Bootcamp 7, Sept 23 2020, Session 3

Session 3 of 6

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Good evening, everyone.

Welcome back.

Session number three tonight.

Got a big night for you tonight.

We're doing post-op.

Got some new stuff we're going to throw out here tonight.

Got some new stuff.

Today's a little bit more active, too.

You got to, you know, kind of be ready to work.

Yeah.

Get to add some speed to it, or at least something that feels like you're adding speed.

Yeah, I love it.

I love it.

Welcome back, everyone.

Welcome back, Brad.

Dominic, welcome.

Lee, checking in from San Diego.

Craig, your boy Craig, checking in from Madison.

Lee, welcome.

Celia, checking in.

Welcome from Denver.

Howdy, howdy.

Hope everybody's having a wonderful, wonderful start to your week so far.

Hopefully, everybody made some good progress and stuff will be through each Saturday.

I know we gave you guys a bunch of information.

Craig and I want to apologize for whatever happened with the host that was not able to give out the replay of that session.

Craig and I felt like we delivered an award-winning session.

For those of you that missed it, you missed some really good stuff.

We're still working with the host to be able to recover the session.

But for now, we've emailed out the previous bootcamp, bootcamp number six, where I think I was all by myself.

It was all you.

I was all by myself.

So you guys will get to listen to me for about an hour and 15 minutes or so going through.

Um, that second session, and um.

Hopefully in the meantime, we'll be able to recover the session from, uh, Saturday with the host and we won't have this problem again.

So if you're one of those people that did not receive the replay link, then let us know at the end of the session.

We'll make sure that you get in contact with the right people that will give you that.

I mean, there were quite a few people that missed Saturday sessions, so we apologize.

That's, you know, the world's technology is out of our control.

We do our best to be able to maintain a world of kind of even keel.

But when you deal with third-party providers, you know, you're at their mercy.

So, how are you doing, Craig?

Yeah, doing all right.

How much so?

Good, good.

How was the ride-off this evening?

That wasn't too bad.

You can tell that things are somewhat getting back to normal with traffic.

Because at the beginning, it was just like, oh, wow, I can get there in no time.

And now it's just slowly kind of getting thicker and thicker.

I keep adding 10 more minutes to my travel.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's amazing.

I know that.

People on the west coast understand what bad traffic is all about, but people in Florida, in central Florida specifically, don't necessarily, I don't know if a lot of them qualify for driver's licenses.

I haven't yet to figure that out.

And if any of you guys have been on I-4, then you know it's the worst road in all of America.

I'm going to say it right now.

Well, I mean, I live in Atlanta, so I'm used to driving the connector and all.

I mean, it's busy, but people, it seems that people at least know how to handle the traffic.

I-4 is just, it's like Mad Max.

It's all over the place.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Had a good number of swingers you sent in over the last few days.

Lots of good work still going on.

I didn't see any sort of fall off, but we do have a couple of faults that we're going to open up with tonight and we're going to talk about those right out of the gate.

So just like I said to you guys on Saturday, we like to start off with some of the fault fixes that we saw throughout the last couple of days.

That way, you guys get a good understanding as to what the group is doing wrong as a whole.

And what we need to do to be able to make those movements better.

Because tonight's the big night.

This is where you tie up that big third move.

This is your post up.

This is where we start unleashing the beast, right?

And so we've added a few different slides.

You guys specifically are going to be the first people to actually have access to these slides.

I'm sure you've heard a lot of the information, but you've been paying attention to a lot of the most recent videos that Chuck's been sending out.

You've been seeing and hearing him talk about the importance of ground force and vertical force and also rotational force.

And so we're going to be doing our best to be able to demonstrate those movements to you tonight.

So that your post-up is rock solid, stable, and that you are ready to start adding the golf up to the next push.

It's kind of fun, man.

You get this third movement down, and you start blending everything together, and then the hands and arms just kind of follow along with the ride, and the golf swing becomes a piece of cake.

And you start seeing the picture.

It's like, oh, right now, it's kind of hard, I think, for a lot of players to kind of see where this is headed because you're just kind of looking at body movements and setup and stuff.

But once you get what we're talking about today down, and we get into Saturday's session, and you start getting the club back in your hand, you really start to see, like, oh.

I actually look like I'm doing something productive.

This kind of looks like somebody that does this for a living.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

So we've got quite a few people checking in here tonight.

We've got Kevin checking in from Detroit.

Kevin from Boston.

Bob checking in from Pittsburgh.

Welcome, everybody.

Helen checking in from we don't know.

So she says good morning.

So you must be somewhere east of us if you're saying good morning.

Might be over in the Gulf Coast.

Who knows?

All right.

So we've got David checking in from Sugar Land.

Welcome.

Tor checking in.

Gary checking in from Fresno.

Gary got to do your swing review today.

Got some good stuff going on with your swing.

Nice.

Got Fred checking in.

Bob checking in.

So right now, for these next three to four minutes or so, it's a good time to start asking some questions that you guys might have on the stuff that we talked about in the previous session.

Again, for those of you that missed session number two and didn't get the replay sent over to you because I got a couple of emails sent to me, and I promise you, I'm not trying to.

not send you the replay.

We didn't really understand what the host was going to give us for information.

For some reason, I think Livestorm is in Ireland.

Are they not?

Yes, they're in Ireland.

I don't know if any of them work on Sundays.

In the world of technology, they take Sundays completely off, and that's the day after we presented.

For us to be able to try to figure out where our presentation was and not get the answers, Craig and I are both banging our heads against the wall, going, what in the world is going on here?

We apologize for that.

Hopefully, Those of you that didn't get to see Um Saturday session got a, um, a recap from the previous boot camp, where you get to see by myself.

Because I think Craig was not able to to make it.

So, um, definitely some.

The information is the same, but you'll see just some different deliveries.

Um, but for those of you that, um, didn't get a chance to see either one, or you didn't see us on Saturday, you didn't see the replay?

Uh, please let us know.

At the end of the session, we'll get you in contact with customer support, they'll be able to get you that link.

So we have some questions coming in.

So I love it.

So we set up right shoulder is higher due to access, so during transition, right shoulder is supposed to be lower under that shelf.

Please review how this is supposed to happen again.

Are we supposed to be thinking about this for results of other movements?

So, right shoulder is higher, so I'm assuming you're talking about being a left-handed golfer, right?

So, at a dress.

No, I'll take place right hand.

Lee, I think I did your review today.

I think he's right-handed.

Okay.

Well, if you are, then we want your right shoulder to be a little bit lower at address.

And then when you make your movement over to your trail side, all right, you're going to take that right shoulder and you're going to pull it back up and behind your head.

So your shoulders have rotated perpendicular to your spine.

When we make this first initial move over in transition, what you're going to see is that the shoulders are going to start to unwind on the same exact plane that they wound up on.

What the end result should be, if you're using your legs and you're really keeping your core engaged and keeping your shoulders as wide as you possibly can, then you're going to notice that the lead shoulder is quite a bit lower than the trail shoulder.

The right shoulder remaining up is a very, very good way for you to be able to think about how to make your upper body work properly.

We talk about either the lead shoulder position, we talk about the trail shoulder position, both of those are going to tie hands with one another.

We gave you those as focus points in the previous session.

Just to be able to make sure that your upper body is cooperating with what your lower half is doing.

If you follow that same sort of protocol that we talked about in the previous session where you really focus on that extra rotation of the lead leg, you squat just a little bit so you increase that knee flex, and then you keep that knee shoulder low, or you feel like your upper body is kind of falling over to that side to help increase the pressure, then the movement is going to be just perfect, just perfect.

I saw actually a lot of you.

And I appreciate this.

This is going to be one of the first fault things I've talked about tonight.

It's almost overcooking that a little bit.

And again, it's much easier for you guys when you start working on transition of this nature to overcook it.

And then let us be able to pull it back just a little bit with some simple thoughts.

Because for those of you that have never wanted to shift back over to the inside and then just slowly chip away at it, it would feel almost like this, like spinning in circles, right?

You just feel like you're never going to get to that result.

And also, just to kind of follow on that point, Lee, I think where people kind of lose this visual, because I even had this question on the forum today.

When we add axis tilt, and I bump my hip towards my lead side, you're going to see that my shoulders have this little bit of slope to it because my axis tilt increased.

If you kind of don't think about it from this perspective, and you think about it from this perspective, if I'm rotating around my spine this way, and I start to come down, my lead shoulder has to be lower because I think what happens is people see that face on and they're picturing this and they're like, how do I get this back like that?

There's just not that much access to it.

So I think that visual really throws people off.

Yeah, exactly.

So we'll be covering a little bit of that tonight as we start going through the recap and also going through the interactive workout.

I know, Chris, you just posted up about the video probably being horrible.

I actually double and triple checked before we came on stage tonight, and we're going to be watching.

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All right, so for transition, can you confirm that increased knee flex means more knee bend?

So, yeah, exactly.

So an increase in knee flex means more knee bend, right?

That's exactly, those are synonymous.

It's just how you do it, right?

We don't want your knees to go into the position where you get some way out over your ball of your foot or over your toes.

When you stand up at a dress, okay, And you have your legs into a softened position where your knees are just basically relaxed to the point where they're right over the back of the center of the ankle, then what you're going to be doing from this point is when you load to your trail side, The increase in knee flex is very minimal.

You'll see the head drop maybe about a half an inch.

Sometimes you'll see it upwards of an inch.

That's what you're going to be aiming for.

But you don't want to see this drastic increase of knee flex, where you get your butt tucked up underneath you and you get your knees going way over your toes.

That's a big no-no.

That's one of those things that will force you to start firing up and out of your posture, which is quite honestly one of the death wounds that we deal with on a day-to-day basis.

So I see.

How much does the belt drop lower between increased knee flex and the tush reward?

So great question.

So this is a variable, when I say it's a variable, there's no specific amount that we want you to do.

Okay, because the fact that it's going to be one of those things.

Where some people prefer to have a deep squat, and some people prefer to have minimal amounts of squat.

I personally like to kind of stay down the middle of the road and I think Craig would probably say the same thing.

We don't want to have a ton of it, but we also don't want to have to the point where we're not making it.

Because we understand the importance of ground force, which is what we're going to be talking about tonight.

Ground force is another source of leverage, okay, and so leverage when you look at it at the end of the day.

When you watch your club head speed, all right.

The big lever that you have in it also is for lag and release, and so you have 66 of your club head speed coming from lag and release.

So if you can set yourself up to be able to to create more free speed for this sort of movement.

Um, then we're all for it, but you just want to think about it as being minimized.

To the point where when you sit onto that lead side, you still want to be able to have time to post that properly.

Where you're not having yourself jump up and out of posture.

Which is going to be a huge point that Craig and I put a ton of emphasis on tonight.

Okay, it's a really, really important aspect that we keep you in your posture.

When you're making your poster move happen.

And everybody's generally blown away by that, they're like, Well, if I'm supposed to be moving in the exact opposite direction of the health book, How do I keep my head and my chest down?

And so we're going to teach you that tonight.

So I see Kevin's got a question coming in.

So on forward move to rotate and move hips back into the squat to square position, I seem to have a pop up in the right or a pop in the right knee quite a bit through the turn and can't figure it out.

All right.

So on forward move to rotate and move hips back into the squat to square position, I seem to have a pop in the right knee quite a bit through the turn and can't figure out why.

Okay, so that's something we're probably going to need to take a look at because if you're feeling any sort of pop in the right knee, that could be you trying to brace the right leg and not allowing it to react to the movement that you have back over to the knee side, which, to be honest with you, is almost a movement that we've taught in the past.

