C4 Bootcamp 2, Jan 24 2023, Session 1

Session 1 of 4

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All right, Jim Jesse Dave, All right, fantastic.

Well, welcome to boot camp.

I will be your humble swing guy, rotary swing instructor Craig Morrow.

And today we have some returning ones from the prior boot camp.

We have some that were in the axiom boot camp, and we have some that were a long, long time ago in the Dev boot camp.

So if this is your first time, welcome, We're going to put in a lot of work here.

And if you're returning, thanks for coming back.

You know what?

As I tell everybody, I never teach anything exactly the same.

And the material and all that stays the same.

But sometimes the way that I phrase my words or how I describe things, sometimes it's the spur of the moment.

I mean, as in the last boot camp in session four, the last 30 minutes, I completely changed everything.

After having a talk with one of our other instructors, so welcome, let everybody come and settle in.

You will see me kind of move up and towards my computer screen right here so that I can see, uh, the screen.

You know, see what's going on in the comments now?

Typical protocol.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to allow about five or ten minutes, let everybody pile in because I've got a meter on my screen.

And I see people just now getting in and so they're either just now getting home or getting the login credentials or what have you?

So I'm going to let everybody kind of squeeze in and when I kind of see that we're full, we're going to get going.

So welcome again, thank you for stopping by today.

It's been a little chaotic.

I'm glad we got everything working right now.

Let me know where you're hailing from.

I'm going to go ahead and mention that We have one of our new instructors, Anthony Hopkins.

He will be in the chat.

So I'm going to be up here doing my talk, and Anthony's going to be in the chat to help you out.

So if you get a chance in the chat, welcome Anthony.

He's new to the RST team for the last few months here and love having him.

Great instructors.

He'll be able to help you out in the chat and help you out on the website with whatever you need.

You're going to see a bunch of different pop-ups.

Going to be up here at the top, some of them are going to be down here below.

Uh, one thing is, if you don't have the PDF for this boot camp, it is in the chat session.

Okay, you can download the PDF for this boot camp.

I also put the video list, so a lot of people on the PDF have a hard time seeing the thumbnails.

And what videos, what?

So I typed out all the videos that basically I'm covering or working with in this boot camp.

So you'll see that.

And then you'll also have another pop-up that is a discounted live lesson with me.

So for the next four sessions, that will be there.

UH, 20 off if during boot camp or after boot camp, or whenever you want, uh, 20 discount.

I'm the worst salesman in the world, so I'm just going to cut it off at that.

Just know that if you buy a live lesson, you got it, so whenever you want to use it, and also, UH, rotary instructor Anthony Live lesson as well.

We both have spots open in our limited groups.

Just as a side note, we always open up a few spots for boot camp.

That way, if you need a little bit of extra help on the side, sneak in and we'll help you out.

In the meantime, I'm just going to kind of do my spiel right here.

Thank you, Peter.

I appreciate that.

Are we supposed to see a picture?

Ira, can you not see me?

I don't see any other complaints or reports.

Everybody else seeing me.

okay, everybody.

I know I know the audio is good, all the picture good, no complaints.

If you can't see me, uh, it's either going to be your bandwidth or you may need to refresh your page.

That's that's typically the case.

I know I did a bunch of tests, as with all boot camps beforehand, to get started to make sure.

Then we're firing on all cylinders and right now I'm running about 500 up and down, so another, I've got enough juice.

Okay, Ronnie from Midland Texas and welcome Anthony.

Thank you Ronnie for sending that out.

I appreciate that.

For those of you that don't know or can't tell I'm hailing from the great State of Georgia, if this doesn't tell you anything of where I'm hailing from, might give it away.

I was in Colorado the last year and a half, I'm back now in Georgia.

We got Augustine, Florida.

All right, I will hear you buffer just briefly twice since the start, all right.

Mike?

Yeah, and that's it's going to happen with me, kind of going back and forth as soon as I plant my butt up here, no better way of saying it.

You know, the clarity and all that will get focused in on me.

But as I'm floating up here, it's going to kind of take a second.

All right, we got Michigan, California, Illinois, we got people from everywhere.

Frisco, Texas, Nice Abilene, Orlando, Old Stomping Grounds.

All right, well, welcome everybody.

I'm glad that you decided to stop by.

We'll give it about two, two, three minutes and we'll get started, And we'll go from there.

Now, any questions you may have, ideally, ideally, leave them until the end.

So for those of you that haven't been in a boot camp, I'm going to go through my talk and what we're going to work on and what I want you to aspire to between now and Saturday, our next session.

And then at the end, I'm always going to do a Q&A.

If you're confused on something, if it's just a quick little question, Anthony will be able to get you.

But ideally, I like to keep the chat quiet when I'm up here doing this because people get distracted and they start watching the chat and they're like, oh, I want to know the answer to that question too.

If you say it until the end, I always do a Q&A at the end and nobody's left behind.

I will stay after however long until all the questions are answered.

One other thing with that.

Try to keep the questions on the subject that's handy.

So I will answer a few here and there.

But if I start getting questions at the end of today's session, that's talking about arcade.

How do I add speed from my trail arm in the downswing?

We're not talking about that today.

Keep your eye on the prize.

All right, eye on the ball.

All right, we got a lot of Texas in here today.

Jim from Charleston.

I haven't been to Charleston in a couple years.

All right.

About one more minute.

I think we're about to tap out.

Anthony, because Texas is awesome.

Well, my sister did live there for a few years.

My brother-in-law did his bachelor party in Austin.

That was a good time.

Just can't do a.

National championships like the great state of Georgia, though, Anthony.

We'll see.

Oklahoma and Texas will join the SEC sometime soon, aren't they?

And I've got to find a golf club.

