C4 Bootcamp 1, Dec 3 2022, Session 2

Session 2 of 4

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Good morning.

Good morning.

How are we doing this?

Lovely Saturday morning.

Can everybody hear me?

Maybe somewhat.

Who knows?

No notes yet?

Nobody's typing anything.

All right.

Good morning, Bill, Kevin.

All right.

Starting to pop up on my end.

How are we doing today?

We have video.

Do we have audio?

Do we have Craig?

Oh, good.

Can see and hear.

All right.

So we're starting off correctly today.

Nice.

Thank you, Gary.

I appreciate it.

How are we doing today?

Good morning and good on.

I agree.

Don't let that game talk thing cool you.

How are we doing today?

Make sure.

All right.

Nice.

Well, welcome, everybody.

Welcome to session two of C4 Bootcamp.

I will be your humble swing guide today.

Where is the instructor Craig Moore?

And what we're going to do is we're going to follow the usual protocol.

We're going to let everybody start to settle in.

And when people get set in, we're going to do a baby recap.

And then we're going to get right to work.

And today is going to probably be a little bit more interactive than the first session.

Because if you can, if you have the space, Whether you can only do the body drills, or whether you can only use, or whether you can use the golf club.

Like I am here, I want you to get up and do it.

And if you start to have some red flags, you start to peel some things you're unsure about, then we can answer them right here in real time.

Because I want to get you fixed.

And I've seen some really good stuff so far in the swing reviews, so I'm not really concerned.

As many boot camps as I've done so far, you know, there's certain boot camps where we kind of get the message right and people really click with the message.

And sometimes it's like, yeah, we need a little bit more understanding.

So far, so good though.

The phase one videos I've seen, homework is being completed very well.

Let's see.

And as you know, the usual protocol, you'll see me kind of float from here to there to watch the computer to see the screen.

Good morning, Steve.

Good morning, John.

All right.

Hello, June.

How are we doing today?

Robert, didn't find previous presentation.

Give me about three minutes.

I'm going to go over the whole thing so that everybody knows what's going on.

For right now, it's very simple.

Go to the website, go to the menu tree, remember tools, my purchases.

I'll go over that in a second.

Early question, how can the smash bag be used for practice?

Howard, they're going to be used a lot for practice.

If you remember what we did with phase one working on impact, because I'm only going to keep it on what we're talking about right now.

I'll bring the Smash Bag out when we get a little further into it, especially on Tuesday's session.

But the Smash Bag can be used for so many different purposes.

In fact, as you know, we're not a big fan of training aids.

I know we had a launch yesterday, but we only tell a training aid if we think it actually has a purpose and you can't break it, so to speak.

The Impact Bag for Phase 1 is great because you can get to your takeaway right here.

And it's an easy way to check your checkpoints, okay, it's a very easy way to be.

Like, Oh, do I have four shaft plates?

my wrist flat?

Am I hitting the position?

So the impact bag is really good for phase one because it kind of forces you.

I don't know if you recall, but in the first one, I said, you must stop and check.

Impact back kind of forces you to do that.

Because you can't go anywhere after you hit it.

Hello, Marcelo.

Ted, I find it really hard to stop the club just beyond impact with deceleration in time.

It's going to be just beyond, okay?

But typically, that's because players are trying to swing too hard, all right?

I mean, when you think about hitting a 10 -yard chip, all right?

When you think about hitting a 10-yard chip, like I don't need to be like this.

A 10-yard chip, if I were to sit here and, you know, do a little chip.

That's about how much power that I need.

Do you have a really hard time stopping?

Well, yeah, I can get the fact that you're using your legs more in phase one.

Okay.

But a little bit of what we're going to talk about today, more players often than not don't realize how much effort they're putting into the stroke and how much they're wasting.

All right.

And we'll talk more about that today, what kind of effort was power.

But players, when I get out on the lesson tee, I would say that I see players always at a 10.

And they're always asking me, Craig, it looks like you're at a 2.

Because I want to be at a 2.

I don't want to be maxed out on every single drill, every single swing I make.

In fact, I probably only max out maybe one or two times a round.

That's if I'm trying to hit it over a mountain.

Like the air hammer guy.

All right, Murray, go USA.

All right.

Because I may get distracted, see number one, need a link for after.

I'll tell you in a second.

Can you explain square shoulders at impact?

It looks like the right is square to target, but the left lead is opening.

Well, Mike, so you've got a couple things when it comes down to that.

If I'm square to my target line right here.

And work up into here and square my target line.

You can think about chest shoulders, I mean, there is some kind of separation, so to speak, but square shoulders at impact is this moment in time.

So when I get down into here, I'm going to see my right forearm just slightly below my left, my shoulder should be square.

And then right after impact, you're going to start to see that this shoulder has to get out of the way, especially if your right hand is on the club.

So I don't want you to get too nuanced while, you know, I see that my chest is over here, but my shoulders are back over here.

Think about it just in more kind of broader terms.

If my shoulders and chest are all facing this way, I should see a little bit of right forearm underneath, everything kind of square, okay?

This may appear to be a little bit open because you're going to have a little bit of separation between your starting on the chest and shoulders.

Don't get, you know, too caught up in that.

Will we get a replay of the video?

Absolutely.

And good morning, Anthony.

Everybody, my esteemed colleague, new to Rotary.

As you saw in phase one, Anthony Hopkins is in the chat today for any questions, concerns you may have.

For those of you that don't know, I have fashion sense, so to speak.

So, you know, some people are like, Craig, you're wearing a white watch with these colors?

Like, you can't do that.

The reason I wear the watch is because I get messages on.

And my colleague, in case I'm up here and I'm ripping through, and then the video cuts out, the audio cuts out, and I have no idea, he can be like, Mayday, Mayday.

All I have to do is look at my hand.

All right.

Hey, Craig, quick question on effortless swing.

I understand the release creates a lot of club at speed, but is there anything to the fitness side of trading for speed?

Yeah, there is.

I mean, if you think about it, David, I mean, the more muscle fiber you have to use, the more power you're going to have.

It takes 32 pounds of muscle to create 100 mile an hour club at speed.

So more muscle fiber does help.

So when you think about getting strength, flexibility, stretching and recruiting muscle fiber, there is a fitness aspect to it.

But most players at the end of the day aren't trying to be Bryson or, you know, Berkshire.

And when we look at our power sources, what's the greatest power source you're going to have in the swing?

The greatest power source you're going to have in the swing is leverage.

So most of your speed is going to come from leverage.

So you don't have to be something fancy.

I mean, look at me.

In my playing days, you know, I was a little bit more like 165.

You know, I'm 5 '9 1⁄2", calling my way to 5'10".

Now I'm, you know, a little bit heavier, but I blame Thanksgiving.

I put on my 25-pound.

But even in my heyday, you know, 116, 117, 118 for me, I'm just a little guy.

And I just maximized the amount of width that I could have in leverage, and it's not like I was swinging out of my shoes.

It's about efficiency.

You don't really have to be this big brute of a fellow.

I always tell people, like when I was growing up, Charles Howell was in the junior ranks as well.

And, I mean, he might be as thin as this alignment rod on the ground.

I mean, if he turns sideways, you missed him, Augusta went, he's going away.

And he had an.

It's an absolute lie.

Joseph, have difficulty keeping my right heel down.

We'll talk more about that today.

Anthony, good answer.

On the downswing of the club is parallel to the ground.

Could you show the wrist and arm action going into impact?

We're going to go through that whole thing today, Phil.

Don't worry about it.

I'm going to give about two more.

Maybe two or three more minutes and then we're going to get started.

And just as you know, we will do a Q A at the end, just as we did last time.

So if you have any questions, you know that I don't talk about.

Save them if you throw them up there.

Anthony might be able to answer.

If it's a quick question, uh, he might be able to answer.

But I don't want you to miss the presentation because you're, you're, you're, you're stuck on this one question.

I want you to really make sure that you stay with Guru.

Maintaining flat lead wrist sometimes causes me to block left wrist and hit heel of the club.

Assume this is a feeling that needs to be worked out.

Flat lead wrist, Ted, is going to control more of loft, okay?

So the wrist being flat or not, that's only controlling the loft of the face.

That shouldn't be controlling the rotation of the face.

So if you're hitting the heel with flat lead wrist, okay, and you're hitting it out to the right, A, you may not be allowing.

