Day 3 Range Session
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In Day 3, you should be aware of and correcting the mistakes you made in the first 2 practice sessions and now refining the movement so you can start building those quality reps in.
Welcome everyone to a short session today as I continue my phase one journey through C4.
You can see that I have a few stacks right here.
I'm going to do about 20 or 30 of these for the camera and then stay tuned until the end.
I'm going to put a little clip of my swing and how I feel about today's session.
I want to summarize it a little bit and I'm going to show you plugging into the dashboard my score.
But before I get started, I want to thank you all.
My session one video was released today and I can't tell you how much it meant to me some of the commentary I got back.
The emails I received, some of the comments on the board, it really meant the world to me.
As I tell everybody, we have the best members and today really proved it.
I don't want to get too emotional about this, but a lot of people reached out to me and it meant a lot.
And I truly want to thank you for that.
And I'm going to continue to put forth as much good commentary and hard work as I can because you guys deserve it.
So with that being said, I want to cover a couple topics that I saw.
I haven't checked everything yet.
I've been running around all day.
My computer died.
So it's been a fun task to kind of get that running back again.
But I want to mention a couple topics before I hit these that I saw on my phone.
The first thing is players are talking about, or some members are talking about this pressure shift.
Now in this motion right here, it's perfectly fine to have a little weight set on the lead side.
It's perfectly fine to start out that way because you just don't have the time to make an aggressive pressure, shift to the lead side and have an aggressive post up.
So if you don't want to move, if you'll see in my first session, you'll see in my second one too, that'll be released later this week, you'll see that I have a little bit of weight into my trail heel.
And you'll almost see that I have a little bit of kind of starting the downswing before completing the backswing.
It's just me.
I'm used to moving a little bit.
I'm used to having a pressure shift, but it's not required for this phase.
So if you don't have this big aggressive pressure shift, don't worry.
You can stay a little bit on that lead side and focus on just getting that hip cleared and getting a little bit off that trail foot.
Another thing, I had another comment that asked, somebody asked me if I could wear a watch when I do this because they want to kind of see what's going on with my wrist.
Now I actually think that would be a little bit more interesting for phase two.
I normally don't wear a watch when I hit golf balls, but I'll wear it for this session right here just so you can kind of see.
One last thing, shoulders.
That was something that I saw a lot today.
Well, Craig, your shoulders look open.
What's going on?
As I progress through this, one of the big things is I'm going to have some sloppiness.
I'm going to have some shots where I get down here and my shoulders start to get open.
You can hear in my commentary in the first one that, you know, I just got a little thin.
I'm like, oh, my fulcrum position's bailing out.
I had a tendency to use my shoulders just a little bit on some of those shots, but I don't want you to miss the force through the trees.
The goal is getting to this impact position, post it up, stack, shoulders square, trail foot rolled in, head down.
If they open a little bit through this strike as my club goes through in the follow-through, that's okay.
My trail hand's connected to the club.
If I were square here and I finished here, this doesn't mean that I rip my shoulders open.
It's just my trail hand's connected to the club, so they've got to move through a little bit.
If I were to work from here and let go of this, and then you saw my shoulders like this, then I'd be a little bit in trouble.
So that little bit of openness that you'll see on some of my swings, that doesn't mean that I rip the shoulders.
Some of those are just because I got a little bit too aggressive, and I had a little bit too big of a follow-through, and since my trail hand's on the club, the only way for me to get over there is my shoulders have to open a little bit.
So without further ado, I'm going to hit a couple of these shots, and one thing that I noticed with the sky before I came over here is there's a big cloud coming over right there, and I'm hoping that it's going to continue to move a little bit east for me.
That way I can sneak in one of these sets from down the line because I also got that too.
Craig, we need down the line.
I'll get you.
I'll get you.
Don't worry about it.
So let's get started.
I hope everybody's having a wonderful day today.
As you remember from day one, life is good.
Life is good.
Make a little practice swing over here.
We're going to keep that trail arm nice and straight.
A little pressure shift.
