AXIOM BootCamp 1, Craig Morrow, Oct 2021, Session 1

Session 1 of 4

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Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to Axiom Boot Camp.

How are we doing today?

Hopefully everybody can hear me.

I'll be your humble host today, RST instructor Craig Morrow.

Y'all have probably heard that a lot if you've ever done swing reviews.

Let's see.

All right, loud and clear, Joel.

Thank you, thank you.

Everybody, start to pile in, get settled down.

We've got a lot to talk about.

Since this is the first time using this software, I just want to kind of give it a couple minutes just to make sure that the video feeds good.

Everybody can see me.

Everybody can hear me.

Because we're going to get rocking and rolling.

We're going to start to get some good swing stuff down tonight.

Let's see.

All right.

Chris Tyler on the board.

Everybody, you got Chris Tyler on the board to help answer some questions if need be.

Happy to have them here.

And thank you, Chris, for helping out tonight.

Video is good.

Looking good.

All right.

Fantastic.

Well, I hope everybody's doing well this evening.

Hope everybody's ready to work, learn a little axiom.

Chris and I have really revamped this program.

We really think that it's really going to help accelerate the progress to better golf.

Because isn't that what we all want at the end of the day?

All right, we got Diane from the UK.

Look good.

I'm going to give it just about a minute or two, make sure everything stays hunky -dory, and then we'll get started.

I'll kind of go over all the ground rules.

Hey, Greg, how are we doing tonight?

We got people from everywhere.

California, my hometown of Atlanta, Lots of good stuff.

Massachusetts, can't this go full screen?

It should be able to go full screen.

I can promise you, we did a lot of tests on our end.

This is full screen on mine right now, so you should be able to get that.

All right, got some Aussies.

Nice.

Just let everybody get settled in.

How's everybody doing?

Everybody excited?

Everybody ready to work tonight?

I see a couple comments.

I think Chris answered it about the PDF.

If you didn't get the PDF for this bootcamp, just let us know at the end, and we'll make sure you get a copy of that.

Puerto Rico.

Hey, Greg, how are we doing tonight?

I hope y'all's weather's been a little bit better than mine.

I think it topped out today at about 45, and the wind just now cut to about 15 miles an hour.

It's been a little bit of a chilly day.

No sound.

That's not good.

Hey, Joey, did you get that sound thing?

Cleaned up.

88 and humid here in Florida.

I know, Chris.

I can tell you what.

I don't miss the humidity that much.

We'll see what happens when it's below freezing for me.

Thomas over in Denver.

Well, I'm just down in Mantra, so I'm not too far away from you.

Hey, Donald, just wait till the end.

We'll make sure that we give an email address so that you can get that PDF.

All right.

Well, I've given it a little bit of time, so everybody ready to get started?

Ready to rock and roll?

I am.

Let's get going.

So I know that most of you, or hopefully most of you, have the PDF.

and I've got it on my screen right here.

It's going to wash out.

I apologize.

I've done literally everything that I can on my end to get it visual or to be able to see it from the camera.

So I'll explain to you what slide I'm on, but if you have the PDF, just kind of go along with me on So for those of you that did the first boot camp or with the dead drill, the rules of engagement are exactly the same, okay?

You must practice.

You must use a mirror.

You must use a camera.

But we're going to tweak that just a little bit for tonight because we're going to start to throw some feel in there.

If any reason you're unsure, just like with Chris on the board, remember, we have unlimited review groups.

We have swing reviews.

We have live lessons.

We have the community board.

Take advantage of that.

We are always here to help you and not leave you kind of wandering around in the wilderness.

scores you possibly can shoot.

No question is dumb.

Send it our way.

There's so many different ways to get ahold of us.

Okay.

And especially during this bootcamp, because you're going to get a lot of information thrown at you and you're going to get a lot of information thrown at you tonight.

That's not on this PDF.

So make sure that you take notes.

But if you're just unsure, there's so many ways to get to us.

Utilize it.

In order to get the fastest results, you have to drill in between each session.

Don't just do tonight's session and be like, all right, well, I've kind of already done that.

I got this.

I'm going to wait till Saturday when we start talking about release.

Today is very, very important.

And the days in between are very important to make sure that you get the reps in so that you can start to make these quality changes.

Take notes, track reps.

I think it's pretty self-explanatory.

Now, the first page of your slide is going to talk about setup.

And I'm going to get to that in a second.

When I'm doing a swing review or I'm teaching a student, I always try to set up a plan of attack.

I try to set up some goals.

I try to set up some structure.

Because I want the student to know, where am I trying to go?

But how am I going to get there?

is to do the entire axiom.

So if you did the last boot camp when we kind of did the dead drill and we added some body and then we added arm, today we're gonna do an accelerated version.

We're gonna get set up, we're gonna do our body, we're gonna add our arm, and we're gonna add the club.

I want you to start to get the big picture of what you're trying to achieve in the swing.

I want you to start to feel it.

One of the big questions I always get literally on a daily basis is, Craig, what does it feel like to be in this position?

What does it feel like when you post up?

This is going to be how you're going to improve your game is we're going to start to use feel.

And I'm going to throw the whole gambit at you because I want you to be able to use the rest of the boot camp to ask questions, to move through things.

But let's start to get away from paralysis by analysis.

Today, our goal is to start to get the whole big picture of axiom.

By the end of it, to have the whole thing put together and just start to refine the motion.

But I don't want you to go back to all right.

Well, do I have the club or my foot over in this position?

Is it perfect up here?

Am I over this way?

I don't want you to get back and getting overly mechanical about things.

This is a feel I gave.

I give all sorts of analogies in swing reviews, but I gave an analogy to one student.

I said, look, if you're a kid and you're learning how to throw a ball or you're going to teach a kid how to throw a ball, would you be like, all right, here's a ball and here's a hundred page manual.

Now use that and then figure out how to throw it.

I don't think anybody learns that way.

I don't think anybody would ever throw a ball if they did that.

You'd give the kid a ball, and they might step, and they're like, I don't know, what do I do with this?

And they throw it, and they might throw it higher.

They might throw it in the dirt.

But the more and more they do it, they start to develop a little bit of sense, a little bit of timing, a little bit of rhythm.

It might not be perfect, but they start to develop the actual motion.

And then you'd kind of get into the nuts and bolts if they needed to refine it, if they wanted to throw a slider or something.

But for the basic big picture, Do you want to bombard them with paralysis by analysis?

Here, here's a hundred different checkpoints you have to hit.

That's not the way anybody learns anything.

And that's kind of what I want you to do with tonight's session and what you're going to do with your swing.

I want you to start to feel it.

I want you to be a kid again.

I want you to make the swing athletic.

I want you to make it fun.

I want you to step in to what it's like to be in a better player's shoes, moving through positions, not chunking it up and getting caught up in all the hoopla.

Now, I'm going to start and we're going to go through some of these.

I'm going to have you get up and go down.

The comment screen, I'm going to leave to Chris for right now because I can't see it from where I am.

I would advise you from all the boot camps Chris and I have done, let's leave the questions until the end.

I'll stay here as long as I have to answer every single question.

But when we start to get too many questions kind of coming in between, It kind of bogs down the feed.

And I want to give you this information because I got a lot to give you today.

And then after that, I'll stay here.

Chris will stay on the board and we'll make sure that everybody knows what they're trying to achieve.

I just want to make sure that.

All right.

So we're good to go.

Now, most of everybody in this room have been with rotary for a while or they've done dead drill or RST five step or what have you.

So I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on setup.

But there are still some basic ground rules if you don't understand, okay?

So if we look at number one right here stance width, two inches outside of neutral joint alignment.

Well, basically neutral joint alignment is just if I were to mark a straight line from my hip socket through my knee joint through my ankle joint, this is a neutral joint alignment.

And all we're looking for is two inches outside that position.

Now you can get fancy.

And find your actual hip socket you can take two fingers put on the outer edge of your hip bone, use the first finger.

That's going to be where it is.

Or, for most people, pants, your belt loops pretty darn close, at least for me.

It is.

All we want is two inches outside of there and that's going to come back later.

I'm going to talk about that because it's kind of going to be important to us.

Axis tilt, something I know everybody's heard on the website.

Everybody must have axis tilt.

If you can't figure out how much you should have or how to get it, it's very simple.

Put a club down your sternum, put one hand on your belt, one on your sternum, get in the proper stance alignment and slide your lead hip or your left hip towards the target until the club hits you on the inside part of the leg.

That's going to create axis tilt.