The forearm to help you square it up right here.

Okay, you may just be holding it like this.

Secondly, you could be pushing from this side, and when you start to push from this side, you start to open it up.

You can see my wrist is going out that way.

So remember when you're working from here to here, which we're going to do very first thing.

You have to allow.

You can see my watch logo right here.

You have to allow for this to square.

Mike wears four foot nothing.

Any thoughts on maintaining axis tilt?

Seems to get lost in it.

Axis tilt the backswing or downswing?

Thanks, Steph.

I'm giving a lesson.

I always kid my students when I do an in -person lesson or a Zoom lesson.

When they're like, hey, that actually makes sense.

Like, you know, I understand that.

I'm like, that's great.

I was like, this is the first lesson I've ever given.

So I'm just shooting from the hip.

Axis tilt and the downswing.

All right, Lee.

So the axis tilt and the downswing, which is going to be called secondary axis tilt.

Okay.

You set up with axis tilt.

You maintain that to the top.

And then on the downswing, you have what we call secondary axis tilt.

So I'll explain it to her.

So maintaining.

That tilt and the downswing, what's going to tend to cause you to lose that?

Well, A, moving your head.

Okay, that's going to cause a loss of tilt.

B, spinning your shoulders, which is the brother of moving your head.

C, not using your legs.

If I'm up here, and just watch what happens.

If I solely just move my lower half, what happens with my upper half?

Tilt and crease.

If you're not using your legs and you're taking off with your head and or shoulders at the top, Axis Tilt goes by Seem to struggle at times with keeping the left shoulder down, right shoulder back, thin shots.

We'll talk about that today, Gary.

I think with adding the release, it's going to help.

And I'm going to give about 30 more seconds, and we are going to get rocking.

Any other quick question?

Before we get started.

It's got to be a quick one.

People, we got football games today, Saturday, all sorts of stuff.

All sorts of stuff.

Maybe some golf involved.

I retired a long time ago.

It doesn't look like we have anything coming in.

So are those pictures of you on the wall?

That's a quick question.

they are not.

I don't really need pictures of me.

I know what I look like.

That would be Hogan, Palmer, Tiger, Nicholas, Daly.

And then over here, I've got, you can't see on camera, 97, this breakdown of Tiger swing that I got.

Up in Long Island, uh, in the early 2000s, when I was working with Michael Beverly.

Uh, that's Bear Briot, that's my grandpa.

Actually, there is a picture of me right here, so that's my father and myself.

That was, uh, 98 club Championship victory, I think that's it, though.

That was another club championship right there, but you can't see that.

Okay.

All right.

Hey, Juergen, how are we doing today?

So let's get started.

We've got to do a couple housekeeping items first because some of you may not know, but my wife actually does customer service for Rotary, and she's been getting blown up on emails and questions.

So I'm going to try to alleviate some of our work today.

Now, the handouts are in the link above.

If you go to handouts, you're going to see two handouts.

Number one, you're going to see the C4 PDF, which is what we're going through today and through this whole camp.

Second thing, you're going to see something called video lists.

I had a lot of players that said they weren't able to tell what the videos were on the little icon, so I typed out the entire video list for the camp.

So if you need to access one of those videos, you literally can just highlight And put it in the search box.

Use the magnifying glass on the website, put it in the search box, and it'll pop right up.

Okay?

If it doesn't pop right up, take one or two of those words in that title, type it in the search box, and it'll populate the entire list.

Okay?

You should be able to find them.

Replays.

Don't wait for a link to get a replay.

You should get one in an email.

But don't wait.

Replays are on the website.

All you have to do is log in first.

A lot of people are like, can't find a replay.

It's because they haven't logged in yet.

Go to the menu tree at the top.

Three little lines.

Remember tools.

My purchases.

That's going to be the replays right there.

And not only are the replays going to be there, you can also join the session there.

So you're also able to join the session from that same page.

Okay.

So the handouts are on the board.

Replays, menu tree, member tools, my purchases.

I think that should take care of all the housekeeping items.

One thing I want to mention, you'll see how I'm kind of like rocking back and forth.

As some of you know from my injuries in the past.

I have to kind of stay mobile a little bit.

If I stand still a little bit, I lock on.

So I'm not trying to force you to take any Dramamine or anything.

So with that being said, welcome.

Let's get started into session two.

I don't think I have any more messages on the board.

All right.

So what are we going to do today?

Well, today we're going to take our journey.

into adding the release.

And that's the only thing that we're stacking from phase one.

Okay, because the golf swing, the only thing that matters, as we know, is impact.

And if you don't release the club, basically everything else that you do in the swing is point plus.

And what I mean by that is it doesn't matter how crazy of a backswing or downswing.

Yes, I understand there are certain margins with that.

But you can do everything perfectly.

You can get to your takeaway, perfect spot up here, nice and wide arms and hands in front, shift your weight, shallow out the club, have all the lag in the world.

But if you don't release the club, it's kind of all for nothing, okay?

You can have a great release.

and kind of mess up some other points, and you can still play some decent golf.

But you can't have a perfect swing, okay, and not release the club because it just ain't going to work.

I tell the story to my students sometimes.

I had a father-son once.

The father was like, I don't understand why my son hits it a mile past me.

My swing's darn near perfect.

His looks like an unfolded lawn chair.

And I was like, yes.

Just say J is the name.

And I was like, it's because you don't know how to release the club.

But his release is perfect.

Yeah, he has a little cast in there.

He kind of pushes it off his right side too much.

But his release is darn near flawless.

Your swing's perfect, but you don't know how to release the club.

So you're not getting the benefit out of Okay, so this is very important.

And I'm going to spend a lot of time, you know, Really trying to dial down the tension, because that's the number.

One thing that I see with the release is that players don't accept the fact that they have to give up control.

And that's the whole point with the release.

As you know, the definition of the release is to let it go.

But it's the giving up of the control factor.

We are all in our daily lives wanting to be in control of something, you know, this chaos that we're in.

But the release is one of these things you can't be in control of.

And the more that you actually let go and give in to the golf gods and give in to Newton, the better results you're going to have.

You cannot control this weighted mass better than Sir Isaac Newton can.

The first thing that I want to talk about is your body.

When I see players start to work on the release, the very first thing that goes out the window is their body.

Because they get this club in their hand, and they're so excited.

They're like, all right, I'm past this impact position.

I get to actually swing the club now.

And the very first thing they start doing is they start flailing around here with their arms, and they completely forget everything that we did up until that point.

And we can't do that.

Because what generates all these things?

The body motion.

The body is the engine of the golf store, okay?

It's where everything's kind of generated from.

That club will take care of itself if you just get out of its way and let it do its own thing.

So I want you to start out your sessions in phase two, okay?

Because this isn't in the video.

This is something that I do a little bit more in person.

We're going to start out and do some mini dead drills, because I need you to, first of all, stay focused on what we're doing with our body to create the swing, okay?

So if you're at home, and you want to stand up and do this with me, fantastic.

If you don't, if you're like, hey, Craig, my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, and you're already way too hyped up for me, no worries.

You can do it after the session.

But what I want you to do.

is we're going to start to create nine to threes.

And you can take the normal dead drill and turn it into a nine to three.

And that's kind of where we need to stay in this phase two territory.

So what I'd like for you to do first is just focus on the body positions, especially you, Lee, who was talking about maintaining tilt.

This is the very first place to start.

I'm not trying to call you out or anything.

So I want you to take your setup with your hip bump until your hinge.

Let's start out.

okay 50 50 or roughly 50 50.

We don't need to preset our weight on this.

This is just going to be a miniature version of swing, you'll see in the first page of the handout.

So let's start out and let's kind of do five reps, kind of thinking our way through this and feeling our way through this.

Set up with some axis tilt.

Get your stance with all the fun stuff right here.

And all I want you to do is focus on kind of pushing your trail foot into the ground a little bit and creating 45 degrees of shoulder rotation.

So you'll see when I get here, I've got 45 degrees of shoulder rotation.

My hips have moved a little bit, not a ton.

They're just kind of reacting to my core rotating and my shoulders rotating.

But I'm basically just creating a little body takeaway right here, okay?

I can feel some pressure here.

I've got some rotation.

I did push from my lead shoulder to move my head off the golf ball a ton.

So a nice, balanced body position.

I want you to feel this.

And now I want you to make a down swim.

