Phase 1 Follow Along
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Learn how to practice your golf swing productively and follow along with a pro in this practice session. You'll learn how to enter your scores into our AI ScoreTracker so the system can guide your progress.
Welcome to the first follow-along video for phase one in the C4 program and what this is all about is teaching you how to practice effectively and efficiently because the worst thing you can do is practice wrong because not only do you ingrain bad habits but you literally go backwards so you want to make sure that you're practicing the correct way and that's what this is all about you're gonna follow along with me exactly the way that you should practice so I've got my seven iron here and what you're gonna do first is to break up your practice sessions into sets of ten and that's how you'll enter your scores on the site as you'll see in just a moment but what you're gonna do is just take out of your pile of balls that you're gonna hit for the day take ten balls so I've got here six seven eight nine ten this is my focal point I'm not worried about the rest of those piles of balls it's not quantity it's quality in fact you'll see as you enter your scores in the score tracker on the site that there's actually a limit to how many shots you can enter per day because practice needs to be productive and going out there and pounding a thousand balls mindless mindlessly without focusing what you're doing is completely counterproductive so what we're gonna do is we're gonna coordinate everything off into into sets of ten so that we can focus on what we're trying to do and the in phase one it's all about learning how to hit the ball dead straight so to do that we're hitting our five checkpoints that I covered in the phase one videos I'm not gonna go over that here we're just gonna start going through and getting some practice reps in before we actually start hitting balls and checking our checkpoints if you know all the checkpoints by now flat wrist shoulders square hips open left leg straight right foot rolled in and we're gonna just kind of hold off that follow through right now can phase one to make sure that we've got the clubface square because we if we stop we can see what was the clubface open is it shut so this is this trick to learning how to hit the ball very straight is learning how to control these impact conditions so then as you go to start hitting balls these are gonna be very very short at first and the great thing about phase one is you can do this in your backyard with wiffle balls or foam balls you don't have to be hitting real balls at first if you don't have a chance to make it out to the course of course we want you hitting balls so that you get over that little white devil phobia that we all have after we're doing our drills so this is important to move up to real balls when you can when you can get out to the range so now I've done some practice sweeps reps here and just working on getting that same feeling that same position over and over again and then I'm gonna hit one one last thing before I start two questions that you guys ask me all the time one where do these balls go don't worry they're going on our land they go down to the racetrack and we pick them up with our lovely labradoodle briar and the second thing is no that's not a green screen those are the lovely San Juan Mountains of Colorado so now they've got those two things out of the way let's go ahead and hit a couple here and as I'm doing this I'm going to talk you through practicing how what you need to be thinking about what you need to focus on and don't expect to hit every shot perfect the goal is to get you to hitting eight out of ten consistently straight hitting it into our little grouping pattern getting the ball to start on the same line over and over again so that we get used to getting into those impact conditions so as we're going through this I'll talk you through the mistakes that I make the things I do right and we'll go from there okay so now all I'm doing I'm checking my checkpoints just looking where the clubface is obviously if I go past the impact position if I don't stop right at impact because I have a little bit too much momentum the clubface should be starting to close a little bit my left wrist is still flat elbow down the line here my shoulders are square hips are open weights on this lead leg I can pretty much lift my right foot up and the ball happened to fly where I wanted it to so that's a good thing now of course this is this is a little bit shorter you're going to be hitting these balls 10 15 yards so they're going to go a little bit like this this isn't long enough off this tee box here to see where the ball stopped but you want to see them all flying of the same direction same trajectory same line and ending up in a grouping a couple yards on either side of your starting line there no more than that so that's one out of ten we're going for here another good one now I drop kick that one just this tiny spit and you might have caught that on camera and this is something I want to talk about here real quickly when you're doing these you know follow alongs and you're starting to hit these balls with the little nine to three swing or really nine to six as we're stopping at impact you're not gonna have time to make a full weight shift you don't have all the momentum you don't have all the time so it's okay when you're doing this to either preset your weight a little bit more on the lead leg and not quite shift so far back in your backswing or just be a little bit more aggressive with your weight shift but the truth is you just don't really have a lot of time for a weight shift so the weight shifts gonna be pretty small pretty minimal during this this phase but if you find yourself hitting it fat and of course when we go to in our scores a moment I'll show you you know you can select that you're hitting it fat and then the system will recommend videos based on your trends of how you're striking the ball whether or not what you need to focus on but the first thing that you're going to pay attention to just getting starting with that pressure a little bit more on the lead side or just being a little bit more aggressive with your your pressure shift back to the lead side there we go that one was better so I've got three out of ten so far here that are acceptable another good one so I'm just repeating it I'm checking my checkpoints each time now I'm gonna go through this really quickly in my head because I know what these checkpoints are but I just start feeling okay as my foot rolled in and my hips open is my pressure on my lead side that I have the face squares the ball which is now starting to be my guide if I did this right the ball should be coming out very much on the same line every time now I'm going to do a couple incorrectly so that I can start to show you like the tendencies that you're going to see happen so you've seen the first five have been pretty much right on the same line now I'm going to do one incorrectly now what did you see there so you can see that the ball went a little bit right and from the face on view the club face was a little bit open and then as I got into as it carried past the impact position a little bit it wasn't closed a little bit it was actually still a little open or even square that's showing you that you're not letting the club face get down to a square position and when we get into the release phase in phase two that you would be holding