It's going to keep your spine nice and neutral.

It's going to help us rotate.

There's tons of other stuff it does, but y'all are here for the fun stuff, not setup.

It's kind of boring.

Posture.

As flat as we can be.

Now, I know for some of you sit at a computer all day or 30 years, can't do anything about it.

Let's try to get the posture as good as possible.

If you're struggling with getting it, just put a club down your spine.

Put one on your tailbone, one on your head.

Drop your butt back.

There we go.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

As I'm in this position, I'm going to go ahead and skip to number five.

What you will notice is as I added posture, and then I softened the knees, I let my weight kind of recenter.

I don't leave my weight back on my heels as I drop my butt back.

I let my weight kind of recenter.

You don't want all your weight towards the heels.

It's something that Chris, Chuck, and myself have seen a lot that a lot of players set up with weight on their heels.

So as you get into posture and you add your knee bend, just make sure you get nice and balanced.

You need to somewhat be in a position where if I came at you from any angle, I could push you and you wouldn't fall down.

And if you're too far back on the heels, I can walk up in the front and tip you over, okay?

So let's not get bogged down with setup stuff.

It's going to be more important down the road.

Just make sure that your stance isn't too wide.

Make sure you have a little bit of axis tilt.

Make sure that when you get into setup right here, your weight isn't all the way back on your heels or all the way out here on the balls of your feet because you're not going to be able to move.

Okay?

Now to the fun stuff.

So who's ready to work tonight?

Because I'm going to put you to work.

And when I was doing all of those clinics down in Orlando, they used to call me the drill sergeant.

I'm going to make y'all drill tonight.

I want y'all to start to improve, and I want you to start to feel this.

I'm going to split this section from the next one, and then I'm going to put everything together for us, okay?

And I apologize about the washout.

I can see it right there.

But right now I'm on day one axiom footwork.

The primary movement and the one thing you must not forget is how you're rotating around your right foot.

Now, for you lefties out there, that's going to be your trail foot.

Most of us are right-handed, and I apologize for the lefties out there, but I'm going to kind of teach it in a right -hand bias.

Any questions, I'll make sure to straighten it out.

Left-handers out there, it's your trail foot.

Right -handers, it's your right foot.

understand is that you're going to rotate your pressure clockwise around your right foot.

It is the absolute must.

If at any point in time between today, Saturday's boot camp, two months from now, you're having problems with your golf swing and the first thing that you don't check is your right foot, we got problems.

This is going to kind of be your vortex generator for the swing.

This is the primary movement.

This is what we see all the time.

This is the one when people start to slip and fall in their swing and things don't go in the right direction.

The very first thing that we look at is we look at their right foot and we're like, how are you doing on your right foot?

And you'll without a doubt see that the pressure isn't moving correctly.

The pressure must not stall out and it must be continuously working clockwise.

around the perimeter of your right foot.

Now, when you're moving around this foot, and hopefully you can see this on the PDF, you're gonna rotate, if you can imagine a clock, 12 in front of you, six behind you, you're gonna rotate all the way around the perimeter to six o'clock, nine o'clock, 12 o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, nine o'clock, 12 o'clock, in a clockwise direction now.

I know some people get clockwise confused.

A lot of live lessons where they start going the other direction.

Make sure that you're looking at the clock down on the ground from your perspective.

That's where the clock is facing.

Your weight's going to shift between 6 and 9 o'clock, and then you're going to get off the foot or what we call the merry-go-round.

And I'm going to show you all this stuff, so don't worry about it.

These are just some friendly reminders.

Your right knee is going to move towards your left knee, replacing your left knee.

Okay?

So you're going to move this pressure around the foot, and then your right knee is going to replace your left knee.

Okay?

I'm going to show you.

Don't worry.

Your hips are going to be cleared, and the lead leg or the left leg is going to be fully posted.

It is a must.

That you post up.

It is a must that you clear the hips because you need to create the space for the arms.

To work down into impact and get a nice, powerful release, you have to use those legs.

Okay, so before we start talking about anything else on this move, if you can and you have the space.

I want everybody to get up, I want to put you all to work today.

Okay, so if you can, I want you to get up and do this with me.

Don't worry about getting into a perfect setup or anything right now.

The only thing that I care about is the fact that you get in a somewhat proper stance with.

That's the only thing that I really care about right now.

So I want everybody to get up, and I want you to start to move through these positions, and I want you to start to feel the same things that I'm feeling right here.

So let's stand straight up and down.

Life is good.

Everything's balanced.

Nothing crazy.

And all I want you to do.

Is to start to feel the pressure move in a clockwise manner around your right foot.

And I don't want you to stop, I just want you to feel that movement, I want you to loosen up, and I want you to just feel just moving.

Pressure around that right foot, for you lefties, those trail foot, and for a lefty, it's going to be counterclockwise.

I just want you to trace the pressure all the way around your right foot.

6, 9, 12.

3 o'clock, 6, 9, 12.

And loosen up.

Okay?

I want you to start to create this little orbit.

My ankle's creating a little orbit.

My knee's creating a little orbit.

My hip's creating a little orbit.

Just start to feel this.

Just move the pressure.

You don't need to be like this and dancing all over the place and rolling on the outside of the foot.

You can exaggerate a little bit in the beginning.

No problem.

But the big thing I want you to get is just the feeling of moving the pressure clockwise all around the foot.

Feel.

Don't worry about anything else.

You can see my head's moving right now.

I don't care.

I just want you to get the feeling of moving this pressure around the foot.

Okay?

Now, if you'll notice this little orbit that I'm creating with my knee and my hip, what's going on right here?

You'll notice when I get to 3 and 6 o 'clock, my weight's moving into my trail side, moving back behind me when I get to 9 o'clock.

Where's my left hip going?

My left hip's reacting and moving.

over to the left side.

So you can see a little bit of what I was talking about earlier.

You send me a swing or you send me a swing review and you're like, Craig, I don't understand because when I come down to my downswing, my weight's back on my right foot.

Well, how can I have my weight back on my right leg at impact if my pressure's on the inside of my foot?

It's going to be a little wonky.

Okay.

So if you notice you're not shifting weight, go back to your foot.

This pressure movement forces this orbit, it forces your hips to move in a certain manner.

Okay?

So if you have that feel and you have that pressure movement in the right foot.

Hold on, wait a second.

Okay, sorry.

I saw something.

I got a little message that something cut out.

So if you have that feel and you have that pressure movement, what I want you to do is use this image up here.

When you go back around the clock and you go to six, when you get to nine o'clock and you start to get to that big toe, I want you to go to the pressure, three, six, nine, and when you get to that big toe, I want you to drive that big toe and right knee.

Towards the target, or 10 11 get back to 9 o'clock, get off the foot.

If you're moving your weight around this perimeter, as you go from 6 to 7 to 8 to 9, my hip has no choice but to start to move over to my left side.

And if you get off that toe, what does my left leg do?

I post up.

It gets my hip out of the way.

It forces me to move my weight.

and post up.

Now in the golf swing, this movement's going to be pretty quick and it's actually pretty small.

But for right now, if you're a little bit exaggerated where you kind of have a little bit of a hula hoop motion going, no problem.

I'd rather you start to get it down today.

We've got plenty of time to refine it.

But I want you to feel this pressure movement and get off that toe.

And if you notice that you're like, all right, well, I'm moving around this foot and I'm getting off that toe, but my left leg's not posting up.

Be dynamic with it.

Be forceful with it.

Move around that pressure.

Get off of it.

Get off the foot.

You're being too lazy with it.

You're thinking about things too much.

Notice how this automatically starts to create a ton of things that we see in the swing every day that we have to correct.

It's forcing me to move my hips.

It's forcing me to post up.

All I want you to do is think about the feeling of that foot around the perimeter, off the toe.

around the perimeter, off the toe.

And when you push off that toe, let your right knee replace your left knee.

Okay?

So for right now, if you're a little bit tired, a little bit winded, you can sit down, because I'm going to talk about some other stuff.

But the most important thing that you need to write in your notes, you need to do anything with, you have to use the right foot properly.

Okay?

If your swing starts to fail, That's the first thing I want you to check.

Don't look at stupid club positions or what the ball is doing.

Look at your foot.

The vast majority of your problems are going to come about because you're not moving this pressure shift properly with your right foot.

This is why it's primary.

This is why it's the first slide after boring setup.

The right foot movement's all well and good, but eventually we have to add some things to the equation.

And what I want to do tonight is I want to add the arm, I want to add the club.

