C4 Bootcamp 1, Dec 6 2022, Session 3

Session 3 of 4

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All right.

Welcome.

Are we there?

Roy, Kevin.

All right.

Greetings from the left coast.

Hello, Peter, Raymond.

How are we all doing today?

All right.

I'm going to try to see if I can get this stuff going here.

As usual, let me know.

If you can't hear me, probably can't see me yet.

let me know if you can hear me.

Thumbs up or How are we doing audio wise?

Nothing yet.

Hello Michael.

Sounds good.

All right.

Thank you Bill.

I appreciate it.

Thumbs up.

All right.

So I'll take that as we're doing okay right now.

Welcome to Session three, Phase three, or whatever you want to call it, welcome to Tuesday's Boot Camp.

As usual, I will be your humble swing host today for instructor Craig Morrow.

I think Anthony will be in the chat as well with us today.

So give him a hello when he gets in.

I hadn't seen him yet, but he should be there.

How are we all doing today?

How's the work going so far?

As you know, the typical protocol with the next session, I'm going to let everybody kind of file in.

I can already see the numbers jumping up right now, so everybody has a good seat and can go over this session with us if they have any questions.

Because today, I'm not going to say it's going to be a short day, but this session.

Is going to kind of be a catch -up day.

We're going to talk about what we need to do for our phase three.

We're adding a little bit of pace, but that's about as far as I'm going to go with it.

And I'm going to try to leave a little bit more time for question and answer towards the end.

Because I I see some people that are still kind of playing catch up for the first two sessions.

And I want to get some things clear before we go to Saturday's session.

Because I know today is going to create a lot of questions.

And I want to make sure that we clear the air on this.

Because when I start talking about speed and release and stuff, I'm sure there's going to be some questions out of left field and some people coming out of the woodwork needing some clarification.

So I hope we're all doing well.

Greetings from Holland.

All right, Johnny.

Awesome, you're out of focus.

I'm out of focus, probably because I'm bouncing around a little bit.

It'll probably resettle once.

I kind of let's see what happens there.

Doing any refocusing.

Sometimes you have to give it a little object, it'll probably come back in once I stop moving around.

Greetings from Phoenix.

Hello Jeff.

all right, we.

Hi Craig, we can always see you in the mirror.

Yeah, that's one of the things about that mirror right there.

Played in cold Boston today.

Steven, you're crazy.

Typically 70 or 65 Fahrenheit and under.

You're not getting me out there.

You're nuts.

All right, numbers are going up.

Played in 37 degrees this morning.

Michael, you are a trooper.

You are a trooper.

My bones don't allow for that one anymore.

Where in Atlanta do you give in-person lessons?

Santiago, that is a great question.

Right now I am kind of in between courses.

I used to teach a little bit at Atlanta National a few years ago.

But now I'm kind of in influx.

I've got two courses that I'm waiting to hear back from to see if I can start up.

my teaching there.

So stay tuned for further details on that one.

And I will update my page once those deals get through.

And I'll tell you what, it's really odd in this golf world.

It's a lot tougher than you would think to find teaching locations for clinics and in-person lessons, what have you.

Just the nature.

Of the business.

But I have been in Colorado, so I just returned back this fall, at the end of the summer, beginning of the fall.

Uh, so when I got back and I started continuing on my journey, I started going around to both horses.

I'm waiting on some callbacks right now.

I've got one real good lead, so everybody keep their fingers crossed.

One, let's see Cordless Drills for tees.

Cordless drills for tees.

Oh, okay.

I got you.

I got you.

When I was living in Pennsylvania, I played in the little Friday gathering called the, I think it was called the Penguin Tour or something.

And I remember playing in some of that stuff where you could hit a wedge and land it about 110 out and it would go 210 once it finally stopped.

I know how that is.

You need an indoor setup.

You have the mirrors.

Yes, I do, Anthony.

I have the mirrors.

The only problem is with this setup right here, it's not going to be my final setup.

But the only problem with this is I max out at about, I'd say, a four iron until the ceiling gets in the way.

So that's kind of the bugger.

I do have a sim.

There you go.

And that's what I need.

That would solve a lot of my problems.

Just a little bit higher ceiling of the sim.

So for right now, indoors for me.

So while I let everybody else gather in, give them a couple more minutes.

Anybody got any questions?

Now, you've got to keep it on the first two sessions, okay?

Or don't ask me who I voted for today.

I don't know.

Georgia has a runoff today, so I had to go vote today.

It's got me a little bit behind schedule waiting in line.

No questions so far.

Everybody's just doing great.

Phase one, phase two, perfect.

Let's see how to keep that trail foot rolling.

How long will the replay stay up?

You're going to have them for a long time, Edward.

I mean, the way that we look at it is you bought it.

So we want you to be able to refer back to these, continue your journey, because I don't expect everybody to have their full swing perfected.

If you've got a lot to work on in your swing, you're going to have to take a step back.

You might want to go back and hear me, you know, be ever on about a topic like, oh, that's what I need to do.

They're going to be up there for a long time, everyone.

Um, the big thing is now we can host them on our website.

In the past, it used to be just solely done through links.

And that just leads to a little bit of a piracy issue because people can just share the links.

And but now the fact that we host them, you're, you're, you're going to be in good hands.

And I'll go back to that.

Trail foot comment So how to keep the trail foot rolling?

If you think about it, the trail foot?

All right when you're shifting weight to your lead side, if you're pulling a lot with inner thigh adduction.

And a good way to have that feel is to try to drag your right foot over with the inside of your left thigh.

If you don't, you know, feel that muscle, you can do the same way this way, but try to drag your right leg over with your left inner thigh muscle.

And you'll get a good feeling for that.

Preventing Hip Pain video Helped you out with that drill?

Let's see.

When transitioning the downswing after the bump, when do you start straightening your left leg?

As soon as you shift the weight.

Once you plant that weight in the hips square, you start to pose.

Phil, could you show me the release in slow motion?

The release in slow motion?

So, basically, from this position, trail thigh, my lee arm is going to start to work into my lee thigh.

As I start to supinate my lead wrist to square the club, now, you can see if you've done the swing properly.

I don't really have to work a lot to get that to square.

Okay, because the club's always rotating, so by this point in time, I shouldn't be having to make a ton of rotation.

But the lead wrist is going to be turning down, so you're going to see my knuckles, my lead wrists start to flatten, which squares the club.

And then, as I start to work over here, you're going to start to see the width and the fingernails on my left hand.

Now, what I've done in a clinic before is.

I'll draw little pictures on somebody's fingernails of their glove to make sure that when they get over here that they can see these fingernails.

So this club will be rotated over and from up the line, it's squaring and releasing this way to where you want a flat lead wrist bowed.

It can be slightly cut depending on the strength of your grip, but if it's like this, then more than likely you cut flipped it.

Hopefully that helps.

Played yesterday, found I'm going back to old habits.

Should I start from the beginning?

Raymond, it's just going to take some time.

So when you're trying to play during making these changes, just know that for every day you play golf, it's going to take you about two days to get back on the wagon.

And it's just going to take time.

So it's always best to try to minimize playing until you kind of have something down enough where you don't have to think about it too much.

But it'll happen.

What?

When does the back heel leave the ground after the roll?

We're going to do that today, Kevin.

So stay tuned.

What do you do with your thumb of your left hand when swinging one-handed?

Well, Joe, you've got two options.

One, you can take the darn thing off.

You don't really even need it.

I mean, I can sit here and do this all day long.

So you don't even need it.

Second thing is, I mean, I just make my normal grip, and the whole point is not pushing on the club with the thumb.

Try to maintain the angle, let it release.

So my thumb is just kind of supporting the weight right here and I'm not doing anything with it.

Uh, do you try to keep your hands high at nine different Doug, that is a good, I mean, that is a way of doing it.

What I see more often than not when players try to take that trail knee and touch it, what they end up doing is they end up pushing too much and they end up like this.

So if you think axiom, as you're going around your pressure on your trail foot and you're getting off that toe, that is a good way of feeling the knee kind of drive out a little bit.

If we're looking at the clock being this way, kind of driving out at like 11 or 1 or 2 o'clock, this way, that's a good way of doing it.

But more often than not, in this motion, in a 9 to 3, players overdo it.

Are you consciously supinating or letting the club do it?

Well, Randy, here's the issue.

I consciously supinate when I was.

First, initially training, and when I'm trying to control my trajectory now, I just let the club go.