If you talk about the Sam's Knee Power Squad video, which was a video that Chuck did a couple years ago, we talked about creating a little bit of separation between the legs.

We talked about some different sorts of footwork.

That's a great video.

It's a very, very difficult move, but we like to kind of simplify things and we like to tone it down just a little bit.

So if you're keeping your right leg locked out and you're making this good aggressive move over to your lead side, then you could maybe put a little twinge on the outside of the knee, but we would have to look at that very closely because that's something that's really serious.

So if you're due for a swing view, then definitely get that in right away.

So, Justin, if we skipped your question, we apologize, man.

The questions are really fast tonight, and we can't scroll through right now.

So, here it is again.

So, is there a deliberate lift of the arms?

I play best when I do not lift, but personally, I used to take lessons with, told me the club moved to the inside.

Lifting, he said, would fix.

Is there a deliberate lift halfway back?

So, Justin, you are a day too early, my man.

So, unfortunately, we haven't added the arms and the golf club to the mix.

I will tell you this right now, that there are some functions that are going to be taking place within the arms that do require you to have some vertical movement, and there also is some flexion.

But we want to really save that stuff because of the fact that we are working on really moving your body specifically in these from your trunk and your core.

We're not working on adding arms to the mix yet.

We will get there at Comacy, which is coming up on Saturday.

Yeah, so we'll be talking about the vertical movement that comes from the hands and the arms on that point.

So don't.

Necessarily, get your attention focused on that.

Yet we can, if you want to stick around at the end of the session.

You want to ask that again, we will answer.

We're definitely not trying to avoid the question.

We just have a pretty large group of people that are sitting in the room tonight.

And if everybody starts thinking about, you know, back swing position or wrist rotation, and they forget about the main topic at hand.

And that is being able to load your golf swing up, be able to transition properly and be able to post up.

And they're already working on hand and arm rotation or elevation reflection.

And it's just going to be just really, really, really.

Um, not so pleasant four or five days for you guys at home, so that's why we do this.

So we, we've written the program in a way that allows us to be able to get you moving in these three big areas.

Tonight is like a big, big night for you, because you're going to be tying all of these three big picture moves together.

And so at that point, then the rest of the ball swing.

The hand and arm movements that we put in there are going to be much, much easier to retain.

So I apologize if you thought we were baiting the question, or apologize that we missed the question in the first place.

But just be patient with us, we're doing the best we can.

So, All right, so a couple more questions, then we're going to get into it.

So I see.

David says, can you clarify what the right leg does or doesn't do actively during transition?

Does the left side just pull the right leg over?

Also, does the right leg moving lateral or rotational or both?

So the right leg should be more or less reacting to what the lead side of the body is doing.

And I answered this question in the previous session, where we talked about the right leg being able to help get you back over to your lead side a little bit.

We don't want the right leg to cause any of these major falls.

First one, causing your hips to come forward.

Okay, where you see Craig pushing off the right leg, you see the right foot coming off the ground.

We're going to talk a lot about this tonight, a huge, huge move that a lot of people struggle with, all right?

So we don't want it to cause your hips to spin out.

So if your hips come into a realm where they're spinning open, maybe 55 60 degrees down the bottom, then that would be considered a hip spinner.

So that would be facilitated mostly by what the right leg is doing, and we also don't want it to cause your hips to get pushed out past neutral.

Okay, so you can understand that.

Two of the main faults here would be caused by you having way more of one or the other.

We talked a little bit about that in the previous session where amateur golfers tend to struggle with the dynamic movement of the hips.

When we talk about dynamic movement of the hips, it's a blend of the amount of rotation and it's a blend of the amount of shifting that's happening.

If you have way more than one or the other, then typically that's going to be coming from your right side helping you do that.

We do want the right side to help a little bit.

It's just a matter of how much.

If you look for the key points like .

being able to maintain tush line, making sure that you're not getting your knee pushed out past neutral, or your hip pushed out past neutral, or getting your hips to be spun open, that you're going to be perfectly fine.

Anything on this there?

No, I just think that as many years as Chris and I have been doing this, I think he can vouch for the fact that probably 99% of our students, we typically say, all right, just.

Kind of just let the right leg be, just let it be reactionary to how you're sitting and posting up.

There's.

There's very few students that really need that hyper focus on actually trying to do something with their trail leg.

Those are for players that it's typically older players that can't get their hips going because just physically, they might have a bum hip or a bum leg.

But it's usually in the rare territory where we actually need to tell somebody to do something with their trail leg.

Right, right, exactly.

So definitely some great questions coming in here.

we appreciate these questions.

So Got a couple more coming in.

So Gary, just want to confirm it is pretty easy to back of the lateral shift and transition from going too far.

I had to reverse engineer to get the weight over there, and I was surprised how hard it was to get there compared to how easy it was to back off.

Thanks, Chris, for squeezing in the review.

Well, my pleasure, Gary.

So we're going to talk a little bit about that fault tonight specifically.

When we talk about how much the eyes are going to be moving in the golf swing, the eyes can kind of play tricks on us.

And the eyes will force the body to kind of follow along.

And that's something that was pretty common that I saw over the last couple days within the reviews.

And I know Craig had one specific fault that popped up, and so we're going to talk about two faults that we're going to help you overcome.

So for those of you that are just getting seated, then.

What we want to do is we want to make sure that we have a agenda for tonight.

So our agenda is going to be going through our faults that we saw over the last couple days.

Then we're going to get into an interactive workout where we're going to start going through some setup, some of your bathroom stuff.

Then we're going to go through the transition.

If you missed the transition video because you weren't able to attend on Saturday and you didn't get the replay, then don't worry.

Sit back, relax, grab some popcorn.

We will talk to you at the end of the session tonight about how to get access to a session.

That's going to be your information.

Until we get a recovery from live stream.

And then by the end of tonight, when we start going through the next piece, you're going to be able to post up 100% accurately.

That's our main goal.

If we get you to post up 100 accurately, whether it's done in a blended format or in a piece by piece format, then the sky's the limit.

Because over these next four days, you're going to have the opportunity to be able to drill this stuff out in slow, chunky pieces and get yourself ready to rock and roll.

For.

When we do, add the hands and the arms back to the mix and when we do that, develop them.

And so that's when the fun starts to happen, right?

So, but so we haven't even talked to this open.

So price and D.

C.

and Bow, huh?

It's interesting to watch.

The guy set out with a goal.

He hit one of the fewest fairways ever in the history of the US Open, but the guy hit it so far that he put it in positions where he could still muscle it on the green.

I think he's got a lot of the guys on tour thinking about what their strategy is going to be for the upcoming years.

I think that you'll see that they're still going to put a lot of less around ball striking.

Yeah, I love the mixtures of opinions on this, like the direction that Goss headed, like which way to go and stuff of that nature.

But, I mean, the thing is you've got to give it to him.

He said, look, I'm just going to swing as hard as I physically can.

If I end up in the rough 40 yards deep, who cares?

Because I'm going to be wedging it back from over here.

I saw a great comment from Steve Elkin today who was talking about.

Wolf and he's just like Wolf.

Hit a lob wedge from 163 at the rough.

Like, what does it matter?

Where it is like, how are we going to control that?

It's crazy, it's crazy how far they hit it, it's crazy with the equipment and the balls being geared up like they are these days.

Um, they're in it so so far, and I don't think USGA and the PGA can really.

Um, I don't think they can go on the defensive too much more than what they already are.

I think they're making the golf courses as hard as they possibly can.

And they might say differently, but they are literally lengthening the golf course.

Think about it.

They were just playing at seven.

I mean, they were playing at par 70.

How many yards was it?

It was a very, very long golf course.

And so, I mean, they're stretching these things out.

They're growing the rough up.

Yeah, it's just funny everybody's opinion on this because I'm a little bit more traditional when it comes to golf.

So I've got my opinions on what I think they should do to it.

But it's, it's, it's interesting to see what's going to happen.

Yeah, it's going to be really cool.

And then, especially now, I love the seeing the U.

S.

open up there.

But getting Augusta in November now, oh my god, this is going to be crazy.

yeah, crazy.

I kind of like this fall major kind of.

Yeah, yeah, so definitely this is going to be some serious, seriously.

Good Golf.

I think it's going to be a little bit colder than what they're used to.

They can firm those greens up.

They can control the temperature.

Yeah, they get some wind they're not used to.

That's the south in the wintertime.

Fall and wintertime.

We get some different weather down here, and it'll definitely test them.

But I still think that with as good as these guys are these days, they're going to do pretty well on that golf.

I mean, the 4-5s are gettable out there.

I mean, it's firm.

You can hit it everywhere.

I think Bryson's perfect for that.

Yeah, exactly.

All right, so.

Here we are.

We're going to go ahead and talk about fault fixes that we ran into over the last couple days.

I'm going to start off by talking about the odds.

I did talk about on Saturday the importance of making sure that when you made your move back over to your lead side.

When you turn your body over your trail leg and you start unloading over to your lead side by making that extra rotation of the lead leg and squatting down just a little bit.

That you want your upper body to follow along.

But I saw a lot of people's eyes starting to look in front of them now.

Remember when your eyes start looking in this direction in front of the golf ball, what's your chest going to do?

Well, your chest is going to follow along?

So you're going to tend to want to get too far in front of the golf ball.

Or you're going to want to allow your shoulders to unwind a little too much because your eyes are looking in the spot.

So a simple fix for those of you at home are when you turn your body over your right side and you're starting to make that.

Squat back onto that left leg is.

Pick a spot on the ground where your golf ball would be at address and focus your left eye on the back of that golf ball.

And once you finish your squat, you want your left eye to remain on the back of that golf ball.

If you start having your eyes look out in front, you can see how my shoulders start on one, you can see how I start moving a little bit more louder.

So a simple little fix for that is just focusing your left eye on the back of your golf ball.

again.

This is all part of the vestibular process.

The more that your eyes are starting to try to do more for you in this movement, the more your chest is going to follow along.

You're going to get yourself moving too far in front of it, and you're going to get yourself unwinding your shoulders too quickly.

But for the most part, what I saw with the information that we gave you guys on Saturday, you guys did absolutely fantastic.

I didn't see one single swing review where I had anybody's upper body hanging back.

I don't know about you.

No, no, I saw some really good stuff.

I was very happy, and if anything, they aired just maybe a little bit too much, which is what we want.

Yeah, exactly.

So what we sent to you the other day was, It's important for you guys to be able to move enough because it's far easier for us to be able to tone things back.

Little reference points or little subtle tips like focusing where your left eye is, or us saying okay.

At this point, once you move back into position, we want you to lock your head wherever you're looking at in the mirror.

And you want to keep it in place.

You don't want to allow any sort of lateral movement.

And it's again, it's much easier at that point, you don't want to have to continue to try to add more to it.

Because in the grand scheme of things, when things are happening as fast as they are in the dance, when we're talking about milliseconds, If you're not transferring up weight, then you still have an abundance of your weight underneath your trail foot.

And what are you going to do with that weight?

Well, you're going to push up off of it.

And when you start pushing up off of it, guess what you're going to cause for a fall?

Early extension, you're going to cause yourself to spin out.

Oh, damn.

The trick's coming.

Greg goes, oh, damn.

A whole foot.

Yep.

So put a ball on the floor to focus on.

Exactly.

So if you put a golf ball down or a piece of tape, that's a very good, easy, simple focus point.

