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Phase 1 Bonus Recap
Here I will talk about all the faults I experienced in Phase 1 before graduating to Phase 2
Why smaller and more controlled pace moves are crucial to help correct your errors
Why you may be experiencing grip wear at the bottom of your glove.
When pushing into the ground where are you pushing from?
hello everyone and welcome to a phase one bonus recap edition now today what i want to do is i want to talk about a little of the faults that i had to work through in my phase one journey as of now i have graduated to phase two but before i begin i want to talk a little bit about my journey you've all witnessed it you've seen my practice sessions i've talked about all my faults but i want to go a little bit more into why it was so important for me to stick in phase one to start to rebuild my swing i counted seven different faults that i needed to be aware of and that i needed to start to nip in the bud immediately let's think about that for a second i'm making a belt high backswing to just past impact and only hitting it roughly 15 yards and i found seven different errors that i needed to start to correct imagine what would have happened if i would have come out to the driving range made a couple practice swings and just started wailing away at drivers not only would those problems have been exaggerated but how easy would have really been to start correcting them now i'm not that naive i know as i start to make the swing longer and faster that these problems will probably start to rear their ugly head and i'm going to have to put some work in making sure that they don't dominate in my move again but i'm aware of them now i know what's going on and i know that's probably going to be my tendency the longer and faster that i get so when you start understanding kind of how the brain learns and when you start trying to make this swing change you can't do it at 100 miles an hour i can't i found seven different faults in a 15 yard shot so with that being said let's talk about that i'm going to try to work myself from inside to out as i want you to kind of diagnose your swing so i may have mentioned this at different sessions or different sections in my practice but i want to kind of work my way from inside to out and the first thing that i want to mention is my setup one thing that we noticed from down the line is that when i started to set up is that my knees were starting to get a little bit up and under this way making my hips flat and moving my weight out towards the balls of my feet and this smaller type shot could i have probably gotten away with it yes more and more or later on down the road the faster and larger that i get with my weight out here towards my toes we know what's going to start to happen i'm going to start to try to get aggressive with my hips then i'm going to have the old early extension my trail hips going to start driving towards the ball i'm going to start coming up out of my spine angle and so right now it's very important for me to be able to get into that proper balance and proper setup so for me to do this as i'm standing right here all i'm going to do is i'm going to hinge forward with my legs locked out and you'll see that all my weight has fallen back towards my heels and while i'm in this position i'm just going to soften my knees and when i soften my knees i'm going to let my weight kind of resettle this is going to help me get into a proper balance position with my hips and my weight this is where i hate using the term but this is going to be where i feel athletic that i can move my pressure correctly in both feet so if you're struggling with getting that weight too far forward all i want you to do is stand straight up and down hinge from your hips let the weight fall back keep your legs locked out and then just slightly soften the knees and this will help you get into a better position with that weight balance and the amount of knee bend that you have the second fault that i found i never mentioned on camera i found a fault in my grip the second session that i filmed i started noticing i was getting a little bit of wear and tear at the bottom of my glove i was like well that's odd i've you know even when i used to play a lot and maybe go through two or three gloves a year i thought maybe to myself well i did get new grips maybe it's just the new grips that are digging in it just wasn't a strong enough answer for me and what i found out as i was doing these little smaller shots because i haven't gripped a club for a long time is my grip started to slide up a little bit into my palm and so with it sliding up into my palm it started creating a little bit of wear and tear at the bottom of the glove so early on i realized that i needed to focus hard on getting my grip comfortable moving it a little bit more down into the fingers and for me starting at the bottom of the pinky knuckle and working to the bottom of the first knuckle on my middle finger that allowed me to get a little bit more in my fingers and what it's going to help me do is allow my wrist to set a little bit better as i go back and release the club because as it starts to move a little bit too much into the palm it starts to kind of mute your wrist a little too much and for me that's the last thing i need to do is mute my wrist set that's one of my faults that i know that my wrists kind of tend to get actually a little bit too dead so i noticed i had to change a little bit of my grip the next thing that i noticed is that