AXIOM BootCamp 1, Craig Morrow, Oct 2021, Session 4

Session 4 of 4

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Hey, everyone.

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Thank you, Mr.

Tyler.

Good morning.

All right, guys.

How's everybody doing this morning?

Ready to get dialed in, get things moving forward?

We're going to.

Quick update for the schedule.

And obviously, Craig is not here again.

Uh, he should be back very soon, but I'm standing in for him for this last session.

Um, today.

What we're going to do first is I'm going to take some questions from everything we've covered so far.

And primarily the compression drill.

Now that you've had a little bit of time to work with it, excuse me, we're going to take the compression drill, we're going to break it down.

And then once I get through those questions, what I'm going to do is walk you through how to take what, everything that you've learned and the compression drill and taking it to full speed.

And the things that you need to watch out for, the things that are the most common mistakes.

There's a lot of really small, simple things that we see over and over again in the swing reviews.

And I'm going to discuss those in this session because those are the same things that most everybody struggles with.

I'm going to talk about how to fix them and what things you need to focus on to prioritize getting your swing on track.

And that's really important because a lot of times what a lot of golfers do is they prioritize the wrong stuff, the stuff that maybe looks pretty, but doesn't actually help them hit the ball better.

We're going to focus on what helps you hit the ball better.

And then as a result, it's going to look pretty.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

But for now, let me spend a few minutes answering any questions that you guys have on a compression drill.

Or anything that we've covered so far, so go ahead and post those up in the chat.

I'm going to take a look at them as they come in here.

All right, Nick?

The webinars, these should be available, uh, forever.

You should see them in your account if you log in.

Go to the top right corner of the screen, the drop down button.

I think you can see them there, but yeah, they'll be around for a while.

Is the compression drill the same as the nine to three drill?

It's a good question.

So the nine to three drill is basically essentially just taking the club parallel to parallel.

The compression drill opens it up so that you can take it much further than that.

But essentially they are much the same.

But what you're really focusing on in the compression drill is the body movement in a fluid motion.

And the nine to three drill we saw a lot of times is people could do this part really well, but they only.

Got the club here to here very well, and then once they tried to take it past that, they didn't have the ability.

Because the motions were just kind of blocky and choppy, and so with the axiom, it kind of blends everything into this one big motion, that's a lot easier to take it to a full swing, so that's really the difference.

Any other questions on anything else?

Let's see.

Okay, clockwise rotation of the hands, so David David is saying that he feels what he does, this clockwise movement.

It really opens the face, it shouldn't open the face at all, so let's just do it.

As an exaggeration, if I rotate my hands, that face is still square as I come down and into the hitting area.

So if you're doing something a little goofy with it now, you could do something really crazy and leave the face open.

But as you're doing that as you, if you watch, if I take it really, lay it open, do this really silly.

That naturally wants to square back up because I've rotated this arm so much, these muscles want to rotate back the other way.

But in general, that the motion is just setting the club on plane.

This is still pretty flat here, but you can see the cup base is still not open So if you're opening the face, You're probably cupping your your left wrist, Hitting the ball thin with the compression rope, There's a million things that can cause you to hit it thin.

But almost, I would say the majority of the time focus here, the majority of the time when you're hitting the ball thin, doing the compression drill is.

You're just doing something with your hands, you're scooping it, you're flipping it, you're slapping at it.

That's what causes most thin shots now.

You could be sliding too far forward, you could be pulling too hard with the lead arm.

That's another really common one for golfers who are trying to be more lead side dominant.

I talked about this in the last session, but I want to reiterate it your left arm is inert, you're not pulling that hard with the left arm.

People way, way over do that.

The pulling motion is really, really subtle and for most, you probably won't even feel it.

But what I see a lot of times is people doing the compression drill with their lead arm, or doing anything with just a lead arm.

And they're pulling their hand way out like this, a little bit out in front is normal, but you don't want your hands way out here.

That's going to cause you to hit the ball thin because the club doesn't get a chance to bottom out.

So typically it's going to be doing something with your hands to flip and scoop at the bottom, pulling too hard with the lead arm, or perhaps sliding too far.

But that's a little bit less common.

Those are the most common causes of hitting it thin.

Hitting it off the toe.

Typically, hitting it off the toe is because you're rotating your body too much.

And so the club doesn't get a chance, and your arms don't get a chance to get out and release back out in front of your body.

So you kind of keep turning and hit it off the toe.

But this could be setup issues.

You can be set up too far away from the ball.

You can be set up with bad posture.

Lots of things that could cause that.

If you're not sure what you're doing there, you're certain you're not rotating your body.

Your shoulders are still squared.

In fact, you can get a swing review because it's one of those things that you're just chasing around and there's lots of little causes that could do it.

Dead drill versus axiom.

So there's a video on the site.

It was called dead drill versus axiom.

But here's the thing.

And this is something that.

that I want to make clear and Chris and Chris Tyler, who's doing the next bootcamp is making adjustments.

Again, these are the beta versions where we put together a format and think, okay, this is how the best way you want to tackle it.

And then as we go through and we see your questions and we see the swim reviews come in, and we watch the mistakes and challenges and questions come in, then we'll make adjustments.

So Chris is adjusting the next bootcamp that starts next month for the sessions that he's going to lead.

To integrate the dead drill a little bit more, so what does that mean exactly?

The dead drill and the axiom are the same thing, they're the same movements.

But the dead drill breaks it down into a much more finite chunks, much more granular, smaller pieces.

So you just kind of bite off a little bit at a time, the axiom makes all of those little chunks happen automatically.

But the one thing that we found predominantly throughout the beta test, with the axiom in the beginning of this winter, was that the people who had worked on the dead drill and got in the proper position of the dead drill, this was the light bulb that made everything flow.

And that's what you have to do in the swing.

The golf swing is not chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk.

But a lot of times it helps to learn it that way.

And of course, that's how I've taught it for many, many years.

The axiom gave me that little connective piece to glue it all together into one motion.

But if you're having trouble making the movements correct, then going back and working through those the dead drill in, like, step by step in small pieces can be super, super helpful.

And that's what Chris is going to do in our next beta version of the boot camp.

Is breaking it down and more into smaller chunks, and then putting the axiom on top of it to glue it all together.

Let's see David, the left arm is always going to feel inert, whether you're trail side or lead side dominant.

Martin, good question.

Clamshell drill.

Clamshell drill is super important.

Again, It's one of those things that breaks a piece of the swing out, or several pieces of the swing out into smaller chunks that are a little bit more digestible.

Rather than kind of gluing it all together.

But Martin's saying, Hey, I can do the clamshell drill really well.

I don't have a club in my hands, but when I have a club or a ball, it all falls apart.

Super common.

But that's telling you what you're doing to power your swing, which is what we're going to talk about later today in this session is how to get your lower body working, because if your lower body doesn't work correctly.