And believe it or not, so when I was, when I was playing full-time, uh, I was actually roommates with Zach Johnson when he was playing in the Hooter store.

And we traveled around these mini tours.

And one of the things that he was working on with Bender when he first went through this is after he got his swing plan.

I was a little bit more flat as he worked on the position of his left eye down through the hitting area.

And so that was something that he fed back over to me.

And again, at that point, when I was 20 years old, I was chasing around.

The next tip that whatever somebody was working on, because I thought it was going to be something that would work for me until I understood, exactly, you know, the importance of understanding your most good re-education and understanding that anatomy and kinesiology as well.

So, um, so that's my fault that I saw otherwise.

You guys did fantastic, I saw you guys, I saw.

For the most part, I saw people moving into and through positions without having any sort of pause.

Which I'll tell you right now, that's.

I haven't really gone through a boot camp or ever seen that yet.

So my hat's off to you guys again.

So that's two sessions in a row where you guys have blown me away.

Hopefully the post-up will, when we give you the information tonight, you guys will be able to follow suit with that because I know a post-up in the past, as simple of a move as it should be, a lot of people tend to struggle with it because they're trying to guess where you're trying to get to.

And tonight we're going to simplify that with talking about impact first, what it's going to look like, and then we're going to move you into that position.

So Craig, go ahead and talk about what you saw.

My fix is kind of pretty simple and because as with Chris Everybody is hitting home run with this.

I did see a few students Remember when we're working on these reps, We're trying to do them in proper posture and in proper position.

That's that's the whole reason why we're repping.

This is so that we can mimic what we want to do with the golf club.

I, I saw just a few and I I want to reiterate this point.

Everybody is pretty hitting, good on axis, tilt and stance width.

But because we tell you to use a mirror or use a camera and watch yourself, the tendency has been from face on for players just to go ahead and get set up.

And they're looking at themselves in the mirror.

Then they start to move throughout.

And I start to look at them like, why is their shoulder plane so flat?

And it's because when you're doing the reps, make sure that you add the hinge until you can see the proverbial golf ball right here and then pick up your head and watch the reps.

You've got to make sure that you're doing this from golf posture because.

And I saw that one fault that led to three or four errors in the drill.

And I'm like, Hey, you're actually moving very well.

It's just the fact that you're not hinged forward properly.

So make sure that you get into proper posture before you do your reps.

Exactly.

And I got one other fault that I'd like to talk about real quick before we get into this.

And this is something I actually talked to the students afternoon about, all right, we're going to address this because I did see it.

So you have to remember when you're making your downward move over to your lead side.

So when you're starting to sit into that lead leg, you're going to see the head start to drop down a little bit.

So when you watch Craig here, you load over to your trail side.

What you should be remembering is that you're trying to maintain your spine as best you can.

We don't want to see any sort of drastic downward movement from the head as you're finishing off your back swing.

Now.

Why is that?

Well, because, guess what, when you start to make your move over to your lead side and you've already dropped down onto that right side, then you don't have a place to be able to go to.

Otherwise, what you're going to do is you're going to sit down too far and you're going to force yourself to jump up out of posture.

So what you want to do is you want to think about this from a head and chest standpoint.

We're going to talk a little bit about that tonight when we get into post-up.

When you turn your body over your right side, you should keep your head fairly level.

There should be minimal downward movement from the head.

If you're seeing any sort of big-time downward movement from the head, then remember, Go back to session one and understand.

That can be a byproduct of you pushing too much with your lead shoulder and turning your shoulder plane much too steeply.

All right, so you want to think about the head staying nice and level going back, and then when you sit over to your lead side, It drops down ever so subtly.

Okay, again.

That goes back to that question we had earlier on tonight, we talked about how much squat should we have in there?

Just a little bit, just a little bit, just same thing with access to it, right?

We want to have just a little bit, not a ton.

If you start overcooking this, then you're going to add more timing variables and more timing variables in your golf swing.

Is the reason why you guys have inconsistencies?

And if Craig and I were to sit at the front of the room tonight and ask everybody that's in the room, what do you guys want out of boot camp?

I guarantee it, 99% of you would say, I want to be more consistent.

I want to go further.

So the last thing you want to do is start introducing variables in the golf swing that are going to make you more inconsistent.

And timing is your worst enemy.

And I absolutely hate that expression.

When I walk into a, you know, you go into a golf shop and you hear the head pro asking, you know, Mr.

Havigan, how are you playing today?

He's like, oh, my timing was off.

I hate that answer.

Okay.

Because the fact that if your timing is off, what are you working on?

What are you working on in your golf swing?

If you have a golf swing that's built around timing, then you have a golf swing that's going to always have fluctuations.

It's going to always find you or always make you a little bit more on the miserable side than you wanted to do.

Basically, what I saw this week was very, very good.

I saw a lot of really good movements back over to your left side.

I saw people cooperating with their shoulder line.

I saw them understanding, okay, I've got to keep this knee shoulder down.

I've got to allow my upper body to move back into position.

Very, very good stuff.

Greg, same sort of thing.

He said he saw a lot of great stuff there.

Just make sure that you're working from your golf posture.

You want to feed your brain properly.

We can't emphasize that enough.

If you're here to build a golf swing, standing vertically and doing reps like this, you might as well have your Thighmaster on or whatever and just start burning your cowl.

That's not doing anything that your brain is going to relate to when you get out to the driving range and you can feather your hands.

Remember, when this is all said and done, in another week, okay, we're going to have the golf club in your hands, and we're going to have you moving at a high rate of speed, okay, or as high rate of speed as we can, and that's going to be the golf swing that you're going to be trying to take to the drive range and to the golf course on a day-on-day basis.

So a lot of times what I'll tell you to do, and Craig will tell you the same thing, Is to take the guesswork out of the brain or out of the practice session?

And set up with the golf club in your hands.

And then let it fall out of your hands and then go through the reps if you need to.

1000 Okay, this will give you.

The correct 1001 position for you to be able to start 1002 working from providing your setup to a 1003 good spot, right?

Yeah, all right, so 1004 anything else you want to add?

No, they 1005 were good, all right.

So let's do a quick 1006 interactive workout.

We've talked for 1007 quite a bit now and we're already 30 1008 minutes in.

So for those of you at home 1009 that want to stand up out of your chairs 1010 and want to go through these first couple 1011 movements, we're going to get you set up.

1012 Craig's doing his jumping jacks.

Um, what 1013 we're going to do here is I'm going to 1014 talk to you.

As a right-handed golfer, I 1015 know that we do have some lefties at 1016 home.

I'm not trying to discriminate 1017 here, just work with me.

Okay, that way 1018 we don't have to sit here and say trail 1019 and on the lead side.

You're going to 1020 hear me say right side, right side, and 1021 then left side as a right-handed golfer.

1022 Okay, so go ahead and get your setup.

1023 We're going to be two inches outside of 1024 neutral.

You're going to hear my cue 1025 words.

Get really fast through these 1026 first couple sections because of the fact 1027 that you guys should be pretty well set 1028 up at this point.

So we're going to hinge 1029 to get our chest over the golf ball, 1030 soften the knees just a little bit.

Okay, 1031 then we're going to put our arms across 1032 your shoulders.

Just make sure we have a 1033 little tiny bit of access still.

First 1034 movement, weight shift.

We're going to 1035 pressure into that right ankle by pushing 1036 down, and then we're going to take that 1037 right shoulder and pull it back right on 1038 the head.

And what we're looking for is 1039 our shoulders to be at 90 degrees.

From a 1040 face-on perspective, you can see that his 1041 trail shoulder is on this side of his 1042 body, all good in the hood, okay?

We've 1043 maintained a little bit of knee flex 1044 there, so we're creating some good 1045 separation between the hip line and 1046 shoulder line.

Now we're going to begin 1047 our transition.

First, move externally, 1048 rotate and increase that knee flex just a 1049 little bit.

Allow that upper body to help 1050 pressure down on that left ankle.

So 1051 think about pressure the right side, 1052 build pressure by turning your body, and 1053 then you're pressuring down on your left 1054 ankle by externally rotating, increasing 1055 that knee flex just a little bit, and 1056 focusing on where your weight goes with 1057 your upper body helping aid that 1058 pressure.

So remember, always focus on 1059 where your weight goes.

If it goes to the 1060 forward part of the foot, then you're 1061 doing a little bit of a closed hip slide.

1062 So allow your hips to work dynamically by 1063 focusing on where your weight goes.

Are 1064 you ready?

So we're going to go ahead and 1065 set up two inches outside of neutral.

1066 We're going to hinge it over the golf 1067 ball.

1068 We're going to push that right ankle on 1069 the ground and pull that right shoulder 1070 back.

1071 Okay, now we're going to sit, we're going 1072 to squat to square.

Okay, we've got our 1073 left knee not getting pushed out past 1074 neutral, we got an inside neutral here in 1075 a good spot.

Okay, we've got about 60, 1076 almost 65 percent of our weight 1077 underneath that left ankle.

We got our 1078 shoulder line nice and close, so left 1079 shoulder is low, right shoulder is up and 1080 behind the head.

And you can see that if 1081 we have a line down the outer portion of 1082 his back here, it's pretty well, upright 1083 and very, very good position for you guys 1084 to look at.

You're going to feel a lot of 1085 pressure underneath that left ankle, 1086 which is going to be critical when we 1087 start getting into tonight's movement.

1088 All right, so let's go ahead and do three 1089 or four reps in a row without me talking 1090 so much.

All right, so good setup.

Push 1091 the right ankle on the ground.

Pull the 1092 right shoulder back.

Good.

We're going to 1093 squat to square.

Hold it.

Make sure 1094 you've got your hips and knees back to a 1095 square position.

Shoulder line nice and 1096 closed.

Make sure you feel a good amount 1097 of pressure underneath that left ankle.

1098 Pressure down on the right ankle.

Pull 1099 the right shoulder back.

Squat to square.

1100 Boom.

Good.

1101 So tonight it's fun to get that pose up.

1102 All right, so down the line.

1103 Remember.

1104 Little bits of knee flex are addressed.

1105 You don't need tons of it.

That's the 1106 death move.

This is not going to allow 1107 you to load your body up properly when 1108 you get set down on your knees like this.

1109 You only need enough knee flex to soften 1110 the knees.

Back of the knee right over 1111 the center of the ankle.

1112 Then our first job here is to push the 1113 right ankle on the ground.

Maintain knee 1114 flex in that right leg as much as you 1115 possibly can.

Take that right shoulder 1116 and pull it back behind your head.

Now, 1117 if you lose a little bit of knee flex 1118 here, perfectly fine.

1119 We just don't want to see your right leg 1120 go like that where you see this big 1121 window.

pop up in here between the knees, 1122 okay?

1123 Also, you want to make sure that you're 1124 not seeing any sort of drastic downward 1125 movement from the head, and you look at, 1126 that would be an increase in spine, that 1127 would be a derivative of you turning too 1128 steeply from some lead shoulder push.

All 1129 right, so push that right ankle on the 1130 ground, turn the body back.

Now we're 1131 going to squat to square.

When we do 1132 this, you're going to see that he's 1133 increased his deflex just a little tiny 1134 bit.

He hasn't set his knees up over the 1135 balls of his feet or over his toes.

1136 His butt kind of feels like it's going 1137 back.

His hips and knees are virtually 1138 back to square position.

1139 For those of you at home that are 1140 perfectionists, you can see that he's not 1141 fully back to square.

He's got a little 1142 bit of his lead thigh showing.

Perfectly 1143 fine.

Okay, you can understand that.

