C4 Bootcamp 1, Nov 29 2022, Session 1

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everybody you can see me and hear me correctly Okay.

Let me work on that for a second.

This is the first time I've ever used this one.

Testing.

How are we doing sound now?

Better?

That's much better.

Good.

All right.

So I'm going to keep going back and forth until I know that everything's good.

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How's the video?

This is our first time using.

Demio is our host for those of you who are returning to boot camp.

For those of you who are returning to boot camp, I'll be your instructor today, or the ones that haven't been here before.

I'm Rotary Swing Instructor Craig Morrow, and welcome to C4 Boot Camp.

What I usually do is I allow the group to start to settle in.

People sometimes get to notice a little bit later.

They're having trouble logging in, so I'm kind of letting everybody float into the room here.

We'll give them about five minutes to get in and then we'll get rocking and rolling.

Still no sound.

Is there a sound button somewhere?

Audio is good.

Thanks, Troy.

There might be a little mute button at the bottom of your page.

No video.

Seeing too many videos and issues.

Good here.

Well, that's why we're going to let the kinks work itself out in this first one.

Sounds great.

Craig, great to see you.

So excited for boot camp.

Thank you, Jeremy.

I appreciate it.

Sounded video good.

All right.

So it looks like things are starting to work all right.

So we'll give a couple minutes and welcome.

I hope everybody's excited for tonight and we truly apologize for the time discrepancies.

I think we have everything fixed now.

As I mentioned earlier, this is a new post that we're using, which I think will be better than what we've used in the past.

The times for the event will be Tuesdays at 6 p.

m eastern saturdays at 10 a.

m eastern Okay, so those are going to be the times, regardless of what reminder you get, those are going to be the times for this boot camp.

Hey, Johnny, maybe you need to log back out and log back in.

It seems like most people are getting their audio back started.

Now, I'll say this a few times.

If you don't have the handout for this camp, in the top corner, you should have a little link to click that says handouts.

In that, we'll have the C4 boot camp slides that we're going to be using during the presentation.

So if you don't have that, that's going to be what I'm referring to during this session.

It's going to be in the handout section of the chat bar.

Yes, Raymond, there's going to be four sessions.

C4, four sessions.

No audio yet.

No audio.

Good now.

If your phone or tablet is in silent mode, you have to turn that off.

Thank you, Murray.

I appreciate that.

Anybody has any tips or tricks?

Throw it up there.

Anthony, if you're in the room, give a little quick hello in the chat.

Yes, Bryce, once we finish with C4 and the recording gets rendered, we're going to post it and you'll be able to access the replay.

You won't have to worry about having special links or anything like that.

And I want you all to know, one of our new Rotary Swing instructors is in the chat tonight.

HOPKINS So if you get a chance, say hello to him.

He's going to be helping me on the side, answer some questions or directing me.

Just in case this whole thing shuts down, he's going to let me go, just to make sure.

But we have our new instructor, Anthony, Uh, in the chat, say hello and start up a good conversation.

He's going to be able to help you out a lot.

We're excited to have him aboard.

Not seeing handout link?

Let me check that for you, Jeff, You see the handout link?

Will there be a replay for tonight?

Tomorrow?

Yes, Stephen.

The replay will be up.

uh, by tomorrow morning, you'll be ready to go.

You see the handouts now?

Fantastic, fantastic, all right.

It looks like we might actually have things working now.

As you'll see, there's going to be a button at the bottom of your screen.

During this boot camp, I'm going to highly advise SOY reviews, unlimited reviews, and you'll see there's a discount for live lessons for me right there, and that's for you attendees in this boot camp.

And I'll put it up in all the boot camps, and I'm not going to get up here and sell you anything.

But if you need more help, that's a way to get it for a little bit cheaper.

Thank you, Dennis.

Welcome to Anthony.

Fantastic.

Virtual is always an adventure.

It definitely is, Troy, but I think that this is going to work out much better, this new system.

I did a lot of tests on the back end, and it seems like this is going to be more seamless other than that time issue that we had.

Give me just a couple minutes, two more minutes, and we'll get rolling.

Jim, unfortunately, Chris Tyler is no longer with River.

Let's see.

How long will these videos last?

A long time.

You purchased this session.

Your replays are going to be linked to your account.

I don't know of an exact timeline, but it could be for months and months and months to indefinite.

But you're definitely going to have them long enough that you should be able to get down.

Everything that we're going to discuss in these four sessions.

Hello, John.

All right.

One more minute and then we'll get going.

And now we got almost 100 people in the group so far.

I have a ticker on mine.

I'm sitting there watching.

I hope everybody's doing good where they're hailing from.

If you can't tell where I'm hailing from, maybe those three letters will give you a reference.

Is there a way to go full screen?

I'm going to leave that to the chat, Johnny.

See if anybody has anything.

It's full screen on my end.

All right.

Well, I think we're going to go with what we have right now.

So welcome again, if you didn't hear me.

rotary instructor Craig Morrow and I will be your humble swing guide through these four sessions of C4 boot camp.

Now, this boot camp is designed not only to help you understand what we're trying to do in the C4 series, but also help kind of accelerate.

Because sometimes there's just one or two things that you don't quite grasp or understand, and you just need a little bit of clarity.

On that, and then you get that light bulb moment, like, Ah, that's what I was missing, that's, that's the one piece that I needed.

This is all starting to click now, so what we're going to focus on?

If you've taken a look at the handout, or if you haven't, go up to the handouts and download it.

Today we're going to focus on phase one, but before we get started, we're going to talk about a little bit of rules of engagement.

Phase one.

Or let's kind of rephrase that boot camp session one.

It's, I don't want to say it's the boring one.

But it's the one where we start to get all our ducks in a row and make sure everybody's on the same page.

And, you know, all the little requirements are met and then we really start moving along.

So when come Saturday, Saturday's going to be a busy boot camp.

Today's just going to kind of be some housework, some cleanup.

Because It's very important that you get off on the right foot.

And for what impact is, even though this drill is very small, kind of methodical, kind of slow, I can't tell you how important it is, and I'll expand upon that when we get into it.

I've got the little sheet over here because the screen's a little far away from me.

From the past boot camps, we've had a television or something to.

Read off of I even know it doesn't come through on camera, but for these I'm just me use my little cheat sheet right here Make sure nothing else going on All right, We're still so for right now.

The rules of engagement, okay, is that you must practice in front of a mirror anytime you're trying to make a change.

Now, as you can see, I've got this giant mirror right here, and you might not be able to tell, but I've got another mirror over there.

It is the best training aid you own.

I don't care if it's a mirror reflection in your bathroom.

I don't care if it's.

I used to use the glass, sliding glass, back in the day at my back porch.

But you need to be able to get some feedback.

And specifically, for today, I don't want to hear any excuses.

Well, Craig, I don't have a camera.

I don't have a mirror.

Because one of the big things with phase one is you have to stop and check yourself.

If you got the eyes, you should be able to make sure that you're doing everything that we're talking about tonight correctly.

So I don't want to hear any excuses on that.

You must have feedback if you're going to get better.

If any reason you're unsure you're doing it correctly or not, submit a swing for review.

Post up in the community.

Post up in the forum.

You've got to remember, there's so many different avenues to reach us, to get out for help.

There's no reason you should struggle with what you're doing through any of these phases.

We are here to help you literally 24 hours a day.

Some of the people in the chat can attest that they hear back from me at some very odd times.

We're always here to help you.

Myself, Anthony, will always be around.

To answer your questions, in order to get, uh, fastest results, you must do the drills on the days that we're not practicing now.

That's a biggie because I have a lot of people that will start boot camp and they'll.