It doesn't matter how pretty your arms are at the top or how good your swing plane is, you're always, always going to use your arms and shoulders too much in the swing.

So I'm going to hold that question because I'm going to come back to these common faults that we're going to talk about in a bit.

When should I see any increase in my distance?

That depends on a bunch of different things.

LeSter It's a good question, But you can see increases in distance right away, and you should.

But again, it depends on what's going on with your swing.

We have thousands and thousands of golfers with tens of thousands of different swing faults.

So if you're losing lag or whatever, there's just so many different things, it's an impossible question to answer.

Cause of trailing elbow being too low during backswing.

You need elevation with your arms.

Will we be able to access the next revised?

Boot camp, Uh, not the replay.

That's only for people who've enrolled again.

We're going to keep testing until we kind of get the formula perfect.

So there will not.

Uh, we don't know Chris and I don't know if that's going to be the best format either.

So we will keep testing until we get these things dialed in.

How do we take the axiom to the golf course?

Well, Paul, that should be hopefully pretty self-explanatory in that the axiom movement is the golf swing.

It's It's not something you take to the course or not take to the course.

It's always there with you.

So if you're wanting, I think what you're really asking is how do I kind of implement this in the real world versus drills?

But that's, again, kind of the point of the axiom because it is one holistic motion.

It's what you should feel on each and every shot.

So you should always be able to take it to the course with you.

It's not one of those things where you need to practice at home forever and then, you know, eventually try and bring it out to the course.

You should be able to take it out there with you anytime, all the time.

Gerald, the positions as far as trail side versus lead side are going to be the same.

The dropping of the arms, I'm going to talk about that in a moment when I get into the common faults and fixes that we see all the time.

I think this is true or false.

After the transition, your hands keep the same relationship to your hips until after impact.

Don't know what relationship you're referring to because the hands are always moving.

If that's true, when you throw a ball, it's mostly a vertical motion.

Uh, TLDR couldn't read all that.

You can't fit it in there without having me having to click the read more too long.

Uh, how important is ball plotting on the compression drill?

Uh, that's a great question, Kevin.

We want to always be checking that once you have the basic motion down, it's like, once you can kind of come on camera, focus, once you can kind of put it all together.

Hit the ball, you should be able to start looking at ball flight, but if your positions are wrong.

When you're doing these little checkpoints, which again, I'm going to come back through here in just a moment.

That we're going to spend a lot of time on today to get all these checkpoints.

In.

That, if you're hitting those right, then the ball position, the ball flight, should be the next thing you're looking at.

You should be able to control and manipulate ball flight here, even on short shots.

Yeah, James, it's just all about getting reps in there.

Anybody else lost audio?

Greg's saying he lost audio.

Too many questions.

Hold on.

Let me catch these up.

When you are at impact, should the trail hand be facing down?

Not unless you want to hit it really low.

When I do the axi movement, it is up to this guy doing something very wrong, Greg.

You need to get a swing review there.

That shouldn't happen at all.

With lead arm release, I feel like I'm just focused on lower body.

That's a good thing.

That's exactly what we're going to be talking about today.

Any advice on how to keep the legs active while addressing the shot?

Yep, I'm going to talk about that in just a moment.

How do you know you are doing lag video correctly?

What is the feel?

Uh, I've covered that stuff in those videos.

So that's something where you should, you know, get a swing review if you're not sure if you don't know exactly how much lag you should have.

That's a really simple one that the instructors can get you going with really quickly.

Or post something in the community there to get a quick answer.

Because we got to see it.

Uh, can you confirm, understand?

Some feel that should happen next?

Too long?

Sorry, David, I can't read all of that.

All right, I think I'm going to answer these questions here as we go in.

So let me dive in.

If there's any questions I don't answer in this next section, ask them to me at the end and I'll come back to them.

But hopefully I'm going to answer the stuff that's coming up there now and the stuff that's going to be.

or the stuff that was asked earlier.

So here's the big picture.

So first of all, today's session is all about taking this stuff to the real world, to go to full swing.

And that's the goal.

And we want to be able to do this as quickly as possible with proper fundamentals.

Now, here's the number one thing that I see most often in people in the swing reviews and the URGs.

And that is when they're learning the axiom or the dead drill stuff and putting it all together, that the lower body stalls out.

I would say 95% of the students that I looked at this week all had lower body movement that was incorrect.

And that's the number one thing that separates you from being a great ball striker.

It's the number one thing.

Your arms and hands can kind of do all sorts of stuff.

And I saw all of you are asking questions about, well, this loop motion, how do I get this into its real world?

Well, as you see with Matthew, well, you could do that.

Certainly don't need to.

If you look at my swing.

I don't have much of a loop in my swing at all.

It's very, very subtle.

That's just to get the feel of a clockwise movement versus counterclockwise, because so many people swing counterclockwise and have no clue that they're doing it.

Does that mean you need to make this big clockwise loop?

Absolutely not.

That's not the point of it at all.

But sometimes we've got to make this big exaggeration to help people realize because I can tell you in all the lessons that we do all the time.

People still do this all the time.

And I ask them, I show them on video, are your hands moving clockwise or counterclockwise or clockwise?

And they can't stop it for the life of them by trying to do something subtle, like trying to make this little correction, because their power source is the arms.

And if your power source is the arms, your legs will always stall out.

They won't do anything correctly.

And you will keep swinging.

counterclockwise and keep swinging over the top and keep casting it.

That's why that loop is there to get the big exaggerated field.

Now, of course, we tone that down.

It's much smaller than that.

But if you can't stop swinging counterclockwise with your hands, it helps to swing that pendulum to the other side.

That's the point of it.

That doesn't mean that you keep practicing this huge Matthew Wolfe-esque loop.

It's not the point of it at all.

It's simply to get it in your brain like, oh, that's what it feels like to shallow a club properly.

That's what it feels like to swing clockwise with my hands instead of counterclockwise.

So that's the point of it.

So when you're trying to take it to the course and this exaggerated loop, A, perhaps you don't even need to do that because you're not swinging over the top with your hands in the first place.

Now, if you are, this clockwise loop will instantly change that if you do it correctly.

But again, you just tighten it up.

It's just a small little tweak there.

It's not that much of a movement when you're doing it at full speed in a full swing.

But the bigger thing that we've got to talk about is this lower body stuff.

Because what I saw in all of these swing reviews I did this week is the lower body always being almost squared impact or just barely open.

And the one thing that you can notice, no matter who you like on tour, what your favorite swing is, who your favorite golfer is out there.

Almost every single one of them have their hips wide open at impact.

And almost every single amateur on the planet is dead square at impact or very, very slightly open.

That's a very easy to discern trend that you can see between high handicap golfers and professional golfers.

So what does that mean?

Does it mean professional golfers are more flexible or that stuff?

No, it has nothing to do with that.

It has to do with force.

When your arms begin to take over, your lower body instantly starts trying to stabilize and brace itself because you're throwing it off balance.

