Craig's Journey - Introduction
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Follow along as former pro golfer Craig Morrow uses RotarySwing to return to his former playing ability after a devastating injury breaking 19 bones in a dirt bike crash.
Hello everyone, Rotary Swing Tour Master Instructor Craig Morrow, here.
And today, what I want to do is I want to give you an introduction into a new series of videos that I'm going to be filming.
Because I want you to understand why I'm doing these videos.
But also some of the behind-the-scenes information because I think it's going to resonate a lot with you at home.
That are either on a swing change journey or just now embarking on a swing change journey.
I need to give you a little bit of a background info though.
I'll keep it as brief as I can but I really want you to understand the full picture.
I've been working for Rotary Swing for about a decade now and in that decade I've probably only played about 20 rounds of golf.
In the last four years I've played about four rounds and practiced my game even less.
Sadly, when you're in the golf business, you never really get to kind of play or practice.
And when you're not doing swing reviews or teaching on the lesson tee, you got to get away from it.
You kind of have to turn the brain off.
But with that my swing has kind of fallen a little bit to the wayside.
Some of my older movement patterns have come back, and some of the components that I've worked very hard on have deteriorated.
And, quite frankly, I'm not happy about it.
It's my own fault I didn't keep maintenance on it but life and work gets in the way sometimes.
So I need to get my game back in shape.
Because I'm kind of like somebody that bought a car and put it in a barn for 10 years.
And then expected it to just be exactly where it was on day one.
You got to kick the tires, you got to change the oil, you got to take it out on a test drive every now and then if you want it to work like a well-oiled machine.
Because before I started working for Rotary Swing, I was a student of Rotary Swing, and I built a fundamentally sound swing.
That I knew would serve the purposes of what I like to do on the golf course, which is have fun, hit it far and not practice a whole lot.
I used to like to practice a whole lot, but that kind of changed over the years.
And I wanted a swing that depended less on timing and more on efficiency, and that's what I did.
But some of my older components have reared their ugly head and I need to get them back.
The problem is I also have another compounding issue.
In October 2021 I was involved in a dirt bike accident.
During that accident I sustained 19 fractures.
I fractured my left hip, I fractured all the ribs on my right side, I fractured my transverse process L1 through L5 and my right collarbone.
Now I've had labor repair surgery, broken my wrist, I've had L4, L5 issues.
So I just figured once I learned how to walk again and daily activity that everything would be status quo.
I'd pick up the club, start swinging, no problem.
I've been through injuries before.
I'm tough.
I can take the pain.
Not the case.
Two months ago I was giving an in-person lesson and the student said hey would you hit a couple shots for me?
You know just kind of show me what you know we're trying to work on right here.
No problem.
I feel that if I can't do it why should I be telling you to do it?
So I hit a few shots for the student and although I hit him quite well something wasn't right.
I started to feel my hip way too much.
I was like my post up isn't isn't working.
It's like I feel like I'm clearing my hip but it's not working the way that it used to and it kind of hurts.
And my backswing felt a whole lot of arms.
I was like I don't even think that I'm rotating right now.
I think I'm just taking the club back with my arm.
I filmed my swing a little bit later and took a look at it and I was like that's not me or the me that I want to be or the me that I was.
Sometimes I know people film their swings they're like that's not me either.
But I know the swing that I had.
I know the swing that I built.
And that's not it.
And it's because I'm making compensations in the spots where I had my injuries.
So I need to go work those out and I need to go get those components working again.
The timing of this couldn't be any better because we just launched our new C4 series last month.
And that's exactly the same protocol that I would follow to get my game back in shape.
I would start very small.
I'd work on impact shots and I'd work my way all the way up to full swing because right now full swinging kind of hurts.
But I can do the smaller ones right now and I can kind of get things moving again.
I can kind of work out the kinks.
And so I'm really excited because I want to share in this journey with you.
I won't be able to film every session, every practice session, but I'm going to film the important ones.
Like the one I'm going to do after I finish this video, which is going to be phase one day one.
I'm going to try to keep the language as PG as possible.
I'm pretty colorful so I apologize if something comes across.
But I want to leave my practice session raw and unedited.
I'm going to talk as much as I can more than I normally would when I practice because when I do well I want to voice it.
But when I do poorly I want to say hey but that these are the two checkpoints that I missed and I need to take a step back and I need to fix this.
Because you at home may have made that same fault now like hey Craig just did that same thing and this is how he's working his way out of it.
That that might get me over this hump.
I want to voice all the if ands or buts because we're all golfers at the end of the day.
Whether you're a high handicap or a professional like myself we all kind of go through the same journey.
We're going to have the highs the lows and I want to share mine with you because something I do may help you.
Or this may just be something entertaining.
It might be the most boring thing you've ever watched.
I don't know.
We're going to tweak it as we go if we need to.
But I want it to kind of be raw and unedited so that you can see what I'm going to have to go through to get my game back in shape.
The cool news about this is even with me being a golf instructor I don't have to coach myself.
Because with the launch of our AI the AI is going to tell me when to move on.
Because I'm going to input my data and the AI is going to say, Hey, Craig, you're doing great.
Keep progressing.
Or, hey, look, you need to get your butt back on the practice tee and keep working at it.
Because it's going to determine whether my rep quality and my rep quantity is good enough to stack new components.
I'm going to let it choose my journey because I still don't have all the time in the world, life and work to be able to practice.
But it's going to allow me to practice at the pace that I need.
And it's going to tell me when I need to move on and keep challenging myself.
So I hope you enjoy this new series and I apologize for the long-winded introduction.
But I think that a lot of you at home can understand where I'm coming from.
That maybe you had a good golf swing and then life hit and had some kids got a new job.
And then when you started picking up golf again, you weren't quite the same.
And so you're trying to get back.
Or maybe you were injured and things just don't feel quite the same anymore but you want to play to the level that you once did.
That's the boat that I'm in.
So enjoy this video series.
I'm going to put out as much as I can and as many as my practice sessions and I'll see you out there in the trenches.
I'm a little nervous though because I haven't hit balls like this in a long long time so it could be quite interesting.
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