We 1144 don't need it perfectly back to square.

1145 It's a variable.

1146 All right, so go ahead and start the rep 1147 over.

We're going to go ahead and push 1148 that right ankle in the ground.

We're 1149 going to pull the right shoulder back.

1150 Okay, now we're going to squat to square.

1151 Remember, those of you who need an upper 1152 body checkpoint, keep that logo facing 1153 back towards your camera or back towards 1154 your mirror.

This is a very good position 1155 to know that your shoulder line is still 1156 wound up like we want it to do.

1157 A couple more reps here.

Push right ankle 1158 on the ground, pull right shoulder back, 1159 squat to square.

1160 Logo facing back towards the camera.

1161 Got about 60% of your weight underneath 1162 your left ankle.

Because again, 1163 you wore out?

You need a water ball?

1164 Perfect.

1165 That's your warm up and exactly the way 1166 that we want you to go about your 1167 practice sessions as you move forward.

We 1168 want you to start going through the list 1169 of checkpoints that Craig and I are 1170 probably in your brain saying right now.

1171 I know it sucks to hear us, you know, 1172 away from boot camp, but those 1173 checkpoints are those keywords that we 1174 talk to.

You are good ways for your brain 1175 to go process and do this stuff 1176 correctly.

Great, anything you want to 1177 add there before we get into it.

No, I 1178 think it's great.

I mean, that's a word, 1179 just keep it simple, I mean, shift your 1180 weight rotate, shift your weight back, I 1181 mean, you know all the checkpoints.

They 1182 know what we're trying to achieve.

Just 1183 don't overthink it.

You might not need a 1184 17-point checklist.

If you get the cues 1185 that we're talking about, the stuff will 1186 happen.

I mean, a lot of the stuff's 1187 byproducts.

Right.

And so you're going to 1188 hear actually on Saturday.

I'm going to 1189 go ahead and foreshadow and give you this 1190 information now.

You're going to hear 1191 that our keywords are going to be load, 1192 rotate, squat.

and then post.

You're 1193 going to hear that those at the end of 1194 that session on Saturday, so you're going 1195 to hear load, rotate, squat, post.

Those 1196 are going to be the cues, but there's a 1197 lot that goes into each of those 1198 movements.

1199 Again, for those of you at home that 1200 might be still struggling with setup and 1201 load, that's okay.

Just take your time.

1202 Go back through session number one.

Look 1203 at your checkpoints.

There's a lot of 1204 checkpoints in there.

We're looking to 1205 make sure that you don't have tons and 1206 tons of lateral movement from your head.

1207 We're looking to make sure that you don't 1208 have any sort of downward movement from 1209 your head.

Those checkpoints can all be 1210 alleviated with the fault fixes that we 1211 talked about.

Within the videos that are 1212 underneath.

The actual slides that you 1213 have in your PDF and also other videos 1214 that we got available to you on the 1215 website.

So remember, you work at your 1216 own pace, but we are going to get to a 1217 point where our keywords are going to 1218 start flying.

And I'm going to stop 1219 talking a whole lot less when we start 1220 getting things up to speed on the 1221 following Tuesday as well.

1222 So tonight, Craig and I, we talked a lot 1223 about this tonight before we came on 1224 stage.

We talked about.

The way we 1225 wanted to kind of direct you guys before 1226 we start teaching you how to do the 1227 movement.

We find that it's best in the 1228 brand scheme of things to teach you guys.

1229 Exactly what your impact position is 1230 going to look like first, and we're going 1231 to get you to get into that impact 1232 position just so you understand what it's 1233 going to be like.

And then at that point, 1234 we're going to start working through the 1235 backswing, your squat to square, and then 1236 into that post-up position.

And there's 1237 going to be a very, very powerful move 1238 that we're going to be focusing on, like 1239 we told you guys over the 1240 first couple sessions, that we're going 1241 to give you a couple of different visuals 1242 here that are going to help you produce 1243 this movement, that are going to help aid 1244 at the public speed when it's all said 1245 and done.

And so let's talk about impact.

1246 Let's talk about what your impact 1247 position should look like.

And this is 1248 all highlighted in the checkpoints for 1249 the post-op.

And so what you're going to 1250 see here is that your shoulders are going 1251 to now be pulled back into a square 1252 position.

So your shoulders need to be 1253 exactly square to your target line.

Okay, 1254 the best way to do this is put a line on 1255 the ground, okay, or a golf club, or a 1256 minus.

And just make sure that when you 1257 finish your reps.

So when you finish your 1258 setup, backswing, transition and your 1259 post up, that your shoulder line is a 1260 hundred percent square to the target 1261 line.

We do not, and I repeat, do not 1262 want to see the chest pointed over at me.

1263 If you see the chest pointed over in this 1264 direction, you will get, um, Tanya 1265 harding across the knee, okay?

1266 So it's a big, big move here.

Now, a lot 1267 of you at home probably have that 1268 question.

Why don't we want our chest to 1269 turn through the hitting area?

As much as 1270 Nick Felder has told me on TV that I'm 1271 supposed to keep my chest turning through 1272 the hitting area.

1273 If you turn your chest through the 1274 hitting area, you're delaying the 1275 release.

1276 You're now subjective to moving the club 1277 at the same rate that your body can turn 1278 through the hitting area.

You want your 1279 max speed point in the bell swing to be 1280 down here, not over here at me.

If you 1281 are turning your body through the hitting 1282 area, then you're delaying this.

So the 1283 club face is going to tend to want to be 1284 a little bit more on the open side.

Or 1285 what you're going to be doing is you're 1286 going to be putting a whole lot of stress 1287 on your right hand.

To be able to square 1288 the face last second.

And when you do 1289 that, remember golf, dead golf, 1290 80% of your golf shot's DNA, 80% is 1291 dictated by face angle.

The other 20% is 1292 dictated by the path.

If you have your 1293 right hand in a position where it's 1294 trying to slam the door shut, guess what?

1295 Your rate of closure is going to be way 1296 too high and golf is going to be Very 1297 unenjoyable.

Okay, trust me.

I've been 1298 there done enough.

Okay, so first things 1299 first is you want your shoulder line to 1300 be square.

1301 Got it?

1302 Second thing, you want your hips to be 1303 open 35 to 45 degrees.

1304 Now, a good way to check that, again, you 1305 can use that same line on the ground, and 1306 then you can look at your hips and make 1307 sure that they're just in a 45-degree 1308 position in relation to that line on the 1309 ground.

So if Craig were to take the line 1310 off the front of his hips here, 1311 Okay, and the line that would be on the 1312 ground, you would see that it would be 1313 open 45 degrees.

1314 It would be faced just down in front of 1315 them.

Okay, so 45 degrees open, that's 1316 max.

Shoulder line nice and square.

A lot 1317 of you might find that 45 degrees is way 1318 less than what you might have ever 1319 thought before.

Okay, everybody wants to 1320 get their hips open way more than they 1321 ever thought.

Okay, and everybody else 1322 self-diagnosed themselves as a hip 1323 spinner, right?

Everybody diagnosed 1324 themselves as a hip spinner.

Yeah.

1325 Because a lot of people were tall.

1326 I was actually taught that myself when I 1327 was a kid.

I was taught that I needed to 1328 turn my entire body towards the target.

1329 At some points when I teach junior 1330 golfers, I teach them that I want them to 1331 turn it first because of the fact that a 1332 lot of times kids don't have the natural 1333 fluidity of movement.

Immediately, as 1334 soon as they start getting weight shifted 1335 and all that fun stuff in there, then I 1336 start getting to the point where, okay, 1337 now we've got to tone that down and let 1338 the hands and arms go.

1339 If you want to be efficient, then you've 1340 got to get to this spot.

1341 Shoulder line is going to be square.

Your 1342 hips are going to be open 45 degrees.

1343 Now, let's talk about the lead leg.

Your 1344 lead leg or your left leg for those right 1345 -handed golfers at home is going to be 1346 moving into neutral joint alignment.

For 1347 those of you that missed session number 1348 one and didn't hear us talk about what 1349 neutral joint alignment is, well, that's 1350 simply explained as the center of your 1351 ankle, the center of your knee, and the 1352 center of your hip socket stacked right 1353 on top of one other, okay?

And so what 1354 you'll also notice here is that the 1355 center of the shoulder will be in neutral 1356 joint alignment as well.

Now, when we 1357 start getting into the sessions further 1358 down the road here, we're going to talk 1359 about the importance of having the 1360 shoulder in this position.

Now, why is 1361 the lean shoulder an important role in 1362 this golf swing?

Well, because this is 1363 your determining factor where the club's 1364 going to bottom out.

1365 Everybody at home is like, what?

1366 This is your primary pivot point in the 1367 golf swing.

1368 This is the determining factor where the 1369 club bottom's up.

If it's back here, 1370 then guess what your club's going to do?

1371 It's going to bottom out way too soon, 1372 and it's going to force you to start 1373 throwing it off much sooner than you need 1374 1375 That's going to, in turn, lead to fat 1376 shots, going to lead to thin shots, and 1377 it's also anatomically unsafe.

You need 1378 to be stacked on this left side.

Left 1379 ankle, left knee, left hip, 1380 left shoulder, all stacked around the top 1381 of one another.

1382 The lead leg is now into neutral joint 1383 alignment.

It's also going to be 1384 passively straight.

Now, what do you mean 1385 by passively straight, Craig?

Well, it's 1386 straight.

1387 But it's not locked out.

It's kind of 1388 similar to the conversations I'm having 1389 with Chris tonight.

So if I'm standing 1390 over here with Chris, I'm kind of just 1391 passively straight.

I'm not kind of 1392 stressed out.

I'm not trying to hold 1393 something in a really uncomfortable 1394 position.

It's passively straight.

It's 1395 not here.

And to this point where it's 1396 locked out, I'm really jamming that knee 1397 back.

And it's like, okay, I don't like 1398 holding this because I'm stressing out 1399 every ligament I have in my knee.

Right, 1400 right, exactly.

1401 We have some specific checkpoints that 1402 you're going to be looking for right now, 1403 and they're really boiled down to the 1404 shoulder line being square, the hip line 1405 being open 35 to 45 degrees, and the left 1406 leg into neutral joint alignment and 1407 being passively straight.

1408 Now, there's some other parts to this.

1409 Obviously, we understand that.

We talk a 1410 lot about secondary access on the 1411 website, and I'm sure that you guys are 1412 all trying to figure out how much tilt 1413 you're supposed to have, how your 1414 shoulders are supposed to look.

When you 1415 were working without the golf club in 1416 your hands, 1417 and you are working on these drills with 1418 your shoulders across your chest, we want 1419 you to feel as level as you possibly can 1420 with your shoulders.

1421 Now, we understand that your shoulders 1422 are never going to be level at the point 1423 of contact.

So let's just say this is 1424 where Craig is at, at the point of 1425 contact right now.

You can see that his 1426 shoulders would never be level.

We want 1427 you to feel like you stay level.

Now, why 1428 is that?

Well, because everybody under 1429 the sun tries to help the golf ball in 1430 the air with their upper body leaning 1431 back.

It's just like kicking a field goal 1432 or kicking a soccer ball.

For those of 1433 you that play soccer, when you're trying 1434 to hit a big chip, you kind of lean back 1435 on it.

That helps the ball go in the air.

1436 It's the exact opposite of golf.

1437 We don't want that because we're trying 1438 to create a descending ball on the golf 1439 ball.

Now, a good way to kind of measure 1440 this is to check your spine position at 1441 impact.

