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Craig Phase 2 Session 4 Recap
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In this recap I will discuss my current status of my swing and two faults I've been seeing in swing reviews related to Phase 2. One Swing and Setup Error that could be costing you from Gaining Control in your Phase 2 Work.
Hello everyone Rotary Swing Tool instructor Craig Morrow here and today what we're going to talk about is two common things that have been discussed in a few of my recent swing reviews and then we're going to continue to discuss what's going on in my swing during phase two so you can see my face on is on the left hand side you can see Chuck is over there on the right hand side of the screen and we're starting to get a lot of similarities here which is a good thing other than the logo on the shirt as I start to take the club back right here you're going to notice I'm still getting a little weight into my trail side still creating a good amount of width right here getting that rotation as I start to shift right here I've got a little bit of tension in my hands I would like for my hands to increase just the slightest bit more with lag right there but we're going to leave that for a little bit later discussion because how much lag do we really want in this movement but we can see I've got a little bit of tension there it's probably left over from doing a lot of two-way mist drills making sure that you know I stopped getting a little bit too far under plane and I can get that club releasing pretty well but I'm sitting back into that lead side I've got plenty of lag working into the trail fine down here at impact and I still have a little bit of hinge in my trail wrist lead wrist is nice and flat my shoulder hip knee and ankle are doing pretty good maybe just a tiny bit late on that post up but we can see my fingers on my lead hand underneath right here this is indicating that I'm really making sure that that release is getting in there we can see that that toe is up right here nice little crossover you know a lot of good going on in the move just just some minor nuances that I'd like to clean up as I continue on my phase two journey like to get things a little bit softer you know looking like they're reacting a little bit more versus on my view it still looks a little mechanical it still looks a little bit placed and I really want to get those reps in to where it looks like I'm just moving through these positions and everything's working along as a byproduct but if we compare over here with Chuck you know we're going to see a lot of good things I mean you can see the same thing with the width and rotation and as we start to work down a lot of similar positions still striving for that clean lead leg post up as well as Chuck does it over here on the right but still a lot of good similarities going on I just want to kind of get that same ebb and flow and smoothness that Chuck has on the right side of the screen but with that being said I want to discuss two things that I've seen in a lot of my recent swinger views the first one is going to be the topic of lag how much lag do we really want in this move now phase two is all about kind of adding the release and you know gaining that control really dialing in what's going on in the nine to three area or you know the kind of belt high to belt high swing how much lag do we really need in this phase well we don't need that much because the more lag that you add in this short swing the more lag you're going to have to get rid of and if you start to add a lot of lag it's going to start to steepen your AOA a little bit but you're going to have to really be good at releasing the club because at some point in time you're going to have to get rid of it this should be a very balanced move yes our power sources are rotation leverage and width but at this stage in the game I'm not trying to maximize all that leverage in my wrist it's not time for that I had a question asked to me the other day about my swing do I have enough lag because we hear the proverbial when the hands are in front of the trail thigh position the club should be parallel to the ground which is the truth but in this small motion by the time I get to my trail thigh you're gonna see that the club's just a little bit beyond parallel to the ground and if we look at Chuck's phase two over here on the right hand side of the screen you'll see the same thing you don't want to create a ton of lag in this motion because you're going to have to work harder to get rid of it so I want you to think of you're staying wide in the backswing you have a slight increase in angle as you come down then you focus on finishing up your post step and letting the club release that you want this strike to be nice and shallow and you don't want to add a giant steepening agent that you're going to have to really start manipulating a lot of the hands to get rid of it can you have lag absolutely if you look at one of my students over here on the right hand side of the screen you'll see that as he works back in the same motion right here he generates a very sharp angle but as he and I've noted in his swinger views and working on his move he's having to work really hard to get rid of that and the more and more that we've kind of toned down the angle in his move the better and better the quality of strike that he's gotten because you're going to see as he starts to work down here he gets a lot of forward shaft lean the lead hands almost outside the lead thigh before impact and he's really having to work too hard to get rid of that angle which is kind of hurting the consistency with yardage and dispersion you're going to have a little bit more variance of left or right you're also going to have some big jumps okay you know where you're you're kind of making this small move and you may be hitting it 35 40 yards and then you had this really sharp lag angle and you get rid of it then all sudden it jumps out 90 yards so as you're working on this phase two you want to work on having a balance move a little bit of a gradual reset a little bit of an increase in your transition and then release you you don't need to go and focus on trying to create the sharpest angle possible because it's going to make you work too hard now the second point that i want to make is ball position players often ask us when do we do the ball that's up do we do it after we add hip bump and tilt do we do it before we add hip bump and tilt well it shouldn't really matter that much because you shouldn't be moving that much to displace your ball position if you look at mine on the face on right here you'll see that that ball is off of my lead ear and logo of the shirt and you'll see that my axis tilt is going just to the inside of my lead knee and if i pull chuck over here on the right hand side of the screen you'll see the exact same thing i'm going to draw a line up from his golf ball right here you'll see it's off of the lead ear going through a little bit of the logo of the shirt and the axis tilt is working just inside his lead knee this has been a problem that i've seen in a lot of students that i've had to mention because it's altering their move too much another student of mine over here on the right hand side of the screen even though the camera angle is slightly off which can throw off the ball position look i want you to note where his ball position is relative to his head now you're going to see that it's going through the logo of his shirt but look at how much his head's off the golf ball compared to mine so from this point he's going to have to make a lot of compensations and you're going to see that his axis tilt right here even though it looks like it's a little bit into the inside of the lead knee you're going to see that his axis tilt is kind of going through his lead knee right now but his ball position if he was just kind of using that logo on his shirt would look like it'd be correct but at this point think about how far his head has to go to get back behind the golf ball because if not this head's going to hang back his tilt's going to hang back and then he's going to be coming too far from the inside and then he's going to be stuck either really rotating his hands a ton to get that clubface to square you know the proverbial kind of drop kick so the couple things that i want to leave you with my recap today yes there's some nuances that in my swing that i need to continue to clean up but my goal in phase two is to really hone in what's going on belt to belt or belt high to belt high and i don't need a ton of leverage to make this happen lag is very important but if you start to make a lot of wrist set in the downswing or a lot of down cock you're going to start to lose that control because you're going to have to manually get rid of it a little bit too much and if you just make the simple mistake of adding the ball that's set up and getting it too far displaced off your head then you're going to be stuck making a whole lot of compensations coming down so when you're adding your hip bump and tilt the ball position should be off of the leader logo of the shirt and when you're doing that that minor adjustment it shouldn't really matter when you add it because you shouldn't be adding so much that your head gets displaced off the ball where you end up having to work too hard to get back to impact so i hope you enjoyed this review make sure that you nail that ball position down make sure that your focus is on the same checkpoints from phase one but you're not trying to make the phase two go 200 yards you want to blend of your rotation your width and your leverage you don't need anything really dramatic right now because you're going to be working too hard to get rid of it and then you're going to kind of lose sight of what we're doing in this phase which is starting to add release and blend in a little bit of speed with the consistency you learned in phase one
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