I want to get full swinging.

I want you to get this whole big picture feeling of So let's talk about what's going on with this.

I'll give you some demonstrations and then we're going to get to work.

So for right handers, the right arm moves in a clockwise fashion.

Now remember, This is from your perspective, the golfer's perspective, not mine.

So the right arm is going to move in a clockwise fashion.

So if you're just facing straight ahead, you've got 12 here, 6 here, 3, 9.

Clockwise.

What direction is your foot moving?

Clockwise.

What direction does the swing move?

Clockwise.

Don't overthink it.

So what we want to do is we're going to start to take this clockwise motion and we're going to start to blend it a little bit with our foot.

This is going to start to give you a little bit of sense of rhythm, a little bit of sense of timing.

It's going to give you a flow, a feel for a movement.

So the right arm must be moving clockwise.

As you're moving your right arm and we start to combine it with our foot, when we get up here at the apex of our right arm swing, Your weight is going to be at six o'clock on the foot.

Pretty simple to remember.

I'm at the top of my backswing.

My weight's at six o 'clock on the foot, okay?

The arm continues the clockwise motion during the weight shift, and we're going to release it when we get off the big toe, or what we call getting off the merry-go-round, because the foot's kind of acting like a merry-go-round motion.

So as the arm goes up clockwise and we're back here at 6 o'clock, and we start to shift the weight and move the pressure to the inside of the foot, the arm and hand are going to shallow out, and then we're going to release that when we get off the big toe, forcing that post up, forcing that clearing of the hips, creating that space for this club to come down.

Okay?

Now, some people I know, Don't have the space to swing a club right now?

If you don't have a space to swing a club, don't worry about it.

You can do it after the session.

I at least want you to get up with me right now and do the foot motion with the arm, though.

Okay?

If you've got the space to do it, do it.

If you've got really low ceilings, I understand.

But if you have the space to do it with a club, even better.

Because what I want to do is I want to add this arm to the right foot motion.

And I want to add a club to the motion.

And I want to give you some faults and fixes and some checkpoints.

So first of all, don't worry about the right foot right now, okay?

Let's just focus on the arm.

I just want to make sure you get it going clockwise.

For righties, take your right arm.

Your lefties, take your trail arm and go counterclockwise.

But for righties, we're going to go clockwise for right now.

I just want you to take your right arm and start to move it in a clockwise circle, okay?

Just move it in a clockwise circle.

Nothing fancy.

Just a nice big old windmill.

Okay?

If you can start to get this motion, don't stop.

Just kind of keep it going.

Keep the feel of this.

What I want you to do is start to add a little shoulder rotation to it.

The old shoulder blade glide.

Try to keep it going clockwise and add some shoulder rotation to it.

Even with all the metal in my shoulder, I can still rotate this shoulder a little bit, making a clockwise motion.

Rotate.

Okay?

If you can get that feeling, let's combine it with our foot motion.

Get a proper stance.

Hinge forward a little bit.

A little bit of axis tilt.

Nothing crazy.

All I want you to do.

Get that arm going clockwise.

When you get up here to the top, feel how the foot goes to 6 o'clock as the arm's at the apex.

Foot's at the 6 o'clock as the arm goes to apex.

You're just going clockwise around the foot.

Clockwise around the foot.

And what you'll see right now, because I've done it a few times, you'll see I'm already trying to get my weight back over and post up because I'm feeling that pressure in my foot.

Number one thought is move the pressure around the foot.

Number two is get the arm going clockwise with a little bit of shoulder rotation.

Nothing fancy.

Doesn't take a whole lot to hit a golf ball well.

Just have to have some basic movements.

And all of us can do this.

So when you start to get the feel for 6 o 'clock when the arm's at the apex, move that pressure to the inside of the foot and start to get off that toe and let your arm release.

Around the foot, inside, get off the toe, let the arm release.

This is the air guitar motion.

I do think that Van Halen did call Chuck after he released the video.

I do think that they called him.

Clockwise, 6 o'clock, inside of the foot, push off the toe, let the arm release.

Start to get a feel, a sense, and rhythm and timing for this.

Moving the pressure.

At the top at 6 o'clock, get off the foot, let the arm release.

The more and more you do this, the more and more it's going to start to feel a little bit more blended.

The more and more it's going to, wait a minute, this kind of makes sense a little bit.

Just move my arm and get it off my foot.

This is kind of a natural motion.

It's kind of all that we need to achieve in the swing.

Make sure it's going clockwise.

You got a little rotation right here, it's okay to pick the arm out in front when you're beginning like this.

No problem.

We move back to six So if you can get the feeling for the arm and you can get the feeling for the foot, you're starting to create a little bit of sense and rhythm and timing to this.

Keep the pressure.

Keep the arm going clockwise.

You're up here at the top.

You're at 6 o 'clock.

You're moving the pressure to the inside, that kind of 7-8-9 position.

The arm's shallowing out.

You get off that toe.

Left hip clears.

Left leg fully straightens.

Start to get a sense and rhythm for this.

If you're moving a little bit exaggerated right now, don't worry about it.

I mean, I don't want you falling all over the place like this.

But if you've got a little bit of movement to you right now, you can see my head's moving a little bit right now.

It's okay.

I'm going to button it up.

I want you to get the feel, the rhythm.

Rhyme to this.

Develop that feel.

Okay?

Now for those of you that can get this foot, you're feeling the foot.

Okay?

Okay.

Just making sure.

You're getting the feel for the foot.

And you're getting the feel for the arm.

If you've got a club, What do we got to lose?

Let's have at it.

Now, the same thing that we just did with the arm.

If you want to pick it up in front of you to start out with, no problem.

I'm going to move a little bit more over here.

All we're going to do is we're going to get this club in our hand.

We're going to get this stance width.

Nothing too crazy.

We're not looking for perfection.

Just proper, decent stance.

A little bit of hinge.

A little bit of tilt.

And just start to swing the arm up.

With that rotation, getting that clockwise motion.

As you make that clockwise motion, get that moving around that perimeter back to six o'clock to nine and get off the toe and let the club release.

Up here, clockwise around the foot, get to nine o'clock, let the club release.

Clockwise, letting it rotate.

Always thinking about clockwise with the foot, clockwise with the arm.

Clockwise with the club and you'll start to feel you get to a point where it's like, there's a point of no return.

This pressure gets the inside and you want to push off that toe and clear that hip.

Create space for that arm and hand and club to come down clockwise and get off that foot.

Don't think about it, feel it, feel it I don't want questions of, Craig, what does it feel like?

I know these spots and all that, but I don't know what it feels like.

You should know what it feels like now.

This is what all of the best ball strikers do.

I didn't realize it.

It's kind of even what I did in my own swing.

When we had the left hand, I'll talk about that in a second.

Clockwise around the foot.

Get off at 9 o 'clock.

Let it release.

Clockwise around the foot.

Clockwise with the arm and shoulder.

Let it release.

Keep focusing on the foot.

If this is too much for you to handle now, that's okay.

I still want you to try it.

Even if you kind of look like an octopus falling out of a tree right now, it's okay.

I still want you to try it.

That's why we got the week to work on and rep.

If you have to kind of go back to body steps because, you know, the foot just don't quite have yet, no worries.

Work at your own pace.

Bob Ross, this is your world.

Right arm clockwise.

Clock rise around the foot.

Nine o'clock.

Get off the foot.

Clockwise.

Shoulder rotates.

You're moving the perimeter of the foot.

Moving the pressure back to six o'clock.

You're at the apex.

As the pressure starts to go to inside, arm and hand and club shallow out.

Push off the big toe to get that left hip out of the way.

Get those hips cleared.

Create space for that club to release.

Up here to the top.

If the right leg straightens a little bit, no worries.

It's not a must that you keep this right leg perfectly flexed during this motion.

If you have to allow it to straighten a little bit, no problem.

I want that hip to rotate.

I want you to move in this orbit.

Don't be so bound.

Don't be so locked up.

You want to feel this.

It's a rhythm.

It's a dance.

Stay loose.

You're fluid.

It's not about binding yourself up and feeling max engagement.

Now what you'll notice, if you have a camera on yourself or you've got a mirror right now, if I'm going through this clockwise motion, whether you're picking it up right here, you're starting to blend it a little bit more into a backswing.

You're moving the pressure around the foot.

When you get up here at the apex, you'll notice that your right hip starts to move a little deeper when you get to six o'clock.

So you're starting to load and you're starting to maintain the proverbial tush line early, not coming off of it early.