1442 Now, at address, we talk about the spine 1443 being just inside the lead knee.

So you 1444 can see here Craig's position here with 1445 the axis tilt.

He's got it just inside 1446 his lead knee.

Not a ton, just enough.

1447 Now, if he keeps his head back in behind 1448 the golf ball and he shifts his hip over 1449 to the left side, what you're going to 1450 see is that this tilt increases to where 1451 his spine is where?

1452 Just outside his lead knee.

1453 That's a good, good, proper amount of 1454 secondary axis tilt.

The head will stay 1455 back, the spine is just outside the lead 1456 knee.

Now, if you look at his shoulders, 1457 you can see his shoulders have a little 1458 bit of tilt to them.

1459 Now, let's show them an abundance of 1460 secondary, what that looks like.

1461 Okay, now this right here is not going to 1462 work for us.

Okay, because you can see 1463 that the upper body is leaning back.

The 1464 lead side is not stacked up.

The spine is 1465 way outside the lead knee.

This is going 1466 to force your swing plane to be far too 1467 shallow.

You want to show them what that 1468 looks like with the blow?

1469 So when you go to the top of your swing 1470 and you freeze, if you lean your spine 1471 away from the target, 1472 see what this shaft plane does?

See how 1473 it plads it?

But also what that does from 1474 a face-on perspective is that would start 1475 creating an ascending blow rather than a 1476 descending blow.

In golf, Okay, later on, 1477 in every club in our back, except for our 1478 driver, we want to hit down on it.

Okay, 1479 and so we want this negative angle of 1480 attack.

And so the minute you start 1481 leaning your spine back, not only you're 1482 shifting swing plane, but you're shifting 1483 your angle of attack, and it's going to 1484 be far too shallow for you to actually 1485 hit down the belt on compressive.

So 1486 that's why we talk about the reports of 1487 your shoulder line when you make that 1488 first move in transition.

Now, I know a 1489 lot of you at home are like, what the 1490 heck just happened there, right?

Let's 1491 take a step back here for a second and 1492 understand this is what we're looking 1493 for.

Number one, we want your shoulder 1494 line to be square.

Number two, we want 1495 your hips to be open 35 to 45.

1496 Number three, we want your lead leg to be 1497 passively straight, not ramrod straight 1498 where you're kind of hurting yourself 1499 trying to pull it in a straight position.

1500 Tiger went through this whole phase where 1501 you're just snapping his left knee back 1502 to help get his hips open a little bit 1503 more.

We want that lead leg to be 1504 passively straight.

Okay, we want the 1505 left side of the body to be stacked up in 1506 neutral.

Now, one very hot ticket item 1507 that Craig and I are going to see, and I 1508 can tell you this right now.

1509 I don't think I've done a day of swing 1510 reviews on the website in 10 or 11 years 1511 where I haven't used this video 1512 specifically.

The role of the right foot 1513 and the down foot.

If you see that your 1514 right foot is up off the ground, 1515 then you owe us $100 or $100 pushups.

1516 Promise you.

We have the credit cards.

We 1517 will just cheat, cheat.

We will bill it 1518 if we see your right foot up off the 1519 ground.

Now, why do we not want the right 1520 foot up off the ground?

1521 Well, because when your right foot's up 1522 off the ground, looking at it from a 1523 downline perspective, watch where it does 1524 the hips.

It brings your hips forward.

1525 It's allowing your hips to continue to 1526 turn.

When you leave mobility in your 1527 hips, then your upper body's going to 1528 follow along with it.

Your right foot 1529 needs to be rolled in.

Think about your 1530 right foot having a Faberge egg 1531 underneath the outside part of it.

I 1532 don't even own a Faberge egg.

I don't 1533 know why I use this as an example, but I 1534 think they're nice.

It sounds expensive.

1535 It sounds expensive.

1536 Think about when you make your post-up 1537 move that you're.

Right foot has a 1538 Faberge egg underneath it, and if it has 1539 any sort of pressure underneath it, you 1540 broke it.

You broke your mom's favorite 1541 heirloom.

It is dead to the world.

You've 1542 got to go buy her a new one, and we just 1543 can't afford that right now.

So you 1544 should not be flat-footed under any 1545 circumstance.

Got it?

That's it.

1546 Okay?

Now, 1547 we're going to teach you how to get to 1548 this position because it's a pretty 1549 dynamic movement.

Now, when we say 1550 dynamic, I know we talked a little bit 1551 about that at the start of the session.

1552 What is dynamic movement in this sense?

1553 Well, it means our hips are going to 1554 continue to rotate, and it's going to 1555 continue to shift, right?

They're going 1556 to continue to work for you.

They're not 1557 just going to move over to your lead 1558 side, or I'm sorry, in transition, and 1559 then just do a whole bunch of one or the 1560 other.

They're going to continue to make 1561 this sort of movement happen, which is 1562 exactly what we talk about in these next 1563 couple slides on here.

We talk about the 1564 importance of using the ground.

We talk 1565 about the importance of using rotational 1566 force and ground force.

Okay, what's the 1567 importance of using ground force and 1568 rotational force?

Well, we want to pull 1569 that good leverage from the ground to get 1570 power.

Think about it relative to when 1571 you're getting to this position after 1572 your squat and posting up and you're 1573 moving this hip up, you're pulling power 1574 from the ground.

Think about like a 1575 basketball player when he's going to 1576 shoot a shot or doing a jump shot.

He's 1577 loading and then exploding up and he's 1578 using that leverage from the ground to 1579 get extra on the ball.

1580 Also with this post-up is, we have a 1581 little bit of rotational force.

So this 1582 hip as we start to post up, not only is 1583 just moving up, it's also moving back 1584 behind us.

Because you will not have a 1585 great and powerful release if you do not 1586 have a great and powerful post-up.

This 1587 is of the utmost importance if you want 1588 to release the club properly.

Because as 1589 our hips move, or specifically our left 1590 hip moves up in a way.

What it's going to 1591 do is it's going to trigger this golf 1592 club to go down and out.

So the more 1593 dynamic you make this post up, the easier 1594 and how it's going to trigger this club 1595 to release on its own.

So players tend to 1596 get really dead with their legs, they 1597 tend not to post up.

They get down into 1598 this position, they're like, all right.

1599 Well, I'm just going to slap at it with 1600 my hands.

Well, you're going to be forced 1601 to do slap at it with your hands if 1602 you're not making a dynamic move with 1603 this hip.

And this is Kind of the move 1604 that all the players make.

And you can 1605 see Tiger on this slide right here.

1606 There's not a person on this planet that 1607 hits it with distance that doesn't do 1608 this move right here.

Exactly.

And Craig 1609 just hit the nail on the head 100% 1610 accurately.

When we make this big, 1611 powerful unload move over to our lead 1612 side, we always forget that we're 1613 supposed to continue to finish the move 1614 off of our legs.

Why?

Well, because our 1615 hands and arms.

have made it virtually 1616 down into a position where they're just 1617 below chest height or right around chest 1618 height.

And it's very easy for you to be 1619 able to move your hands and your arms and 1620 your golf club over to the side very fast 1621 without having to use your legs.

But in 1622 fact, we want you to finish this move 1623 off.

This is what's going to signal or 1624 trigger your release to happen.

The golf 1625 club always wants to work in the opposite 1626 direction of you.

Just remember that.

So 1627 centripetal force, that's centered 1628 rotation.

The result of that is 1629 centripetal force.

Okay, so when we start 1630 unloading into our lead side, we start 1631 dropping down.

Now we're setting 1632 ourselves up for the ability to be able 1633 to use that ground force, which is a 1634 great source of leverage by being able to 1635 push up out of the ground.

That's going 1636 to force the club to move in the opposite 1637 direction.

But also by rotating that hip 1638 back and away, that's another way for 1639 you're adding all of this free speed.

1640 Isn't physics a wonderful thing?

I mean, 1641 I mean, that's it.

I mean, if you watch 1642 anybody that hits the golf ball with any 1643 sort of steam, whether it's on the PGA 1644 Tour or whether it's on the long drive, 1645 guys, they're all doing this exact same 1646 move.

Some of the long drive guys are 1647 doing it today.

1648 Now, again, there is a fine line where 1649 you have to be able to do this stuff, but 1650 also keep your body safe, but also keep 1651 your body in a position where it's going 1652 to be consistent.

Now, the big thing that 1653 we want to train you tonight on how to 1654 make this movement happen, and I want you 1655 guys to write in big, bold letters on 1656 every one of your slides or down on the 1657 ground or on your mirror, is that when 1658 you post up, Your head and your chest is 1659 to stay down.

You do not want your head 1660 and chest to move vertically.

1661 Everyone's like, well, what in the world?

1662 You just told me to move up and away, 1663 okay?

Now, remember, your legs are going 1664 to be driving this golf swing.

If you 1665 start moving up and away with your chest, 1666 okay, you are going to be shifting swing 1667 plan around.

You're also going to be 1668 forcing the club to want to pass your 1669 hands really quickly, and you're going to 1670 make it very difficult for you to create 1671 this negative angle attack.

So it's 1672 extremely important that you hit down on 1673 the golf ball.

You hit down on the belt 1674 ball by keeping your head and your chest 1675 down.

Make sure your hands and arms work 1676 back out in front of you.

1677 How do we perform this move?

1678 Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

1679 After we get you squat to square, we're 1680 going to focus on our lead hip continuing 1681 to rotate, but we're also going to 1682 continue to feel like it's pulling back 1683 and behind us.

Now, again, your left hip 1684 shouldn't have moved all the way into 1685 neutral.

1686 It should have been pretty short of 1687 neutral.

1688 Pretty close to neutral here.

1689 The center of the hip socket is right 1690 around where the belt loop is on the lead 1691 side of the pants.

You can see that the 1692 center of the ankle here is just inside.

1693 Now, when he makes this movement, you can 1694 see that his hip moves all the way to 1695 neutral by rotating and then pulling it 1696 back and away from the target.

1697 Now, remember, this left leg is going to 1698 move to a passively straight position.

If 1699 you just focus on that left leg moving to 1700 a straight position and you feel that hip 1701 move back up and away, then you have the 1702 movement.

Now do that with giving your 1703 head chest out, right?

And that's the big 1704 thing.

It's leave it, stick up for a 1705 second, that's the big thing.

It's not 1706 just doing one or the other, it's doing 1707 both.

So if you put that stick on top of 1708 my head when I post up right here, if you 1709 watch what happens.

Because my hips 1710 moving away, not just up.

If I were just 1711 to focus on the up part and not clear 1712 this hip, my head would pop up.

But it's 1713 the fact that my hips also going away.

1714 Which is why you don't see my head 1715 popping up as I sit here in post, and 1716 it's one of the biggest things that I see 1717 all the time is.

They're like, Craig, I'm 1718 working on my post stuff.

And they get to 1719 here and they just stand up and they're 1720 just straightening their legs.

And yes, 1721 they are technically falling some levers 1722 from the ground, but you're also losing 1723 bust, you're also losing spine angle.

We 1724 want you to stay in the shot and the only 1725 way for your chest to stay over the ball 1726 is the fact that this hip's moving back 1727 and away because you're always moving in 1728 the opposite direction.

Exactly, exactly 1729 1730 Basically, what we want you to do is 1731 after you squat into that lead side, it's 1732 just finish off the work by trying to 1733 straighten your lead leg, but doing it 1734 not with just straightening your left 1735 leg, but using that lead hip to 1736 facilitate that movement.