So if I expand upon that, when I first came to rotary, I was a big trail side pusher.

So as that worked down into impact, my lead wrist would be cut.

Okay, because I was excessively pushing from that side.

So I had to manually train, feeling bow and feeling rotation down, had to manually do that.

But now, to this point, it's just a feeling.

I don't really think about it at all.

But in the initial, I had to be conscious about it.

It's like the drills that we're doing today, or any of the drills that you work on at first.

And this is a lesson for not just supination of Libras.

This is a lesson for working on your goals.

At first, it's going to be conscious and mechanical.

But the goal is to take the conscious and mechanical and round it back to field.

Everybody's a field golfer at the end of the day.

I don't care what you say.

Everybody's a field golfer.

It's the only way they can do anything.

That's what they're feeling.

But at first, you're going to have to think about these things to get over said hump.

And then you try to blend it to where now it's just field -based and it can turn automatic.

Like at first, I give this example to almost every unlimited student.

Think about snapping.

So if you're trying to snap, okay, when you first learn to do it, you're really thinking about it hard, you're putting a lot of pressure, and it's just slow and chunky, and then you finally get it to snap.

And then when you start to do it, you don't have to think about it as much anymore.

And then when you can do it like this, you can do it faster and faster and faster, and now it's just basically becoming a reflex.

That's kind of the same thing in the swing that you're trying to do.

It's a little bit of what we're doing today.

All right, I'm going to take two more questions and then two or three more questions, and then we're going to get started.

Since the motion you're teaching here gets the hips all the way open, do we not worry about squat to square?

Squat to square is a position you move through, Roy.

So you're still squatting to square.

All right, so if I'm going from 9 o'clock here and it's shifting over, I'm still squatting.

Look, I'm in this position.

My knees are returning back to here.

I'm still engaging the glutes.

I'm just not hitting it very far.

Today's motion, and even a further swing, just because I'm adding more squat for more leverage, I'm still squatting, but there's still varying degrees of it.

I can have a tiny squat, or I can have a tighter squat.

So you're still doing that, but you're moving through the position.

Okay, I'm going to quit with Jeff, so I'm going to get Michael, Johnny, and Jeff really fast.

On the downswing, are your hands pretty close to your body?

Not relatively.

I mean, it's not something I consciously think about, but if you.

I'm trying to find a frame of reference.

If this is addressed right here, okay, when I move throughout this swing, at impact, my hands are going to be slightly higher.

I got a little bit of shaft groove.

I'm at full owner deviation.

So they're going to be slightly higher and a tad bit further away.

But as I work throughout the swing, I don't really have, like, I'm not trying to brush my hands against my side.

Let's see.

Johnny.

When you shift back to the lead side, does the weight initially go to the left foot, toe, or ankle?

When you shift back to the left side, Johnny.

Which we're going to do today, you can think about it.

When you first shift back, it's going to go towards the ball, the lead foot, okay, so when you first shift.

Just like what we're going to do with stepping today, you're going towards toes, ball, the lead foot.

Right there.

And it's going to be a very quick motion, and then a very quick motion back towards the heel.

Which website contains this course?

This is my first purchase other than local RS lessons.

The course that we're doing right now, Jeff, these are all the C4 videos.

So phase one, two, three, and four.

You go to your dashboard, you'll see all four phases on the left side of your dashboard.

That's what we're doing.

And David, since he's a friendly fellow, I know we're using the 7-iron.

I see the value in the drills, but still struggle in releasing with the driver.

Is it okay to think about helping with the release?

What do you mean helping?

I think it depends on which side you're releasing it with, whether you're elite side releaser or trail side releaser.

But at an iron and a driver, you're still swinging the same way, you're just adjusting yourself.

So if you're having to help it out with the driver and thinking of your goal, I've seen it.

Then what I would be thinking is that your arms and hands are being left behind, as in, you're trying to get your legs driving so hard that your arms and hands are back over here and you feel like you have to speed up your arms and hands to catch back up.

So I'd make sure to give yourself just a little bit more of a transition and work on some sequencing.

And stop spinning that chest, okay?

So, without further ado, let's get started.

As I mentioned earlier, this is going to be a little bit on the quicker side because I know there's going to be a lot of questions and I want to demonstrate.

I want everybody to know what's going on.

And today's session is phase third.

So at this point in time, we all should understand or know this is impact positioning and how we should be staffed.

Okay, so we have the control of impact, and we have the control with a little bit of release, making some 9-30s.

So we've kind of taken care of the control and release aspect.

And today we're going to start working on the speed aspect.

I typically don't like to train players, you know, going at a ton of speed in their full swing at first.

I like to keep it a little bit shorter.

For example, myself, in a 9 to 3 or even a little bit bigger, when I first started learning how to flight the ball better and get a lot of speed, I learned how to do it small.

Because by the time I learned how to create some speed at a small motion, I realized that by the time I got to the full swing, I didn't need to be working so hard.

I already knew how to generate a little bit of width.

I already knew how to generate.

some juice in a very small motion, kind of like throwing jab.

I'm sitting here like, okay, small, efficient, powerful.

Well, I don't need the haymaker all the time.

There are times when you need the haymaker, but it taught me that I don't always have to be, you know, pedal to the floor on all my swings.

I can kind of tone it down, add some speed, and I can get speed.

But with also a piercing trajectory and have a lot more control because I was able to learn how well.

In a nine to three, or today, like a three-quarter swing.

I was able to hit it very far, but because it was a shorter swing, I was able to keep the ball more in control.

That's it when you think about golf.

At the end of the day, it's.

It's kind of a simple formula.

If you're hitting fairways and you're hitting greens, the score is going to work out for you.

That's just it.

It's a formula.

You play the game so that allows you to have some fun, but also, you know, keep it in control.

But today we're going to be working on speed.

And what I want to start out with today is a little bit of the throw the ball girl.

I mean, we.

I think that video was on like the second week we ever hosted the site, and then Chuck did another iteration of it.

But this has been around on the website forever.

Because the throw the ball drill is the easiest way to teach players how to have proper kinematic sequence.

Because when you start building a golf swing, going back to one of the questions we saw earlier, it's very easy to start getting in your own way.

And I hated that term when I was growing up.

Still almost going to know, what is that?

Tell me if you know what it is.

But you kind of get in your own way because you start thinking about mechanics.

All of us here, and everybody in this room, don't you say, well, Craig, that's never been me or anything like that.

You're not telling me the truth.

All of us here that have worked on our golf swing at some point in time start overthinking these things, okay?

You know, we start worrying about club position, you know?

Where should it be in my takeaway, and where should it be at the top, and where should it be in my transition, and where should it be in my post?

And we start to kind of get overly mechanical about things and we kind of lose our way through the force.

We kind of miss the force through the trees.

Okay, and we have to get back to making this a little bit feel-based.

And I know some people don't know how to throw a golf ball, but that sequence, or throw a ball in general, but that sequence of doing that is the easiest way to train somebody to start learning how to generate speed, because it's very innate to start to do, okay?

So what I want to do is I want to do a little bit of the throw the ball drill, because at some point, you've learned control, you've learned release, but at some point, like my snapping, you've got to train with some pace.

I told you all in the first phase that when I had players doing the dead drill, you know, a long, long time ago in the first dead drill boot camps, players were getting here and they're shifting and they're rotating, everything's looking good, getting their weight back and posting up, but that's all that they did.

They got here, shift, post.

They may have gone to blending, where they're like this, but they never picked up the pace.

They never bumped their learning curve.

Remember, the golf swing's fast, right?

You've got a lot going on, and it happens in a blink of an eye.

And so when you start to get these motions down and you start to get them correct, you need to add pace because you've got to challenge your brain.

You've got to up this learning.

If you can do this at a high rate of speed.

It's going to be a lot easier to tone it down, especially when you get to the course and do it correctly.

Okay?

That's why, you know, that snapping analogy always pops back in my head.

If we can do this at pace and correctly and fast, it's going to be a lot easier.

So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to do a little bit of a throw the ball in the room.

Okay?

And I just want you to do this.

No ball.

If you're at home, stand up.

You can do it with me.

If not, watch it.

You can do it later.

But I don't want to do it with a ball or anything first.

I kind of want to describe a little bit of the feelings, the motion, and then we'll expand upon So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to kind of preset our trail arm.

Okay?

So we're just going to elevate a little bit just straight up.

I don't want anything out for this diet right here.