You would think that would be simple for a golf instructor.

I don't even know where my clubs are.

I've got to start shooting my journey again.

Holidays and weather really put me behind the eight ball, I don't even know where my golf ball is all right.

I think we're about tapped out and I don't see any complaints.

So greetings from Germany, all right, so let's see what it's about midnight in Germany right now.

I've got a student that I do live lessons with in Germany, usually does them around Five I think it's 11 or midnight there when he does it.

All right.

Well, I don't see any errors on my end.

I don't have any complaints about mic or camera.

So I think we should get this party started.

What do you think?

So today, what we're going to do.

We are going to take a journey through setup in phase one.

So basically the boot camp is structured out through each phase of C4.

Now in this, I'm going to combine pretty much every theory that we've ever worked on with Rotary Swing and as I go through it, you'll know when I start talking about a lot of these points.

I always tell people that session number one is kind of the housekeeping.

session.

It may seem a little boring.

It may seem a little mundane.

You may be like, Craig, I already know this stuff, or I can already do this, and yada, yada, yada.

And I get that.

I really do.

But I can't tell you how important it is.

If you can't pass this phase, if you can't pass what we're doing today, it is literally pointless to do anything else that you're doing in your swing.

Because when it comes down at the end of the day, impact is truly deep.

Only thing that matters, okay.

It doesn't matter whether it's my swing, where I get up here, everything, you know, bouncing out, using my legs and hip and width and lag and all the fun stuff, it doesn't matter whether my swings.

Like Jim Pure.

The only thing that this golf ball knows at the end of the day is impact, that's it, it's the only thing that's going to affect the flyer, that golf ball.

So if you don't understand, Or you can't figure out how to reach a proper impact position.

It doesn't matter how good your takeaway is, how good your back swing is, how good your transition is.

It's all kind of for an off.

It's the most important thing that you can tackle.

And for right now, it is the only thing that you should be tackling.

You know, when I have started my journey going on these phases, you know, in my own swing, you know, I watch.

You know how players are succeeding and all that.

And then I'll have a student come to me and they're like, Craig, you know?

I just did 100 out of 100 perfect now.

And then I'll have them send me a swing or something like that and I'll look at it.

And I'm like, there's no way you just did 100 out of 100 perfect.

I'm like, look at your league risk, look at this, look at that, and to get better at this, you got to be accountable.

I'm not saying be overly harsh on yourself, but it is important to be honest with yourself.

It.

Players seem to think like it's a strike against them if they're doing a set out of 10 and they can only get three out of 10, correct.

They're like, oh, this is so easy.

I'm hitting a 10, 15 yards.

This should be much better than this.

No, you shouldn't.

This is a new movement pattern.

This is something new that you're working on.

And yes, we're working in smaller pieces.

It's not easy.

There's a reason that people or the vast majority of us don't do this for a living.

And I'm not talking about instruction.

I'm talking about playing.

And for me, I played professionally for eight years.

I understand that it takes to this nth degree of kind of perfection to play at that kind of level.

Okay?

So don't get down on yourself during this.

You're going to fail at this.

I want you to fail at this because that failure is going to breed success.

It's going to be how you challenge yourself and get better.

And you don't stay in the same rut you've been in the last 10, 15, 30 years.

Of not being satisfied with your golf game.

Typically, in a boot camp, we'll have a television here, or a monitor or or something that will display the PDF.

Now in every boot camp that I've ever done.

Since their inception, nobody can see that TV.

So at this point, I think it's kind of pointless to put up.

So I have the boot camp printed out.

So, like, when you see me, like, grab these sheets, I'll tell you, like, this one right here is just that, you know, the first page of boot camp for, uh, page number two.

So when I grab these, I'll tell you what page that we're on.

And if you're unsure, and you'll be able to help you out as well.

Or I'll show it up on camera, but for the first couple of housekeeping items, I know part of my job, though, As you're practicing this, I can't tell you how important a mirror is.

You can see in my office right here, I've got this giant one behind me and I've got this giant one on my side right here.

You cannot change your swing if you can't see yourself.

Whether you're using a mirror, a camera, a reflection in a glass sliding door, I don't care.

But you're not going to get any better if you don't have any feedback.

You can't base this solely on feel.

Well, this feels correct.

Feel is not real.

You have to check yourself.

That is literally the only way to know whether you're doing this correctly or not.

Now, if you're unsure of what you're doing with your movements, we have swing reviews.

We have the community page.

We have the forum.

Remember, Anthony and I, and Joe, are here to help you.

There should be no reason that you don't succeed at this.

Building a golf swing is training a movement pattern.

It's all it is.

It's all a golf swing is.

It's just a trained movement pattern.

You train yourself how to eat.

You train yourself how to lift weights.

It is no different than the golf swing.

You can successfully change your swing for the better.

If you kind of get out of your own way and understand, all I'm doing, basically, is just creating a new movement pattern.

You're trying to create one over the old one.

Sadly, the old one never dies, but if we do the new one enough, Your brain's going to revert to that.

But don't stay lost in the weeds.

We are here to help you, okay?

There's so many different ways you can get in contact with us to help out with the swing.

Don't waste time.

Let us know.

Let's get it fixed, and let's enjoy life in golf.

It's one of the things that drives me crazy about this whole golf demon is that people are afraid.

I don't want to send in my swing because I haven't hit all my checkpoints yet.

Okay, why I?

I don't need to see the good, Anthony doesn't need to see the good.

You don't go to the doctor when you're healthy.

We need, we want to see the problems, we want to help you out with them.

Don't be nervous about sending a swing or asking the question or doing this.

It's the only way you're going to get any better.

In order to get the fastest results, you must practice on the days that they're in between each session.

If you don't do the work, you're not going to get any better.

