Day 4 Range Session
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In session 4, Craig is beginning to refine the movements and focus on the critical details that are required to master before adding speed and the release.
Welcome everybody to a session that I'm going to call the last 10.
I've been following the comments board.
I appreciate all the kind words and I'm trying to get down what people really want to see.
And the deeper I get into my phases, I'm probably going to kind of shorten the videos because the more and more I start to do it consistently, I know you just don't want to sit there and watch me just do the same thing over and over again.
You want to learn something.
So the deeper I get into the phases and when I really start to kind of get something, you know, kind of motoring, so to speak, I'm going to kind of shorten the session, but I'm going to usually do the last 10, but really talk about the things that I focused on.
And there's three main things that I want to mention today that has really made today's session productive.
The first thing is, and I know that not everybody will have this kind of time.
You can see my golf balls right here and I don't know if the camera is going to pick it up, but my other stack of golf balls or my nine left are about three, four yards away from me.
Now, why do you say, or why do I have that stack so far away from me?
It's because I noticed when I started getting through some of my reps and things were going good, I had a tendency to do a quick rake.
I'd grab the ball, hit.
All right.
Grab the ball, hit.
And the last thing that I want to do during this is rep string.
I need to give my brain time to kind of catch up to what I'm doing, but I need to remind myself to slow down one shot at a time.
You know, that old adage, which is the truth, by the way, but I needed to give myself time.
And this allowed me to hit, kind of reset, go get a ball, come back over here and work through my process again without just rep stringing.
Rep stringing is one of the worst things that you can do when you're trying to get down these new movement patterns.
So the first thing is I move my stack of balls away from me.
Nobody out here today, so I can kind of get away with it.
The second thing is I noticed that my leg is still, my lead leg, still being pretty lazy.
Now, I know I know all the ifs, ands, and buts that I need to know about the swing, but sometimes some of this own stuff doesn't pop into my own head for what I'm working on.
And what I tended to notice as I was working on this pressure shift, I really focused on my lead oblique to help clear my hip because it's going to be the lead oblique that pulls this lead hip back.
As I started to do that, I noticed that my hip was opening, but it still wasn't giving me the desired impact position.
And then it started to dawn on me a little bit.
My lead oblique's opening up my hip, but what I'm starting to notice a little bit more is that my lead knee is staying bent.
So I'm getting into this position down here where my hips kind of open like this, but my lead knee's really bent.
And I started to think to myself, I'm not using the leverage properly.
As I start to shift into my lead side, moving a little bit towards the ball of my foot so that I can move back towards my heel.
Remember the weight in the golf swing moves like a figure eight.
As I started to move into this position, I remembered push against the ground.
If I push against the ground, it's going to push back.
So when I started focusing on really using the leverage from the ground, pushing my lead foot into it, I noticed that my legs started to straighten and my hips started to clear much, much better.
So if you're having the same tendency that I am with the slide and you're focusing on these muscle groups, sometimes it can just be something simple or a simple quick key that if you get here, push against the ground, push against the ground.
If I battle the ground with my lead foot, my leg is going to react in a way which is going to help me clear my hip.
The third thing is I want to kind of clean up a little bit of my lead wrist.
Now my lead wrist has been pretty much good on all my videos, but I have noticed a tendency of not having that kind of softness to it.
And every single strike that I have, that's good, I noticed that my lead wrist is really soft, having that kind of paintbrush effect into it.
So I've been making a lot of dry swings, and I'm going to show you what I'm doing here.
I've just held my club in my right hand, and I've sat here, and I've just gone slowly, push into the ground, flatten to bow my lead wrist, just kind of dry swings like this.
And I can really feel that glute firing.
Just dry swings like this.
And I would do two or three, maybe four, before I'd even get the club back in my hand, just to really rehearse.
Push and ground, flat lead wrist.
Maybe feel a little bit more bowing to it.
And those three keys have really made this session productive.
So I'm going to do these last 10, and we're going to see if this looks a little bit better than yesterday's.
Get one rehearsal in here, a little takeaway.
Really push into that ground.
Get the fire a little bit.
It'll be easier when I start swinging harder and making bigger swings.
But I really need to start getting that glute working.
Right on the money right there.
