Bootcamp 7, Sept 29 2020, Session 6

Session 6 of 6

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Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy.

Modern medicine.

Good afternoons.

Good morning to some of you that are over on the west coast or even in central time zone, but maybe good evening to some of you people that are further east than us.

Welcome back.

Graduation day, big day for you guys.

We're going to be starting to put the release together, starting to make this stuff feel like a full golf swing.

So a pretty fun day for both of us.

We've got some different stuff we're going to be throwing at you guys today.

Hopefully everybody's had a wonderful week.

Saw a lot of great stuff again through the process.

You guys have been the rock star group, so congratulations on that.

So we got, um, as usual, we got people checking in right now.

So welcome Lee checking in from San Diego, Bill checking in from Naples, Ryan checking in from Denver.

How you doing guys?

Craig checking in from Madison, Glenn checking in, Glenn checking in from Kentucky.

Hi from Michigan.

So this is a big, big day for you guys, big day.

So this is where we make it a golf swing.

And Craig and I were just talking a lot about how we're going to give you guys this information today.

We're going to do kind of the old reverse engineered way, or we're going to give you guys kind of the full swing format.

And guess what we decided on, we're going to do a little bit above, we decided that we're going to give you a couple different options.

To be able to get this stuff blended in your golf swing and be able to get it to the golf course.

We feel like, you know, we know, at this point, you guys all process information a little bit differently.

Some, some people might be a little bit further along with their swing changes, and some people might be a little bit behind.

And so the reverse engineered way that we're about to show you today is a great way.

For those people that have been maybe feeling like they're falling a little bit behind.

I have gotten a lot of people to tell us in the past that, you know, Kind of reverse engineering and 9 to 3 release drills typically is the best way for them because it allows them to hit balls, allows them to start feeling compression, allows them to have, you know, the ball flying off the book face pretty darn well, and it also allows you to give it some really sounding back position.

So that's why Craig and I have decided to do both.

Yeah, why not?

How's everything going with you?

Yeah, I'm going all right.

Pretty good.

Yeah.

Busy this week.

We got here okay today track was a lot better.

So that was a little bit smoother sail.

Nice.

It's a little chilly outside today.

A little nip in the air.

Yeah, it's nice.

Sense of fall coming.

Yeah, you can actually feel the humidity starting to deplete just a little bit, which is nice.

So hopefully everybody's doing awesome.

I see we got Ari checking in from the Netherlands.

Bob checking in from Regina.

Gary checking in from Kansas.

Celia from Denver.

Kevin, welcome from Boston.

Hopefully everybody's doing awesome, awesome, awesome.

Hopefully everybody's had a good couple of days working on the reps.

Craig and I were just talking as well before we came on today about all the good stuff that we got to see through the swing review process this week.

Got one specific fault that he and I are going to touch base on today.

That's going to really help you in the grand scheme of things with your transition.

And I knew that this was going to be one of those things that we started to see a little bit more as we started to try to go a little bit faster and we started to try to get you guys to plug things together.

We're going to hopefully nip that in the bud.

We're going to give you guys a good couple of checkpoints that you can look for, specifically that when you're looking at it from a face-on perspective, then you'll know that you're in a perfect spot.

So anything else you want to add there?

No.

Just status quo, huh?

Status quo.

All right.

So big day for you guys.

So graduation day, we're going to be putting the release stuff into your golf swings.

So we're going to be actually taking the golf club, believe it or not, and moving it from one side of the body to the other, which is what golf's all about.

That's how we get the golf ball to fly in the direction of the target, hopefully.

And so we're going to talk about the importance of training your lead arm and your lead wrist perfectly so that the golf club reacts perfectly.

And so you guys will see that there's going to be probably some things that you've never heard before, even through our video processes.

A lot of this stuff might sound like some familiar information.

But Craig and I have taken the vow today that we are going to actually skip the interactive workout.

Because we're going to introduce two solid plans for you guys to be able to take this release stuff and be able to inject it into your golf swing.

When we get all said and done today is we want you guys to be able to move the golf club fair.

With some fairly good grace here from one side of the body to the other.

And we also want you to start being able to hit some practice balls, right?

Because when you start hitting some practice balls, you can start feeling what it's like to compress the golf ball properly.

You look out, you see the ball flag, you know, on this nice, penetrating ball flag.

And then you also get start getting some feedback over to us.

Then, basically, what that becomes is is ball striking drills, and ball striking drills are fun because where you can start being, really, really nitpicky on your golf leg.

You can say, hey, my golf leg's a little bit too low, it's a little bit too high, maybe it's got a little bit too much movement in it.

And that's where it becomes fun for Craig and I, because we're not having to necessarily work on a lot of the big picture body movements anymore.

We're just working on little, subtle manipulations that are to the umpteenth degree.

To be able to get you to do what you want to do with your golf leg.

So definitely a fun day.

It's our favorite day.

Not because it's the final session, but it's because it feels like a golf swing now.

And I think that's the thing.

It feels like a golf swing, but also.

This is, I always say, like, this is what separate separates the amateur from the pro that when you really start Understanding how to release the club properly with a golf ball.

It's for the vast majority of people out there It's like oh, this is something I haven't done before like this is different, right?

This is a challenge I look forward to doing because you actually get to see some results from, you know, When you're sitting here, working on your body position, you're like, I don't know What is this gonna do with my golf ball?

What is this gonna do with my flight?

Well, now today, you actually get to start seeing what all the work you've done at this point, like how it's actually going to pay off, right?

You're going to have to be able to use the golf ball, and the flight of the golf ball is feedback to know what you're doing things correctly.

Which, again, I know a lot of you guys like to be able to practice and hit golf balls.

I'm that same way.

When I go out there, it's hard for me to just stay committed, just doing body movements after body movement.

So I like to, you know, kind of sprinkle in some golf balls here and there.

And so the drills that we're going to give you today are going to allow you to actually do that.

Um, and that's really important when you start going through the ball striking part of the process, that you keep track of how you're hitting in relation to the center of the base.

And you also keep track of the direction that's going in because that's going to be imperative information that as you guys start to move forward beyond boot camp.

To be able to relay to both Craig and I, And any of the other instructors on the website to be able to help you make the adjustments that need to be in place in order to make that thing fly as good as you want it to.

So definitely a big day.

Big, big, big day.

So we're going to let everybody get seated here just for a couple minutes.

If any of you guys have any questions, feel free to post those up here for the next couple minutes.

I see a question coming in from Glenn.

What club do you suggest for beginning to hit balls?

Seven, eight, nine iron, somewhere in there.

That's perfectly fine.

Seven, eight, nine iron.

The shorter the clubs, the less momentum and inertia you're going to have in it.

Typically, we'll do these drills.

Craig and I will probably have a seven or eight iron in our hands.

That's a good way for you to do it.

If you want to go a little bit shorter, but you want to go to a wedge, you can do that.

But, you know, Stay away from the longer clubs at first, because momentum and inertia can be your worst enemy at points.

Because you'll feel like you're doing things correctly, and then you look at it on camera and you're just not.

All right, so.

Quiet group today.

Everybody's quiet.

Everybody's super focused, baby.

Everybody's just in tune.

Today we get to add a golf pulse.

I like it.

I'm excited.

I like it.

So just a couple minutes here for everybody to get seated so that we have none of the latecomers missing any important information.

What's going on in the world of golf right now?

I have no idea.

I guess somebody had a drone shot of Augusta National the other day.

Oh, yeah.

Wait a minute.

They're like, this isn't what, it's what it usually looks like, it's all browned out from the summer and stuff.

Is that that they usually don't have the course opener this time, right?

And they're like, this is supposed to be ready in six weeks.

I'm like, guys, it's Augusta, they'll have it, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So then actually, I had a client of mine, Um, go play Kings Valley yesterday.

And I don't know if you've heard anything about it, but it's Tiger's first like, full developed golf course.

Reading that, and um, he said, it was absolutely incredible.

He was so excited.

He made two birdies while he was out there.

He said, the place is unreal.

And I just was watching videos on it last week with the Payne's Valley company.

They were kicking things off out of there.

Pretty awesome place.

So if you get a chance to look it up, Payne's Valley.

It's in Missouri.

It's for where it is.

I've heard of it, though.

And I just had a student invite me.

A lot of our people travel and go to these golf firms and stuff like that.

But with the Augusta shift, a lot of people can't do it in November because they always plan that week in April.

One of my students just emailed me.

He's like, look, We've got two tee times at Sage Valley and two tee times at Champions Preserve, Augusta Week and a house for the whole week.

So if you can make it up, come on up.

Are you going?

We had boot camp that week.

I'll handle it.

I was like, come on, guys.

Kill it.

I'll handle it.

Have you been before?

I've played Sage once.

It's fantastic.

Yeah, yeah.

So that's an incredible opportunity.

I was just like, and I looked at the schedule.

I was like, oh, we can't.

We'll talk a little bit about that on the camera because you shouldn't miss that opportunity.

So, all right.

So anyways, it looks like you guys are pretty calm and quiet today.

It looks like you guys are ready for the information.

I know it's Saturday.

I know you guys have a lot of things to do.

So we're going to do our best to be able to keep this as clean and concise as possible because.

Quite honestly, there's a lot of information that we need to put into your brains.

So that's why we decided to skip the interactive workout part of today.

We are going to be going through those checkpoints throughout the session today.

Because of the fact that you're going to need to have that stuff be in your brain a little bit more.

But what we're going to do today is we're going to spend some time going through how to train your lead arm, how to work perfectly from one side of the body to the other.

We're going to show you the ways that we want you to stack these other pieces in, like adding more moving parts, double mix.

And then we're going to give you two ways to practice this.

We're going to give you the way that.

I like a lot.

And this is for those people at home that might feel like you're a little bit behind with where we're at boot camp.

I like this idea of going back and doing like a little bit of a reverse engineered way.

Where we start more from the bottom up, where we start working on these little release drills, we start adding more moving parts to it.

And then for those of you that have really made a lot of good progress on, you know, your load, your backswing, your transition, your post up.

Those of you that are going to probably want to pay close attention to what we're going to do in the second part of the setup today.

Because again, both options are going to be viable, and both options we don't typically do within a boot camp.

But we want to be able to give that information to you today so that you can take and make the choice yours.

So I see tour checking in from Maryland, Welcome tour.

Hopefully you're doing well.

Looks like we are all ready to rock and roll now, so let's talk about.

We have one fault that we want to discuss within transition, okay, and it's a very, very common fault.

And it's stemmed from when you actually turn your body over your right side.

You're increasing axis tilt to the point where, if you look at Craig's spine here.

Okay, add address.

Let's go back down to address and show him.

Okay, so you can see here that the spine is just inside.

Oops.

Believe me.

Now, as he turns his body, you're going to see that his tilt is now increasing.

Okay, so you see that the tilt has increased quite a bit.

Now, if he were to make his normal move and transition that we've been teaching you, where we sit down into that left side.

We keep that lead shoulder low.

When he makes this move over to his lead side, it's going to be much harder for him to get fully back over here onto that lead leg.

What I've been seeing a lot from the people this week is that we get over onto that side, and we've increased tilt, and then we make this nice movement transition, but you were nowhere close to being able to get your head back in that original position.

Craig and I were talking a little bit before we came back on camera today, and I've been using a line when I show people from a face-on perspective.

on the outer portion of the back.

I'm going to show that to you first.

And Crank generally just uses the head position.

He finds that that's the best way for us to be able to describe this to you.

But when you make your move back over to your lead side, if you notice here, if we draw a line down the outer portion of Crank's back here, you notice how it's pretty well upright.

For those of you that have too much tilt off the ball and you're trying to get back over to your lead side, you're going to notice that this line has got a lot of tilt coming up.

You want your upper part of your back to feel like it's pretty well upright.

Okay, that's a good kind of feel sensation that kind of falls in line with what we're talking about through the first couple sessions we were talking about.

Transition is feeling like your upper body falls back in position.

Now.

Remember, this is all stemmed, or it's a byproduct of how you've turned your body over your, your trail side going back.

So if you're noticing an increase in tilt like Greg is showing you here.