When your body has all this force going out this way, if you didn't stop your body movement, you'd fall out onto your toes.

So your instinct is to stop with the lower body movement, stop turning and just brace because if you just turn, it would throw off your proprioception just to be able to hit the ball.

So, what you have to do in order to make that quantum leap to getting power, effortless power in your swing, and make that leap into consistent ball striking, is you have to tone down your arms, and the only way you can do that is by activating your lower body.

You can't take your arms out of the swing if you're relying on them for power and not replace them with anything else.

You have to replace them with lower body movement.

So that's what we want to focus on first is I'm going to give you a few critical checkpoints.

These are the exact same thing that you've seen in the dead drill where I really break it down into small pieces.

The axiom movement, again, just makes those things happen fluidly and dynamically without having to think about it, have a bunch of swing thoughts.

But for right now, we're going to break it down and have some of those really specific things.

So the first thing that you've got to do is getting your hips open and you've got to get off your right foot.

I see so many golfers.

who are like dead flat-footed, 50-50 at impact, and this will not work.

You're never going to see that in any really great ball striker.

It's extremely rare that somebody does that, and they will always have a loss of power if they do.

That's the reason you see guys on the tour who, with their irons, keep that foot nice and low and the foot rolling into the inside.

I'll put my foot on the screens.

It's a little easier to see.

And they look really quiet and calm with their lower body.

And then when they go to hit the driver, you see that heel up in the air because they're really going after it.

They're getting their hips to move fast to get them wide open.

That's how they rely on what they rely on to produce power.

And amateurs don't do that at all.

They can they can swing harder and just be more flat foot and hang back.

And we see Chris sent me a swing this week of somebody working on this stuff.

And that was his swing.

Obviously, his pressure is on his right side.

He's hitting off his back foot.

So until you learn.

To get your pressure off of this right side, golf will always be a struggle.

How do we do that?

Again, this is where we start hitting those little checkpoints.

Again, the dead drill takes the arms out of it so you can really focus on just your lower body.

Once you have this lower body movement, you know where you're supposed to be and you know what it's supposed to feel like, then you can add the club and the arms and the movement back in there to add speed.

But in general, your checkpoint, my right foot, it's got so little pressure on it that I can essentially just pick it up here.

That's where I want to be at impact.

That's how much pressure needs to be on this lead leg.

So as you're coming down, as you're sitting into this left side, and if you're doing the axiom movement, you can use the right foot to help you push.

And I'm going to talk more specifically about this in just a moment.

But that will help you get off this right side.

And you can still keep your heel down and low to the ground.

Now, the key is pushing correctly.

And that's the hardest thing for most golfers to understand because they push and just move laterally.

And this creates this big old reverse C.

So how do you push correctly?

That's where the axiom movement comes in.

That clockwise movement helps move everything in the right direction.

One simple feeling, one simple thought is to get your right knee pointing in the right direction.

And what I mean by that is a lot of times if people don't push hard laterally and slide too far, what they tend to do is push their knee out.

Now, of course, what's that going to do to my tush line?

If my knee is moving forward and I'm just kind of pushing up off my toe, this is going to lead to me losing my posture, right?

So how do we push correctly to get off of that right side and get our hips open?

Well, what I want you to think about is taking your right knee.

and pointing it down the target line and replacing where your left knee is.

I'm going to talk about that down the line in just a moment.

But first, your right knee, as you come down at impact, shouldn't be moving toward the ball.

It's got to rotate so that it's pointing more down the target line.

Now, it's not going to point straight down the target line, even if I'm trying to exaggerate this for you guys to make it obvious on camera.

My knee is probably still pointing 45 degrees out.

It's just a feeling or a thought to get it pointing down the target line.

Now, what does that do to my hips?

They're open.

Now, what happens?

You can see how open my hips are.

Put a club up here.

My hips are 60 degrees open by taking my knee, pointing it down the target line.

Now, watch what happens when I move my knee forward toward the ball.

How open are my hips?

They're not open at all.

Knee pointing down the target line.

is a super, super simple way to get this in your head.

You've got to get your hips open in a simple way to accomplish it.

Now, what I said with your right knee replacing your left knee, what I mean by that, here's where my left knee is at the top of my backswing.

And what I'm going to do is take my right knee and try to move it to that position.

So here's my knee.

I'm just going to try and point it and move it exactly where that left knee was.

You see that?

So it's pretty close.

It's not going to get exactly there.

But that's moving my left knee out of the way, which also moves my hips open.

So when you look at it from face on, so again, top of my backswing, here's where my left knee is.

Now I'm going to take my right knee and put it where my left knee You see it doesn't get exactly there, but it's close enough.

To get the feeling, the idea that as soon as I do this, if I replace my left knee with my right knee and point my right knee down the target line.

Boom.

Your hips are open, and as soon as you have that, you're off to the races.

Because without that, your arms will always take over the swing.

You will not have any choice because your hips can't do anything to help you.

So that's the most important thing that I want.

You to be able to take out to the range and practice and get into your swing.

Because once you have a slower body movement down and it's not complicated, but once, but you do make, you may need to break it into smaller pieces to get the feeling of it.

Once you have that, then you're off to the races.

Because then the things that you're asking about, like, Well, how much should my hands drop?

or what should it feel like for my hands to shallow out?

It happens truly automatically.

And again, you add that tiny little clockwise movement with your hand.

Very subtle little clockwise movement with your hands.

And watch what happens when I just move my lower body.

So I go to the top of my swing, and now I'm just going to focus on what?

I'm going to take my right knee, and I'm going to position it where my left knee is, and I'm going to point it down the target line.

I'm not going to do anything with my hands.

And as I do this, what happens to my hands?

I don't have to think about my hands shallowing out.

If you have to think about your hand shallowing out, it can be common if you're used to coming over the top so your brain's kind of tied up with that and you can't think too many things at once.

But if you are trying to really feel like, okay, I've got to really shallow out my hands, I can assure you it's because your lower body isn't working correctly.

Because if your lower body's working correctly and doing enough work, your hands won't have any choice but to shallow out.

That's the secret of the swing.

And it's no different than any other hitting or throwing sport when you think about it.

If you're a baseball player and you're standing up here, getting ready to hit a ball, you don't have to think about shallowing out that bat because obviously the bat can't hit the ball.

On this plane, it's moving, can only move straight up and down, so I know that this bat's got to get into this plane.

How do I do that?

Not with my arms?

Look, how stupid that would look.

That doesn't work.

That's how a lot of us try to hit a golf ball.

Like, Oh, well, I know the club's got to shallow out and get down on planes.

I'm going to use my arms to do it, I'm not using my arms, I'm using my legs.

And as soon as I do that, what happens to the pitch?

An attitude of my back.

So somebody was asking about, Well, how low does the right shoulder go when you're trying to get this shout out?

Is it different lead arm versus trail arm?

No, has nothing to do with it.

I'm not trying to tilt my right shoulder as I step forward.