This should be, and this should look a little bit cleaner than it has in the past.
And you'll see how I'm walking over here now.
And just doing that has kind of forced me.
Take my time.
Keep going through your process, Craig.
And remember, it's not a race.
Here.
Get that.
I really like that one.
Nice center face.
I can feel that straight lead leg right there.
As I talked about in the last sessions of feeling new muscles starting to fire.
There.
Today, I can really feel that glute.
Really feel it back there.
And it's because my body's reacting.
I'm pushing into the ground, getting that leverage pull.
See, that's one thing I noticed when I really started to clear this hip.
It just felt like I had all the room and space in the world to get down in there.
Some of the tendencies that people have, and I do it too, is that they'll push into the ground and race their hips and they'll feel like they have to speed up their arms.
But when I get my legs working, I feel like things can kind of move slower in time.
It's like, all right, the legs have kind of done all the heavy lifting for me.
It's kind of just, let her get home.
Let her get home.
Yeah.
See, it's really clean today.
Working on that lead wrist, working on this hip.
Ball's really low flighted.
It's getting that compression, that right sound.
I've got that little bag out there as my marker.
And I've hit that thing a few times today, just right on the button.
Oh, a little thin.
Boy, that was decent though.
Just a little bit off the bottom of the club.
Felt I did good with my leg there.
Probably had a little bit of pickup in it.
Just a little bit of guiding up with my shoulders instead of just staying down.
I'm really pleased with that leg.
I'm going to have to keep hitting that leg home.
And I figure we got Mr.
Cloud again today.
So this five I'll do from down the line.
Really focusing on pushing that lead foot into the ground to get my leg to straighten.
Really get that glute to contract.
Feeling this flat lead wrist.
Almost a little, just kind of bowing feeling.
Really feeling like I'm turning it down.
Almost getting to this position.
I'm almost taking my knuckles and just kind of scraping them against the ground right there.
Which I know I'll have to work on really hard when my swing starts getting longer.
As much as my right hand is trying to play kind of devil's advocate in my phase one.
All right there.
That was good.
Foot's behaving.
Legs straight.
Even when I drop the club down right now.
It's just the littlest bit cleaner.
Just the littlest bit.
And hopefully the camera angle is pretty good.
And no cheating.
I went straight from there to there.
So it might be pointing to space right now for all I know.
Really getting that leg.
I got my trusty range bag out there as my marker.
I can see my yardage.
Check my dispersion.
I'm just going to get a nice rotation back.
We're not worried about perfect takeaway right now.
Just getting a good setup.
That was a malfunction.
It was a system meltdown.
Just pulled a three mile island.
Soften up.
There we go.
That was good.
See?
I had a complete system failure on the one before.
Don't beat yourself up.
Right back on that horse.
Oh, that was good.
That was good right there.
Foot's behaving.
Heads down.
Chest.
Nice and straight.
Trail.
Lead leg.
Playing from the wrong side of the golf ball now.
Let's end with a winner.
Get some good rehearsal zone.
A little bit here.
Push into that ground.
Get that leg straight.
Don't have to rely so much on your arms.
Let's really finish on a good one.
Here.
There.
Oh, it's just a touch skinny.
Just a touch skinny.
Boy, that wasn't bad though.
That wasn't bad.
My apologies for interrupting your regularly scheduled program.
But I wanted to interject my thoughts on this because I told you I was filming my videos and I'm leaving them raw.
So you're seeing exactly what's going on in my world.
And I'm sure a lot of you out there have felt exactly the same way that I'm about to feel.
Sometimes you got to know when to hold them.
Sometimes you got to know when to fold them.
I'm sure everybody's had that feeling at home.
You're about to see what I'm talking about.
You just need that one.
Or you almost just had it.
You just need that one to finish off on.
All right.
So I'm going to sneak over here for a second.
I won't count this towards my wraps.
I'm going to have to count that skinny one.
This is more for me.
I know you all have had that feeling at home.
I'm just going to sneak out there and get just that one more.
Got to end on something just a little bit more solid.
There we go.
Much better.
Don't worry about the takeaway so much.
Just kind of get it going a little bit.
Get that lead leg.
Flat lead wrist.
A little bit heavy.
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