The best way to fix this.

Okay is to make sure that you pull that right shoulder up and behind your head, and let your left shoulder work down underneath your chin.

Okay, so you're going to feel like you're steepening your shoulder plane, just a little tiny bit, excuse me.

Okay, that's the best way to fix this.

And when you look at it, You want to make sure that the tilt that you started with at the address is very much in line with what you had at the top of it also.

And I tell you what, this is normally not here.

I was wondering, I'm going to move this off camera.

So I'm not even sure why that was there.

I hit someone, I was like, wait a minute.

Okay, so we have a little production.

Problem there.

So, all right, so again, that's for those of you players that have noticed the transition, that you are maybe a little bit too far off the late side.

Where?

If you looked at the outer portion of your back and you see that line coming out there, a pretty, pretty good size tilt.

Now, going back to session number two, Craig and I talked about this quite a bit.

If you allow your head to come back into its original position when you complete your transition.

Or even give it the appearance that it's slightly in front of where it was when it started.

Then you're going to have this position held down because, Honestly, if you increase tilt, your head's going to be further back.

And we're not talking about a whole lot here.

It's not like you're seeing like a big gap between your head where it was originally addressed, where you actually have it in transition.

It's just a small amount.

And that small amount is a few degrees.

And that few degrees actually translates to some swing plane issues.

And it translates to the bottom of the swing arc starting to shift a little bit further back.

Yeah, I mean, when you think of everything kind of relative, so to speak, this little bit of head motion, if you start to have a little bit too much.

When we talk about shoulder blade glide, it's a two-inch movement.

But this two-inch movement of the shoulder, the shoulder blade glide, rotates you 45 degrees.

So if I have just the tiniest bit of shift in my head or falling back right here, think about what it's doing out here, the amount that it's moving out here in the space, so to speak.

So when you think about these little tiny adjustments on the inside, it has a ton of effect on the outside.

Right.

And so just again, we're going to give you another example here.

I'm going to have Craig swing up to the top of this gossip from a down-the-line perspective.

And I'm going to show you when he takes his spine and he leans it back away from the target, just a couple degrees, so just a small amount.

We're not going to exaggerate this time, but I want you to watch the shaft playing very closely here.

So what you can see here is that it starts to shallow out quite a bit now.

This can be one of your best friends or can be one of your worst enemies.

Now when you look at him from a face-on perspective, now here to hold that same position.

When you see that swing plane shallow out like that, it was like, Okay, that looks great, right?

shallow, the swing plane, it's not.

Remember, if you come in too far from the inside, you're going to start putting yourself in a position where you're going to save things.

Also, if you look at his upper body now, you can see that his lead shoulder is back.

This is really, really dangerous on your body, number one, because you're starting to compress your lower vertebrae again.

It's also really bad for your golf swing because you're now shifting the bottom of the swing arc back.

When that bottom of the swing arc shifts back and you're expecting it to be up in here, and it's back there.

You're either going to stuff the club into the ground, so you're going to hit that really, really embarrassing heavy shot, or you're going to start flipping it with your right hand really quickly, and you're going to start hitting it really thin.

You're going to start hitting it in two different directions.

The bottom of the swing arc is really, Really important for you to understand that it's being dictated by the position of your lead shoulder.

You've got to make sure that it moves far enough over in transition, And you can monitor that with making sure that you don't have an increase until it going back, and making sure that your head position comes back into the lead side.

That's the only fault that I wanted to address today because Craig and I talked about it.

Again, you guys were rock stars.

For the amount of people that we have in the room over the last five sessions, we saw very few faults.

I saw people moving dynamically.

I saw people moving fluidly.

I saw a combination of everything.

I saw some people still having some faults.

That's okay, okay, you know, we're going to find faults in everything and the thing.

And I also saw people that were still doing their body drills.

They're like, Hey, Craig, I just don't have this down yet.

I need to put some more focus on this, and that's perfectly fine as well, right?

Exactly.

So we're, we're trained and we've looked at the golf swing for a long period of time.

And I don't like using the word perfect when I do a spring view, because I'm like, we can always find a little fault in there.

You gotta remember we're trying to pull everything apart.

And so even if you're doing things at a very high level, like 90, 95%, that little small thing that we might point out doesn't mean you're doing poorly.

There's just a lot of components here that have cause and effect relationship to it.

And so we've got to boil things down and make sure that you understand that if you get these big picture things in place, Then, chances are you're going to be able to release the golf ball with some dust out here and you're going to be able to get the golf ball with some speed.

So that's it.

So that's the only fault I want you guys to pay attention to is make sure that you don't increase tilt.

Going back the way that you can combat that.

It's just trying to feel like the right shoulder is moving a little bit more up, left shoulder is moving a little bit more down.

If you still see this tilt increasing, then you can use the wall drill.

That was something that was really beneficial to a lot of people, where they stick their head up against the wall, and then you just continue to kind of gradually pull yourself back, and then you'll have much more center rotation.

Peace game, right?

All right.

So, release time.

So, for those of you that have ever sat through any of our release videos on the website, I'm sure a lot of you have.

This stuff is going to be far different than what you've probably ever heard before.

Okay, And the reason for that is because every single person that's ever come into town that's either worked with Craig in a clinic, or with Chuck and I in clinics.

Or anybody that's ever worked on the release, Drills has always said this one very common thing was, Under no circumstance, through any of the videos, or how much, we write it down, or we put it in big, bold letters.

Would they have ever thought it was this tension-free.

That's the first thing that we hear from everybody when we start getting our hands on them.

So I want you to remember today when we're going through this drill.

We want you to be uncomfortable, uncomfortably tension-free, okay?

Because remember, your job is to get out of the way.

What's the definition of release?

What's the definition of release?

Let it go.

Let it go.

It doesn't mean to hang on for dear life.

It means to let go, right?

So this is the fun part.

This is why you'll see a lot of our still images that we have of tour players, where you see their trail hand coming completely off the golf ball.

They're letting things fly down there.

There nobody's really filling out the release, okay, there's.

There's been a lot of kind of back and forth with this stuff.

They're all letting the thing fly out there, every single one of them, that's how they're maximizing speed, because you have two options, all right, and when we talk about?

What we were talking about in the first part of the session today is we're going to start moving the golf club from one side of the body to the other.

Well, the two options that you have is number one.

You can take your body, you can lock your arms in place, and you can turn your body as hard and fast as you want to move the club from one side of the body to the other.

But remember one thing, your body can't turn that fast.

And your spine hates two things.

It hates sheer force and it hates compression, right?

So the more that you turn with a stick in your hands and you try to get it going fast, The more stress you're going to put on your body and the lack of efficiency that your golf swing is going to have.

Now, the second option, which is what we're going to be teaching you today, Is to get your golf club to move from one side of the body to the other by simply letting your wrists and your forearms rotate.

Now, if you do this movement in the golf swing and you do it with very little effort, then this is when you start meeting the criteria of what we teach here, the effortless power that's on our mass head of our website.

All of this work that you've just done with us over the last two and a half weeks is all this heavy lifting.

That's now going to help produce a lot of speed through the release.

We alluded to this a little bit the other day, where we said, we want you to think about your hands and arms being more or less passive conduits that are helping you transfer energy from your body.

That's why you just did all this work, And that's why we didn't let you move the pump from one side because all of that stuff that you're doing.

It's important for us to be able to load and swing up in the correct order.

That's what it's all about.

Remember, in order for us to be able to swing that golf club at 100 miles an hour, we've got to have 32 pounds of muscle.

We don't have that in our shoulders and our arms, but we do have it available to us in our biggest surface area muscles, our lats, our chunkiest muscles, our glutes, our abs, our obliques.

Those are the muscles that you're getting contracted, And those are eventually going to help you translate to more speed as you become more proficient with the movements.

Right, and the big thing with this, and the image that always seems to help my students is, To really start to understand that the release, or the point of our release, is to get the club moving independently of the body.

A lot of people have been taught that they're supposed to take their chest and square up the club face with their chest.

But the last thing that you want is the club head speed tied to the rate of your rotation, because the club's only going to be able to move as fast as you can rotate.

The image and the kind of thought process that you need with this is that what you're trying to get to do.

Is to get this club to work independently of you.

That's the whip, that's the snapping of the talent algae that Chuck uses a lot.

When you do that, that's where you get that maximum speed and that effortless speed.

Because I know, especially in my playing career, until I started with rotary, I was taught the same thing take my body and even towards the target as fast as I can.

That also ended my professional career because of that.

So when you have the image of the club flying down the fairway with you doing very little, or almost kind of the proverbial slamming on the brakes.

That's going to be where you really get this exactly.

So the less you do down at the bottom, the better off you're going to be.

And so it's a very common thing that we actually hear in the way of golf instruction.

You can hear it on any YouTube video out there, you can even hear it from Nick Fallow.

He sits in the booth every weekend.

The first tip that he passes along is, Folks, you got to turn your chest to dating, which in fact, that's the last thing in the world that you want to do.

Okay, and we'll blow holes in that all day long.

Now, you are going to see a lot of tour players turn their body through the hitting area.

In fact, There is a company out there called K-Best that has measured tour players and where they're at as far as their shoulder line is concerned at impact.

We don't care.

We don't care.

Okay, if they're open 22 degrees, 28 degrees, again, Remember the big fact that I gave you guys last session was?

81% of those guys have sustained a golf-related injury that keeps them out of golf for eight weeks or more.

Again, it's not their fault that they're doing this stuff.

That's how they were taught.

They were taught to turn a little bit more through the hitting area.

What we're trying to do is we're trying to find the balance point where you can move as efficiently as possible, but also protect and preserve your body.

Just remember that because I know at some point today when we finish up, you guys are going to ask the question, well, I was taught I got to turn my chest through the hitting area.

Again, we'll blow holes in that all day long.

If you want to put your max speed point somewhere out here in front of you, where it doesn't matter, and not down here at the bottom of the arc, then you can turn your chest through the hitting area.

But remember, the golf club is being swung on an incline plane.

With it being swung on an incline plane, The club face needs to rotate in order for the golf ball to be able to fly straight in relationship to that plane.

If the face stops rotating, you can think about this.

I'm sure you've all heard somebody say this at one point.

Johnny Miller has probably said it more times than any person on the planet.

This person holds the club face square to the target longer than anybody on the planet.

Absolutely not happening.

The club face is always rotating.

It's just rotating at a rate like.

250 to 350 degrees per second.

That you're not going to be able to sit there and measure with your opposite, right.

It's just rotating very subtly, it's not flipping over drastically.

So when you look at your divots on the ground, you can see that these things look like nice little dollar bill strips or bacon strips, right?

It's all about how you get the club delivered through the dating area and how you're going to do very little to make it move from one side.

Now, here's one point that Craig and I like to make you guys.

It's kind of funny, all right.

There's this great movie that nobody on this planet saw, including myself.

This is something you can write down in your notes.

It's just a good way for you to remember this.

It's a great movie.

Nobody saw it.

Some of you at home might have seen it.

It's called Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.

I don't know if any of you saw it.

I didn't see it.

I did see the trailer for the movie.

I saw there was this kid movie named Lil Balbo.

Lil Balbo says, you ain't in control unless you're out of control.

I was like, holy smokes, that's it.

He's finally said something of substance in this world.

That's exactly what the release is.

It's getting out of control.

It's letting things fly.

And that's where you guys have got to grab onto the concept.

We don't want you to have to do any work.

So if you look at your first checkpoint on the slide today, the release should be freewheeling and natural.

Let the club release.

Again, what does a golf club design do?

Swing on an incline plane and it's designed to rotate.

So it's going to want to do all that stuff for you.

Now, if you come down in the hitting area and your swing plane is a little less desirable, maybe you have the club coming too far from the inside.

or maybe you have a club coming a little bit more from the outside, then you're going to have to do something.

But we just taught you over the last couple of days where we want your hands and your arms to come down where?

Well, We want your hands and arms to be down in front of your trail.

Thigh, with the club shaft parallel to the ground and the button, and the club pointed down the target line.

Okay?

That's what I'm talking about.

If you get it into this spot, then you can let this stuff happen that we're about to teach you.

