Bootcamp 7, Sept 26 2020, Session 4

Session 4 of 6

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Okay.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Those of you that are on the East Coast, good morning to those of you that are over on the West Coast.

And maybe good evening to some of you that are over on the far eastern part of the world today.

So hopefully everybody's having a wonderful start to their weekend.

As you can see, it's just me here by my lonesome.

Craig Morrow is actually running a little bit behind.

He gets stuck in the beautiful traffic by Ford.

I guess there was a pretty serious accident.

So hopefully he'll be joining us here pretty soon.

So I see people are checking in.

We got Lee checking in, Craig checking in.

Welcome, everybody.

Willi checking in from Naples.

Hey, everybody checking in.

Welcome.

Craig checking in from Madison.

Hopefully everybody's had a wonderful start to their week.

We've got a big day for you guys.

We've got some really, really important fault fixes that we're going to go through today.

We're also going to do our interactive workout, and then we are going to be adding the lead arm and the golf ball back to the mix, which is exciting because this is going to start to feel like a golf swing finally.

So thank you for those of you taking time out of your Saturday to join us.

Hopefully you guys are all having a wonderful start to your weekend.

They're playing around with a little bit of the acoustics here in the office.

Because I know that we had a little bit more of a metallic-y sound than we wanted.

So we're definitely working on that.

Hopefully the sound is starting to get a little bit better, but we are always working to enhance and make the whole video process a lot better for you guys at home.

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

Nick checking in.

Ron checking in.

Brian checking in from Denver.

Welcome, guys.

Kim checking in from Denmark.

Welcome, Kim.

Mark checking in from Springfield.

Got a bunch of marks.

This is the big crowd of the marks.

So I got to do quite a few swing reviews over the last couple days.

Got to sneak in quite a few this morning as well.

And saw a lot of good stuff going on still.

We're going to talk a lot about getting you guys moving a little bit more.

I think a lot of you guys are afraid to move at this point, and that could be based off of some old instruction that you might have heard in the past.

It could be based off of the way that Craig and I are introducing the information to you guys.

But today we're going to make it a point to really get you guys feeling like you can move in this golf swing.

It's going to feel maybe a little bit more athletic to some of you at home.

It's going to feel maybe like tons and tons of lateral movement in your wrestling that you never knew that you were supposed to have in there.

But what we're also going to be doing is we're going to be adding the lead arm and the golf foot back to the mix.

We're going to give you some very specific checkpoints that are going to follow along with the PDF that we gave you guys at the start.

So hopefully you guys have enjoyed what you've seen through the first three sessions.

I know today is a big day because we do start putting the arms in the golf foot back to the mix, which is my favorite day because I never want to start.

doing a whole lot of reps where we are working in static positions or we don't have the arms of the golf club in the mix.

Why?

Well, because we want it to feel like a golf swing, right?

We know that when we get to the driving range or when we get to the golf course, that it's very easy for us to be able to get our hands and arms on the golf club and move the club from one side of the body to the other very, very quickly.

And so what we want to do is we want to introduce the arms and the golf club back to the mix as quickly as we can.

So that it starts feeding your brain the proper way.

So hopefully most of you have gotten a lot of good success with the stuff that we've talked about so far.

If any of you have questions here for these first five or six minutes or so, feel free to post those up.

I'll answer as many questions as you guys need me to.

And then once we get the questions answered, then we're going to jump right into the fault fix stuff.

We're going to talk a little bit about two of the common faults that I saw, and then we'll introduce Craig and some of the faults that he saw over the last few days.

And then at that point, what we're going to do is we're going to get really, really super focused on the positions of adding your lead arm and your golf club to the mix.

And then at the end of today's session, we'll go ahead and answer questions at the end, And then we're going to kick you guys out the door and get you guys back to work.

Because we want you to get a large number of reps between today and next Tuesday.

Because when we start putting the troublemaker back on the golf club, which is a.

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your trail hand, we've got to make sure that you've got a lot of reps under your belt with loading, transition, and posting up, and allowing the hands and arms to follow along with those movements.

So we've got a question coming in from Tor.

My head moves four to six inches upon post up with weight shift and rotation.

And if is this to correct, how?

and if to correct?

So?

My head's moving four, six inches upon post up with weight shift and rotation to neutral joint alignment.

So that's just too much movement, so you're going to be running into either having way too much movement going off the golf ball or way too much movement in transition.

What you're looking for from a static address position if you watch My head in relationship to the TV in the background here.

So when I push my right ankle on the ground and I turn my body, my head's moved about an inch to an inch and a half or so.

When I make my transition over to my lead side, you're going to see that my head comes back into its position, maybe drops down just a little bit.

And then the head and the chest is going to hold very still when I make my post-it move happen.

Okay, so you're going to end up with your hips open 35 to 45, shoulder line nice and square.

If you're seeing four to six inches of movement, well, that's going to be dependent on how far you moved off the belt while going back.

It could also be dependent on if you set up with a lot of your weight preloaded over on your trail side.

Where your upper body is leaning over in this direction and then you turn your body.

Well, you're going to notice here that my head is where, well, my head is outside my trail foot.

And so for me to be able to get fully back over to my lead side.

I've got to have a whole lot of travel here to my head and my upper body for to be able to get back into position.

So if you're seeing that much movement as a whole, then number one.

I want you to check your setup position, I want you to know, make sure that you're balanced.

okay, I want you to make sure that you're 50, 50.

if you're five or ten percent one way or the other Not a huge deal, but you want to make sure that you're pretty well balanced.

Number two, I want you to check how much movement you're having over your head going off the golf ball.

Okay, you're going to be looking to make sure you only have about an inch to an inch and a half or so off the ball.

When you move back into position, the head can come slightly back in front of where it wasn't addressed, but at that point when you post up, you want to hold everything slightly as still as you possibly can.

Okay, so to correct it, If you're seeing too much movement going off the golf ball, then you want to check your rotation, make sure you're really centered.

You can do the wall drill where you stick your head up against a wall.

You can also do the reps where you really feel that right shoulder moving up or behind your head, get that left shoulder moving more underneath you.

That's going to help with centered rotation.

It looks like we have Craig that finally got off on high four.

How was that ride?

That was brutal.

How are you doing?

Doing great.

Hey, I appreciate you picking up the slack for a couple minutes.

No problem at all.

So we're just getting everybody comfortable.

I talked to them a little bit about what we're going to be doing today.

Add the lead arm and I'll go to the next big day for us.

Told them how excited I was to be able to add this component because, number one, it feels like a golf swing now, right?

Or it's going to start to feel like a golf swing.

I'll be working into a static position at the bottom.

But we're going to get you into a really good delivery spot so that when we start getting to the next two sessions, That on graduation day, you're going to be able to let the golf club fly.

So how's your weekend?

It's been okay so far?

Yeah, a little stressful, a little stressful, that.

Well, I, I always plan ahead, so I plan for one accident, I didn't plan for two accidents.

And then there was protests on the other side of the road, which is stopping one side.

It's, yay.

A drive that usually takes me about an hour 25, hour 30, almost took me two and a half hours.

So your blood pressure's up a little bit?

Yeah, a little bit, but that just means that these moves are going to be snapped.

All right, awesome, awesome.

So hopefully everybody's had a wonderful start to their week.

Ctor was talking about laterally.

If you're seeing your head move four or six inches, it can be a byproduct of your setup position being too preloaded on your right side.

And then when you start moving off the golf ball, you're going to see that your head's outside your foot.

And then from there, you're going to see that your head has to travel a whole lot of space in order to be able to get back over to your lead side.

Craig, let's go ahead and demonstrate that to them at home so we can talk about what the preloaded right side looks like.

All right.

So what you're going to see here is you can see that in order for Craig to get his axis tilt, a lot of his upper body is just leaning over his right side.

Now, here's what I want you to think about.

If you were to shift from this position and you were to then turn from this position based off of the way that we've been teaching you, then your head and your upper body are going to progressively get further and further off the golf ball, theoretically, right?

And so if you look to see where Craig's head is, for him to be able to get all the way back over to his lead side and get his head up against my hand, you can see that he's going to travel a long ways.

So that's probably what you're running into.

In order for us to be able to fix it, we want to probably see it though on camera.

If you're due for a swinger, you definitely get it in because we can help you out with that.

Typically, if you're moving too far off the ball, then it's going to force you to recover with too much movement to get back over to the inside.

So good question there, So all right, so we got another question coming in.

Review the movement of the right foot during post-up.

Okay, so right foot is going to go from a flat position and it's going to roll inward.

Okay.

And it's going to be to the point where it's very light to the ground, Almost like it feels like it's kind of floating there.

It's not going to have a whole lot of pressure on it, And you're going to feel like the whole outer portion of the right foot is just up off the ground, where all of the inside portion of the foot is touching the ground.

I'm going to show them from down the line what that looks like as well.

So you can see how he rolls to the inside part.

That's what your foot should look like at the completion of your post-up move.

If it's flat to the ground, ain't wrong.

to the point where it's up off the ground, that's even more wrong, you owe us a hundred bucks, right?

Or a hundred push-ups, right?

So this is actually going to kind of segue into one of the big faults that I want to talk about today, was when we make that move in transition, getting enough of the weight over to that lead side, because I saw a lot of people afraid to actually move back into position enough, and they actually started to try to do their closer move a little bit too soon.

And what that leads to is obviously the hips have a lot more mobility at that point.

They can really just start ripping open upwards of like 75, 80, almost 90 degrees.

So definitely going to be touching base with that.

So we got Mick checking in.

In the squat to square, how do you lean the upper body to the right and still keep the head still?

So how do you lean the upper body to the right and still keep the head still?

So the head's going to move.

When you squat to square, I think I've made a really big point to tell you that when your head moves off the ball, Then you squat to square.

You want your head to come back into position.

That's a good way to measure where you're at within the process is by looking at your head position.

If you look at it from the ground up, here's your checkpoints.

What you're going to look for out of your legs is that your hips and knees are back to the square position.

That's number one.

Number two, you're going to feel about 60 % of your weight underneath that left ankle.

Now, if you start looking up above the belt line at this point, what you're going to look for in the shoulder line is you're going to look to see that the lead shoulder is lower than the trail shoulder.

So you're going to see about 45 degrees of rotation from the upper half.

So 45 degrees.

Another checkpoint that Craig and I talked a little bit about in the previous session is when you make that move over to the inside, the outer portion of your back should be pretty well upright.

If you have a lot of tilt, you can see that the upper part of his back didn't make it over to this line.

So a good way to measure this sort of position to know if you're doing it accurately is look at your head position, right?

In order for your head, or I'm sorry, in order for your upper body to be in the position that we first demonstrated there where his outer portion of his back was pretty upright, his head had to come back into position.

So think about that.

So I just gave you a couple of quick little checkpoints.

We want your hips and knees to come back to the square position with 60% of your weight underneath your left ankle.

All right, we want your.

Shoulder line to be fairly close, so your left shoulder should be lower than your right.

And we want your head to be back into its original position, or slightly in front of where it started to address.

Right?

If you have that stuff in a good spot right there.

And chances are your transition made it, you made it all the way back over to your lead side, right?

And the main thing when it comes to the head, if you're trying to shift weight, you can't shift weight without a little bit of head motion.

And I know we talk about the suede drill and having excessive head in the golf swing, to where we don't get all the secondary tilt.

But you can't move weight without a little bit of motion.

So I don't want you to think of the head just has to be static and it just can't do anything.

It will waver a little bit as you're shifting weight.

Because you are literally moving from this side to this side.

And the only way to do that is for your head to move a little bit exactly.

And so that's that's.

One of the fault fixes that we're going to discuss this morning is that we're going to talk about allowing the body to move a little bit?

I saw a lot of people get really centered off because they were almost trying to get to their post-up move before they actually started to transition.

And so you have to allow for a little bit of louder movement to take place in the golf swing.

Think about it this way if Craig and I were baseball pitchers and he and I were going to go out and pitch a game against one another.

Where we said, Okay, Craig, today I'm.

We're not going to strive towards home plate.

Okay, now, if we don't strive towards home plate, what do we have?