I can feel that my hip's doing a little bit better.
I gave it a couple days off.
I can feel that my hip's doing better.
I can feel that my move's getting a little tighter.
It's getting a little bit more buttoned up, and that's starting to get exciting on my end.
I just got to keep it going.
That old American Express commercial here.
There's no rainy days.
And if my computer goes down, I got to take advantage of it.
A little heavy.
Did you see it?
Did you hear it?
Hit just a little bit behind it on that first one.
A little tight.
A little tight.
So let's make sure.
And sometimes that can happen.
Because I really don't preset that much, I have to make sure I get that pressure shift, and I get into my lead side and clear.
So on that one right there, if I get that little bit lazy, I'm going to hit it fat.
Let's get that cleaned up.
There you go.
Much better.
Hopefully my hip and my leg are doing a little bit better neutral-wise.
I don't have so much of that slide.
Hopefully that's worked out now.
Follow through.
Should start buttoning up a little bit.
We're going to hit those checkpoints.
I'll take away here.
There you go.
Good.
I like that one.
And hopefully that's what you'll see at home.
Hopefully what you'll see is that as you progress through this, that things start to improve a little bit.
My first session, sometimes this swing got a little bit big.
Sometimes I got a little aggressive through or lazy with my legs or a little bit with the shoulders.
But the more and more I keep over and over doing this over and over again, you know, the cleaner, more buttoned up and less variable my move should be.
Pretty good to me.
Head's down.
Chest is good.
Belt buckles in front.
Trail foot rolled And I'm hoping that AI is going to tell me something good soon that I can move on, but I'm not going to until Hal tells A little thin.
A little thin.
A little tense today.
A little tense today.
Touch heavy.
Just a little heavy.
But that's why we do this.
I'm going to grind out all these issues.
You're going to feel tight one day.
You're going to feel loose another day.
You may have worked out in the morning.
So you're all pumped up.
You may not have slept well.
So, you know, things are just, yeah, ooh, cracking and popping.
That's all right.
We're going to take our time and we're going to get this.
There you go.
Much better.
Looks good with the hips.
Trail of foots there.
Head.
Chest.
I will say it does feel really weird to do this with a watch on.
That was good.
Let's see if we can bottle that one up.
Oh, that was really good.
Almost let that one release a little bit.
Almost let that one release a little bit.
That was good, though.
I can tell today my yardage, it's not necessarily getting shorter, but it's getting much more consistent.
It's dropping back a little bit, but it's really kind of getting in that narrow bucket category.
My dispersion through this process hasn't been too bad, but the distance sometimes would jump on me a little bit, just being a little hyper excited.
Especially in session two, when I really started working hard on that pressure shift.
But my distance is becoming much more consistent now.
The better and better you get at golf, you will start to notice that distance control and really being able to dial that in and knowing your numbers.
So important.
And this is a great place to start understanding the feel.
That was good.
And that was good.
All right.
I don't know if I'm going to pass this section, but I'm pleased, though.
I'm pleased.
Long day at the office, some technical glitches.
Nice to be outside working on this.
I think that was pretty good.
Hips, chest, head.
All right.
Get that one in the books here and has that fill out the AI for that set.
Another thing that I want to mention, players have a hard time keeping this small.
And the reason that you have a hard time keeping it small is because you're using your arms too much.
All right.
If you use your shoulders and you really feel your core move your arms, hands, and club, it's going to be much easier to keep this nice and buttoned up.
I noticed on a few of my swings, I never really got to lead arm parallel, but I noticed I was kind of floating a little bit past nine o'clock.
But it's because my arms, I'm not used to doing this, and my body kind of shuts down and I'm a little bit sore in the rib and definitely sore in the collarbone area.
But if you're struggling with the length of this swing, go back, do a couple, five minutes of mastering rotations.
Just do a couple of these.
Get back the feel of using the core, using the shoulders to move the arms and hands.
I know when we start getting this a little bit longer, I'll talk a lot more about that because I know I'm going to need it.