If you're in a lackluster spot, Then don't work on what we're about to teach you, because you're going to start finding your ball flying all over the place.

And so there's a lot of times when people are like, that you're like, okay, I feel pretty free -flowing.

And you have to remember, swing playing plays a really big part of it.

So if you start getting things a little bit flatter and a little bit deeper, then you're going to see a much higher rate of closure coming through.

Ball's going to start wanting to go a little bit low on the left.

I see you smile over your face.

Yeah, there you go.

You're welcome.

All right.

So the idea is, is now that we've got you into this delivery point, now let's train you how to use it.

Right?

So for those of you at home that want to work on this, the reverse engineered way, like I was talking about in the start of the weekend.

This is a great plan for you and for those of you that are going to be working on this in more of the full swing format.

We still want you to start with what we're doing here, but you're going to be able to go up to the top of your swing eventually.

Stable this piece back in there, anything you want to add to that.

No, I like it, I like it, okay.

So before we actually get the golf club in our hands, we want to go ahead and start training.

I'm going to be talking to you from a right-handed golfer perspective.

I'm not trying to tell you left-handers that you're not important out there.

I just don't want to create confusion when I start going from trail side to lead, side to left to right.

I'm going to be talking as a right-handed golfer today.

What I want you to do is I want you to take your set of positions.

Those of you at home can set up with us and you can do this along with us.

I want you to move yourself into impact.

Impact is just basically going to be your lead hip shifts over, opens up to about 35.

You don't need to be all the way into this big 45 degree position.

It's going to be a little bit uncomfortable if you're standing there static for a little bit, because you're going to be creating a little bit more secondary axis.

Still, shoulder line is going to be nice and square.

And you're going to have this lead arm just hanging there like a spaghetti noodle, okay, so this left arm is hanging down freely.

Then what you want to do is you want to think about this being like a pivot point.

Okay, your shoulder and you're just going to let your left arm swing back, okay, so if your body turns just a little bit with your left arm, perfectly fine.

Now, the first checkpoint for you at home is to make sure that if you have a glove or a watch on, that your glove logo or your watch are facing directly out in front of you.

Okay?

That's the first checkpoint.

So as your hand gets outside your trail thigh, you're going to make sure that your knee wrist is pointed directly out in front of you.

Okay?

Now, from here, what you're going to do is you're going to think about your arm being like a grandfather claw.

Okay?

And it's going to be swinging underneath this pivot point.

Okay?

And it's going to be moving to the other side of the body.

Go ahead.

And you're just going to focus on your left wrist rotating to now when it's outside, On this, on this particular lead side, that your left wrist is flat, okay, flat and pointed directly behind you.

So if Craig has a glove or a watch on, it's now facing directly behind him, okay, now, if you watch what happens, okay?

If he focuses on these two specific checkpoints, where it's out in front of him here and behind him over here, then it impact what it's going to look like, it's going to be flat and pointed down the target line.

A lot of you start trying to make this, all this manipulation happen again.

Remember, Golf Club is going to do a lot of that work for you.

You don't need to actually start manipulating unless you're trying to hit a specialty shot.

So we want you just to think about the two checkpoints on each side of the golf ball.

So left wrist out in front of you, left wrist pointed back behind you.

Now, when you look over at this position, really important that your wrist is flat.

Do you want to turn up the line for me?

So when you stop in this position, you make sure that you're anatomically flat.

would be cupped.

That's a big no-no.

Now, I know you probably at home are like, well, why would we even care?

The belt belt's already gone at this point.

You don't want to start training your left wrist to get cupped.

It will happen when momentum and inertia starts pulling at it at very, very high rates of speed.

But for now, when you're training something really small, you want to be perfect with it.

Now, on a scale from 1 to 10, correct?

Tension levels in your left arm, when you're letting it swing back and forth underneath your shoulders, what do you feel?

0.

5.

0.

5.

Right?

It's not a big workout program.

Okay, this is just a relaxed movement, and it's think about it this way, it's swinging underneath the shoulder, it's nice and relaxed.

So you're just going to take your left arm and you're just going to let it swing back just outside your trail thigh.

And you're going to focus on the two checkpoints on each side.

So you're going to get over here, you're going to feel like, Okay, my watch, my global over facing right behind me.

Everything's nice and flat.

And once you can do it, to the point where you can get your arm, just to swing back and forth.

Nice and relaxed.

And this is the only time in God's beautiful green earth.

Are we going to ever let you rep screen Now, for those of you that don't know what restringing is at this point, go back and watch some of our other videos.

Okay, Restringing is just you trying to do a whole bunch of reps where you have no idea what thing's going on with your body.

You hate that, okay?

When you get to a point where you can get your left arm moving back and forth freely, and you look at it on camera, and you hit these two checkpoints specifically, and then you can kind of back up and look at impact and notice that, hey, my left wrist is nice and flat, it's pointed down the target line, then you're ready to start doing what?

Well, you can start putting the golf foot back in there.

You might notice that for those of you that have followed along with five minutes to a perfect release or even fixed release, that we're not doing it in the exact order.

We're not stopping it.

We're going to advance you guys through this stuff pretty quickly.

We're going to give you ways to be able to practice this stuff.

Because we've noticed on swing reviews and we've noticed, as people are going through camps, that this is the best way to get people to respond.

For now, when you start getting the movement done, and you can keep that left arm moving, and it is a free-flowing Kenny G concert, like with a little bit of lavender and candle meal on the side, then you know you're ready to start putting the club in the mix.

Okay, now, when we get the golf club in the mix, grip pressure is paramount, okay?

We will say back three fingers of your lead hand are the ones that we want.

Pressure in the golf club.

Think about it being like a little baby tube of toothpaste, where you don't want to squeeze any of the toothpaste out.

And you don't want the toothpaste bottle flying out of your hands, so it's just enough to hang on to it.

For those of you at home that want to grab a toothpaste bottle, go ahead, do it, take the cap off of it and start moving your arm back and forth to get the correct tension through your grip.

Okay, so you want to be light, light, light on your pressure, you don't need to squeeze this thing.

Okay, choking the golf club is not going to do any good, okay?

All it's going to do is just slow down the rate of rotation in it.

And you're going to see the faces wide open, you're going to get a bunch of high blocks out to the right hand side.

Okay, so once you get your grip, or, I'm sorry, the club in your hands and you've got your grip pressure down, you're going to follow the exact same process.

Now, remember, the golf club reacts to the way that you move your body.

I just gave you guys some specific checkpoints where I said, keep your left arm moving underneath your shoulder, very, very relaxed, and focus on where your wrist is.

If you do that and you don't focus on the golf club at all, guess what's going to happen?

The golf club is going to release properly, and it's going to start to bottom out on its own.

You're going to notice that when Craig starts doing this, I'm going to get out of his way because I don't want to get my shins taken out.

You're going to hear him kind of brushing the carpet.

It's going to be done with very little effort.

So I want you to go ahead and take your setup.

You're going to put yourself in a preset impact position.

Your left arm is going to be just hanging down there freely.

You're going to go ahead and let the arms swing back.

If your chest turns back a little bit at this point, that's perfectly fine.

You don't need to lock your body in place.

Remember, we've always talked about this through every session.

You don't need to make this a workout program.

Craig, now on tension levels, what do you feel for the left arm?

One.

One.

It really increased because of the weight of the club.

One.

I am.

I'm a very lazy player.

Yeah, I like that.

So again, the pressure is very high.

It feels like the club is kind of flopping all over the place when he does You're not trying to be in control of something that's doing its job for itself.

It's swinging on an incline plane, and you can see that it wants to rotate.

He's just focusing on keeping his left arm moving underneath his shoulder.

and letting his wrist rotate into those two checkpoints that we just talked about.

You can see that once you get really proficient with this, you can pick a piece of carpet or a blade of grass, and your golf club should bottom out in the same spot every time.

If you're noticing that your club's not bottoming out in the same spot, or it's not bottoming out at all, then number one, you're too tense.

You're way too tense, and then you're also trying to manipulate something through your hand or your wrist.

You need to allow that stuff to feel like it is just.

Sloppy out of control.

That's the whole point here.

Remember what Lil' Balboa said.

You gotta get out of control to get control.

Now, once you get really professional with this, guess what you can do?

You can start hitting golf balls.

That's right.

And everybody's like, we can already hit golf balls with this?

Yes, you can.

We can start hitting golf balls.

We've got a couple of little practice balls here.

For those of you at home that have either some foam balls or some plastic balls that we have here, you can use these in the house.

If you have regular golf balls and you've got a nice little front yard you can go out to, Perfectly fine, you can do this.

These golf balls when you hit regular golf balls are not going to go anything more than how many yards, five, five, ten, ten, maybe.

I mean, the the main thing is, don't focus on the distance right now, focus on getting the move down.

And if it juts out a little bit further, it juts out a little bit further.

But your goal isn't to try to hit it somewhere right now, right, exactly.

So what you're going to be doing, though, is you're going to be hyper focused on what your left arm and your left wrist you're doing.

You're going to allow the golf club to react, which in turn is going to allow the golf ball to react.

And that's the whole name of the game.

Is doing as little as you possibly can and letting the golf club and the golf ball do their thing.

Okay, so let's go ahead and show them what that looks like.

I'll be shagging balls.

I told you guys, we're going to be doing this, so you're going to go ahead and preset yourself at impact.

So open up 35 degrees or so if you need to get a little bit less than that to keep yourself comfortable, you can get the left arm continuing to swing now if you watch.

Craig didn't even care where his golf ball went.

Why is that?

Well, because he kept his head, his chest down, right.

10 to 10 is chest down.

Because this is not a really pretty shot, believe me, it's not, it's not going that far.

Nobody's standing on the sidelines, going really good.

That was really, I mean, we will.

We'll stand on the sidelines for you, but your job is to focus on what you're doing with your body.

We don't care now when you get really, really good at this.

Like Craig and I can sit here and do probably a thousand reps in a row.

Where you go out there and you look and you have your golf balls all in this little hula hoop.

And that's when you know that you've got the proper control of your gospel.

That's when you know that.

When you can stand on the back of the tee at a PGA Tour event and talk with the guys.

And you're doing this with your lead arm, kind of flailing around, you know that you've got command.

You know that you've got control of something you don't need to have control That'll make more sense to you as we get further into it.

Again, now the next phase here is just start putting a ball in.

What you're going to be looking for, for those of you that are going to look out and see your golf ball when it's all done, is that your ball should have come off the face and it should have gone really low.

It shouldn't have gone anything more than 10 or 12 yards.

If it goes anything more than that, You're trying to do too much, okay?

Start out small again.

Your job is to start small and then work on adding more pieces to it, right?

So that's it.

So you start out without your, um, without the golf club in your hands.

You train your left arm to be free flowing.

You're trained to risk to hit those three positions, and then you go ahead and just start hitting some golf balls.

After you have the golf club estimates, you want to make sure that you hit these key checkpoints now.

One very big point that Craig and I are about to make.

Any time that you work on a drill of this nature, you're working on the hitting area.

This is the most important area of the golf swing.

This is where you need to be perfect.

So when you stop and you do a rep, or I'm sorry, after you complete a rep, what you're going to notice here, what Craig does, is he holds his position.

So after he does this rep, and if you were to go back in time, did you clunk that one?

Yeah.

Did that one good?

Yeah.

All right.

So it's all right if you clunked it.

I've clunked it before.

So anyways.

But you're seeing him, and he did this.

You could rewind the video and look at.

He held every one of his wrists.

Why do we want him to hold his rep so he can double check he can look over his left wrist?

Is it flat?

Yes, okay, is the club towed up over here?

Yes, did I keep my left arm moving?

Yes, that's how you want to look at.

If it's cupped, or if his club face is in a different position than what we're about to talk about here, then you need to fix it.

That's what it's all about.

I can't tell you how many times would Craig have, and I have students that come into town and Craig give them an example.

Okay, they do this and then they don't hold the position and they're like Oh, how'd it go?

This is we don't.

This is what they typically do with the golf balls.

They get up here and they're like, all right.

I'm so excited to have the golf ball and they're like this.

