was like, this guy 1858 was a god.

And he's had a sword.

And some 1859 of you will know who I'm talking about 1860 when I say sword.

He had a sword in his 1861 intro.

And he's like out there, he's 1862 like, I'm going to show you Ben Hogan's 1863 best secret ever.

And he was coming up 1864 off of his right leg.

And I was seeing 1865 everybody do this.

1866 And I was like, but when you look at it, 1867 I can't get, I'm not going to go into the 1868 comments and be like, this is wrong.

1869 Because what are we trying to do?

We're 1870 trying to help you get better at golf.

So 1871 if you have to go down the pathway of 1872 using your trail arm to help you overcome 1873 a fault, right?

1874 Then go down that pathway.

But you're 1875 always going to hear me specifically.

And 1876 you'll probably hear Craig specifically 1877 because we're both very lead side 1878 dominant.

players ourselves, but also 1879 lead side dominant instructors, you're 1880 going to hear us steer you in that 1881 pathway.

Because I've worked with a lot 1882 of people that have had trail side 1883 dominance their life and been able to get 1884 them to switch over and actually develop 1885 really good golf spins.

And the beauty of 1886 the RST fundamentals is that it is the 1887 safest, most efficient way to spin the 1888 golf club.

And nobody can argue with us 1889 on that one because it's backed by 1890 physics.

It's backed by science.

1891 When we start talking about biomechanics, 1892 some of the stuff that we talk about, It 1893 would blow your mind because.

You think 1894 about even your knee and your hip, and 1895 how a little pressure change through your 1896 foot can actually put your knee into this 1897 really dangerous position when your 1898 knee's just not designed to rotate.

Those 1899 are things that we understand.

And so 1900 with all we've ever taught at Rotary 1901 Swing, we've always taught you to be 1902 safe.

And you can still be safe with 1903 doing this stuff with your trail side.

1904 But just remember, keep things toned back 1905 to where you're not going to start having 1906 excessive movement and put your body 1907 under the gun.

1908 Can you show how to focus on clockwise 1909 rotation of the club using lead arm?

1910 So I virtually did that.

And the reason 1911 why I want to remove that from your brain 1912 right now is because of how easy it is 1913 for you to get your left arm to this 1914 spot, right?

1915 I know a lot of you want to try to feel 1916 that movement from the lead side.

You can 1917 do this from the lead side.

This is, 1918 again, this is reflected on the video.

1919 If you go and watch Chuck, okay, Chuck 1920 is.

the master of delivering 1921 information and the master of being able 1922 to demonstrate this stuff, he's going to 1923 probably give you a little bit better 1924 sort of visual of it.

I don't, again, 1925 like to feel excessive movement in my 1926 swing because I've never had it.

And so 1927 if I don't have it, then it's harder for 1928 me to teach it and show it to you 1929 properly.

Hopefully that makes sense.

1930 But you can.

You can go back and there's 1931 reference videos on these slides that 1932 will connect to what you're asking for.

1933 But you can do this.

1934 with the lead arm as well.

Again, that's 1935 a different way to kind of look at it.

1936 But if you look at an easy way to get 1937 your backswing into the right spot, 1938 because it needs to be in this spot, no 1939 matter if it's right side or left side, 1940 turn your body and elevate your hand 1941 above your right shoulder and you're 1942 there, right?

If you just think about 1943 where your hand and your arm are going to 1944 end up, you naturally start moving this 1945 into this position as long as you're 1946 moving in the correct order.

1947 So sorry, Greg, I'm not trying to evade 1948 the question, but I was, I'm really 1949 trying to keep things kind of the way 1950 that I know that you're going to get 1951 success based off of the way that I teach 1952 1953 So can you believe it?

1954 That's the information, 1955 right?

I know I didn't give you tons and 1956 tons and tons of stuff with the trail 1957 side, but I showed you how to do it.

And 1958 I showed you that you can start making 1959 this movement happen and you can bring 1960 the club back in and then you can bring 1961 the lead side back to it.

Remember, the 1962 position that you're seeing up here is 1963 where you need to be.

If it's deep, 1964 you're going to be in trouble.

1965 Don't let yourself get deep.

But I will 1966 say this.