We're just going to kind of elevate straight up.

And we're going to preset our arm about 90 degrees of function.

And all that means is.

90 degree angle between my forearm, elbow and bicep right here, no more than that.

Okay, you can have a little bit less if you want, but I'm going to preset this.

And all we're doing is we're just kind of presetting a top position.

Okay, so if I were to take this position right here, presetting my trail arm and just rotate my shoulders, which is a big key.

Okay, when you get here, I don't want you to take your arm like this.

You're not rearing it back like growing gardener here and rotate your shoulders.

I want you to maintain this connection between your upper bicep and upper pectoral, okay?

And when you're over in this position, I want you to feel some weight into your trail side.

If you've ever been a pitcher, if you've ever thrown a ball, this is going to be a very similar position, all right?

You can feel some pressure on this side.

You can feel some load.

You can feel some torque in your core.

This should start to wind you up a little bit like a top, okay?

And when you get to this position, our motion is going to look like this.

So I'll go a little bit more detail.

I'm going to kind of show it first.

Then when we get here, we're going to step first, okay?

So relating to the comment earlier, we're going to plant toes, ball of feet right here, okay?

We're going to step first to plant our weight.

You're going to see that my lead leg is kind of externally rotating a little bit, which that will be the first move in a down swim.

So I'm going to step, all right, and now I'm going to pivot and open up my hip, and when I step, pivot, and open up my hip, I'm going to let that bring my trail arm in front of my hip to throw the ball at the ground.

And where I'm throwing the ball at the ground is where the golf ball is, okay?

I'm not trying to throw it at this wall or throw it at the computer or throw it at a student.

Done it before.

I'm stepping, pivoting, and throwing, okay?

Now, what I want you to notice right here is how easy it is for me to get my hips going and to start to get my weight and hips.

Because this whole journey to this point has been to move your body, to move your arms, to move the hands, to move the club.

And that doesn't change now.

This is how you start to generate.

speed is to get your body to move athletically and with some pace.

So let's get up here, let's preset our trail arm, and all I want you to do is think step, pivot your hip, throw your arm, throw the ball.

So here, loading, step pivot, throw.

You can kind of go back and forth like this.

If you've ever done this, you're going to kind of see.

It's very easy to start to learn how to swing from the ground up and start to generate some speed.

You've got some momentum going.

You've got some torque.

You've got some rotation.

Is this a little bit more exaggerated than what we need in the golf swing?

Absolutely, but this is how you start to train in a big spectrum, and then we'll just kind of rein you in a little bit, all right?

If you can kind of do that with your arm and hand in the club, then get a ball or get a foam ball, okay?

Now I want you to preset your arm in the same position.

You're going to load into the side, arm and hand, no more than 90 degrees, staying in front of your chest right here.

Step, pivot your hip, throw the ball, okay?

So we're here to throw the ball.

Now notice I didn't let it go way out over here or let it go way back here.

I threw it and I hit it right on my green mat right there.

This is how you start feeling, how to sequence the body to transfer speed.

Now, one big thing I want you to eat, you have to realize with this at this stage.

Where is the speed coming from in this motion?

Where is the speed coming from?

Is it coming from my arm?

powering this ball or powering this throw with my arm.

All I'm doing is sequencing my body and I'm letting the juice transfer from my legs, through my core, through my arm, through my hand, and then I'm letting go of the ball.

You're powering this through a passive conduit.

Your trail arm is going to be a passive conduit of power.

Okay?

So I'm up here at the top.

I'm loading.

I'm rotating.

I shift.

We'll clean up the mechanics.

I just want to get the motion of throwing.

Okay?

And as I make this motion to the comment on the screen, I'm planning the front of my foot.

And as I post, I'm moving quickly towards my heel of my lead foot, all right?

You're moving that pressure from the ball of your lead foot to the heel of your lead foot, okay?

That's what happens when you post.

You're here, and when you post, the pressure moves back.

You can see my toes.

I'm exaggerating.

But my pressure moves back towards my heel as my lead leg starts to straighten, and I create the post.

The postings the same way as it is in the same previous drills.

Just exaggerating a little bit.

Now, yeah, you're going to see long drivers.

When they get here, they're way up on their toes.

That's another discussion.

But the big thing you've got to get right now is this powers transfer passively.

If I were an actual major league pitcher, okay, or let's use football, right?

And I watched a little bit of the football game last three minutes was very entertaining.

When you're throwing a football, okay, You're not just getting here and trying to fling it with your arm like this.

Because at some point in time, you're going to max out.

Your arm can only regenerate so much speed.

It's why players are stuck kind of below 100 with their practice, because it's typically just generating a couple of hours.

You're trying to power the ball by what?

Using momentum, using more muscle fiber, using torque.

I'm shifting, I'm posting, my legs are rotating, my chest is rotating, and I'm transferring the power through here to let it go.

I'm not generating the power with my arm.

And that's one of the big things, and that's why players get this wrong, or just players in general with golf, is they try to power it with their arm, and they forget it's about feeling the sequencing that you're transferring passively through this arm and hand.

So like a pitcher, if I was a pitcher and I only used my arm, I would max out at some point and that would be all I could do.

But if I get here and I can really rip my legs and hip and use that momentum, I can transfer a lot more speed passively through my trail arm and hand.

And that's what I'm trying to get you to get a sense of.

Your speed's coming from all this stuff, not this.

Okay?

So I'm here, trail arm right here, standing in front, stepping, pivoting, throwing.

If you want to try to do it right here without picking up the foot, a good way to start is just kind of lead, lead foot over here, let the heel pick up, plant quickly, throw it.

Okay?

But you have to realize it's moving passively through this.

Now what I want you to do is I want you to do the same thing with the club.

If you can.

All right.

We're going to take our stance right here.

Normal stance.

It's going to be fun.

You can do the stepping if you want.

I'm just going to kind of move us along just a little bit.

Preset the right arm in front of you.

Load and rotate.

If you want to let the heel kind of pick up, no problem.

If you want to step, no problem.

But this motion of planting and moving towards the heel.

Look at what it's already done, my arm and hand.

I'm not doing that.

I'm literally just planting my weight and opening up my hip.

And because I've got all these interconnected things, it's bringing down my arm and hand.

So I'm here planting here and then letting it release.

Preset.

I'm up here.

My legs lower half are leading the way.

And then I'm letting the club release.

If you do that over and over again, you're going to start to develop.

A feel of, oh, my body's leading the way and then the club releases.

My body's leading the way and the club releases.

Good news is, too, you'll start to develop a feel of doing it incorrectly.

What's wrong with this?

Well, I did my step pivot and throw, and I never let my arm move from the top, and I got down here, and I'm like, ugh.

Now I've got a muscle with my arm because it's way behind my sequencer.

Or I get up here, and I get here, and I start to throw it this way, and I'm like, why are my hips squirt?

Why is my trail foot flat?

It's because you didn't bring anything down with your lower half.

Okay?

So the easiest way to start developing your body kinematic sequencing is to throw the ball over it.

Now, I know I'm going to get this.

Okay, I'll get it.

Things are done with the lead side.

I'm going to cover all that.

All right.

Regardless of anything, whether you're a lead side releaser or a trail side releaser, you still swing from the ground up in hip motion.

Still working the exact same way.

You're still shifting weight and posting with hand.

So if you can preset this and you can get a good feeling of the legs leading the way and letting the club whip, then try to do a couple from the ground right here.

You're like, all right, I'm going to make a swing.

We only kind of need to go parallel to the ground over here.

It's a kind of trail arm parallel to the ground on this side.

If it goes a little bit longer, no worries.

But just know I'm not trying to get you to swing like daily where you're like this.

So we're just going to make a little swing where we kind of get parallel to the ground.

Shift post, let it release.

Shift post, let it release.

You can get here.

If you struggle with this feeling, pick up the foot a little bit.

You can get up to here.

And let it release to get a little sequence.

I love doing this drill, where I let the foot kind of pick up and then step.

Because it's just a very good and natural way for you to start getting out of your own way.

For you to be like, Okay, well, Craig I.

I understand the mechanics, but I can't do it at pace and I can't do it fast.

Yes, you can, right?

That's what this is teaching you is how to have good mechanics, but also do it with a little bit of speed.

So if I set up here, now this might hit the ground a little bit because my foot's actually way below my left right now.

It may not look like that on camera.

But I get up here, and I'm going to do the same thing, all right?