So I want you to start to push your lead foot into the ground and start to post up.

And that's it.

Now you'll notice that I'm reaching the same phase one positions that we talked about.

Dips open, weight on the lead side, everything's stacked with neutral.

But I want you to start repping, feeling, what it's like to make this motion.

Okay?

I need you to stay focused on your body.

If I'm going to get you to not overwork your arms, it's always got to work.

It's got to be your body, okay?

Now, you'll notice the kind of pacing I'm going through these and the size of it.

This is a half golf swing, okay?

Little right foot, right shoulder, shift pose.

Now, if you get yourself in a mirror, whether you look either right here or right here, And you see all these things changing.

Like you see, okay, I'm doing this, and my head's going this way.

Or when I start to shift and come down, I can't keep my shoulders from opening.

Don't move on and worry about anything else in phase two until you can do it with your body.

Think about it.

Adding the arm, adding the club is just going to compound the problem.

If you can't sit here like this and do it body only, Don't move on from this stuff, get your reps into there until you can kind of walk and chew gum at the same time.

Now there is another note that I want to add to this.

When you're working on this and you're slowly chipping out through these reps, okay, don't get too methodical about it.

Like, once you can kind of do it, don't get here and be like, all right, right foot, right shoulder, left foot, post.

If you can do the motion, start to learn how to do it with just a tiny bit of rhythm and pace.

Because, like what we saw with the Dead Drill, most players, they stay in the school zone too much.

Okay, they rep and rep.

and rep.

At 25 miles an hour, well, the golf swing is still fast at the end of the day.

So once you can start to kind of put the move together, I want you to expand.

I want you to actually put a little pace in it, because if you can do this with a little bit of pace, it's only going to help you.

I'm going to do this a little bit from down the line.

So all we're looking for is take your setup.

Remember to get our balance here.

We got our proper hitch, flat spine, all that fun stuff.

I'm going to make a little back swing so I feel some pressure in my right leg.

You're starting to see the rotary logo on my chest, you can see that I've rotated my shoulders and I'm just going to focus on shifting and posting.

I'm going to get over here.

You can see my trail foot's rolled in, My head's still down.

My chest, shoulders are good.

I'm starting to see that left butt, okay?

Here, here.

Just some small.

And I really want you to feel what you're doing on your feet.

I really want you to feel, you know, what it feels like to start getting these muscle fibers involved, to move your body without your arms or let your body move your arms, okay?

So I want you to warm up this way.

And if you struggle, was doing this at home, you can still work on what we're doing the rest of the day, but when you first start out your session with reps, stick with this at first until you can get here.

Bam, bam, bam, bam, okay?

So if you've got your body motion and you understand the feelings with that, I want to start to add the lead arm into the mix, okay?

Now, I'm going to go ahead and get this.

I know players are going to be like, Craig, why are we focusing so much on lead?

Because.

You know, I'm a trail side releaser.

No worries on that.

Okay?

We're going to focus on trail side.

And I don't care which side you want to release the club with.

But both arms and hands have a job to do.

And we're going to say, focus on lead right now.

Because that's going to have a little bit more control over what you're doing with your trajectory and the rotation of the face.

Okay?

I want to check the board.

I'll wait to answer that one.

But any other fields for the weight shift other than pushing pressure, the blade foot there, there's tons of different things.

You know, the axiom will help you if you're creating your little, uh, clockwise motion with your trail foot as you start moving inside, that's going to help you shift the weight.

But the in this stage of the game, the simplest way to kind of think about it is.

If I'm right here, my pressure's in my right side.

Just.

Just literally just fall into your left leg.

I'm on my right leg.

I'm on my left leg.

So I'm here.

Just literally just fall into your leg.

And if you do that with the hip opening, that's going to get you to shift enough weight.

So now what I want to do is I'm going to add the arm.

Okay.

So let's take the same setup.

Take your trail arm.

Put it behind your back.

And I want you to stick your arm down towards the ground.

Now you can kind of do this in a shaking hands position.

You can do it like your kind of makeshift grip down here.

Doesn't matter to me.

The big pet peeve that I have, okay, is that when players start doing this, they either A, they hold their arm out here, okay, I'll show that from down the line.

They hold their arm out here, and they're like, hey, Craig, I'm doing my arm drill.

Nobody holds a golf ball out there.

Or B, when they start this, they start with their arm way over here, and they generate all this swing momentum with their arm before their body even moves.

Remember, the weight and the rotation is going to be what starts to generate the momentum.

I don't want your arm generating the momentum in the swing because if your arm generates the momentum, you're not going to be able to stop that train once it leaves the station.

Let's take our setup.

We get our tilt, arm and hand in normal position.

You can do a grip.

You can do a shake in hands.

I want to just do the same thing.

A little pressure, 45 degrees, shake hands.

Okay, you can see my shoulders are 45 degrees, my head's still down, nothing moved, shake hands position.

Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to fall, push, axiom, shift into my lead side, and I want you to stop at this impact position first.

Okay, stop here.

Now when you get here, all these same checkpoints from phase one should be there.

Flat lead wrist, ETC, okay?

And your arms should be pretty darn relaxed.

Now the only thing I want you to do from here, Is let your arm and hand release.

Okay, now notice?

I didn't move my shoulders anymore, I didn't move my head, I didn't move anything else.

All I did was go from this impact position, stop and let it release.

Okay, still, in this three let it release.

The release works independently of the body, and that's what you have to start to grasp right now.

You do not want to tie the release to your body.

So let's go from here, 9 o'clock, impact, release.

Okay.

Now let's see if we can do it in one fluid motion.

9 o'clock, shift post, let it release.

Nine o'clock, shift post, let it release.

Now what you'll notice as I go through here, my glove logo is facing the camera.

I allow my wrist, my arm to square up.

Now I'm shaking hands with my alignment rod, but shaking hands to the target so that's good.

So Ted, this will really help you out to start getting this wrist to square.

But I don't want you to get here and just be like this.

Remember.

I want you to feel weight, rotation, shift, pose, let it release.

Okay?

Think about what's moving you.

The body's moving the arm.

The arm's moving the hand.

Yada, yada, yada.

We swing from the inside out.

Okay?

I'll do a couple from down the line so you can see from over here.

I'll let our arm and hand hang.

Relax, relax.

Get set up.

Our axis tilt.

I'm going to look.

Now, if you want to watch yourself like I am, but I'm mainly just seeing the camera, ideally, once you get this down, you don't have to watch every breath.

But we get here, shake hands position, 45 degrees of the shoulders, got a little weight.

You can see my hips turn a little bit.

My pressure's moved towards my heel.

Now I work from here.

I shift, I pose, I let it release.

So my left hip's open, my trail foot's.

off the ground.

I'm shaking hands.

And look at where my chest is.

I'm not like this.

I've got to start to train this independent motion.

Okay?

Sorry.

I just heard Alexa just pop up in the background.

They're always watching.

I get to 9 o'clock.

Shift post.

Let it release.

Okay?

And then what I want you to monitor is this tension in this arm and hand.

And we try to get just a little bit of rhythm and pace to it.

Nothing crazy.

Just a little bit of rhythm and pace.

All right.

Now once you can graduate from there and you don't have any problems, you can do this with the club flipped over.

Same exact thing.

Take the same step.

Get set up here.

All we're going to do is load rotate to 9 o'clock.

Club's at 9 o'clock.

See the shoulders, head, weight post.

And you're going to let it release.

Notice my chest is still square.

My belt buckle's in front.

Trail foot's rolled in.

All I'm doing is phase one, but adding release to it.

Keeping that tension out.

Letting the swing work for me.

It starts sounding like Bob Ross here anytime soon.

It's your one.

Take the setup.

Load and rotate.

Shift post.

Let it release.

Alright.

At this point in the game, I'm not worried about too many mechanics.

We're going to clean that up in a second.

Add the club back.

Don't worry if it's perfect or not right now.

Okay, don't worry if it's perfect or not right now.

I just want you to take the club, I want you to kind of relax a little bit, let's just kind of go through the same thing.

Go weight, rotation, shift, post, let it release.

Notice my chest still square, my head down, my hips open.

I'm just feeling a little pressure.

A little rotation, a little shift, a little post, letting it release, weight rotation, shift, post, letting it release.

Okay, I'm Don't care too much about the mechanics.

I just want you to feel.

Just let them go rotate.