If you focus on 1737 what the lead hip is doing, then 1738 everything else is going to become 1739 reactionary.

Everything in the lead leg 1740 is going to become reactionary.

1741 Everything in the trail side of the body 1742 is going to become reactionary, and 1743 everybody's like, well, what is my right 1744 leg supposed to do?

What is it supposed 1745 to do?

Well, it should be doing very 1746 little at this point.

If you've 1747 transferred enough weight over to your 1748 lead side in transition, Then it should 1749 be just reacting to this movement.

Okay?

1750 And so again, this is the big power move 1751 that we're going to be making in your 1752 house to help force the golf club to go 1753 down and away from you.

And we will get 1754 this question even on the last day when 1755 we graduate, when do I signal my release?

1756 This is your signal for the race.

If you 1757 don't make this happen, then you 1758 obviously move the golf club from your 1759 smaller muscles.

Now, I don't know if a 1760 lot of you caught what Craig and I said 1761 to you in session number one.

But in 1762 order for you guys to be able to swing 1763 this golf club at 100 miles an hour, you 1764 gotta have 32 pounds of muscle.

And as 1765 much as Craig and I during COVID like to 1766 sit at the gym and do curls for the girls 1767 all day long, we don't have 32 pounds of 1768 muscle available to us on our shoulders 1769 and our arms.

We have it available to us 1770 in our biggest surface area, muscles or 1771 lats.

And this is kind of debatable for 1772 both of us right now.

1773 This one's debatable.

But we have it in 1774 our biggest surface area, muscles or 1775 lats.

Our chunkiest muscles are glutes, 1776 our abs or obliques.

1777 We're going to be helping transfer all 1778 this energy from our body by using the 1779 proper sequencing and proper loading 1780 piece.

And so at this point, the hands 1781 and the arms are just kind of along with 1782 the ride.

And you'll feel all of this 1783 effortless speed.

And when you actually 1784 get this done, you're going to be like, 1785 that's all I have to do?

Like, yeah.

It's 1786 hard for you guys to commit to using your 1787 legs because what?

Well, we're just not 1788 that sensitive down there, okay?

I always 1789 use this analogy of the homunculus model.

1790 For those of you that have never seen the 1791 homoculus model, basically it's a 1792 character of a person that's drawn where 1793 the extremities are blown up to size 1794 where they're most sensitive.

And you 1795 should see the hands are the same.

1796 They're giant.

And the lips are huge.

The 1797 nose is big.

The ears are really big.

But 1798 the legs are like teeny tiny.

Again, 1799 because they're just not sensitive.

1800 I can tell you right now, when I go out 1801 and play golf, I haven't played golf for 1802 a while.

I've gone through this pandemic.

1803 I would have to tell myself to wake my 1804 legs up because your legs are your 1805 driving force.

1806 You've just made this transition.

You've 1807 got yourself set up to use your legs.

Use 1808 your legs.

Do not fall asleep on your 1809 legs because it is so easy.

And I can't 1810 tell you how many reviews I've done for 1811 the last few months with people that have 1812 come up of some previous boot camps.

1813 Where they're still trying to get their 1814 lead leg into this passively straight 1815 position and their arms are way out in 1816 front of them.

They've already got their 1817 hands over here.

And their lead leg never 1818 makes that stop.

A lot.

Well, because 1819 it's easier to be able to move up from 1820 the hands and arms, move from your legs.

1821 And you'll hit the golf just as far as 1822 you want to.

No, I mean, that's the big 1823 key is if you want to get this effortless 1824 power, it.

It's crazy.

How, uh, in the 1825 end, when you really start understanding 1826 how the leg works and you start to think 1827 about, like, Oh, well, that's why.

The 1828 guy, that weighs 100 pounds and is 1829 It's not about the fact that you have to 1830 hit the gym to hit a mile.

Right.

It's 1831 just you need to be moving to the right 1832 place at the right time.

And it's not 1833 doing it through these.

Right.

Okay.

So 1834 what we want to do here is we're going to 1835 do a few reps.

We're going to demo the 1836 movement.

Then we're going to answer some 1837 questions.

Then we're going to get you 1838 guys out the door.

Because I know we've 1839 already talked for about an hour tonight.

1840 I know a lot of you guys already have 1841 plans or other things on your agenda that 1842 are more important than Craig and I.

We 1843 get it.

We're not hurt by that.

1844 But we want to get you guys out of your 1845 chairs.

For those of you that want to 1846 work out with us, go ahead.

1847 I'm going to give you guys some key 1848 checkpoints.

I'm going to speak a little 1849 bit slower when we start to talk about 1850 these key checkpoints as we're going 1851 through them.

As we get more proficient 1852 and we get further into the rep program, 1853 you're going to speed up a little bit.

1854 Remember, work at the speed that you're 1855 comfortable with.

1856 First thing we're going to do is we're 1857 going to get into a set-up position.

1858 We're going to push our right ankle to 1859 the ground.

We're going to take the right 1860 shoulder and pull it back.

1861 Now we're going to squat to square.

1862 Now we're going to finish off the post 1863 -up.

Remember, we are allowing our hips to 1864 pull our shoulders around.

Do not allow 1865 your shoulders to unwind.

They will 1866 unwind for you.

None of you are 1867 contortionist, some of you might be, but 1868 you're not torturing us in our eyes.

Keep 1869 your shoulders right where they are, and 1870 after you transition, keep your body 1871 right where it is.

And just post up by 1872 driving that left ankle on the ground and 1873 feeling like you're pulling that laid hip 1874 up and back.

Okay, at this point, 1875 shoulders are square, hips are open.

35 1876 Right foot rolled into the ground and 1877 just a little tiny bit of secondary axis 1878 tilt.

notice his shoulders don't have a 1879 ton of tilt.

Left side of the body fully 1880 stacked up again.

How did we get there?

1881 We just focused on pushing that left 1882 ankle on the ground and pushing or 1883 pulling that left hip back up and away.

1884 Okay, keeping the head and chest down.

1885 That'll be the one that we see.

Yeah, 1886 we're already loading up for Saturday, we 1887 know we're going to see it.

Okay now, uh, 1888 I don't even know where you're at, right?

1889 Okay, so squat to square.

Okay, now we're 1890 going to go ahead and drive that lead.

1891 Ankle around, pull, left it back, head 1892 and chest, stay down.

1893 Remember, allow your hips to pull your 1894 shoulders around.

You're going to find 1895 that it's very easy for your upper body 1896 to turn along with your hips, and you're 1897 going to end up really open.

Try to 1898 restrict it, allow the hips to pull your 1899 shoulders around.

That's where you need 1900 to finish.

Yeah, I can't tell you how 1901 many times in the lesson get on this side 1902 for me for a second, where I've had to 1903 work with a student.

Where I'll have them 1904 go up to the top and grab my shoulders 1905 right here, where they're so used to 1906 using their shoulders.

And I'm like, 1907 Look, if you go ahead and you shift and 1908 you post, just restrict me as much as you 1909 can.

And my shoulders are gonna have to 1910 move if I get my legs over here.

So you, 1911 you know, that's a really good way.

If 1912 you have your kid or your best friend, or 1913 your wife or husband, grab you and say, 1914 Okay.

We'll try to leave your shoulders 1915 here and make this motion.

With the legs 1916 you can't right, your shoulders are going 1917 to move.

And that's why it's so 1918 imperative that you do not activate them 1919 during this process.

Right?

Exactly?

Just 1920 remember that this is during your post 1921 -up, okay?

We're talking about a 1922 completely different move from your 1923 transition because we want your upper 1924 body to move back into position.

For 1925 those of you that are trying to do this 1926 all fluidly.

And you're leaving your 1927 upper body back because you don't want 1928 your shoulders to unwind.

And you start 1929 creating all of this secondary axis tilt, 1930 then I'm going to fly to where you are 1931 and I'm going to punch you, okay?

Because 1932 it's two different moves.

Get seated onto 1933 that left side first and then from there, 1934 really do your best to keep your 1935 shoulders wound as much as you possibly 1936 can.

And just focus on what those hips 1937 are doing left ankle into the ground, 1938 pull that left hip back up and away from 1939 you and your rep is complete and guess 1940 what?

You are now in a position where you 1941 have moved through all of the three big 1942 components of the golf swing.

That people 1943 have all screwed the pooch on for many, 1944 many years.

Right now, some subtle things 1945 you're going to be looking for.

Just make 1946 sure when you complete your rep, your 1947 right foot is down on the floor.

Okay, it 1948 is rolled in.

Remember that Faberge egg?

1949 If you see your foot peeking up off the 1950 ground, I don't want to hear it, it's 1951 not.

We don't want to see that heel.

Pick 1952 it up off the ground, keep it down on the 1953 ground, it doesn't need to be up off the 1954 ground.

I promise you, if it is, people 1955 are going to be like, Well, why is my 1956 heel up off the ground?

I'm pulling, 1957 pulling, pulling.

You're still pushing 1958 from the right leg in order to make your 1959 right foot come up off the ground, you're 1960 still pushing.

I promise it will only go 1961 like that when you push it from your 1962 right leg, so roll to the inside part of 1963 that right foot.

Okay, now, one other 1964 piece that I didn't mention tonight.

And 1965 we're going to see this quite a bit on 1966 Saturday, and we'll probably end up 1967 having to talk about it, is when this 1968 move is complete, you should not be flat 1969 -footed in your right foot either.

If you 1970 were flat-footed in your right foot, then 1971 guess what you didn't do?

1972 You didn't transfer your hips.

You didn't 1973 allow your hips to shift enough over to 1974 your lead side when you made this move 1975 happen.

You've got to continue to allow 1976 the hip to move towards the target as 1977 it's moving up and away.

So it's going to 1978 continue to move dynamically.

It's not 1979 just shifting.

Remember, we're pulling 1980 that thing back up and away.

1981 So kind of the key point there is just 1982 make sure that the right foot is never 1983 flat.

If it's flat, you didn't transfer 1984 enough weight or your stance width was a 1985 little bit on the narrow side, which I've 1986 seen a couple of students stay a little 1987 bit more on the narrow side, so it'll be 1988 interesting to see what their post-up 1989 looks like when we get all the stuff 1990 done.

So that's it.

Okay, that's all of 1991 the information we have to give to you.

1992 Now, there are some important slides on 1993 here for you guys to look at.

1994 I'm not going to go into all of the 1995 details on this because we basically just 1996 talked about all this.

It's just giving 1997 you some reference points for you to be 1998 able to use.

I love the visuals that 1999 Chuck put together here for us.

Because 2000 it shows you how much drop to the lead 2001 hip there is and how much activity there 2002 is coming from the lead leg.

2003 That's really important for you to 2004 understand how important this move is 2005 because also on top of this, instead of 2006 being just a source of power, it's also 2007 your source of stability because you've 2008 got a lot of rotational force that's 2009 going to be trying to happen in an all 2010 swing.

2011 Remember, your spine hates a couple 2012 things.

It hates shear force and it hates 2013 compression.

Your hips don't like it that 2014 much either when you start to work on it.

2015 at a high rate of speed, and you start 2016 getting your hips pushed off past 2017 neutral, you stay inside of neutral, you 2018 start putting a lot of stress on the 2019 outside part of the hip girdle, you can 2020 pull out a labrum, and you don't want a 2021 labrum terribly.

2022 By putting yourself in these safe 2023 positions and using ground force, you're 2024 not only maximizing your efficiency 2025 aspect, but you're maximizing your 2026 safety.