They'll kind of do a little bit of the session with me right here and they'll be like, I already know how to do that.

I've already nailed that down, I'm just going to wait until Saturday session when he starts doing stuff a little bit more fun.

It's gold accountability.

Be accountable for your golf swing.

Practice in between.

Even if you're really good at doing what I'm demonstrating tonight, I still want you to practice in between sessions.

That way, if you have questions, you can come back with them.

If you don't have questions and you're just ingraining the movement even further in the correct way, how's that going to hurt you?

So it's a big requirement that you practice.

practice in between each session.

So with that said, we'll get that kind of talking out of the way.

Tonight what we're going to go through is we're going to go through setup, we're going to go through phase one, we're going to go through the checkpoints, and I'm going to talk to you about a lot of the pitfalls.

Some of you that have been following me on my journey of rebuilding my swing, I've talked a lot about these, but those of you that haven't, I've probably made every mistake that I'm going to talk about tonight on film.

So, I am well aware of how easily these little things slide in or slip in.

And I want you to start working it out immediately.

Okay.

So, first thing is setup.

Now, when we talk about setup, most of y 'all have seen the five minutes of the perfect setup or the stance is too wide video.

But the big thing is, is we just need to be kind of within the margin of error.

So what you're looking for is the stance to be two inches outside of neutral.

And all that is, is if you draw a line straight from your hip socket, you can draw one from your hip socket through your knee through your ankle right here.

And all you're looking to be is two inches outside of that.

If you want to get really technical, you can find your hip bone or your hip socket right here, and it's about two fingers, okay?

It's also usually about around the belt loops of the pants.

All right, so if you can't find any reference, just look down at your pants, look for the belt loops.

it's usually right around the belt loops.

Now I'm not going to argue with somebody if they're like this, or they're just a tiny bit like this.

Or if they even have a little bit of splay, it's perfectly fine to have a little bit of lead foot splay.

But you can't do what we want to do with a stance like this.

Because when your stance gets overly wide.

A it's going to limit your ability to be able to shift weight, b Your head's going to start moving all over if you do, try to shift weight.

And we need to be in a position that's very kind of mobile for us to move weight and rotate, but also not have us go all over the place.

Second thing is going to be axis tilt.

Now, we see people, when they start adding axis tilt, they go too much, they go too little.

You just need a little bit, okay?

Now, if you look at me, And you're confused about how much you need to have.

All you have to do is just drop a club down your stardom.

Put one hand on your stardom, one hand on your belt.

And all you're going to do is you're going to bump your lead hip towards the target just a little bit.

And you're going to see.

I've just created a little bit of axis to a little bit of lean away from the target.

This is going to aid in me getting my trail hand on the club.

This is going to aid in how I rotate the back.

So it's also going to aid.

Now I shallow off the club and the downswing, okay?

So we have to make sure that we have the proper stance with and we have to make sure that we have access to it.

I don't want to see anybody, even in this phase one drill, because I've seen this a lot on swinger views.

Setting up like this, okay, where they're leaning towards the target like this, and they're like, correct, why do I keep hitting everything back?

Why am I so steep when all it was was just a very simple setup correction?

The third thing is posture.

I know everybody has varying degrees in their thoracic.

Maybe they work at a desk all day like I do, and you start to get a little bit around it.

But the big thing is we need to try to get the spine as flat as possible.

We want to take those vertebrae, and we need to really open up the perceptuals so that we can rotate much easier in the golf swing.

An easy way to do this is to just drop a club right down your back.

Put one hand at the base of your spine right here, kind of around your belt.

Put one hand on your head.

And when you get into this position, hinge forward from your hips.

Resettle the weight.

Bring the club back out in front of you.

You can see that my posture is in the correct position.

I don't want to see anybody dipping down their head like this or getting in this kind of gorilla posture.

They start to round forward and their arms are all bent.

flat posture or as close to it as you can.

Now this is my biggest pet peeve out of them all.

Make sure.

This is my biggest pet peeve out of them all.

Anthony can probably attest to this.

I know Chuck can attest to this because we've seen a lot of it with the rendition of C4.

It's going to be weight distribution.

Where should the weight be?

That's seven.

Simple question.

Simple answer.

Well, we want the weight centered over the angle joints.

Now, what we've seen a lot of is that players are hinging forward and getting into position, and they're setting up like this.

Now, what's the problem with this setup that I'm in right now?

I've got flat posture.

My right arm or my trail arm is just underneath my lead.

What's the issue with this position?

My weight is sitting too far towards my heels.

Now, this is a very important thing to understand because you're moving pressure in your feet, and you've got to be very kind of dynamic in the swing.

If you take your setup and all your weight is towards your heels, what direction do you think you're probably going to go?

If you're already back, you can't move back of back.

The only thing you can do.

Is go forward, because the brain is always trying to counterbalance.

You know, you're swinging this weighted mass, it's literally all it's trying to do is keep you upright.

It really doesn't care about how good looking your golf swing is or your results, it's just trying to keep you from falling over.

So if you set up with your weight all the way back here on your heels and you start to make a back swing, well, you're going to start to counterbalance.

So a lot of this kind of early extension problem that people have, or, you know, losing the push line is just because they're setting up in a position, but they can't move, okay?

So when you hinge forward from your hips and you're in your posture and you're in your setup, what you're looking for is to be able to draw a line from your ankle joint through the back of your knee joint.

I should be able to come up at you from 360 degrees and push you, and you should be able to fend me off.

But if you're set up here on your heels like this, I can push you from over.

You've got to be able to move in the swing.

You've got to be able to move back.

You've got to be able to kind of resettle, move back, move forward.

You've got to have this nice and balanced position.

So as you're working on C4, it's one of the biggest mistakes I've seen is all the weight just falls too far towards the heels and setup.

People don't understand.

I keep losing my touchline.

Why is that?

Well, there's your answer.

It may not even be your mood.

It may just be your setup.

In phase one, we allow a little bit of preset weight.

Now, in a normal golf swing, I want you to be 50-50.

Now, you can have a little bit here, a little bit there, a couple percentage points here and there I'm not going to be upset with.

But in phase one, since you're not really moving that dynamically yet, it's okay to preset the weight a little bit to the lead side because it's such a short swing.

You don't have a whole lot of momentum to kind of get things going.

If you want to preset just a little bit of weight, that's fine.

Now, I'm not saying go ahead and put 95% on this side and just kind of flow your arms.

But if you want to kind of move about 70, 75 on this side, just so you don't have to generate a ton of lateral motion because it's such a tiny swing.

No worries with that.

Also, in a normal golf swing, we're going to have that two inches outside neutral.

But in phase one, you can go a little bit narrower if you want.

Just for the item that I just mentioned is that you're not really moving that dynamically yet.

So some a little bit of preset lead side weight is perfectly fine, okay?

So with the boring stuff out of the way, setup, let's talk about the move, even though setup is one of the most important things.

I think Chuck said it the best way anybody could possibly understand it.

You want to take a race car out to the track, a perfectly built race car, out to the track with all the tires.

Makes sense to me.

So once you can understand setup, you can understand the stance, the axis tilt, where the weight should be distributed.

Let's talk about what we want to start doing, okay?

We're going to start hitting the ground running with phase one.

Now, as I mentioned earlier, I don't care if you don't have two giant mirrors like this.

I don't care if you don't have a camera for this.

You need to use your own eyes, okay?

Every single one of these breaths that you're going to do, you need to stop and check.

And that literally means that when you finish, you stop your move, and you go through these five checkpoints that I'm going to talk about right here.

Okay?

Every single one.

First thing is, we're going to talk about flat lead wrist.