And the way that I've laid out the program, we should be able to get that work done.

Now, a lot of players are not going to be ready for session four by the time we get to session four.

They may be like, you know what, Craig, I'm still in session two right now.

I'm still struggling with that piece.

That's okay.

After this boot camp is over, you're going to have these replays for a lifetime.

So if you have to pick back up at session two once boot camp ends, no problem.

That's what you need to do.

But I want you to still take the information and think about these things as you're going through boot camp.

So you can go ahead and get some of those questions out of the way.

But when boot camp is over, if you're still stuck back in session two, no problem.

Go back.

Go work on session two.

And then you can fire up one of these videos or fire up a PDF.

That's your legion.

So you have time to get it down.

Okay.

So with the housekeeping items out of the way, I'm going to talk a little bit about setup.

So if you go to page three, you're going to see the setup and posture slide.

Now in the first boot camp, a lot of people were asking me questions about some terminology that I was using.

In boot camps in the past, a lot of players have either been with us for a while, or they've already gone through some videos, so we didn't really break it down into so many pieces.

I'm still going to keep this setup stuff pretty simple, but I'm going to elaborate on a few little terms that some players were a little bit confused on.

The first thing is the stance width.

Okay, you need a stance width that is two inches.

Outside of.

Neutral joint alignment now, neutral joint alignment was a topic that everybody was kind of confused on in the first one, all neutral joint alignment is is.

If I took my skin and muscles and ripped everything off my body down to my bare bones, It's going to be where my body is optimally balanced.

If you look at me from face on, neutral joint alignment from face on would be drawing a line from the center of my ankle joint through my knee, through my hip socket, through my shoulder.

This is where my body's in perfect balance, in perfect harmony.

It'd be the exact same way from down the line.

If I drew a straight line from my ankle joint through the back of my knee, Through my hip socket, through my shoulder socket, that's going to be where my body is optimally happy.

If I'm in this position right here, my body is balanced.

It's ready to rock and roll now.

For stance width, what we want is two inches outside neutral joint line, so the two easiest ways to think about that.

If I'm in perfect alignment right here on my hip socket down to my ankle joint, I want to move My lead foot out two inches, which if I drop a club down from my hip socket, you see it's out just inside, and the same thing with my trail foot.

This is going to be the optimum stance width for you to swing from.

Yes, we have short game, we have driver, we have specialty shots, but for all stock shots, this is going to be the position that allows you to shift your weight, rotate, all the fans are butts, the best way you possibly can.

Too wide a stance is going to stabilize you too much, and if you shift weight, your head's going to move too much, and then you have to get back.

Too narrow of a stance, you're losing that stability, and you're typically not going to shift weight, but if you do shift weight, it's not going to be very dynamic.

Oddly enough, I've been seeing much more of that than I have in the other one.

So if you think about this, if you look at your belt loops on your pants, Your belt loops are roughly right around where your hip socket is.

If you just drop a club down from your belt loop, you're going to see that's just inside my foot and the same thing with the other one.

You can take two fingers, put it on the outside portion of your hip socket right here.

It's typically going to be this inside finger right here if you want to get really exact.

But two inches outside, roughly in that equivalency, not going to yell at you too much.

Axis tilt, okay?

Once we have our stance, we need to make sure we have a little bit of axis tilt.

Now, axis tilt is just going to be the spine leaning slightly away from the target.

This is going to do a lot of things for us in the swing.

It's going to help us get our trail hand on the club properly.

It's also going to affect a lot of what we do with rotation and swing playing, which we'll talk about further on in the sessions.

You know, when we really start gearing up in session two, you'll understand why axis tilt is so important.

But axis tilt.

If you don't know how much axis tilt you should have, just take a club, put it right down your sternum.

Put one hand on your belt.

This is against me holding the club.

Put one hand at the top of the sternum.

And all you're going to do is you're going to take your lead hip and bump it slightly towards the target.

You're going to bump it slightly towards the target.

You're going to see that's going to create just enough axis tilt for me at setup.

That's all we need.

We don't need any more than that.

If you're adding axis tilt and you see your head going way off over here, or the biggest thing that I get, well, Craig, when I add axis tilt, I feel like 80% of my weight on my lead leg and nothing on this side.

Remember, it's a counterbalance.

Hip bump creates the axis tilt.

So the hip bumps this way, which creates a little bit of the tilt.

Okay?

So there's no need to overdo it.

There's no need to make it any more dramatic or any more crazy than it is.

That's how you add access to it, and we just need a little bit of it.

Posture blocks.

We need to be able to have a flat spine, or as close to flat as we can, because if you don't keep the spine flat, what's going to happen?

especially when you start to round from your shoulders and your thoracic and cervical spine, you're going to start to crush your facet joints.

And when you start to crush your facet joints, which only have about three and a half of rotation, you're going to start to really limit the mobility in your golf swing.

You need all these facet joints open so that you can rotate correctly.

As soon as I start rounding, as soon as I start crushing these, all I'm going to do is just be resorted to swinging with my arms.

Okay, so we want to have a nice, flat posture and an easy way to check if you just take a club.

Put it right down your spine, like this, one hand on your head, one hand on your lumbar spine.

Now, for people that do it incorrectly, they go like this.

But now you can see that my hand and the club are away from my head.

Keep this here and hinge from your hips.

If you hinge from your hips, you can keep the spine flat.

I understand players.

Work at a desk, just like me.

And there's some life things as you get older.

But the better we can get that, the more you're going to be able to rotate.

And you're going to hear me say this at least three or four times during this camp.

What's the name of the website?

Blankswing.

com There's a key word in there, right?

And it's very important.

It starts with having a good spine.

Now when you get into this setup and you have.

the proper posture, and we set up here, weight distribution is a very important topic.