So I'll give in to it a little bit more, but if you're struggling with this length of backswing, you're just overworking your arms.
So turn them off, get that core going.
Oh, that was so close.
That was so close.
Can't count it, though.
That was a touch heavy.
It's just a little scuffy through the shot right there.
Felt just some right hand.
A little bit of right hand.
You could, as, you know, if we slowed that up, so to speak, what you would see as I started to go through there, and I started to post, my trail hand would start pushing too much like this.
And you can see, and if I, I'm going to exaggerate, if I push really hard with my trail hand, what's the club doing?
It's going down into the ground.
So if I overwork that trail hand right there, that leading edge is going to dig.
So I could feel as I started to work from there, I push with that hand.
And so I started, I'm like, oh, no, keep, get that leg going.
Got to keep moving.
This thing's going to bottom out.
Didn't get enough, though.
There you go.
Much better.
So you'll see, like right here, my chest is a little bit open, but I'm also right here.
So if I were to wind back to here, chest is really good, hips, foot.
But if I wanted to, and let's say, I'll do this for a little bit of an exaggerated case, but I want to keep a little bit of distance on this.
If I wanted to, I could really get to right here and make this really short where I were here, and I'd just stop at impact.
But I need something a little bit more dynamic.
At this stage in the game, I mean, that's, I think I might have gone six yards.
That's not going to do me any good.
That's not the goal of this drill.
I need a little bit of motion, a little bit of momentum, so I'm challenging myself.
It's a little bit of a challenge, but not too aggressive yet, but it's so I can feel that lead wrist there.
Flat lead wrist, trail wrist doing good, hips.
I think we can count that one.
I think we're going to get lucky with that cloud, sneaking a couple down the lines.
Get here.
And that's something that I'll mention while I'm going through my warm-up for this shot.
This shot's going to be on the lower side.
I get that question a lot.
Craig, this, you know, this ball's, you know, only coming off, you know, three, four, five feet high.
It's okay.
We're working on de-lofting, hands ahead, square contact.
Lower flighted is what we should see here.
It's a windy day.
This is a perfect drill to practice.
I don't know.
I think that was a tiny bit towards the toe.
I mean, I'd take the shot for me, but you know what?
The only person I'm doing a disservice to is myself.
So we're going to have to scratch that one, which is depressing because that was pretty good.
That's the beauty about golf.
It's one thing that with other sports, that's not every single sport, but most sports have, you know, a competitor or a referee.
Something can be determined by an outside influence.
It's one thing that's nice about golf.
Mono against mono.
There you go.
Good.
Just got to keep getting this down.
Just know, the more you grind this out, the better you do.
You can get on to releasing the club.
Got to eat my vegetables first.
I think my pressure shift's doing better today.
Legs, that hip's not bothering me as much.
I don't feel as much push, kind of slide against that hip socket wall anymore.
And that's definitely something I've got to make sure to keep out.
I think we're okay.
I can count that one.
I promise you a little down the line action.
So I'm going to do this next set of 10 from down the line, just so we can kind of see what's going on right here.
Not striving for a perfect takeaway at this point.
And this is another thing.
It's funny how, as soon as you kind of post your golf swing to the world, some of the commentary that you get back, and I was kidding with a student this morning.
This time, I don't care about takeaway.
I don't care about any of that stuff.
My primary focus is impact.
I don't want to get a big sawing right arm or shutting the club down like crazy.
But my focus isn't on that.
I can only handle so many tasks at one time.
I've got my five checkpoints.
That's the goal.
Unless there's something super egregious going on, don't worry about those components right now.
We'll clean that up in the next one, okay?
Or the next phase.
We're really starting to kind of dial it Oh, there you go.
Did you see that one?
I hit my mark.
Got to count that one.
I was hoping it would go inside the bag.
That way I don't have to shag these things.
Let's build on that.
Let's get another good one in there.
I'll take that.
See if we can go for the hat trick.
that was a tweener.
That was a tweener.
See, this is when you battle those demons.
It's like, I had the line.
It was low.
I know the move wasn't that bad.