What do we have available to us in order to be able to throw this baseball?

Well?

We have body rotation and we have arm strength.

Now, could he and I throw the ball pretty hard that way?

Of course we could.

We feel like we could throw it pretty hard.

We're athletic.

We feel like we've got a little bit of meat behind us right now, so we could get that ball trucking a little bit, but are we going to throw it nearly as hard as somebody taking advantage of the entire kinetic chain?

Probably not.

You have to understand, if you're not using weight shift, then your brain is really good about substituting the power sources in your bowel spin.

Very good.

If you start taking out weight shift, Then you're going to start automatically adding in tons and tons of body rotation and tons of arm strength through the hitting area, which is where the train can quickly come off the tracks.

Exactly.

And not only does it hurt the power, it hurts the accuracy.

Because think about if we were that baseball pitcher and I'm back on this right leg and I'm doing everything with my upper half.

Am I going to be more accurate, throwing the catcher's mitt that way?

Or getting set into position to release at the same point every single time?

Which is the same thing that we're trying to do is to get this position back.

So this bottom of our swing art, or our fulcrum point, is right, locked in position to be able to release it.

Exactly, great point there.

So we're going to answer these last two questions and then we're going to get into the fault fix stuff.

We're going to go through the fault fix stuff pretty quickly.

Today, we're going to do a pretty fast, interactive workout.

Because we really want to get the lead arm and the golf butt back in the mix here as quickly as we can.

We're going to do a good number of reps with that together, And then we're going to kick you guys out the door and get you guys to do a number of reps between now and Tuesday.

Because this is where you're going to really be able to see what you're made of.

Because you're going to see that by adding the lead arm and the golf club to the mix, you're going to think that it's a piece of kick when, in fact, you're going to see all kinds of balls start to pop up.

Why?

Well, because the arms and the golf club can create more momentum and inertia, and in turn, what this does is it starts making you less aware of your body.

And so for those of you that stay hyper-focused on the key points that Craig and I are going to be beating into your brain today, you'll see that, okay, this is exactly what I wanted my background to look like.

This is exactly what I wanted my weight transfer to look like.

And you'll see that you have these specific checkpoints that you're going to be working into kind of the delivery point, which is where we start letting the club release, which is the fun part, right?

Right.

And the thing that I want to just say on top of that is when we start doing this program and start adding the lead arm to the club today, remember, All the stuff that we're creating, your number one priority is still what we're doing here with the engine.

Don't set, don't try to just place positions, focus on what you've done to get to this point so far.

That will create what looks like a perfect golf swing.

Yep, exactly.

So a couple of questions coming in here, let's go ahead and answer those and then we will get to the nitty-gritty.

Today.

So big day for us.

So does the right foot have to come up on the outer edge, or is it good enough if it stays flat?

But you can tell the weight is mostly on the inner side.

So, we would like to see the outer portion of the foot rolled in, okay, because that's going to ensure that the lead hip made it all the way to neutral.

If you see that it is too, if it's still flat to the ground and it feels light there, there's a good chance that either your stance width is too narrow out of dress or you didn't get all the way to neutral with your lead hip.

And I think a lot of times people will underestimate how far inward their lead hip socket is.

For those of you that have wanted to kind of guesstimate where your hip socket is, if you find men's pants generally have a belt loop on the lead side here.

That's a good representation of where the lead hip socket is.

Or if you want to find it the old-fashioned way, you can find the pointy pelvic bone on the front of your body.

So right about two finger widths inside of that pointy pelvic bone, which is generally right where my belt loop is here, is where the center of your hip socket is.

Okay, so you want to make sure that you've got a little bit of space between the ground.

If it's flat-footed and it's light, it's probably not enough.

And at that point, what you're going to see is that I'll turn down the line so you can watch this.

So when my foot is flat to the ground and I start posting You can see that my right knee wants to come forward.

See how my right knee comes forward like this?

See how there's a lot of tilt to my pelvis?

This is a good indicator that your hip never made it to neutral.

If I roll into the inside part, this is as much as I can open my hips up.

You see how much more stable my hips are here?

See how much less tilt there is here to this actual position?

By coming back into a flatter position, look how much more I can turn.

Pretty big difference, right?

Okay, so again, we'd like to see you rolled a little bit more on the inside.

Double check stance width.

I've seen quite a few people with stance widths a little bit on the narrow side.

I've definitely seen more on the narrow side than wider.

Right.

Typically, we always see people go too wide.

Right now, everybody's going a little bit on the narrow side.

Widened up a little bit.

Okay, so.

Yeah, and just to follow up on that point, I mean, that goes back to when we talk about the hips, especially getting into this in-back position.

Remember, they're moving laterally and rotationally.

They're not just doing one or the other.

So when this trail foot stays flat, Typically, you're going to be shy, but also what is it also inhibiting you from doing?

I can spin off my back foot like this, but I also need that extra freedom to get this hip back once I gets the weight over there.

So you've got to think about it's doing two things.

So you need that extra little bit to make sure that you get the weight and you can get the hip open enough properly with the weight there.

Exactly, exactly, good point there, sorry.

So, David says.

During transition, should the right shoulder stay completely quiet, stay back and not rotate.

This might be an early question at impact, will the right arm get pulled through, or do you throw the ball with the right arm?

So that question is a little bit on the early side.

DAVID Um, the right hand, right arm does have some functions.

But we're going to be talking about that solely on session number six, when you guys get to the graduation day, because we're going to talk about its exact functions.

We want to think about that more or less as being graduate level stuff.

So like, when you're getting your P.

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with us, then we'll start really teaching you how to fire that right side down the bottom.

But as far as your first question is concerned, during the transition, should the right shoulder stay completely quiet?

Stay back and not rotate?

For sure, so the shoulders are going to have to unwind.

You have to remember very, very specifically here that as soon as your hips start to move in the other direction, okay.

So as soon as the hips start to shift back over to the lead side.

You're squatting the square that unless you're a contortionist, okay, which a lot of you are not.

Your shoulders are going to unwind as a result of what your hips are doing.

Now, if you think about the equation being where you've got 45 degrees of hip rotation going back.

and you've got 90 degrees of rotation from your shoulder line at the top of your backswing.

When you hear the word squat to square, the hips are now going to be coming back to a square position.

So the shoulders at this point are going to have 45 degrees of woundness left of them still, okay, because you just unwound the hips 45.

Now, if the hips open up to 45 at this point, when we post up, then you're going to see that the shoulders come back to the square position.

So your job is to feel like you're trying to keep that right shoulder.

As far up and behind your head as possible.

You want to try to feel like you're maintaining contraction in your midsection, or you want to focus on the lean shoulder, staying down, whatever you prefer.

All of those methods are just ways that Craig and I are communicating with your brain to tell your upper body not to turn because your lower half is doing that job for you.

You might just not feel it because of the fact that, um, you're just not used to actually moving exactly.

So hopefully that answers your question there.

So, uh, Michael's got one other question here.

So I'm going to keep my right belt down.

I'm struggling to keep my heel down on my left foot, left-handed golf on my post-up.

I will admit I've always pushed off my back foot to carry the downswing.

So, Michael, this is where you're going to have to be hyper -focused on this particular movement, where you want to really focus on doing a bunch of reps and where you're literally just doing from one side of the body to the other.

You just kind of roll back and forth, and then you get into golf posture, and then you make sure that when you're posting up, and you do not allow that heel to come up.

Because if you're used to shoving off that side, then chances are.

You're going to continue to have a lot of this early extension that we battle off.

And this early extension is a very, very tricky thing for us to fix.

So start small.

Do lots of little back and forth little leg drills.

Use the roll of the right foot in the downstream video that we have on the website.

I think Craig and I have talked about this incessantly.

That there has never been a day that's gone by in golf instruction that we happen to use that video.

In fact, this morning I used it three times on three different students.

because you can just see how common of a problem it is.

So I always tell people to start really small.

Learn the footwork down through the hitting area during impact and then start adding more to it.

So you can add a little bit more rotation to it, add a little bit more squat to square to it, and then in turn you're going to be in a position where you have it on the floor.

So take your time with it though because an old fault that's got a lot of reps under its belt never dies off.

And the more that you spend time ingraining the new movement pattern, the more likely you're going to kick the old one to the back burner.

Right.

And I don't know if you remember in session number two when we were talking about Chris's drill.

Where you kind of drag the feet so you can kind of feel the inner thigh adductors.

That's a really good way to see how if you pull all your weight to the lead side, your heel doesn't come up because you're pulling your weight.

You're not having.

To take your trail leg and push off of it to try to get over here.

If you're pulling that weight with those inner thighs, because you can feel how this foot wants to drag.

And that's the same thing that we're trying to achieve right here.

And that's a really good way to start calming it down.

But trust that you're shifting with, right.

Exactly.

That's kind of one of the things that I wanted to talk about today.

As far as the main, uh, fault fix that I ran into is that I saw a lot of people trying to get to the post-up move.

So you were trying to complete move number three before you even completed the transition.

And what that does is it's going to force the upper body to give us the appearance that it's hung further back and it's going to.

You might have moved your hip over neutral, but you're never going to see the left side of your body fully stacked up.

Now.

Remember, at impact, what we're looking for in a good, solid impact position is a few things here.

We want the hips to be open 35 to 45 degrees, we want your shoulder line to be nice and square.

Okay, we want a little bit of secondary axis tilt.

So your spine's going to be maybe just a little bit outside your lead knee if you draw a line straight down.

But you also want to see that the left side of the body is fully stacked up.

So the left ankle, left knee, left hip, and left shoulder are all right in line.

When he starts his post up before he's even completed his transition, then you can see that the lead side of the body is not stacked up here.

Now remember, if you start getting into this sort of position, the position of your lead shoulder is going to determine where the club wants to bottom out.

Now, if the club wants to bottom out much further back than where you anticipated, what's that going to force you to do with your hands at the bottom?

Well, it forces you to start flipping.

Otherwise, you're going to stuff the club in the ground.

So for those of you that have ever hit drop kicks with your drivers where the club bounces off the ground first, or maybe you've hit the ground a lot before your golf ball, or maybe you've hit a combination of fat shots and then thin shots, always double check the position of your spine at impact.

If your spine is leaning way back, then chances are you tried to get to post up long before you got yourself over onto your lead side.

So think about breaking it up into three pieces here.

So you want to load to your right side.

You want to complete the transition by feeling your body move back into that spot.

And then you can start to make your post-up happen.

But if you're starting to go ahead and actually show them what it would look like if you start your post-up before you complete it.

That's the move right there.

Now, your hips are actually in the position that we just outlined, right?

They're 35 to 45 degrees open.

It's pretty close to being neutral.

But if you look at the upper body here, you can see that his spine is leaning way back here.

Okay, that's a lot of tilt.

And remember, that's going to start the golf club more on an ascending blow.

But if you watch Craig here as well, you're going to notice here that as he leans his spine back, you see how it shallows the swing plane?

Now, I know a lot of you have probably been like, well, I've always wanted to shallow my swing plane, right?

So all I've got to do is just lean my spine back?

Wrong.

That is the fake way of actually shallowing my swing plane.

If Craig and I were to see your golf swing, we noticed that you swung the golf club over the top.

Then a quick little band-aid fix for us would be okay.

We're just going to hold your spine back behind the belt ball and let you start ripping it away.

But that's again, that's throwing band-aids, and that band -aid eventually is going to get wet and it's going to fall off.

And you're going to just have more of a time velocity.

So the point of what I'm trying to pass along to you guys today is that I want you guys to start moving a little bit.

Use weight shift to your advantage.

Okay, don't be afraid to load and then unload, think about loading your right side up and then unloading and then begin your post up.

Because that unload is pulling the upper body into the correct position for the bottom out point to be in the right spot.

But it's also getting you into position now that your post up is going to be much more stable and much more ready.

For you to be able to let the club fly past your body with the most efficient speed possible, make sense, okay?

So that's a very, very key point that I saw specifically, and because the fact that it looked like people were trying to be too urgent right right now again.

I also saw people afraid to move a little bit off the ball.