If you're not going back to six o'clock, where's my hip going?

You're going from here.

When you get up towards the top, pressure's back at six, the arm and hand's at the apex.

Now as I start to move in that perimeter, What's my right hip doing right now?

It's staying deep, it's staying back on that tush line.

Because I'm not just.

The movement is quick, don't get me wrong, but I'm not just going 6 12.

I'm doing that early extension.

We're up here at the top, going clockwise.

And as I go six, seven, eight, nine, the club's shallowing out my tush, line's staying back as I get to nine feel the weight, get off the foot.

If you struggle with tush line, struggle with shifting weight, don't look at the clock, look at your foot.

There's no way to lose tush line if you're moving around the perimeter of the foot.

The butt's going to stay back.

The old squat to square.

The old clamshell.

Get to 9 o'clock to get that left hip out of the way and let the club release.

If I see anybody in this group ever swinging over the top again, I used to start the clinics where everybody failed.

I'd whack them with this end of the club.

Now I'm going to start with this end now.

It's impossible if you're moving clockwise.

To come over the top, it's impossible.

That's counterclockwise if you kind of struggle with this visual a little bit initially, I wouldn't say this is the best way.

But if you're struggling with picturing this clockwise, especially when you start to hinge forward a little bit and you start to move it around, you're like, Well, I can kind of get this.

If I pick it up here, I can feel my foot and I can get the clockwise.

If I start to kind of make a little bit of a normal backswing with my right arm, it's just not clicking.

Like I said, this isn't perfect, so take this with a grain of salt, but it's worked for a lot of my students.

Chuck has a really good image of this clock.

Viewing it from the golfer's perspective, and this is slide six.

if you can't see it.

Picture the clock right here for a second.

Now, the clock's always our perspective and facing in front of us, but if you're having a hard time, like, all right, Craig, I can get it kind of picked up right here, but making it into the motions a little bit tough, picture it right here for a second.

So this would be my kind of clock, okay?

So if this is my clock, just as Chuck's clock has just on your PDF, 12 o'clock would be here, 11 would be there, one would be there.

So as you start to make the backswing and rotate, you're just kind of going 11 o'clock, one o'clock as you're making the foot motion, 11 o 'clock, one o'clock.

That visual of having the clock right there might help you see it a little bit better.

Now remember, this is always in front of us, but just kind of picturing it almost a little bit more 2D for a second.

Sometimes helps like, oh, okay.

So he's wanting it to go clockwise right here with shoulder rotation.

Clockwise right there with shoulder rotation.

Okay, that might help you out if you're struggling with that.

So on side six, talks about adding the arms and adding the club.

Clockwise rotation of the arm and club.

Club stays in front of chest going back and on the downswing.

I'm not advocating, get here and just swing your arm back like this.

The arm, hand and club are staying in front of the chest.

You're still rotating the shoulders as you do this.

Okay, it's not just the arm you're still rotating, it's staying in front of you.

The club needs to fully release on the follow-through.

Don't be tense For most of you, if you have this club in your hand, as you're going through this, you can feel when you get off that foot, what does this club want to do?

What is it designed to do?

It's designed to rotate.

Here, get off that foot and let the club release.

Don't be so bashful.

Just don't take a chunk out of your four, please.

I'll give you a funny story.

When I first started doing these Axiom Live lessons, I always used to start with mind your surroundings.

I can't tell you the number of things I've seen broken.

Chandeliers, mirrors, chunks out of wood floor.

So just mind your surroundings.

When you start moving fast and this gets really fun, you might release it a little bit hard.

Allow the shoulders to rotate, and then my number one pet peeve with this, don't rush to tighten the circle.

1000 What does that mean?

1001 Well, obviously right now, this kind of 1002 looks like a big, long, drawn-out circle.

1003 It's like, all right, this is really 1004 exaggerated.

1005 Don't rush to tighten it up initially, 1006 especially if you've struggled with over 1007 -the-top or lag and all this for 30 years.

1008 Let's try something different.

1009 Let's just stick a little bit in the 1010 exaggerated phase with it.

What's the 1011 worst that's going to happen?

You take it 1012 a little bit outside and you come down a 1013 little bit inside and hit that little bit 1014 of a toe draw.

1015 You've been coming over the top for 30 1016 years.

Stay a little bit exaggerated.

1017 It's very easy for me to tighten up the 1018 circles for you, or it's much easier to 1019 tighten up the circles than get the big 1020 picture.

1021 Get the feeling of shallow.

Get the 1022 feeling of letting the club shallow out 1023 and release as you clear the hips.

Get 1024 the big picture of it.

We will start to 1025 refine and do all that stuff later.

1026 It's okay to stay a little exaggerated 1027 for right now as you start to move 1028 through this.

1029 So don't rush to tighten the circle.

1030 If you can still feel the foot at this 1031 point in time, and you can still feel the 1032 clockwise motion with the arm, and you 1033 can still feel the clockwise motion with 1034 the club, 1035 that should mean that as you're doing 1036 this, the club's naturally shallowing 1037 out.

1038 It's naturally generating lag.

You're 1039 naturally getting the weight.

You're 1040 naturally clearing the hip.

1041 You should start to feel this.

You should 1042 start to feel a little bit rhythmical.

1043 Just start to feel a little bit athletic 1044 again.

1045 What I want you to do is I want you to 1046 challenge yourself.

1047 I want you to see if you can get your 1048 opposite hand on the club.

1049 So if I've got this clockwise movement 1050 with my right arm and I'm getting off the 1051 foot, 1052 why don't we start to reintroduce this 1053 other arm?

1054 What you'll notice when you start to 1055 reintroduce the other arm, it's not going 1056 to be as exaggerated.

1057 Because it'd kind of feel really wonky to 1058 kind of take your left arm like that and 1059 go this way.

1060 But it's okay if it still is.

1061 If you want to take your setup, 1062 don't think too much about perfecting 1063 anything right now.

All I want you to do 1064 is you start to rotate the shoulders and 1065 move that perimeter.

Club's going 1066 clockwise to 6 o'clock.

Get off the foot 1067 and let it release.

1068 Clockwise around the foot.

1069 See how it naturally wants to shallow 1070 out?

Because I'm allowing my arm and the 1071 club, everything to go clockwise.

1072 As my arm's going clockwise and I'm going 1073 from 6 to 7 to 8 on my foot, what's my 1074 butt doing?

1075 Maintaining tush.

1076 What's the front of my hips doing?

1077 Getting weight on my lead side early.

We 1078 know that we have to get that weight back 1079 soon.

1080 You've seen that Tor Pro Down Swing 1081 Sequence video.

1082 Get over there.

It's got to happen fast.

1083 Making this clockwise motion.

We're at 6 1084 o'clock.

We start to get to the inside of 1085 the foot.

The tush line's back.

Get off 1086 that toe and let the club release.

1087 Making the clockwise.

1088 Get off the toe and let it release.

1089 Shoulders are rotating.

Arms and hands 1090 are still staying in front.

We're not 1091 just doing this with our arms like this.

1092 Still allowing for the shoulder rotation.

1093 Clockwise around the perimeter, get off 1094 the foot at 9 o'clock and let it release.

1095 If you notice that when you get the 1096 second hand on there, you get up here 1097 towards the top and you start going this 1098 way, it's counterclockwise.

1099 There's only one way to do that.

1100 If you start seeing that, maybe delete 1101 the arm.

Maybe that's too advanced for 1102 you right now.

When you're doing it with 1103 the right arm, everything was shallowing 1104 out nicely.

Maybe too much right now.

1105 That's why we have the week to work on.

1106 But try to keep everything going 1107 clockwise.

1108 It's impossible to come over the top.

1109 To cast.

1110 If you're getting the foot motion, you're 1111 getting clockwise with the arms, you're 1112 going to squat to square.

You're going to 1113 have all the lag that you want.

If you're 1114 getting off the toe, you're going to 1115 clear the hip.

1116 Get off the right toe.

The right knee 1117 replaces the left knee.

Club fully 1118 releases.

1119 Feel it.

Nice and relaxed.

1120 We're up here.

We start to get down.

Let 1121 it release.

1122 You should start to feel somewhat like a 1123 golf swing.

Feeling shallow.

Allow the 1124 wrist, the arm, the club to naturally set 1125 as it comes down.

You can see as I'm 1126 sitting here doing this, the club 1127 naturally wants to set as it goes 1128 clockwise.

As I'm moving that pressure 1129 shift, my arm, my hands.