I'm going to step, pivot, let it throw.

Here, step, pivot, let it throw.

Here, step, pivot, let it throw.

And for players that.

or used to losing the touch slide, watch what happens when I go through this motion.

I get up to here.

Look at my lead hip.

My lead hip's opening and working where?

Behind me.

So if my lead hip's opening and working behind me, I'm able to maintain my spine angle into this shot because when the lead hip works this way, up and back, Not only does it trigger the club to go down and out, but what does it do to my spine angle?

It makes my spine angle come down.

It allows me to retain my spine angle of the posture into the shower.

Because this driving this way without this going this way is what it does with my spine.

You can see the differences.

My hips are going this way because they're not clearing back.

I can't make my spine stay down and make my hips go that way.

Physically can't do it.

So that's the way that you start to learn how to sequence the speed.

Now when you can get the feel for that, all you're doing is taking the exact same motion that we did in the first two sessions and making it a tiny bit longer.

All you're doing is rotating a little bit more.

Arms are going to elevate a little bit more.

That's it.

Okay.

But what I want you to start doing is I want you to start thinking about those legs.

I want you to start thinking about this kind of passive conduit of power.

So when we talked about the BJ drill in the previous lesson, this is where this kind of really starts to come in handy is when the swing gets a little bit bigger and a little bit faster.

Okay.

So I want you to take your normal setup.

All right, same thing that we've been doing.

So 50-50 weight dispersion.

Had a question today.

Axis tilt, just to the inside of the lead knee.

I don't want to hit my money.

So put it right down your sternum, hand on belt, bump your hip towards the target.

It should still be 50-50.

Your stance width is predetermining how much tilt you need.

Okay?

So when we get into this position, our goal for phase three is going to be to load, rotate, Lead arm parallel to the ground on this side.

Shift our weight.

Post up.

Impact.

Let the club release.

The lead arm parallel on this side or trail arm parallel on this side.

Okay?

Now the question earlier about the heel.

Where do you see my heel right now?

It's still not glued to the ground.

Now technically, I can get all the way here and leave my heel down.

Okay?

Like this.

But for me, I've got a bad left hip.

I've got a really bad left hip.

So once I've fully released the club right here, which I'm fully released right now, okay, and my trail foot's rolled on the instep, I can start to allow that heel to come up.

So in answer to the question from earlier, that heel just needs to stay down until the club's fully released.

So if you're not doing anything silly, you're going to be okay.

Ball's long gone.

Impact already happened.

So if we can get the feel to throw the ball, and we can do it one arm with the club, and we can understand how to feel kind of this passativity, then our next goal is to take the setup.

This was our 9 o'clock in our last room.

We're just going to rotate a little bit more and let the arms go up.

Is that really that much further than that?

Not really.

Just rotate a little bit more and let the arm go up.

And when we get to this position, a really good way.

other than just picking up the foot and going through, which you can.

Because when you get here, think about the same mantra of the step, the pivot, and the throw, and let it go.

So L, and then let it go.

And let it go.

So that you can feel how when you do this, You're accelerating, but now you've decelerated.

You've posted up.

You've fired the glutes.

The body's now decelerated, and because you've let go with that trail hand, the club can now 1000 accelerate independently of the body, 1001 which that's going to be how we get all 1002 that good speed, 1003 okay?

1004 So a good way at doing this without 1005 having too much trail side takeover 1006 initially is let's go from here.

To l 1007 shift post Let it go, notice where I'm 1008 leaving my arm in hand.

Okay, down here, 1009 because I'm letting it go.

As the club 1010 starts to release and I finish my lower 1011 half.

I'm not getting here and shifting 1012 and posting and then just wheeling my arm 1013 through like that, all right.

I'm not 1014 trying to power it from my arm, I'm not 1015 powering it from my lead arm.

you are not 1016 powering it from your lead arm.

1017 The sequencing in the legs, that's what's 1018 generating the speed.

Okay, once you can 1019 do that, then start leaving the trail 1020 hand on.

So where you're making swings, 1021 you're taking your setup, you're going to 1022 that same nine 1023 flat posture.

Weight's properly balanced.

1024 I'm moving over to here.

Shoulder post.

1025 That mirror's a little bit close, so you 1026 saw me finish right there because I kind 1027 of hiked in my release.

1028 That was about to be really good must 1029 -watch television.

1030 So if I'm setting up right here, I'm 1031 going L, L.

1032 Now notice when I get to this position, 1033 my heel's off the ground a little bit 1034 right now.

1035 My arms are extended.

I'm in the L 1036 position.

My head's still behind the 1037 ball.

I'm still in posture.

My hips are 1038 open.

I'm working through here, and I'm 1039 still in the shot.

1040 That should be your finished position, is 1041 that you're still in the shot.

The head's 1042 still behind the ball.

Shoulders haven't 1043 been ripped open.

You can still see the 1044 logo on my chest right now.

Stuff 1045 disappeared like that.

1046 My heel can be a little bit off the 1047 ground right there.

1048 No problem with that.

Your hips are 1049 really open.

1050 And if you're doing this with a 7-arm, 1051 our goal is about 150 yards with a 10 1052 -yard dispersion left or right.

1053 An LL swing, 10-yard dispersion, about 1054 150 yards.

And you should be able to do 1055 this.

1056 Yes, I know there's going to be some 1057 strength, flexibility, and some age 1058 issues on this.

1059 But for the vast majority of everybody, 1060 if you're powering it from your body, 1061 your weaknesses, 1062 you should be able to hit that number.

If 1063 you're not hitting that number, then what 1064 are you powering it with?

And I want you 1065 to think about this with everything.

1066 If you are tired of not hitting the ball 1067 somewhere, 1068 if you're tired of your swing speed being 1069 low, 1070 more than likely are you using for power?

1071 These things.

1072 That's why everybody, that's why the 1073 typical amateur, I think it's like 94.

1 1074 to be exact, is stuck at 94.

1 miles an 1075 hour with the driver because everybody 1076 maxes out at some point with the speed 1077 with their arms.

This is teaching you how 1078 to generate it from the legs.

1079 Now, yes, we get a lot of power from 1080 leverage, right?

60% or more comes from 1081 the leverage in our wrist and the 1082 delivery of that leverage in our wrist.

1083 What makes all that magic happen?

1084 What generates lack?

1085 It's the change of direction of going 1086 this way to this way.

So if you're not 1087 moving your body, you're not going to 1088 generate lack.

1089 What delivers the lack?

1090 When I post up properly, what does the 1091 post up do?

The post up triggers the club 1092 to go down and out.

It triggers the club 1093 to accelerate.

If I never post it up, 1094 back and behind me, I would never trigger 1095 this club to throw, that would be just 1096 literally like me, getting here and just 1097 spinning like this and never stopping.

1098 But as soon as I stop now, the speed of 1099 that club can work independently of me.

1100 It'd be like hitting a baseball right 1101 here, where I step, plant, pivot, but I 1102 just kind of hold everything.

I just kind 1103 of just keep rotating.

Now at some point.

1104 You fire your glutes post-call of the day 1105 so that this can accelerate.

1106 Baseball, your lead arm's going to stay a 1107 little bit more against your chest, but 1108 you're hitting 100-mile-an-hour fastball.

1109 We're just hitting a little white D.

1110 So when you start to work on this L-to-L 1111 swing, 1112 and you start to develop a little bit of 1113 speed with this, if you go out to the 1114 range, you're like, man, I got my 7-iron 1115 now.

I did phase two, and I was able to 1116 hit that almost 60, 70 yards.

1117 But now I'm in phase three, and it's only 1118 going 80 yards, or it's only going 90 1119 yards.

Like, I can't even crack 100, or 1120 maybe I'm just getting to 100.

I'm 1121 nowhere near this 150 Craig's talking 1122 about.

1123 What are you using then?

1124 You're trying to power it with this, and 1125 you need to take a step back and be like, 1126 okay, I don't quite have the feel.

1127 Of what I need to do with this.

Yet, I 1128 need to go back and train my body, even 1129 if you get a little bit exaggerated with 1130 it right now, but train your body to work 1131 in the sequencing.

Okay, get some shots 1132 right hand only, like that, all right, 1133 then you can kind of start going down the 1134 rabbit hole, the other abuses, but just 1135 simply think about it.

If I'm not hitting 1136 it anywhere, then I'm doing.

Why 1137 everybody is missing out on clubhead 1138 speed?