For those of you that have 1967 never felt that shallowing move of your 1968 arms, you'll definitely feel a shallowing 1969 move start to happen when you start 1970 moving your right arm around the clock.

1971 So now what I would like to do is I would 1972 like to just do a quick recap, okay?

1973 The recap of this whole program is this.

1974 Start slow.

1975 Make sure your setup is good.

1976 I've seen some setups.

That's ideal.

If 1977 you don't think a setup is important, 1978 then stick around.

Let's talk about it 1979 because setups can affect the way that 1980 you move pretty radically.

1981 Preloaded right sides, stance width, 1982 too much knee flex.

That stuff we listed 1983 on your slides for a pretty good freaking 1984 reason, right?

1985 Okay.

Because of the fact that we know 1986 that these faults or these added things 1987 that you might be doing create 1988 mountainous amounts of faults behind it.

1989 Okay.

1990 So start small, get the setup right, but 1991 also go down the pathway where you start 1992 focusing on what your legs and your hips 1993 are doing.

1994 Get that stuff right.

Do it slow and 1995 chunky at first and then use the movement 1996 that I talked about here today where 1997 you're really starting to, okay, I'm 1998 using the axiom movement.

I can feel that 1999 pressure shift and now I know when I get 2000 to 6 o'clock and I move to 7, 8, 9 that I 2001 should be feeling my body move.

I should 2002 be feeling that.

Counterbalance it with 2003 what we're talking about with the left 2004 butt and you're cooking.

2005 Start putting the shoulders back to it.

2006 Add the arm.

Get the club.

When the club 2007 comes back in, get both hands on there.

2008 Start small.

2009 Build it up.

Get to the point where you 2010 can hit golf balls.

If you can hit golf 2011 balls at nine to three and you can look 2012 like this at impact, right?

Just like 2013 this.

If you can look like this at impact 2014 in nine to three format, then I will tell 2015 you to go forth, my child.

Because if you 2016 remember, I said to you guys in session 2017 number two, the only thing that matters 2018 in golf is impact, right?

Impact.

We want 2019 your hands over on your left thigh.

We 2020 want your hips open 45.

We want your club 2021 face square, 2022 okay?

These positions right here, if you 2023 can do that in nine to three, okay, and 2024 you can move through it properly, then go 2025 to full swing.

Finish this puppy off.

2026 Stop playing miserable golf, right?

2027 This is going to allow you to be able to 2028 kind of be your own coaches now because 2029 you can go out there and say, I don't see 2030 that my impact position is good.

What did 2031 Chris say?

Well, I addressed a lot of the 2032 faults, right?

If you start looking at it 2033 and you're like, okay, my hips aren't 2034 into that good spot, then aggressively 2035 start working on your hips.

If you see 2036 that you're flipping at it, well, focus 2037 on what your arms are doing.

2038 That's why this program is my favorite 2039 delivery.

2040 because I said it to you guys, I don't 2041 know if you guys caught it, but Chuck and 2042 I, when we were doing clinics together, 2043 we did 38 of them.

We started working 2044 from hip high to hip high and people were 2045 like, I'm hitting hip high to hip high 2046 shots all weekend.

But by the end of the 2047 weekend, when they were hitting steamboat 2048 laser beams, like, which I don't know if 2049 you've all heard a shot that's 2050 compressed, what the ball does, it 2051 hisses.

It's nice.

2052 It's sexy sound.

I love that sound.

In 2053 fact, I could turn my back to a golf 2054 lesson and just listen to that sound and 2055 know if you guys are doing things right.

2056 2057 When you can start doing that, then 2058 slowly start building more into it.

If 2059 you go down this pathway where you 2060 reverse engineer, like I taught you how 2061 to do over these last four sessions, I 2062 guarantee you success.

I guarantee it.

2063 Craig guarantees it.

2064 Chuck guarantees it.

And this is, again, 2065 how you have to approach the situation.

2066 So now let's talk about your pathway 2067 moving forward.

2068 Each and every one of you is going to be 2069 a little bit different.

Everybody is.

2070 Some of you show up with some big faults.

2071 Some of you show up pretty close to being 2072 able to do this stuff.

2073 Whatever it is, do not feel like you're 2074 alone in this journey, okay?

You can go 2075 back through the video replays and watch 2076 it over and over again.

