Craig Phase 2 Session 5

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Session 5 - In today's practice session I will show you a simple warm up drill I use when my swing feels too stiff at the range. It is a must to get the legs working in the swing and to not get over mechanical/tense with your work. I also show a small recap of my prior practice session to see the differences my simple warm up made to my swing.

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David
Craig, are you going to continue this series?
January 23, 2023
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello David. I will be continuing the series. Holidays and weather have put a hold on practice. As soon as I get some better weather I will be shooting the continuation of my progress.
January 23, 2023
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Greg
Hi Craig I found these extremely helpful and entertaining. When do you think you’ll be starting these again? Thanks Greg
March 7, 2023
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Greg. If I can get some good weather next week I will begin shooting again. I figured since we are getting close to Augusta time the Golf Gods should begin turning on the nice weather .
March 8, 2023
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Kim
Hi Craig, to me it appears that your arms/hands are relaxed at transition/ through impact. However you seem to more aggressively use the lower body at transition in this session. Not as relaxed/smooth motion compared to other videos. Is this why there is a slight increase in lag/improved post up? You do remain in balance, etc I note. Thanks and happy holidays!
December 26, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Kim. Happy Holidays as well. Yes. I was trying to make the lower half a little more dynamic for lag/post. I don't want to rely on my arms to create the motion. Allow lag and release to be a byproduct of my sequencing.
December 27, 2022
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Eoin
Hi Craig, Love your sessions, ive found it really helps to soften the hands although not always easy. I'm hitting about 120 yards with this drill, should I tone down a little or go with the flow?
December 4, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Eoin. Thank you. Glad they are helping. Ideally you will want to keep these a little shorter to have hyper focus on control with the dispersion.
December 5, 2022
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M. (Certified RST Instructor)
Hi Craig, thaks for very helpfull information in this video. What I really liked is your comment on the soft hands. On good days I can really feel the effect of keeping soft hands, especially during the transition from backswing to downswing. At those moments I can feel the effortless increase of lag, caused by the Law of Conservation of Momentum (related to Newtom's Axiomas). For me this is one of the nicest things to feel in my swing. Friendly greetings, Marcel
November 22, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Awesome Marcel. It truly is a great feeling to give up some control and have better results.
November 22, 2022
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Matt
When I'm working on my phase 3 reps I do find and I've always had this issue of getting my hips fully open at impact. What I tried today is I flared out my left foot and that seemed to allow me more hip mobility. Is this acceptable? I feel like my hip mobility is pretty tight with all my years of different sports and not stretching good enough!
November 12, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Matthew. Splaying the lead foot is fine. Take a look at Should You Splay Your Feet At Setup Video.
November 14, 2022
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James
Craig, how much weight are you putting on your trail side with the shorter 9 to 5 swing? 90 % if doing the full swing but you like about 50% in phase 2. Am I reading that correctly? Thanks. Jim
November 8, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello James. I am starting around 50/50 and going to about 70% into trail side during backswing.
November 9, 2022
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Chuck
Craig, you commented on several shots that it was a little heavy, or you had caught a little more or the mat than you had intended. When you're grading each shot to say "this set was a 9" or "this set was an 8," how does that figure into it? If otherwise it's good, and you didn't pull/push/fade too much/draw too much, do you count it or not?
November 5, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Charles. I am pretty harsh on myself with the grading. The goal for this Phase would be compressed/solid and within the 5 yard dispersion left or right. If I hit it fat/thin I don't put it in the win column. A little curvature here or there will be fine because at this distance you the dispersion window provides some buffer.
November 7, 2022

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