All right.

I'm gonna let it rotate back There we go Yeah, I made the entire rep, right?

And then it starts flopping around.

They have no idea what they actually just did.

So again, the important part is, don't get wrapped up more golf balls now.

Here's the addicting part, is that when you start doing this right, you're going to start hitting the center of the club face.

When you start hitting the center of the club face, you'll be like, oh man, now I know what I paid $2,000 for these golf clubs for, right?

I can start feeling them.

Then you can start looking out, and you can start making sure that your balls are flying nice and straight.

Now, Here's a good checkpoint for those of you that like to focus on things in the exact opposite order of what we've been teaching you.

You'd like to focus on the golf club first, which we don't ever advocate, is think about the golf club going from toe up to toe up, right?

So for those of you that have a hard time maintaining kinesthetic awareness, and this in fact happens, I had a lesson yesterday with a guy that he said, he came out and said to me, he's like, I have no awareness in my heart.

And I was like, well, this is really good information.

So sometimes you got to do things a little bit differently in order to be able to get them to the end result.

So you can focus on the toe of the club being out to the sky out here, and the toe of the club being out to the sky over here.

It's going to give you the same sort of result, but do that without any sort of tension.

Okay.

So that's it.

Okay.

Now you just learned the most important part of elsewhere.

Now, how do we make it go faster?

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

We're going to add more components to it.

Now, Craig and I have gone through this stuff for quite a few years now, and we figured that it's best to keep your right hand, your troublemaker, off the golf club and start adding a little bit of weight shift.

Now when you start adding weight shift, Under no circumstance do we want you wrapping the club around your neck and doing these things in kamikaze mode, where you're trying to hit it 130 yards.

Stay small.

Give yourself another little benchmark here.

So if you're getting 12 to 15 yards, allow your weight shift to add up to 20 to 25 yards.

If you're not trying to hit the golf ball far, believe me, Craig and I can hit the ball playing far enough.

We don't need to see you hit it far enough.

We need you to look out and see your golf balls flying really, really straight, really tight.

Now, if you notice that your balls are kind of flying off to the right, a little bit, flying off to the left.

Then you're going to need to go back and you're going to need to get the golf club out of your hands.

Into a whole bunch more reps where you focus on exactly what the left wrist position is doing.

Okay, really, really important Now, let's add some weight shift to it, but I do want to answer William's question as it comes in here.

Is the pec and the bicep connected?

So when you're doing a static position, when you're starting from a static impact position, you're going to feel a little bit more connection with the left arm and the pec here.

Now, when we start turning back here, when we start actually making these movements, when we start putting things together, You're going to feel just a little bit of connection at the very tippy top of the bicep and the chest.

I don't want you ramming the arm up into your chest and you start creating all these faults.

That.

We just worked our asses off for the last two and a half weeks to try to get out of it, right?

So really important that you understand when you're starting in a static address position, you can allow the arm to kind of work across you just a little bit.

You're training things independently, right?

That's the whole point is strip things down to the umpteenth degree, do it piece by piece, and then stack in.

You start stacking in like we're doing here, and you'll see that this stuff becomes a piece of cake.

Now, let's add weight shape.

Sure.

So good way for you guys to think about this stuff.

Is I do a pressure to your right ankle?

Turn your body back so you're going to turn about maybe 45 degrees or so with your shoulders.

Now look at where Craig's arm is.

It's not in a position where he's got it all the way up to nine we're going to fly to where you are and we're going to punch you.

Okay?

Because that's just signaling to us that you're trying to get way too much out of the drill.

Okay?

You're just trying to get way too much.

So you just need to feel like you're kind of staying a little bit wide going back.

And you're just not letting your wrist get over cocked.

You're just going to let enough support there to get the club chat parallel to the ground or just slightly above.

And then your first move is do what?

Well, it's to shift your weight back over to your left side.

So a good way, and this is something I did in the Perfecting Your Impact series where it's video number two.

I have you pressure your right ankle, turn back, and I have you pressure your left ankle, and then let it release.

That's the way that you can kind of think about this stuff at home.

Now, in a very short space, it's very hard to move dynamically.

It's hard to squat down, post up, and then get the hips up.

You're really not going to find yourself having a whole lot of time to do that.

So be more meticulous about getting your weight to feel like it's moving.

When we start adding more to it, then you can start really making sure that your legwork is 100% fine.

You good with that?

Yeah, I'm good with that.

Okay, so we're going to pressure down into the right ankle.

And we're going to turn our body back 45 degrees, pressure down on the left ankle.

Okay, then we go ahead and just let that left arm release on through.

So you can do it in slow, chunky pieces at first.

I know everybody at home right now is already doing it where you're dynamically moving, you're free-flowing, you're up flying through your ceiling.

Start out slow and chunky because, again, your brain needs to be fed the correct way.

You break it into pieces like this, this is how you're going to get the movements perfect.

All right, so right ankle, press it in the ground.

Turn the body back about 45 degrees.

Notice how his lead arm is staying nice and straight and relaxed.

Club shaft is parallel to the ground.

Butt end of the club is pointed down the target line.

It's not pointed out here to right field, and it's not pointed back here.

It's pointed directly down the target line.

Why do we want to check this?

Well, because this is going to be a determining factor where your swing pain is.

If you start having the club where it's pointed out to me over here, in front of him, this is where you'd be coming too far from the inside.

Now, what he's going to have to force his wrist to do at this point, Is have a whole lot of movement to it, right?

And I'll tell you right now.

Supination, okay, is a very weak movement.

pronation is a very strong movement, the musculature that you have available to you to be able to supinate your wrist.

It's very hard for you to be able to do that when the club is really back behind you.

So these little check points that we're giving you are really important in the process.

Okay, so when you turn back, but in the club pointed down the target line, okay, you're getting your your wrist set to be where the club shafts.

Curve off to the ground, get some pressure underneath the right angle, you shift back on your left side, Then let the left arm move on through.

Okay?

Do it again?

Let's do it with some balls and start moving some fluid in here.

All right, so now you're going to hear my cue words start to get a little bit faster.

So you're going to press down right ankle, turn, press left, release.

Don't worry about it.

Press the right ankle on the ground, turn, shift left.

So now it's going to be right ankle, left ankle, release.

Right ankle, left ankle, release.

You say those to yourself over and over and over again, you're going to look just like Craig here.

Now, what Craig is actually happening here, or what's happening when Craig's doing this, is if you watch the golf club, it's bottoming out in the same spot every single time.

Why is that?

Because he's doing nothing to manipulate.

He's allowing his body to move into positions that are going to dictate that bottom out point.

That's why we started out with today's key point of talking about the left shoulder position.

If your left shoulder is back and your weight shifts, the bottom out point is going to shift back every day.

Why am I wearing out this carpet back here on the right-hand side when I want it to be up underneath my left shoulder?

Something that's very, very common.

Okay?

So right ankle, shift left ankle, let it That's it.

Piece of cake.

So you can do this with golf balls.

You can do it with foam balls, practice balls, or you can do it with real golf balls.

If you're doing it with real golf balls, Make sure that you can look out at the end of this and see that your golf balls are really tight before you start stacking in this next piece.

Okay?

When we're starting to stack in this next piece, I know a lot of you guys are going to probably jump to this part.

I'm not stupid.

Craig is not stupid, but we were born at night, but not last night.

If you start stacking in this next piece and you haven't trained your lead hand and lead arm to be able to be almost perfect.

When you look out and see all your golf balls, then you're really doing yourself a whole lot of disservice.

I promise you.

Because it's very easy to get this false sense of control when your trail hand comes back on the side of the golf club.

Because it can do all of the movements for you.

It can take and manipulate what the left hand is doing.

Now, going back to that point that Craig and I made at the start of the session, we said good ball strikers are going to be rotating club face between 250 degrees per second, upwards of 350 degrees per second.

Your right hand is in a position to get it to rotate upwards of 800 to 1200.

We've even seen people measure up at 1600 degrees per second.

Now think about that.

250 to 350 degrees per second, upwards of 1600 degrees per second as the other end of the spectrum.

That's why amateur golfers tend to struggle.

I, to this day, if I get a chance to play golf, I'll work on just a little left hand on the drills at some point.

And those of you that actually go through the process of this, we'll get either emails or we'll get swing review sent in where they say, my short game has even become better.

Right?

I'm sure you get that all the time.

I get that all the time.

And working on the release and how I'm shooting better.

Yep, exactly.

So this stuff that we're doing, it might seem a little bit mundane.

It might seem a little bit monotonous.

But this is golf, right?

This is where we put the rubber to the road.

If you can't do this stuff perfectly with your left arm on the golf ball or your lead arm, I should say.

Then you have no business putting the trail hat on there, because it'll start manipulating the face and the path quicker than you can say.

shankopotamus.

And that's one of the questions I get often is like, Greg, how do you hit it so straight?

I'm like, well, I hit it straight because I'm not trying to, because I'm not trying to manipulate this clubface into impact.

If I let Newton do his job, I don't have to worry about it.

The radio rotation down there is going to be very consistent.

The clubface is always going to square out.

And if you really.

want to get the consistency, this has to be in control, right?

It's the only this guy that's going to come in and wreck your world when it comes to trying to hit everything.

Nice and solid and consistent.

So if you don't have this trained and you don't have this mastered, don't worry about this component.

Yeah, so Jay, so just so you know, We actually have another screen that's back here that's talking to us about how much bandwidth we're actually producing and stuff.

And right now we're flying.

So if you're seeing the screen go a little bit blurry on your side, and then all of a sudden it comes back.

That could be a potential bandwidth issue on your side.

So just remember when you get the replay of today's session, you'll see exactly what we were broadcasting it.

You'll see that.

It generally starts out a little bit on the fuzzy side, then it comes right back into a pretty crystal clear version.

So if you are seeing a little bit fuzzy, then don't worry.

You can, you can look at a replay and we're checking the speed right now, it's pretty bad.

So, um, all right, so now next piece, so you get really good with this left hand, left arm stuff, you're like piece of cake, all right.

I got all my golf balls out there in this technical hulu.

I went out there and I hit 50 golf balls, And I got all 50 of them, right.

Dead nuts on the center of the face.

Now I'm ready to start adding more to it.

This is, again, one of the things that Craig and I talked about before we came on camera today, how we want to introduce the right hand.

Now, there are multiple ways to do this.

We've had in the past where we have the right hand near the side of the golf club, where it's not touching.

It just follows along.

We've had the fingertips touching it.

We've had the right hand completely on the club.

We find that right now.

It's probably best if you just touch the side of the club with a point where you're in your thumb.

Because, again, You're going to see that when it's on the side of the club, it still has some, it's the very.

It has a lot of capability about being able to make a lot of push movements and a lot of rotational movements.

So just by taking it and stopping it on the club and just touching it and letting it follow along with those left hand movements is a perfect way to do this.

Now, I do not, and I repeat, do not.

I should say, we do not watch you hanging on the golf club all the way.

Post impact.

You want your right hand to come off the golf club.

Because there's going to be some key points that you want to check here.

Okay, so now you're going to take the point of finger in the thumb, and you're going to touch the side of the shaft, and you're going to go ahead and pressure down on your right ankle, and you're going to turn your body back.

Same exact position, okay?

It's not going back far yet.

Bear with us.

We'll get you there.

Shift back over to the left side, okay, and then let it release, and your right hand is going to now come off the golf club at the point of contact.

Okay, now if you look at Craig, look here very closely.

Okay, you can see that his upper body has not moved along with his golf club.

It has stayed right where it was, his head and his chest have stayed right where they are.

This is a huge point.

Because when the right hand likes to stay on the club, it likes to the right shoulder likes to stay activated.

And it likes to turn really, really hard.

And this can force your release actually to be a little bit more on the blade side.

So what that would look like with your wrist post impact is your wrist would look kind of like this, and your body's turned a lot more right.

So something would be rotating and moving the club from one side to the other, and it's not your wrist.

So you want to start out with your right hand coming off the golf club, and you want to check to make sure that your chest doesn't turn past impact.

Now, we understand that when the right hand stays on the club, the chest is going to turn.