Those are there 2077 for you and for the rest of your lives, 2078 okay?

2079 Go back through.

If you find that the 2080 answers aren't really relating to you, 2081 then use swing reviews, okay?

We have 2082 unlimited swing reviews available, and 2083 then you can buy packages of reviews if 2084 you need to.

I find that the unlimited 2085 swing reviews is probably.

The best 2086 bang for your buck because it gives you 2087 unlimited access to myself or to Craig.

2088 And we can sit there and go through this 2089 stuff piece by piece with you and we can 2090 customize your program.

And that helps 2091 you kind of get away from getting lost in 2092 all of the videos that are on the 2093 website.

Right?

Because I know a lot of 2094 you will go down this rabbit hole where 2095 you start trying to look at all these 2096 videos.

Like, Oh, boom, that's what, 2097 that's me, right?

But that may not be the 2098 best way to fix it.

So having a hand 2099 holding experience is generally pretty 2100 beneficial to you.

If the, again, please 2101 don't take that as a sales pitch.

I hate 2102 sales pitch stuff.

So just get past that.

2103 So if you need that constant support, 2104 we're there.

We got plenty of spots open 2105 in both groups.

2106 If you want to use the community forums, 2107 I saw some great stuff going on in the 2108 communities where you guys were asking 2109 great questions.

Other students were 2110 jumping in.

Craig was answering a lot of 2111 the questions that's there as well.

Okay.

2112 But being able to go and use the 2113 reference videos and use this, this 2114 reference slide as well, and kind of 2115 relating it back to how I deliver the 2116 information.

Again, I said this to you 2117 guys out of session one.

I'm going to 2118 deliver the information differently than 2119 Chuck.

Chuck's going to deliver the 2120 information differently than Craig.

We're 2121 all going to deliver a little bit 2122 differently.

But it comes back to the 2123 same thing, okay, it comes back to the 2124 same principles and same fundamentals 2125 that we always teach, just different ways 2126 to be able to get you there.

And so 2127 hopefully you guys have enjoyed what 2128 you've seen over these four sessions.

And 2129 I want to thank you guys very much for 2130 taking time out of your, out of your days 2131 to sit here with me.

Because I know that 2132 a lot of you guys are really busy, I know 2133 that you guys have other important things 2134 going on in your life and It means a lot 2135 to me.

And the feedback that you guys 2136 have given me has been awesome.

I really, 2137 I appreciate it.

And I know I'm not 2138 awesome at delivering information.

2139 Sometimes I talk fast.

I get it.

2140 But just understand that my passion in 2141 the world of golf instruction is to help 2142 you guys get better.

And hopefully you 2143 guys get to see that with today's 2144 presentation and the three subsequent 2145 ones as well.

And I really do hope you 2146 guys have the best success with this 2147 stuff.

And so if there's anything that we 2148 can do moving forward to help you guys in 2149 this process to become really good ball 2150 strikers, please let us know.

2151 If you want to send some good feedback, 2152 that's always welcome.

2153 Much appreciated.

I got a chance to talk 2154 to a lot of awesome, awesome people over 2155 these last few days.

And so I do 2156 appreciate everything you guys have done.

2157 Now, with that being said, I know a lot 2158 of you guys have things to do.

You guys 2159 can get out of here.

2160 Go have some fun, work on it.

Show us 2161 what you got, right?

If you want to just 2162 send in some videos in the forums and be 2163 like, hey, we're into the community.

2164 Like, look at this, like by 2165 transformation.

Awesome, right?

Don't be 2166 giving away the secret sauce to the other 2167 people out there, right?

This is our 2168 move, right?

This is our secret.

Okay, 2169 have some fun with it.

2170 Get out there, play some awesome golf, 2171 okay?

And thank you guys again for an 2172 awesome, awesome four sessions.

Now I 2173 will open up to questions.

2174 If there are any questions, 2175 all right, see, everybody's taking off.

2176 Everybody's got things to do on a 2177 Saturday.

I get it.

2178 I got some things to do on Saturday too, 2179 but I'll stay here.

2180 All right, wish we could have stuck with 2181 a PDF page per page, could have kept 2182 notes per page.

So Orlando, you can go 2183 back and click through this.