I saw a little bit more downward movement from the head than I wanted to see when you were loading in your trail side.

So think about getting your weight over to the right side and think about the head position, allowing you to move a little bit.

If you allow it to move.

You're giving yourself more load and your chances are that you're going to be moving off that side are way increased, right?

So if you want to.

My dad always taught me one really important thing with in New Hampshire, like, you know, behind the woods, if you want to fire your gun, you got to load the thing up, I was like, okay, that's a valid point, Dad.

Thank you very much.

So simple little thought process for you.

But you've got to get that load in that side.

Don't just think by turning your body to load your trail side up is enough to be able to move in that direction.

Because a lot of times people will just stay very static and they'll just start turning as much as they can.

And that's when, in turn, their spine starts to look like it leans a little bit more away from the target here.

Their head kind of goes back in the other direction.

And then from here, when they try to transfer.

head starts moving back away from the target.

So I did see that quite a bit this week.

So it just tells me that you guys are afraid to move.

Don't be afraid to move louder than the swing.

Anything that you saw in particular?

That was the main thing that I saw was in transition and getting into post-up, the big lock of the head.

I mean, we've covered that topic today.

But that was, everybody did very well at still shifting and rotating and hitting the positions.

But it was just getting to this position and saying, uh-oh, I can't move my head now.

That was probably the main fault that I saw.

Okay.

So, Jess, don't be afraid to move back into position before you start your post -up.

Measure it on camera or in your mirror.

Say, okay, if my head is moved off the ball and I've come back into position, I can now start my post-up.

If I move off the ball and I start shifting my hips and my head never made it back to its spot, then you have no business trying to do this post-up move that we just talked about on Tuesday.

Okay, so fix the upper body.

Allow it to move back into this spot.

I can tell you how common this really is.

This is a mistake that we see very, very much over on the website, even when boot camp's not going on with other players.

Because, again, you guys have always been taught to stay really centered.

So I'm not going to keep beating a dead horse at this point.

I'd like to get us moving, I'd like to get us up and out of our chairs and do a quick interactive workout.

Maybe five or six reps or so, because we do have a lot of checkpoints.

We want you guys to be very clear on when we do have the lead arm in the golf club back to the next.

So for those of you at home, I did see Sean say, ouch, yes, that position will hurt your back too, whether we had Craig in here just a minute ago.

Yeah.

All right.

So for those of you at home that want to warm up with us, we want you to get two inches outside of neutral.

We might want you to err on the side of being a little bit wider than what you guys have seen or what you guys have been sending in for videos.

So make sure you're two inches outside of neutral.

Just a little tiny bit of knee flex here at address.

Okay.

The way you want to start this movement.

is by taking your right ankle, it's your right ankle, push it into the ground like you mean it, 70% of your weight underneath that right ankle, and then take that right shoulder and pull it back behind your head.

Try your best to be able to get this right shoulder to pull back to where it's popping out on this side of the head, and try your best to maintain as much knee flex as you possibly can.

Not a big deal if you lose a little bit of knee flex as your right hip rotates back.

We want your hips to rotate, okay?

So again, take your setup.

Push the right ankle to the ground, right shoulder back.

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

Remember, think about this from the ground up.

We want to squat to square and allow our hips and knees to come back to a square position.

We want to make sure our head moves back into the right spot with our shoulder line being closed.

So left shoulder down, right shoulder up.

Okay, 65% of your weight underneath that left ankle is perfectly fine.

All right, so now let's go from a static address position to backswing and to squat to square.

Load the right ankle, pull the right shoulder back, squat to square.

Now from this position, what we're going to do to post up, Is we're going to be pushing that left ankle into the ground?

okay, so we're going to be pushing back into the ground.

Now that we've got some force under there, so we're going to be loading into that side, we're going to be pushing down an ankle.

We're going to work to open those hips up to 45 degrees, how we're going to do that, well, we're going to pull that hip back up and away from the golf ball.

So it's going to move vertically and it's going to be moving up and behind you here.

Okay, so that's exactly the way that we want you to facilitate this movement now.

When you finish this move, your hips should be open 35 to 45 degrees and your shoulder line must be square If it's open, you're doing it wrong.

You're going to make it very hard for you to release the club in time.

We want our max speed point to be down here at the golf ball.

Okay.

All right.

So now let's walk through this really slowly.

Okay.

So good setup position.

We're going to push the right ankle on the ground.

We're going to take the right shoulder, pull it back behind the head.

Now what we're going to do is we're going to squat to square, hips and knees back to the square position, shoulders closed.

Now we're going to post up by driving the lead ankle on the ground, pulling that lead hip back up and away.

Okay.

Now we're going to do it just a little tiny bit faster, okay?

Push the right ankle on the ground, right shoulder back behind the head, squat to square.

Post up.

Finish position Open 35 to 45.

shoulder line.

Nice and square.

Okay, get the left side of the body stacked up.

do it again.

right ankle, pull the right shoulder back, squat to square, post up.

Perfect.

Now let's turn down the line.

I'm going to give you guys a couple of key points here, Okay, so make sure you have the proper knee flex at address.

You want the back 1000 of the knee to be directly over the 1001 center of the ankle.

We don't want to see 1002 too much knee flex.

1003 Okay, we don't want to see you sitting 1004 way back in your heels or way out over 1005 your toes.

You want your weight to be 1006 right underneath your ankle joints.

1007 Okay, you want your butt back, your chest 1008 will be over the golf ball, shoulders in 1009 a good neutral position.

Now remember, 1010 your job is to push your right ankle on 1011 the ground and then take the right 1012 shoulder and pull it up behind your head.

1013 Okay, so no downward movement from the 1014 head happening here.

You can see that his 1015 shoulders have rotated perpendicular to 1016 his spine.

You can see that he's 1017 maintained a little bit of flexion in the 1018 right leg.

His hips are rotated back 1019 about 35 to 45 degrees, shoulder line 1020 right around 90 degrees.

Okay, do it 1021 again.

1022 Right ankle into the ground, 1023 right shoulder back.

Now from here, what 1024 we're going to do is we're going to squat 1025 to square.

So the hips and knees are 1026 going to come back to a virtually square 1027 position.

You see a little bit of the 1028 lean thigh popping out here, perfectly 1029 fine.

Don't panic.

You want your weight 1030 to be focused where?

1031 Left ankle.

Okay, do not let it go to the 1032 forward part of the foot.

If it goes to 1033 the forward part of your foot, then you 1034 did a closed hip slide.

That's when your 1035 hips have not unwound enough.

You've not 1036 created enough of the dynamic movement 1037 that either Craig and I talked so much 1038 about during the sessions, 1039 okay?

So load the right ankle, squat to 1040 square.

Remember, the shoulder line must 1041 remain closed.

So for those of you at 1042 home that have a logo on your shirt, 1043 the logo should be pointed back at the 1044 camera, 1045 okay?

Now from here, what we're going to 1046 do is post up.

We're going to push that 1047 left ankle on the ground, and we're going 1048 to pull that left hip back up and away.

1049 So we're trying to get that lead leg into 1050 a passively straight position.

The right 1051 foot is rolled in just slightly.

Hips are 1052 open 35 to 45 degrees.

1053 Shoulder line is nice and square.

Now, I 1054 know that sounds like a ton of 1055 checkpoints, but it's really not that 1056 many.

I'm giving you a lot of different 1057 things to think about in each one of 1058 those positions because we've covered a 1059 lot.

Now, as we start getting more and 1060 more reps, you're going to hear that 1061 these words are starting to consolidate 1062 down.

Now, if you go back to session 1063 number one, We talked briefly about 1064 keywords, and keywords are just basically 1065 the ways that Craig and I are 1066 communicating with your brains.

So you're 1067 going to hear, as I start going through 1068 these reps now, that these keywords are 1069 going to become much smaller and faster.

1070 And so for those of you at home that have 1071 done a really good job of putting all 1072 this stuff together.

You're going to be 1073 able to move with the pace that we're 1074 moving at, for those of you at home that 1075 aren't ready to move at this pace, 1076 perfectly fine.

Pick one or two sections 1077 that you want to work on within this warm 1078 -up and then do that with us.

Okay, so 1079 we're going to do maybe five reps on each 1080 side, Okay.

1081 Start down the line.

Yep.

All right.

So 1082 we're getting ready to rock and roll 1083 here.

So we're going to push the right 1084 ankle on the ground, pull the right 1085 shoulder back, 1086 squat to square, post up.

Okay.

So you 1087 can hear it.

I'm just using the three big 1088 words.

1089 Okay.

Right ankle on the ground, right 1090 shoulder back, squat to square, post up, 1091 stop.

Make sure your hips are open 35 to 1092 45, shoulder line nice and square.

1093 Okay.

1094 Back to the start position, right ankle 1095 on the ground, right shoulder back, squat 1096 to square, post up.

Okay.

Now you can see 1097 that even in these warmups, As advanced 1098 as we are with these movements, we're not 1099 blending them together.

We're doing these 1100 in three chunky pieces.

If you feel like 1101 you're above us and you want to do these 1102 things in a whole dynamic movement, then 1103 by all means do so.

Just make sure that 1104 each and every one of these positions, 1105 you're hitting the exact spots that we 1106 just talked about when we were breaking 1107 them down.

1108 Okay, so right ankle on the ground, hold 1109 the right shoulder back, squat to square, 1110 post up.

Okay, let's do a couple real 1111 fluid now.

Right ankle on the ground, 1112 right shoulder back, squat, post.

Good.

1113 Turn face on.

1114 Okay, so right ankle on the ground, right 1115 shoulder back, squat to square post.

1116 Okay, this is how you're going to be 1117 trying to get yourself to move into and 1118 through these positions.

Now, we started 1119 out the process now for about 10 or 12 1120 minutes or so, going through slow, chunky 1121 movements with a lot of key points in 1122 them to make sure that those positions 1123 are right, to make sure that we've loaded 1124 your trail leg, to make sure that you've 1125 turned 90 degrees, to make sure that your 1126 head is only moved an inch to an inch and 1127 a half off the ball, to make sure that 1128 you've completed your transition, to make 1129 sure that you post up correctly.

And 1130 those are all, there's all of these 1131 movements that happen within those big 1132 movements, right?

Or these all these key 1133 checkpoints.

And so if you don't have all 1134 of those key checkpoints in place, then 1135 take your time and get them right.

1136 Because adding the lead arm and the valve 1137 flip to the mix, like we're about to do 1138 right now, will just further break those 1139 things down.

Anything you want out there, 1140 no, I mean, that's the main thing is get 1141 the engine down first, because adding the 1142 arm, adding the club.

You're just 1143 stacking more variables, and when you 1144 have more variables stacked on top of 1145 yourself.

Your brain reserves are going 1146 to start going here, there, there and 1147 there.

You're going to take the focus.

1148 All Four really matters.

Right.

Okay.

1149 So let's get into today's program.

So 1150 those of you that did stand up and work 1151 out with us at home, go ahead and have a 1152 seat, grab some popcorn.

We're going to 1153 talk about how to get your lead arm and 1154 your golf club in the mix.

Now, the big 1155 thing that we cannot emphasize enough 1156 here, and this is the reason why it's in 1157 red bulb lettering on your PDF, is 1158 because it's extremely important you 1159 understand that nothing that we've 1160 learned at this point is going to change.

1161 You're going to see very, very quickly 1162 how easy it is, and it's going to be 1163 really frustrating for a lot of you at 1164 home when you start looking at your body 1165 turn, and all of a sudden you're like, 1166 man, I'm only turning 75 degrees now.

Why 1167 am I only turning 75 degrees?

Or I notice 1168 that I'm almost running into reverse bit 1169 of territory.

I notice that my right hip 1170 continues to shift because, again, 1171 the left arm or your lead arm and your 1172 golf club can start to move this golf 1173 club pretty quickly.

When you start 1174 moving the golf club with any sort of 1175 momentum and inertia in it, your brain 1176 goes kaput.

It's very hard for you to 1177 maintain kinesthetic awareness within 1178 this.