It's going to turn as a byproduct of the golf club pulling our body, or I'm sorry, as a golf club has a lot of momentum and inertia, it's pulling the body around.

Also, with the right hand staying on the club, your shoulders have to do that.

It's just a matter of being able to be disciplined enough right now to be able to get the right hand off.

So you don't have any function at all.

Post impact again, you're probably like, Well, why do I even care?

Post impact stuff is a way for Craig and I to be able to reverse diagnose things that are going on.

In the swing, right?

We are able to see that your body turned, or your left wrist is still in a little bit of a sluggish position right here.

We need to be able to fix those things.

So you want to start out by doing these things exactly the same way, with the right hand coming off.

Now, let's just say, all of a sudden, over the next couple weeks, you're like, I've got a piece of cake here, right?

Now I'm ready to start putting some speed to it.

Well, you've got a couple options.

You can either end and follow one with right hand all the way through impact, or you can start going into a full nine to three.

What do you like to do, Craig?

I like to go ahead and hit it and let it go to a full nine to three.

It's a miniature version of the swing.

It's kind of what really matters, the weight, using the legs, letting the club release.

Yeah.

So that's exactly what we're going to do here today.

So now this is when we start getting really proficient.

And I'm going to move out of the way.

What you're going to see here is Craig is now going to let the right hand follow along.

But now when we start finishing off our 9 You're going to see that it's just a little bit underneath, parallel to the ground, Right from this spot.

And he's going to shift over to his left side and he's going to go ahead and let it release, Okay, Now that was done, very slow and chunky right now, what this is going to look like when this is all said and done.

Let's show him a good full, solid 9 to 3, That's it.

Now, that's how you create the whip leg sensation out of the golf club is by using your body, using weight shift, And installing the body up and letting your wrist do what we just spent the last 35 or 40 minutes of your life training to do.

This is all being controlled by the left arm and the left wrist, doing as little as it possibly can, and absolutely no assistance from the right hand at all.

It's following along those movements.

Remember, when you come down in the hitting area, you've developed these angles between.

The forearm and the bicep, and you develop these angles between the wrists.

This is that passive conduit that I was talking to you about.

That.

These angles are going to be depleted where, well, they're going to be depleted down at the bottom of the swing arm.

And that's all of that energy that you just built up and sort of just came out through your right arm for you.

I know we had this question last session was, What does my trail arm actually do in the swing?

Well, for now, during your your training wheel process, we want your right arm to be that passive.

We don't want you working on like a throw the ball drill yet.

Throw the ball drill is just quite honestly the bane of our existence, right?

Because people work on that and they start heaving their right arm at it and they start throwing the golf club into this.

Really flippy, scoopy position.

And you have to remember, Here's a really big point that I like to make on a day-to-day basis with students is that.

You can touch the side of a golf club or the side of a water bottle.

You can just touch it with your fingertips.

That doesn't take the functions of your arm out of the mix, right?

You can take your wrist and do this.

You didn't feel like you were squeezing the club too hard.

You can take your right arm and do this.

Those movements right there are going to cause you to have breakdowns and impact.

And a lot of times people associate, well, my grip pressure's really like my right hand.

I know it's not doing anything.

It doesn't matter.

Your right arm and your right shoulder still have a lot of function left to them.

And that's when the train came on quickly off the tracks.

I nailed it that time.

Yeah, you did.

Sometimes it gets a little tongue-tied.

So for those of you that have sat in session before, I had a very hard time.

Saying the train's coming off the track is correct.

Yeah, I would say the track, yeah.

So that's how you would reverse engineer this.

Golf swing.

Okay, you would start out by really, really small, left arm only stuff, without a golf club, training your left arm how to do independently.

Then you would put the golf ball back in there.

Not having any sort of weight shift, you start letting your left arm swing back and forth.

Now you have to challenge yourself.

You've got to put the golf ball there and you've got to be able to do these same movements before you start putting on pieces.

Now, why would I tell you that?

Well, because every single person on this golfing world has this instinct to try to hit the golf ball.

And when you start trying to hit the golf ball, you're going to get very, very erratic results.

You're going to see the ball flying all over the place.

You're going to feel it coming off of the face really, really thin.

You're going to feel a little bit heavy.

Until you can get past that hitting instinct, then you do not, and I repeat, do not start adding weight shift to the mix.

Okay, for anybody that's going to be working on it from this format, from the bottom up.

Or for those of you that have been working on it from the top down, which is what we're about to talk about here in a minute, You do not start trying to add more components to this until you can get your left hand and left arm to work perfectly.

And you do not have that hidden instinct in there anymore.

You start getting really good results.

I usually give people a benchmark.

You go out there and you get 50 golf balls and you get 48 or 49 of them.

Dead nuts on the center of the base, and you look out there.

And you can do that on a pretty regular basis.

Then you're ready to start adding moving parts to it.

I know that might seem like a really, really daunting number, but trust us.

This is where golf's made.

That's why we spend so much time talking about this area.

This is how the golf ball flies through the air.

80% of your golf shot's DNA, when you see that thing fly through the air, 80% is dictated by face angle.

80%.

The other 20% is dictated by the cat.

Think about that.

We've got to be precise.

For those of you that don't know how precise you have to be getting this golf ball fly straight, look at it.

It'll probably take you out for playing golf.

That's the thing.

I always tell people, I'm like, if you actually knew what it took.

to hit a straight shot.

Am I looking at the numbers?

People will be like, all right, I can't do it.

I'm out.

I'm going to go do something else.

But it's actually relatively easy to do it, but when you look at the numbers, you're like, it seems like this daunting task you'll never achieve.

Right, exactly.

And so, again, you have to take the time to go through these things in these really slow, methodical ways.

It sucks to do it, but when it's all said and done, you start going out there and playing your best golf, you'll see how important it was to be able to take that step on.

And Craig and I, like I said, even though we're not playing a whole lot of golf, We will probably spend as much time as we can working on either release or 9-3 drills to be able to get the bat out of the ball.

I actually just did that last week when I went and played a stream song.

I went out and hit a day's worth of golf balls, from hip-hop to hip-hop.

Because I know that I need to be able to control a club base when I go out there.

I can't have the ball final over the place.

It was very productive for me.

I was able to take some good stuff to the golf course the next day.

That's it.

You've got to be able to go and beat these things up by going through the really unsexy part of it.

Train it.

Train it some more.

Then train it some more even after that, and then start adding pieces in.

Now, this is the process for you to be able to get yourself.

Hitting some golf balls and working on your release and then working your way up to a good nine to three swing.

The nine to three swing is here to get you to hit the golf ball really solidly, but also get into some really good sound.

Impact positions here, so there's a lot of things that you're going to be looking for as far as impact is concerned.

We outline that in the following slides that are on the PDF.

We want you to spend some time looking at that so you.

You can go back and look at it on camera.

Because you're going to need to use a camera for this part, because you're moving to know that you're doing these things correctly.

You have got those specific checkpoints on the other one.

Now, the other end of the spectrum is for those of you that have done really, really well and you've got a lot of this stuff all mastered where you've got my back swing down, I've got a transition, I've got a squat square, I've got all that stuff in a good space.

Now you can start working on it from the top of the swing down.

And what that's going to look like, for those of you that have taken the time to train a left arm at the bottom here, it's not going to look any different.

You're going to go up to the top of your swing.

I'm going to get that weight because you're going to be moving pretty fast.

Okay.

So you're going to move into your right side.

You're going to finish off the backswing.

And what you're going to see Craig do here is he's going to now squat to square and he's going to post up.

And his right hand is now coming off the golf club and he's letting it release.

So he just did that first rep really slow and chunky.

Okay.

You're going to see that as he gets more reps going here, shifting left.

Closing out, letting him release, he's going to start ramping this up into almost full speed here in just a few minutes.

Okay, That's exactly how we want even those advanced players at home to be able to go through this.

Because you've got some checkpoints on the lead side of the body that you need to be able to check out, Okay, And then you're going to start trying to take out some of these pauses now.

Let's let's talk about this next step.

So Craig's now going to go out there.

You saw him squat to square and then he closed up.

Now what he's going to do is he's going to load to the top of the swing.

And he's going to try to do his squat to square and his post up as one piece.

So you're going to automatically see what it's like to now move the club a little bit faster by taking out a piece.

So you can see the club kind of getting a little bit more whip.

Now you stay doing this for a good bit of time.

You get a lot of reps under your belt.

You're looking for positions.

You can even hit golf balls like this.

Perfectly fine.

Then what you try to do is you start trying to take out the pause at the top.

Okay.

And this is for the people that are going to get really advanced with this stuff.

You start trying to take out that pause.

Okay, and then you make it almost a full ball swing.

Now, each and every one of these reps, you see Craig's right hand coming off the golf boat.

We want you to stay here.

Okay?

When you get to a point where you're hitting golf balls, your ball's flying really straight and you start hanging out with the right hand.

All the way through, all the way through your finished position, and everybody always asks us, Welcome.

You guys haven't talked about a follow through?

What do we do on a follow through?

A follow through is the safest way for you to be able to decelerate the golf ball.

Because the club's going to be moving really fast when this is all said and done.

When Greg and I are moving this stuff at full speed, you're going to see that club wants to pull you around.

You're going to get up on your right toe.

You're going to be in that full finish position where everybody can take pictures.

But for now, when you're starting to blend these things together, you're probably not going to have that much speed in.

So that's how we want you to go about this.

Even those people that are going to work from the top down are going to have to do it slow and chunky at first.

Then you start trying to take out some of the pauses.

You take out that middle pause.

You start working in your down squeeze one piece, then you start trying to blend the two together.

Then you start trying to hit some golf balls with it, and then you report back to us on how you're hitting the golf ball.

But I would suggest that each and every time you go out and hit golf balls, or you're going to try to hit golf balls.

When you get to a full swing format, you want to try to get at least three to five good reps in before you hit each ball.

And that's anecdotal.

Like, some people like to do more reps, some people like to do less.

Now, tell people if you're going to go out there, you're going to do like a one -to-one ratio where you're going to do one practice swing, one golf ball, well, your practice swing better be freaking perfect, and your golf ball swing better be perfect.

Because otherwise you're going to be at a net zero.

For every good rep that you do, and every bad rep you do, you're sitting there and you're just wasting your time, right?

So that's why it's always best to work off of ratios, like doing three to progress.

I have some players that play, you know, we're getting paid to play this game.

That will do 10, 15, 20 reps, right?

That's what it takes.

You've been there, you've done that, you know, you're putting you through the grinder.

It wasn't, you were not hitting balls during your session, you were doing a lot, Rep, checking, rep, checking, then maybe hit a golf ball.

Right, right.

I had a collegiate player come in last year that he was like, his dad called me up, he was like, I want to come in for three days worth of instructions.

I was like, that is overkill because he wants to come in for like four or five hours a day.

I was like, that's going to be really, Really tough.

Because I'm not going to give him much more instruction than after the first hour or two, because I'm going to train his body to do something different.

And I literally sat this time just when this kid was.

And I watched him hit three golf balls over three days.

I mean, that's really, really tough as a golf instructor not to sit out there and watch a ball fly.

Because I, especially with a good player, I want to see it fly.

But that's the if he understands what it takes to be able to restructure the brain, that's what he was here in town for.

And so that's how we want you to go through this stuff at each, each one of these things that we give you.

As far as checkpoints or all these slides.

All of this stuff is here for a reason, right?

You've got to be able to have these things in your brain that you know what you're going out there to accomplish.

If you go out there and you're like, I'm going to take on 35 different things at once.

Well, guess what?

You're going to be sitting in these interviews and be like, we're going to be able to see it.

Start and go, okay, I'm going to work on my release today.

I'm going to work on making sure that I do my left arm stuff just as crazy and crazy outlined.

And then I'm going to start working on up to maybe even adding the golf limits.

My goal is not to try to get any golf balls, but I'm going to try to get these checkpoints and I'm going to try to be as fluid as possible.

You spend maybe the first day or two doing that and you start adding a little bit of weight, shift to it.

Or you add the golf ball to it and you start getting these things to work for you.