I made this 2184 last minute decision and I apologize, 2185 okay?

I made this decision because we 2186 have time constraints.

And a lot of you 2187 on Tuesday heard that I was gonna do some 2188 live training with other students, and I 2189 wanted so badly, but going back through 2190 this and being able to get the 2191 information into your brain about how to 2192 get everything condensed down into an 2193 hour's time, Was impossible, it was 2194 impossible for me to do it right.

I'm 2195 very long-winded and I want to find the 2196 key points that are going to press into 2197 your brain to be able to build this 2198 swing.

So I apologize, but I had to make 2199 a last minute decision to help move the 2200 presentation along.

And, uh, get you to 2201 the spot where I think it's going to be 2202 good.

So all right, how long will the 2203 webinars be available to watch?

You 2204 should have them for the for life we we 2205 in the past we we gave you.

I think 30 or 2206 60 days we had to lock them out because 2207 People are starting to share those.

And 2208 that's not good that we don't want that.

2209 So they will be available.

2210 All right.

So is the clockwise move 2211 applicable when you are just practicing 2212 nine to three or is it only for the 2213 extended swing?

No, nine to three can be 2214 moved with the axi movement all day long.

2215 All day long.

2216 Thank you, Nicholas.

I really appreciate 2217 2218 So can you go over the timing between 2219 weight shift post-up and drop in the 2220 hands with gravity?

2221 Absolutely.

So timing is one of those 2222 things we're trying to move you away 2223 from, but you have to remember that the 2224 muscle tension signals that your brain's 2225 going to get when you go through this 2226 stuff, right?

The first thing we want to 2227 do is make sure that we get full turn.

2228 And as you're getting to that full 90 2229 degree turn, your weight should be well 2230 back into six o'clock.

And this is when 2231 you should be working to get right off 2232 that merry-go-round as quickly as you 2233 possibly can.

2234 Now thinking about the.

2235 the stuff that's happening in between 2236 post-up like transition, like squat to 2237 square to that position is not something 2238 that we want you to have to think about 2239 the timing of because we're moving 2240 through it so fast.

So you want to just 2241 use the signal of, 2242 okay, I feel my weight moving around the 2243 perimeter of my foot.

2244 I'm turning my body as fully as I can.

2245 When the weight gets to six, this is when 2246 you need to start making some action 2247 happen.

2248 Don't wait because if you wait, okay, 2249 then what's going to happen is you're 2250 going to start doing a big old closed hip 2251 slide.

which can get you into trouble.

So 2252 it's right when you get to six o'clock 2253 and you felt like your body is in that 2254 full turn position, start aggressively 2255 moving, right?

2256 Really driving up through six, seven, 2257 eight, nine, pushing as hard as you want.

2258 Remember, you can push your body in this 2259 direction because things are happening 2260 fast, but you better counterbalance it 2261 with that left butt movement that I 2262 talked about.

Because if you're pushing 2263 and you're not doing that movement 2264 correct, then you're going to come up out 2265 of posture.

2266 Chris, can you show us the actual finish 2267 of the golf swing?

Absolutely.

2268 A finish is just the safest way to 2269 decelerate the golf club.

So if I were to 2270 go and do my movement here, okay, you can 2271 see that.

I'm up on my right toe, right?

2272 I'm.

My chest is turning the direction of 2273 the target.

I would say that this is a 2274 finished position because my toe box is 2275 not creased, right, so you can see my 2276 right foot, it's not creased.

Most of my 2277 weight is over on my left foot, all my 2278 weight's on my left foot.

So what that 2279 looks like from up the line?

2280 Okay.

2281 That's what it looks like.

2282 All right.

2283 So I noticed clockwise moves takes my 2284 head further off the ball in the back, so 2285 maybe focus on feet and not the whole 2286 body to fix.

So now this is a big fault 2287 that I've seen, 2288 and Craig can comment on this one as 2289 well.

2290 If you start trying to hold still, it's 2291 very easy for you to rotate the weight 2292 around your perimeter of your foot and 2293 think that this is movement.

2294 Now, if you see that your head's moving 2295 too far off the ball, okay, there's a 2296 good chance that you're turning him.

2297 incorrectly.