Now, at impact, flat lead wrist is kind of the end-all view.

Because what this is going to do is it's not only going to de-lock the club.

It's also going to provide stability.

How many people struggle with the proverbial cupping and hitting those high floating shots?

If you want to control your spin, you want to control your trajectory, you have to have a flat lead wrist.

So the first thing that you're looking for in phase one is to have your lead wrist flat.

Now, if you have a really, really strong grip, Like I'm going to strengthen it like crazy right now.

When I go here, it's going to tend to still look a little bit cupped, but I can still get a flat lead wrist right here.

You miss a little bit more on the neutral side.

When you start doing this, it's going to look a lot more bowed.

But to have ultimate impact control, the flat lead wrist is a must.

Now, I've been with Rotary almost, well, a decade and a half now, almost two decades.

And I can tell you, one of the very first things that I ever did in my golfing career.

When I came to Rotary was Chuck having me work on getting a flat knee wrist.

Because I was a big trailside pusher and I had a lot of issues with how lack of release of the club.

And the very first thing I had to start to learn how to control was my flight.

I needed to understand what a proper impact position was.

And I solely just practice these small, flat lead wrist positions because at the end of the day, impact is everything, all right?

You can kind of mess up a lot of this golf swing if you do what's going on in the nine to three, but you especially get impact for record.

That's the only thing the golf ball knows is the contact that you're making an impact, all right?

It's the only thing that it knows.

That's why I can get up here and I can swing like this, but I have this impact position.

I have that wrist position.

I'm able to make sure that my club face is stable and I can hit that flight that I want.

So the first thing that you're looking for is you're looking for that flat lead wrist.

Number two, shoulders are square.

Now, why is it so important that shoulders are square?

Because, Craig, I've seen an overview of push-release, you know, where a little bit more trail side, or I look at these guys on TV, you know, they're wide open towards the target.

Now, we'll get into.

different releases later on.

We're working on control right now.

We're working on consistency.

I don't care whether you're a lead side releaser or a trail side releaser.

You still have to understand how this lead side works, okay?

And the easiest way to start doing it is to focus on shoulders being squared because the shoulder's being squared into a couple things for you, okay?

One, it's going to help out with the release in the long run because when your shoulders aren't.

gripping through, the club's going to start releasing a little bit more naturally on its own.

Because when the shoulders start rotating too much, it starts to leave the face open.

And when the face gets open, we're going to.

The second thing is, it comes down to power.

Now, right now, we're focusing on zero power.

We're focusing on strike, consistency, our flight, our checkpoints, but we're not really focusing a lot on power.

And players are so used to getting up here and trying to overpower the swing with their shoulders.

Especially if you've got big, broad shoulders and you're strong in the chest region.

You're used to powering the golf swing with your upper half.

This is the start to turning your upper half off.

You do not create power by spinning your shoulders and spinning your chest as hard and as fast as possible.

It's one of the most inefficient ways to create speed.

So right now, it's an absolute must that when you get to your impact position that your shoulders, or that your shoulders, are square.

Because it's going to have a long-lasting effect throughout this series and throughout your golfing career.

The third thing is, hips open, okay?

So when you're at impact, What we're looking for is that the hips are open 35 45 degrees and that your lead leg is straight.

Now.

straight means straight.

Straight doesn't mean locked out.

We don't need any torn ACL, MCL or anything like that.

It's passively straight, so as the lead leg straightens, the lead hip is going to clear behind you.

Okay, now?

This is going to allow for you to get to a proper impact position and allow for to release the glove later on down the line.

But here's the big, the big one that this is doing is it's gonna start to teach you that the legs lead the way.

You ever heard the term swinging from the ground What does it mean?

Technically, it's exactly how it sounds.

When you're working on this impact position, you're working on straightening the lead leg to get the hip open, to get the leg straight, you're starting to tell your brain that the legs are going to do the heavy lifting, that they need to be in charge of the show.

You especially couple that with shoulders square.

What are you going to notice right now?

Well, my shoulders are open.

My shoulders are square.

That's what everybody's looking for.

This is what I see on a daily basis, that the shoulders are open and that the hips are square.

When you need it the other way around.

So even though this is a very small shot, starting to understand.

And working on getting this hip position is going to allow your brain to start understanding.

Okay, well, he's wanting to use the ground force leverage, he's wanting to clear the hips, but he's wanting the hips to lead the upper half.

Which is one of the most basic things in golf that's been around for ages and ages and ages.

From there, it's the trail foot.

Now we can have lots of discussions on this topic.

I'll leave a lot of that for probably Saturday's or Tuesday session.

But in this instance, what we're looking for is to have the trail foot roll down.

Okay, so this trail foot roll in is going to do actually a lot of things for you when the trail foot rolls in, it's going to help ensure one that you move your weight over here, it's too flat or too planted.

It's going to be hard to make sure that you've moved enough weight to the lead side.

The second thing is, with the trail foot roll in, it's going to allow the lead hip to open up enough.

When the trail foot's flat.

And you're trying to shift weight unless you hang back on it like this.

But when the trail foot's flat and you're shifting weight.

The little bit of rolling is what helps allow for a little bit of mobility.

For this hip to open, okay, So this trail foot needs to be rolled in.

And as everybody should know at home, there's also the other big elephant in the room.

When this trail foot starts leaving the ground too early, the trail hip comes in, you start coming out of posture.

When you start coming out of posture, you're going to start playing the army hand again.

That's where we're going to start casting, throwing the heel at the ball, all sorts of issues.

Getting this hip to post up, allow this trail foot to roll in.

Now I want you to just watch me for a second right here.

You see how I.

I'm not really working that hard.

If I if my weight's on this leg right here, so my weight's on my trail leg right now.

Okay, now, I'm going to put my weight on my lead leg.

Now I'm going to let my hip open.

What did my right foot do?

My right foot followed as my lead hip opened.

Okay, so Some players may need to feel it glued, but some players just need to relax a little bit.

If you're moving this lead side properly and you're just kind of letting this lay or be dead, a little bit dormant, it's going to roll in automatically on its own.

I physically can't get my hips this open with my weight on my lead leg without letting my trail foot roll in like this.

So our trail foot needs to be rolled in.

And lastly, our head.

needs to be down and behind.

Now, the down part is going to aid in the release, okay?

Because when your eyes start moving with your release, where the eyes go, the head goes, the chest goes, and we'll talk a little bit more about that when we discuss release on Saturday.

But it's very important for consistency that this head stays down as you're working on this move.

I know you're eager to hit the shot.

But let's work from here and then out towards the golf ball.

And what I mean by that is let's work on getting our checkpoints first and then worry about what the ball's doing, okay?

Because manufacture a shot.

I can manufacture any golf shot.

It doesn't mean I do it correctly.

Let's focus on the correct movements first.

So as you start to rep and as you start to go through this, Just kind of forget about the ball for a second.

When you start checking your checkpoints, check your checkpoints first.

Once those start to become a little bit consistent, then start to worry about the golf ball, okay?

Because more often than not, especially with using our AI system, players are just watching the golf ball.

So they'll get up here, and they'll do a phase one, and they get to this position, and they're like this.

And they look at it, and they're like, oh, okay, well, the shot met the criteria.

Well, I'm glad that the shot met the criteria, but what about all this other stuff?

Get your checkpoints first.

The ball will take care of itself.

And these five checkpoints are a must.

When you work into this position, shoulders square.

Hips open.

Lead leg straight.

Trail foot rolled in.

Head down.

Head behind the golf ball.

Wrist flat.

It can even be a little bit bowed.

I don't want to see any of this.

Okay.

The head behind the ball, I want to throw a little side note in there.