And so what we want you to do is 1179 we're going to give you a very, very 1180 simple way for it to be able to go 1181 through this.

Double check that you're 1182 doing these movements 100% right.

And 1183 then we'll start working on adding the 1184 fluidity and the dynamic movement to it 1185 as we get further into the process.

So we 1186 always like to start out from a static 1187 address position with no golf hook.

We're 1188 going to do this with our arms across our 1189 shoulders.

And we're going to start out 1190 by turning our body and then extending 1191 our left arm up.

To the top of the swing 1192 here.

Now, why would we want to do 1193 something of this nature?

Well, let's 1194 think about this by just taking the left 1195 arm and extending it out of the top of 1196 the swing.

After you've completed your 1197 turn, now, you're ensured that you've 1198 loaded your right side up properly, 1199 right?

You can feel the load in that 1200 right glute, you can know that you've 1201 turned your body 90 degrees.

So you're 1202 going to start out by doing a good number 1203 of reps, what would you say?

10 to 15 1204 reps, just like 10 to 15 reps?

Rotate to 1205 the top, add the arm just to make sure 1206 that you keep rotating.

And you know what 1207 the position feels like with the load, 1208 with the contraction and the cool, yep.

1209 And so now, once you've done that, you're 1210 like, Okay, this is a piece of cake, 1211 okay?

What you want to do is you want to 1212 start from a static address position, 1213 with your lead arm hanging down freely 1214 underneath you.

Now, the checkpoint for 1215 your lead arm at the top of the golf 1216 swing is going to be you want to keep it 1217 passively straight.

Now let's talk about 1218 what that means.

Because we're going to 1219 get a lot of people that are going to 1220 have a hard time keeping this left arm 1221 straight.

Okay.

We do not want it ramrod 1222 straight.

Okay.

Where you're making it a 1223 workout program.

Possibly straight where 1224 it's nice and relaxed.

If you see a 1225 little tiny bit of bend in it.

Look at my 1226 left arm.

If you see a little bit of bend 1227 in it right here, it's perfectly fine.

1228 Okay.

Because again, we don't have your 1229 trail hand and your trail arm on the golf 1230 club to help add support to this.

We 1231 think about the trail arm and the golf 1232 swing as being like our governor's width.

1233 It's also a support system to what's 1234 happening.

If you see a little bit of 1235 break in there, perfectly fine.

If you 1236 see your arm like this at the top of the 1237 swing, abort mission.

1238 That would be the other end of the 1239 spectrum.

1240 Passively straight.

1241 Think about your passively straight 1242 position here.

Again, if you have a 1243 little bit of flex in it, it's perfectly 1244 fine.

You're going to look for it to be 1245 passively straight, and you're going to 1246 look for your left hand to be above your 1247 right shoulder.

That's it.

That's the 1248 only checkpoint that you have for the 1249 backswing at the top.

1250 That's it.

1251 is I want you to start from a static 1252 address position, and you're going to do 1253 another 10 to 15 reps or so, just like 1254 Craig's doing right here.

So you're going 1255 to push your right ankle on the ground, 1256 and you're going to feel that right 1257 shoulder pull back and behind your head.

1258 Now, a lot of you, even without the golf 1259 club in your hands, are going to feel 1260 some tension up here in the left 1261 shoulder.

You're going to feel some 1262 stress in here.

Now, why is that?

Well, 1263 because there's a movement happening in 1264 this golf swing that a lot of you are 1265 probably unaware of, and that's what we 1266 call shoulder elevation.

Now, shoulder 1267 elevation is basically just defined.

If 1268 you were to start from a static address 1269 position, and you were to lift your arms 1270 vertically, okay, to where your elbows 1271 are at the base of your chest, that's a 1272 movement that's being facilitated mostly 1273 by the shoulders.

And so it's okay for 1274 the arms to have a little bit of 1275 function.

We just don't want them to 1276 swing across your chest, and then you 1277 start shutting down your body turn, and 1278 then you start getting into positions 1279 where your arms have loaded up your body, 1280 and not your body loading up your arms.

1281 Make sense?

Okay, so the checkpoints are, 1282 at the top of the backswing, 1283 is that your left arm is going to be 1284 passively straight.

and you're going to 1285 feel like you're trying to get your hand 1286 up above your right shoulder.

1287 Again, if you look at it in the camera 1288 and it's a little bit low, no big deal.

1289 If you look at it in the camera and you 1290 see a little bit of break in there, don't 1291 panic and send it in for swing view.

I 1292 can't get my left arm straight.

What am I 1293 doing wrong here?

1294 Just understand that when we get the 1295 right hand in there on Tuesday, it's 1296 going to be much easier for it to be able 1297 to add support to this system.

1298 Okay?

1299 So now, 1300 pretty piece of cake, right?

So you do 10 1301 to 15 reps starting from the bottom.

1302 Okay?

1303 Then you do 10 to 15 reps.

We add the 1304 lead arm and work up to the top of the 1305 swing.

Now we're going to start adding 1306 the transition in.

Now the transition is 1307 going to be a big, Big piece for you.

1308 Because this is where you're going to 1309 start unwinding your shoulders too 1310 quickly, or you're going to start 1311 actively pulling your hands and arms down 1312 from the top of the swing.

And this is 1313 where we're going to give you some very, 1314 very specific checkpoints that you're 1315 going to look for.

1316 So when you start making your move over 1317 to your lead side, when you complete your 1318 transition, you want to show them face on 1319 first?

1320 So when we squat to square, Not only is 1321 the head and the chest come back into 1322 position, and that left shoulder remains 1323 low, but you can notice here that his 1324 hand and his arm have dropped down to 1325 where?

So roughly about parallel to the 1326 ground or so.

That's outlined up here on 1327 the squat.

So you're going to be looking 1328 for, after you complete your squat to 1329 square move, that your lead arm is right 1330 around parallel to the ground.

1331 Now from here, when we start to make our 1332 post-up move happen, and our hips open up 1333 to 35 to 45 degrees, now you can see that 1334 the left arm is all the way down where?

1335 Well, this is the fun spot right here, 1336 right?

This is the delivery zone.

You 1337 have now got your lead arm in the 1338 position of where you just let things fly 1339 down.

So what you're going to be looking 1340 for is that the left arm should be 1341 hanging pretty freely underneath the 1342 shoulder.

It should be a pretty relaxed 1343 position.

Craig, are you tense with your 1344 arms out away from your body at all?

I'm 1345 pretty chilled out.

Yeah, you always 1346 have.

I'm pretty chilled out.

I love 1347 that.

So when you finish this move, your 1348 left arm should feel just kind of hanging 1349 there.

Okay, you're going to feel a 1350 little bit of support in the shoulder to 1351 keep it in this position rather than 1352 being over here.

But you're going to 1353 notice that.

The center of his hand is 1354 in the center of his trail thigh.

Okay, 1355 that's a very, very specific checkpoint 1356 that we're going to look for is that we 1357 want the center of your hand and the 1358 center of your trail thigh.

And when we 1359 start adding the golf club to the mix, 1360 you're going to use the golf club as a 1361 couple of different reference points here 1362 as well.

Okay, so everything that we just 1363 did is all exactly the same now, with 1364 just your left arm hanging on to the 1365 shoulder block.

Now, when you do this, 1366 you want to stay relaxed through the left 1367 arm and shoulder, you don't want to be 1368 really tense.

The only tension that 1369 you'll probably feel if you're doing this 1370 correctly would be at the top of the golf 1371 swing.

When the left shoulder goes into a 1372 little bit of protraction to help support 1373 the arm into the vertical plane.

That's 1374 really it.

When you start making your 1375 move over to your lead side, you want to 1376 feel like your shoulder is relaxing.

You 1377 don't want to hold your shoulder into a 1378 tense position.

A good way for you at 1379 home to double check this is after you 1380 make that move to your lead side is shrug 1381 your shoulder up to your chin.

Why don't 1382 you go ahead and squat the square.

1383 Shrug your shoulder up into your chin and 1384 then fully depress it.

And then feel what 1385 it's like to actually have your left arm 1386 and your shoulder in a very relaxed 1387 position here.

That is where you want to 1388 start to post it from.

If you feel like 1389 you're holding your shoulder in this 1390 really, really tight position, then stop 1391 what you're doing and then start the 1392 process over and then make sure that that 1393 shoulder comes down into a nice, relaxed 1394 body.

Anything you want to add to that?

1395 No, no.

I mean, that's one of the big 1396 things that we see is it's going to feel 1397 new.

And when players tend not to rotate 1398 enough, they're going to swing their 1399 arms.

They're going to get a lot of this 1400 tension.

And they think they're going to 1401 be like, OK, well, I'll just recover by 1402 making a good squat to square.

Then they 1403 make a squat to square.

And when they get 1404 to this position, you've got all this 1405 tension right here.

And what you really 1406 have to focus on is I always tell 1407 players, remember, we're trying to build 1408 an effortless golf swing.

If you feel 1409 like you're providing a ton of effort.

1410 Abort mission.

Right.

Because something's 1411 wrong.

Right.

So we had a question come 1412 in.

So Jason said, what do you mean by 1413 having the left hand over the left 1414 shoulder?

So if I said left shoulder, my 1415 apologies, we want the left hand to be 1416 above the right shoulder at the top of 1417 the swing.

Okay.

So do you mean it should 1418 be higher than the left shoulder or is it 1419 that the shoulder should be directly 1420 above the left shoulder?

So you want your 1421 lead hand to be above your trail shoulder 1422 at the top of the golf swing.

I'm sorry 1423 if I said that incorrectly.

1424 Okay.

1425 I'm glad that we had a chance to clarify 1426 that if I did.

But when you turn your 1427 body back, there's going to be a little 1428 bit of elevation that's happening from 1429 the shoulder itself, and your hand is now 1430 going to be above your trail shoulder.

1431 Okay?

1432 So now let's look at it from a down-the 1433 -line perspective here because there's 1434 going to be some key checkpoints.

1435 Okay?

So from a down-the-line 1436 perspective, we're going to be looking 1437 for the lead arm, okay, when you make 1438 your first move over to your lead side.

1439 And that lead arm is parallel to the 1440 ground.

You're going to be looking for a 1441 hand to be right around the center of 1442 your chest.

So let's show them what that 1443 looks like.

Okay, so you can see here 1444 looking back at Craig, and you see how 1445 his lead arm or his lead hand is right in 1446 the center of his sternum.

There now show 1447 them in incorrect positions, so you see 1448 how his arm now has worked out away from 1449 him.

That would be a byproduct of having 1450 your shoulders unwind too much, or just 1451 being way too tense in your shoulders and 1452 your arms.

To begin with, another 1453 position that will be really detrimental 1454 to us is if you start seeing your hand 1455 and your arm drop way down in behind you.

1456 Okay, that's what we would consider a 1457 stuck position.

So when you complete your 1458 squat to square from a down the line 1459 perspective and your lead arm is parallel 1460 to the ground.

You want to make sure that 1461 your lead hand is right in the center of 1462 your shirt, or maybe just slightly in 1463 behind it.

Not way back in here and not 1464 way out here.

Okay, piece of cake.

Right 1465 now.

The next move is when you start 1466 moving from that position and you begin 1467 your post up.

I always tell people to 1468 feel like your left arm is falling 1469 straight down the ground when you do 1470 this.

Because if your left arm feels like 1471 it's falling straight down, what are your 1472 hips doing?

Well, your hips are 1473 unwinding.

That's what's moving the hand 1474 and arm further around the front for you.

1475 So your end goal here is when you shift, 1476 your left arm is going to be hanging down 1477 freely underneath your shoulder, very 1478 relaxed.

It's not a tense position.

1479 You're going to be really, really chilled 1480 out down here.

It's like a nice Kenny G 1481 concert for those of you at home.

Get a 1482 bath with some lavender and some 1483 chamomile in it.

Take a few deep breaths 1484 and relax, all right?

So left arm is 1485 going to come hanging down right in front 1486 of the trail thought.

Now, let's think 1487 about this.

You just now completed your 1488 backswing, you completed your transition, 1489 and you completed getting yourself into 1490 an impact position, all with your lead 1491 arm in the mix.