2298 So, you would want to make sure that you 2299 were taking the right shoulder and 2300 pulling it up behind the head and letting 2301 the left shoulder work down underneath.

2302 If you need a drill to help you out with 2303 that, you can stick your head up against 2304 a wall.

2305 Just make sure it's not a rock wall, 2306 right, Greg?

2307 And you can do a little pressure shift, 2308 feel a little bit of slide, but then from 2309 there, just keep it really still.

2310 Okay.

2311 So when do we introduce shoulder 2312 elevation?

So shoulder elevation is 2313 happening 2314 very, very delicately through the 2315 takeaway into the backswing.

It's just a 2316 very gradual movement.

In fact, you 2317 really don't even see it into the 2318 takeaway.

We give you some specific kind 2319 of checkpoints that you can use in the 2320 pool noodle drill, which is an old video 2321 that I did 50 pounds ago and eight years 2322 ago.

2323 But you can see that there's a good hand 2324 position that you can reference and then 2325 there's a hand position at the top.

2326 Can you do a quick summary from no club 2327 to lead arm to add club then trail arm?

2328 Orlando, didn't I already do that?

2329 So can you do a quick summary from no 2330 club to lead arm to add the club?

Yeah.

2331 So start with your lower body, right?

2332 Start with your lower body, get that 2333 working.

Okay.

2334 Remember, do that with the axiom 2335 movement.

Then you want to add the 2336 special sauce in by thinking about what 2337 your left butt's doing.

Okay.

Then you 2338 want to add the body rotation.

Okay.

With 2339 that going back.

So now you're getting 2340 your body to start working with it.

2341 And then you're going to add the lead 2342 arm.

2343 You're going to make sure that, and if 2344 you want, you can go back and watch the 2345 very start of the video today when I 2346 walked you through the kind of step-by 2347 -step process to get there.

2348 Getting to nine to three is where you 2349 should really try to get to with that 2350 warmup and get the club in there.

And 2351 then from there, what you're going to 2352 find is, and this is something that I 2353 probably should have talked about in the 2354 session when we were going, is that if 2355 you start and you go to nine to three, 2356 and you start getting really proficient 2357 with this, then you're going to find, and 2358 this is something so common, you're going 2359 to find that the more practice that your 2360 swing is just going to become longer and 2361 longer and longer, you're going to be 2362 almost into full swing format.

And that 2363 happens subconsciously.

And that's okay, 2364 right?

That's a good thing.

And I hear it 2365 all the time.

People are like, all right, 2366 I only have my hands at hip high.

Well, 2367 no, I'm like, you got your hands and arms 2368 up around your right shoulder.

2369 So very common.

So if you get to nine to 2370 three, and then you allow it to 2371 organically, which I don't like that 2372 word, but.

You allow it to organically 2373 get longer and longer.

That's a good 2374 approach too.

2375 So if you have limited external rotation 2376 in the right shoulder on the backswing, 2377 should you have lower hands in the 2378 backswing?

And does that limited rotation 2379 contribute to the over the top?

2380 So you can still have your right elbow 2381 flare behind you a little bit.

What 2382 that's going to do is it's going to stand 2383 the shaft plane up.

So let me explain 2384 this to you.

So if I go up to the top of 2385 my swing, okay, and you see my right 2386 elbow like here, now watch what happens 2387 to the shaft plane as I bring my elbow 2388 2389 So you can, in both positions, you can 2390 get your arms to come down.

2391 But again, 2392 the shaft plane is always going to look a 2393 little bit on the steeper side to you.

2394 That's why a lot of times we don't, I 2395 don't like when people do a lot of their 2396 own analysis on the swing plane, because 2397 people don't understand the optical 2398 illusion that can happen with swing 2399 plane.

Or something like that.

Like for 2400 instance, if you get your wrists fully 2401 cocked at the top of the swing and you 2402 start dragging the hands and arms down, 2403 it's going to look very steep to us.

2404 Right, that added wrist angle is going to 2405 not have it going through the middle of 2406 the forearm on the way down, right?

We 2407 all talk about these fancy positions that 2408 we all know so much.

Like the slot.

So 2409 the slot is one of my least favorite 2410 terminologies in golf instruction, right?

2411 The slot is just again.

It's a butchered 2412 sort of understanding, so there's a lot 2413 of components to it.