off the release and that's what creates those dreaded slice balls so to fix that we got to go back and just do a couple practice swings and make sure you get that club face squared up at impact and check it if you've got an impact bag you know use the impact bag to stop yourself right at impact and you can always back it down a little bit so I'll hit this one even shorter hope it perhaps not that short this is the tricky part when you're trying to hit these really short and you don't have enough weight shift enough time to get the weight shift so I'm going to put a little bit more weight on the lead side at address and make a short swing again there we go so I'm just checking as I can stop it closer to impact whether or not that face is square once I've got that down I'm gonna go back make a little bit longer swing there we go so each time I'm just going through my checkpoints did the ball come out straight did I hit it clean did I hit it in the center of the face if I hit one off the toe which I'll do here watch what happens so now I hit that one off the toe I get a rebate on that one and and what happened there if I held my follow -through you'll see that my shoulders were open you'll remember the video moving the fulcrum on the site that if you're trying to rotate your shoulders to hit the ball you'll start wiping it off the toe so those types of things are what you want to start paying attention to if you're hitting it off the toe put that when you're entering your score in the system so that you can see the system can see oh you keep continuing to do the same thing here's how you fix that issue if you're hitting it off the heel I'll hit one off the heel here the old dreaded shank what did I do my right heel popped up my knee moved into the ball my heel moved into the ball which moves my pelvis into the ball caused me to lose my posture my elbow and arms don't have room to bring the club down so of course the club is gonna work out toward the ball so again when you're making these mistakes hitting it off the toe fat then whatever hitting it too high if I start to flip my wrist enter that in your scores which we're gonna do now so let's take a look at how you enter your scores you can do it right on the range right from your phone let's take a look at that when you are entering your scores in shot tracker you will see your previous shots here your tendency and the membership average over time you'll see hopefully over time as you do more sets that your tendency your scores will improve and of course you can track your history with all your notes here but let's add a shot real quick so let's just say that I got eight out of ten there and tend to hang back and hit some fat shot so I'll put a couple notes in there I'm also gonna enter some positive notes golf beats us up enough as it is I want to reflect on the stuff that I'm doing really well and which is everything else is really solid you know my shot shots are coming out straight and I have a solid impact position so give myself a little bit of reinforcement there and then my tendency though when the shots that I do miss we tended to be fat I tended to hang back a little bit no bonus challenge no bonus challenge and in phase one so we just select no there and hit submit and so as I do that it'll say shots were added I'll see that in real time that my history was updated here and then I will see that my progress through phase one will be updated here and in real time my shot tracker will be updated as well so that's how you enter shots in there and as you enter these shots it updates the entire system and as you enter enough shots and the system learns enough about your tendencies you'll start getting recommended videos based on those tendencies all right so now that you know how to use the system to enter your scores and so the system can start tracking your trends and start recommending the right videos that the perfect time for you with what you're struggling with right now now I'm just gonna go through a normal practice routine I'm not gonna talk it through it so much but you can kind of get into the rhythm and flow I'll still talk through the faults and mistakes that I make if I make any but this is what you want to be doing when you're practicing you're going to be focused on what you're doing you're going to be concentrating on what you're doing and that's why we break it up into a set of 10 balls so you don't have to think oh god I'm gonna hit a thousand balls here just rattle through them we want to be really focused on each set of 10 and that's again of course how the system is going to score you is on each set of 10 so now I'm going to focus on what I'm doing and have a normal little practice session here okay chunk that one a little bit I was late with my pressure shift my hands felt a little tense totally normal so I'm just gonna practice getting that out of there put a little bit more pressure on the lead side as I'm doing these drills there we go kept my head down pressure shift was better there you could hear the quality of the strike was a lot better we got one out of two another chunky one so I'm late on my pressure shift and again this is going to be one of the most common things that you're going to struggle with when making these little swings because we don't have all that time to make a normal pressure shift so again just got to remind myself to put a little bit more pressure on the lead side to start out and then we get a good strike there we go these are all coming out the same line same trajectory you see they're going to fly very low you'll notice that's kind of part of my practice routine as I set up I'm setting up my normal setup and then I'm just kind of moving a little bit more weight into the lead side helps ensure that cleaner strike still checking my checkpoints I know that my shoulders are nice and square the ball is coming out nice and straight pressure shift I'm getting that right foot to roll in making short little back swings perfect so I got eight out of ten I botched a couple early on so I'm just going to go and enter my scores eight out of ten my tendency was to hit it a little fat which again is going to be common I'm going to give you some recommended videos the system is going to recommend videos based on the shot tendencies that you have and if you're hitting it great don't worry about you don't have to select anything you're just you're hitting it pure every time that's awesome but that's what we want to see we want to have a very focused practice session 10 set 10 balls at a time that's a set now you can go back enter your scores after each set so you don't forget what your score was and then go back rake over another set of ten and whatever you were struggling with try and practice that so like as I mentioned I was hitting a little bit chunky if you're hitting it off the toe and turning your shoulders you want to practice kind of keeping your your shoulders once you turn them back a little bit keep them pointing back back here at the camera in my case as you're doing these shots if you're hitting it off the heel and you're losing your posture you're going to work on keeping that those hips getting deeper as you come through and keeping that foot that heel rolled in but down on the ground but the system will recommend the videos for you based on your tendency so it's important you enter your scores every time and this will help you get hit the ball very very straight very consistently very very quickly
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