I'm just using my arms.

1139 Now the beautiful news about this is this 1140 helps you start to fix a lot of different 1141 flaws.

1142 Because the two or three most common that 1143 I'm going to see in this is that where 1144 they get to L to L right here, and when 1145 they start to come down, they throw the 1146 ball before planting and pivoting, or 1147 before shifting and posting.

So they get 1148 up here and they throw it from here.

1149 So they take their right shoulder and 1150 right arm, and they start doing that 1151 before they do anything with their lower 1152 half.

Well, what is that going to do?

1153 Well, you can see what's going on right 1154 here.

If I get up here, and for some 1155 reason my camera is really off, my 1156 apologies.

If I get up here, all right, 1157 and I throw the ball early without using 1158 my legs, what's the club doing?

Well, not 1159 only am I casting, I'm also coming over 1160 the top.

So if you're casting and getting 1161 steep on it.

1162 You're taking the ball, and we're doing 1163 this drill right here, and you're like, 1164 okay, I'm going to do this first before 1165 any of this happens.

1166 They did a swing review this morning, 1167 okay?

1168 Student, same thing.

He got up here to 1169 the top, was actually in a pretty good 1170 position up here at the top, but his arms 1171 and hands were all the way down here 1172 before he even shifted and before he 1173 cleared his hips.

He was like, I don't 1174 understand more than missing my power.

1175 Well.

Because you're getting up here 1176 and you're throwing the ball early.

1177 So if you start coming over the top or 1178 you're casting, you're overworking the 1179 trail side early and you're not starting 1180 the down swing with your legs.

I'll tell 1181 you what, it's really hard to get up 1182 here, think about your step pivot and 1183 throw, and to come over the top like this 1184 with you.

I mean, I can't even try to 1185 recreate it because now my weight's all 1186 going this way.

1187 When I step, pivot, and throw, my arm and 1188 hands start to drop this way because my 1189 hip's going back that way.

1190 Okay?

1191 So if you're struggling with over the top 1192 and casting, you're probably taking your 1193 trail shoulder and your trail arm and 1194 overworking it versus getting the lower 1195 half leading the way.

1196 I had a comment earlier.

Do I leave my 1197 arms and hands at the top?

1198 Not everybody, but that may need to be 1199 your feeling.

1200 You may need to get here and feel.

My 1201 arms almost stay on a shelf until I feel 1202 my legs go because you're so activated 1203 with this trail side that you may need to 1204 feel, okay, you just stay there and 1205 you're not going to do anything until my 1206 legs get going.

1207 And you probably will be insane.

1208 For me, that's a terrible idea.

1209 For some players, it's a great idea.

I do 1210 it with some of my students.

But if I did 1211 that, I'd be in big trouble.

1212 So if you struggle with top casting, 1213 that's where it's going to come from.

1214 Same thing with this touchline issue.

If 1215 you're getting L to L right here, and you 1216 start to come down, and all you do is 1217 just push off this foot or this heel.

My 1218 hip's going this way, my trail hip.

My 1219 lead hip's not going behind me, so I 1220 can't maintain posture.

I can't stay in 1221 the shell.

1222 Okay?

If I'm shifting the ball of my lead 1223 foot and moving back towards my heel, 1224 straightening my lead leg, firing my 1225 glute, where's my left butt pocket right 1226 now?

1227 Over here.

1228 It's how I maintain tush line.

1229 Now, we can start tweaking how much you 1230 push off this foot and how much you kind 1231 of pull and move with your lead foot, but 1232 that's advanced.

That's when you start 1233 working on, like, overpower.

Not this 1234 level.

We only need 150 yards, and I want 1235 it nice and tight.

1236 Okay?

1237 Reverse pivot.

1238 You start going from this takeaway, and 1239 you start going this way.

What are you 1240 not doing?

You're not getting into your 1241 right side.

You're letting your hip.

1242 Everything slide, and your upper half 1243 goes this way.

1244 Okay, your pressure's already on your 1245 lead left.

1246 Well, if you're getting here, and you're 1247 stepping to this side, it's a good way to 1248 start getting out of a reverse pivot.

And 1249 of course, you do get your weight over 1250 there.

I don't, I never see anybody like 1251 this.

1252 That doesn't work.

1253 And you step this way, it's a very easy 1254 way to start getting rid of the reverse 1255 pivot.

It's a very easy way to start 1256 feeling how the club channel goes.

1257 Okay, if you really struggle.

1258 With over the top, Tony, I really feel 1259 like I'm making the same step, the pivot, 1260 pit clearing that you were talking about 1261 in class, but I'm still just going over 1262 the top.

1263 Go back to axiom.

1264 If you're a right-handed player, right 1265 side of the golf ball, go back to 1266 thinking about clockwise.

1267 I'm up here at this position.

And then my 1268 arm and hand and club are moving 1269 clockwise in the transition.

It is a 1270 virtual impossibility to come over the 1271 top.

Literally, that would be getting 1272 here and then feeling that as you start 1273 to pivot and throw that the club's moving 1274 clockwise from my perspective.

Okay, I'm 1275 kind of going 11 1276 and we've got to kind of start doing some 1277 pace with it.

You're going to falter with 1278 this, and that's okay.

1279 But I want to challenge you a little bit.

1280 I don't want you to think like, oh, I've 1281 got to do these drills for eight months, 1282 and then I'm going to start adding speed 1283 to it.

No, we can have that light bulb 1284 moment a little earlier, and it's going 1285 to help with learning.

1286 It's going to help accelerate progress.

1287 Now there's caveat to this.

1288 You start doing this, and all of a 1289 sudden, all the other checkpoints break 1290 down.

You start doing this, and you're 1291 cupping your wrist, and your pull's going 1292 all over the place, and you're not 1293 releasing the club.

You're holding off on 1294 it.

You know, you're getting here to your 1295 follow through, which Bell Bell's really 1296 good at.

If I get here and hold off on 1297 it, I'm going to be sprayed out to the 1298 right.

Well, I didn't release it.

Or if 1299 I'm getting here, and I didn't use my 1300 legs, and I kept everything closed, and I 1301 just flipped that over my hands, and I 1302 started getting a big old hook.

Well, I'm 1303 going to see my follow through.

I'm kind 1304 of hanging back and my club face is 1305 facing the ground.

I'm in a big old hook.

1306 Okay.

1307 So your follow-through is going to help 1308 you kind of fix it, whatever's going on 1309 with your ball flight.

So if you look at 1310 your follow-through and everything's kind 1311 of matching the way it should be, you 1312 should be okay.

But if all your other 1313 checkpoints break down, then you're just 1314 not ready for this unit.

But when you 1315 start getting to work phase two, you 1316 don't have to work so hard at it.

1317 Challenge yourself with starting to get 1318 this sequence because if you can start to 1319 make your legs really the star of the 1320 show, it makes it a whole lot easier.

1321 It's like untimed or untethering that 1322 basketball player that you may sit there 1323 and go like this and not use his legs.

1324 You're like, okay, but you can start to 1325 use your legs now.

And when they start to 1326 go like this, it's like, oh, it's so much 1327 easier.

It can generate so much more 1328 speed.

My arm and hand are more relaxed 1329 now.

1330 I can actually do a lot with my legs and 1331 my release is staying soft.

My release is 1332 staying soft because I'm not trying to 1333 power with my arms anymore.

1334 Okay?

1335 So in the next few days, your reps are 1336 going to kind of be up to you.

You know 1337 that actual homework is a minimum of 100 1338 days.

But I want you to start out with 1339 throwing the ball.

1340 Okay, 1341 if you're already really good at that, 1342 then move on to doing that single arm 1343 with the club.

1344 Okay, 1345 once you get the feeling for that, 1346 move on to L to L.

1347 Get in here, shift post, let it release.

1348 And then mose your way to maintaining it.

1349 Okay, 1350 I'm going to try to get both views in 1351 here.

1352 But start to get the feel of what 1353 generates speed.

1354 It's really fun for me with what I do for 1355 a living.

1356 Being a teacher of many sorts can be very 1357 rewarding.

It can be heartbreaking.

1358 But it can also be rewarding.

1359 And so I can go to a dry emergency.

And I 1360 can see, you know, a bunch of junior 1361 golfers out there and I can sit there and 1362 watch them.

And I can be like, I want 1363 that kid with that kid.

And it's not 1364 because they have perfect swings or 1365 anything, but I can see how they're 1366 moving their body.