And just like, you know, The Golf swing, when I'm talking about where this right knee goes, the baseball is not really any different.

I'm pointing that right knee at the pitcher that's moving my hips out of the way, and the back shallows up.

So everything that most people have asked questions about in the swing reviews and put in their notes, they're trying to manipulate something, trying to fabricate something that happens truly as a result of moving your lower body correctly.

That's why this axiom movement.

and combining it with, you know, if you need to break it down in small pieces with the dead drill is so important and so powerful because it puts everything together.

Your arms and hands won't really matter if you move correctly with your lower body.

I can, again, take it straight up, Matthew Wolf it, as long as my lower body's correct, that's all that matters.

So when you go out and practice and you're doing these little compression drill shots, you still want your hips all the way open.

You still want that knee moving forward.

You still want your focus being on your lower body.

And then the hand movement will take care of itself for the most part, unless you're doing something crazy.

But in general, it's just because we're overusing our arms and hands that we struggle with where our arms and hands should go.

So I hope that really helps because this is the most important thing to get right in a swing.

So let me open it up to some questions now on how to get your lower body correct.

And how to add speed to this?

Because you can see going from here, or the compression drill, where you're making really small swings is really simple.

The only thing is that you have to be more assertive, more aggressive with your lower body when you want to go to full speed.

And most people do the opposite.

Now, I'll pose this to many of you out there who are probably kind of like mid to lower handicap players.

If you're the type of person who can hit your irons relatively far, you know normal distances.

You can hit your seven iron 160 plus yards, but your driver only goes 220 or 240.

This is something we see all the time where they can hit, you know, as a reasonable golfer, they can hit their irons pretty far, but then there's this massive gap that doesn't exist in their driver distance.

That happens because you're not using your lower body correctly.

You can cheat and manipulate it with your hands and arms with the irons and get away with it.

But when you go to the driver, if you see like, gosh, I hit my irons as far as a lot of tour pros, but my driver God 50 yards short.

It's because you're not using your lower body correctly.

So, all right, I'm going to take some questions I see popping up here and see what I can answer.

Oh, shoot, I accidentally deleted that somehow, Merrick, where should the pressure be on the left foot?

Well, if you go and look at the force plate study stuff that I did like on Justin Rose, for example, I talked about his axiom movement where you can see on the force plates.

It's going to be primarily back over the ankle, a little bit to the outside of the foot, but it's going to be spread across the foot with most of the pressure tending to be on the ankle.

Let's see.

Oh, yeah.

Advice on keeping legs active and addressed.

The worst thing that you can do when you go to hit a golf ball is to stand over it and stop moving.

And that happens a lot of times.

We're not aware of it.

Right.

But I see it all the time.

I'm playing with amateur golfers and they're intimidated or they're just nervous.

So they're trying to make trying to go through their pre-flight checklist.

As soon as you do that, all bets are off.

When you get over that ball, you need to be ready to go.

You don't need to get over the ball and then spend the next 45 seconds thinking through everything.

If you do, you probably shouldn't be on the golf course right now anyway, because your brain is not going to allow you to play to your best at all.

You need to work that stuff out on the range.

But when you step up to a golf ball on the course, you need to be ready to rock and roll.

So for me, I do all my thinking, which hopefully isn't very much, back here behind the ball.

So when I step up to the ball, my whole free shot routine is pretty fast.

I get my alignment.

You'll see my feet are moving a little bit.

I take a couple looks.

And then I go.

And then I break stuff back behind me.

But that is the goal.

Because any more thinking than that is going to cause you to freeze up.

And by spending very little time over the ball, my feet are just kind of always shuffling and settling in.

I'm not really sitting here.

This is what most golfers do.

You know, and their feet get frozen and then you're done.

Take less time over the ball.

You'll hit better shots.

Are you pointing right knee or pushing right knee or both?

I don't understand that question.

Okay, Joel, so you have.

you asked about, your shoulders tend to get open when you point that right knee to the target.

Now, I want you guys to think about this for a second because my goal is to teach you how to teach yourself how to play better golf.

Not teach yourself.

I want to give you the tools, but you need to be able to maintain your game so that you understand what you're doing because that is half the battle.

If you understand what's causing you to make a mistake, then you can correct it yourself in the middle of a round.

What he's asking is, when I try to get my right knee open, my shoulders get really open.

Why is that?

What's going on?

Well, can I do it without that happening?

Of course, right?

So what's happening is that I'm moving my upper body in sync with my hips, with my pelvis.

I can move them independent, but a lot of times people don't develop this feeling, and so everything kind of goes together.

So all you need to do is kind of stand here and move your hips independence.

My shoulders aren't moving, but you need to get this feeling of moving them separate because they can move separate.

But a lot of times we haven't done something like this, which a lot of times even just doing this is very challenging for people.

So if you stand up right now and try to do this, you may feel that stuff's still going to move, but you should be able to move them completely independent.

And that's what they need to do.

However, even if you can do this drill correctly, just stand here and twist your hips without moving your shoulders, if you're still powering the swing with your upper body and you don't realize it, your shoulders will still end up open.

Driver ball flight is good, mid-irons.

First, it could be your shafts.

I don't know what kind of clubs you're playing, and you could be flipping it still.

I'd have to see your swing to know what's going on there, John.

In your video, the ball position is always the same.

That doesn't seem correct.

The ball position is always the same, Peter.

I talk about that in the ball position video.

Just from one foot to another.

I'm assuming you're talking about setup there, Charles.

Just going back and forth, just keeping your feet moving is the key.

It doesn't matter how you do it.

You just got to keep moving.

Short game and bunker shots.

I talk about that stuff in the short game video.

That's a bit.

Uh, short game and full swing have very little to do with each other, so I wouldn't, uh, I wouldn't put that too much in there.

There's some pushing from the ball, uh, so when pointing the knee down, the line is, there's some pushing from the right ball of the foot.

Yeah, so remember, during that transition with the axiom, you're going around that foot.

And then that pressure is back on the heel and then it quickly moves up onto the toe and ball of the foot.

Can you push off of that a little bit?

Absolutely, but remember, you're also during this phase, you're shifting most of your pressure onto that lead foot immediately during the transition.

So as I'm at the top of my swing, I'm already, my right foot's already light.

So how much can I push off of this foot when most of my pressure is on the left side?

Already?

Not that much.

But if you hang back and keep a lot of pressure here in the transition, then you can push off of it incorrectly.

So again, If you transition correctly, this right foot, if you're right-handed, is not going to push that hard because there's not that much pressure on it.

Any other questions in here so far?

How do you implement the axion when the ball is above the feet or below the feet?

So I believe Chris Tyler has done some videos on different shots that you face.

In the course of a normal round of golf where it's above your feet, side hill lies, et cetera, the movement never changes.

The axiom movement doesn't matter what you're doing.

If the ball's way above your feet, it's not going to change that much.