So you can have your 2414 right elbow flared back, it's just going 2415 to be a little less off plane.

Okay, it 2416 doesn't mean that you're going to swing 2417 over the top.

It's a very dominant 2418 position for your right side to be in, 2419 right, so your right arm gets back here.

2420 It wants to kind of help throw and 2421 release in this way, but you can still 2422 get to that spot and have your arms drop 2423 down.

You just remember that at that 2424 point, your right elbow is going to be 2425 maybe a little bit further behind you all 2426 the way down.

You might have to be a 2427 little bit more of a push releaser.

2428 Totally acceptable.

So hopefully that 2429 answered your question.

I've noticed 2430 sometimes when I end backswing to impact, 2431 my head goes 2432 Far back towards six Any suggestions?

2433 So you want to start minimizing or you 2434 want to start shrinking that circle down, 2435 right?

The right heel, 2436 you hear me?

And I said this to you guys 2437 before.

I make a mistake where I say 2438 right heel, right ankle, right?

I don't 2439 want you guys to get back here to where 2440 your toes are.

So you're going to want to 2441 start kind of minimizing and shrinking 2442 that circle down just a little bit.

But 2443 that's good that you're feeling that much 2444 movement right now.

2445 So hopefully that answers.

2446 See you, Neil.

Thank you, guys.

Thank 2447 you, Mitchell.

2448 So yeah, exactly.

So Ronan, I'm talking 2449 about your head too.

So when you get to 2450 the extreme part here, okay, and your 2451 head's moving back, you're getting too 2452 far back into that position.

2453 All right.

And if I was losing posture, 2454 it could be.

So you could be standing up 2455 out of posture.

You could have bad 2456 posture from the get-go, right?

So you 2457 want to make sure that you've hinged 2458 enough from your hips, okay?

And then 2459 make sure that you're not sitting back in 2460 the heels, okay?

And then start moving 2461 around.

You see my head moves back with 2462 it a little bit.

That's not going to 2463 happen when you're in full swing format.

2464 This is just to help get your movement 2465 started.

If you're losing balance, you're 2466 going too far back.

2467 Again, I said to you guys before, this is 2468 a much more pronounced movement at first.

2469 It becomes smaller and smaller and 2470 smaller.

When this is all said and done, 2471 I want you to watch my right foot.

Watch.

2472 Did you see me move around the merry-go 2473 -round?

2474 Watch.

2475 Did you see it?

Probably not.

You're not 2476 going to see it that pronounced.

But if 2477 you have like a force plate underneath me 2478 and you do a pressure trace, you can see 2479 that it works very much like that.

Just 2480 not, I don't see me go to the forward 2481 part of the foot as much.

2482 All right.

Thanks.

Hope everyone can go 2483 out and hit some crispy KFC shots without 2484 the sword.

2485 I see you, Conrad.

2486 Crispy KFC, so I know you've seen the 2487 channel.

2488 All right, 2489 so thanks guys.

Oh, thank you, Greg.

We 2490 really do appreciate it.

2491 Thank you guys very much.

Okay, 2492 so it sounds like we are winding down.

If 2493 there's any other questions, I'll stay 2494 and answer a few more if there is.

2495 Give you a chance to be able to type some 2496 of these things up if you need to or if 2497 you can copy and paste it.

2498 Thank you, Dennis.

Much appreciated.

Do 2499 you use the Axiom for the short swing?

2500 Sure.

Said that before.

Yeah, absolutely.

2501 Feel free.

The Axiom, this footwork is 2502 virtually your engine of your golf swing, 2503 right?

This movement is helping you move 2504 your hips.

So whether it's done in these 2505 small little tiny little release drills, 2506 if you're good enough to be able to get 2507 that to be a focus point and still get 2508 your hands and arms to do it right, 2509 tie it together.

When you get really good 2510 at it and you start making little nine to 2511 three swings, totally fine as well.

You 2512 want to remember your hips and your legs 2513 are your engine of your swing.

The stuff 2514 that I was doing release related, if you 2515 need to have just some focus release 2516 stuff and just get on your left side and 2517 don't use that movement and then try to 2518 blend them back together.

2519 So thank you, Anthony.

I appreciate it.