Now, what that should 1492 look like when we have a golf club in our 1493 hands is it should look like you're 1494 establishing this really nice swing plan, 1495 right?

Everybody loves to focus on that 1496 fancy term in the golf world, is swing 1497 plan.

Swing plan, swing plan.

Swing plan 1498 is a good term.

It's a term that we have 1499 to use on a day-to-day basis because the 1500 fact that as golf instructors, it's a way 1501 for us to be able to see where you're at 1502 within the swing shape.

But what we're 1503 focusing on is moving our body to be able 1504 to create this swing play.

And all we did 1505 was just add the lead arm to the mix, and 1506 now the golf club will follow along.

So 1507 for those of you at home that are going 1508 to be adding the golf club over the next 1509 couple days, which you should be, is we 1510 want you to start out with the golf club 1511 flipped upside down.

Okay, why would we 1512 want to flip the club upside down?

So you 1513 don't start swinging that club because 1514 this head.

Has a lot of mass to it.

1515 You're going to start swinging that mass 1516 around, trying to find positions, and we 1517 don't want you to be searching for 1518 positions.

We want you to still focus on 1519 what you've been doing and not swinging a 1520 stupid club around, right, exactly.

So 1521 what you're going to be doing now is 1522 you're going to start with this, go 1523 upside down and you're going to do the 1524 exact same thing.

So you, you can see how 1525 there's a level of progression here.

For 1526 those of you that have ever heard the 1527 term stacking around rotary spin, well, 1528 this is how we stack things in, right?

So 1529 we start out, we isolate, We turn our 1530 body, we add the left arm up to the top, 1531 and then we start with a golf swing where 1532 the left arm is hanging down freely.

We 1533 move through those exact positions, and 1534 then we start adding the golf club.

Now, 1535 if you get to a point over the next 1536 couple of days where you're not seeing 1537 really, really good work when you just 1538 have the left arm there, then don't put 1539 the golf club in the mix.

You don't need 1540 to have it there.

We would rather have 1541 you get more focused movements because 1542 everything that you do with your body.

1543 Is going to force this golf club to react 1544 right?

And so, if you want to have a 1545 perfect looking swing plan, and you want 1546 to have a perfect looking position.

That 1547 drops into the slot, which is one of my 1548 least favorite expressions in golf, then 1549 you will.

You will make sure that you 1550 have your left arm following along.

Just 1551 like we outlined it here, and those 1552 things will actually happen and we'll 1553 show you in just a moment.

Okay, so now 1554 we're going to add the club to the mix, 1555 we're focused on the exact same points.

1556 We're going to push that right ankle on 1557 the ground, we're going to turn our body 1558 back by pulling our right shoulder.

Now, 1559 you can see here that Craig's left arm is 1560 passively straight Again, some of you 1561 might see a little bend in it here.

1562 Okay, but remember, we're looking at it 1563 from the ground up.

We want to make sure 1564 that your hips are rotated 35 to 45.

We 1565 want to make sure that your shoulder line 1566 has rotated 90 degrees, which it has.

And 1567 now from here, we're going to squat to 1568 square, so the hips and knees come back 1569 to a square position.

The left shoulder 1570 remains low.

The head comes back into its 1571 original spot.

That head must come back 1572 into its original spot.

1573 Lead arm is now parallel to the ground, 1574 and we're all ready for post-up.

Post-up 1575 brings the left arm down into position.

1576 And you can see here now, this is now a 1577 new spot that you're going to be looking 1578 at.

You want to see that the club shaft 1579 is at least parallel to the ground when 1580 you finish off your movement.

Now, how I 1581 want you to look at the movement itself 1582 is exactly how I've been saying it to you 1583 here for the last 10 to 15 minutes is 1584 from the ground up.

We want you to look 1585 at your legs and your hips first.

So are 1586 your hips open 35 to 45 degrees?

Yes.

1587 Okay.

1588 Is your shoulder line nice and square?

1589 Yes.

Is your left arm hanging down freely 1590 in front of your trail thigh?

Yes.

Is the 1591 golf club parallel to the ground?

Yes.

1592 That would be a very, very good rep.

You 1593 know that you've moved into and through 1594 the positions that have got you into the 1595 impact position that we're looking for.

1596 And that's how you want to look at the 1597 golf club.

Don't just start looking at it 1598 from the golf club first.

I know a lot of 1599 you at home are going to watch the golf 1600 club go into certain spots.

Those of you 1601 that watch the golf club go into certain 1602 spots or look at it down here first and 1603 you're not looking at your legs or your 1604 shoulders, are going to be the ones that 1605 we have to make a lot of corrections to.

1606 Watch it from the ground up, 1607 okay?

1608 That's the position you're going to be 1609 working into.

Now let's look at it from 1610 down the line when we add the golf hook 1611 to the mix.

1612 So we're going to push the right ankle in 1613 the ground.

1614 Now here's a spot that we're going to 1615 probably have to talk a little bit about 1616 on Tuesday.

1617 It's at the top of the golf swing, we 1618 want the left wrist to move into an 1619 anatomically flat position.

So the left 1620 wrist, we like it to rotate a little bit.

1621 And so when it gets up above that right 1622 shoulder, You're looking to make sure 1623 that you don't have any sort of cupping.

1624 So that would be a cuffed wrist right 1625 here.

So you want to allow the wrist to 1626 be in an anatomically flat position.

So 1627 for those of you that have maybe the club 1628 a little bit across the line or maybe 1629 you've laid it off, then when you do your 1630 left arm only reps, you stop at the top 1631 of your swing, you're going to want to 1632 make sure that you're anatomically flat.

1633 If you're not seeing that it's 1634 anatomically flat, then fix it.

You want 1635 to make sure that you get into the 1636 correct spot every time, add the golf 1637 club back in the mix.

1638 Okay, now from here, we're going to squat 1639 to square and lead arm comes down to 1640 about parallel to the ground.

Okay.

Now 1641 from here, you can see that the club 1642 shaft itself is kind of sitting 1643 underneath the trail shoulder.

That's 1644 exactly what proper swing claim would 1645 look like at this point.

And then as he 1646 starts posting up, the lead arm comes 1647 down just in front of this trail thigh.

1648 Club shaft parallel to the ground.

Now, 1649 we have a couple of other checkpoints 1650 that we're going to be showing you here 1651 in just a moment when we flip the club 1652 upside down.

Okay, we'll flip it right 1653 side up, right side up.

But the big point 1654 that Craig and I want to emphasize today 1655 is follow the exact body movements that 1656 you guys just worked your butt off for 1657 the last week and a half.

If you start 1658 trying to go and move the arm and move 1659 the golf club and you're not focusing on 1660 these big picture body movements, then 1661 things are going to look way out of 1662 sorts.

Right.

Right.

And I mean, and just 1663 even further that point, as I'm sitting 1664 here going through these reps, and 1665 obviously I've done a few before, but I'm 1666 literally not thinking about this at all.

1667 Like I, this, this club right here, 1668 I'm not thinking a thing about, like, I'm 1669 literally just moving me and letting.

The 1670 club would go to the positions that it 1671 wants to go into as a byproduct of what 1672 I'm doing.

And that's, and that's easier 1673 said than done, really.

I mean, I'll be 1674 the first person to vouch for it, you 1675 know?

It's very hard, when we have this 1676 golf club in our hands, to shift our 1677 attention from where it goes.

Because 1678 it's super, super easy for us to be able 1679 to get this golf club.

To move very 1680 quickly from one side of the body to the 1681 other, with just our hands and our arms, 1682 okay, and it's very easy for us to get 1683 lazy and not use our body.

Okay, I'm a 1684 case in point of that.

When I played golf 1685 professionally, 1686 I battled with a ball going left.

Okay, 1687 and so you can't go out there and hit 1688 golf balls left.

When you're coming up 1689 14, 15, you know, four or five, and apart 1690 hit a quick one out of play.

I expect 1691 when golf turns right, you couldn't shut, 1692 that can close the door.

And so the 1693 reason why that was happening is because 1694 my golf swing was always relying on tons 1695 and tons of leverage.

Where I got my arms 1696 kind of whipping across my body really 1697 quickly, and I had my arms get down in 1698 front of my body too quickly.

So what I 1699 was relying on was a whole lot of timing 1700 at the bottom of the arm.

Which is one of 1701 the things that we You just can't survive 1702 on.

And so in order for me to balance out 1703 my equation, what I had to do was learn 1704 how to turn my body more and learn how to 1705 load my right side.

And that was a very, 1706 very daunting project.

And to this day, 1707 and this is 20, almost 20 years later, 1708 actually 18 years later from when I 1709 played, it's still hard for me to turn my 1710 arm.

It's still, I mean, it's a very, 1711 very difficult piece.

And then now Craig, 1712 when he was playing professionally, he 1713 was battling with a lot of the same 1714 things.

He could get his arms a little 1715 bit quicker in the sequence.

You know, 1716 and then turning, coming out a little bit 1717 on the were you a little bit stuck at one 1718 point?

Oh, I was, I played the power of 1719 the lice.

Yeah, so I would get stuck.

And 1720 instead of trying to save it with my 1721 hands, I would just keep rotating, 1722 getting even more stuck and leaving it 1723 wide open, right?

And so a lot of times.

1724 What you'll see is as golfers that are 1725 playing this stuff on a day-to-day basis 1726 is we start searching for different ways 1727 to be able to get the club out in front.

1728 So we start trying to work from the hands 1729 and arms instead of actually solving the 1730 problem by the correct way, which could 1731 be done through your legs or something 1732 you've done with your torso, 1733 All right, So the big point here is that 1734 just make sure that you're moving from 1735 the correct order and making sure that 1736 you're moving from the correct body parts 1737 when you add this stuff to the mix.

Now, 1738 for those of you that get really advanced 1739 and ready to start putting the heavy end 1740 down in the golf club, we have a couple 1741 of specific checkpoints we want you to 1742 look at in the golf club.

And I'm about 1743 110% certain that every single person in 1744 this room right now is going to send in 1745 swim reviews with their clubs on this 1746 side.

I am going to be in kamikaze.

I am 1747 too, and that's the one point that I 1748 really want to stress.

I know everybody's 1749 eager to get this club foot this way 1750 because it's like, Oh, okay, finally I 1751 got a club in my hand.

You can't discount 1752 doing it this way.

This is the best way 1753 to really get this motion down.

Because 1754 as soon as this guy gets into here like 1755 this, all bets are off, right, exactly.

1756 And so there's a reason why you have a 1757 short amount of days between now and 1758 Tuesday when we get the right hand back 1759 on the club.

Because you're going to 1760 still get a large number of reps in your 1761 belt with your left arm only.

And then 1762 you're going to sprinkle in more of the 1763 right hand for the next four days after 1764 Tuesday to get you ready for graduation, 1765 okay, because that's where we need you to 1766 be in this good spot, or for the relief 1767 stuff to make sense.

And so we want to 1768 get you guys to do a number of reps on 1769 this left arm.

Only then when we start 1770 putting the right hand on there.

On 1771 Tuesday, which is Craig's least favorite 1772 day of it all, um, then you're going to 1773 see that.

Even throughout that week, we 1774 still want you to do a good number of 1775 left arm only swings.

Because the fact 1776 that.

It's giving your brain the signals 1777 to do the stuff that you need to do with 1778 your body to be able to get this stuff 1779 done.

1780 Okay.

So for those of you that are going 1781 to, and I'm sure everybody's going to 1782 have this end down, 1783 same thing.

Okay.

But you're going to 1784 have some checkpoints here that you're 1785 going to look for at the bottom when you 1786 get into this release position.

Okay.

So 1787 up to the top, make sure that your left 1788 arm is extended out fairly straight here.

1789 You're going to make sure that you've 1790 turned your body fully.

Okay.

These are 1791 the positions that you're going to look 1792 1793 Squat to square.

So hips and knees have 1794 come back to a square position.

1795 Lead shoulders low, trail shoulders up, 1796 head is back in its original spot.

1797 Lead arm is parallel to the ground.

Now, 1798 post up.