Just give up a little control.

Give up a little control.

Act like you've had that second beer in your round.

That second cocktail.

Where you just kind of give up a little bit.

I'm going to go over here so I don't shatter that beer.

Here.

Just give up a little control.

Give up a little control.

I'm actually, I just saw on camera, I'm doing one of my pet peeves.

Be careful.

Don't throw the arm and hand out like this.

We load and rotate to create a perfect tape.

I saw I had a little bit of push in it right there.

And know that the body and the engine is creating this motion.

But see how everything's just got some little fluidity, some rhythm to it.

Okay?

This is a great way.

To start your sessions.

You know, just to even get warmed up.

Because it's taking care of what's happening down here in the 93 territory.

Okay?

But it's getting you accustomed to moving your body, feeling the lead arm, feeling the release of the club.

But also, while starting to get the release to work independently of the body.

Which that's where we're going to see, or start to see, kind of big gains in consistency and speed.

Okay, so now, once you're kind of warmed up and you can do this.

We need to start adding the release to what we did the other day.

And I'm trying to.

I'm looking for my let's see, okay?

So on the second page of the boot camp, after you look at all the skills of me, kind of going through the drills.

What should we be looking for in phase two?

Okay.

We're looking for 40 to 50 yards, five yard dispersion left or right.

Kind of low to mid trajectory.

And if anything, it should have a little, maybe a tiny little draw.

But for those of you that experienced those little bit of pushes in phase one, those should start to diminish now because in phase one, we were holding impact.

The tendency is going to be that the face stays open just the tiniest bit and you get a little bit of a push.

But now that push should start going out the window.

Okay.

Now, the reason that I say, or these are our target numbers.

Let's talk about it.

Why should the trajectory be low to mid?

Well, we've been focusing on having a flat lead risk impact.

As I talked earlier in the session, this is controlling the loft and the face.

But what's going on in a properly released club?

In a properly released club, this club is squaring, but what else is happening?

It's also de-lofting.

Think about it.

The club is starting to turn over.

It's starting to close, square.

So it's actually de-lofting as well.

So as you're working on this, I get a question from my students all the time.

Craig, I don't think I'm hitting this drill high enough.

I'm hitting it 40, 50 yards.

But, you know, it's still kind of this low to mid ball flight.

That's okay because we're focusing on allowing the club to square.

And when you allow it for the release of the face, it's going to de -loft the face.

You have a flat lead wrist rotating de-lofted face.

We're going to be okay.

Yardage-wise, 40 to 50 yards.

40 to 50 yards.

Added to your phase one with release should literally be no more power than you were adding in phase one.

That's kind of how effortless this should Well, Craig, how am I going to get 40 to 50 yards, and I was going 10 to 15, and all I'm doing is adding release?

Well, we're doing two things with this.

One, we're allowing the face to rotate.

Now, don't let anybody ever tell you that the face doesn't rotate.

Always rotate, okay, this toe is rotating around the heel.

now, in a properly released golf job, this toe rotates around the heel about 12 miles an hour faster.

The center of the face rotates about six to eight miles an hour faster than the heel.

So if all you do is you let the face rotate, you're automatically gaining speed for literally doing nothing.

I'm telling you to do less, just literally get up here and let the club rotate.

And you're gaining free speed versus this.

Never impede what the club wants to do during the releasing phase.

Let it go.

Even if you kind of messed up the swing, go ahead and still let it do what it wants to do.

Now, when I'm saying let it go, I'm literally just letting the club 1000 rotate.

I'm not saying get down here and 1001 be like, oh, Craig told me to let it go, 1002 but you're putting your will on it.

But 1003 that's not letting it go.

1004 Physics will somewhat correct you on 1005 this.

1006 But to get 40, 50 yards, have that low 1007 mid trajectory, it doesn't take any more 1008 effort than you had in your phase one.

1009 This isn't some big jump.

I've been going 1010 2% power.

Now I've got to go 10% power.

1011 If you can learn to stay down here and 1012 hit it 40, 50 yards, With this little 1013 motion, which with proper compression, 1014 proper release, proper motion with your 1015 legs, you'll be able to do that.

1016 Age, ability, I don't care.

1017 We can do this.

1018 I'm giving a few lessons in my day, 1019 right?

1020 The less that you do, the better.

Just be 1021 efficient about it in the club.

Do the 1022 work for you.

Let it rotate, okay?

1023 So once you can kind of do the mini dead 1024 drill, once you can kind of add your arm, 1025 and start letting this release, the only 1026 two checkpoints that we're going to kind 1027 of stack on right now to what you did 1028 first is just checking the release.

1029 Everything else still stays the same.

1030 Now, when your trail hand stays on the 1031 club, yes, your shoulders will have to be 1032 open, all right?

The trail hand, I 1033 physically can't keep my shoulders square 1034 with my trail hand on the club, but that 1035 square shoulders is at impact, okay?

It's 1036 at that moment in time.

1037 But the first stroke, 1038 VJ release stroke.

1039 So shoulders, I want to stay square, 1040 okay?

1041 So the first thing that I want you to do, 1042 once you can kind of get through the mini 1043 direct throw, once you can add your arm 1044 and hand, I want you to start doing left 1045 hand only or lead hand only.

And most 1046 players are like, Greg, this takes me 1047 forever or this feels so funky.

Good.

You 1048 need to train the hand that you're 1049 uncomfortable with.

1050 That's okay.

1051 So the first drill is going to be doing 1052 the same thing that we just did, and what 1053 we're going to be looking for is weight, 1054 rotation, shift, post, release.

And when 1055 I get here, my checkpoints with my body 1056 stay the absolute same, 1057 okay?

But there's two that we've got to 1058 add.

Number one, 1059 club, at least toed up or even a little 1060 bit toed down, okay?

1061 I don't want the face like this.

1062 Toed up or even a little bit toed down.

1063 That club has not released if you see 1064 your face like this.

1065 Number two, the wrist positions.

1066 Now, if we were flat at impact, 1067 okay, flat at impact, 1068 what should my wrist be over here?

1069 Well, it shouldn't all of a sudden be 1070 super duper cut.

1071 It should still be flat or maybe even a 1072 little bit bowed.

1073 Now you may look over here, and you see 1074 like, oh, I got a little bit of cupping 1075 right there, but that's perfectly okay.

1076 There's going to be a little bit of 1077 varying degrees and strength of grip.

You 1078 set up like Sergio Garcia, 1079 like this, 1080 and it's going to be a little bit of 1081 cupping.

1082 But there's a difference between here 1083 having a little bit of cupping and 1084 releasing versus this.

And a good way to 1085 see that is look at your face on.

1086 Notice how if I get here and I cup flip 1087 it, notice how I don't have any extension 1088 or width.

1089 Notice when I flat release it, so that 1090 still has a little bit of cupping in it, 1091 notice the width that I have in my body 1092 right now.

1093 Okay?

1094 If you see a flip, that's going to be 1095 what it looks like.

1096 Versus here, that should be what it looks 1097 like.

Okay?

1098 So in this first early going, you want to 1099 start out with.

1100 Lead hand only.

Same positions.

1101 So we're going to set up here.

A little 1102 weight, rotation, shift post, let it 1103 release.

Okay?

1104 All the checkpoints stay the same.

1105 We're going to get here.

1106 Let it release.

1107 Now, usually what I see when people do 1108 that, the very first thing I see, this 1109 and this.

1110 Notice how my foot was still down and my 1111 head was still down.

1112 If you want the club to release properly 1113 at this stage, keep that head down.

1114 I know Chuck's head rotates through the 1115 shot, or appears to rotate through the 1116 shot a little bit.

1117 If your neck is fused in C1, C2, and C3, 1118 I have no problems with it.

1119 If your neck is not fused, and you don't 1120 have any other type of ailments, that 1121 head needs to be down.

1122 So we're going to wait, rotation, 1123 shift post, let it release.

1124 Wait, rotation, shift post, let it 1125 release.

1126 Everything stays the same as we did with 1127 phase one.

You go through your 1128 checkpoints first.

If I'm hitting my 1129 checkpoints, now I can start kind of 1130 checking to see what the ball is going to 1131 do.

If this one doesn't go 40 or 50 1132 yards, I'm not going to be mad at you.

1133 It's only when we get both hands on.

1134 Because this lead side motion isn't the 1135 power side.

You're not trying to create 1136 power by pulling and swinging your arm as 1137 hard as you can.