And you see that you can have a whole bunch more speed to it very, very quickly.

Right.

And speaking of speed, though, I want to keep hitting this point down because, as Chris mentioned earlier, One of the things that we get all the time is everybody does work on throw the ball because they think that everything is coming from that right arm for speed.

It is a passive conduit.

And in past boot camps, Chris has kind of phrased it like if you're a boxer and you're throwing a punch, if you wanted to really give some power.

Or some oomph behind it.

You wouldn't sit here and throw your arm this way.

The strength isn't by how fast you can move your arm.

It's the fact that you're loading, you're rotating, you're transferring the energy through your body, through your arm, into the punch.

So when you're doing this, I don't want you when you start seeing excitement, or you start getting excited and you start seeing the ball flying, you want to start adding power.

I don't want you to think like, oh, OK, I remember throwing the ball.

I'm just going to take my right arm.

And that's it's transferring through the arm.

You just touching the side of the club is going to automatically increase its pace.

Then you'd be really surprised how little Chris and myself and Chuck.

Use or even think about what this right arm's doing exactly.

And that's one of the things going back to.

One of the first things we said in in the first session of this camp was that this golf swing is going to feel like you got a lot left in the tank to be able to use up.

Because you're so prone to use your arms and your shoulders, right?

You can use that brute force, arm strength, and in fact, we're not using that at all.

That's how we're producing, our speed is, we're getting, we're using our legs.

Okay, Chuck will tell you, I'll tell you, I'm just using my legs and the hands.

Arms are following along, right?

And so a lot of times we're just not as sensitive in our legs.

We don't want to wake our legs up.

Why?

Well, because it's easier for us to be able to move from up here and so you'll see that.

If you take the time and go through these processes and you and you kind of go through the unsexy part of it.

Then, naturally, what's going to happen is that you're going to start moving subconsciously a lot faster, that's the that's.

The fun part is when you start seeing people like, move through these positions.

After you can see them doing a ton of reps, they start like, Well, I thought it was actually causing this spot, and they're not, they're actually moving into, like, almost fluidity, and that's when you really start to get it.

And so this stuff is all not for nothing, right?

This stuff is all been.

It's a lot of work being able to figure out the best ways for us to be able to pass this information along to students, right?

And so we wanted to be able to give you two different looks.

I personally like the idea of building things from the bottom up for a lot of players.

Because again, it's going to allow you to start working through impact.

It's going to take some of the monotony out of not being able to hit balls.

You can hit balls in this, you can get feedback from the strike itself.

And I like a slow increase to that.

So you can keep things in a good space and then you'll eventually get to a point where you're full swing.

But I also know that I can't be a fool that a lot of times we go out in the golf course.

We need something that's going to be more of a full swing format.

So you got to have kind of this balancing point and so that's where we're going to kind of put it back in your hands.

And we'll work with you guys as we get further and further beyond camp.

Here to help you understand where you should be out of that process.

And so that's going to be the information for you today, guys.

That's going to be how you're going to get this stuff to the golf course.

And I want you to understand that.

Our job does not stop today, right?

Just because you're leaving camp doesn't mean that you don't have support from us.

Craig and I will do everything we can under the sun to make sure that you get this stuff working for you.

So continue to use us.

If you have questions that you want to talk about on the forums, post those questions.

If you have swings that you want to send in for review, send them in.

If you want to do a live session, because maybe you're just not getting anything that we talked about, then schedule a live session.

If you don't see a time available on Craig or my schedule, That's in those live sessions.

And email us and let us know that you want to see a time in there, and we'll generally work with you.

Because this stuff's important to us, right?

This is our live video.

Just like a lot of you guys at home have jobs that are, you know, whatever you do in this world, you focus on doing those things as well as you can to help out your company.

Same thing with us.

We want to be able to help you guys play this freaking stupid game because it's a stupid game sometimes, but it's super fun.

It's always been really mean, right?

It's always going to be that way.

And like this game has just been crazy.

I've played for 33 years and it never gets any nicer to you, but it's so fun.

It's so fun.

It's the challenge.

It's a sport for all ages.

We'd still have this thing driving us crazy when we were 7 o'clock.

It's funny how a lot of the kids when I was growing up, I played all sports.

They never wanted to play golf.

Obviously, I was playing golf at the time.

Now that they're older, they're like, wait a minute.

They don't have a pickup basketball game or baseball game.

Everybody plays golf now.

I need to get back into it because I can do this the next four years and it's fun.

How come you didn't get me doing it earlier?

I thought it would be boring, but now it's fun because it's it.

Right, exactly.

That's the gist of what you're going to be doing over the next several months.

Remember, what the dead drill is.

Dead drill.

It's a drill swim, right?

You're building this golf swing just like we spent the last three weeks doing.

We've built you up to where you can turn your body properly over your right leg.

You You can start maintaining or getting yourself loaded up with your right leg properly and create good separation.

We taught you how to shift your weight, transfer your weight, and unload.

And we taught you how to post up and be able to help transfer that energy through the release, which is where golf is going to be made.

And so now your job is to be able to just continue to drill this out.

Go out to the golf course, maybe incorporate it into your pre-shower routine.

Where you take the dead drill and you put two or three swings out there and then you hit a golf ball.

Just to make sure that you're doing it fairly quickly, so you're not holding up the pace of play and then you're driving your playing corner is crazy now.

I think I did a video on this a while ago, we talked about the trust line as well, this is a video that's, um, that's been pretty productive for a lot of people that want to try to play through these changes.

And I'll kind of demonstrate it here for a second.

So if I'm hitting a golf ball out your direction at home, I'm going to be standing back behind the ball.

This is where I do a lot of my rehearsal work.

This is where you'll see people on the PGA Tour, whatever you see.

People that play golf for a living will stand back behind the ball because they're visualizing the shot.

They're starting to get themselves mentally.

All right.

But this is where I do my work with my swing.

So I'll drill a couple of times.

I'll do my drill swings.

Okay.

And then when I walk into the golf shot, I want you to imagine a line that's three feet prior to where the golf ball is.

And as soon as you start walking in and you cross that line, This is the point where you need to stop thinking anything mechanically that you've ever done with pregnant or anything in the world of instruction.

You need to think about your target and producing a golf shot, that's it, that's all I want you to think about.

If you start thinking mechanically, when you're standing over the golf ball, you get the heck out of dodge.

Because at the end of the day, the girl that you brought to the dance is the one that you're stuck with, right?

You cannot change anything.

I can't emphasize that enough.

We have student after student community, and we give this as an example.

Usually at the start of boot camp, we're like, All right, Mark, what are you working on?

Mark will be like, whatever the latest video checkpoint out is.

And I'm like, that's not what we told you to work on at all.

We told you to work on this.

And he's like, okay, I got nine swing thoughts going on here, right?

Have you got that guy?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I got nine swing thoughts.

And he walks you through the processes of all of his nine swing thoughts.

And he's like, I'm like, you actually think about these nine things.

This is a real story.

And he's like, yeah, I go through nine checkpoints in my head to be able to make this golf a move.

I'm like, how the hell are you not insane?

And then he, so he hits a golf ball.

And I was like, okay, that's great.

So I videotape it.

We videotape him.

And then I say, okay, Mark, now what I want you to do is think about what you have for breakfast and breakfast only.

And he's like, Chris, impossible.

Never be able to get the golf ball moving without having an eye on screen.

I'm like, just shut up and hit, like, do it.

So he hits the next golf ball.

We videotape that one.

And he's like, I'm like, Mark, what did I have to do on that last week?

He's like, I thought about what I have for breakfast.

I'm like, you promised me?

He's like, yeah, I promised you.

And we look at it.

I put both videos up on the iPad side by side for him.

And I go, do you tell me which training is which?

And you can't tell the difference.

Why?

Well, because there is no difference.

Again, When you're over the golf ball and you're getting things ready to move at a very high rate of speed, and this field versus real aspect comes out, you're not going to be able to make any changes.

You might be able to subtly manipulate a club face angle here or there, but it's never going to be a momentous change.

So do the work behind the golf ball if you're going to be playing and practicing.

Do a number of reps back here where you're not holding up play.

Walk into the shot, clear your brain out, and let it fly.

Anything you want to add on that?

No, I mean, that's the big thing is that when you go out and play golf, play golf, don't play swing.

As Chris is mentioning, when you go out there, let's say you are still struggling a little bit and you're working on things, but you got a big cast at the top.

You're like, all right, I'm going to go out today and I'm going to frisbee drill every shot.

So you're going to get up there, I'm going to get in front of the ball, and I'm going to have this big old down cock.

Every single swing, if we were to film every single one, it would look exactly the same as what you're going to do.

I see that all the time.

People making these really crazy exaggerated swings.

Like, I'm going to get this on the course today.

It takes time to implement these changes, right?

So when you go out to the golf course, don't go with a 17-point checklist.

Have your one or two things that you're really trying to accomplish.

Get them before you step up to the golf ball.

Then when you go play, go play.

So with that being said, that's it.

Now, here's what we're going to do.

We're not going to end the session like we've never had.

We're here to answer questions because now this is the time to ask the questions that you might have added.

Anything.

Anything goes.

It could be on any end of the spectrum.

We're here to make sure that you guys have everything in your brain that you need to be able to do.

To facilitate all the stuff that we just gave you.

As far as information is concerned.

Whether it's practice plans, Each other person is going to have a little bit different view on practice plans, so we can help you out with that.

You might have a little bit more time in your schedule.

Some people only might have 30 to 45 minutes.

We'll answer that stuff for you.

Whatever it is that you need to do to be able to get this stuff in your brain, to be able to do these movements correctly, we're going to stick around and help you out with that.

For those of you that don't want to stick around for you want to start going to work, first off, let me say thank you.

Thank you very much for joining us.

Thank you.

Because we know that this is a lot of time.

You should spend six plus hours with Craig and I going through a lot of information.

We understand that you have a lot of stuff going on in your own lives.

And we appreciate you taking the time to go through this with us.

And we really wish you guys the most success that you possibly could get with this stuff.

And we really, really want you to stay in touch with us.

We want you to tell us about, you know, any success you might have had with golfers.

If you find yourself struggling, stay in touch with us, we can help you do that stuff.

Okay, this again?

One big thing that Craig and I won't do is we won't just leave you hanging and make you feel like you're not going to get support.

Along the way, we're going to make sure that you have everything in place.

Okay, that's what it's all about.

So we thank you for taking the time to be here with us for these last three weeks.

Hopefully you guys get some really great success with it.

If you take your time, you go through the process of this stuff, you be diligent and you're disciplined, just like you've been kind of beating in your brain over these last few sessions, then you will get the best golf swing that you can potentially put out of the golf course anytime.

It's really, really fun to watch.

We both utilize it ourselves, and it's what it's all about.

So have a wonderful day to those of you.

For those of you that are going to stick around and ask questions, let's get to it.

Bye.

So first one I saw come up here.

It said Pat, I assume you hate the impact snap.

I don't hate anything.

Greg, do you hate anything?

It doesn't mean we like it.

It doesn't mean that we're going to use it.

And the thing is, as we mentioned in other boot camps with training aids, the vast majority of training aids, they might help you get to a position, but you can cheat them.

I mean, I've figured out 900 different ways to cheat a training game.

The goal at the end of the day is you train you to move through the positions.

Don't be relying on something, you know, an outside influence to force the training.

Right.

So Sean says, guys, watching online class Chuck did earlier this year, June, I think, the student had my swing.

Since watching that and doing the drills, I'm sure I'm not doing 100% or even 80%.

Shot consistently lower scores.

Nice.

I was 90 plus player and I have three rounds 84, 18 holes and three nine hole rounds 39, 38, 38.

Sweet shot, that's awesome, congrats.

So now my question is if I spin my shoulders open too soon, leading to the club face open and the shot's going right?

Yes, so when you get up to the top of your swing and you want to continue to turn your body through the hitting area.

The club face gets really, really late.

And you can see that it's really open right here.

That's a very quick recipe for you to be able to hit a ball way out to the right.

Or What it does is it forces your right hand and your right arm to be really active, really last second, and that's when you start seeing this very, very high rate of closure at the bottom.