From face on, what we want is 50-50, okay?

When I add hip bump and tilt, my weight should still be 50-50.

It's a counterbalance.

I'm not going to fuss at you about being maybe 55-45 or maybe 60 -40, but as soon as you start kind of getting outside those, You're going to have to make compensations in the swing, so a few percentage points here and there.

I'm not going to yell at you about.

The non -negotiable one is the down the line, the weight from front to back.

This is the one that I see most often missed.

When you set up here and you hinge forward and you add your knee bend and you get balanced.

My biggest pet peeve is this, Okay, now what's wrong with my setup right here?

All my weight is back towards my heels, okay?

That's not where we want the weight.

You need to think about, I hate using this term with it, but you need to think about being athletic.

If you're in set position right here, you need to be able to fend somebody off from 360 degrees.

If you're back on your heels, I literally walk up to students all the time, and I'll just push them in the chest, and they'll fall over, and I'll be like, well, how do you think you swing a golf club?

But when you set up with your weight so far on your heels, it causes, or it's one of the number one causes of early extension.

If my weight is all towards my heels, it's set up, and I make my back swing, and I get up here towards the top, all my weight is just back.

You can see my toes are wiggling right now.

I can't maintain tush line because I can't go back of back.

So most players set up too far on their heels, and they make their maximum, and they start to come down, and they get this old ole move coming down.

Because the brain, the only thing it's literally trying to do when you're hitting a golf ball is trying to keep you upright.

That's literally it.

It hates golf.

It hates everything.

It's very stubborn.

And all it's trying to do is make sure that you don't follow.

So when you set up with all your weight on your heels and you get up towards the top and everything's back over here, well, it's not going to say, oh, magically, let's keep our butt back coming down.

It's going to say, no, we're going to get this moving forward, which is going to cause the posture to come up, the toes are going to come in, and all the leg stuff to break down because it's got to counterbalance somewhere.

I can't tell you how often I see on a swing review, and Anthony sees on a swing review, where somebody has the weight so far back on their heels, and they're like, I can't do the clamshell or I can't maintain my tush line.

And we're like, well, yeah, because you literally physically can't do it.

So when you set up here, remember the weight needs to be balanced.

If you think of like if you're wearing a Nike shoe or just some shoe with a logo or thinking about your arch, it's going to be balanced a little bit more in this area.

It's not back on the heels.

It's center of the ankle joint.

If I were to draw a straight line, I should be able to draw a straight line from my ankle.

Through the back of my knee to my hip socket right here.

Now, you'll see if I get all my weight towards my heels like this.

And I draw that line, where's that club, or that straight line?

It's now way up in front of me.

Or if I go like this and I've got too much knee bend.

I've got a giant spacing between the back of my knee and my ankle joint.

I should be able to go ankle joint, back of knee, hip socket.

And it's very important that you have that weight balance.

Okay?

For phase one and what we're doing today, it's okay to preset a little bit on the least top.

You're not hitting shots very far.

It's not very dynamic yet.

So if you're taking your setup and you're working on these and you want to go just, you know, a little bit more kind of like 65 on this side, it's okay for this phase one.

Ideally, at least for me, I still set up normally because that's going to be how, I do my regular everyday golf, and I need to challenge myself a little bit.

But if you struggle, it's okay to preset the weight a little bit on the lead side in phase one.

Just know that come Saturday, you've got to get back to 50-50, okay?

So once you can get the setup, you can hinge from the hips, two inches outside of neutral front to back to properly balance.

We set up here.

We have our axis tilt.

Everything's good.

Ball position off of the leader or logo of the shirt.

Okay, doesn't need to be up here off this, uh, back here, off this way.

this ball position should be off the leader logo of the shirt.

Then you're ready to go, all right, then you're ready to go.

Now.

What we're going to do is we're going to talk about these checkpoints and what we're looking for.

Keep your eye on the ball, literally keep your eye on the ball.

We only care about these five checkpoints in this phase.

Okay, these are the only thing that matters.

Does your takeaway matter in phase one?

A little bit.

But I'm only going to yell at somebody at their takeaway if their takeaway is really egregious and it's affecting them from getting to impact position.

But if you make your backswing and it's roughly in the right spot where you get over here and that allows you to be able to work back, I'm not going to say anything.

But if you're making these moves and all of a sudden you're just literally just going like this, or you're hinging back to the trailer rest and rolling inside, I'm going to say, hey, look, we've got to get that club out of what's in front of us because you can't reach a proper impact position.

But the first rule, okay, the first rule with this is the flat lead wrist.

If I can get my papers to line up for me.

If you go to the next slide, the first rule is the flat lead wrist.

Now, what technically is a flat lead wrist?

A flat lead wrist is if you look at this from face on right here.

I'm going to take my normal setup.

This is my normal setup where you're going to see a little bit of cupping in my lead wrist at this position.

I've got just a slightly strong grip, nothing crazy.

This is going to be a flat lead wrist where you can see the back of my hand facing the target, and I've lost that initial cupping.

This is it.

Don't make it any more complicated than that.

Now, if you have an overly strong grip, let's say you're Sergio Garcia, you got a big old strong grip like this, and I start to flap my wrist like this, you might still see a little bit of cupping and a little bit on the way through, but you can still get this flap right here.

You just may not see it as kind of, you know, aesthetically pleasing as if you just have a slightly stronger grip.

Great.

Now, this flat left wrist is of the utmost importance.

Why?

Why is this the only thing that I really am kind of even looking at right now?

When you start getting into higher levels of golf, you start playing in big leagues and big boys, everybody can hit it left and right.

Left and right isn't the problem.

People can hit it far.

Some people hit it average.

The biggest thing, As you've heard Tiger say before, controlling my trash.