1799 Now, 1800 lead arm parallel, or sorry, lead arm is 1801 now hanging down underneath us.

The hand 1802 is in the center of the trail thigh.

It's 1803 not out here, and it's not in here, okay?

1804 You stop with it in the center of your 1805 trail thigh.

Now, why do we want it in 1806 the center of our trail thigh, Craig?

1807 Well, we want it in the center of the 1808 trail thigh because that's going to be 1809 where we start releasing it from, and 1810 that's the optimal point where we have 1811 our leg.

and ready to let this puppy go.

1812 Right.

And so what we're going to talk 1813 about a lot on Tuesday is people are 1814 like, well, why did you have us post up 1815 first before we started letting things 1816 release?

Well, because again, everybody 1817 will forget about the legs at high rates 1818 of speed.

You'll start getting your arms 1819 down in front of you really quickly, and 1820 then your legs shut down.

We want you to 1821 finish off the movement from your legs 1822 because at that point, the golf club's 1823 going to be reacting to you at high rates 1824 of speed.

So simply put, we want you to 1825 get to this position and be able to stop 1826 because at this point, this is going to 1827 be forcing the release to happen anyways.

1828 But you've got to double check that this 1829 golf club is in the perfect spot.

And the 1830 way that this golf club is going to be in 1831 the perfect spot is you're going to make 1832 sure that the club is parallel to the 1833 ground.

You're going to make sure the 1834 butt end of the club is pointed down your 1835 target line.

And you're going to make 1836 sure the toe of the club is perfectly up 1837 to the sky.

So what you're going to look 1838 for here is when you come down, 1839 squat to square.

1840 You're going to make sure that the butt 1841 end of the club is pointed down the 1842 target line.

The club shaft should be 1843 parallel to the ground or maybe slightly 1844 more, and the toe of the club should be 1845 directly to the sky.

If it's towed down 1846 maybe a degree or two, perfectly fine.

We 1847 just don't want to see it shut, and we 1848 don't want to see it fanned wide open.

1849 This is the spot that you're going to be 1850 getting into.

This is the delivery point.

1851 This would be considered on plane.

This 1852 is how you move through the slot and get 1853 into the delivery areas that a lot of you 1854 would probably hear at home.

If you get 1855 into this spot right here, there's a very 1856 good or a very strong likelihood that 1857 your path is going to be pretty close to 1858 being zeroed out.

Think about that.

1859 Tour pros on average are like a degree to 1860 a degree and a half max on either side.

1861 That's it.

1862 Either side of the playing level.

You 1863 come down and you're pretty close to 1864 being zeroed out, then all you have to do 1865 at that point is just let things go.

1866 That's when golf becomes a way different 1867 world.

You start compressing the golf 1868 ball.

You start seeing the ball go out on 1869 a very penetrating ball flight.

Start 1870 seeing that it has a lot less movement to 1871 it, and it gets it gets a big all right, 1872 right, that's that dispersion starts 1873 coming in.

Because, as we talked about in 1874 session one, people want more distance.

1875 And obviously we advocate hitting the 1876 ball as far as you can.

But at the end of 1877 the day, people want to be consistent, 1878 they want to hit fairways, they want to 1879 hit greens.

That's the easiest way to 1880 start playing fun golf is to not be 1881 searching for it all day.

And when you 1882 really start getting to this point, and 1883 you really start getting that pass zeroed 1884 out, you're going to start to see that.

1885 Your dispersion, instead of being like 1886 this on the course, really starts to 1887 narrow up, right?

Exactly, that's one of 1888 the things that we work with the players 1889 at the highest level, so people that are 1890 getting played to play this game.

We're 1891 not necessarily making giant swing shape 1892 changes with them, we're working on 1893 things to the umpteenth degree, that are 1894 taking their dispersion and tightening up 1895 even more.

And and when you look at golf, 1896 okay, you understand how the ball is 1897 flying through the air, 80 of that stuff 1898 when you see it fly through the air.

80 1899 of that golf shots DNA is dictated by 1900 face angle, the other 20 is dictated by 1901 the path.

And whether you guys know it or 1902 not.

Craig and I are always working on 1903 trying to establish a good, proper path 1904 for the club to be traveling on.

First, 1905 before we start working on face angle and 1906 a lot of you at home might be thinking, 1907 well, why would you want to fix the path 1908 first, when the face angle is the biggest 1909 bang for the buck?

Well, think about if 1910 the path is going to be working or 1911 working against you as far as the rate of 1912 rotation is concerned.

Okay, if you have 1913 the club coming in way too flat or way 1914 too far from the inside, then what you're 1915 going to have to see.

As far as the rate 1916 of rotation in the butt face is 1917 concerned, is you're going to see a very 1918 high rate of rotation.

And generally 1919 speaking, good ball strikers on PGA Tour, 1920 good ball strikers in general are going 1921 to be right.

Around 250 to 350 degrees 1922 per second.

Okay, that's how much the 1923 butt face is rotating through the hitting 1924 area.

Ball strikers that come in from the 1925 inside, way too far from the inside.

1926 That's seven, eight, nine, ten degrees.

1927 Their face rotation is going to be 1928 upwards of 800 to 1200 degrees per 1929 second.

Now.

Think about that.

When you 1930 go out there and see it on the golf 1931 course, you're going to see a lot more 1932 movement on the ball.

You play in windy 1933 conditions, you're done right, so you 1934 have to start.

You have to start changing 1935 the path first so that you can start 1936 slowing the rate of closure, or vice 1937 versa.

For most of us, that swing the 1938 club more over the top.

And what we're 1939 going to typically see is the club-based 1940 rotation is going to want to be a lot 1941 less than what we want it to be.

Because 1942 you have to hang on for your life now.

I 1943 have seen people swing the club over the 1944 top and have a very accelerated rate as 1945 well.

And those are the people that take 1946 these pulls for their hooks.

So what 1947 we're trying to do with all of these big 1948 picture body movements is in space.

We're 1949 trying to establish a good, solid swing 1950 plan that's going to get you in a good 1951 delivery point.

So that next Saturday, 1952 when we put this all together, that you 1953 let things fly and the ball flies nice 1954 and tight.

This expression, right?

And 1955 it's all about working less.

If you get 1956 these preset positions that we're talking 1957 about, where you get the weight, you get 1958 the post and you get to this trail.

Fine, 1959 you don't have the club wind or plane or 1960 steep out in front of you and you got the 1961 lag.

1962 You're not going to have to work as hard 1963 to get that clubface to square up.

It's 1964 ready to do the job that it was designed 1965 to do.

And that's what we're trying to 1966 eliminate is the fact that you at home 1967 have to do something to square up the 1968 clubface.

We want it to be effortless.

We 1969 want it to be where, oh, I just get here 1970 and just let the club do what it wants.

1971 Absolutely.

1972 So this is kind of going down that road 1973 where you're getting these positions.

1974 You're pre-setting yourself up to not 1975 have to worry about our favorite word, 1976 timing.

Right, exactly.

So that's one 1977 word that we actually hate, is we, I 1978 should say, dislike.

We dislike timing in 1979 the golf swing because we want the golf 1980 swing to do the same thing every single 1981 day.

We don't want to have to rely on a 1982 time agreement.

1983 If you're relying on timing, then you'll 1984 go out there and hit the ball great for 1985 one day, and then all of a sudden, your 1986 timing gets off, and then you hit it 1987 terrible for the next three.

So you want 1988 to look at the golf swing and extract 1989 timing variables so the golf swing does 1990 the same thing every single day.

So I 1991 know that, again, we covered quite a bit 1992 of information here today, and I'm going 1993 to go through it real quick for you guys 1994 again at home.

I want you guys to start 1995 out with the arms across your shoulders, 1996 and I want you to do a bunch of reps 1997 where you push your right ankle into the 1998 ground and you turn your body and then 1999 extend the left arm up here.

And you can 2000 even do your squat to square in your post 2001 -up and go through the checkpoints that we 2002 talked about.

in this session, but the 2003 reason why we want to do this in 2004 particular, because the number one fault 2005 that we see in takeaway in backswings is 2006 you start moving from the arms, and 2007 that's giving your brain these false 2008 senses of load and these false senses of 2009 body turn, okay, and it'll happen.

2010 There'll be a good portion of the class 2011 that you'll see they get to the top of 2012 their swing, and their shoulders haven't 2013 really turned at all.

Okay, that's 2014 because it's very easy for you to move 2015 the arm and the golf opener.

So once you 2016 start doing a number of reps where you 2017 see that you've got full body training, 2018 you've extended your arm out.

You know, 2019 you're in the spot that we just talked 2020 about, then you can start doing it from 2021 the bottom up, okay, if it takes you more 2022 than 10 to 15 reps during your warm-up to 2023 do this, perfectly fine, take your time, 2024 work at the pace that you're comfortable 2025 with.

Okay, we want you guys all to 2026 succeed.

I don't know if you guys 2027 understand that.

We want you to get this 2028 stuff down right, because we want you 2029 guys to see what it's like to get this 2030 ball.

Like, stuck, okay, and so take your 2031 time.

If you're saying that, okay, my 2032 body turned shut down, then you guys need 2033 to be disciplined enough to strip it down 2034 and put your arms back on your shoulders.

2035 And that's where we want to give you the 2036 reins here and say, Okay, you guys are 2037 your own instructors to a certain degree.

2038 And be diligent.

Look at it on camera.

We 2039 gave you guys very specific checkpoints 2040 to look for within your legs and your 2041 upper body here.

If they're not in that 2042 good spot and you've got your arm looking 2043 pretty up here, we're.

Honestly.

I don't 2044 give a shit.

Excuse my mouth, I don't 2045 care with all of those.

I'm sorry if I 2046 offended anybody with that poor word, but 2047 we got to put some emphasis here right 2048 Now, once you can do the back swing stuff 2049 with the lead arm extended, and you can 2050 make your transition over to your lead 2051 side, and you can make sure that you have 2052 the exact checkpoints that we have on 2053 your PDFs at home, then you can start 2054 putting the golf club back in there.

Now, 2055 when you start putting the golf club back 2056 in there, under no circumstance do we 2057 want you moving and kamikaze like you're 2058 flying airplanes into wherever mode.

You 2059 want to go ahead and do these things slow 2060 and chunky.

I don't care if you're a 2 2061 handicap or a plus 4.

And you know, 2062 you've been through the the boot camp for 2063 this four times.

Do them slow and chunky.

2064 I did this the other day before I went 2065 and played golf is I did slow, chunky 2066 movements to wake my legs up on purpose.

2067 Okay, take the time, do that stuff.

Then, 2068 once you get those positions done, okay, 2069 and you add the club back in the mix.

You 2070 can either a start trying to move 2071 fluidly, or B, you can flip the club over 2072 to the heavy man.

And I know everybody at 2073 home right now.

We actually had a bet in, 2074 uh, boot camp number five, 2075 with how many people we're going to send 2076 in with a heavy head down.

And I think I 2077 ended up, well, you won it, but not by 2078 much.

So I bet there was going to be a 2079 very large number.

Craig's like, no, I 2080 think we've got a good group here that's 2081 not going to send in.

We had everybody 2082 send in with heavy head down.

So what we 2083 want you to do is make sure that when you 2084 go to this end of the golf club, you 2085 still start slow and chunky.

And by 2086 Tuesday, if you get to a point where 2087 you're loading, transitioning, and 2088 posting all as one piece, then the sky's 2089 the limit.

And the next week, you'll have 2090 a.

Kind of a cakewalk.

For those of you 2091 that are still working a little bit slow 2092 and chunky, don't worry about it because 2093 when we put the right hand on there on 2094 Tuesday, you're going to see that we're 2095 not changing anything at all, okay?

We're 2096 going to continue to do more of the same 2097 movements, and so you'll have that entire 2098 rest of next week to be able to get more 2099 reps under your belt.

That's what I'm 2100 trying to emphasize to you.

So don't feel 2101 like you have to race to catch up with us 2102 on Tuesday.

