C4 Bootcamp 1, Dec 6 2022, Session 3

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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 it.

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 accelerate independently of the body, which that's going to be how we get all that good speed, okay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

you are not powering it from your lead arm.

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

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

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

Weight's properly balanced.

I'm moving over to here.

Shoulder post.

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

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

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

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

My arms are extended.

I'm in the L position.

My head's still behind the ball.

I'm still in posture.

My hips are open.

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

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

The head's still behind the ball.

Shoulders haven't been ripped open.

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

Stuff disappeared like that.

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

No problem with that.

Your hips are really open.

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

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

And you should be able to do this.

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

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

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

And I want you to think about this with everything.

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

These things.

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

1 to be exact, is stuck at 94.

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

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

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

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

What makes all that magic happen?

What generates lack?

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

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

What delivers the lack?

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

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

It triggers the club to accelerate.

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

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

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

I just kind of just keep rotating.

Now at some point.

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

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

We're just hitting a little white D.

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

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

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

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

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

What are you using then?

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

Of what I need to do with this.

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

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

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

Why everybody is missing out on clubhead speed?

I'm just using my arms.

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

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

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

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

Well, what is that going to do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

They did a swing review this morning, okay?

Student, same thing.

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

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

Well.

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

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

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

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

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

Okay?

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

I had a comment earlier.

Do I leave my arms and hands at the top?

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

You may need to get here and feel.

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

And you probably will be insane.

For me, that's a terrible idea.

For some players, it's a great idea.

I do it with some of my students.

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

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

Same thing with this touchline issue.

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

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

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

I can't stay in the shell.

Okay?

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

Over here.

It's how I maintain tush line.

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

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

Not this level.

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

Okay?

Reverse pivot.

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

What are you not doing?

You're not getting into your right side.

You're letting your hip.

Everything slide, and your upper half goes this way.

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

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

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

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

That doesn't work.

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

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

Okay, if you really struggle.

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

Go back to axiom.

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

I'm up here at this position.

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

It is a virtual impossibility to come over the top.

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

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

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

But I want to challenge you a little bit.

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

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

It's going to help accelerate progress.

Now there's caveat to this.

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

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

You're holding off on it.

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

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

Well, I didn't release it.

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

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

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

I'm in a big old hook.

Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It can generate so much more speed.

My arm and hand are more relaxed now.

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

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

Okay?

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

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

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

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

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

Get in here, shift post, let it release.

And then mose your way to maintaining it.

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

But start to get the feel of what generates speed.

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

Being a teacher of many sorts can be very rewarding.

It can be heartbreaking.

But it can also be rewarding.

And so I can go to a dry emergency.

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

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

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

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

To them.

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

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

And their legs start to really ramp up.

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

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

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

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

And we kind of lose that as we grow older.

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

Real life hits and our legs start turning off.

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

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

It's like, I kind of remember this.

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

It's fun to watch.

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

Don't take it so seriously.

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

Without even thinking about it.

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

You know, is that a squirrel?

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

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

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

And Anthony, appreciate you helping out here.

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

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

But what about how the club moves?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So just like this.

For me, this is moving clockwise, all right?

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

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

The club the only thing you can do is shallow.

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

I can't make this club.

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

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

You're doing axiom.

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

That's when it starts to move counterclockwise.

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

Think about everything going clockwise.

You can exaggerate it a little bit.

Okay?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your drill is going to be pretty straight.

You might have a tiny bit of flexion by then.

Okay, so the arm continues to elevate the backswing.

There will be a little bit of external rotation.

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

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

This elbow pointing down.

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

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

Point it down.

What position is it when I rotate to here?

It's pointing down.

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

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

Continues to go down and in front.

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

That's the proverbial over the top.

Going back to Foggy's question with axial.

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

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

Ted, great lesson.

Throwing the ball drill generates perfect feel.

Thank you, Ted.

I appreciate it.

And I'll see you tomorrow.

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

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

I'm a big fan of negative reinforcement.

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

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

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

This is my full back swing, okay?

My full swing.

That's as far as I can rotate.

I still have this connection right here.

I never let it go this way.

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

That's flying right arm.

My arms and hands are getting behind me.

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

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

It's still here.

Still have it here.

As I release it, it's still there.

Really kind of don't lose it.

Because I'm not letting my arm.

And go all over the place.

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

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

If you have proper body movements?

Yeah, exactly what I'm suggesting.

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

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

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

My axis tilt increases.

It's what we call secondary tilt.

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

I mean, I'm trying.

Over the toppers, you're going to see.

Do what?