However, on a personal anecdote, for me, when I have a shot where the ball's way below my feet or way above my feet, something really awkward on a side hill lie, not talking about uphill versus downhill, but side hill lies.

I tend to quiet my body down and swing a bit more with my arms because I want to make sure that I get clean contact.

Say if the ball's a foot or a foot and a half above the ground or whatever like this, this is a really challenging shot when you're on a really big side hill a lot.

I tend to use a little bit more arms and quiet my body down, my lower body, similar to how I would hit a fairway bunker shot.

That doesn't mean that I don't use my lower body.

Of course I do.

But I do quiet it down to make sure I get good contact.

And I pretty much allow for that with taking an extra club, depending on what I'm dealing with.

And I do that for a couple different reasons.

But when you're doing that and you're hitting on a really big side hill lie and you take extra club, that lower loft on the face is going to make the ball curve a bit more.

So for instance, the ball's above my feet.

And let's say it would normally be a 7-iron shot and I might take a 6.

Because I'm not going to put a lot of power into it because I'm going to be a little bit more armsy with it.

That 6 is going to curve a little bit more because it's got less loft.

So you have to kind of take into account those things.

But in general, the movement doesn't stay anything.

You just tone it down a little just to make sure you get good contact.

In the post-up, where is the pressure on the left foot?

I just answered that question.

If we're looking to shape shots, is the method still to adjust the angle of the lead hand during that?

Shaping shots is the same no matter what.

Your lead hand is always controlling that club base.

The right hand is helping add power or helping transmit power from the body depending on how you want to swing.

But 1000 your control of that club base is always 1001 through that very subtle little pulling 1002 motion.

If I want to de-loft it, I'm just 1003 going to bow that wrist in a tiny little 1004 pull to help deal off the face.

And if I 1005 want to control the draw or the cut, 1006 you're just always doing that with that 1007 subtle little left-hand move.

1008 Shoulders are always going to be the 1009 same.

1010 They're always going to be basically 1011 square.

It's okay if they're a little bit 1012 open or a little bit closed or what have 1013 you, but in general, it's okay for it to 1014 be a little bit open.

1015 With the push drill to put a little bit 1016 more right side into it.

You can see 1017 certain golfers do that.

But in general, 1018 Tiger Woods, you don't use a lot of right 1019 hand, his shoulders to actually be very 1020 closed and impact.

So You can do either 1021 way, But we want to stay in a pretty 1022 tight range there.

You know, you want to 1023 keep them basically square, or just maybe 1024 five or ten degrees open, five degrees 1025 closed.

You can still play great golf 1026 like that, 1027 Okay, Jeff is asking, on accident 1028 release, I either hook the ball really 1029 bad or arms feel like I want to separate.

1030 Can you demonstrate with compression 1031 drill?

I'm not exactly sure what we're 1032 going to demonstrate, but if you're 1033 hooking, if I had a guy, I'm doing some 1034 Craig's URG.

So if you guys are in 1035 Craig's URG, you've seen me do some 1036 lessons this week to help him while he's 1037 out.

1038 And I had another golfer who asked 1039 something similar.

I thought it might 1040 have been you, Jeff.

I'm not sure.

I 1041 think you were new or not.

But this 1042 golfer was.

saying, you know what, I'm 1043 working on the action movement and I'm 1044 hooking it and I don't know why.

1045 And so I looked at his lesson and I said, 1046 well, for starters, 1047 you're aimed about 40 yards right, so 1048 there's a problem.

1049 And he had no idea.

And then he also had 1050 the ball not only back in his stance, but 1051 because he was set up so close, his feet 1052 look like this.

What does that look like 1053 to you when you look at my feet?

As a 1054 right-handed golfer, what does it look 1055 like?

1056 Can you tell anything?

1057 You can see the whites in my shoe.

You 1058 can see that my right foot is effectively 1059 swayed open in relation to the target 1060 when my left foot is closed.

1061 That's going to make me come from the 1062 inside even more.

1063 And then to boot, the other club is club 1064 -based and stronger.

So, if you're hooking 1065 it, it's not the axiom's fault.

Every 1066 tour pro releases the club exactly the 1067 same way that I've showed you.

It's not 1068 any different, and they're not struggling 1069 with the ball.

If you're hooking the 1070 ball, you need to get a swinger.

You're 1071 obviously doing something that's 1072 incorrect.

You're either flipping your 1073 hand or you've got all these beautiful 1074 little setup things.

You're taking it 1075 inside.

You've got a good place.

So many 1076 things that can cause you to hook it.

1077 Do you guys lose sound there for a 1078 second?

Can you hear me?

1079 Give me a sec.

Let me see if I can change 1080 mics.

1081 Can you guys hear me now?

1082 All right.

You guys can hear me okay?

1083 Okay.

1084 I'm going to put on this wireless mic.

1085 This happened last time for some reason.

1086 I'm not sure why.

1087 Okay.

1088 I'm not sure if you guys could hear my.

1089 answer to the hooking there.

1090 So let me come back into that.

1091 If you guys heard this already, let me 1092 stop or stop me.

Okay.

1093 So some of you may be experiencing this.

1094 So you're going out there and you're 1095 working on releasing the club.

And for 1096 many of you, releasing the club and 1097 letting the club rotate over will be a 1098 foreign feeling because you've never done 1099 it.

Most amateurs don't release the club.

1100 So when they start trying to release it, 1101 they just start flipping it.

And that's 1102 not the release.

But 1103 If you're hooking it, there's lots of 1104 different things that could be going on.

1105 So what I was talking about just a moment 1106 ago is I'm doing some of Craig's URG 1107 students, and I had a student in there 1108 who said, you know what, I'm trying to 1109 release the club now, and I'm hooking it, 1110 and I don't know why.

Well, the first 1111 thing that I saw in his swing is that he 1112 was set up about 40 yards to the right, 1113 and then he was complaining that the ball 1114 was starting over here.

1115 That's a shocker, right?

So obviously if 1116 you're set up closed, your path is going 1117 to be coming from the inside without you 1118 realizing it because you're set up shut.

1119 The second thing that he did was that he 1120 had the ball back in his stance and it 1121 was set up like this.

So now you can see 1122 that my right foot, you can see the white 1123 of the inside of my shoe and you can't 1124 see the white of the inside of my left 1125 shoe.

What does that mean?

Well, I've 1126 splayed my right foot out.

1127 Right.

So now not only am I closed in 1128 relationship to the target line, but I've 1129 splayed this foot out, which is going to 1130 allow me to rotate even deeper because as 1131 this foot is turned out, I'm going to 1132 exaggerate it.

It's way easier to take 1133 clubway inside, which he did.

And so then 1134 he's coming away from the inside.

And 1135 then he also had a shut face at the top.

1136 So of course you're going to hook it.

So 1137 the reality is if you're hooking it, 1138 trying to release the club properly, 1139 you're doing who knows what wrong.

It 1140 could be a bunch of things, which is why 1141 the swing reviews are there.