when i started to shift into my lead side i started to push a little bit too aggressively from my trail foot now this created a compounding error i'd push too hard for my trail foot which would get my hip outside of neutral joint alignment now we know this is a very precarious position for me so from that i had to turn off my trail foot push and all i really did is i would exaggerate a couple practice swings where i'd almost feel like my trail foot was staying flat it's very important that it's rolled onto the instep and we have enough weight and we have enough hip but for me i had to exaggerate just a little bit almost kind of felt it just a little bit flat and even when i felt it flat sometimes it was still way off off the ground and my hip was too far forward so i had to take care of my trail foot push issue for my hip the next issue that i noticed was after i stopped pushing so hard with this side i still wasn't clearing my hip properly i was feeling proper lead oblique but i wasn't straightening my lead leg i wasn't pushing against the ground to get that leverage pull so i had to focus on not only quieting my trail foot push but also activating my left leg push so you want to talk about a little bit of a conundrum i'm i'm sitting over here and i'm trying to kind of work both legs at the same time but in this smaller type shot it was very easy for me to you know start fixing that and taking care of so as i started to get that better i just started pushing into the ground more and i had a lot of comments on the board about well where are you pushing from or what are you pushing or what's going on through that it's very simple as i start to transition my weight into this side my weight's going to start to move a little bit more towards the front of my lead foot because the weight kind of moves like a figure eight in the swing and so as the weight starts to go a little bit more towards the front of my foot i'm able to then leverage moving back towards my heel and straightening my leg to post up so i really had to focus on kind of moving from the kind of ball of my foot back towards my heel to get this post up going the next area that i found was my shoulders well when my legs were pushing or were a little bit dead i was taking my shoulders and spinning them through the shot heard me say oh how many times did i say i was moving the fulcrum or hit that one thin and all that was was me working down into the strike and taking my shoulders and kind of ripping them through the shot this way which would get my lead shoulder high and start to hit kind of bottom groove-ish a little bit out towards the toe and that's just because i wasn't prepared to keep my next problem in check soft lead arm and hand i was very tense early on and when i was very tense early on i kept trying to help things out with my shoulders i needed to relax there is a point of being too dead and there is a point of being too tense you know there's a spectrum to this but what i really noticed is that i had to sit here and focus on feeling a little bit more that kind of paintbrush type move where my arm was really soft i was able to keep my lead shoulder down my chest square and post up with that lead leg but it was nerves it was being out in the golf course for the first couple times i had a lot of tension and for me i tensed up my arms and hands and i'd start to rip my shoulders through to help out with the shot lastly too much trail hand now when i had too much trail hand i started to get very steep on the ball as you'll see right here i'd move over here to my little takeaway position and when i'd start to work into the strike i'd push very hard with my trail hand like that and you can see where that club just bottomed out and that caused a lot of my fat shots so as you can see i had a laundry list of things to tackle in my phase one i had a setup issue i had a grip issue i had an excessive push issue i had an improper post issue my chest spinning my lead arm too tense my trail hand too overactive that's a lot to tackle but being in this smaller type phase one it was much easier for me to start to tackle these problems but i also know that as i start to make this swing bigger and i start to make the swing faster these are probably going to be the same reoccurring problems that are going to rear their ugly head i'll probably get a little lazy with my legs and start pushing too much off my foot i'll probably get a little too tense with my arms too active with my shoulders but i've already started laying the groundwork and foundation to make sure that those problems don't defeat my progress later on down the road so i hope you enjoyed this video any questions or comments please leave them below i'll be happy to answer them or direct you to the video to help you out with this fault or help you out with any of the faults that i had but i want you to succeed i want myself to succeed if i would have gone out and gone a hundred miles an hour i wouldn't have noticed all these faults that i'm able to start nipping in the bud now that have already improved and i also wouldn't have found out what i'm what to expect as i make the swing longer and faster this is probably going to be the same areas i'm going to have in that move so i hope you enjoyed phase one hope you enjoyed the bonus recap i'm going to try to start getting phase two in soon so you can see what kind of fireworks are going on when i start adding release into this mix and i'll see you at the driving range
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