This is kind of weak.

1138 Even if I was going to go throw a ball, I 1139 wanted to do it with my left arm in hand.

1140 So we're not trying to create power.

1141 We're trying to allow the generation with 1142 momentum, weight, leverage, release to 1143 get the speed for us right now.

It's not 1144 through brute force.

Not that big a guy.

1145 So once you can kind of work through 1146 this, and I'll actually flip this down 1147 the line for you down the liners.

This is 1148 going to be interesting.

1149 I think this is the first time I've done 1150 this.

1151 So we're going to set up here.

We're 1152 going to make sure we have the proper 1153 hinge, our weight balance, nothing too 1154 crazy back, not standing up like this, 1155 not holding it out like this.

We're going 1156 to take our setup, 1157 50-50 balance, 1158 load, rotate, show the post, and release.

1159 Notice where my arm and hand are 1160 finishing right now.

1161 Notice how I'm down here.

1162 I'm not up here like I'm winning the 1163 Masters.

If I was up there like I was 1164 winning the Masters, I'm putting way too 1165 much effort in.

If I shift post, let it 1166 release, all my energy is done.

I don't 1167 have any energy left.

1168 If I'm providing effort, yeah, now I can 1169 get way up there.

1170 That's not the case.

1171 Too far down the rabbit hole, hinge 1172 forward, get the weight balance.

We're 1173 going to make the takeaway.

Okay, you 1174 should see the logo.

45 degrees shift 1175 post.

We're going to keep that same nice, 1176 low level tension in here.

Let it go 1177 through, okay.

Release all the positions 1178 once you can get a feel for that and you 1179 can start feeling and allowing the club 1180 to release.

First.

The divot should be 1181 very thin, it should be very shallow, 1182 because what is rotation?

It inherently 1183 shallows your plane impact.

Okay, we 1184 should be, as Chuck says, digging some 1185 strawberries, taking some beaver belts.

1186 It should be nice and shallow.

Once you 1187 kind of get past, you know, the left 1188 hand, only then we're going to start 1189 doing this with both hands.

Okay, now you 1190 can go to the version where you're here 1191 and let it go, and that may be good for 1192 some people, right?

I don't mind that 1193 drill, but I will say that I do see.

A 1194 lot of players struggle with it because 1195 they're they get overly concerned of when 1196 to let go of the game.

And even on my, 1197 you know, phase two session two of that, 1198 even I talked about that.

Where after I 1199 graduate from Lead, our moment and I 1200 start adding trail hands start working 1201 into more.

Kind of like a little BJ 1202 drill, where I'm loading, rotating and 1203 letting it go and hitting the same 1204 square.

Checkpoints the release flatly 1205 the wrist, toe up all this, you can get 1206 overly concerned about letting it go at 1207 the perfect time.

Well, I let it go too 1208 late or let it go too soon, I even let 1209 one go in the back swing.

Some players 1210 that works really great for, okay, have 1211 at it if you want.

I got zero issue with 1212 it for me.

I started thinking, like, in a 1213 right brain, left brain, I'm like, all 1214 right, so I'm here, I'm doing this.

I 1215 start focusing on the thing that doesn't 1216 matter.

I need to be focused on how 1217 moving my body, keeping the tension out 1218 and my lead wrist position.

I do that, I 1219 start thinking about what's my trail hand 1220 doing here?

Oh, I forgot to shift my 1221 weight, I will now.

I didn't shift my 1222 weight, so I gotta throw my right hand at 1223 something.

's gotta catch up, okay, cool.

1224 So the next progression would be lead arm 1225 only with club and then going to kind of 1226 BJ ish 1227 and letting it go, which is perfectly 1228 fine, but if you struggle with it, it's 1229 okay.

All right, even I struggle with it 1230 because I just get too much thinking 1231 about this.

So now after we graduate from 1232 there, it's going to be doing nine to 1233 three.

We should be able to hit our 1234 target numbers, dispersion, all the fun 1235 stuff, we're going to start 50 50.

1236 To do the full drill.

But I want to add 1237 in one thing if you do the lead hand only 1238 release well and you're doing everything 1239 good one-handed.

And by the time you get 1240 to two hands, you start just struggling a 1241 little bit with the release.

Cheat it 1242 over just just for a second, just for a 1243 second, start with that weight, just a 1244 little bit preset on this least, let's 1245 say you put a hundred percent, Let's 1246 start like maybe a little bit 70-30, 1247 almost in kind of like an impact 1248 position.

1249 And then just focus first on just making 1250 a few releases just to get used to both 1251 hands on the club.

1252 Just to get used to both hands on the 1253 club.

And then plug it back into, 1254 okay, now that I'm used to releasing with 1255 both hands on the club, and you don't 1256 really have to worry about the body 1257 because you kind of preset that way.

1258 Now let's work them into this version, 1259 where when we get to here, taking our 1260 setup, where we should have load and 1261 rotation to the takeaway, when we get 1262 over here, nothing changes from any drill 1263 that we've done today.

45 degrees of 1264 shoulders, see my logo, pressure's on 1265 this side, club's parallel to the ground 1266 right here.

Goes a little bit more in 1267 this.

1268 Shifting the weight, 1269 posting, feeling the same flat lead wrist 1270 and impact, but then letting the club 1271 release.

1272 Going from here, I need to add a ton of 1273 speed.

I'm getting a lot of speed, not by 1274 me doing it.

1275 Because I have the rotation, I've got 1276 momentum, I've got hip now.

My power 1277 level's still at a two.

1278 When you get over here, go through your 1279 checkpoints.

You can see, my club is toe 1280 up, my forearms are crossed over, my lead 1281 legs post up, my trail foot's rolling.

1282 Yes, my shoulders and chest are slightly 1283 open because I have my trail hand on the 1284 club.

Not the end of the world, but where 1285 they square it in.

Don't worry about the 1286 golf ball until you can hit.

Response So 1287 we take the same thing.

We get set up 1288 here, get our weight balance, we're going 1289 to focus on.

I'll kind of slowly do this, 1290 we get a little weight.

Take away to 1291 here.

When we get over here, trail arms 1292 should be nice and straight.

1293 We've got good rotation, a little bit of 1294 weight.

We're going to shift.

We're going 1295 to post.

We're going to let the club 1296 release.

1297 We're thinking about our body first, our 1298 arms secondary, 1299 our wrists.

1300 Thirdly, 1301 the club last.

Let him do what he wants 1302 to do.

1303 It's nice.

I haven't looked for that 1304 ball.

I think I just lost that golf ball.

1305 I'm looking at my checkpoints.

I can see 1306 this mirror right here.

Oh, I'm toe up.

1307 My wrist is flat.

1308 My foot's rolling.

1309 Okay.

1310 Get your checkpoints first.

Once you 1311 start doing that, then you can kind of 1312 start looking at my golf balls.

Okay.

1313 Let me get a couple of pellets.

1314 I think I'm running out.

1315 Feel like Tiger with Thursday at the U.

S.

1316 Open.

Got one ball at 18 here now.

Most 1317 common faults with this is that players 1318 are going to quit the body.

They're going 1319 to start getting army, they're going to 1320 start to try to manufacture the rules.

1321 Okay, and that's going to be where you 1322 start to see, you know.

What we commonly 1323 look at the faults and the fixes is that 1324 they set up here as they start to work 1325 down into the strike and they work into 1326 here.

They're like, Craig, Well, I'm 1327 hitting these big pull hooks all right.

1328 well, how would I hit a big pull hook 1329 right here?

Well, look at my club face.

1330 I'm facing the ground right now and my 1331 chest is open like way open, so I ripped 1332 open my shoulders.

And I manually release 1333 the club.

1334 That's not an effortless release.

1335 Remember, the release is going to be 1336 passive.

It's not active in this.

You're 1337 allowing for the release to happen.

1338 So if you start hitting a lot left, check 1339 your shoulders and check that you're not 1340 manually taking over with the arms and 1341 hands.

1342 Now with the push side of things or the 1343 slice side of things, it can still be in 1344 the shoulders.

1345 But if you get over here and you see your 1346 face like this, 1347 what likely you're going to hit a block.

1348 You're going to hit a cut.

1349 So if you work down from here and you 1350 flip your shoulders like that, 1351 look at my face.

It's wide open.