So get a 1142 swing review because the release is not 1143 the problem.

1144 Every tour pro on the planet releases the 1145 club.

And I've proven this over and over 1146 again, even with golfers like Zach 1147 Johnson, they all let the face and their 1148 forearms rotate over.

Some do it more.

1149 Like Luke Donald, some do it less, but 1150 everybody lets the club face rotate over.

1151 If you're hooking it, it's you doing 1152 something incorrect and you need to get 1153 that fixed.

And if you don't know what it 1154 is, get a swing review.

1155 Let's see.

1156 Steven, there's a video on the side about 1157 splaying your feet.

So it should be 1158 covered in there.

1159 Let's see if I missed any other questions 1160 on here.

1161 So David, 1162 I'll read this question.

You guys can see 1163 the question.

But basically his question 1164 is, should I be coming off the merry-go 1165 -round ahead of my hands and arms starting 1166 to drop?

So what do you guys think the 1167 answer is to that?

1168 Should he be getting off the merry-go 1169 -round as his hands and arms start to 1170 drop?

So who's got the best answer for 1171 that?

1172 Joel says yes.

What else?

1173 Same time.

1174 Anything else?

1175 So should he be coming off the merry-go 1176 -round at the time that the hands and arms 1177 are starting to drop?

So we got all yeses 1178 so far.

1179 Slightly behind, at release.

Okay, 1180 interesting.

1181 Here's how I would answer that question.

1182 You don't have enough time to think about 1183 that.

1184 If you're thinking about something that's 1185 happening in thousandths of a second, 1186 then nothing else is going to happen in 1187 the right sequence.

1188 So I understand what you're trying to 1189 ask, But the reality is, the best answer 1190 is you should have no freaking clue 1191 whether or not your hands are dropping at 1192 that time.

Because that movement of your 1193 lower body will take care of everything 1194 with your hands, as long as you're not 1195 trying to hit the ball hard from the top 1196 with your hands.

1197 So if I go to the top of my swing right 1198 now, basically the top of my swing and my 1199 pressure on my back foot at six o'clock 1200 is when I'm starting to get.

moving 1201 forward and get off that merry-go-round.

1202 But technically, my hands are dropping as 1203 I'm moving forward.

Now, right now, I'm 1204 not trying to move my hands at all.

I'm 1205 just focusing on that merry-go-round 1206 movement.

What's happening to my hands?

1207 They're dropping.

I'm not trying to drop 1208 them.

I shouldn't have to do that.

I'm 1209 just letting them move or get moved by 1210 that foot movement.

And so they're going 1211 where they're supposed to.

And from here, 1212 then I'm going to pour on the power.

1213 But the reality is you don't have time to 1214 think through all of those things.

1215 However, if you're used to firing your 1216 arms hard from the top, like most of us 1217 are, that's how most golfers learn how to 1218 play, and then you have to spend all of 1219 this time learning how to beat that out 1220 of yourself because you never learned how 1221 to use your lower body correctly, and so 1222 you keep chasing the club.

1223 One of the things I tell my students all 1224 the time, especially if you're used to 1225 looking at your swing on video, is that I 1226 wanna see a ratio.

1227 of that transition to see how much your 1228 hands move versus your lower body.

So if 1229 you're looking at your swing on video, 1230 here's what that should look like.

If I 1231 go here, so I'm gonna turn, well, you can 1232 see my right knee, okay.

1233 Now my right knee has to be moving during 1234 this phase of the swing, but what we see 1235 all the time is this.

1236 So you can see my hands have moved two 1237 feet and my knee has moved an inch.

1238 during this first phase of the swing i 1239 want to see my knee move and my hands get 1240 moved 1241 And that doesn't happen in most amateurs' 1242 swings.

Their hands move several feet, 1243 and the same time their knee moves barely 1244 an inch.

And you wanna reverse that.

Now, 1245 of course, your knee doesn't move several 1246 feet, so you have to use some common 1247 sense here.

But you wanna see that during 1248 that transition phase that the lower 1249 body's moving more to a degree, and 1250 technically it won't.

The hands have 1251 still got a greater distance of travel, 1252 but you can see it very obvious.

When you 1253 see somebody's hands do this and their 1254 lower body's still closed, you can see my 1255 hips are still closed.

By the time I'm 1256 halfway down, you know that that person 1257 fired their arms down.

You take a tour 1258 pro and you'll see their hips are open.

1259 By the time that lead arm is parallel to 1260 the ground, most tour pros will have 1261 their hips already back to square and 1262 most amateurs will be short of square 1263 with their hips.

And that just means you 1264 fired those hands at the wrong time.

1265 Again, the key is using your lower body 1266 correctly.

1267 Any more questions?

Any good exercises to 1268 promote hip rotation?

1269 You know, there's a video on the site, we 1270 used to have it on the site, where you 1271 just basically laid on your back and you 1272 just tried to move your hips like this.

1273 Honestly, you don't really need to be 1274 able to do this to hit a golf ball.

1275 It doesn't hurt to be able to sit here 1276 and move your hips independently of your 1277 shoulders, but you can just stand here 1278 and do this.

What you really need.

is 1279 the sequencing of the swing.

Because when 1280 this doesn't move independently, it's 1281 almost always because your arms and hands 1282 are just taking over everything.

So all 1283 the exercises in the world and all the 1284 yoga in the world isn't gonna make a 1285 difference if you keep moving from the 1286 wrong spot.

So what you need to do is 1287 train your brain in the context of 1288 actually doing what you're going to be 1289 doing, which is hitting a golf ball, 1290 right?

That's where everything tends to 1291 fall apart for us.

So that's why the 1292 compression drill starts as small as you 1293 wanna make it.

but you keep focusing on 1294 your lower body to get this movement 1295 down.

And once you have that, it's a lot 1296 easier.

You don't have to worry about 1297 doing all these exercises and things like 1298 that.

It's purely a sequencing thing.

And 1299 so you've got to start at the speed that 1300 you can do it perfect.

And if at first 1301 you can't hit the ball, you know.

10 feet 1302 and, you know, move your lower body 1303 correctly as you've, you know, hitting 1304 these checkpoints and getting that knee 1305 pointing toward the target, the hips 1306 open, maintain your posture.

Then you 1307 have to go even slower or take the club 1308 or the ball away until you can.

And then 1309 you slowly start stacking those things 1310 back in.

1311 Kevin, I'm going to try to.

1312 Is the ratio between your shoulder and 1313 hip turn on the backswing the same at 1314 impact?

That's a good question.

Probably 1315 not something you need to worry about, 1316 but that's a little bit different for 1317 everybody because of how much shoulder 1318 mobility some people have, and they call 1319 that shoulder turn.

Your rib cage is only 1320 going to turn so far in relationship to 1321 your pelvis, but then your shoulders can 1322 make it look a lot further.

You can see 1323 my ribs didn't turn anymore, but I look 1324 like I've turned further.