So both of those are very, very detrimental.

So you want to feel like you're staying a little bit more closed with your chest when you come down the hitting area.

That would be a good fuel fix for you.

And just let your hands and your arms pass in front of your body, make sure that your wrists and your forearms rotate.

Yeah, just a good way to think about it is the faster you rotate your chest through the shot, the more it's going to delay the release of this space.

So if you.

Are very kind of passive with it, and you're like trying to still get the speed, the more this thing is going to open.

Or you're going to have to really manipulate the hands.

But chest spinning, I'd say, Chris and myself see it literally daily.

Where somebody's trying to take their shoulders and chest and rotate through the ball.

And they're like, I don't know why I'm hitting blocks all the time.

Well, there's your, here's your answer.

Yeah, just kind of stall the body out as much as possible.

So those are things that we can definitely help you out with, like there's certain little techniques that we use, like We can say, Put the golf ball off to the right side of your ball.

And you want your sternum to feel like it's pointed right there by your hands and arms past the front.

It won't be pointed there, But those are good ways for you to be able to get this stalling point from your upper half.

Because it's really easy for us to get fully seated onto this left side and then continue to work from our upper body.

It's very easy to do so because you have that available to you.

That's a source of power and a source of speed that you could potentially be putting in the golf swing, but it's putting it in the wrong spot and it makes the golf ball fly all over the fricking place.

Now, as far as the replay questions that are coming in, replays are going to be available right after the session.

Craig and I are going to be working pretty hard at the end to make sure that when the file size is done.

depressing, that we will get an email sent out to you guys right away so that you all have access to that.

Now, as far as the replays being available, how long that is, we're going to give you quite a bit of time.

We can't keep them there forever because people started sharing the links and they screwed it all up for you.

But we'll make sure that you have access for a couple weeks here to make sure that you get the information burned back in your brain.

That's really important, so we will make sure at the end of the session.

Now, Live Storm.

Change their procedures.

Where?

Before, we just automatically email you a link that you can access, now we have to download.

We've got to do some stuff to the file.

So that's why it's going to just be patient with us and be able to do right afterwards.

All right, so we got some other questions coming in here, all right.

When we do the club swing drills and eventually fully swinging hitting balls, are we still trying to look at near at any points or just at the ball?

Okay, when we do the club swing drills and eventually fully swinging, hitting balls, are we still trying to look at the mirror at any points or just at ball?

Well, when you start hitting golf balls, the big thing is is you're transitioning from the mirror to the camera.

So when you start going through the positions, we want you to stay focused on the ball and go through.

But we want that camera for you to check and check, and check, and check and recheck your reps, all right.

So the thing is is, when you start, you know, kind of putting, you know, the rubber to the road.

You're still going to need some type of feedback.

You get your iPhone out, your Android, your iPad, something.

Don't just go out there and be like, all right, I'm just going to focus on what the ball's doing and call today.

You constantly need to be checking some type of feedback with Chris, myself, Chuck.

We still film our swings.

We still go through it.

Don't just abandon and be like, all right, I'm going to focus on what the ball's doing.

If it's going straight, I got the swing down.

I can get a trained monkey to hit the ball straight.

So make sure that you still are constantly checking feedback on camera.

You slowly graduate from the mirror when you start applying this ball and move a little bit more over towards the camera.

Yeah, so another question coming in here from Jim.

So Jim says, Where do you prefer the right hand trigger finger to be on the grip, close to the hand, or extend down the shaft a bit?

So, Craig, you want to answer that one too well.

For me, what I typically do is I take my right hand and put it on the club.

And it's almost in the exact same grip position, and that's when I'm adding my thumb and index finger to this position.

If you start getting it way down the shaft, it's going to be easy to start kind of pushing on the club, kind of making this little bit of a hockey move.

So I typically put it right where I'm going to have my normal grip, this is where I'm going to put my thumb and index finger because I don't.

I don't want to separate too much.

But now you can see, my arms are starting to get far apart.

And when I start to get down here, it's very easy to manipulate the club.

Head past the handle right here, Right, exactly.

So that's when we're drilling.

So when you want to put your right hand on there and then take it off and then put the pointer, finger and thumb on, there is what it's trying to tell you.

That's when you're doing your drills.

All right, so Duck says, when I'm in impact position and swing with just my left hand to brush the mat, my club doesn't bottom out consistently.

I think you said likely culprit is wrist tension manipulation.

My body position, shoulder position, legs seem constant.

Can you just drive impact position to make sure I have that set up?

So yeah, so.

Impact position is going to be where your hips are open 35 to 45.

Your shoulder line is nice and square, and you want to make sure that you have just a little tiny bit of axis tilt.

A lot of times people are going to have way too much or way too little.

Okay, if you have way too much, show them way too much first.

Then right here, you're going to create more of an ascending glow than a descending glow.

So the club's going to want to bottom out a little bit early.

Sometimes you can even miss it from here.

Or some people are going to set up with not enough axis tilt.

And this is going to have the club come down a little bit on the steeper side Now, if you're noticing that you're still missing the ground, you're not getting it to bottom out, then there also could be some tension up in the shoulder as well.

If you start locking your shoulder up, and you hold the shoulder really tense up here, on the way down, your arm is going to become, inherently, it's going to become short, right?

You're not going to be able to get the club to go down.

So you want to feel like the arm and the wrist are kind of pulling the shoulder down a little bit.

That's a good way for you to be able to get the club to bottom out.

Something that's.

Again, that's anecdotal.

The idea to be able to get this stuff to work perfectly for you is get the club out of there first, train the left arm to move freely under the shoulder, and then add the club.

If you're noticing it's still not bottoming out at that point, then you need to get it in for review and let us look at it.

But chances are it's going to be from tension in the left shoulder, or in your left wrist or your left arm.

Because if you're standing there at an impact position where the club's sold on the ground and your left arm is just hanging there freely, it's on the ground.

So it'll come back to that same spot.

Okay, we're just keeping your left arm relaxed as much as possible, right?

It's typically tension is the vast majority of the culprits when it comes to that.

All right, so Lee says, tell us more about practice plans.

Next steps after boot camp, some I feel good about, some not so much.

Start back at day one and go through again.

So Lee, that could be a question that would keep us here about three hours, but we have no problem answering that one.

So tell us more about practice plans.

So practice plans are going to be dependent on how much time you have available to you.

They're also going to be dependent on where you're at in the process of this stuff.

Now, let's just say you've been really good about loading your trail leg up.

You notice that your body turns good.

You notice that your transition is good.

And you notice that your post-ups may be a little bit out of sorts.

Then you can start working on primarily your post-up.

So it's going to be dependent on where you're at.

Now, again, time plays a factor in this.

So for those of you at home that don't have a lot of time in your day because you're still working, or whatever it might be, you need to be able to structure a practice program where you try to get that 100 reps in.

And so, again, it's a little bit different from one person than the next.

But I would say look at your golf swing.

If you want, Go ahead and make a full golf swing where you're just swinging the cup freely without thinking anything.

And then look at it on camera and start doing some self-diagnosis here.

See what your back swing looks like.

See if you're turning fully.

See what your transition looks like.

Those things.

Or send it in to us for a review.

We'll tell you exactly where you should start out in the process.

A lot of times people have some stuff that's really good.

You don't even have to work on a lot of the transition stuff because you already have that good space.

So most of you are just going to be working on release.

A little difficult for me to give you unless we do exactly how much time you have in the day.

Yeah.

And also, I mean, you know, I think that with what Chris is saying, you know, the best thing is if you just go ahead and especially with that for how many reps everybody's done, and I know what your problems are, Lee.

So I think right now you've got to get that body down.

But this is just a general side note.

Film your swing.

See what it looks like.

You already should know through everything that we've done in boot camp how to diagnose this.

If you take a thoughtless or brainless swing and you film it and you're like, all right, well, I didn't rotate my shoulders and I see I'm not shifting weight and I see I'm pushing off my foot, you know that you need to take a couple steps back.

Get rid of the golf club.

Maybe even get rid of the arms and go back to body because you don't have enough reps in it.

But if you film your swing and you look at it and you're like, all right.

I looked at my body checkpoints.

My body checkpoints are doing pretty good.

But you notice that the arm's off or the club's off.

You can do the same process with reverse engineering.

Look at your swing as a whole and look at it the way that we look at it.

How's the setup?

How's the body?

Then the arm.

Then the club.

And you can kind of work your way back into the boot camp by saying, yeah, I need.

You know, two, three, four hundred more reps, this body stuff before I challenge myself.

And you can kind of self-diagnose and be your own doctor on this one, and that's honestly that's a way better answer than I do, and I was.

I'm trying to figure out a way to be able to communicate to a mass amount of people here, right?

So by just customizing a plan for somebody specifically is a little bit difficult to do.

But Craig gives you kind of the big kind of picture stuff here on how to go about your processes.

I actually like to break things up into pieces, too.

If you wanted to go out there and spend a couple days where you're just working on release related stuff, Fine, go do that.

It's not going to hurt you.

Anytime you're doing repetitions and you're making sure that these movements are done, it's never going to hurt you.

Your brain is starting to learn that stuff.

But I also will tell you this, That you've got to continue to challenge yourself not to just move into certain static positions and stay there.

You've got to challenge yourself to move through positions at some point.

Because in the golf swing, we never hit positions.

We move through them all the time.

And so if you just start going into a static position and make it look pretty on camera, it doesn't mean it's going to show up on the golf course.

Your brain needs to be fed the stuff that you're going to be doing in a golf course situation.

That's why I tell people, get the foot on the accelerator a little bit quicker than you might think.

Challenge yourself.

If you see that it breaks down drastically, then that's when you need to strip it down and go and do more slow reps.

Is that a good kind of.

Yeah.

All right.

how long have we been doing?

We already answered that one.

So, by far, the best awesome breakdown explanation process that I've ever participated in brings actual results.

David, you can't see me right now, but I would give you a big hug.

Oh, you can see me right now.

I think you can see me.

Craig and I would give you a big hug.

Thank you, David.

And you've worked hard too.

So Nick says, in clamshell dress, does the top shell, the spine, and the head, the hinge of the shell being the hips?

That's a good way to think about it.

Sure.

So is the motion going from the top of the backswing of the shell in its most open position to the squat to square shell in the most more closed position, to the post?

Shell in an even more closed position.

So let me read this again.

Is the motion going from the top of the backswing of the shell in its most open position?

So if you went to a most closed position though, so again, this is going to be a very subjective question.

So that's going to be based off of how you're visualizing that in your brain.

Because if you go from a wide open position and you go all the way to its most closed position, that's a lot of increase to spine angle, right?

And so that's, I don't like gray area stuff.

And Craig doesn't like gray area stuff either.

We like things very black and white.

So that might be.

Something that we would kind of shy away from answering.

Because the fact that we start telling you to go from the most open position to a closed position.

And then, um, trying to figure out other positions that you're trying to get into.

Then we would be more or less doing a little bit of a disservice.

And that can be very subjective.

The way people see that.

Because somebody might see a very, you know, this is my most closed position, but then others might see like, this is my most closed position.

So we've got to be a little bit careful with that, right?

So, uh, Nick, the way that I would explain that to you is is when you make your squat, move over to your lead side.

I mean, you can start measuring this stuff by when you look at it from a face -on perspective.

So if I turn my body to my right side and I'm starting to squat down, okay.

I'm moving down about an inch inch and a half, where some players are going to move down two and three inches, right?

But for me, you got to make sure that you're still able to have time to post up and get things into the correct spot.

So some people like to have a big increase again.

That's why you never heard like a certain amount of degrees that's finding those increasing, because that would be considered a variable.

Variables are one of those things that I don't like to have a lot of one thing or the other.

I like to have a kind of middle of the road, right?

So not trying to evade your question by any means.

I just don't want to give, uh, I don't want to answer on something that could be too subjective.

Um, so, gentlemen, thank you much.

I'll forward my swings after I get some erection.

We will be here, ready to help you as much as possible.

Thank you for joining us.

We appreciate it.

Uh, good to go guys, Daniel.