1130 People really don't realize how relaxed I 1131 am when I swing a club.

1132 If you're that relaxed, you're making 1133 this motion.

It's clockwise.

The lag 1134 automatically happens.

The shallow 1135 automatically happens.

If you're moving 1136 that pressure, the weight automatically 1137 shifts.

If you're getting off that toe, 1138 hip clears.

Club has a chance to release.

1139 This is what better players do.

This is 1140 what they feel.

1141 This is why you don't go to a tour event 1142 and on the eighth hole, all of a sudden, 1143 somebody gets up and they're like, okay, 1144 they're just going to come way over the 1145 top and cast it.

1146 It doesn't happen that way.

This is how 1147 they repeat it.

They're feeling through 1148 these motions.

They're moving through 1149 this movement pattern.

1150 Okay?

1151 They're moving through it.

1152 Going through the sequence of events.

1153 Okay?

1154 Now, as you're doing this, 1155 and the better you kind of get at it this 1156 week, and the better you get the feel for 1157 this movement, there are a couple 1158 checkpoints I do want you to keep in 1159 mind.

1160 Okay?

1161 Now, 1162 As I was talking earlier and I started to 1163 add the right arm in the club and I 1164 started moving through this and going 1165 through this.

You can see my head's 1166 moving a little bit, you can see I'm I'm 1167 kind of moving a little bit.

Ideally, if 1168 you start to struggle, you're going to 1169 find some commonalities, okay?

And these 1170 are kind of the top three things that 1171 I've seen when people start doing axiom 1172 for the first time.

The very first thing 1173 that I see is as they start to make this 1174 motion and they start to go back.

1175 And they make this perimeter.

I see their 1176 head jump way off the golf ball.

1177 Now initially when you're trying to 1178 develop a little sense of rhythm and 1179 you're moving a little bit, it's okay.

I 1180 want you to loosen up.

I want you to 1181 move.

1182 But if you notice, you start to make this 1183 perimeter and you see your head coming 1184 off the ball, and by the time you get to 1185 the inside, your upper half's way hanging 1186 back.

You're like, I don't understand why 1187 I can't get my upper half back.

1188 Just make sure to.

1189 See that the head's not going off the 1190 ball.

1191 Okay?

1192 Got the head sway drill on the side.

1193 Head can move a little bit.

Don't move 1194 too much.

Okay?

1195 So if you start making this motion and 1196 you're struggling with that upper half 1197 hanging back, go check your head.

I see 1198 it all the time.

1199 Second thing is, watch your hip line.

1200 So when we talk about the trail hip line, 1201 as you start to make the back swing, 1202 Your trail hip, if I had a line right 1203 here, should maintain on it.

1204 Something I see a little more often than 1205 I would like is what we call a reverse 1206 hip shift.

1207 People start to make this pressure 1208 movement and they go like this.

And you 1209 see how my hips have already kind of 1210 shifted towards the target and I come off 1211 the line right here.

1212 Well, if you were making your clockwise 1213 motion from three to six, How's my hip 1214 going to be over here this way?

1215 So if you notice, like, wait a minute, 1216 I'm getting up towards the top and my 1217 weight feels like it's already here.

I 1218 can't do anything.

You messed up your 1219 darn right foot again.

1220 Maintain hip line.

If you're going 1221 clockwise, maintain that hip line so your 1222 hips and everything move in this orbit.

1223 Okay?

1224 The third thing that I see is when it 1225 comes to this swing plane issue, 1226 people start trying to do it with their 1227 shoulders.

1228 So they're getting the foot pretty good.

1229 They're moving around.

They're getting 1230 off the toe.

They're moving around.

1231 They're getting off the toe.

1232 Getting the clockwise with the arms 1233 pretty good and the head staying pretty 1234 stable.

But as soon as they go from here 1235 and they get up to 6 o'clock and they 1236 start coming down, 1237 instead of, as we were doing right here, 1238 letting everything shallow, they start 1239 trying to do it with their shoulder 1240 point.

1241 They get up here to the top, and then 1242 they start trying to almost clockwise, 1243 forcing their shoulders down like this.

1244 And they're like, Craig, I'm way 1245 underneath the plane.

I don't know what 1246 to do.

1247 Way underneath the plane.

It's typically 1248 because they're not maintaining that 1249 shoulder plane.

They're getting up there, 1250 and they're trying to force their 1251 shoulders, and not only are they getting 1252 their spine in a very precarious 1253 position.

1254 That's not the movement that we're 1255 looking for.

We still want safety at the 1256 end of the day.

1257 We pride ourselves on being the safest 1258 golf swing out there.

So it's not taking 1259 the shoulders and making the shoulders go 1260 down.

1261 Those are kind of the three checkpoints 1262 that I usually see with players.

1263 So as we move on into this week, 1264 My slide will move, which it doesn't seem 1265 to be moving.

1266 We have a rep tractor sheet right here, 1267 okay?

1268 Now, what you probably notice is that 1269 you're supposed to get a minimum of 100 1270 1271 But I didn't give you a specific number 1272 for each day of body arm, body arm club.

1273 I didn't give you a specific number.

And 1274 that's because I know everybody's kind of 1275 at their own little level right now.

I 1276 know players have.

Started to already 1277 work on the axiom.

And they already have 1278 a little bit of the good foot movement.

1279 But they're not, you know, quite as good 1280 with their arm.

Or they're good with the 1281 foot and they're good with the arm, but 1282 they're not good with the foot, arm and 1283 club.

So they need a little bit more reps 1284 on that.

I'm going to kind of leave that 1285 to you a little bit, okay, just know if I 1286 ever see your golf swing and you're not 1287 shifting weight, you're not posting up, 1288 I'm going to know that you skip that step 1289 of body 1290 that you're like, oh, no, I got that.

I'm 1291 going to go ahead and add an arm.

1292 But what I want you to start to develop 1293 is what do you need?

1294 I need you to go through all three of 1295 these regardless, body, arm, body, arm, 1296 club.

But somebody may need a little bit 1297 more.

1298 Somebody may need a little bit more time.

1299 Like, hey, I'm going to put the majority 1300 of your reps on my foot today because it 1301 just doesn't quite feel natural yet.

And 1302 I'm going to start to blend a little bit 1303 of arm.

1304 Go at your pace.

1305 But that's the swing.

1306 If you get the swing moving in one 1307 direction, if you can just even get your 1308 foot, even if you mess up the arms, but 1309 you just get this foot, it's going to be 1310 better.

But if you get the best of both 1311 worlds, the primary vortex generator down 1312 here with the foot, and the clockwise 1313 with the arms, that's what all us better 1314 players do.

What do better players do?

1315 They shift weight.

1316 They clear their hips, they come down 1317 from a shallow plane, they come down with 1318 lag.

So if I'm moving my perimeter, I'm 1319 shifting weight, if I get off my foot, I 1320 post up, I'm going clockwise with my 1321 arms, I have to shallow and I have to 1322 lag.

So what all the best ball strikers 1323 do?

It's not a it's not a mystery, it's 1324 not a 1325 It's not a gimmickry or gimmicky or 1326 trickery.

1327 It's just a movement.

1328 It's funny, some live lessons that I 1329 give, I always say I'm like, well, DJ 1330 can't even spell DJ.

So he didn't go and 1331 learn all these funky, fancy things like 1332 I'm going to get it here and get it here, 1333 get it here.

It's a movement.

It's a 1334 feeling.

It's moving through these 1335 positions.

1336 I want you to change how you've worked on 1337 the swing.

1338 I want you to start to move.

I want you 1339 to feel things.

1340 I don't want you to get bogged down with 1341 mechanics.

1342 You can ask Chuck.

You can ask all my 1343 former instructors.

I know way more about 1344 the golf swing than I ever even care to 1345 know.

1346 But I went in the same track.

All right, 1347 what about here?

Well, I'm on two degrees 1348 here, and I've got 38 degrees of rotation 1349 here.

What does it matter?

Move through 1350 these positions.

Everybody down here.

1351 Impact.

This is what matters at the end 1352 of the day.

How do I get to a consistent 1353 and good impact position?

I've got to 1354 shift my weight.

I've got to post.

I've 1355 got to shallow.

I've got to have lag.

1356 How do I have all those things?

Well, I 1357 just move clockwise around my foot and 1358 move clockwise with my arms.

I allow the 1359 club to set.

I allow it to shallow.

I 1360 feel these things.

1361 It isn't wizardry.

1362 Okay?

1363 Now before we kind of get to some 1364 questions and we start talking about 1365 where we're going or any questions that 1366 we may have.