2520 Even for a chip shot, Ronan, even for a 2521 chip shot.

There's actually, there's some 2522 videos on the website that talk about 2523 Axiom short game.

2524 So Fred says, post-impact, I was falling 2525 back off my left foot heel.

Is that 2526 because I'm spinning?

So yeah, it could 2527 be.

So if you're falling back off the 2528 left heel, it could be the hips trying to 2529 rotate out too much.

Could be you didn't 2530 get the hip to neutral.

2531 Just make sure that, and I talked about 2532 this, I think in session two or three, 2533 where from a static address position, 2534 move your left hip and open your hips up 2535 so that it's in neutral.

So you can feel 2536 like the position you're trying to get 2537 to, right?

You want to feel the weight 2538 kind of pinned underneath your ankle 2539 joint.

Okay.

And you want to feel your 2540 foot flat to the floor.

Okay.

And then 2541 move back to that position.

Okay.

And 2542 then start getting it a little bit 2543 longer.

2544 Okay.

Really good, simple little way to 2545 be able to kind of correct that.

2546 How do I get the PDF files?

You asked me 2547 that on session number four.

2548 So I'm just giving you a hard time.

You 2549 should have had this in session number 2550 one.

2551 Email customer support.

See us at rotary 2552 swing.

com.

And they'll get that over to 2553 you.

2554 If your lead wrist doesn't naturally 2555 flatten at the top, what's a good drill?

2556 So you need to make sure that your wrist 2557 and your forearm rotate, 2558 number one.

And you need to make sure 2559 that at the top of the golf swing that 2560 you're not trying to get control of it.

2561 Trying to get control of the club is why 2562 people get across the line, right?

Or 2563 they get that cupped position.

2564 So you get that.

That's because you're 2565 trying to get control of something that 2566 would feel like it's pulling back in this 2567 direction.

So a good drill is to do 2568 exactly what I just showed you.

Start out 2569 without the golf club.

and make sure that 2570 your left wrist and forearm rotate.

Now 2571 you're going to see that at the top of 2572 the swing, my forearm and my wrist are 2573 kind of pointed up towards the ceiling, 2574 not fully up to the ceiling, but you'll 2575 see that it rotates up.

Generally 2576 speaking, when you don't have your left 2577 wrist work to a flat position, it's from 2578 you trying to get in control of something 2579 or not having enough wrist and forearm 2580 rotation.

Okay.

2581 All right.

So John, thank you very much.

2582 Much appreciated.

Thank you for the kind 2583 words.

2584 where to begin to bow your left wrist.

So 2585 if you want to go up to the top and bow 2586 your left wrist, you can.

2587 You don't need to.

You got to be careful 2588 with that.

That's starting to change the 2589 complexity of the face angle.

2590 So I can do it without the club fine, but 2591 when I grab the club, it stays cupped.

2592 So this is where you got to kind of pick 2593 and choose your battles, right?

When you 2594 do it with a golf club flipped upside 2595 down, can you do it, right?

Can you do 2596 that with a club upside down?

2597 If you can't, then I would probably 2598 suggest 2599 that you get it in for a review so we can 2600 look at it very closely, okay?

So if you 2601 do it without, okay, so you're doing it 2602 with the club flipped upside down, but 2603 when you go to the heavy end, you can't 2604 do it.

So that is probably just a control 2605 thing.

You're trying to get, think about 2606 it this way, okay?

2607 I turn my body, my wrist is flat.

This 2608 club wants to pull down on my wrist, 2609 right?

It's very uncomfortable.

What we 2610 do to help support it is just give it a 2611 little bit of effort here.

Now, when you 2612 have momentum and inertia at high rates 2613 of speed, You're going to want to try to 2614 do that to get control of it.

So I would 2615 say bring your right hand back to the 2616 side of the club right away.

Okay, just 2617 let it follow along.

2618 Okay, and then focus on the left wrist, 2619 feeling like the club is kind of pulling 2620 it down into that position.

If you feel 2621 the momentum or the inertia of the club 2622 pulling down in this direction, then 2623 chances are it's going to be flat at the 2624 top of the swing.

But if you feel like 2625 the club is pointed more up to the 2626 ceiling, you probably have too much 2627 tension.