1325 And then the question is, does it.

come 1326 down and be the same at impact?

Well, the 1327 shoulders tend to retract a little bit.

1328 So in other words, 1329 yes and no.

I mean, it depends on how 1330 you're measuring that stuff.

But again, 1331 not something I would worry about.

Your 1332 hips are going to be 30 to 45 degrees 1333 open, shoulders be squared impact, and 1334 obviously about the opposite of that at 1335 the top of the swing.

But there's a lot 1336 of dynamic stretching going on.

1337 Counter-rotating the trail foot.

Is that 1338 now obsolete?

No, Gerald, the axiom is 1339 that counter-rotation.

1340 As I'm moving this way, where's all my 1341 momentum going?

It's going clockwise.

1342 That's counter-rotation because that 1343 counter-rotation continues into the 1344 downswing.

As I get up onto the ball of 1345 my foot, that's why you see guys like 1346 Tiger, their foot actually moves in, 1347 their heel moves in toward the ball a 1348 little bit.

because that windup is 1349 continuing to happen and it's happening 1350 very quickly.

So if I do this fast and I 1351 get up onto the ball of my foot very 1352 quickly, you can see that my foot is 1353 pivoting in.

1354 Yeah, yeah, that's the problem with the 1355 TPI and exercises.

It can give you all 1356 the exercises in the world and it doesn't 1357 do a darn thing.

1358 Is a pause drill to top your backswing 1359 good to learn to turn the arms off?

It 1360 can be.

It can also do the opposite.

1361 So Daryl's question is you go to the top 1362 of your swing and you pause, and then you 1363 kind of get the lower body going.

Well, 1364 the reality is by the time that you get 1365 your arms to that spot at the top and you 1366 pause, your lower body should have 1367 already been starting to move back the 1368 other way.

That's the difficulty with it.

1369 What I see a lot of golfers do, go to the 1370 top, pause, get static, and they're in 1371 this good position.

But then, of course, 1372 because the lower body should have 1373 already been turning and shifting and 1374 stretching these muscles that pull the 1375 arms back down, they don't have that, so 1376 they just fire their arms.

So it can be, 1377 but I generally, it's something you've 1378 got to be very mindful of.

It's hard to 1379 get your lower body to go correctly when 1380 you're static at the top.

1381 Does it make sense?

The feeling of the 1382 start of the swing starts with the 1383 internal rotation of the left hip.

That's 1384 something that's never crossed my mind.

1385 So I would not think of it that way.

My 1386 left hip isn't really doing much of 1387 anything.

1388 So yeah, 1389 technically the left leg is externally 1390 rotating during the start of the swing.

1391 Golfer's elbow in the trail arm swinging 1392 way too hard with that right arm is very, 1393 very common.

1394 John, I've talked a lot about ball flight 1395 stuff.

It's just all done with that left 1396 hand.

So if you look at some of those 1397 lead hand videos and altering trajectory 1398 and left hand training videos, those will 1399 really help you understand how to 1400 manipulate ball flight.

1401 I did answer the compression drill and 1402 the nine to three drill at the beginning 1403 of the video.

So maybe watch the replay 1404 after this.

I spent a little bit of time 1405 on that.

1406 Amy's asking.

1407 The left foot has turned more toward the 1408 target at the end of the swing.

Yeah, 1409 that's pretty common.

1410 Again, it depends on how much pressure 1411 you move back to your heel.

Some golfers 1412 kind of post into the whole side of the 1413 left foot and they kind of create a 1414 really firm wedge there.

And some kind of 1415 move their hip a little bit deeper.

And 1416 as I move deeper, that moves pressure 1417 onto the heel.

And because there's a lot 1418 of speed, my foot just might pivot, 1419 right?

So just, you know, this is, you 1420 can kind of hit into more of a firm left 1421 side.

And this is getting into subtle 1422 nuance.

It's probably not worth 1423 discussing.

But when you have somebody 1424 who's rotating a lot and you see their 1425 foot kind of spinning out, that tends to 1426 lead itself to hitting a fade a little 1427 bit easier because you're spinning to 1428 delay the release of the face.

And when 1429 you see somebody who kind of slams on the 1430 brakes and kind of does this kind of 1431 motion as an example.

That actually helps 1432 you release from the inside and makes it 1433 easier to rotate and release the club 1434 face to hit more of a draw.

So that's one 1435 of those things that you'll see.

People 1436 who are kind of spinning out tend to hit 1437 more of a cut.

People who slam on the 1438 brakes tend to hit more of a draw.

1439 Yeah, Jamie, for sure with kids, because 1440 they pick up things so fast and typically 1441 don't need to break it into small chunks, 1442 the Axiom is super, super easy for them 1443 to pick up.

1444 Joel, love the left side release.

It is 1445 challenging to overcome that.

And again, 1446 the more that you use your lower body, 1447 Joel, the easier it becomes to let that 1448 left side go inert.

1449 Peter.

So, okay.

So Peter's saying, hey, 1450 you've talked a lot about in the past 1451 about hip spinning, and now you're saying 1452 we need to get our hips open.

Those are 1453 two totally different things.

So hip 1454 spinning is driving so hard off of this 1455 right hip, and you don't shift your 1456 weight and you just start spinning your 1457 hips open.

Or you start driving hard like 1458 this and your hip, your foot's coming way 1459 up in the air.

We have golfers like this.

1460 There's instructors who teach you to be 1461 in an impact like this.

That's spinning 1462 out your hips and does no good.

So we're 1463 not talking about getting your hips open 1464 and being way up on your toe and having 1465 your hips 90 degrees at impact, like some 1466 instructors want you to do.

That's 1467 horrible for your back.

We're talking 1468 about just getting your hips open the 1469 same amount as any tour pro, which is 1470 about 45 degrees.

1471 Good, Amy.

I'm glad that helped.

Any 1472 other questions before we wrap up here?

1473 No more questions.

All right.

So lower 1474 body, that is the key to everything.

If 1475 you get that working correctly, the arms 1476 and hands and shoulders and keeping your 1477 back to the target and all those things, 1478 so much simpler.

But if your lower body 1479 doesn't work, you'll just keep making the 1480 exact same mistake over and over again.

1481 And you won't understand for the life of 1482 you why you can't stop casting the club, 1483 flipping it, scooping it, come over the 1484 top, et cetera.

1485 Get your lower body working correctly.

1486 Use the compression drill to get this 1487 motion so that you're open at impact and 1488 then your arms and hands will play so 1489 much more nicely.

If you don't fix that, 1490 the arms and hands are always going to be 1491 a devil for you.

So, use the compression 1492 drill and the dead drill checkpoints if 1493 you need to, break it down into smaller 1494 chunks.

To get yourself into these right 1495 positions and be able to hit the ball 1496 properly.

Let's see if there are any more 1497 questions coming in.

1498 Thank you, Harry.

I appreciate the 1499 comment.