I don't want anybody to leave 2027 here with any broken knees.

or broken 2028 hips or being in the hover around what 2029 we're talking about.

Exactly.

And that's, 2030 you know, that's my number one thing is I 2031 want everybody safe.

You're going to hit 2032 it straight.

You're going to hit it far.

2033 Don't worry about it, but I want you 2034 safe.

And that's the big thing.

When you 2035 post up on this left hip or lead hip 2036 properly.

2037 I'm perfectly safe, I'm perfectly injury 2038 free right now versus what we see all the 2039 time.

Like, what Chris is talking about 2040 with this labrum issue is that people are 2041 pushing off this trail.

Foot and their 2042 lead hips getting way outside right here.

2043 And they start getting this pain and they 2044 start getting the soreness.

They're like, 2045 we don't know what's going on next thing.

2046 You know, they're out of all six to eight 2047 months because they need to do that.

2048 Actually, it's easily preventable.

Yeah, 2049 exactly, I battle with it, I still battle 2050 with it today because of, um, I didn't 2051 have any formal training.

When I was 2052 growing up, when I was a kid, I pushed 2053 really hard off my right side as a as a 2054 redirect to my golf swing.

And, you know, 2055 I battled with some stress in the outside 2056 part of it.

And that's something that I'm 2057 going to have to deal with at this point.

2058 And you know, being 38 years old, um, you 2059 know, I'm going to feel the lasting 2060 effects of that now.

It's our time right 2061 now to be able to work on getting your 2062 golf swings to be safe now.

We don't want 2063 you to continue to work on movements that 2064 are going to put you in a position that's 2065 going to hurt yourself.

So what I'd like 2066 to do now is we can wrap up the session 2067 tonight.

Because I know a lot of you will 2068 want to go ahead and sign off and go 2069 ahead and attend your families or do 2070 other business.

2071 We want to tell you that we appreciate 2072 you guys being here.

Those of you that 2073 want to stick around and do some Q&A with 2074 us, Craig and I are more than happy to 2075 stick around and answer as many questions 2076 as we possibly can.

I know tonight we'll 2077 probably get quite a few questions.

Just 2078 remember, Try to keep things on the 2079 topics that we dealt with over the last 2080 three days because we want you to be 2081 hyper-focused over these next three or 2082 four days.

Because from Saturday, we need 2083 these three big picture pieces in place.

2084 I was like, picker, picker, picker, 2085 picker, picker, picker, picker.

2086 So we need those things to be in place.

2087 So that you're ready to start adding the 2088 troublemakers back to the and the golf go 2089 back to the next.

So we do appreciate you 2090 guys joining us tonight, hopefully you 2091 guys enjoyed the information, hopefully 2092 you guys understand where you're trying 2093 to go and how to get there.

That's the 2094 whole point.

And that's why we we kind of 2095 took and put you into the position.

2096 First, understand where you're going to 2097 try to go, and then we taught you how to 2098 get there.

Okay, so if you get properly 2099 seated in your lead side and you focus on 2100 what your lead leg is doing and your lead 2101 hip, then you will have this position 2102 mastered.

You just have some key 2103 checkpoints that you're going to have to 2104 keep an eye on.

Remember, don't be afraid 2105 to use this over the next few days.

Um, 2106 in the swing review process.

You know, if 2107 you want to take a live session with us 2108 because you may be struggling with any 2109 other stuff, then by all means do so.

Um, 2110 if you want, ask questions in the forums, 2111 but we will not sleep until you guys get 2112 this information down.

So that's, that's 2113 it, all right, so questions, all right.

2114 So we see.

Can you talk about the role of 2115 the obliques in the post up, so the 2116 obliques are going to help facilitate 2117 rotation.

Okay, so everybody talks about 2118 the role of the obliques and the glutes.

2119 The obliques are going to help you rotate 2120 the hips.

All right.

And so a lot of 2121 times people have a very hard time 2122 finding that muscle group.

And so we want 2123 you to think about just kind of giving 2124 your hip to move into a fixed position.

2125 That's a good way for you to be able to 2126 use your obliques in an indirect way, but 2127 if you have the awareness of your 2128 obliques, sky's the limit.

You.

That's 2129 what we want you to help use, or that's 2130 what the muscle group we want you to use 2131 to be able to rotate hips open Again, 2132 we're speaking to groups of masses, so 2133 it's hard for a lot of people to be able 2134 to feel their abs and their obliques, but 2135 if you have the awareness of them, use 2136 your obliques to help rotate those hips 2137 open.

2138 They're not stabilized by any means.

The 2139 glutes are going to be stabilized through 2140 your hips.

The obliques are going to help 2141 aid that rotation.

I think that's the big 2142 way to start is the glutes are going to 2143 really more or less stabilize the hips.

2144 And it's this lead oblique right here 2145 that's really helping you pull this hip 2146 behind you.

And I always just, you know, 2147 try to kind of politely say if you can, I 2148 mean, I'm sure most of you all don't have 2149 them.

I know for me, if you just kind of 2150 go around the love handle area, it's 2151 like, all right, those are my obliques.

2152 They're right there.

They're kind of 2153 resting.

They haven't done a whole lot 2154 lately.

But that's what really makes this 2155 magic happen with clearing this hip.

2156 Yeah.

So, 2157 all right.

So can I see the move from 2158 down the line to see the spine ankle?

For 2159 sure, Gary.

2160 So move down the line.

So we're going to 2161 load in the right ankle.

We're going to 2162 squat to square now.

Watch his head and 2163 chest when he makes this post-up move, 2164 okay, so you can see here that his head 2165 and chest remain down.

Okay.

There's no 2166 vertical movement from the spine or the 2167 head, there's no loss of tush line.

That 2168 post-up move is moving those hips open to 2169 35 to 45 degrees.

It's moving the hips 2170 into the position where you are driving 2171 the golf club down away from you, and 2172 it's moving that left leg passively 2173 straight.

All right.

So 2174 How much does the right knee bend in post 2175 -up?

So we get this question I think every 2176 can.

Every can.

Every can.

And so this is 2177 not a bad question, but if you're 2178 thinking about the right side of the 2179 body, you're doing it wrong, okay?

We 2180 want the right side to be very passive 2181 during the post-up because you already 2182 helped use it to transfer.

Now use it for 2183 more or less a break in this foul swing 2184 and use your left side.

So when the right 2185 knee moves in towards the lead side, 2186 okay, I'm sorry.

It's going to move in 2187 towards the lead side a little bit.

And 2188 you're going to see that it's a little 2189 bit straighter than where it was in a 2190 dress.

Again, that's all reactionary to 2191 what the lead side of the body is doing.

2192 If you think about what the right foot is 2193 doing more so than anything with what the 2194 left hip is doing, you don't need to 2195 think about the knee.

Because if you're 2196 thinking about that knee, a lot of times 2197 people try to put it in a certain 2198 position.

2199 Now, that's not to say that if you don't 2200 have, I'm sorry, you have like a 2201 catastrophic fault where your right knee 2202 kind of collapses down, you have a lot of 2203 tilt to your falls.

And Craig and I will 2204 diagnose that and we'll give you certain 2205 ways to be able to fix it.

Okay, so not 2206 trying to evade the question, but I don't 2207 want you necessarily thinking about the 2208 right knee per se.

Think about that being 2209 more reactionary.

You'll see the right 2210 knee from a face-off perspective.

Let's 2211 show them.

2212 So when you're low and you squat to 2213 square, you'll see the right knee kind of 2214 come towards the left, but you're still 2215 maintaining the same space that you had 2216 between your legs at a dress, okay?

2217 That's why the Rotary Connect can be used 2218 not just for hands and arms.

It can be 2219 used for your legs.

If that right knee 2220 collapses inward, 2221 okay, then the only way to make that 2222 happen anyways would be.

The right foot 2223 coming up off the ground or the hips 2224 staying inside of the neutral and your 2225 flat foot on the ground.

2226 There's two things that can happen there.

2227 That's something I talked about in the 2228 video, Perfecting Lower Body Stability, 2229 which is, I think, one of my first videos 2230 I did for Rory Spinning years and years 2231 ago.

2232 I feel a ton of stress and resistance in 2233 these slow trainings.

Is that normal?

2234 I feel a ton of stress and resistance in 2235 these slow trainings.

Is that normal?

2236 You might not be used to using the muscle 2237 groups that we're talking about.

You 2238 might start to feel some sort of stress, 2239 but we don't want you to feel like, oh my 2240 God, you're in pain.

But if you are 2241 starting to work out some muscle groups 2242 that you haven't felt before, I know 2243 personally, when I did a Peloton workout 2244 the other day, I felt my glutes on fire.

2245 And I shouldn't say the other day.

2246 So I wasn't used to using that muscle 2247 group.

And so when you're doing these, 2248 you're going to probably, if you're not 2249 used to making these moves happen, so you 2250 might feel a little bit of.

Um, a 2251 little bit of stress at times, yeah, I 2252 always tell people soreness because 2253 you're activating new muscles is normal.

2254 If you're getting pain, something's 2255 wrong, that's your brain signal that 2256 something's off is pain.

So if you're 2257 getting pain, but also you're going to 2258 feel new muscles, sore is fine, but you 2259 shouldn't be exhausted.

So if you do 10 2260 reps and then after 10 reps, 2261 like, something's going on, if you're 2262 getting exhausted, then you're trying.

2263 You're working way too hard, you're 2264 trying to really stress out at least 2265 probably a certain muscle group.

And it's 2266 getting fatigued very fast.

You shouldn't 2267 get fatigued after just doing 10 reps, so 2268 I'd be careful that you're not just 2269 trying to get hyper focused.

All right, 2270 well, they told me to use my obliques and 2271 I'm gonna, Yeah, I can't breathe now.

I 2272 mean, you shouldn't get so worn out by 2273 doing it right, right, so good, good 2274 explanation there.

So a couple questions 2275 coming in here.

So Justin all right.

So I 2276 asked the question earlier, you would 2277 answer at the end, can you address the 2278 lifting of the arms?

And it should be 2279 delivered or happen naturally.

Thank you.

2280 So, the long story short on this is that 2281 here are the functions from the arms.

The 2282 first function that you're going to see 2283 from the arms is what we call.

Shoulder 2284 elevation.

Shoulder elevation is just a 2285 movement where the hands and the arms 2286 from a static address position.

If you 2287 were to pick your arms straight up to 2288 where your elbows are at the base of the 2289 chest, that's what we call shoulder 2290 elevation.

That's happening 2291 very gradually through the takeaway and 2292 very gradually through your backswing.

2293 Under no circumstance, and I mean no 2294 circumstance, does that vertical movement 2295 of the hands and arms ever supersede 2296 weight shift and body turn.

We will see 2297 people all day long picking their arms up 2298 straight at first, and then they start 2299 moving the golf club from their hands and 2300 their arms, and it gives you false senses 2301 of load and rotation.

That's the first 2302 function.

Okay, so the first function is 2303 vertical movement from the hands and the 2304 arms.

The second function is going to be 2305 right arm flexion or trail arm flexion.

2306 So the right arm flexes right around 80 2307 to 90 degrees.

It's a variable.

You want 2308 just enough flexion to help keep your 2309 lead arm passively straight.

2310 The other functions of your arms are just 2311 going to be a little bit of wrist 2312 rotation and a little bit of wrist set.

2313 That's it.

And you're not actively trying 2314 to swing your arm up to the top of the 2315 swing.

You're allowing gradual amounts of 2316 elevation to be built in the golf swing, 2317 and that is something that we're actually 2318 going to be talking about on Saturday.