My chest 1352 is wide open.

1353 Now I'm going to hit this little push, 1354 slice to the right.

1355 Your whole goal is not to impede the 1356 release.

It's not to get in the way of 1357 what the club wants to do.

That's it.

1358 Do not impede what the club wants to do.

1359 Chest spinning is the number one way to 1360 impede what that club wants to do.

1361 Think about it.

If I'm right here, the 1362 more I rip my chest, look at my club 1363 face.

Look at my club right now.

I'm not 1364 moving anything except moving my chest.

1365 Look at my club face.

It's wide open and 1366 pointed this way.

Because the spinning of 1367 the shoulders is going to delay the club.

1368 The club's going to stay wide open.

1369 Until I finally stop or I enact some 1370 force on it.

1371 Because this club, if I think about a 1372 top, if I get here and I start working on 1373 the strike and I just kind of spin like 1374 this, this club has no reason to rotate 1375 over until I stop.

Now it's got a reason 1376 to rotate over.

But if I just keep 1377 pulling and spinning like this, this 1378 club's not going to do anything.

And once 1379 I stop, 1380 now.

1381 The club wants to square up and rotate on 1382 its own.

Start going from that kind of 1383 centripetal to centrifugal force type 1384 thing.

1385 You have to decelerate to let the club 1386 head accelerate.

If you're still 1387 accelerating and ripping your shoulders 1388 through, 1389 the club's never going to square up.

It's 1390 never going to accelerate.

1391 So if you look at your handout, you're 1392 going to see I've got lots of different 1393 stills and clips of Chuck going 9 o'clock 1394 over to here.

Same thing with myself 1395 doing the mini dead drill.

1396 Between now, 1397 And Tuesday's session.

1398 Unless you're highly advanced, I don't 1399 expect you to have this perfect yet, but 1400 we should be able to start to get a 1401 semblance of what we're doing.

That's all 1402 I'm kind of looking for.

1403 What I want you to do is I want you to do 1404 reps.

As you'll see in your rep tracker 1405 sheet.

1406 So you'll see in your rep tracker sheet, 1407 I've got two sections on there.

1408 I've got body arm and then release.

1409 For body arm, same thing we did right 1410 here.

1411 You may need to, today or tomorrow, you 1412 may be doing 80 of these.

1413 You may need that because it's breaking 1414 down.

And then you do 20 of adding the 1415 club in the arm.

1416 You may need to do that.

You've got to be 1417 your own kind of judge on that.

And if 1418 you're not sure, you can send it in to 1419 me.

Send it in to Anthony.

Send it in to 1420 the community.

1421 It's a net anywhere.

1422 But you may need to start with a lot of 1423 those.

For those of you that are very 1424 good at it, still just warm up with it.

1425 Say, all right, my first 10, I'm just 1426 going to get my body going.

I'm just 1427 going to get my arm and hand going.

And 1428 then you can add the club, and then you 1429 can start through doing golf shots, 1430 lead arm only during the checkpoints, and 1431 start lightly adding the trail hand.

If 1432 you want to do the VJ release and let go, 1433 no problem with it.

Just know that if all 1434 of a sudden you start struggling, 1435 and you don't understand it, it's 1436 probably because you're thinking about 1437 this too much.

1438 And that's going to be your homework.

I 1439 want you to really focus on this area of 1440 the swing.

1441 At this stage in the game, your brain 1442 should be wired that this is the first 1443 component, moving your body, then your 1444 arm, then the club arm and hand.

1445 If you focus on moving the body, the core 1446 will release itself.

1447 You may start to feel some tension, 1448 some soreness in your lean forearm, lean 1449 wrist.

1450 Soreness is going to be okay because you 1451 may be using it for the first time or 1452 allowing for it to rotate for the first 1453 time.

1454 But a word of advice.

1455 If you get tired doing this drill, 1456 you get exhausted doing this drill.

1457 Isn't that kind of the opposite of 1458 effortless?

1459 I could literally give this entire camp 1460 standing right here like this.

1461 I could literally do this all day long.

1462 And then I'll have students that practice 1463 the release.

1464 And I do this five times.

I'm like, 1465 oh.

I'm exhausted, like I'm breaking a 1466 sweat and my arm and hand are killing me.

1467 This is how hard I'm working right now.

I 1468 could just stay up here the whole time.

1469 There's a reason that the guys on tour 1470 make it look effortless.

1471 Shouldn't have to give the answer, 1472 because it is.

They are being effortless 1473 with it.

1474 This shouldn't take a whole lot of work 1475 with this.

Now there's a difference 1476 between being dead.

1477 And taking out some tension, all right?

1478 And I'm not saying get here and you're 1479 going to kind of ace Ventura this thing 1480 where your arm and hand is just floppy.

1481 I've already done that to my body too 1482 many times.

1483 But just enough to have the feel of the 1484 club, to feel a little bit of the flat 1485 lever rest.

Just let it go back and 1486 forth.

1487 I can do this for an hour and not get 1488 tired.

1489 If you start getting tired after doing 1490 this for two minutes, you're working way 1491 too hard.

Now, you may get sore because 1492 you're using muscles for the first time.

1493 Think about this.

We're using the 1494 combination of weight, rotation, shift, 1495 pose.

1496 My trail hang.

1497 Okay?

1498 You want to do this for 15 minutes, I can 1499 do this for 15 minutes.

That's how much 1500 effort you should be applying because 1501 you're getting your speed.

You're getting 1502 all these things from all these other 1503 components.

1504 Diagnose everything from inside out.

1505 Okay?

1506 I hope you enjoyed.

Any questions?

1507 Post them up now.

I'm going to stay 1508 around, answer some Q&A.

You've got your 1509 homework.

You've got your marching 1510 orders.

Looking forward to seeing you on 1511 Tuesday.

1512 Hope you're enjoying the session so far.

1513 Without further ado, I will open it up.

1514 Any question that pertains to today, the 1515 day before, I'm going to be happy to 1516 answer.

1517 You start asking me about the top of the 1518 backswing and float loading.

1519 Downcock pump drills and how to swing 125 1520 miles an hour.

We're not talking about 1521 that today.

1522 Okay.

1523 Let's see.

I've got to scroll up a little 1524 bit.

All right.

1525 These don't have a time stamp.

Okay, 1526 there we go.

1527 Let's see.

1528 All right, June.

1529 I'm going to start with your question 1530 because it's right at 11 1531 typically it's because it starts to move 1532 too much into the palm, too much into the 1533 lifeline.

For those of you that get this 1534 wear spot at the base of the glove, 1535 that's where it comes from.

1536 The grip gets too much in the palm, but 1537 the club runs.

1538 So you want to go to the bottom of the 1539 pinky knuckle right here, across to the 1540 first knuckle.

1541 On the middle finger and in the fingers 1542 right, you should be able to hold it like 1543 this, no problem.

A little bit of meat of 1544 the club on top.

If you take your grip 1545 and the club slides out like this, more 1546 likely you're too much in the palm.

All 1547 right, thank you Anthony for answering Al 1548 and Ted.

If you're practicing indoors 1549 with a small bat for the ball, I do this 1550 in the garage.

Make sure that your feet 1551 are the same level.

Notice Craig's mat at 1552 the same height as the grass met.

Good 1553 call, Doug.

Good call.

1554 Howard, thank you.

It's all good.

Long 1555 morning to practice.

Thank you, Howard.

1556 Once we log into Rotary, where will we 1557 find the boot camp videos for our 1558 sessions?

1559 Kevin, go to the menu tree at the top.

1560 Click Member Tools.

Go to My Purchases.

1561 Menu tree, Member Tools, My Purchases.

1562 You can join and have the replays there.

1563 The replay will be about 30 minutes.

1564 Should your glutes feel equally tight at 1565 post-up or does it indicate too much 1566 right side?

Good question, John.

1567 So at setup, you've got to be ready to 1568 move.

So you don't want everything fully 1569 engaged and maxed out.

1570 So right now, muscles have to be able to 1571 start to work to start to load.

1572 So when I'm here, I'm ready to go.

My 1573 muscles are ready to work.

Now when I get 1574 here, And I shift, I feel my glutes start 1575 to load more.

And then when I post, 1576 that's when they contract.

And that's 1577 when I really feel them.

Kind of the 1578 squeeze, the cheeks, okay, that's when I 1579 really feel them.

Fire is when I post.