It's trajectory.

That's the number one thing.

It's being able to control your trajectory.

Because if you can control your trajectory, you can kind of play in any environment.

Because controlling your trajectory not only with rain, wind, perfect sun, it also helps out with distance control when you start getting the correct loft on the club or the correct position as you work into here.

People can maneuver it left and right, and that really isn't that big of a problem, but it's this.

There used to be that old Amex commercial with a shook tiger, you know, kind of punching out the windows like that, you know, going high, middle, low.

Trajectory controls is the B's knees in the golf course.

When you can control this, it's going to provide so much more stability over your ball flight.

And the only way to do that is to understand how to achieve a flat lead risk at impact.

Okay, this cupping motion, any of that stuff, that's all bad.

And even for me.

When I first came to Rotary almost two decades ago, that was literally the first thing that I worked on.

Two decades ago was getting my lead wrist into a better position so I can control my trajectory better and start, you know, having a little bit more stability in my club.

So the first checkpoint when we work into phase one right here is going to be the flat lead wrist, okay?

Second checkpoint, shoulders square, okay?

So my shoulders, when I make this move right here, and I go to here, and I work into my phase one, shoulders square.

Now, my shoulders are only going to be square for a moment in time, okay?

So as I work to here, my shoulders are only going to be square impact.

Now, if I have a little bit of swing through, you can see my shoulders are slightly open right now.

but they were square at impact.

This is going to be the important step in understanding that you do not power the golf swing with your shoulders.

Rotation, more specifically shoulder rotation, is the last thing you want to use to power your golf show.

It's going to be the weakest source of power, and it's going to cause all sorts of issues.

So this is going to be where you start understanding that my shoulders have to stay square because I want to stop coming over the top.

I want to stop casting.

I want to stop relying on powering it with my body.

I don't want to blow out my back like that guy that used to wear red on Sunday started doing because he tried to power the golf shot with his body.

Okay.

That's the reason Tiger blew out his back.

Tiger blew out his back because he changed a lot of his move through the hitting area to rotation.

His spine penetrating.

This not only is going to help you release the club with better speed once we get to Saturday's edition, but it's going to also keep you away from injury.

So when we reach this position right here, we want the flat lead wrist and the shoulders square.

Okay?

Flat lead wrist, shoulders square.

You don't want to power it and motor it with the shoulders.

The hips.

The hips need to be 35 to 45 degrees open.

The hips will always be leading the swing.

I think you've heard the terminology, swing from the ground up.

It's true.

The hips are going to be leading.

They're going to be 35 to 45 degrees open.

Now, when you combine this with the shoulder square issue, this is starting to teach you to lead the swing with the legs, Juice the swing Yeah, I, I don't power my swing with my shoulders, I don't power with my arms.

You can see, I'm not very big, all right, I don't make it here, but not here.

This does, depending on how this looks, that does change speed.

Not my version of it, um, but this is where you start to learn how to start motoring your swing leading with your legs.

When you think of shooting a jump shot, or you think of, you know, hitting a baseball Now, the first actions of everybody, everything starts from the ground up.

Now, you're shooting.

What do you do?

You load your legs first because you're going to transfer that power from your legs.

And this is the start to understanding that.

So we have the flat leg rest to shoulders square, but we're now starting to learn how to move our hip into neutral joint alignment stacked over that ankle into a 35, 45 degree open position.

So we have flat leg rest, shoulders square.

Hips open, you have to start to train, and independent isn't the best word for this, but you have to start to train the legs to lead the way independently of the shoulders.

Okay, you have to start to teach them how to lead out ahead.

Because you don't want this kind of unibody move.

And I want you to get out of just powering it with your shoulders and your hips, just kind of reacting to it.

So if we have the hips open, the trail foot.

Now in the phase one videos, you're going to see Chuck talks about keeping the trail foot flat or slightly rolled in.

It's of the great importance that this trail foot works correctly.

If the trail foot is lifting too soon, lifting off the heel, that leads to early extension.

If the trail foot.

If the pressure isn't moved to the inside, you're not going to be able to get enough weight to your lead side, nor are you going to be able to open up your hip.

Now, some people may say, and somebody said this the other time, okay, if I keep my trail foot flat, I can still get my hips open.

Okay, we'll do that with your weight on your lead side.

So when you get your weight on your lead side, now I can feel a little stretch, especially for me.

This trail foot has to roll in just slightly and be under control to ensure that you have enough weight on this lead side and the hips are open.

I don't want to see anybody getting to their phase one and going like this.

Look at what happens when I do that.

I get to here and if I push off that, where's my right hip to?

My right hip comes in and my spine angle comes up.

So that trail foot needs to be under control.

Now just like in my first message, literally.

I head on the golf ball.

Okay?

Head down.

Chuck has an excuse.

His neck is fused, C1, C2, C3.

If your neck is fused, you may let it rotate.

If it's not fused, I don't want to hear about it.

Okay?

As we'll learn more and more through the boot camp, where the eyes go, the head goes.

Where the head goes, the body goes.

I can tell you that I have rarely ever seen a person that powers it with their shoulders, or a shoulder spinner.

Not have some issue that their eyes are following this golf ball.

So the eyes need to stay down.

So our goal is to start getting this impact position.

That's the whole goal.

And these are your only five checkpoints.

I don't care about big lag.

I don't care about any of this other stuff.

This is the only thing I want you doing between now and the next session, that we're going to set up here with the proper setup, and we're going to work on going takeaway, impact.

Now, you can see that my club is just slightly past impact right here, and you're going to be like, great, your shoulders are open.

Well, yeah, because my trail hand's on the club, and I've passed the golf ball.

But at the moment of truth, I'm square.