You can watch these 1367 five, six, seven, eight year olds and you 1368 can see how when they get here, that 1369 their arms, that, you know, this club is 1370 so heavy.

To them.

They're like, Oh, I'm 1371 never going to get this thing towards the 1372 top.

But you'll see when they get there 1373 that their brain's starting to figure out 1374 how to swing this and generate some speed 1375 with it.

And their legs start to really 1376 ramp up.

And you'll see them kind of 1377 swing like this.

1378 Because their brain's starting to sense 1379 how to generate speed because they've got 1380 the speed in their legs.

1381 They don't have it in their arms there 1382 because they don't have the muscle.

1383 And it's really fun to watch kind of that 1384 growth.

1385 And we kind of lose that as we grow 1386 older.

You know, we sit at a desk for a 1387 living.

1388 Real life hits and our legs start turning 1389 off.

And because we've developed a little 1390 bit, arms and hands are very strong and 1391 they get very adept at taking over.

1392 But then when I go work with this in 1393 person, so to speak, it kind of makes 1394 people a kid again because they feel like 1395 they're doing something athletic again.

1396 It's like, I kind of remember this.

1397 They start to learn how to wake up their 1398 legs and how to, you know, just move and 1399 kind of be a kid with the swing again.

1400 It's fun to watch.

And so as you go 1401 through this, yeah, we need to still 1402 maintain our personals, but as you start 1403 to work on this, 1404 lighten up on yourself.

1405 Don't take it so seriously.

1406 The less you kind of overthink this, 1407 you'll really be surprised how much good 1408 you can kind of create in this motion.

1409 Without even thinking about it.

So, with 1410 that being said, as I went off on my 1411 little tangent, I try not to do that, but 1412 my mind wanders.

You know, is that a 1413 squirrel?

So I know there's going to be 1414 some questions, so I will head over to 1415 here.

And if you've got to leave, uh, it 1416 was a pleasure to have you.

But I'm going 1417 to stay through for this and see if we 1418 can get some questions and some good 1419 answers.

And Anthony, 1420 appreciate you helping out here.

I'm 1421 going to, let's see, so Anthony's got 1422 feeder, okay, so foggy.

When you're going 1423 to integrate axiom more, you did mention 1424 the foot moves clockwise from the 1425 perspective of the golfer looking towards 1426 this ball.

But what about how the club 1427 moves?

And especially shelling out the 1428 swing at phase four because that's going 1429 to be a little bit more of a full swing, 1430 but foggy, just as I was mentioning right 1431 there, if you're struggling with this l 1432 to l motion 1433 when you think about axiom.

The club arm 1434 and hand are moving in a clockwise 1435 nature.

okay, so the club's moving in a 1436 clockwise nature, all right, it's moving 1437 in this direction, so I make my swing.

1438 It's working to the outside, and it's 1439 working to the inside, all right.

And at 1440 no point in time until that club is 1441 released, is it working counterclockwise 1442 for a right-handed player 1443 Now, when we start talking about full 1444 swing, I'll talk a little bit more of 1445 what I was saying about, you know, you 1446 kind of using both feet for a little bit 1447 of power, which is a little bit more of 1448 an advanced move right now.

I'm just 1449 trying to get you to feel hips and 1450 generating a little speed from the body.

1451 But with Axiom, everything's moving in a 1452 clockwise nature, okay?

So just like 1453 this.

For me, this is moving clockwise, 1454 all right?

So I'm going kind of 9, 10, 1455 11, 12, 1, 2, 3.

Okay, that's me going 1456 clockwise, and as I start to make my 1457 motion, loading and rotating, my arm and 1458 hand, club are all moving clockwise.

The 1459 club the only thing you can do is 1460 shallow.

Okay, it's literally the only 1461 thing that I can do.

I can't make this 1462 club.

But no, that's counterclockwise, 1463 it's not going to go counterclockwise 1464 until it has to release.

And so as you're 1465 doing this motion right here with the 1466 step, pivot and probe, what are you 1467 doing?

1468 You're doing axiom.

When you step, pivot, 1469 and throw, the arm, hand, and club are 1470 moving clockwise until you post and then 1471 let it release or throw it, so to speak.

1472 That's when it starts to move 1473 counterclockwise.

1474 Now, I like to teach you axiom a little 1475 bit of fuller motion, but if you do 1476 struggle with shallowing in this, you get 1477 your trail arm here and you start to 1478 shift.

Think about everything going 1479 clockwise.

You can exaggerate it a little 1480 bit.

1481 Okay?

1482 I'm exaggerating it and just kind of 1483 almost spinning my arm in hand and club.

1484 Now as I add a little bit of body 1485 rotation to it, I'm feeling it kind of go 1486 11 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 1 o 1487 'clock, 11 o'clock, 1 o'clock.

1488 You briefly talked about the right elbow 1489 and the back swing.

Can you be a bit more 1490 specific on when to fold the right elbow 1491 and do we add external rotation to the 1492 right elbow?

1493 In an L to L swing, in the drill to throw 1494 the ball, you're going to have it.

But in 1495 an L to L, your lead is going to be 1496 pretty straight.

Your drill is going to 1497 be pretty straight.

You might have a tiny 1498 bit of flexion by then.

1499 Okay, so the arm continues to elevate the 1500 backswing.

There will be a little bit of 1501 external rotation.

1502 But to this point, there's not going to 1503 be too much until you kind of start 1504 adding that flexion.

But yeah, there's 1505 going to be a little bit of external 1506 rotation because you want to keep.

This 1507 elbow pointing down.

I don't want you, 1508 you don't, nobody throws a ball like 1509 this, okay?

So when you're pre-setting 1510 this, what position is my elbow in?

Point 1511 it down.

1512 What position is it when I rotate to 1513 here?

It's pointing down.

It's already in 1514 this kind of externally rotated position.

1515 And as you start to pivot and throw, the 1516 elbow does what?

1517 Continues to go down and in front.

It 1518 doesn't go from here and then like that.

1519 That's the proverbial over the top.

Going 1520 back to Foggy's question with axial.

If 1521 I'm here and it starts to go clockwise, 1522 what does my elbow do?

My elbow goes down 1523 and works in front as the club channels.

1524 Ted, 1525 great lesson.

Throwing the ball drill 1526 generates perfect feel.

Thank you, Ted.

I 1527 appreciate it.

And I'll see you tomorrow.

1528 I think I've got a live lesson with you 1529 tomorrow.

1530 Hopefully I won't throw a wall at you 1531 during it.

1532 I'm a big fan of negative reinforcement.

1533 So should you be maintaining connection 1534 between the pec and bicep from the start 1535 of the swing down to some time just prior 1536 to impact?

And this driller in general, 1537 Peter, if you look at my swing, and I'll 1538 answer this as even in a full swing, 1539 because it's good enough for a full 1540 swing.

1541 As I load and rotate and get to here, I 1542 still have the connection.

This is my 1543 full back swing, okay?

1544 My full swing.

That's as far as I can 1545 rotate.

1546 I still have this connection right here.

1547 I never let it go this way.

Because if I 1548 did let it go that way, what would 1549 happen?

That's flying right arm.

My arms 1550 and hands are getting behind me.

You can 1551 see now I'm getting narrow versus my wide 1552 squat.

So this connection between your 1553 upper bicep and pectoral is here.

It's 1554 still here.

Still have it here.

As I 1555 release it, it's still there.

1556 Really kind of don't lose it.

1557 Because I'm not letting my arm.

And go 1558 all over the place.

It's staying in front 1559 of my chest, so hopefully that helps.

Um, 1560 Roy, are you suggesting that the club 1561 shallows automatically?

If you have 1562 proper body movements?

Yeah, exactly what 1563 I'm suggesting.

If you're not doing 1564 anything with your arm and hand and you 1565 move your body correctly, what's the only 1566 way you can come over the top?

So, if I'm 1567 shifting my weight and using my legs, 1568 What is this going to do to my axis tilt?

1569 Okay, so if I'm right here and I do this, 1570 what does that do to my axis tilt?

My 1571 axis tilt increases.

It's what we call 1572 secondary tilt.

1573 Have you ever seen anybody come over the 1574 top from this position?

1575 I mean, I'm trying.

1576 Over the toppers, you're going to see.

Do 1577 what?

Their spine straightens.

They lose 1578 access tilt.

Their shoulders, right arm, 1579 and hands spin.