So 1580 you're gonna if you start out with your 1581 cheeks all and your glutes just really 1582 squeezed.

Right now, they're they're 1583 going to stabilize us too much and you're 1584 not going to be able to move.

Think 1585 about, you're here and now I'm loading 1586 them and firing them.

1587 Okay.

1588 I'm putting, I'm loading, then I'm 1589 firing.

1590 All right.

Gerald.

1591 All right.

1592 How do you manage to keep the right heel 1593 down when releasing the club?

My tendency 1594 is a lot of right heel to come up as it 1595 releases, especially the right hand still 1596 in the club.

1597 Well, it depends on why the right heel is 1598 coming up, Gerald.

1599 So if you're working through here, 1600 And your right heel is coming up, so to 1601 speak.

When I work over here, it's going 1602 to typically be this coming in.

1603 It's going to typically be this coming 1604 1605 I'm pushing off this trail left.

1606 1607 as I'm working through here, I don't use 1608 my lead side properly.

And what does that 1609 really mean?

1610 Players will start to push and do too 1611 much here.

1612 Because this side is kind of being too 1613 lazy.

You're not posting.

If I'm not 1614 using this post, I'm going to do 1615 something with this trail foot to try to 1616 make that post.

1617 Your body is very good at finding 1618 compensations for things.

So what I would 1619 do is I would do it like we did it right 1620 here.

I would slowly do these swings to 1621 keep it down.

Even if you have to dial 1622 down the distance right now.

But I would 1623 focus on making sure your lead side is 1624 doing the posting to turn the trail leg 1625 more off at this point.

1626 Kevin, thank you.

Henry, good session.

1627 Thank you, thank you.

I'm not seeing it 1628 under my purchases.

1629 Hey, Raymond, are you talking about 1630 session one or today's?

1631 Peter, talk a little about the connection 1632 between the bicep and the pec.

1633 So it's a little bit more of a full back 1634 swing question.

1635 But when you set up right here, the upper 1636 part of your bicep and the upper part of 1637 your pec should have a connection right 1638 here.

So I'll kind of come in close on 1639 camera.

1640 So if I'm right here taking my set up, 1641 I'm going to have a little bit of 1642 awareness of my upper bicep and pectoral 1643 right here.

I don't want this.

You start 1644 getting kind of gorilla set up this way.

1645 You should have a little bit of 1646 connection right here, okay?

1647 You don't need, and this is what I see 1648 more often than not because of this guy, 1649 you don't need to be like this setup 1650 where your arms are so externally 1651 rotated, your elbows are just squeezed 1652 out, 1653 you know, facing out in front of you to 1654 the death, and you're, you know, kind of 1655 on top and squeezing.

That's not what we 1656 want here.

Your arms and shoulders need 1657 to be, number one, relaxed and down and 1658 in the box.

They need to be retracted and 1659 in position.

And when you hinge forward, 1660 let's say we just hinge forward and clap 1661 hands.

I'm going to have this little 1662 connection between upper bicep and pec, 1663 and you're going to maintain that in the 1664 swing.

1665 Hopefully that helps.

1666 Session one.

All right.

Hey, Raymond, 1667 send me an email when you're done.

1668 Okay.

1669 Craig.

1670 rotary swing.

com I'll make sure it gets 1671 under there, Gary.

In your experience, 1672 what's the best feel to initiate the post 1673 -up move during transition?

It's a loaded 1674 question, What is the best feel?

Yeah, I 1675 don't like teaching feel, just because 1676 your feel, my feel may be completely 1677 different.

It's like when I tell people, 1678 you know, the grip pressure.

Okay, grip 1679 it at a two.

1680 Well, two to them may be an eight.

1681 So when I get here and I shift my weight 1682 to my lead side and initiate the post, 1683 for me, my feel is firing that lead glute 1684 by straightening my lead level, okay?

1685 Pushing from the ground.

1686 That's how I do it because I'm going to 1687 exaggerate.

You do not need to do this in 1688 your swing.

1689 I repeat.

I don't want to see anybody 1690 doing this.

1691 If I get here and I just really load my 1692 left leg like this, all right?

Now, I'm 1693 not way out towards the ball of my foot.

1694 I know I'm out there because my knee is 1695 going this way.

If I'm not way out there, 1696 I can still feel.

If I'm like this, what 1697 do I want to do?

1698 This is very uncomfortable.

I don't like 1699 this.

1700 I'm going to start to push.

And post up 1701 with my lead leg because I'm very 1702 uncomfortable with that.

Now.

That's on 1703 the exaggerated side of the equation.

But 1704 for my fields, when I get here, I just 1705 start to straighten my lead leg.

I start 1706 to fire that glute because I feel the 1707 load.

I nobody wants to stand around like 1708 this, that's uncomfortable.

Oh, okay, 1709 that's better.

I can stand here all day 1710 long.

This I'm getting a little bit 1711 tired, so my field initiate that.

1712 It's just straightening the lead leg 1713 instead.

1714 Pushing against the ground, so to speak.

1715 Ground fighting me back.

1716 Thank you, Troy.

1717 I appreciate it.

1718 The mini dead drill, you would think, 1719 like, right, I'm just sitting there doing 1720 the dead drill.

1721 It really gets players.

1722 To kind of rein it in, so players earlier 1723 were talking about hitting it too far.

1724 And when you realize, Oh, I'm 45 degrees, 1725 that's it, yeah, that's it.

I'm not 1726 looking for you to be like this.

Ted.

I'm 1727 posting, I always seem to hang back why 1728 I'm posting.

1729 You always seem to hang back on posting.

1730 Now, Ted, that's a pretty loaded 1731 question.

I'm going to ask you for two 1732 things before I answer that.

1733 If your weight's already back here and 1734 you haven't shifted weight, so don't even 1735 worry about posting until you get weight.

1736 But if your weight's over there and you 1737 post and your weight's falling back to 1738 the trail, that's a different question.

1739 So try to clarify that for me.

1740 Thank you, Gary.

1741 Thank you, David.

1742 That's what I'm here for.

1743 I want y'all to succeed.

Ask me 1744 questions.

1745 I'm an encyclopedia of golf.

I've done it 1746 all.

1747 Brian, you're welcome.

1748 All right.

Kevin Craig on the.

Similarly, 1749 last week struggled with the face closed 1750 at impact, causing hook, even with the 1751 small drills.

Now, how can I help?

Well, 1752 Kevin, so what's going to cause the 1753 closed club face in your phase one drill?

1754 What's going to cause that to be closed?

1755 If I'm working here into phase one, 1756 what's going to cause it to be closed?

1757 Well, 1758 you are manually rotating the face.

1759 The second thing is.

1760 because you're holding impact, it can 1761 also be your shoulders.

1762 So what I would do, and this isn't the 1763 best way to do it, but if you really, 1764 really struggle with it, you can see like 1765 with this mat right here, 1766 if you get like a little mat, something 1767 you can kind of squirt it up against, you 1768 can go like this kind of into your mat 1769 and see like, okay, flat made the rest of 1770 the clubface square.

1771 Remember, the clubface is 85% of your 1772 initial ball flight is going to be 1773 clubface.

So the only thing that's going 1774 to be closing it in that phase one drill, 1775 Because you, you're doing it with your 1776 hands, you're not maintaining that.

Flat 1777 lead wrist and square out of hip could 1778 also have overly strong grip, so check 1779 not overly strong grip.

And you've got to 1780 get the manual out of it.

Okay, uh, Rick, 1781 I tend not to turn my shoulders enough in 1782 the backswing.

Do you pull with your 1783 right shoulder back?

Yeah, is it?

Rick?

1784 Just take your right shoulder behind your 1785 head.

You're setting up right here, 1786 putting a little pressure in, literally 1787 just take your right shoulder behind your 1788 head.

That's like, I'm just literally 1789 just pushing my right shoulder behind my 1790 head.

Um, that's all I'm doing, taking 1791 that right shoulder behind my head and 1792 feeling my abs, I feel in my obliques.

1793 Hey, thank you Raymond.

No problem, 1794 I appreciate it.

TeD I think I'm spinning 1795 the chest open instead of releasing.

more 1796 than likely you are.

If you think that 1797 you're doing it, you probably are doing 1798 it, so Ted.

Um, if you're spinning open 1799 the chest instead of releasing.

Not only 1800 is the face going to be open, but going 1801 back to your weight issue.