But I mean, I caught just a couple of grass blades early.
Tweener.
Can't count it, though.
That is really depressing.
Oh, I can count that one, though.
I can count that one.
And don't worry, the more and more I film these, and the more aggressive the swings get, and the bigger they get, and all that, we'll have a little bit more to talk about.
Right now, I'm just a little bit in my own world.
Just enjoying a nice, cool evening.
I think, I got in my car, I think it said it was like 101 or something like that.
It is perfect now.
Oh, yeah.
I like that one.
I like that one.
I'm going to take that one home.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't feel a little foot push, but it looked like my heel lifted a little bit.
I think I had a little bit of right heel on that.
Oh, I'm going to hear about that one.
I'm going to owe somebody $100.
All right.
Getting lined up, set up, try to have some decent posture.
Go on the takeaway.
Just want to get some rotation, just to move those arms and hands.
I'm not striving for a perfect takeaway right now.
We're going to talk.
We're going to have a complete system failure.
There you go.
All right.
I've got to grind this one out.
I need to get a good setting here.
I've got my line right there.
Good ball position.
I've got my tilt.
Set up feels good.
There you go.
Hit my target.
Take that one.
Puts a little hop in my step.
Get that pressure shift.
Think about those checkpoints.
What am I going to struggle with?
What do I struggle with?
I struggle with getting lazy with the legs.
I struggle sometimes to get lazy, and I start to bail out and help it with the shoulders.
And my legs get lazy.
Sometimes that right hand comes in.
That's why we only have these couple checkpoints right here, and we don't have like this full grandiose picture of having all this perfect.
You can hear Justin how I was talking right there.
Didn't that sound like a whole lot?
I mean, it sounded like a whole lot to me.
It's like, all right, my legs get lazy.
My pressure shift gets lazy, so I've got to make sure to get my legs and my shoulders.
When my legs get lazy, they start to spin to help out.
And then when things get a little slow, little malaise in my swing, my right hand starts to thrust through and starts to push and help.
That's a lot to focus on.
It's a lot to kind of go through the checklist.
Don't worry about those other things.
Take care of these little guys down here.
Let's grind it out and get them done.
There we go.
There we go.
I can count that one.
That's a keeper.
Let's do that again.
I didn't think that was too bad.
Sounded a little thin, but I think caught that one pretty well.
My checkpoints are good.
Shoulders are good.
Foot looked okay.
I didn't feel any right hand.
I'll take that over a win.
That felt pretty good.
Just sounded a little thin.
Sounded a little clanky.
I think that ball, it looked like one of those glow balls.
It has that kind of clear thing to it, so I think that was more equipment error.
So, with that said, I'm going to finish these right here, and I'm going to go back.
So, stay tuned.
I'm going to end this right here.
I'm going to do a little talk session about kind of what I see, what I'm feeling.
Just a brief little overview of this one, a little rundown, and we're going to keep this work going.
This one's going to be nice and short and sweet, but I want you to stay tuned.
So, thanks for stopping by.
I'll see you right after the clip.
At home, I wanted to show you a recording of myself entering a set from today's session.
I know that everybody or some people don't have access to Wi-Fi or cellular data at the driving range, and it's perfectly okay to write your notes down and enter it in on your desktop when you arrive at home or the next day at work.
So, for this session right here, or this set, I have eight period shots in this set.
My notes, still sometimes heavy.
I tend to miss a little on the heavy side, especially when I'm talking a lot.
But that is the kind of recurring theme that I had when I was missing in my sets today.
My shoulders seemed to be pretty good, but still had a tendency to hit it a touch heavy.
So, I added that to my notes.
I'm going to take my shot tendency as fat, and I'm going to submit this.
Now, after I submit this, you can see how my progress tracker goes up.
I want to show you a little bit of my history.
You'll see that if I look at my history, I've got 22 sets in right here.
You know, my set that I entered previous, decent start to the day, a little heavy overall.
You can see it carried over to the one that I just entered.
But the second session that I had, you'll see, I left myself tired, but good session.