Phase one-ers that have opted to preset the weight a little bit.

have started a little bit like this, and then even though their weights are already preset, they start shifting like they would in a normal golf swing.

And then their head gets way out ahead of the golf ball, and they're like, I don't know what the heck's going on.

So just be careful.

When you preset this weight on this side, you really don't have a whole lot of weight to move right now.

So you don't need this big, long, drawn-out weight shift.

Because I keep seeing everybody's head.

Kind of get way out of head.

Finally, a student explained it to me what he was thinking.

I was like, oh, it makes perfect sense now.

So head stays behind the ball.

So what we're looking for as you're going through this, okay, we're going to take our setup.

Now, for me, I like to do it in a little bit more of a normal stance position.

Just me.

You don't have to.

You can be a little bit more like this.

You can be a little bit more weight on the lead side.

I just prefer a little bit more of a normal stance position.

What we're looking for is, as we move through here, is to check our checkpoints.

Notice, where did my head go?

Nowhere.

It's absolutely right here on this mat, okay?

And as I'm going to do it, I'm going to kind of work myself from the ground up.

I'm going to look at my feet, all right?

Trail foot rolled in right here.

I don't have a big heel lift.

Looks like my lead leg's straight.

I'm going to check my hip right here.

I have a little tendency to slide out ahead.

So my hip's open.

My belt buckle's pointed in front.

My chest is square.

My head is down.

My lead wrist was flat.

I'll do another one.

But notice how I didn't care.

I got tons of stuff I can hit in this room right now.

I don't care where it went.

I'm solely focused on these positions.

first because that's the most important thing because you're working on it.

It's your checkpoints.

Now another question I commonly get is what are we doing this backswing in this position?

Well, it's hard for me to say, just forget about it.

Because as you're working on phase one, if you set up here and you're rolling the club inside like this, it's going to be very hard to get back to a proper impact position.

So I don't want to say we can need something that's just serviceable, but we need something that's serviceable.

The only thing I'm really looking for you to do in this backswing is to make sure that you have some rotation.

And this trail arm stays relatively straight, okay?

Because if you have some rotation and this trail arm stays relatively straight, you're going to be in a position where you're going to be able to move back into the lead side and get back into impact.

I've had some players.

Just kind of start with their wrist, where they fan it this way, and they do everything correctly into the golf ball.

And they're like, I don't understand what's going on right here.

Well, I know that we said, you know, the backswing.

You can kind of take your hands off a little bit, but it's still got to have some parameters that you have to hit.

And the two big things I see is just overly using the wrist or folding that trail arm early, so just keep that trail arm straight and allow for the shoulders to rotate back.

Especially for those that are having a narrow stance, you're not going to have a ton of momentum or a ton of weight shift.

So you're just trying to set it into a position to work down here and that's.

It's funny because I catch myself in the mirrors right here, so I have this one right here and this one right here.

And that's kind of how I practice my move, and it's the same thing that I'll sit here and do all day long.

My trail arm pulling, my trail arm pulling.

You don't need to be that obsessive at this point now, if we understand what we're doing from here, a little backswing weight post impact, what should we be looking for in our shot?

If you're hitting, okay, and only if you're hitting the checkpoints, What are the balls doing if you're not getting your check balls?

Well, this shot should be relatively straight, okay?

So we're looking for a straight, lower -flighted ball.

Because why?

The lead wrist is going to be flat.

If this ball is sailing up towards these lights in the ceiling, your lead wrist is not flat, okay?

So the first thing is we have to make sure that this ball flight.

is a lower trajectory, and it's straight.

So that means that you're starting to understand and gain control with your lead hand in the club face, okay?

The next thing is the ball has a tendency to have maybe a little push on it.

It may move out a little bit towards the right.

Now, it shouldn't be out of our dispersion window, okay, which is only one or two yards.

That's not coming this.

So it shouldn't be out of our dispersion window, but it's going to have a little tendency maybe to push a little bit because we're not allowing for this big face rotation of the club right here.

We're holding on to it a little bit with this lead side, and the face may stay open a degree or two.

It's perfectly okay if it's a little bit of a push.

So we're looking for 10-15 yards, lower flag, straight, One or two yard dispersion, if it's a tiny bit of a push, and as you've probably seen in the videos with Chuck from that white tape one, if it's a tiny bit of a push, no problem.

So as we work through here, we're going to set up, make our backswing, shift post.

This is what we're looking for.

You should literally be able to talk to yourself as I'm doing up here and do it over and over again.

Now I can tell you, it took me a while to get back to doing that.

When I first started rebuilding my swing or getting my swing back, it took me a while to kind of do that.

But through reps, I'm working on it and checking my checkpoints and doing all the kind of mundane things it does that it takes to build a proper golf swing.

I can do this now and have a conversation with you.

If you get to that point, you know you're going to be okay.

I want to talk a little bit about some of the trouble spots and some of the.

You know, shots that I'm seeing when I get the reports coming in and then I'm going to do a few more reps as well, this one.

If you want to do a couple at home, if you've got a mat there, if you're sitting there, hit a couple.

Look at your checkpoints If you look at your checkpoints and something's not matching.

When we finish this session, I'm going to do a little Q a all right and say, Hey, Craig, you know, I stepped off for a second.

I tried to do this and I'm struggling with this position.

Let's talk about it.

Let's have our airing of grievances right now.

It's starting to be Christmas time.

It's not the best of us yet, but let's air out our grievances while we're here.

So if you want to test it out, we're going to do a Q&A and talk about it.

On Saturday, it's going to be very interactive because I'm going to actually want you to kind of do some of the drills with me.

I've kind of tweaked some things a little bit.

1000 I advise you, you know the checkpoints 1001 right now.

If you've got a mat like me 1002 right now, go hit one.

1003 Or make a swing.

1004 Look in the mirror and be like, oh, 1005 you know, I'm still doing that.

Let me 1006 ask Craig while I'm out right here.

1007 The four most common things that I've 1008 been seeing in phase one is fat shots.

Or 1009 the first one is fat shots.

1010 Now, what are the three things that I've 1011 been seeing on my end that are producing 1012 these fat shots?

1013 The first thing is, it's making the 1014 takeaway and returning back to impact and 1015 the weight staying back on this trail 1016 lift.

1017 If you don't have enough weight shift, 1018 you're not going to be able to move the 1019 bottom of your swing arc up enough to 1020 have that proper kind of downward blow.

1021 So if you start getting up here, and I'll 1022 demonstrate, if you start hitting shots, 1023 and you're like, okay, I'm getting here.

1024 I'm hitting it fat.

You can even see that 1025 that ball showed up higher.

1026 My weight is sitting back on my trail 1027 side right now.

That's why I say scuffy.

1028 That's why you can hear it's a little bit 1029 scuffy before the strike.

1030 Fat shots are usually caused by lack of 1031 weight transfer.

1032 So as you're working on this, you start 1033 experiencing fat shots, check your 1034 weight.

1035 Also, I want you to check your hip turn.

1036 Make sure that your hips are open.

If 1037 you're like, Craig, my weight's on this 1038 side.

I mean, I can visually see.

My 1039 right foot is off the ground.

I can 1040 dangle this thing.

I'm still hitting fat 1041 shots.

Well, check that your hips are 1042 open.

Remember, your hips have to clear 1043 to provide room for impact in the 1044 release.

1045 So make sure.

that this belt buckle's 1046 pointed out in front, that this lead 1047 leg's posted.

If I work into impact and I 1048 have weight on this side but my leg's 1049 bent like this, what do you think the 1050 club's going to do?