2628 All right.

I've done previous boot camps 2629 and it was said that the right foot stays 2630 down through impact.

Is that true when 2631 you're getting off the merry-go-round 2632 doing the axis move?

Yeah.

So the right 2633 foot, when you start moving from the 2634 merry-go-round, you're going to see that 2635 it kind of peaks up off the ground here.

2636 Okay.

We still want it to act as a break 2637 for the body.

If you're super advanced 2638 with your hips, then you can come back 2639 down into what you've probably heard with 2640 the dead drill stuff.

2641 We're totally fine with that.

But if you 2642 need that extra boost to help get the 2643 hips out of the way.

What you're seeing 2644 here is totally fine, right?

We just 2645 don't want you to use that in a way where 2646 it's going to bring your hips forward or 2647 it's going to cause you to spin, 2648 okay?

2649 So thank you, Philip.

Appreciate it.

2650 So I three-finger grip something that you 2651 use in a full swing, nine to three.

Yep, 2652 it's a three-finger grip.

2653 I use it nice and light.

I try to keep it 2654 as light as possible.

In fact, I 2655 demonstrate this with just my pinky 2656 because everybody tends to overcook it.

2657 With having too much tension there, then 2658 I start putting two fingers on and I 2659 start doing three fingers.

Okay, so good 2660 way to kind of go through it.

So, Wayne 2661 says, after impact, my shoulders feel too 2662 level instead of my left shoulder higher 2663 than the right.

Any thoughts?

So you're 2664 turning your body to through the hitting 2665 area, you want your upper body to stay 2666 back behind the shot, so when you get to 2667 impact, okay.

2668 Right here, you want to make sure that 2669 your head and your chest stay back and 2670 behind it.

So a good way to think about 2671 it is keep your buttons on your shirt 2672 behind your belt buckle, 2673 okay?

If you turn your shoulders flat, 2674 your buttons are now over the top of your 2675 belt buckle.

But do not, and I repeat, do 2676 not start trying to do this before 2677 impact, okay?

Because then at that point, 2678 you're going to create the fault that 2679 drives me freaking bonkers, and that's 2680 having too much secondary access to the 2681 impact.

2682 There, I just said it.

2683 Okay, so how many reps does it take for 2684 muscles to start making a new move?

I've 2685 heard 1,000 to 3,000.

So 3,000 to 5,000 2686 is generally where it becomes a movement 2687 pattern.

1,000 reps, if it's completely 2688 new, is where the brain can actually 2689 start grabbing onto it pretty quickly.

2690 3,000 to 5,000 is when it becomes a 2691 movement pattern.

But that doesn't mean 2692 that you need to stop at that mark and 2693 you own it.

2694 There's a lot of studies that talk about 2695 the 10,000 rep mark and the 20,000 rep 2696 mark being the master of movement.

2697 Because what you have to remember is that 2698 that old movement pattern sits on the 2699 bench and it wants to come in off the 2700 bench pretty quickly.

So you have to 2701 continue to make that movement pattern 2702 stronger and stronger.

2703 I've played golf for 34 years and my 2704 movement patterns are buttoned up.

2705 Now, it doesn't mean that they're right, 2706 but if I wanted to change something 2707 within that movement pattern, it would be 2708 a very difficult process.

2709 So I think we are slowing down a little 2710 bit.

2711 So I want to say thank you very much to 2712 Craig Morrow as well.

Craig is an 2713 absolute storm ship trooper.

For those of 2714 you that don't know, Craig had a little 2715 accident recently and for him to be able 2716 to get himself into a position where he 2717 can come in here and answer so many 2718 questions.

Thank you, Craig.

You're 2719 awesome.

I appreciate it.

It's been such 2720 a good, good help.

2721 So, all right.

Looks like we have neared.

2722 the end of this golfing beautification 2723 process.

2724 All right, guys.

2725 Get out there.

Good luck.

Play some great 2726 golf, right?

I really do appreciate you 2727 guys taking time out of your day.

You 2728 guys have been an absolutely fantastic 2729 audience.

Thank you so much for the kind 2730 words.

Thank you very much for putting up 2731 with us for these four sessions.

2732 Hopefully you guys get some great 2733 success.

We will talk to you guys soon.