2319 We're going to be taking and adding the 2320 arms in the golf into the mix.

And so I 2321 know you're chomping at the bit to be 2322 able to get the arms in the mouth of the 2323 mix.

But you better make sure that you 2324 got your right foot loaded up, and you 2325 better make sure you got good body turn.

2326 Because the minute you start trying to 2327 focus on our arm movement in the swing 2328 and doing this, okay, and you start doing 2329 this instead, okay, you're going to lead 2330 to one of the most catastrophic faults 2331 that Craig and I spend all day long.

And 2332 you're looking at.

2333 People always find a way to be able to 2334 move the golf foot from the hands and 2335 arms.

Why?

Well, because it's easy.

And 2336 I'm not just beating you up to that.

I 2337 just want you to know that there's a 2338 reason why we wrote a program like this.

2339 That we want to think as little about the 2340 hands and arms as we possibly can.

And 2341 get you hyper-focused on big, big core 2342 muscles right now through these big 2343 three.

And then on Saturday, we'll get 2344 the arms and the golf foot back in there.

2345 And this is where I was going to say all 2346 hell.

2347 I knew where you were going.

2348 You guys know what I'm saying.

2349 But Justin, you might not be on his bad 2350 list, but you're on my list because I'm 2351 going to watch out for your body 2352 position.

If I see that his body 2353 positions are slacking, but you've got an 2354 arm position up here, I'm going to know 2355 why that happened.

2356 Yeah.

All right.

So Lee has a question 2357 here.

So once I pull my left shoulder 2358 back in the backswing, it's hard to relax 2359 my upper body to let the legs and hips 2360 create a swing.

So once I pull my left 2361 shoulder back in the backswing.

2362 It's hard to relax my upper body to let 2363 the legs and hips create the swing.

Any 2364 of us?

2365 When you talk about building tension in 2366 the body, you should feel a lot of 2367 tension in your legs as well.

You should 2368 feel like you're sustaining some sort of 2369 load over that right leg.

If you're not, 2370 then you've either done it for a million 2371 reps over or you're doing something 2372 wrong.

You should be feeling like you're 2373 maintaining some flex in that right leg, 2374 you should be able to create some 2375 restriction at that point.

What you want 2376 to do is as long as you make full turn, 2377 then you can start letting yourself move 2378 back over to your lead side.

That's going 2379 to help number one keep it dynamic, and 2380 that's going to help move it into 2381 fluidity.

So if you're having a hard time 2382 in that sense, then you would probably 2383 want to move into fluidity.

But you want 2384 to make sure that you have the key 2385 checkpoints of loading your trail and 2386 make sure that you're moving from the 2387 right places.

When, uh, players get up 2388 here 2389 and they feel like a lot of tension up 2390 here in the shoulders, stop.

Try to shrug 2391 up your shoulders.

Like, what I want you 2392 to do is when you get up there, get to 2393 this position and try to shrug up.

If you 2394 can't, shrug your shoulders up, more than 2395 likely you're trying to swing back with 2396 the wrong muscle group.

And so we always 2397 have people kind of sit on a chair and 2398 rotate so they can kind of feel their abs 2399 and obliques.

If you watch me by the time 2400 I get up here, I mean, my shoulders are 2401 pretty chill right now.

I mean, I don't 2402 even feel anything in them right now.

But 2403 that's because I feel the load in my leg 2404 and I feel the load in my core.

Am I 2405 perhaps chilled out?

So you might be just 2406 trying to stress out.

I mean, I'm 2407 assuming, I'm hoping that you're left 2408 -handed.

If you're feeling the left 2409 shoulder pull, you might just be trying 2410 to do with this so much that you're 2411 creating a lot of tension, but you're 2412 actually forgetting how you get up there, 2413 which is loading and rotating from your 2414 core.

Right, exactly so we actually call 2415 that shoulder blade wrench, which is a 2416 term that we have used in the past.

So, 2417 um, you definitely want to feel like 2418 you're turning more from the midsection, 2419 get your get your bigger muscles 2420 contracted there.

So definitely, really 2421 great explanation there.

So, um, so, is 2422 the weight still mostly on the ankle or 2423 the lead leg or the heel?

Is it normal 2424 for the lead foot to roll outward?

is 2425 it's very common to see the lead ankle 2426 roll out?

Work?

You can ask Jordan Speed.

2427 This is not a position that we generally 2428 advocate when you're getting down to 2429 impact.

We actually don't advocate it at 2430 all because this is a very stressful 2431 position to be when you have the golf 2432 club moving at insane speeds, right?

So 2433 you're going to be putting a lot more of 2434 the force on the outside part of that 2435 ankle.

So we want the lead foot to the 2436 flask of the ground.

We want your weight 2437 to be centered underneath that ankle 2438 joint.

It's going to be more towards the 2439 trail side like we talked about in 2440 session number one.

You're not going to 2441 be to the extreme heel where your toes 2442 are coming up off the ground, but you're 2443 going to feel a lot of the weight towards 2444 that heel side.

Okay, and you watch your 2445 foot to be pretty, pretty flat to the 2446 floor, not pretty flat, but flat to the 2447 floor.

If you're seeing that it rolls 2448 out, there's a couple things that can 2449 cause that number one.

If your hip 2450 doesn't make it to neutral, so if you 2451 don't get to neutral and you turn the 2452 hips quite a bit.

This can force the the 2453 hips to have a lot more mobility in them, 2454 and so the more mobility means, then you 2455 can start creating more rotation and then 2456 the lead foot will want to react to it.

2457 Another way to kind of get this sort of 2458 movement, which is more more common, I 2459 would say, is the lead knee kind of wants 2460 to get out past neutral right leg, pushes 2461 and continues to push and we see that 2462 sort of position.

I mean, that's an 2463 exaggerated version of it, but again, 2464 those are just ways for you to be able to 2465 kind of think about it.

So it's either a 2466 hit not making a neutral, and you rotate 2467 it too much and you roll to the outside 2468 part, or you getting pushed out past it.

2469 So you want to make sure that when you 2470 get on that left leg, you're really, 2471 really stable, the left leg is flat and 2472 solid to ground.

Actually something I'm 2473 working on my golf swing personally right 2474 now, just being a little bit more stable 2475 on lead side.

I started working on my 2476 golf swing for the first time in five 2477 years.

2478 Well, even if you look at your PDF and 2479 you even look at the slide that we have 2480 up on the screen right now, Tiger, even 2481 if you just look at his lead foot right 2482 here, you can see it might just be a hair 2483 on the outside, but that foot is planted.

2484 I mean, with the whole term, you know, 2485 squashing the bug or squishing the bug, 2486 you want to be anchored right here when 2487 you post because this is going to be that 2488 safe position.

If you think about it, if 2489 I roll my foot out like this, is this 2490 comfortable to stand?

Not really.

This is 2491 kind of stressing out my ankle joint 2492 right now.

But if I get here and get to 2493 this post up, I can hang out here all 2494 day, right?

Okay, what's going on?

So 2495 that lead foot, when it's planted and 2496 it's in that nice and stable position, 2497 you can do the world from there, right?

2498 And so one of the ways that you can help 2499 create less of this rotation or create 2500 more rotational stability.

2501 And we didn't talk about this tonight 2502 because, again, we're trying to keep 2503 things as simple as possible.

Is, you can 2504 think about when you're making your post 2505 -it move happen, that you're trying to 2506 squeeze your glutes together.

This is 2507 very much we call the squeeze the cheeks 2508 kind of drill.

So when after you make 2509 that squat to square kind of movement 2510 over to the inside.

And you can focus on, 2511 think about your butt cheeks having a 2512 quarter in between them.

And you're 2513 trying, you're trying to squeeze things 2514 together and kind of hold it in place.

I 2515 actually like that one personally because 2516 you start feeling more contraction in 2517 your hind end, which is, again, it's a 2518 great way for you to be able to fight off 2519 a lot of that rotation mobility that you 2520 might want to use in your swing, which 2521 makes it harder for you to release the 2522 club in time.

That's actually something, 2523 you know, Tiger didn't work on 2524 specifically, but if you remember years 2525 back when he was at Torrey Pines and he 2526 ended up coming off the golf course and 2527 he had his back, he was like, my glute's 2528 in fire.

And everybody's like, what the 2529 hell did that mean?

Your glutes are 2530 stabilizers for your hips.

And so he was 2531 at that point trying to fight off a lot 2532 of the rotation they had from his hips.

2533 So he could get his hands, arms out in 2534 front of him, right?

That's what he was 2535 trying to do.

And so that's another good 2536 little morsel of information for you.

For 2537 those of you that want to find more 2538 stability at a rotation.

Because you 2539 might dunk yourself as a hip spinner in 2540 front of your life, or you might have 2541 just too much rotation.

You don't know 2542 how to get on the brakes, yeah, I was 2543 very proud of the membership when the 2544 Tiger said that we had a lot of our 2545 members like, Hey, I understand what he 2546 means with the glutes that you are 2547 activating.

I was like, Yeah, I was like, 2548 I like that, all right.

So we got, uh, so 2549 Sean, Yeah, obliques are resting, that's 2550 fine.

Um, outstanding job.

Well, thank 2551 you very much Todd.

Thank you David.

Uh, 2552 Daniel, Okay, thanks.

My lead for always 2553 wants to roll outward, but my right foot 2554 stays flat most of the time.

Yep, a lot 2555 of right footers are coming in.

That'll 2556 help move the hips to neutral, help take 2557 out some of the mobility in the hips.

I 2558 think people forget that When the lead 2559 hip stays in neutral, how much more 2560 rotational ability you have in there.

2561 It's very, very common.

But when you get 2562 pushed out past neutral, you tend to not 2563 have as much.

2564 Both movements are dangerous.

2565 Believe me, they're dangerous.

2566 All right, so it looks like we're winding 2567 down on questions.

I just want to go 2568 ahead and just like we do on the last 2569 couple sessions, I want to thank you guys 2570 very much for joining us.

We know that 2571 you guys have other options available to 2572 you out there.

We know that there are 2573 other things going on in this world that 2574 are probably more important than Craig 2575 and I.

But we know that.

2576 We're doing the best we can to be able to 2577 give you the information, to be able to 2578 build the ball swing that you guys have 2579 always wanted and that you guys are going 2580 to work to put into your games.

So you 2581 don't have to worry about playing in 2582 pain.

And that you understand what it's 2583 like to be able to move the ball from one 2584 side of the body to the other as 2585 efficiently as possible.

And this stuff, 2586 when we start putting the hands and the 2587 arms back to the mix and you start 2588 feeling what it's like to make effortless 2589 power, it's a big lightball moment 2590 because you're just not going to have to 2591 work as hard and you will feel.

The 2592 actual compression come off the cuff 2593 base.

It's fun, so that's why Craig and I 2594 do what we do.

And so we thank you guys 2595 for joining us.

We hope you guys have a 2596 great rest of your week.

We will see you 2597 guys on Saturday.

Remember, make sure 2598 that you guys use the resources that we 2599 have available to you.

We will be there 2600 to help you.

If you find yourself 2601 struggling at all, take your time, go 2602 through things piece by piece.

Use the 2603 PDF that we have here available to you.

2604 And we look forward to seeing you guys on 2605 Saturday.

Say Saturday, 2606 Yes, Sean, you can go ahead and register 2607 all of them at once.

So if you go back to 2608 that original email, you can go ahead and 2609 register for each session so you don't 2610 have to keep doing that.

2611 Yep.

All right.

Have a good night, guys.