1051 It's going to go right into the ground, 1052 okay?

1053 Another thing is this pesky little trail 1054 hand.

You may be working on this and you 1055 may be getting weight back, posting up, 1056 and you're still hitting it fat and 1057 that's just because your trail hand is 1058 taking over.

1059 A couple telltales other than just 1060 hitting it fat, you're probably going to 1061 see some over rotation in the face, and 1062 you're going to see that your lean wrist 1063 is starting to cut.

1064 But I want you to think about it this 1065 way.

You set up, everything's going 1066 great, I'm hitting it fat.

Okay, why am I 1067 hitting it fat?

Check your weight.

1068 Check your hips.

Work it from the inside 1069 out first.

1070 I've got weight, I've got hips.

1071 Is it my trail hand?

1072 Okay, the way I look at the golf swing, 1073 the way I look at any swinger views from 1074 the inside out.

Okay.

1075 Go through that checklist for getting 1076 fat.

1077 Now, hitting it thin.

1078 Typically, this thin is going to be 1079 caused by two reasons in phase one.

1080 Number one is you're trying to produce 1081 power.

I can tell you, a 10-15 yard shot, 1082 it doesn't take a whole lot of motion.

1083 10-15 yards, you shouldn't be trying to 1084 create power.

1085 Okay.

1086 In fact, 1087 As I used to tell the students in the 1088 clinic, nobody's going to be really that 1089 impressed with that 10 15 yard shot.

So 1090 you don't need to do anything special 1091 with it, only you should be.

But the thin 1092 shots typically caused by players trying 1093 to create power with their shoulders.

So 1094 that they're taking their shoulders and 1095 they're blowing through that checkpoint, 1096 they're getting to here and as they start 1097 to work into the strike, the shoulders 1098 are wide open.

Like this, trying to get 1099 this impact position because they're 1100 trying to motor it with their upper half.

1101 Now, remember, I'm trying to get you to 1102 start feeling what it's like to leave 1103 with your lower hand.

Okay, I want the 1104 lower hand.

So if you start experience 1105 then shots.

Check your shoulders, also if 1106 my hip goes too far, specifically 1107 outside my lead foot.

We kind of commonly 1108 refer to as a slide.

If I slide my hips, 1109 that's going to also lead to thin.

Not 1110 only are you going to hit thin shots, 1111 you're going to tear the labrum.

1112 But sliding into the shot in lack of post 1113 is going to cause you to hit thin shots.

1114 Wrist Okay If you're struggling with 1115 hitting high struts, check your wrist 1116 position.

It's very, very uncommon at a 1117 cup left wrist or cup lead wrist is being 1118 caused actually by the lead wrist.

Now 1119 I'll tell you what I saw for the first 1120 time today a student that was actually 1121 doing it with his lead wrist, which is 1122 very rare.

1123 But the most common culprit still goes 1124 back to this power aspect.

This is a 10, 1125 15-yard shot.

1126 As you work from here to here, the only 1127 thing that's going to cause that lead 1128 wrist to cut is your trail hand is being 1129 too active.

And what you'll notice is, 1130 what's that doing to my face?

1131 It's adding loft to it.

So not only now 1132 are you cupping your lead wrist, which is 1133 going against the rules of engagement 1134 with a ball point, now the ball's going 1135 high and probably a little bit too far in 1136 the space.

1137 But you're also not getting to this kind 1138 of compression point, 1139 okay?

You're trying to hit it too hard.

1140 You're trying to use too much trail sign.

1141 These appendages have to play nicely 1142 together.

1143 If this one's dominating in such a small 1144 motion right here, you're going to start 1145 hitting high shots.

1146 You're going to start cupping your lead 1147 wrist.

It's the only thing that's really 1148 positive.

1149 And lastly, if you're struggling with toe 1150 or heel strikes, 1151 the toe strike is going to kind of go 1152 back to a little bit of my shoulder 1153 theory, is that you're trying to power it 1154 with your shoulders.

And so when you 1155 start trying to power it with your 1156 shoulders, what's going to happen is that 1157 lead shoulder is going to bail out.

Too 1158 soon behind you.

When you start moving 1159 this fulcrum position, Okay, this is 1160 going to be your kind of fulcrum in the 1161 golf.

When you start moving this fulcrum 1162 position out of the shop.

Too soon, 1163 you're going to start swiping across it, 1164 hitting the toe shot.

Now, the one that I 1165 love is when people do that, they start 1166 swiping across it and they combine it 1167 with release.

So you just went from the 1168 toe slapper to the toe double duck hook.

1169 Because your shoulders are pointed that 1170 way and you're releasing it that way.

So 1171 if you start struggling with a lot of toe 1172 strikes, just like with the thin, go back 1173 and check the shoulders.

Okay, if you're 1174 struggling with the heel strike, there's 1175 a lot of different reasons you can 1176 struggle with heel strikes and this small 1177 motion.

It's only kind of two things I 1178 want you to think about Number one 1179 If you're excessively pushing off that 1180 trail foot, it's going to start to bring 1181 the heel out towards the ball.

1182 Second, 1183 this.

1184 Now, remember earlier I said that we 1185 don't really care about a perfect 1186 takeaway at this point.

1187 But it's got to be serviceable.

It's got 1188 to be within the margin.

If you're 1189 rolling it this way, And then you start 1190 to make all these proper moves.

Coming 1191 down, you can see that my club face is 1192 wide open, you know, start to present 1193 that heel to the golf ball.

Okay, so if 1194 you start experiencing those things, 1195 those are kind of the checkpoints of what 1196 I want you to look for.

Okay, and all of 1197 these are going to be in your phase one, 1198 it's going to be all of your faults and 1199 fixes.

But these are kind of the most 1200 common things that I see.

Sometimes you 1201 just can't bottle it up well, 1202 I'm hitting it fat, so it's solely just 1203 weight shift.

No, sometimes it's not 1204 solely just weight shift.

Sometimes you 1205 did get your weight over there, but you 1206 forgot to post up.

So you didn't clear 1207 enough space to work into impact and 1208 start working into a release position.

So 1209 I kind of want to just give you a few 1210 checkpoints on each and what they kind of 1211 can cause.

1212 Between now and next session, 1213 okay, our goal, and you'll see it's on 1214 the last page of today's slot, 1215 is to get 300 reps in, 1216 okay, with a minimum of 100 each day.

1217 Now, what does that really mean?

Craig, 1218 when you want me to get 300 reps in, does 1219 that mean I'm just going out there and 1220 I'm just going like this, back and forth, 1221 hitting golf ball, golf ball, golf ball?

1222 No, I want 300 quality reps because 1223 there's going to be some of you that by 1224 the time we get to Saturday, 1225 Do you still need to be doing this?

Okay?

1226 And that's going to be okay because even 1227 though we're going to move on with the 1228 program, you're going to have your 1229 outline, your game plan.

1230 But I need you to start understanding 1231 what you're doing right here.

And I need 1232 quality.

When I say put in 100 reps, I 1233 want you grinding it out.

1234 I want you checking everything.

1235 single rep.

1236 Now, 100 reps per day.

1237 Does that mean I'm looking for you to do 1238 every single one of those with a golf 1239 ball?

Not necessarily.

You can if you're 1240 hitting your points.

1241 But let's throw in a little bit of 1242 mixture in there, okay?

I always used to 1243 do about five reps per ball.

1244 Now, if you're already really adept at 1245 doing this correctly, You can drop it 1246 down to three rooms per ball.

If you're 1247 really good at doing this, you can drop 1248 it down to one room per ball.

1249 At least at home.

1250 But I want you to have quality reps.

I 1251 want you to set aside some time.

I know 1252 it's tough right now.