But I'm learning how to feel letting my legs lead the way as my shoulders stay chill.

When I came to rotary, I was a big trail side hitter.

Big spanner.

Get down here.

I know this is really tough to fix.

But once you start understanding that the shoulders really don't do anything, they get moved along in the swing by your legs and by your core.

It's going to really make impact much more consistent.

And also, oddly enough, you hit it further with less effort.

I think it's pretty cool.

So in phase one, I want you to take the setup, get the ball positioned, and this is what we're looking to do.

1000 So we're going to make a little takeaway.

1001 Shift post.

1002 Stop.

1003 Right?

1004 You must stop and check your position.

1005 Okay?

So like right now, 1006 anytime I look at my own swing, I don't 1007 start from the head.

1008 Start from the ground.

So as I move 1009 through that and I stop right here, I'm 1010 going to look at my swing from the ground 1011 up.

First thing I'm going to look at, 1012 how's my trail foot behaving?

1013 It's the first thing.

My trail foot's 1014 like this.

I probably might not even look 1015 at anything else because I know if I mess 1016 that part up, everything else is probably 1017 going to be screwed up.

1018 So is my trail foot behaving?

Yes, it's 1019 slightly off the ground, slightly rolled 1020 1021 Okay, so I've got that past.

It's 1022 stacked.

How am I doing over here?

Okay, 1023 so my hip is stacked over my hip, knee, 1024 and ankle.

1025 How's my wrist?

Is my wrist flat?

Okay, 1026 my wrist is flat.

Did my head?

stay down 1027 on the shot.

1028 Because if my head stayed down like this, 1029 that's what I want to see.

How are my 1030 shoulders right now?

Well, my shoulders 1031 are square at impact.

They're just 1032 slightly open right now, but they are 1033 square at impact.

1034 Alright, one quality rep.

1035 I hit all my check markers.

Focus on this 1036 first.

I don't care about this stupid 1037 thing.

1038 Alright?

1039 A lot of you at home don't either.

I 1040 don't care about the ball.

Get your 1041 checkpoints first.

1042 Okay.

1043 Now once you can do that, and if you want 1044 me to do one, I have a tendency to forget 1045 about down the line just because I have 1046 this giant mirror right here.

1047 We're going to scoot this back a little 1048 bit.

1049 I don't think that would work out too 1050 well.

So if I get down the line, it's 1051 going to be the same thing.

I'm going to 1052 get to here.

1053 Okay, and how do I do it?

I will go walk 1054 my way through the same checkpoints.

1055 Okay, now I try to master my checkpoints 1056 first.

1057 Okay, then I look and see what the ball 1058 is doing.

1059 Now our goal with this ball flight is 1060 going to be low.

1061 It's going to be low.

I want you to start 1062 to get the feel of hitting a lower 1063 flighted shot.

1064 Lower flight.

It's starting to understand 1065 that trajectory control.

When you start 1066 getting in a better wrist position, let's 1067 think about this.

1068 This is my setup.

1069 I just moved my wrist to here to flat.

1070 What did that do to my club face?

1071 Delofted it.

So essentially I just turned 1072 my 8-iron into a 6-iron.

It's free speed.

1073 It's free to everything.

1074 It doesn't have anything to do with the 1075 face orientation.

The flat-lead wrist 1076 isn't going to change the law.

1077 But what you'll notice is that if my 1078 glove logo and my wristwatch are also 1079 facing the target, the glove face is 1080 square.

1081 Watch what happens if I get here and I 1082 cut my wrist, and now you're going to see 1083 that my watch is pointing a little bit 1084 more this way and my glove logo is this 1085 way.

Now I've added them off and the face 1086 is open.

1087 Okay?

1088 So our goal with this is we want very low 1089 flighted shots.

1090 Our dispersion is going to be one to two 1091 yards.

1092 This needs to be a tight window.

It's 1093 like chipping or your four-footers.

1094 This should be tough, should be 1095 challenging.

You've got to hit this in a 1096 very narrow spot because I'm not adding 1097 any speed to anything yet.

I'm getting 1098 the control on the lead hand, and this is 1099 what we need at first.

1100 To be hyper-focused, can we take care of 1101 this simplest of tasks that's going to 1102 bleed into the rest of the way?

The 1103 shot's going to be 10, 15 yards.

If 1104 you're hitting your phase one, 50 yards, 1105 you're swinging way too hard and way too 1106 big.

1107 That's not the goal of this.

We will work 1108 on that Saturday.

1109 Because once you start to master this and 1110 you're hitting the 10, 15, and I start to 1111 add release to it, you're going to 1112 realize, oh, wait a minute.

I was able to 1113 get to 50 yards without making any more 1114 effort than I did in my phase one.

1115 Because we're going to start to use 1116 physics to our advantage.

1117 Okay.

1118 I see a couple things popping up.

I just 1119 want to make sure it's not on the camera.

1120 All right.

Yeah, I just want to make 1121 sure.

Sometimes when I see that pop up, I 1122 don't know if it's all hands on deck, 1123 sides gone down.

1124 When we progress from phase one to phase 1125 two, 1126 you're going to understand how much 1127 effort you've been using to not get a 1128 whole bunch out of it.

1129 Because this is going to teach you 1130 impact.

And then we're going to add a 1131 little bit of speed to it.

But when we 1132 add speed to it, we're not going to 1133 really have to add brute force.

We're 1134 going to teach you and show you how much 1135 you've been overworking.

But right now.

1136 To get to these positions, it should be a 1137 little bit taxing to think about, Okay, 1138 I'm going to get to here, here, it should 1139 be a little bit taxing.

Now.

When I make 1140 this little takeaway right here, I'm 1141 going to rotate, I'm not just going to 1142 take it back to my wrist like this.