1367 Somebody phrased to me very, very early 1368 on in Axiom Y, Craig, you're just making 1369 a loop.

1370 Well, I mean, anybody can sit here and 1371 just make a big old loop.

Well, yeah, I 1372 mean, 1373 it does get me to shallow out and create 1374 lag.

1375 In the initial, it's okay to have a big 1376 old loop.

1377 Get the feeling of something you've never 1378 done before.

Get the feeling of keeping 1379 the club in front and shallowing and 1380 lagging.

1381 It won't be that big in the end.

1382 I first started doing this, I'm like, 1383 wait a minute.

1384 I'm like, alright, I'm going to sit here 1385 and make these big circles.

And I'm 1386 sitting here thinking to myself, this is 1387 a true story.

This is a true story.

1388 I'm sitting here thinking to myself, I'm 1389 like, okay, wait a minute.

1390 So my swing has been on the website for 1391 six to seven years where my normal 1392 backswing is like this.

1393 And now all of a sudden, my swing is 1394 going to look like this.

1395 People are going to be like, what the 1396 hell did you do to your swing?

1397 Then Chuck was like, no, no, no, no, no.

1398 You're kind of missing the force through 1399 the trees.

1400 Big picture, a little bit exaggerated and 1401 all that, but start to look at your 1402 swing.

So I started to look at my swing 1403 and I started to draw some lines and I 1404 started to kind of map it out.

1405 I'm like, I'll be darned.

I'm doing the 1406 exact same thing.

It's just a smaller 1407 circle.

I just never saw it.

1408 Just never saw it.

1409 So if you're worried like, all right, 1410 well, this kind of looks a little big or 1411 a little bit kind of ganky and all, 1412 that's okay for right now.

Keep it 1413 exaggerated.

As we move on further, we're 1414 going to start to tighten it up.

We're 1415 going to make it look like a pretty 1416 swing.

I thought the same thing.

1417 And then I started looking at my own 1418 swing, and I'm like, wait a minute.

It's 1419 exactly the same darn thing that I do.

1420 Just didn't see it.

So don't let yourself 1421 get bogged down.

If you see the club out 1422 here, then you see the club.

Don't get 1423 caught up in positions.

Don't get caught 1424 up chunking.

Don't get caught up here, 1425 here.

1426 Don't do that.

1427 We have a purpose with this.

1428 We have a set goal with this.

1429 It's going to look like a golf swing.

1430 But I need you to feel the movements.

1431 Maybe a little exaggerated at first.

What 1432 a better player feels.

for what a better 1433 player does.

1434 Okay?

1435 So, let's get to work.

Don't worry about 1436 making it perfect.

1437 Get the foot, get the arm, get the club.

1438 If you don't get them all, no problem.

1439 Okay?

1440 So, without further ado, 1441 any questions?

1442 Chris is right here.

I see that he's 1443 answering some questions.

I really 1444 appreciate the time tonight.

1445 Feel free.

Jump on the community.

1446 Live lesson.

Unlimited review groups.

We 1447 have spots open for you boot campers.

We 1448 are here to help you succeed.

1449 Tonight's kind of a lot thrown at you.

A 1450 lot of big picture stuff.

And we're going 1451 to start to fine tune it as we move 1452 along.

But we've got to get this basis.

1453 We've got to get this basic movement 1454 down.

This feel.

1455 All right, so Gerard, the right knee 1456 replaces the left knee.

What does that 1457 mean?

1458 As you start to work down and you're 1459 working this perimeter and you move from 1460 6 to 9 o'clock, as you get off this toe, 1461 your right knee is going to replace your 1462 left knee.

So you can see how as I start 1463 to post, your feeling is going to be that 1464 your right knee replaces your left knee 1465 because you've got to get off this side.

1466 You've got to get this hip cleared.

As 1467 you work into this position, 1468 If you don't get off this foot, 1469 that post-up's not going to happen.

1470 Occupying the same space kind of rule.

1471 Well, if my right knee tries to replace 1472 my left knee, where's my left knee got to 1473 go?

It's got to get the heck out of the 1474 way.

It's got to straighten up.

It's got 1475 to fully post.

So if you're feeling like 1476 as you're getting off that big toe and 1477 your right knee's replacing your left 1478 knee, it's going to force your left leg 1479 to get out of the way.

It's going to help 1480 force you to clear the hip and post.

1481 Craig, see Mark Brown's question.

1482 Or Mark Rennie's question.

1483 The feeling makes me put a lot of weight.

1484 Sorry, this thing's scrolling really 1485 fast.

1486 The feeling makes me put a lot of weight 1487 on my right side.

I've found I've had too 1488 much weight on my right side historically 1489 and not getting enough weight to the lead 1490 during impact.

1491 Sorry, it's not pulling up on me.

Okay.

1492 Uh, this feeling I am getting is working 1493 against, and I'm feeling like I cannot 1494 get to the left during impact.

To get to 1495 the left, I feel like I have to rotate 1496 the clock to my right big toe, at least 1497 past the nine 1498 1499 and so look at what happens I'm going to 1500 go to six and jump straight to 12.

Well, 1501 my weight's still on my right foot right 1502 now.

Now I've created early extension.

1503 Six, seven, eight, nine, get off the toe.

1504 It needs to be a little bit snappier, 1505 probably just thinking about it too much 1506 and going too slow.

1507 Three, six, nine, get off of it.

1508 Be forceful with it.

Be dynamic with it.

1509 Don't think.

Don't go too slow.

This 1510 movement isn't slow, okay?

1511 So as you move back to six, get off.

So 1512 you might need to feel it a little bit 1513 snappier, a little bit quicker, as I'm 1514 doing right here.

1515 Get off that foot.

You're going around 6, 1516 7, 8, 9, off the toe.

6, 7, 8, 9, off the 1517 toe.

1518 You also could be going way too much to 1519 the perimeter.

1520 Get this going.

1521 Send a review or just send a video in the 1522 community.

I'll be happy to check it.

1523 All right.

1524 John, the rep tracker is on the handout.

1525 Fill it out as you need.

1526 Let's see.

1527 Are we coming off the merry-go-round and 1528 then the hands and arms start to drop to 1529 shallow the club?

1530 So, David, as you start, as you're at 6 o 1531 'clock on your foot at the apex of the 1532 swing, as the foot goes from 6, 7, 8 to 1533 9, That's when the club's dropping and 1534 shallowing.

Okay, so it's as you're 1535 shifting the weight, and as that pressure 1536 moves to the inside, that's when that 1537 club's dropping and shallowing.

Okay.

1538 From 12 to 6, it feels like the arms 1539 drive the foot weight, but from six to 1540 getting off the merry-go-round, the foot 1541 drives the arms.

If I sink them, it 1542 doesn't feel like there's any strength in 1543 the swing.

1544 Well, David, where's the speed actually 1545 coming from in the swing?

1546 The speed's not coming from strength, so 1547 to speak.

It's not coming from brute 1548 force.

1549 I'm not a very big guy.

1550 I'm 5'9.

5", slightly overweight, 1551 not very big forearms.

1552 But I have a very high club head speed.

1553 And it's not due to brute force.

The 1554 speed is being delivered through the 1555 wrist.

1556 So I'm going through here.

The speed is 1557 the whip of the club in the wrist right 1558 here, it's not about how forceful it 1559 feels.

Okay, now, being a little bit more 1560 of a right arm releaser, you're going to 1561 feel a little bit more effort.

You might 1562 feel a little bit more work into it, but 1563 the speed should be the feeling in the 1564 wrist.

So you're slinging a rock, it 1565 shouldn't feel like you're trying to move 1566 a mountain.

If you're trying to move a 1567 mountain.

Your club head speed is going 1568 to slow down, I promise you.

1569 Does exaggerating the axis tilt hurt the 1570 right side of the back?

Yes.

1571 If I get here, I've got axis tilt, and 1572 then what we call in the downswing, 1573 secondary tilt.

If my secondary tilt 1574 increases way more, look at what it's 1575 doing down to my lumbar spot.

1576 Your secondary tilt should only move as 1577 much as you need to get your hip back 1578 over to neutral.

It's kind of a preset, 1579 predetermined position.

You're not 1580 getting here hanging your head back and 1581 adding this tilt because that puts a ton 1582 of pressure on my lumbar spine.

Also, it 1583 will shallow out the club dramatically 1584 too much.