A lot of people 1253 either are back in the office or they 1254 work from home and it's chaos at home.

1255 They're trying to get back to the office.

1256 But I want you to schedule some time for 1257 yourself.

You're already taking this 1258 class.

You're already.

You know, 1259 committing yourself to becoming a better 1260 golfer this off season?

Let's let's get 1261 off on the correct foot with this.

Now I 1262 want you to schedule yourself some time 1263 and whether you're going to do five reps 1264 per ball to get to your 100 or three or 1265 two.

I want you to work through and make 1266 your little back swing and work the 1267 impact.

I want you to stop right now, I 1268 want you to go through all these 1269 positions, my wrist flat, my foot, my 1270 hip, my shoulders, my head down.

Can I 1271 start to make this move without having to 1272 think about it too much?

Maybe at first 1273 you're starting this, or even when you 1274 get the golf ball in front of you.

Like, 1275 Well, I'm setting up here and I'm 1276 thinking about, Okay, I'm gonna rotate 1277 here.

Keep my right arm, sure, I'm gonna 1278 shift my weight, I'm gonna post, keep my 1279 shoulders.

It doesn't work that way.

1280 But that may be you at the start.

1281 Because maybe four out of these five 1282 checkpoints, you know, you're struggling 1283 with hitting.

Well, pick your battles.

1284 So I'm going to get here and demonstrate 1285 the four of them.

1286 Now, I almost hit my computer on that 1287 one.

So I just proved my point.

What did 1288 I do wrong here?

Well, you can see that 1289 my right heel is way up off the ground.

1290 So I pushed up off my right foot.

and my 1291 shoulders are wide open, which left my 1292 club face wide open, which shot the golf 1293 ball almost into my computer screen.

1294 Now, that may be a little bit too much 1295 for you to think at one time.

Well, pick 1296 your back, okay?

Let's first work from 1297 this ground up.

Let's get this foot under 1298 control, because I know if I'm overly 1299 pushing with this foot, my hip's going to 1300 come in, my head's going to come up, my 1301 posture's going to come up, and I'm going 1302 to try to stay with my shoulders.

Kind of 1303 start fixing it from the ground up.

1304 Okay.

1305 And then when that starts to get a little 1306 bit better, maybe you spend five reps.

1307 Okay, I've got my foot.

I've got my foot.

1308 Okay, now I can put a little bit more 1309 emphasis on my shoulders.

1310 Don't kind of paralysis by analysis.

Give 1311 yourself a chance to make the change.

1312 Pick one.

Go through it.

1313 Between now and Saturday, what I want you 1314 to do is schedule some time for yourself 1315 and be very diligent about it.

1316 You don't have to have a camera.

You 1317 don't have to have a mirror.

You don't 1318 have to have a buddy or anything.

1319 You can set up here.

1320 Okay, 1321 this is good.

I'm hitting my checkpoints.

1322 And if you're not hitting your 1323 checkpoints, go through the list from 1324 tonight.

1325 Post up on the community page.

Post up on 1326 the forum page.

Send in a swinger page.

1327 Take a live lesson.

1328 Send us smoke signal.

We're going to help 1329 you out.

We want you to get this.

1330 Okay?

1331 So for now, what we're going to do is 1332 open it up for some questions.

1333 You've got your homework.

I know today 1334 isn't really the fun and sexy day because 1335 we're just kind of doing set up and 1336 working on some smaller impact shots.

1337 But it's the base.

1338 fundamental, so to speak, of everything 1339 that we're going to try to achieve the 1340 rest of the camp.

And if you understand 1341 how to get to here correctly, 1342 I tell my students all the time, we can 1343 kind of mess up some of the other stuff.

1344 I don't want you to build a golf swing 1345 that you're just getting away with it.

1346 But golf is kind of a game of misses.

So 1347 if you're missing your swing in the 1348 correct spots.

1349 You're still going to hit some quality 1350 shots because in fact at the end of the 1351 day, it's literally the only thing that 1352 matters.

All right?

1353 The only thing that this silly little 1354 ball knows is where you're making contact 1355 with.

1356 Okay?

Where this face is pointed, 1357 club face angle.

1358 It's the only thing this knows.

Okay?

1359 Let's post up.

some questions in the chat 1360 i'm going to try to get to everybody 10 a 1361 .

m Saturday get your reps in.

On Saturday, 1362 we're going to do a lot more work.

All 1363 right, so on Saturday I'm going to try.

1364 Even though I can't see you, we're going 1365 to try to do some reps together.

Okay, 1366 kind of built a little bit of a 1367 accelerated portion of it.

I know I'm 1368 probably going to get this question and 1369 I'm going to go ahead and answer it.

1370 Should you plug these reps into your 1371 dashboard to your AI?

1372 Right now, I would just kind of track 1373 them.

1374 But if you're doing this correctly, throw 1375 them in there.

Okay?

1376 But if you're sitting here and you're 1377 like, Craig, I still don't know what.

1378 Don't worry about it yet.

Worry about 1379 when you can start kind of getting this a 1380 little bit consistent and start plugging 1381 it in.

Okay?

1382 But if you're doing this and you're like, 1383 Craig, I did my 300 reps.

1384 firing on 80, 85%.

Plug them in every 10.

1385 Check it.

Everything's going good.

1386 You have the ability to do it.

Put it in 1387 your dashboard.

1388 All right.

1389 Okay.

Some questions.

1390 Looks like Anthony's been trying to 1391 answer for.

I appreciate the help, 1392 Anthony.

So I'm going to just start.

1393 Down here with David Linz on what is NJA.

1394 If you have one prior to that, I'll 1395 apologize.

Just go ahead and repost it.

1396 I'm going to start with that one.

Okay.

1397 So what is NJA regarding stance with?

1398 I'm going to try to wind that back.

So 1399 NJA is neutral joint alignment.

So 1400 neutral joint alignment is where your 1401 body's in a full balance position.

1402 So when it comes to neutral joint 1403 alignment, 1404 if we ripped off all our skin and looked 1405 at our skeleton, that would be the 1406 position that you're purely balanced in.

1407 So with stance width, neutral joint 1408 alignment would be your hip socket in 1409 line with your knee and ankle side, okay, 1410 or ankle joint.

And what you're looking 1411 for is to be two inches outside this 1412 line, so two inches outside your hip 1413 socket right here.

And that's going to 1414 allow you to set up.

1415 in a proper position to be able to move, 1416 but also the correct amount of axis tilt.

1417 Because what's going to determine the 1418 amount of axis tilt you have?

1419 So I finish on my right toes for this 1420 drill.

Am I leaning too far forward or is 1421 it less rotation and more lateral?

If 1422 you're finishing on your right toes, so 1423 if you're working on this drill and 1424 you're like this, 1425 More than likely, what you're doing is 1426 you're shifting a lot laterally, and 1427 you're not clearing it properly with this 1428 lead leg.

You're adding a little bit of 1429 push, and you're moving too far towards 1430 the ball getting out here on your toes.

1431 This is a very small shot.

There should 1432 be no reason this heals up.

Now, your 1433 pressure may be a little bit more towards 1434 the ball of your foot.

1435 It shouldn't be back here when you get 1436 here on your heels.

1437 It may be a little bit more towards the 1438 front of the foot.

1439 but you shouldn't be up on your toe box.

1440 In playing with this, I noticed that if I 1441 started the downswing by rolling the 1442 right foot in automatically, I 1443 automatically turn my hips and post up.

1444 Is that order okay?

Well, if you think 1445 like Axiom, the pressure motion, all 1446 right, when you're working through here, 1447 as you start to kind of get off all over 1448 that toe, you can see it's aiding in me 1449 getting this lead hip open.