1580 That's not their legs leading the way and 1581 minimizing or waiting to throw the ball.

1582 If you're throwing the ball, you're not 1583 throwing it from here.

1584 You're up here at the top.

You're 1585 shifting weight, which is bringing the 1586 arm down.

You're posting, which is 1587 bringing the arm in front.

I haven't done 1588 anything with my arm to this point.

And 1589 now I'm throwing the ball or letting the 1590 ball go.

1591 So if I'm up here at the top, 1592 If my tilt is increasing, 1593 that automatically shallows out the 1594 plank.

1595 I'm not doing anything with my arm and 1596 hand.

The only way I can make this pitch 1597 of this shaft go steep is to do something 1598 with it.

Use my shoulder, use my right 1599 arm and hand.

But if I'm at this 1600 position, and I'm just shifting my 1601 weight, 1602 pivoting my hip, I'm under plank now.

1603 Okay?

Over the top.

1604 OTT.

1605 It's because you are putting your will on 1606 the golf club, whether it be your trail 1607 hand, your trail arm, your trail 1608 shoulder.

1609 If you're doing nothing with this 1610 position at the top and you make a proper 1611 body movement with weight, hips, increase 1612 and tilt, it's going to be really darn 1613 hard to come over the top.

And just as I 1614 mentioned, if you're doing that, which 1615 would be really, it's going to be, I've 1616 never seen anybody make contact and come 1617 over the top with their tilt.

For their 1618 secondary tilt, increasing the down zone.

1619 Peggy All right, 87 years old, still 1620 strong in full motion.

L Easy, dead 1621 straight 75 yards, but full swing only 1622 goes 100.

Seemed to be over left foot.

1623 Well, send it in.

Now, like I said, 1624 there's going to be age and flexibility 1625 that comes down to this, but we have to 1626 adjust a little bit.

Peggy 1627 Okay?

And this is what I mean.

1628 Oh, this message is from Bruce.

1629 Peggy and I are both in Hell Chevrolet in 1630 your cars.

Okay.

1631 So, Peggy first.

1632 We're going to have to adjust a little 1633 bit.

Okay?

1634 So at 87 years old, without seeing your 1635 move, I'm going to have to assume some 1636 things.

I don't like to assume when I'm 1637 teaching.

1638 to assume something.

1639 Probably not the swiftest on your feet 1640 anymore.

That's okay.

Probably still 1641 faster than I am.

1642 You're going to have to make up power 1643 through something else.

1644 Okay.

So your hips are probably only 1645 going to work so well.

You can probably 1646 only get them to fire and be as dynamic 1647 as possible.

1648 So where are you going to get the rest of 1649 your power from?

If you can get your legs 1650 leading the way and you can pull some 1651 leverage from the ground.

1652 Get the proper deceleration where you're 1653 going to get your extra speed from.

Well, 1654 you can rotate a little bit more to get a 1655 little bit more power.

But what did I 1656 mention earlier?

What is the ultimate, or 1657 what is your largest source of power?

In 1658 this one?

It's going to be leverage, 1659 leverage.

lag 60 or more comes from the 1660 leverage, the delivery of that leverage 1661 in your risk.

1662 So we may need to take a look at your 1663 swing and be like, okay, well you can get 1664 the legs, but you really can't snap them 1665 like Justin Thomas or some of the players 1666 can these days.

1667 So we're going to have to tap into 1668 something else.

1669 Maybe to increase lack.

1670 So that when you get here, and we get a 1671 lot sharper angle to work with, because 1672 you just don't have that big, you know, 1673 kind of.

Snappy lower half anymore, 1674 which is perfectly fine.

I couldn't even 1675 walk for three months.

1676 If we start giving you a little bit more 1677 leverage, notice I'm not collapsing my 1678 elbow.

If we start giving you a little 1679 bit more leverage, then think about it 1680 like a hammer.

I can get you to generate 1681 a lot of force without a whole lot of 1682 effort, 1683 okay?

1684 So this is going to be kind of a case-by 1685 -case basis.

I'm kind of going to take a 1686 look at it and see where you're missing 1687 out your speed.

1688 Uh, let's see.

And thank you for, you 1689 know, enrolling the course.

Peter.

I've 1690 watched all the throw the ball drills and 1691 really never grasped the true purpose of 1692 it till now.

I thought I had to do more 1693 with arm speed, not body movement.

Touche 1694 Well, thank you, Peter, and that's it.

1695 One of the things for golf instructors, 1696 I literally just try to find different 1697 ways of saying the exact same thing.

I 1698 can have ten students in the room that 1699 all have the same problem, and I can give 1700 them one message.

And three of them, 1701 light bulb, 1702 and the other seven are just like, that 1703 doesn't make any sense to me.

Like, can 1704 you rephrase that?

And then I'll rephrase 1705 it, and maybe two will pick up on it.

All 1706 right, now I've got five more that I've 1707 got to try to figure out, you know, how 1708 to get the message across to them.

Okay?

1709 So, you know, the fundamentals of the 1710 swing, you know, the kinematic sequence, 1711 the basic things that make up the golf 1712 swing haven't really changed in a long 1713 time.

Now, the way that we see them and 1714 the science behind them has drastically 1715 improved.

Like, we understand better 1716 about spine angle down, hips, 1717 deceleration, 1718 and a lot of these things that we didn't 1719 have in the past.

But the message, it's 1720 all about trying to convey the way a 1721 student's going to hear it, and it's 1722 going to ring.

The dinner bell is going 1723 to go off.

1724 Oh, I didn't hear.

1725 Somebody told me that message maybe 10 1726 years ago.

But they didn't say it the 1727 exact same way, and that's what really 1728 clicked with me.

That's what really got 1729 to learning.

So I appreciate that.

I 1730 mean, there's so many different ways of 1731 how to phrase the same thing.

But with 1732 every student, the one message might 1733 resonate.

1734 But the other one, it doesn't.

So I've 1735 got to think of a different way of saying 1736 all right now.

So for those golfers who 1737 use their right side too much during the 1738 downswim?

Do you emphasize techniques 1739 like keeping your right shoulder back?

Or 1740 do you stress thinking about left arm 1741 leading the way, or both or neither?

What 1742 are the tips do you give in this regard?

1743 Well, Al, if you're overworking your 1744 right side of the downs, 1745 Let's think about this logically.

You're 1746 overworking your right side of the downs.

1747 So I'm up here, and I'm doing too much 1748 with all of this.

Then it goes back a 1749 little bit to what I was saying 1750 consciously earlier about bowing the lead 1751 ribs.

1752 In the initial, you may have to get here 1753 and be like, okay, I'm going to keep my 1754 back towards the target.

1755 I'm going to keep my trail shoulder.

1756 Back behind me.

I'm not going to let my 1757 trail shoulder move.

I don't care who you 1758 are.

I don't care if you're double joint.

1759 If you take your trail shoulder behind 1760 you like this, and you start to use your 1761 lower half, 1762 okay?

1763 So I'm going to start.

I'm going to do 1764 the step, pivot, and throw.

1765 I'm trying to hold my trail shoulder 1766 back.

I physically can't.

At some point 1767 in time, my shoulders are going to start 1768 coming with the opening of my hips.

1769 But that's why it's still important that 1770 you're training this.

If you can start to 1771 train how to get the legs to lead the 1772 way, at first you may have to feel, my 1773 trail shoulder's never going to move.

But 1774 if I don't get my legs to sequence this 1775 way, then it's always going to take off 1776 like this.

1777 You're never going to feel how it gets 1778 pulled towards it.

And the same thing 1779 with the arm, right?

We're not powering 1780 this with our arm.

I'm not trying to 1781 power the shot with my arm.

That's the 1782 last thing I'm trying to do.

Look at me.

1783 I'm, I mean, I know I got weights there, 1784 but I'm not, you know, I'm not Chuck, you 1785 know, I mean, Chuck can beefs up, you 1786 know, for everyone to see.

1787 But I still hit it a long way, and it's 1788 not because of this, 1789 okay?

1790 It's all this other stuff, all right?

1791 A lot of single ball right here.

1792 So when I'm here, stepping, pivoting, and 1793 throwing, and for right now, you may have 1794 to consciously think, keep trail, 1795 shoulder back, keep back to the target, 1796 leave everything kind of here until my 1797 legs lead the way.

But eventually, you're 1798 going to be able to dial that back down.