2103 Tuesday to Saturday is where you're going 2104 to be spending a ball of your time.

2105 Getting this stuff bundled up.

We're 2106 going to give you very, very large reps.

2107 We're actually going to probably give you 2108 more reps.

That are on the videotape 2109 itself, or, I'm sorry, on the PDF itself.

2110 Because of the fact that we know that, 2111 what we've seen throughout the last 2112 couple weeks with with the students here.

2113 So we want to give you a number of reps 2114 here to get this stuff done.

And then 2115 Saturday, next Saturday, is when we start 2116 putting the rubber to the road and 2117 starting on this thing.

Fly.

Okay, so 2118 really important that you follow that 2119 exact process, you follow that, and then 2120 you're ready to rock and roll on Tuesday.

2121 Then Craig's the least favorite day.

2122 Hopefully, you know, he doesn't get stuck 2123 in I-4 traffic and come in here in a bad 2124 mood.

2125 Then we'll be ready to start putting 2126 things back to the next year.

2127 Anything else there?

No, I wish that we 2128 sold a package of a hacksaw with the boot 2129 camp to get prepared for Tuesday, because 2130 once you get to Tuesday and you start 2131 adding that trail arm, it's just.

Yeah, 2132 but you know what?

We've been through six 2133 other boot camps at this point.

We have 2134 already learned what a lot of the stakes 2135 are going to be with the right income on 2136 there.

And so when you come into a boot 2137 camp number seven, You're going to 2138 realize that we're changing the way that 2139 we're presenting the information to you.

2140 Because we're going to give you some of 2141 these key points right out of the gate.

2142 Because we want you to spend that next 2143 four days being able to be as 100% 2144 accurate as you can.

And so Tuesday is a 2145 fun day for us.

It's an easy day and to a 2146 certain degree for your brains because 2147 you're going to hear a lot of the same 2148 information over.

But it's a difficult 2149 day to be able to start getting yourself 2150 to really commit to this guy being back 2151 on the golf club.

And we've got some fun 2152 stuff we're going to do in that session.

2153 Those of you that are needing to get out 2154 of here because it is Saturday, you guys 2155 probably have family obligations by all 2156 means.

You guys can check out here.

You 2157 can listen to the Q A's later when you 2158 have some more time.

For those of you 2159 that do have questions, I'm sure there's 2160 going to be a lot of questions coming in 2161 today.

Um, feel free to stick around with 2162 us, we'll we'll answer as many questions 2163 as we need to.

It's really important for 2164 anybody that Craig and I got a chance to 2165 work with over these last couple days.

2166 You know, if we said something to you 2167 that didn't make any sense, or maybe you 2168 want us to rehash on something or 2169 demonstrate something.

Then we'll stick 2170 around here for a few minutes to be able 2171 to do that.

So, 2172 For those of you that are leaving, have a 2173 great rest of your weekend.

We'll see you 2174 on Tuesday at the normal time.

Remember, 2175 do these things in slow, chunky pieces.

2176 Take your time.

Use the PDF.

Use the 2177 forums.

2178 Make sure you use the swing reviews.

2179 We're here to help you.

2180 I've seen a number of people in this 2181 group starting to use the swing reviews.

2182 The first session was a little bit quiet 2183 if you guys were afraid of us, but now 2184 people are starting to wake up and 2185 understand that you need to use it.

Use 2186 it.

We're here to help.

2187 Very, very good tool.

Even when we get 2188 done boot camp next Saturday.

2189 We're still going to be there to help you 2190 guys get this stuff to the driving range 2191 of the golf course because honestly, we 2192 want you to succeed.

So that's what it 2193 is.

So with that being said, those of you 2194 that have questions, feel free to post 2195 those up.

We will be here for you.

Okay.

2196 So a question.

Handout talks about grip 2197 with back three fingers on the left hand 2198 holding the cleavage transition.

Anything 2199 more on that?

So back three fingers.

2200 We're going to hear us talk a lot about 2201 that on session number six.

2202 But when we're doing this, it's a good 2203 idea to have as light grip pressure as 2204 you possibly can.

So you'll see that the 2205 back three fingers, we want you just to 2206 hold the club lightly there.

Okay, we 2207 probably could have made a point that 2208 typically people are generally pretty 2209 light on the golf club at this point.

Um, 2210 you'll see that the grip pressure will 2211 start to increase once we start to put 2212 the right thing on there for some 2213 whatever reason that is.

But yes, you can 2214 use the back three fingers to hold the 2215 club very lightly at the top of the golf 2216 swing.

You'll notice that the thumb needs 2217 to be on the shaft just to help support 2218 the club.

If it comes off the shaft, then 2219 the club wants to kind of fall down and 2220 hit you in the head, Okay, so you can 2221 have it on there, just be very, very 2222 light.

And generally speaking, 2223 you know, when we get to higher rates of 2224 speed, you'll hear us even shuffle this 2225 around when we say the back two fingers, 2226 so your pinky finger and your ring 2227 finger.

2228 The other finger, you know, if we wanted 2229 to have a little bit of pressure on 2230 there, but if you're squeezing it really 2231 hard, that's going to make it much harder 2232 to release.

2233 Okay, so Mark, thank you very much.

2234 Kevin, thank you very much.

At impact, 2235 does the trail leg foot rotate have flex?

2236 So hold on, let me read this again.

2237 At the impact, does the trail leg have 2238 flex in the knee or is it strained also?

2239 I leave it flexed so as not to push off.

2240 So we covered this in the last session.

2241 The trail leg will more or less move 2242 towards the lead side.

It'll have a 2243 little bit of flexion in it, but it's not 2244 to the point where you're sitting way 2245 down in it and it's not ramrod straight.

2246 So think about your right side being a 2247 reaction to what the lead side is doing.

2248 If you see that it moves in just a little 2249 bit towards the lead side.

Okay, and then 2250 you see that there's a little bit of flex 2251 in there, that's perfectly fine.

Okay, 2252 just don't have a ram rod straight out 2253 there.

Because that's going to make it 2254 very hard for you to actually rotate your 2255 hips enough, and that's also going to 2256 make it harder for you to be able to 2257 maintain posture.

Okay, so, um, once we 2258 have full swing down, would you recommend 2259 using the arm band training aids that 2260 make sure your arms are right distance 2261 far during the swing?

We don't like bands 2262 at all, we do like the rotary connect.

2263 Because the fact that it helps you 2264 maintain the proper spacing there without 2265 being locked in position.

When you start 2266 using the bands, it can actually restrict 2267 movement in the shoulders a little bit.

2268 And a lot of you don't actually have 2269 extra and humorous rotation available to 2270 you.

And so extra and humorous rotation, 2271 we'll talk a little bit more about this 2272 on Tuesday.

2273 You see how Craig's taking his arm and 2274 he's flexing and then he's moving his arm 2275 away.

That's a barrier.

So I have a fair 2276 amount.

Where some people, when you do 2277 this, when you hold your arm up in front 2278 of you.

You try to move it away, you 2279 can't move it at all, and that's a 2280 byproduct of you having, you know, very 2281 little flexibility, very little mobility 2282 in your shoulder.

I have a student the 2283 other day that has arthritis in his right 2284 shoulder and he's had surgery.

And so he 2285 has absolutely zero, uh, ability to.

Just 2286 can't move at all from this position, 2287 right?

And so by having the bands on 2288 there, 2289 it's going to literally force the humerus 2290 to externally rotate, and it can put you 2291 in a very uncomfortable position.

So 2292 that's why we use the word Connect, 2293 because it gives you a little bit more of 2294 a window, right?

You can still maintain 2295 space, but have it get a little bit 2296 further back there.

It takes a little bit 2297 of pressure off the humerus.

So good 2298 question there.

2299 All right, so thoughts to consider.

For 2300 me, I have to avoid sticking my right hip 2301 out on the backstone.

I have to rotate 2302 internally in the right hip.

Second, I 2303 have to cut my butt slightly instead of 2304 having it.

The in any complexity in my 2305 spine reason is that by cupping, my upper 2306 body and hips stay together and thus 45 2307 degrees relationship between body are 2308 maintained.

Okay, so let me read that one 2309 again.

That sounds like that you pat.

Are 2310 you adding Lordosis right here to try to 2311 lock it into the position right here?

2312 That's kind of what it sounds like.

2313 That's what it sounds like.

So reason is 2314 that the cut by cupping 2315 If you start adding Lordosis right here, 2316 so you start adding this cupping down 2317 here in the spine, not only are you 2318 putting yourself in a dangerous position, 2319 But you're not going to be able to 2320 facilitate your full rotation right here 2321 because you're actually taking each 2322 vertebrae right there and starting to 2323 crush each facet joint down there, and 2324 you're not going to be able to rotate as 2325 efficiently.

2326 And also, it takes your pelvis right 2327 here, and it gets too much tilt in them.

2328 So as you start trying to rotate and 2329 start trying to load, you're not going to 2330 be able to move your hips dynamically 2331 throughout the swing.

So you want to be 2332 careful that you don't add, I kind of 2333 call it dinosaur butt to my students.

You 2334 don't want to stick your butt out like a 2335 dinosaur like this.

Where your chest gets 2336 really forward and you get a lot of this 2337 rounding because you're putting a lot of 2338 compressive force on the spine.

And like 2339 even for me right here, I can't rotate 2340 from this position.

2341 Okay, so Pat, I'm glad we had an 2342 understanding of that.

So hopefully Craig 2343 gave you the explanation that you needed 2344 in order to be able to resolve that.

2345 So we see, will you be sending replay of 2346 session 12?

So yes.

2347 So Ed, we always want to make sure that 2348 you have access to the replays because I 2349 know that I talk fast.

2350 And I know that we cover a lot of 2351 information.

And the reason why I talk 2352 fast is because we've got to get all this 2353 stuff jam-packed in there.

But we also 2354 know that you have the ability to be able 2355 to go back there and re-listen to the 2356 information.

2357 We also give you the resources like the 2358 PDF, to be able to use as checkpoints.

2359 Because everything that Craig and I say 2360 in the session is up here, we're just 2361 saying it a different way.

Okay?

And so, 2362 if you find yourself getting lost on 2363 anything, then you go back and listen to 2364 the replay.

Now we have to put a time 2365 frame on the actual replays.

Because the 2366 fact that somebody was nice enough in our 2367 previous boot camps to take the 2368 information and start passing it along.

2369 And it's proprietary information, right?

2370 This is stuff that you guys paid for, you 2371 guys should only have access to it.

2372 I don't know exactly what the time frame 2373 is.

I think it was 30 days, but they're 2374 giving a little bit more now.

We'll make 2375 sure that you have plenty of access, even 2376 when camp ends.

To be able to get the 2377 information that you need into your brain 2378 so that you know what you're working on.

2379 I'd love for you guys to be able to keep 2380 it for a lifetime, but we just can't do 2381 that.

2382 Are the swing reviews that I purchased 2383 only available during the boot camp?

No.

2384 Swing reviews are good for as long as you 2385 want them to be good for.

They never 2386 expire.

2387 We want you to be able to use this a lot 2388 of times after camp, because camp doesn't 2389 mean that we're sending you out into the 2390 world like a lost puppy dog.

It's your 2391 first day of school.

We're going to hold 2392 your hand for as many weeks as it takes.

2393 Where you're going to be able to transfer 2394 this stuff to the golf course, because 2395 what we're doing here is we're building a 2396 golf swing, a drill swing.

It's going to 2397 be the one that you want to be able to 2398 show up.

We understand that you guys have 2399 millions and millions of reps under your 2400 belt on old swing habits.

And so we're 2401 going to be, Craig and I are going to sit 2402 on the other side of the fence coaching 2403 you through this stuff.

Sometimes when we 2404 get your move as good as we want it to be 2405 in a practice swing format, Craig and I 2406 take off our instructor's hat and we put 2407 on a coach's hat.

And that coach's hat is 2408 just basically walking you through how we 2409 want you to practice this stuff in order 2410 to be able to get into the golf course.

2411 Because we know at that point you've 2412 already shown us that you know the moves.

2413 It's your job to be able to follow these 2414 practice programs.

And that's one thing 2415 that we've really kind of turned the 2416 corner and specialized in a lot lately is 2417 that people need specific practice 2418 regimens when they go out to the range.