My legs tend to get lazy, and chest gets active late in the session.
So, I need to take more practice swings, provide a little bit more of a breather.
But my hip clearing improved.
And you'll see, I don't always enter a note for every single shot.
But on certain sets, when things go right, like this one right here, feeling lead hit back, helping the strike.
You know, good recovery after a few bad sets.
I'll remind myself of videos, moving the fulcrum.
So, I'll always be able to refer back to this as a checklist of what was I doing when the day was going well, or what was I doing when I was struggling during that day.
So, I'm going to go over here and look at my shot tracker.
And you'll see, from my shots, I'm a little bit below right now than the average user.
And that's okay.
If you come to this graph and you kind of see high, low, that's the purpose of this, is to get the reps and to start to get consistency.
So, I'm kind of bouncing around a little bit right here.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to continue to add my shots right here.
But I want to show you some of my thoughts and feelings from today's session.
Okay.
So, I told you I'd do a little bit of a recap from this session.
I figured I'd do down the line since I haven't had one of those yet.
There's not a whole lot to gather from these views at this point.
But I do want to show you a couple of the similarities.
And one thing that I'm going to focus on in my next session, that is a little small trait.
That can lead to some bigger issues down the road that you may be going through right now or you've struggled with in the past.
You'll see my day three down the line on the left-hand side.
I've got Chuck over there on the right-hand side.
And the first thing that I want to point out, and let me make sure that this is right where I'm starting to take the club back.
All right.
I'm going to draw a line from my ankle joint straight up.
Now, I know with pants, it's a little bit tough to tell.
But there's going to be some spacing in between this line and the back of my knee joint.
And what that's kind of indicating to me is that I'm getting just a little bit weak in the knees.
In that my weight's starting to fall just a little bit more towards the balls of my feet.
I'm not really in that kind of proper, true balance position.
And when my knees start to move a little bit too far out and my weight starts to get a little bit too far towards the toes, it'll start to kind of flatten my hip position a little bit.
And from this flatter hip position, my hips aren't going to really rotate properly.
But this can also cause problems down the road.
When you start to get excessive knee bend, it can really start to affect your takeaway in swing playing.
So what I'm going to focus on tomorrow is I'm going to make sure that I get my knees just cleaned up just a hair.
It's something that I yell about with my students a lot is that excessive knee bend getting the weight too far forward.
So tomorrow I'm going to really focus hard on making sure that I get a little bit better balanced position.
Because if we look at Chuck over here on the right hand side of the screen, if I draw a line up from his ankle joint, you'll see how it's going right through the back of his knee joint.
And this is meaning that he's in a much more balanced position to move throughout the swing.
From this here, there's not a whole lot of differences.
There's a lot of similarities.
I'm not too concerned with the takeaway right now.
But as I start to take the club back, you'll see at this position that the club is toe up.
You can see the logo on my chest, which does indicate that I'm rotating right there, not overly swinging my arms.
And as I move from this position coming down, you'll see at the moment of truth that my shoulders are square.
I've got a little bit of my lead forearm on top.
We can see a little bit of left butt cheek over here.
I'm starting to get off on that outer edge of the trail foot.
We compare over with Chuck's on this side.
You'll see as he starts to rotate back, you can see easily the logo on his chest.
And as he starts to shift and work into impact, you'll see the same thing.
It's a little bit of the lead forearm on top.
Shoulders are staying in the shot.
We've got a little bit of lead butt cheek over here, allowing the trail foot to roll into the instep.
So not too much going on here.
But this setup position is very important.
It's very important to have balance in the swing and to be able to move the weight correctly.
And if I start to get the knees too far forward and I start to kind of preload on the balls of my feet, it's going to start to flatten my hips and can lead to messing up my takeaway and messing up my swing plane down the road.
I want to be in a nice, true balance position so that I can use my legs effectively.
And if that is a position that you struggle with, I want you to take a look at finding true balance.
And you can also see how it affects your swing plane by taking a look at how knee flex affects swing plane video.
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