If you spin 1802 open the chest too much, you can get like 1803 this.

And where your waist starts to fall 1804 back to your trail leg.

Because you're 1805 too active with the upper half, you're 1806 kind of counterbalancing.

1807 So that hanging back problem may be due 1808 to the fact that you're overworking your 1809 chest.

1810 Welcome, Kevin.

Great session, Craig.

1811 Really clarified the release.

Awesome, 1812 Randy.

Now, when I try to make posting up 1813 the primary action that moves the club 1814 from my trail side to my lead side, 1815 posting up isn't going to be the primary 1816 thing to move from the trail side to the 1817 lead side.

It feels too thrusty.

It's too 1818 much lunge or sudden push.

Remember, 1819 you've got weight.

1820 So when you're here, I'm in my trail 1821 takeaway right now.

Weight is going to 1822 start to bring the club down and gravity.

1823 So I'm already here.

Posting is just 1824 triggering the release.

1825 So posting is triggering the down and out 1826 of the club.

1827 In this small of a swing, you shouldn't 1828 really have so much trying to do it.

1829 Robert, how do we get.

The squat motion 1830 to help movement in the post-up.

How do 1831 you get the squat motion?

Well, Robert, 1832 in a 40, 50-yard shot, you don't need a 1833 ton of squat.

I mean, you just don't need 1834 that ton of leverage.

But what that's 1835 going to be is as you start to shift, 1836 what happens is your hips start to 1837 square.

When you start to square, you 1838 allow for the little increase in knee 1839 bend.

You start to squat.

Okay, but it's 1840 during that weight shift.

And what I 1841 typically see is most people don't allow 1842 their hips to square so they can't feel 1843 the squat.

They stay a little bit closed 1844 hip sliders.

1845 They stay like this, and they're like, I 1846 don't feel the squat.

Yeah, watch what 1847 happens when I square up my hips now.

Now 1848 I can get both of them kind of squatting 1849 into position.

Hence, squat's a square.

1850 Ted, that's it.

Great.

1851 Garrett, wonderful session.

Much work on.

1852 Thank you, Garrett.

1853 John, is the shoulder plane dependent?

On 1854 how much you bend over at a dress, well, 1855 let's think about that.

So if I'm 1856 standing like this, I'm set up.

This is 1857 the point my shoulder is on, so I hinge 1858 for right here now, this is the shoulder 1859 point I'm on.

So that's my spine angle 1860 and how much I'm hinged.

That's the 1861 shoulder point that I'm on.

I don't want 1862 to change this during the swing.

I start 1863 on this plane, I'm on this plane, I'm on 1864 this plane, going through.

So that 1865 depending on how much you're hinged.

1866 All right, thank you Garrett.

Anthony got 1867 that, Mitchell got that.

All right.

Looks 1868 like we're slowing down.

We still got a 1869 lot of people in the group.

No other 1870 questions, just people hitchhiking 1871 lessons.

I do human lessons if I'll come 1872 down from like four stalls down.

That was 1873 great information.

I appreciate the 1874 lesson today.

I'm like, you weren't my 1875 student today.

He's like, yeah, but I was 1876 listening to everything that you were 1877 saying.

1878 Some of the advice I tell other people, 1879 though, that doesn't mean that you should 1880 be doing it.

You know, 1881 funny story.

That's like when I do 1882 clinics, you know, I'll have a room of 1883 students, and I'll be telling somebody to 1884 do one thing, and the person in front 1885 will hear it.

They'll be like, oh, I need 1886 to try that.

And I go over there, and I'm 1887 a big fan of negative reinforcement, so I 1888 whack them a little bit.

I'm like, hey, 1889 that advice is for this student, not you.

1890 You've got a completely different 1891 problem.

1892 Ted, how do you prevent the left shoulder 1893 dip on the initiation of the back swing?

1894 That's just push, Ted.

1895 If you're making your back swing.

And all 1896 of a sudden, your left shoulder just 1897 starts going down like this, you can see 1898 what you're just pushing with your lead 1899 shoulder.

If my trail shoulder is 1900 creating the motion, what happens with my 1901 lead shoulder, arm and hand?

I'm using my 1902 trail side, my right side to go to the 1903 right, I don't use my left side to go to 1904 the right.

That'd be like getting in a 1905 stop sign, putting on right hand turn 1906 signal.

But then you make a left, which I 1907 know is common in Atlanta, but Shouldn't 1908 be coming in your golf zone.

1909 Hogan said he wished he had two right 1910 hands.

He wanted three right hands, John.

1911 Sounds like he used a lot of effort to 1912 impact.

He did.

And you know what?

I will 1913 talk about that on Tuesday's session.

1914 I've got a lot of beef with that guy 1915 right there.

I just like the picture.

1916 But we'll talk about that when we start 1917 talking about speed on Tuesday.

1918 Is the back swing started with the push 1919 of the left shoulder or pulling back of 1920 the right shoulder?

Mike, if you push 1921 with the left shoulder, I'm booting you 1922 out of this camp.

1923 You can use a little weight to generate 1924 some momentum.

You can use a little bit 1925 of your core or your obliques.

1926 Trail shoulder blade glide.

1927 Anything with your right-handed, use your 1928 right side to go right.

1929 Let's see.

1930 Raymond, what time Tuesday?

1931 Same time Tuesday, 6 p.

m.

EST.

1932 All right?

So Tuesday session, 6 p.

m.

1933 Eastern Standard Time.

1934 Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Douglas, 1935 see you Tuesday.

Enjoy your weekend.

1936 Thank you, Doug.

I hope that you found 1937 the meaning of life answer to your 1938 liking.

1939 Thank you, Ted.

1940 Al, when I try to maintain lag, it 1941 creates stress on my arms and hands and 1942 decreases the chance of proper release.

1943 How do I balance it to?

1944 1945 in a full swing or in a nine to three?

1946 I'll answer this one and one more.

1947 I got some weekend projects I could get 1948 to.

Either.

1949 Well, I'll leave full swing for when we 1950 get the full swing in 9 to 3.

1951 If I'm right here at 9 o'clock and I 1952 start to come down, 1953 do you see how much my wrist really 1954 increased to have the lag?

1955 My wrist increased about that much.

1956 So if you're stressed, or if you have 1957 stress in your forearms and wrists, 1958 Due to lag, especially in what we're 1959 doing in phase two, because you're like 1960 this, like you're trying to create this 1961 massive kind of down cock pump with it, 1962 you're putting way too much emphasis on 1963 that.

And you're doing way too much with 1964 your hands.

The lag is going to be more 1965 of a byproduct of going back the other 1966 direction.

1967 Okay?

The lag is only going to increase 1968 just slightly as I'm moving through here.

1969 To me, what it sounds like is that you're 1970 getting here.

And you hear everybody and 1971 all of us talking about, oh, I'm going to 1972 have all this lag.

And you're trying to.

1973 That's not how lag is generated.

You get 1974 a little bit more of the float loading.

1975 You're just working way too hard for it.

1976 It's my problem.

1977 I lost audio.

Can you quickly repeat?

1978 1979 let's see, Mike.

1980 Can you hear me now, Mike, before I do 1981 the answer again?

1982 Just to make sure.

Okay, so first of all, 1983 and I think I'll see if I said.

If you 1984 use your left side left shoulder to start 1985 the backswing, I'm going to the right, 1986 use the right.

So you can use a little 1987 bit of weight shift to kind of get a 1988 little bit of momentum if you need.

1989 You're using your core, your obliques, 1990 your right shoulder, trail side for me.

1991 So you use your right to go to the right, 1992 You don't use your left to go to the 1993 right.

1994 So I don't take my left hand and push my 1995 right arm out of the way.

I want to move 1996 my right arm over here.

I move my right 1997 arm over here.

So use the right side of 1998 the other right.

1999 All right.

2000 I think that about does it.

2001 No other questions?

I will.

2002 See you all on Tuesday.

2003 You can find Anthony and I on the website 2004 if you need us.

Community, forum page, 2005 swing reviews, live lessons.

2006 You can probably throw up a bat signal.

2007 One of us will respond.

2008 Thank you again.

I hope you enjoyed 2009 today's session.

2010 Get ready for Tuesday.

2011 Understanding how little work you really 2012 need to do in the swing.

2013 to get a lot out.

2014 Thank you, Gary.