I 1143 still want you to rotate.

Trail arms, 1144 staying relatively straight.

I just don't 1145 want anything egregious, but I don't want 1146 you to miss the forest through the trees 1147 on this.

1148 Unless the takeaway is completely 1149 egregious, or there's something else 1150 that's completely egregious, it's hard to 1151 think about, okay, I'm going to get here, 1152 I'm going to shift my way, I'm going to 1153 rotate, I'm going to keep my trail arms 1154 straight, make sure the club toes up, and 1155 make sure that my lead wrist maintains a 1156 little bit of cupping, trail wrist 1157 staying flat, I'm going to shift my 1158 weight back to the lead side, open up my 1159 hips, keep my shoulders square, apply 1160 lead wrist.

1161 That's a lot to think about in a second.

1162 I want you to just kind of think about 1163 impact right now, unless there's 1164 something really crazy.

1165 Okay.

1166 So this should be 10, 15 yards, one, two 1167 -yard dispersion, very low.

1168 Fly.

1169 It should go straight or maybe a tiny, 1170 tiny bit of push.

Okay.

And that's just 1171 because we don't have a full-blown 1172 release in it right now.

So the hand's 1173 staying a little bit ahead right here.

1174 No problem.

All right.

If it's a one-yard 1175 push and you're sitting here getting 1176 this, fantastic.

1177 Now when we think of kind of faults and 1178 fixes with this or troubleshooting, 1179 things that, you know, if you can't 1180 figure it out, this is probably something 1181 that you're doing in this drill.

And if 1182 you can't figure it out, send it to 1183 Anthony, send it to myself, host in the 1184 community, ETC.

1185 First thing is going to be fat.

All 1186 right.

What is going to cause you to air 1187 fat in your phase one?

1188 Think about the same checkpoints and how 1189 I look at my swing when I'm finished.

1190 So the first thing of hitting it fat is 1191 going to be what?

1192 What happened here?

1193 What did I not do?

1194 I didn't get to my lead time.

I didn't 1195 shift my weight.

1196 Okay?

If you're not shifting your weight 1197 and you can't figure out why you're 1198 hitting it fat, it's probably the lack of 1199 weight.

1200 Now what else with the legs?

Well, I 1201 could also get here and do this.

1202 Well, you can see I shifted weight, but I 1203 didn't clear my hip.

I didn't post up.

So 1204 lack of weight shift, lack of post up, is 1205 going to cause you more than likely to 1206 hit it fat.

So if you start hitting it 1207 fat, the first thing I want you to check 1208 is your legs.

Work your way up.

1209 What's the last one?

1210 Or the last thing?

1211 What did I just do there?

1212 It might be tough to see on camera.

I 1213 threw my trail hand at it too soon.

1214 So if you throw your trail hand at it, 1215 that's going to cause the club to start 1216 firing its angle too soon, cause it 1217 bottom out too soon.

So if you struggle 1218 with fat, and as you can see on the 1219 sheets, I just have fat.

That's why we 1220 have the note sections.

If this is 1221 something that you know that you struggle 1222 with, or you've already plugged stuff 1223 into the dashboard, you can't get out of 1224 fat.

I want you to check your weight.

I 1225 want you to check your post.

I want you 1226 to check to make sure you're not using 1227 right hand too much.

1228 Okay?

1229 That's going to be fat.

1230 Thin.

1231 Two most common causes in just phase one 1232 for thin is going to be getting here.

1233 When you make your takeaway, 1234 powering it with your shoulders.

1235 Where are my shoulders right now?

1236 My shoulders shouldn't be facing the 1237 target right now.

As I start to power 1238 with my shoulders, I'm going to start to 1239 change my fulcrum position.

I'm going to 1240 tend to be a little bit thin.

1241 Remember, your shoulders are dead to you 1242 in this move, okay?

1243 You use them going back.

You're going to 1244 use a little bit of shoulders in your 1245 takeaway, but from here, everything's 1246 done.

It's weight, post, which will bring 1247 you into impact with a flat lead wrist, 1248 and you maintain everything.

1249 So if you start hitting it thin, I want 1250 you to check your shoulders.

1251 Also, 1252 lead hip.

1253 I'm starting from here, and I work into 1254 the strike.

So let's see how this looks.

1255 I'm going to go from here.

1256 What's the problem with this one?

1257 Why did I just hit that on the bottom 1258 groove like Johnny just called the hoop?

1259 Look at where my hip socket is compared 1260 to my ankle joint.

I slid my hip out 1261 ahead.

I pushed a little bit too much off 1262 my trail side and pushed my lead hip 1263 outside of neutral.

which is going to 1264 cause it to be thin.

It's going to also 1265 delay face rotation.

1266 It's kind of a little cheap when you get 1267 really good at your slide.

You can just 1268 kind of push just a little bit out ahead 1269 like this once you get the hip to slide a 1270 little bit.

You can kind of hit it low, 1271 kind of hit like a little squeeze cut 1272 that way.

1273 Now, I'm not saying do it that way, but 1274 you can.

1275 In this move, don't wait up, because the 1276 more you push and the more this hip gets 1277 outside of neutral, Now you're going to 1278 start worrying about Labral tears, and 1279 now you're going to be six months out of 1280 golf.

Or, like me, and that broken hip, 1281 so you don't want to wear out these 1282 joints.

So if you are doing that and 1283 you're feeling a lot of pain outside of 1284 your hip.

Girl right here you have 1285 something right.

You're pushing too much, 1286 you're sliding out ahead, so that's going 1287 to be thin now.

Cut couple ones are 1288 pretty simple, 1289 Unless you have the world's worst grip, 1290 and you can ask Anthony, you can ask 1291 Chuck, you can ask any golf instructor on 1292 the planet.