1799 But if you're overworking your trail 1800 side, you may have to think about that.

1801 But it's still, you're never going to fix 1802 the problem if the legs don't lead the 1803 way.

1804 All right.

Let's see.

1805 All right, Santiago.

So the downswing 1806 weight move to the ball of the left foot.

1807 When posting, it shifts towards the left 1808 heel.

Is that correct?

Absolutely.

1809 Absolutely.

1810 So I'm right here.

1811 So going back to Foggy's comment about 1812 axiom, weight moves like a figure eight 1813 in this point.

1814 So as I make my axiom, my weight moves 1815 towards my trail heel.

1816 You can see that my lead heel is starting 1817 to pick back up.

But as I start to come 1818 down, 1819 the pressure and weight move towards the 1820 ball of my lead foot and then move back 1821 towards the heel as this foot goes from 1822 the heel.

towards the toe.

1823 Weight moves like a figure eight.

1824 David, are you increasing speed with the 1825 release toe passing heel?

1826 Increasing speed with the release toe 1827 passing heel.

Well, the club's releasing 1828 itself.

1829 So to properly release shot, the toe is 1830 rotating 10 to 12 miles an hour faster 1831 than the heels and the face are hitting 1832 about 6 to 8 miles an hour faster.

1833 So when you're doing this, 1834 The club head speed is going to increase, 1835 but not necessarily your hand speed.

1836 Okay, because you're going to have to 1837 allow for some deceleration.

But yeah, 1838 when you start to accelerate and use the 1839 legs, the club head speed is going to 1840 increase.

That toe is going to be 1841 rotating a little bit more through there, 1842 but there's law of diminishing returns.

1843 If you think about like a flip, 1844 if you're trying to power it.

1845 hands too much.

And you get here, you 1846 don't want that toe rotating through like 1847 this.

That toe is outracing that heel 1848 right there and squirting up too soon.

1849 And then over-rotating here, you get 1850 those weak toe slappers.

1851 Sorry, you get those toe laterals.

1852 Just leave it at that.

1853 Rohan.

This may be too early, but how 1854 does posting and release process work for 1855 the driver?

It's the exact same.

It's a 1856 little bit early.

I'll talk about it in 1857 Saturday's session.

Saturday's session 1858 will probably be a little bit longer.

1859 But it's the exact same.

1860 So if I set this up right here, if I can 1861 get this golf ball up here, 1862 if this is my setup for an iron, 1863 this is my setup for a driver.

1864 Now I'm making the exact same swing.

1865 I'm just catching it at a different time.

1866 The other one, the ball position was a 1867 little bit further back, so to speak, off 1868 the lead air logo.

Not as much tilt.

I'm 1869 catching it more in a downward blow.

Now 1870 I've got it a little bit more off my 1871 instep and a little bit more tilt.

Still 1872 making the exact same swing.

I'm just 1873 catching it at a later date time.

1874 So the post thing, nothing changes.

1875 You can't have multiple swings.

1876 Free every club, drivers, especially 1877 club.

But you can't have 14 different 1878 swings.

Nobody has that many kind of 1879 learned movement patterns.

So lack of 1880 flat or bowed wrist at the top prevents 1881 Max club at speed and rotation.

Not 1882 necessarily, so lack of flat or bowed 1883 wrist at the top.

Not not necessarily 1884 the.

1885 Because you're going to have players that 1886 you're going to see that are cupped at 1887 the top, and then they make adjustments 1888 coming down when they start flattening 1889 right here.

You're going to see players 1890 like Dustin that are already superly 1891 bowed and shut at the top, and they don't 1892 have a whole lot of rotation.

What I'm 1893 meaning is that there's no balance to it.

1894 There's give and take.

The club's always 1895 rotating.

1896 The club's always rotating.

1897 So now if.

All of a sudden, I open the 1898 face because I start to cut my wrist at 1899 the top.

At some point in time, I'm going 1900 to have to undo that, which makes more 1901 sense.

1902 So it's probably slowing me down because 1903 I'm losing efficiency.

1904 On a full swing of the club, is it okay 1905 to lift your left heel off the ground at 1906 the top and then plant the heel to start 1907 the downswing?

Todd, I'm going to say 1908 that's a case-by-case basis.

I don't have 1909 that big a problem with it.

But I can't 1910 tell that to the entire group that it's 1911 okay to do that.

Because if you get here, 1912 and like right now, I just let my left 1913 foot come up a little bit.

1914 That's okay.

My head didn't go off the 1915 ball.

I didn't lose any tilt.

I still 1916 shifted my weight and rotated.

But if I 1917 were to tell the group, yeah, you can let 1918 your left heel pick up on a full swing.

1919 I'm going to start seeing this on swinger 1920 views.

1921 I'm going to see over rotation of the 1922 hips.

I'm going to see too much shifting 1923 and a lot of head motion.

1924 As long as it's under control, you know, 1925 to get this feeling, no problem.

1926 But it can't be at the cost of all your 1927 other mechanics.

1928 All right.

1929 So any other questions?

1930 That's it.

We all know what we need to 1931 1932 Phase one, we worked on impact.

1933 Phase two, we worked on release.

1934 Now all we're doing is making the swing a 1935 little bit longer and we're trying to 1936 start to make those legs a little bit 1937 more dynamic.

Okay, but we're going to, 1938 kind of, we're keeping the reins on just 1939 a little bit.

Okay, I know there's going 1940 to be a lot of talk, you know, about 1941 axiom, you know, pushing off the trail 1942 foot for power and stuff like that.

I'll 1943 talk about Saturday.

But I have to look 1944 at this from the perspective 1945 of the data that I get in.

So if I give 1946 you axiom just a little bit too early, 1947 with this 90 of people, everything goes 1948 out the window and they just start 1949 pushing off their trail foot too hard and 1950 everything goes out the window.

All the 1951 other quality mechanics, like we said, we 1952 know when Axiom was launched and when we 1953 did the Axiom boot camp last year, the 1954 players that succeeded the most.

I have a 1955 lot of data on this.

The players that 1956 succeeded the most, the players that 1957 learned how to properly use their lead 1958 side first, keep things in control with 1959 their posting, their size swing, and once 1960 they had that feel, they were able to 1961 start using more of Axiom to gain more 1962 power, fix a little bit more shallow and 1963 lag, but they needed that groundwork 1964 first.

1965 So that's why I haven't dealt too much 1966 with that.

1967 Let's see.

Santiago, are we focusing on 1968 backswing in the next class?

Yeah, we're 1969 good.

Next class, we're going to be 1970 talking about full backswing, sequencing 1971 the downswing, polishing it off.

We're 1972 going to talk about all sorts of 1973 checkpoints, you know, your takeaway, 1974 your top, and then we'll throw in a 1975 little axiom on there for some juice.

1976 And then some release, depending on how 1977 much time people want to spend with me.

1978 Okay, so looks like we're kind of winding 1979 down.

1980 Nobody left.

No questions.

1981 Nobody's throwing up in the background.

1982 They're like, what the heck did I get 1983 myself into?

1984 Nobody's pouring the tall draft right 1985 now.

1986 Nervous.

1987 All right.

1988 You're welcome, Sonny.

I'm Mitchell.

1989 Thanks for a great session.

I appreciate 1990 it, Mitchell.

I appreciate it.

1991 So you got your marching orders, got your 1992 homework.

1993 I hope you enjoyed today's session.

I 1994 don't pack the plot in a little amount of 1995 time, so to speak.

But remember, 1996 nothing's really changing.

What we're 1997 doing is just getting the legs going.

1998 We're going to get it just a tiny bit 1999 more dynamic.

Thank you again, Anthony, 2000 as always.

I appreciate the help in the 2001 comments.

2002 Thank you, Doug.

I appreciate it.

2003 You're welcome, Johnny.

2004 You're welcome, Steven.

2005 Braving it out there in the cold Boston 2006 weather.

2007 Anthony, you know I don't speak fancy 2008 words.

2009 Salute.

I don't have a shot in front of 2010 you.

I don't have any tequila.

2011 All right.

Well, I hope everybody has a 2012 good evening.

2013 Thank you for joining me.

And I will see 2014 you on Saturday.

2015 Same time.

2016 This last Saturday, 10 a.

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Eastern Time.

2017 As we know, 2018 replays, 2019 menu, remember tools, 2020 my purchases.

2021 Replay will be there, should be there by 2022 the morning, maybe even late this 2023 evening.

2024 You're welcome, David.