If you want 1450 to use a little bit of axiom foot motion 1451 for this, no problem with that, 1452 okay?

1453 The problem is what I typically see is 1454 that players start getting a little bit 1455 aggressive with this, and they don't 1456 realize it, and all of a sudden their 1457 ball is 150 yards.

1458 But all it sounds like, Roy, is that 1459 you're using a little bit of that axiom 1460 motion, which is perfectly fine.

1461 David, how do you find the videos, the 1462 search bar and the magnifying glass?

1463 Sorry, the handout's just the PDF print 1464 out, not live links.

1465 So if you go to the main webpage and you 1466 just click the magnifying glass, it's a 1467 pop-up word.

If you have any questions, 1468 forum, community, I can get you to any 1469 video.

Anthony can get you to any video.

1470 What I might do for the next session or 1471 send out is I'll just put up a list of 1472 what these videos are to help you out.

1473 But just use the search tab and use one 1474 word and the whole list to populate.

1475 Grip pressure.

1476 In a prior video, you want it soft to 1477 allow the face to close.

1478 Well, typically, Howard, grip pressure 1479 goes between a 2 and an 8 throughout a 1480 full swing.

At this point in time, your 1481 pressure is going to increase in the 1482 impact to hold off on the face.

But right 1483 now, it shouldn't really require a death 1484 grip because you're not creating a whole 1485 bunch of MPH.

1486 I mean, like right here as I'm going 1487 through this.

1488 My pressure is at like a high.

1489 Now, if I'm screaming through here, I'm 1490 going to have to hold on for dear life.

1491 All right.

1492 Can you please clarify what you mean when 1493 you say shoulder square?

Rohan.

1494 So my shoulder is square.

1495 Yes.

1496 This is my target line.

Okay.

So I'm 1497 hitting down this alignment stick right 1498 here.

What I'm looking for at impact.

1499 right here, is that my shoulders are 1500 square to this alignment rod, not pointed 1501 open.

I don't want them overly shut, but 1502 my shoulders are square to my target 1503 line.

Hips 35, 45, shoulders square.

1504 Jeremy, such a great session.

Thank you.

1505 I appreciate that.

I've been bending my 1506 right arm during the takeaway.

Will that 1507 cause my takeaway to go too far inside?

1508 Yes, it will.

1509 All right.

1510 I'll keep practicing.

Thank you, Jedi 1511 Master.

1512 If you take this trail arm and you start 1513 folding it early, it's going to be kind 1514 of hard to keep that club anywhere else 1515 but going inside.

So if your trail arm 1516 starts to fold early, 1517 the proverbial sawing of the wood, that 1518 club's going that way.

1519 If we're not able to make it Saturday, is 1520 there any way to catch up before Tuesday?

1521 The replay volume, I'm going to put all 1522 the homework in that replay.

And you can 1523 just follow along with me at any point in 1524 time you can catch up with it.

But 1525 remember, you're still going to be kind 1526 of going at your own pace with this.

1527 If you finish boot camp and you're still 1528 kind of on phase one, don't worry.

These 1529 videos are going to be there for you to 1530 pick up where you need to.

1531 Could you provide a visual on how to pull 1532 the club back?

I tend to fan it out and 1533 I'm confused by the concept of shoulder 1534 blade glide.

1535 Santiago, I'm going to leave that for 1536 the.

The next session because I'm going 1537 to talk a little bit more about takeaway.

1538 But the main thing is, and the easiest 1539 way to kind of think about it.

I don't 1540 have a ball around here, but if you have 1541 a ball or a bucket or impact bag, just 1542 grab it.

Like this, take your right 1543 shoulder behind your head, all right, 1544 that's all you have to do.

You can see my 1545 arms are straight and I'm rotating.

We've 1546 got the Roll the right Arm video on the 1547 website, which will also help you out 1548 with that.

At this point in time, it's a 1549 two-inch movement of the shoulder, but 1550 feel like you're just taking your core 1551 and your right shoulder rotating it 1552 behind you.

I'm standing right here.

Hey, 1553 what's going on?

How are you doing today?

1554 All you're doing is letting your shoulder 1555 go behind you as your core is rotating.

1556 But take away, I'm going to leave that 1557 for another session.

That's okay.

1558 Let's see.

1559 Impact bag.

1560 Good to check on.

Yeah, Howard, impact 1561 bag is great.

1562 No problem with that.

1563 Foggy, please show a close-up on the 1564 fundamentals you were mentioning of what 1565 to do and what not to do.

I don't know if 1566 I can have time to go through all of 1567 them, but rundown of what to do.

1568 We get to here.

1569 Lead legs straight.

Trail foot rolled in.

1570 Flat lead wrist.

Shoulder square.

Head 1571 down.

1572 From down the line.

1573 Head down.

Trail foot rolled in.

1574 Lead leg straight.

Hips open.

Shoulder 1575 square.

Flat lead wrist.

1576 Do another one for you.

1577 Okay.

We shouldn't see any massive loss 1578 of push line or anything like that.

So we 1579 don't want to see.

1580 Here, we're picking up the head, 1581 shoulders spinning open.

1582 Any of those falls.

If you're not getting 1583 those checkpoints, that's the only thing.

1584 Just make sure you've got those 1585 checkpoints, and you'll be just fine.

1586 Let's see.

1587 How fast should I swing the club in the 1588 drill?

Not very fast, Ben.

1589 If you think about it, 10, 15-yard shot, 1590 pretty slow.

1591 In review and address, driver through 1592 watch is left hip bump slightly left.

1593 What percent of weight do you say should 1594 be on the left leg?

1595 Jeff, think about it like a 1596 counterbalance.

1597 If I'm creating axis tilt, okay, and my 1598 hip's going towards the target, what's 1599 going on?

I'm counterbalancing.

My upper 1600 half weight's falling this way and my 1601 hip's going this way, okay?

So you still 1602 should be 50-50 at address.

you may tend 1603 to have a little bit kind of like 55 45 1604 leave the trail or maybe even 60.

So it 1605 may tend to have a tiny bit on the lead 1606 side, but the upper half and lower half 1607 are counterbalancing themselves.

Wedges, 1608 you know, are special shots.

You're going 1609 to have more over there, right shoulder 1610 behind on the takeaway.

Can you talk 1611 about it, please?

All right, I'll talk a 1612 little bit more about it.

Since we got 1613 some questions.

I'm going to come back to 1614 that.

Marcello 1615 When doing the 100 reps, recommend seven 1616 iron.

Any shorter iron, seven, eight iron 1617 will do.

1618 How much shoulder turn should you try to 1619 get?

Ideally in a takeaway, 45 degrees 1620 spill.

1621 And since everybody's got some takeaway 1622 talk, I'll show you in a second.

1623 Is a mirror the only way to fall along if 1624 you don't have an internal bear hitting 1625 bay?

Yeah, you can use a mirror, 1626 backyard, living room, camera.

If you 1627 have an iPad or iPhone.

Just something to 1628 give you feedback, as long as you're 1629 watching your motions, yeah, and then 1630 checking them, that's what you need.

How 1631 we use this unique ID in this boot camp, 1632 I'm not sure what a unique idea is.

1633 Henry, can you expand upon that a little 1634 bit?

45 degrees should get you to a nine 1635 I got a box, a dozen of them.

They're 1636 soft, but I can really smash them from Go 1637 Sports.

But I can swing them full and 1638 they don't do anything to my walls, which 1639 is kind of what I was looking for.

1640 Is all this the same for the driver in 1641 the woods?

Bryce, I'll talk about driver 1642 in session four.