Their spine straightens.

They lose access tilt.

Their shoulders, right arm, and hands spin.

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

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

You're up here at the top.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use my shoulder, use my right arm and hand.

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

Okay?

Over the top.

OTT.

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

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

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

For their secondary tilt, increasing the down zone.

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

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

Seemed to be over left foot.

Well, send it in.

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

Peggy Okay?

And this is what I mean.

Oh, this message is from Bruce.

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

Okay.

So, Peggy first.

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

Okay?

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

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

to assume something.

Probably not the swiftest on your feet anymore.

That's okay.

Probably still faster than I am.

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

Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But what did I mention earlier?

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

In this one?

It's going to be leverage, leverage.

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

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

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

Maybe to increase lack.

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

Snappy lower half anymore, which is perfectly fine.

I couldn't even walk for three months.

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

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

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

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

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

Uh, let's see.

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

Peter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like, can you rephrase that?

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

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

Okay?

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

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

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

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

The dinner bell is going to go off.

Oh, I didn't hear.

Somebody told me that message maybe 10 years ago.

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

That's what really got to learning.

So I appreciate that.

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

But with every student, the one message might resonate.

But the other one, it doesn't.

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

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

Do you emphasize techniques like keeping your right shoulder back?

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

What are the tips do you give in this regard?

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

You're overworking your right side of the downs.

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

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

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

I'm going to keep my trail shoulder.

Back behind me.

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

I don't care who you are.

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

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

So I'm going to start.

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

I'm trying to hold my trail shoulder back.

I physically can't.

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

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

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

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

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

And the same thing with the arm, right?

We're not powering this with our arm.

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

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

Look at me.

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

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

It's all this other stuff, all right?

A lot of single ball right here.

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

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

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

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

All right.

Let's see.

All right, Santiago.

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

When posting, it shifts towards the left heel.

Is that correct?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

So I'm right here.

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

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

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

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

towards the toe.

Weight moves like a figure eight.

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

Increasing speed with the release toe passing heel.

Well, the club's releasing itself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

hands too much.

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

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

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

Sorry, you get those toe laterals.

Just leave it at that.

Rohan.

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

It's the exact same.

It's a little bit early.

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

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

But it's the exact same.

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

Now I'm making the exact same swing.

I'm just catching it at a different time.

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

Not as much tilt.

I'm catching it more in a downward blow.

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

Still making the exact same swing.

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

So the post thing, nothing changes.

You can't have multiple swings.

Free every club, drivers, especially club.

But you can't have 14 different swings.

Nobody has that many kind of learned movement patterns.

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

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

Not not necessarily the.

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

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

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

There's give and take.

The club's always rotating.

The club's always rotating.

So now if.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's okay.

My head didn't go off the ball.

I didn't lose any tilt.

I still shifted my weight and rotated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All right.

So any other questions?

That's it.

We all know what we need to do.

Phase one, we worked on impact.

Phase two, we worked on release.

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

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

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

I'll talk about Saturday.

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

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

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

I have a lot of data on this.

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

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

Let's see.

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

Yeah, we're good.

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

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

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

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

Nobody left.

No questions.

Nobody's throwing up in the background.

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

Nobody's pouring the tall draft right now.

Nervous.

All right.

You're welcome, Sonny.

I'm Mitchell.

Thanks for a great session.

I appreciate it, Mitchell.

I appreciate it.

So you got your marching orders, got your homework.

I hope you enjoyed today's session.

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

But remember, nothing's really changing.

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

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

Thank you again, Anthony, as always.

I appreciate the help in the comments.

Thank you, Doug.

I appreciate it.

You're welcome, Johnny.

You're welcome, Steven.

Braving it out there in the cold Boston weather.

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

Salute.

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

I don't have any tequila.

All right.

Well, I hope everybody has a good evening.

Thank you for joining me.

And I will see you on Saturday.

Same time.

This last Saturday, 10 a.

m.

Eastern Time.

As we know, replays, menu, remember tools, my purchases.

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

You're welcome, David.

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Joe
Craig, When doing the Throw The Ball drill, how do you know if you're opening your shoulders too much when throwing the ball? I'm concerned that I don't use my shoulders too much.
December 7, 2022
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Joe. They will have to open a little bit. But, my suggestion is to film it. A properly sequenced swing the trail shoulder will stay back and allow you to create extension. A rule of thumb is if you think you are opening the shoulders too much then you probably are. You can also put an alignment rod on the ground parallel to your target line and when you stop. Check your position. What are the shoulders relative to that line (open, closed, square).
December 7, 2022

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