2419 And that's something I, you know, I 2420 really work hard on a day-to-day basis 2421 with people, and it requires a lot of 2422 back and forth feedback from students.

2423 That's where the elements interview group 2424 becomes paramount.

Because again, we say 2425 something to you, you need to be able to 2426 give the information back.

So that's 2427 something you might want to explore in 2428 the future.

So, um, all right, so I'm 2429 seeing a couple questions coming in here.

2430 I'm having a very hard time keeping the 2431 left shoulder lower than the right in 2432 transition, especially with the left arm 2433 out of it.

Okay, so when you are working 2434 on this movement, You can think about it 2435 a couple different ways.

If you're 2436 focusing on the left shoulder remaining 2437 low and that's not working for you, then 2438 you can think about the right shoulder 2439 staying up behind your head.

You can also 2440 think about your back staying to the 2441 target as long as you possibly want.

The 2442 idea of this left shoulder low is to help 2443 your upper body stay wound.

2444 So the way that we want to think about it 2445 is if the left shoulder remains low when 2446 you complete the transition, then we know 2447 that your shoulders are still wound up 2448 about 45 degrees.

The minute your 2449 shoulders look like this, after you've 2450 completed the transition, then we know 2451 that your shoulders have unwound to 2452 almost a fully square position.

And what 2453 that would look like from a down-the-line 2454 perspective is when you turn, 2455 you can see that there's no part of the 2456 logo facing back to you.

2457 So there's multiple ways to be able to 2458 get this sort of movement done.

A lot of 2459 times people actually like the back-to 2460 -the-target sort of notion.

So when you 2461 start making your move in transition, 2462 if your back's facing the target, like 2463 mine is here, and I start shifting onto 2464 that left leg, I'm trying to keep my back 2465 there as much as I possibly can.

Now, 2466 under no circumstance are you going to 2467 keep it at 90 degrees or allow it to, you 2468 can't keep it at 90 degrees because if 2469 you do that, that's going to force you to 2470 close hip slide.

So you've got to allow 2471 your upper body to unwind based off of 2472 what your hips are doing.

You can keep 2473 that back to the target as long as you 2474 can, and then that's where you close up a 2475 complete move.

Yeah, and if you're 2476 struggling with it with just the lead 2477 arm, I would imagine you're struggling a 2478 little bit with it with the body because 2479 this barrel right here, Typically isn't 2480 just all of a sudden going to make 2481 somebody want to open up.

Take this golf 2482 club, exactly what you see me do up here 2483 and wind yourself up towards the top and 2484 do a couple transition reps.

Where you 2485 watch this grip end right here, as you 2486 squat the square and you're like, all 2487 right, this strip ends pointed down, the 2488 club's pointed back up, all right.

This 2489 is the move that I'm looking for.

You can 2490 even take your arm right here right now 2491 and do the same thing where you can see 2492 that this club's working down.

So I would 2493 imagine it's a little bit kind of earlier 2494 in the move, you know, even in your body 2495 drill, it's just adding the lead arms, 2496 making it change that much.

So I'd go 2497 back and put just a few more reps on, you 2498 know, putting the club across the chest 2499 and really making sure that it stays 2500 down.

Yeah, exactly, great point there.

2501 So, um, Glenn just came in with a comment 2502 here.

After that said.

It helps me best 2503 to think about keeping my chest away from 2504 the target.

That's another good point.

2505 The one thing that I've run into with 2506 giving that information over to a bulk of 2507 students is is that?

By keeping the chest 2508 away from the target, you can either 2509 slide okay, or what you can do is.

A lot 2510 of times, people want to keep your upper 2511 body back when they do this.

And so they 2512 start increasing secondary access zone 2513 right away, and that's, that's an 2514 exaggerated version, so I'll show you 2515 kind of.

Like, what I would normally see 2516 is when people keep your chest back here, 2517 they start shifting their pelvis and 2518 their chest stays in this direction.

So 2519 again, we're trying to get you all to the 2520 same position, it's just a matter of how 2521 you get there.

And so if you find that, 2522 keeping your chest back, 2523 or keeping your back to the target, or 2524 left shoulder down, or your right 2525 shoulder up, that's fine.

Just note that 2526 you want to have your shoulders wound 45 2527 degrees and you want to have your hips 2528 back to a square position.

If you have 2529 those things in a good spot and you've 2530 got 60% of your weight on your lead side 2531 with your head, then you're doing just 2532 fine.

If you're having a hard time still 2533 at that point and none of those things 2534 are working for you, Jim, then send in a 2535 swing for review.

Let Craig and I get to 2536 work on it because we can figure out 2537 different ways.

And we can draw some 2538 lines on the screen for you and show you 2539 different ways to be able to get your 2540 body into the correct spot.

2541 All right, so David, thank you very much.

2542 Hopefully you have a good rest of your 2543 weekend.

All right, so today, Terry says, 2544 in today's session, the arms and hands 2545 are moved automatically in a down swing 2546 as a product of moving through squat and 2547 square and post up.

Yep.

2548 I've heard golfers say swing the hands 2549 toward right field.

Question, with RST, 2550 do the hands automatically swing toward 2551 right field?

Or with RST, is the hand 2552 moving toward right field not even 2553 applicable?

So it's not even applicable.

2554 So that sort of instruction is you 2555 focusing on the arms and the golf club 2556 first before focusing on the body.

You 2557 have to remember, the golf club is 2558 designed to be swung on an inclined 2559 plane, and it's designed to rotate.

2560 So believe it or not, when your hands 2561 come down into the hitting area, your 2562 hands are actually going to be working on 2563 an arc.

If you're swinging out to right 2564 field, you're going to be working on 2565 fixing the thing that took me out of 2566 professional golf, and it's really 2567 frustrating to go out there and hit the 2568 blocks, and a big old quick hook, and 2569 Craig battled with it himself.

2570 That's where you start getting things too 2571 far from the inside.

So if you start 2572 thinking about the direction that your 2573 hands and arms are going through the 2574 hitting area, you're doing it wrong.

Now, 2575 on the flip side of that, if you've had 2576 some sort of wackadoo movement with your 2577 hands and your arms and your swing, then 2578 in some very few one-off cases, we will 2579 get you to try to feel like you're moving 2580 in a completely opposite direction, okay?

2581 Again, those are very, very one-off.

2582 That's a very special kind of movement.

2583 But in this case, you shouldn't have to 2584 be worried about it.

If your hands and 2585 arms come down into the spot that we just 2586 taught you how to do it, okay?

Right into 2587 this position, right here, all you gotta 2588 do is let things go.

And at that point, 2589 when the club is flying past your body, 2590 wherever your hands and your arms go, 2591 should be a byproduct of the club pulling 2592 your body around.

And we'll talk a lot 2593 about that on on next Saturday.

So good 2594 question, though, very good question.

We 2595 get that a lot.

We get questions about, 2596 you know, other ways of instruction that 2597 I might have heard in the past, and we 2598 have no problems answering that by no 2599 means.

Are we ever terry?

Are we trying 2600 to bash other methodology after we're not 2601 trying to pull this stuff apart and say 2602 that anything is bad.

We'll blow holes in 2603 it if we need to, but we want to make 2604 sure you understand that that sort of 2605 instruction is more or less like band-aid 2606 style instruction, where if you guys came 2607 into us, like you came here to Orlando, 2608 and you had some sort of shot that was 2609 bothering you, we could catch you in 2610 about three seconds.

I could.

I mean, 2611 we've done this a long time.

That's not 2612 me being arrogant or pompous.

That's just 2613 knowing, you know, how the ball swing 2614 works.

And I could probably get you to 2615 hit the ball pretty reasonable in that 2616 short period of time.

But that again.

2617 Is not going to fix the root to the 2618 problem.

The the golf swing has thousands 2619 and thousands of cause and effect 2620 relationships built in it.

For instance, 2621 you know, if you load your right side, 2622 your spine starts going the opposite 2623 direction.

You have no idea what that 2624 does.

To hands and arms in the swing 2625 plane at the top of the swing, it forces 2626 a lot of redirect, it forces the club 2627 face angle to start shifting around.

2628 There's all kinds of things that you can 2629 run into.

So, um, that's a good question, 2630 though.

Thank you very much for asking 2631 that one.

So Glenn says, it helps me 2632 best.

Oh yeah, we already answered that 2633 one, or we already commented on that one.

2634 In full speed, when the ideal time to 2635 start the transition, have you finished 2636 fully rotating the vaccine?

Yes.

So we 2637 talked a lot about that actually in 2638 session number two.

2639 So when you complete your body turn, so 2640 when you make your full 90 degrees turn, 2641 that's when you can start moving back to 2642 the other side.

If you look at it on 2643 camera and you're only at 80 degrees and 2644 you're starting to move back a bit 2645 because you're really anxious, then make 2646 sure that you finish off this turn.

2647 Really, really important.

That's 2648 something that's very common for people 2649 to start moving back to the other side.

2650 All right, so it looks like everybody's 2651 winding down, all right.

So, with that 2652 being said, we hope everybody has a great 2653 rest of your weekend.

Hopefully you guys 2654 got a chance to devour a lot of 2655 information over these last, uh, week and 2656 a half or so, and you guys are all ready 2657 to rock and roll on Tuesday.

This is 2658 actually, it's been two weeks now.

So on 2659 Tuesday, we're going to just simply start 2660 putting the trail hand back in the mix.

2661 We're going to let follow along these 2662 movements.

Craig's going to get ready to 2663 punch all of you, 2664 And then we're going to give you guys a 2665 very, very large number of days to be 2666 able to get this stuff ironed out so that 2667 we can start putting the release stuff to 2668 it on the following Saturday, which is 2669 where the fun starts to happen.

That's 2670 our favorite day.

Because you guys get to 2671 start seeing what it's like and feel what 2672 it's like.

To actually move it off from 2673 one side of the body to the other.

So we 2674 hope you guys have a great rest of your 2675 weekend.

Hopefully everybody's staying 2676 safe out there.

Hopefully you guys 2677 enjoyed the information.

2678 For those of you that might have missed 2679 anything during the presentation, you 2680 will have access to the replays.

2681 If you have any other stuff that you want 2682 to talk with us about further down the 2683 road, then by all means, you know, use 2684 this interview system or use the forums 2685 to help.

2686 But I hope you guys do have a great rest 2687 of your weekend.

Anything you want to 2688 add?

No.

Thank you very much, team.

Get 2689 to work.

I know this is going to be a 2690 little bit of a challenge, but remember, 2691 next week you'll have more time to kind 2692 of develop the sense of what you're doing 2693 with the body and the club.

So just go at 2694 your own pace this weekend.

We're going 2695 to keep really hitting these points on 2696 Tuesday, so you're going to have some 2697 time to get this done.

And yes, Daniel, 2698 your arms will still be moving as you 2699 start the transition as well.

So as your 2700 hands and arms are going back and you 2701 start moving in the other direction, the 2702 hands and arms, the momentum and inertia 2703 will still pull them back in the 2704 direction.

It's very minimal.

You're not 2705 going to see a ton of stretch back in 2706 that side.

But it will see that the hands 2707 and arms want to still continue to carry 2708 back there.

2709 Also, if you keep your wrists supple 2710 enough, you might even see a little bit 2711 of down cock in the club.

But not to the 2712 point where you come Lagosaurus Rexes.

2713 And then you come down in the hitting 2714 area where you have this angle that we 2715 have no chance of getting grabbed.

okay 2716 and giving you a golf lesson on how to 2717 try to get rid of lag when we have too 2718 much of it is our least favorite golf 2719 lesson to get because to teach somebody 2720 to do the exact antithesis of what 2721 they've always been trying to do where 2722 they're trying to keep the club from 2723 getting past their hands and to teach you 2724 how to throw it is a it's a daunting 2725 process excessive lag is a lot a lot 2726 harder to fix than not having enough 2727 exactly exactly so all right guys have a 2728 great rest of your weekend we will see 2729 you on tuesday