1643 Driver has a different setup parameter 1644 and you're catching the driver at a 1645 different time.

So unless you're trying 1646 to have like a downward angle, there 1647 might be scenarios which you want with 1648 the driver.

But driver's a specialty 1649 club, 1650 okay?

So you're going to be catching the 1651 ball at a different time.

1652 So the kind of mount before chaplain and 1653 bow you may not have, but the shoulders, 1654 the trail foot, the hip, everything's 1655 going to be the same.

But you're not 1656 going to be trying to make impact with 1657 the driver like this.

For the driver, 1658 you're going to be catching it at a 1659 different time, a little bit more ahead 1660 of you.

So there's just a little bit of 1661 different setup adjustment.

So that's 1662 going to be what changes everything.

1663 Tony, isn't shoulder square a result of 1664 what comes before with the chest open at 1665 impact?

Isn't shoulder square a result of 1666 what comes before the chest open at 1667 impact?

1668 Expand upon that a little bit, Tony.

I'll 1669 help you out.

1670 Is that a Gamecock head cover in your 1671 bag?

1672 Yeah, I've got all sorts of sports 1673 memorabilia.

So I had a little Braves 1674 thing over here.

That's a Gamecock.

1675 That's Animal from the Muppets.

1676 Goofy.

1677 That's a trophy Chuck and I won together.

1678 Bear Bryant.

1679 That football helmet, I've got a good 1680 story for that.

I'll save that for 1681 another day when we've got some time.

1682 So do you want to try to keep the right 1683 arm straight and the tape back or a 1684 little bend is okay?

Right now?

If it's a 1685 little bit soft here, I'm not gonna yell 1686 at you.

The ideal goal in the takeaway So 1687 this is for all the takeaway people that 1688 have questions, the ideal goal in the 1689 takeaway is.

For this trail arm to stay 1690 straight, Okay, so you want this trail 1691 arm to stay straight because it's going 1692 to help facilitate rotation, 1693 So ideally, 45 degrees trail arm 1694 straight.

If you're presetting a little 1695 bit, the stance is a little bit narrow, 1696 and you can see like right there, I've 1697 got just a little bit of bend in it.

I'm 1698 not going like this.

It's just a little 1699 bit on the soft side.

That's okay.

1700 But know that the more and more you go 1701 through this program, you're going to 1702 have to get that right arm straight so 1703 you can rotate.

1704 Hey, Garrett, how do I get a replay as 1705 soon as I get off on this?

1706 I'm going to download it and get the 1707 rendering, and then I'll get it posted to 1708 the site for you, and you'll be able to 1709 access it in your my purchases.

1710 Douglas White, what is the meaning of 1711 life?

1712 How much time do we have?

1713 I know we're already over.

1714 I've got an answer for you.

I've got an 1715 answer for you.

1716 I'll send you a message behind the 1717 scenes.

1718 Being in Atlanta, you should destroy the 1719 Pats helmet.

1720 I have a long story behind that, 1721 Santiago.

1722 All right.

I got a long story behind that 1723 one.

I understand.

I understand.

1724 I'll share the story at a later date and 1725 time.

1726 It's not just the helmet.

There's some 1727 other inscriptions on it.

1728 Do you agree with irons, hands versus 1729 club head, hands win the race to the golf 1730 ball?

1731 Do I agree that hands win the race to the 1732 golf ball?

1733 Well, 1734 this is the golf ball.

1735 I'm moving from here.

I'm shifting.

I'm 1736 posting.

I'm working at the impact.

1737 My hands, you can see, they're out ahead 1738 of the golf ball.

1739 The club's going to kind of be the last 1740 thing.

It kind of gets there.

1741 Everything.

1742 You've already finished your legs, your 1743 shoulders, your hips.

Everything's kind 1744 of done.

And the last thing to finally 1745 happen is for this club to get there and 1746 for all the magic to happen.

1747 Joseph, I struggle with posting up.

I'm a 1748 big slider.

1749 It's way too far in the class right now.

1750 Take a look at the Tour Pro downswing 1751 group on the side.

1752 If you're sliding, what you're typically 1753 doing is you're pushing a lot off this 1754 trail foot, like excessively, which is 1755 causing a slide out ahead, 1756 okay?

What I would do is I would focus 1757 on, once you get your weight to your lead 1758 leg, focus on moving your pressure from 1759 the ball of your foot towards your heel, 1760 okay?

You focus on that as your legs 1761 straighten.

1762 Okay?

1763 Moving back towards your heel.

1764 Legs straining, going from kind of the 1765 front of the foot to the back.

It's going 1766 to aid in that hip clearing and turn off 1767 that darn right leg and foot.

1768 All right.

1769 Watch how much of your push and reach up.

1770 Thank you, Anthony.

1771 Troy, thanks, Craig and Anthony, for 1772 seeing you Saturday.

1773 We'll have one eye on U.

S.

men's soccer.

1774 All right.

1775 Go, USA.

1776 At least on our.

I got people all over 1777 from this group.

JOSeph, Thank you.

I 1778 appreciate that.

All right, I'm gonna two 1779 more questions.

anybody?

how?

I'll open 1780 it up to two more questions.

Thank you 1781 Doug.

Technically, what is your first 1782 movement to initiate the post?

I've been 1783 analyzing the feeling that Chuck talks 1784 about, similar to parallel forehand shot 1785 in tennis.

Uh, what is your first 1786 movement to initiate the post?

Well, 1787 what?

What happens is as you get the knee 1788 externally rotated and you pull the 1789 weight with the inner thigh adductors.

1790 And you get this glute loaded, you start 1791 to push off the ground, okay, so moving 1792 from the ball of your foot towards your 1793 heel.

The straightening and the 1794 contracting of the lead glute is what's 1795 going to kind of initiate the post firing 1796 that lead glute.

Thank you Raymond, Thank 1797 you Randy Ted.

Like your new teaching 1798 setup?

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

1799 Thank you Mitchell and Bryce 1800 Garrett, I appreciate it.

1801 Nothing like tennis.

1802 Well, 1803 Craig, you covered a lot of basic 1804 materials in the first lesson in an 1805 excellent manner.

I especially like your 1806 detail on the faults.

We would critique 1807 ourselves.

That's the whole point, Jim.

I 1808 want you to be your own doctor.

Be your 1809 own doctor of your golf swing to get 1810 better.

Just don't be your own doctor in 1811 real life.

1812 I don't want to hear like, Craig, I sewed 1813 my arm back together.

You told me to be 1814 my own doctor.

1815 Great first session.

Thank you, Pete.

Is 1816 there any hip?

1817 Shoulder movement in this very limited 1818 phase one.

1819 I mean, there are hips, there are 1820 shoulder movements.

1821 But it's going to be 45 degrees a little 1822 bit with the shoulders.

It's very minimal 1823 with the hips.

You don't need a lot of 1824 hip rotation back.

1825 30, 45 with the hips.

1826 Don't use the shoulders coming down.

1827 They'll get there.

1828 Carol, Texas loves Craig.

Thank you, 1829 Carol.

1830 I appreciate that.

Always good to see 1831 you, Carol.

1832 Enjoy things.

1833 All right.

Okay.

1834 With that being said, 1835 I'm going to go get some dinner.

1836 And 10 a.

m.

Saturday.

1837 Hopefully everything's all squared away 1838 by now.

I appreciate you giving me a 1839 chance after this Thanksgiving.

1840 I know I'm a little bashful getting on 1841 camera after all the, let's say, damage I 1842 did last week.

So, 1843 thanks for stopping by and starting to 1844 work in the golf store with me.

I enjoyed 1845 it.

Pleasure to have you.

And I will see 1846 you Saturday at 10 a.

m.

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