1585 Are the arms just supposed to fall when 1586 posting?

Well, when you're posting, 1587 Daryl, so when you're getting up here at 1588 6 o'clock and you're shifting the weight, 1589 the arms are falling and shallowing.

As 1590 you start to post, it's going to start to 1591 drive and propel the arms down into the 1592 release.

1593 You're using this hip drive to clear the 1594 space and to help propel the arm down 1595 into the release position.

So 1596 technically, it's still going to feel 1597 like it's still moving a little bit 1598 clockwise and almost like it's kind of 1599 free down there.

But you don't want to 1600 get here and then just post and just go 1601 dead.

If you go too dead, it's not going 1602 to work through there.

1603 Feel that as you post, how it's helping 1604 you sling that arm.

and club through 1605 there.

1606 Hard time getting my weight onto the left 1607 leg.

Left hip limited internal rotation.

1608 This has caused me to have difficulty 1609 releasing my right hand.

1610 Well, hard time getting my weight onto my 1611 left leg.

When you're making this 1612 pressure shift right here to get the 1613 weight over, there really isn't a whole 1614 bunch of internal rotation yet on this 1615 position.

1616 This pressure shift kind of back to squat 1617 to square where your weight's right here, 1618 typically what you're feeling when you're 1619 moving through this, if you're a lead 1620 side player, you'd be feeling a little 1621 bit more of your adductors, kind of pull 1622 on the inside.

1623 But if you have that kind of limited 1624 mobility, as you try to get this internal 1625 rotation as you post, allow this right 1626 foot to come up more.

1627 Okay, So this right foot, I don't want 1628 you getting here to six 1629 It's going to give you the mobility to 1630 help clear that hip a little easier.

When 1631 I add the club and release it, 1632 The face or hand is wide open on the 1633 range.

The driver's great with axiom, but 1634 the iron's 9 out of 10 or shanks.

Any 1635 thoughts what I'm doing wrong with the 1636 irons?

1637 Greg, you're holding on to it too much.

1638 So as you come through here and you start 1639 to post and get into this position, 1640 you've got to let it go.

1641 As you start to work from here and the 1642 arm starts to extend and the elbow and 1643 the wrist and get down into this 1644 position, Yes, when we start getting a 1645 little bit more into release on the 1646 weekend, there's different facets with 1647 kind of rotating the body a little bit 1648 more open and feeling it a little bit 1649 more down the line.

But if you're hitting 1650 it right, the face is just open.

You're 1651 too tense.

Let it go.

The club wants to 1652 rotate.

You can see right here, my club's 1653 not staying like this.

1654 So as I'm going through here, you can see 1655 my club's not staying like this.

I'm 1656 allowing it to rotate over.

1657 Let the club release.

You're just hanging 1658 on to it, bud.

1659 Getting too caught up on, I guess, 1660 mechanics of it.

1661 Where can I get the presentation of the 1662 slides?

I have the beta rep sheet, but 1663 not the presentation slides.

1664 I don't know how we want to do that yet.

1665 For right now, just email customer 1666 service because I know they'll have it.

I 1667 think pretty much everybody has it.

Just 1668 email customer service.

1669 And if you need that, we'll put it up 1670 here.

1671 Is there ever any counterclockwise clock 1672 movement of the lead leg during post 1673 impact?

Mike, 1674 long time no see, my friend.

1675 So as you start to move through this 1676 position going one way, when does 1677 counterclockwise happen?

1678 Well, as I start to push off this foot, I 1679 start to clear the hip.

Now I'm kind of 1680 going counterclockwise because I have to 1681 let the club release.

1682 So is there any ever really 1683 counterclockwise movement of the lead leg 1684 post impact or during posts?

Well, you 1685 can see as I'm doing this, what direction 1686 is my hip going right now?

1687 My hip to get out of the way is having to 1688 go back this way.

1689 Okay, so it's actually, you know, here's 1690 the target.

It's going back and away from 1691 the target in the opposite direction.

So 1692 for it to get out of the way, 1693 It's going this way.

1694 How to avoid pushing off the right foot 1695 is getting 600 the solution.

I tend to 1696 push off the hips and move forward.

Okay, 1697 Thomas, that's a good question.

1698 Okay.

1699 So remember this movement.

I don't know 1700 if you can see the slides, but just in 1701 case, I'll go back to it.

1702 So that's a good question.

So as I was 1703 demonstrating earlier, if you're going.

1704 From six to nine 1705 1706 the weight's shifted.

And look at what my 1707 trail hip does when I do that.

1708 It stays deep.

1709 It's because I haven't gone to my toes 1710 yet.

My trail butt cheek has to stay 1711 back.

So like when you think of, show 1712 you.

So like when you think of the 1713 clamshell and you're right here with your 1714 butt.

As you're making this clockwise 1715 motion, as it starts to go to the 1716 perimeter, where's my butt cheek right 1717 now?

Where's my foot weight?

Where's my 1718 foot pressure?

It's going from six to 1719 seven to eight, which is keeping my tush 1720 line back until now I post off and 1721 replace my right knee with my left knee.

1722 Then my butt, left butt moves over here.

1723 So if you struggle with that, you're 1724 probably just blowing past.

1725 Your perimeter shift, okay?

1726 Let's see.

Will the question session be 1727 included on the video?

Yes, Kevin.

1728 I have the same left hip issue as John.

1729 Just allow the right foot to come up a 1730 little bit more.

People that struggle 1731 with this kind of lead hip internal 1732 rotation, 1733 as you start to go this way, the lead 1734 knee is going to externally rotate, and 1735 it's what we.

1736 call kind of getting stacked.

But as this 1737 starts to internally rotate, allow your 1738 right foot just to come up a little bit 1739 more.

It's going to give you a lot more 1740 mobility.

Notice how if I put my right 1741 foot down on the ground, I can't move my 1742 left hip anymore.

1743 Just allow that right foot to come up a 1744 little bit more.

You're just making that 1745 little bit of the pressure shift, not 1746 saying go to six and get off of it like 1747 that, but just allow that right foot to 1748 come up a little bit more.

It'll allow 1749 you to open up much easier.

1750 Feel a lot of swaying doing the clock 1751 move with the foot.

If you're feeling a 1752 lot of swaying.

All right now is you're 1753 just making the big outside perimeter.

So 1754 you're feeling a lot of swaying you can 1755 tighten up that pressure movement, So If 1756 I'm going to exaggerate and go around the 1757 perimeter like this.

Like, I'm going way 1758 on the outside of my foot, where my toes 1759 are and my foot's even picking up.

Just 1760 tighten it up, Tighten it up.

1761 I get a little snap here 1762 The wrist release is the key.

That's the 1763 piece I can't get.

Always releasing my 1764 wrist early, trying to learn how to drop 1765 my arms.

Yeah, that's what most people 1766 struggle with, Rob, Is they get up here 1767 and the first thing that they start to do 1768 is they start to cast?

Because they start 1769 to move counterclockwise and fire from 1770 the right side and fire from their arm, 1771 which ends up throwing the angle away.

If 1772 you keep moving clockwise softer, not 1773 only does the shallow have to happen, 1774 you'll have to have the lag, but we'll 1775 tackle the release.

1776 We'll give you some ways to work on it, 1777 depending on which side.

1778 But we'll give you some ways to work on 1779 it to feel that kind of lag and release 1780 with it so you're not doing it straight 1781 from the top.

1782 Let's see.

1783 I think Chris is a little ahead of me on 1784 the questions.

1785 Wondering how to stop the shoulders from 1786 turning open too soon in the swing.

When 1787 I get off the right toe, causes pull.

1788 Well, Joel, when you're here and you get 1789 off the right toe, you're posting up, 1790 you're down there to releasing.

So you're 1791 saying that when you go through this 1792 pressure movement and you shall, and you 1793 get the lag and you get off the toe to 1794 clear the hips.

This is where you 1795 struggle with it, if you struggle with it 1796 there, let us get to release on Saturday.

1797 If that's where you're talking about is 1798 right at the last moment, where you want 1799 to add that shoulder, 1800 Okay.

1801 Okay, let's see.

1802 What does it mean to blow past the 1803 perimeter shift?

So Henry, when we're 1804 doing the perimeter shift and you're 1805 feeling this clockwise movement around 1806 the foot, all it means is that you're 1807 going beyond the means or beyond the 1808 exaggeration point.

So if I'm starting to 1809 make this pressure shift around my foot, 1810 and you can see my foot starting to lift 1811 up off the ground right here, that's 1812 going beyond the perimeter or beyond 1813 where the pressure shift is.