1500 Let's see.

1501 Catherine, 1502 longer iron is significantly worse than 1503 seven iron.

1504 So Catherine's question, this is 1505 something I'll answer because I think it 1506 applies to most everybody.

This is what I 1507 was talking about earlier.

With her 1508 shorter club, she feels like it's pretty 1509 good.

And then the longer clubs is 1510 significantly worse.

The longer the club, 1511 the more we instinctively want to swing 1512 harder, right?

1513 It doesn't matter who you are.

We wanna 1514 swing harder and the club is pulling on 1515 us harder.

It's making muscles work 1516 harder because there's more centrifugal 1517 force on the club, pulling on our bodies, 1518 et cetera.

And we just wanna hit it 1519 harder.

1520 The whole feel, the goal, again, is that 1521 you feel the same with your eight iron as 1522 you do with your driver.

Now, of course, 1523 they're gonna feel a little bit 1524 different, but the amount of effort that 1525 you exert really shouldn't change.

1526 A lot of it's just a lack of trust for us 1527 or like, 1528 that we feel like I've got to swing 1529 harder.

That's just something that takes 1530 a little bit of work to get over.

Of 1531 course, you're going to swing a little 1532 bit faster with your whole body movement.

1533 But in general, when you're going to 1534 longer clubs, try to pretend that it's a 1535 wedge and going back and forth on the 1536 range from like hitting a bunch of wedges 1537 or nine irons, eight irons, whatever, and 1538 then grab your three wood and make a 1539 couple of swings and try to feel the 1540 exact same speed.

1541 Once you have that, as long as your 1542 fundamentals are good, then you'll find 1543 that you'll hit it the normal distance.

1544 You'll hit it more solid.

You'll hit it 1545 more clean.

But the trick is when we get 1546 that longer club in our hands, we start 1547 to tense up and everything in our swing 1548 flaws.

If it's a little bit of casting 1549 the club with an eight iron, it tends to 1550 be a lot of bit with the longer clubs.

1551 And so you've got to keep working on 1552 those fundamentals.

1553 Let's see.

Anything else that I can help 1554 with?

1555 You could grip down on the driver a 1556 little bit, sure.

1557 Paul, you're welcome.

1558 Let's see.

1559 Is it okay to think of desalberating the 1560 upper body as a stop and square?

No, it's 1561 not.

1562 So this is another kind of David's 1563 question.

Is it okay?

He's struggling 1564 with his upper body.

kind of wanting to 1565 take over and saying, is it okay to think 1566 about decelerating the upper body?

Well, 1567 no, because that's the opposite of what 1568 really, if you're having to think about 1569 decelerating it, it means it was already 1570 accelerating and you were accelerating 1571 it.

I don't ever have to think about 1572 decelerating my upper body because I 1573 never tried to accelerate.

I never tried 1574 to rotate it.

I tried to use my lower 1575 body.

1576 And then my upper body just gets moved 1577 along.

So if you're having to think, stop 1578 with the upper body, you're just going to 1579 create tension up there.

You're going to 1580 put sheer force on your spine.

And it 1581 just means that you're not moving your 1582 lower body well.

1583 Thank you, Robert.

Appreciate the 1584 feedback.

We're going to keep tweaking 1585 these things until we get it perfect.

1586 Thank you, guys.

1587 Let's see.

Any other, I'm trying to 1588 understand your question, Charles.

1589 Struggling to feel lower body already 1590 moving by hand.

1591 Okay, so this is how you really take this 1592 stuff to the core.

So he's saying he's 1593 struggling to feel his lower body 1594 starting to move by the time his hands 1595 are reaching to the top.

A good way to 1596 start practicing this is with a step.

1597 If you have no clue as to what you're 1598 feeling and you feel like, God, no matter 1599 what I do, my hands and arms and 1600 shoulders just start spinning before my 1601 lower body ever starts to work, then take 1602 a step.

And what I mean by that, and you 1603 can do this with just one hand, it's very 1604 natural to take a step and get your lower 1605 body moving.

A lot of times with golf, 1606 because we don't have that step, it's 1607 like snowboarding versus skiing.

If 1608 you've ever tried to learn, if you 1609 learned how to ski when you were younger, 1610 And then you pick up a snowboard.

A lot 1611 of times people struggle mightily with 1612 snowboarding because their feet are 1613 strapped together.

They can't move.

And 1614 so it feels like all of a sudden, oh 1615 gosh, I guess I just don't use my lower 1616 body.

That's not true at all.

My calves 1617 are exhausted after a day of 1618 snowboarding.

So at least my right calf.

1619 So your lower body, when it's stuck 1620 together in the ground and your lower 1621 body gets kind of rigid, that is a death 1622 move.

And that's when they make you use 1623 your upper body too much.

You won't be 1624 able to get out of that until you learn 1625 how to get this dynamic motion.

And 1626 that's why I love.

taking a step to get 1627 ready to hit a ball.

Now it's natural for 1628 me, you'll see my hands moving back, my 1629 lower body's already cruising, right?

1630 This little feeling is the same in the 1631 golf swing.

And that's why, you know, we 1632 can use this little drill to lift the 1633 left heel up to kind of simulate this 1634 step.

So you just take the step and you 1635 make it smaller.

I think there's a video 1636 on the site from many years ago that I 1637 did like.

1638 and Chris will be able to pull it up, I'm 1639 sure, but where I was talking about this 1640 stride and step drill, and then you just 1641 slowly make this step smaller, and then 1642 you just lift your heel, and then you 1643 just kind of unweight it, and so you get 1644 this lower body activated, but the 1645 simplest way is take a big old step, and 1646 you'll feel like, okay, my hand is still 1647 going back while my lower body's moving 1648 forward.

1649 Any other questions before we wrap up 1650 here?

1651 Call it how the lower body works.

See, I 1652 told you.

Thank you, Chris.

1653 All right, guys, I think we've covered 1654 all our bases here.

Like I said, these 1655 bootcamp videos in this beta version will 1656 be available.

You should be able to 1657 access them on the site.

1658 And like I said, for this next bootcamp, 1659 Chris is going to adjust the format a 1660 little bit.

For those of you, I know a 1661 lot of people enroll in both of them 1662 because just to see how we do things 1663 different or to hear it over and over 1664 again.

1665 And then when we release the next one, if 1666 you do want to participate in another one 1667 after we change the format a little bit 1668 until we kind of refine it, we typically 1669 offer.

people a really discounted rate 1670 to re-attend a bootcamp.

So if you want 1671 to see the new stuff after we keep 1672 testing it and who knows, maybe we'll 1673 come back to the same format, but I think 1674 we are going to adjust it to spend a 1675 little bit more time on getting that 1676 lower body really, really dialed in very 1677 early so that we have more time to walk 1678 you through over the next couple of 1679 weeks, but we'll see how it goes.

So 1680 anyway, thank you so much, guys.

I 1681 appreciate your time and we will see you 1682 guys on the other side.