Have a great rest of your day.

great rest of your weekend.

So great stuff.

Why?

I I have some folks decide to repeat boot camp just because they like to have the information re-put into the brain, right?

It's like watching your favorite boot.

You watch it because you enjoy it.

Now, a lot of people redo boot camp because just like I've missed the perfect release.

They watch it once and they go back and the second time they do it, they're like, oh, wait a minute.

I didn't hear Chuck say that the first time.

And they go back and they do a second boot camp and they're like, wait a minute.

I missed that point Chris made the first time or the emphasis.

That Chris put on that the first time, even though you're hearing the same information.

Every time you sit there and listen to it, not only are you kind of repping it, but sometimes you just hear it in a little different way.

Or you get, you know, the the meat and potatoes out of it.

Because you're so focused on this one piece that we're trying not to get you to focus on, you're like, Oh, that's what really matters.

So everybody kind of hears things like, I can't tell you how many times.

You know back in the day where I'd watch a robbery video And I'd be like, wait a minute, I missed on that point firsthand because we're just throwing a lot of stuff at you.

You kind of get overloaded.

So we have some more questions.

I like this.

So Sean says, is working out and lifting weights another strengthening help?

Never hurts.

How about that for a bland answer?

Thank you, David, very much.

Appreciate it.

Sean says, I I played for two months after the first boot camp and took it again and find some other things just to make some corrections.

Jim, exactly the point Craig was making there.

Thank you very much for the comment there.

That's exactly right.

So if you go back and you watch, and Jim, I'm sure you can vouch for this, in the camp that you went through, or if anybody's been through multiple camps, you've probably heard the information in not necessarily always the same format, but you've heard a good bit of the information.

But the delivery is always different.

I mean, it's always different.

And the reason for that is, again, Craig and I do a lot of work off camera.

That allows us to be able to see how people are progressing through this stuff, to be able to make adjustments to the process.

The one thing that hasn't changed, well, this has changed a little bit, this particular camp, is the PDF, right?

So the PDF is the PDF.

This is the program that we sat there with Chuck for several, seven days going through to make sure this was 100% perfect.

And this stuff up here is exactly the format, but it's, again, We're delivering the information differently to each and every camp, based off of what we're seeing from you, students.

That's why, you know, Craig and I are always kind of learning, we learn from you guys on a day-to-day basis.

If we didn't learn from you guys, then we'd be dead as belt in circles.

We'd be one trick calling these, right, where we had one specific way to be able to describe information to you.

You know, if you hear Chuck, Chuck did a great video on, you know, weight transfer, why he's had so many different explanations of weight transfer over the years.

Well, we've got to remember, we have very large student base here, right?

And everybody out there is getting their information in their brain and doing a different thing.

But all of these things are trying to get you to the same exact end result, just different ways for us to be able to explain it, right?

So that's it.

So let's keep going through the questions here.

You guys are awesome with questions, and I love it.

So to Lee's question, this is my second boot camp, and there are always new and improved explanations that help me improve my understanding, and therefore my implementation at the federal steps that I use.

So David, thank you very much.

Exactly the point.

So very, very good stuff there, Duck says.

One more question as far as lead shoulder hips need being stacked positions, should they essentially be stacked by the end of squat to square or just prior to post up?

So they're going to be not fully into neutral as you make your first move over inside, so the lead knee is just inside of it and the lead hip is just inside of it.

Okay, it's going to continue to move dynamically when you finish off the position.

Same thing with the shoulder, you see that the line that you've drawn up from the center of your ankle.

As you make your movement.

After you've made the movement transition, you'll see that the lead shoulder itself, the center is right here.

So there's going to be some lateral movement from the upper half as well to finish this off, that's just a bi-part of the shoulder.

So good question, I like that question.

So, uh, I might leave my response.

Thanks so much.

So is that it?

So no, we got a couple people typing in some questions, so it looks to me like we're winding down which.

It's exactly what we thought today, Craig, an hour and a half.

How about that?

do reviews I send in?

I have to be each move, or can I send Fuller Swing for review?

Sean, you can send in whatever you want.

Okay, you can send in, if it's a full swing, just let us know where you're at.

You can send in videos of puppies.

Right.

The only thing I ask, and this is something that we should put a disclaimer, just have clothes on.

Yeah, that's.

Because we've seen some things in the past that we don't necessarily need to see.

We can see if you're rotating your shoulders with clothes on.

We have certain people in a certain quadrant of the world that think that I can see their body move better with very little clothing on.

And I'm like, no, I can see your body move just fine with a t-shirt and a pair of shorts on.

So, perfectly fine.

All right.

So, Craig, thank you and Lucy for specific comments.

Thank you, Jim.

I appreciate that.

Puppies golfing, yeah.

We've seen some.

Some animals flying at the screen before?

I can tell you, we have seen some stuff.

The thing that I've enjoyed the most has been in the live lessons.

A lot of people are, They're not used to setting up like a webcam or something in their arena where they're going to take a live lessons.

I've seen people be like, oh yeah, I've got plenty of space.

Knock pictures off the wall, shatters mirrors, dogs come in the play.

They don't know that the dog's wandering in the room.

We could have a nice blooper reel from slinger readers.

Oh, it would be a very long one.

It would be a very long one because you've got to remember we're doing thousands of these things a month.

So So my funny one for you guys at home, that's appropriate, because I'm not going to tell you any inappropriate ones is.

I had a guy who sent his first screen review and he had his buddies in the background.

I don't know if this was like kind of joke they were playing on me.

It was tough to figure it out.

But he had.

Taken these two giant four by fours.

And it looked like he's stolen his wife's blanket out of the house, and he had anchored this blanket between these two big four by fours.

And he's got his buddies around, and there's a four -wheeler off to the right and they're all drinking beer.

You can see it in the video.

And he sets up and he's getting himself all ready to rock and roll and hit this ball into the the actual, uh, blanket as hard as he can.

That's his net, that's his driving range.

And I was really, really, I was like, this is a lot of ingenuity here.

This is awesome, you're gonna get style boxes.

So he gets up and he takes this big old swing, And he hits the ball, really, really hard.

And it hits the actual four by four and comes back and rifles at him.

And you see him just kind of fly away.

I didn't hit him.

But I was like, you probably could have just taken another video and you're getting a better shot.

I did.

But I guess this is an accurate representation of where you're at.

So we've seen some funny things.

All right.

So any quicker way to get video to upload?

I'm using iPhone.

I'm going to computer.

Clicking segments and uploading.

Is there a more express method?

So, it's pretty fast.

I mean, to take a video and then click it down under 30 seconds and then upload, it's quickly, because you've got to remember, it's going into the database, so we have to store it, and then there's a lot of technology that's going to work because we have to compress the files.

We've gotten to the point where it's as efficient as it can get.

I know that we've been going through some changes on the back end that are going to potentially be rolling out.

For those of you that don't know in the world of technology, Flash is going to be something that comes completely obsolete by the end of this year.

And the Swing review system that we use is actually flash based, and we're moving away from flash.

And so we're trying our best to be able to come up with different, more efficient ways for you guys to be able to get your swing review submitted.

And then also get them back from us, so then you guys can watch them from anywhere in the world.

Because we know how technology is, just it's booming, it's evolving, people have access to, you know, technology anywhere in the world, right?

And what I have a lot of students do, is, you know, when they fill it on their iPhone?

They just go ahead and trim it really fast.

They email it to themselves, dial it really fast and just go straight through the site.

I mean, it's going to continue to improve, obviously, the more and more technology goes.

But right now, we have it about as fast as we can get So Jim says, when we receive our free rubbery polo shirts, we come to Doug.

So you can send it in.

So back to the questions here.

I appreciate it.

So Doug says, is there multiple other coaches and swing reviewers other than you guys?

Is there a way to get you guys to select Unlimited Swing Reviews that are specifically assigned to?

So, there are other coaches that are on the website that are available.

As far as being able to get Craig or I specifically, the only way to do that is you've got to access the Unlimited Swing Review Group.

Um, we wish we had other ways for us to be able to do that.

Unfortunately, we we have to keep the group sizes at a point where we can handle life.

Because these interviews, I don't know if you realize how many come in on a day-to-day basis, but they keep both Greg and I very, very busy.

And that's why we have other instructors to help us out with that stuff.

Um, so if you want to have, you know, access to us, you know that we're going to be there on the other end and not run the risk of having another instructor.

Then you would have to join a group.

So, um, that's the only thing we can get right, but you're still going to get quality instruction, whether you get us or not.

I mean, as you can see, Glenn's coming right there.

Uh.

Bill B.

He's referring to one of our other Spring review instructors, and we have plenty of guys on the site doing reviews, so that's if you want us.

The sad part is we have so many coming in, you know, on a day in, a day out basis.

I mean, we, you know, we do plus reviews a year.

That's the only way to kind of guarantee us.

But even if you don't go that route, we've got great instructors on the site.

For sure.

That same quality information.

For sure.

They're not somebody that just passes the test and goes out there.

There's a lot of training that goes on to the factory.

They're tested and retested.

Yeah.

Retested.

Yeah.

So that's something that we take very important because that's the brand, right?

They're passing along the information.

It needs to be 100% iron fat.

And Chuck is very meticulous about making sure that that stuff's in a good space.

So hopefully that answers your question.

So it looks like that is it.

It looks like you guys have got the information that you need.

Again, we want to thank you guys very much for sticking around and joining us for these last three weeks.

Hopefully you guys got a lot of information in your brain.

Hopefully you guys got all the information you need to be able to build this golf swing.

Once upon all, we'll be able to take it to the golf course.

I know that Craig and I are excited to be able to deliver the information in this format.

It's something that Rotary Swing has needed for several years and to be able to take it, consolidate it down into a program that works just like this.

Hopefully you guys enjoyed what you saw.

And for those of you that are first timers, Good luck to you guys that are getting ready to take this stuff out to the golf course.

Remember, really important, I know that I've said this a few times now, don't think that your venture with us ends now.

We're going to be here.

We're not going anywhere.

We're going to continue to be here for several years, or for years down the road.

To be able to help you get this stuff to the golf swing, to me, is always a work in progress.

I'm not one of those people that's just trying to keep you there just to keep you there.

I'm keeping you there because there's all these little, subtle things that you can work on in the golf swing to make it tighter and better.

And there's also other moving parts.

For those of you that want to work on your driver.

Or those of you that want to work on bunker play, or those of you that want to work on short game or putting, those are options as well because golf has a lot of moving parts.

It does, right?

You can't just go out there with this beautiful golf swing and expect to break 80 on a day-to-day basis.

You've got to be able to learn how to score.

And those are things that we pride ourselves on being able to do.

We're not just stuck to just building a golf center.

We've both been around the game for a long period of time, 30-plus years for each of us.

We've both played professionally.

Um, and so we understand what it takes to be able to do these things at different levels.

We understand you know how to take and manage your stats, and understand how to find flaws and weaknesses within your game.

And to be able to structure plans that are there for you.

So don't think this, this adventure ends here, we'll.

we'll be here to continue to assist you.

I want to thank you personally, I know Craig.

Thank you everybody.

so we wish you guys all the best.

Absolutely, Sean.

We review anything you send in.

In fact, I've got students in my unlimited group that were already done with the swing, and they're hitting the ball break, but they're like, man, I'm just losing so much putting and chipping, and we've spent a month or two just really refining those.

So anything you want to send, anything you have questions that I want to work on, we're here for you.

Yeah, Sean, And that's another thing that a lot of students actually do in the unloaded Swing review process is that they will not upload new videos.

They'll just take some of the old videos just and put them into the queue because they have unloaded swings.

and they'll just say this is a resubmission and then they'll ask their questions and they'll be like hey can we work on shipping or cutting at some point and we'll tell you exactly how we want that laid out but don't be afraid to just send us anything you want us to look at even if it's you know sending in a video of your grip or if it's sending in whatever it is all right we're here to help you with every part of it we'll make sure that you have the information you need okay so i think that's it i hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your weekend play some great golf tell us your success stories when you guys get out there and start putting this out there because we'd love to hear that all right and we will be here for you guys talk to you soon thank you