This 1814 pressure shift is pretty small, 1815 okay?

To get the feeling you're moving 1816 kind of around the circumference of your 1817 foot, getting a feeling of a hula hoop 1818 kind of going around your foot, creating 1819 this motion.

But we don't want where your 1820 foot's just all kind of picking up where 1821 you get to the outside of this foot.

This 1822 is a pretty dangerous position.

Where you 1823 get to the outside of your foot and 1824 you're kind of swaying this way.

It's a 1825 small movement, it's a small pressure 1826 movement.

So getting outside the 1827 perimeter just kind of letting the foot 1828 pick up all over the place.

No problem, 1829 Joe, thank you.

Are swing reviews 1830 included with the package?

Or they need 1831 to be bought separately?

I believe they 1832 need to be bought separately.

1833 Let's see.

1834 Hey, John, the right knee takes place at 1835 the left knee, correct?

Do we have that 1836 in the video?

Yes, axiom downswing video.

1837 If you go to this video right here, body 1838 downswing, it's in the quick start.

As 1839 you start to get off that toe, you're 1840 going to feel the right knee replace the 1841 left knee, okay?

I'm not saying kiss them 1842 right here like this.

But the feeling is 1843 getting the right knee replacing the left 1844 knee so you get off that side and you get 1845 that hip cleared.

1846 Because if this right knee is moving over 1847 here, you've got to get this left leg out 1848 of the way.

1849 Let's see.

1850 I just got a message if somebody wasn't 1851 getting the video.

1852 Were we supposed to submit a swing review 1853 before comparison and can we post reviews 1854 during this bootcamp?

Absolutely.

And we 1855 want you to, Mark.

If you have a before, 1856 go ahead and post it.

1857 Put it on the community page or send it 1858 in for a swing review and say, hey, 1859 Craig, this is what I'm starting with.

1860 Chris, this is what I'm starting with.

If 1861 you have a before, 1862 send it our way.

Let us see it.

Okay?

And 1863 if you have any questions on the drills 1864 and you just want to make sure you're 1865 doing it right.

1866 Swinger View, Live Lesson Community, 1867 we're all there to help.

Okay, we want 1868 you to get this down.

1869 Thank you, Martin.

I appreciate that.

1870 Thank you, thank you.

1871 Just filled in a lot of blanks.

Thanks, 1872 Craig.

Thank you, Daryl.

1873 Anybody else have any questions?

I don't 1874 know how many people are still in the 1875 room.

1876 You mentioned too much side bend hurting 1877 your back.

I'm obviously not DJ, 1878 but I've been thinking side bend was part 1879 of the clockwise motion of the club and 1880 right hand if I heard you correctly 1881 earlier.

1882 It was keeping the fixed axis tilt, not 1883 adding more.

Axis tilt will have to 1884 increase.

So as you move, so let's just 1885 think about it this way.

All right, this 1886 is the simplest way to explain it.

If my 1887 head's not moving, okay, and my hips 1888 start to shift this way, and my head's 1889 not moving, what happens to my spine?

1890 You see what happens to my spine is my 1891 hips move laterally this way.

If my head 1892 doesn't move, I'm going to go this way, 1893 what does my axis tilt have to do?

It has 1894 to increase.

The thing is, is as you're 1895 moving through the swing, you're only 1896 moving this left hip into neutral.

We're 1897 not going beyond neutral, okay?

Great 1898 video on the site, Preventing Hip Pain, 1899 Chris did.

Okay, it'll talk exactly about 1900 that problem.

1901 If you're moving through here, You're 1902 going to a fixed position.

You're trying 1903 to get into neutral right here where 1904 everything's stacked.

1905 Your secondary tilt doesn't have to 1906 increase that much more.

If you start to 1907 see your secondary axis tilt is 1908 increasing too much, then you're probably 1909 blowing your hip past neutral or you're 1910 hanging your head back as you start to 1911 come down.

1912 Thank you, Victor.

1913 Where were you?

Hey, Gerard, just email 1914 customer service.

They'll be able to get 1915 you for the PDF.

1916 No videos are actually on the website are 1917 available to basic members.

All the 1918 materials we paid for will be sent by 1919 email.

1920 Everything should be, Thomas.

1921 Everything should be.

1922 I have a backswing issue due to raising 1923 up my shoulder on the way back.

1924 As you start to go back and you're making 1925 this motion, you're going to need to 1926 maintain shoulder plane.

You still need 1927 to rotate around your spine.

I'll talk 1928 more about that in two sessions.

I'll 1929 talk a little bit more about that.

But 1930 basically, you're kind of doing what I 1931 was telling people on the downswing.

1932 You're probably letting your right knee 1933 straighten too much, and then you're 1934 changing your shoulder plane.

You're 1935 letting your shoulder plane flatten out.

1936 Look what happens on my head when I do 1937 that.

1938 Golf back, swing, shoulder, plane, drill 1939 on the side.

It's very good for that.

1940 I'm replacing the right knee with the 1941 left, but seem to shank the ball when 1942 doing so.

1943 If you're tending to shank the ball when 1944 you're doing that, you're probably 1945 driving it more towards the ball, which 1946 is giving you early extension.

1947 So when you start to get early extension 1948 from a shallow position right here, it's 1949 probably present the hosel.

1950 Kevin, 100 rep a day.

1951 I'm leaving it to you to choose what you 1952 need more of.

1953 Usually I set a thick guideline, but I 1954 want you to start to feel this.

You may 1955 have this foot down and you're like, I 1956 really do have this, but it's the arm 1957 that mess up.

I want 100 rep of anything 1958 you can give me, but make it a 1959 combination of body, arm, and club.

Do a 1960 little bit of body, a little bit of arm, 1961 a little bit of body, arm, and club, 1962 okay?

1963 All right.

1964 Anybody else?

I'm going to shut it down 1965 for the night.

Sorry for going over time.

1966 I just want to make sure everybody get 1967 their question answered, and we know what 1968 we're going to do, and get everybody 1969 prepped for Saturday, and come back with 1970 questions on Saturday.

I know everybody's 1971 going to have something that they want to 1972 talk about or make sure of.

1973 All right.

1974 And thanks for the compliments.

1975 Much appreciated.

1976 Perfect.

1977 Henry, yes, you can have too much axis 1978 tilt.

1979 You only need about 8 to 10 degrees right 1980 here, and you only need a little bit of 1981 increase enough to get in lead side over 1982 here at impact.

So yes, you can.

1983 Level shoulders drill on the website are 1984 preventing hip pain.

1985 Charles, yes.

Everybody, 1986 just unlike the last boot camp, everybody 1987 should get the email.

You don't have to 1988 sign up for each session like the last 1989 boot camp, so you'll get the email for 1990 Saturday.

1991 Thomas, the video is going to 1992 automatically be sent to you.

The PDF is 1993 the only reason for customer service.

1994 I'll talk about the wrist motion when we 1995 talk about the release.

1996 For right now, just feel the wrist 1997 increasing as the club and the lag is 1998 settling.

1999 As you start to come down, 2000 just feel the weight of the club set the 2001 wrist as you move counterclockwise or 2002 clockwise.

Excuse me, I was thinking 2003 lefty.

2004 All right.

2005 I think we got it.

2006 Perfect.

2007 John, this thing's flying on me.

John 2008 shallowing out is just the club 2009 shallowing.

The pitch of the club, the 2010 arm and hand are shallowing, and they're 2011 coming down on an inside plane instead of 2012 steeping over the top.

2013 So the pitch of the club is going this 2014 way, not this way.

2015 Yeah, Gerald, that's the same thing in 2016 the Sam Seed squat.

That's kind of 2017 feeling that counter torque.

2018 All right, I think that's it.

2019 Alton, email customer service.

All right, 2020 just cs at rotary swing.

com.

2021 All right.

Well, thank you, everybody.

2022 I'm going to head out for the evening.

2023 If any question was left unanswered, 2024 which it doesn't look like I'm mine.

If 2025 any question was left unanswered, we'll 2026 get you Saturday.

Or in the meantime, 2027 come find me on the community.

Come find 2028 Chris on the community or Swing Review or 2029 Live Lesson.

All right?

We'll be happy to 2030 get it answered for you.

I appreciate you 2031 all for giving me the opportunity 2032 tonight.

All right?

2033 As I always tell my students, without you 2034 guys, I don't have a job.

2035 So thank you for the opportunity.

2036 Let's work on feel.

Let's be athletic.

2037 Let's make this fun again, okay?