The one thing we hate to 1293 change is grip.

Because we know if we 1294 tell you to change your grip, that 1295 lesson's over.

1296 It doesn't matter.

I could give you the 1297 secret to golf.

1298 As soon as I change your grip, that 1299 lesson's over.

Because your feel, bye 1300 -bye.

Because this new grip feels so 1301 awkward and weird, it doesn't matter what 1302 I tell you.

1303 Okay?

1304 So unless you have some crazy wonky grip, 1305 which we'll do that on a case-by-case 1306 basis, the only thing that's going to 1307 cause this lead wrist to really break 1308 down is overworking your right hand.

1309 Okay, if you overwork your right hand or 1310 your trail hand, I'm going to make sure 1311 for our lefties out there, 1312 if you overwork your trail hand, that's 1313 going to cause this lead wrist to come, 1314 which is going to do the opposite of what 1315 we want.

It's going to take the face 1316 which should be de-lofted and it's going 1317 to add one.

So if you struggle with this, 1318 It's very important that you start 1319 dialing down how much you overwork your 1320 trailed hand and start understanding how 1321 to control your ball fight by keeping the 1322 big wrist flat in the head.

1323 Okay?

1324 Ball down.

1325 And the only thing that's going to do it 1326 is this overworking.

If you have a hard 1327 time understanding how that kind of 1328 works, it's a very simple image.

1329 My wrists are.

In position right here, 1330 my trail wrist is flat.

My lead wrist has 1331 a little bit of cuffing.

Just watch what 1332 happens when I add a hinge and delete 1333 hinge.

The more I lose my hinge with my 1334 trail, I can't keep my lead wrist flat.

1335 It has to counterbalance what I'm doing, 1336 but I can't keep both flat.

Same thing 1337 with this.

If I have a ton of hinge in my 1338 trail, look at what it's doing to my lead 1339 wrist.

My lead wrist is now superly 1340 bowed.

So as you get down into here, if 1341 you lose all your trail wrist hinge, What 1342 do you think your lead wrist is going to 1343 do?

So that's why we have to delete 1344 overworking the trail wrist to help keep 1345 that wrist flat.

1346 That'll shy away from cupping, opening, 1347 and all that bad stuff.

1348 If we're struggling with toe strikes in 1349 phase one, it goes back to the shoulder 1350 spin.

1351 The lead shoulder socket is going to be 1352 your fulcrum position.

So if you're 1353 taking your shoulders and you're working 1354 into impact, and you're spinning them 1355 like this, look at what that's doing.

1356 I'll give you a frame of reference.

Watch 1357 what happens if I get to here and I spin 1358 my shoulders.

What's it doing?

It's 1359 getting me across.

1360 It's getting me steep.

It's taking that 1361 toe and swinging it across the ball.

1362 That's going to be the normal cause for 1363 the toe strike.

You struggle with your 1364 driver.

1365 A lot of players, I can just tell what 1366 their swing is doing by looking at their 1367 driver.

1368 And just literally look at their driver.

1369 And on the bottom, you'll see those T 1370 marks.

1371 I mean, you look at the T marks and you 1372 see on the toe, just going straight off.

1373 You know, you got the toe, it goes a 1374 little bit straight, and then it peels 1375 off this way, peels off this way.

1376 Nine times out of ten, that's a shoulder 1377 spinner.

1378 Somebody that's powering up their 1379 shoulders and coming over the top.

That's 1380 why they can't get that T mark down the 1381 long line.

1382 That's why, you know, some guys are like, 1383 oh, I'm hitting that really good, and 1384 they'll show something like that, and, 1385 you know, I'll hit one and show my driver 1386 and be like, I think T-Mart's supposed to 1387 be like this.

1388 And they're like, well, I don't know why 1389 I'm doing that.

And I'm like, that's 1390 because you're trying to power it with 1391 your shoulders, and what it's doing is 1392 it's getting you steep and getting you 1393 swiping across the golf ball, and then 1394 you're compounding it by trying to add 1395 some hands to get some sweep, which 1396 that's why it's just going beep.

1397 So for toe strikes, it's very important 1398 that these shoulders stay square.

You've 1399 got to keep this fulcrum position in the 1400 shot.

1401 For heel strikes, in this phase, 1402 more than likely it's going to be 1403 touched.

1404 All it's going to be is you're making 1405 this move, and you're trying to motor it 1406 with your trail foot.

So you go from 1407 here, and you push off of it like this, 1408 and you can see what that's doing.

It's 1409 pushing my club out towards the strike.

1410 Okay?

1411 So between now and Saturday, 1412 and whether you want to plug them into 1413 your AI dashboard or you want to write 1414 them down, it doesn't matter.

You can use 1415 our little sheet right here.

1416 The goal is 100 repetitions per day, 1417 okay?

1418 A minimum of 100 repetitions per day.

Let 1419 me rephrase that.

1420 Because of the way that the brain learns 1421 new movement patterns, we have to do 1422 enough reps, 1423 proper reps, to challenge the brain.

1424 to learn this new pattern.

If we don't, 1425 you're basically, it's like going out and 1426 hitting five perfect shots or five 1427 perfect reps, and it's like, all right, 1428 well, I'm going home now.

Brain doesn't 1429 learn that way.

We need a minimum of 100 1430 perfect reps, and what that's going to go 1431 through is on each shot, I want you to 1432 set up, get your position, work on 1433 hitting these five checkpoints, okay?

And 1434 just like with the AI on the dashboard, 1435 do them in sets of 10, and grade yourself 1436 on sets of 10.

1437 Our kind of goal with this is getting 8 1438 out of 10.

If you can't get 8 out of 10 1439 right now with perfect ball strike, it's 1440 okay.

1441 I want you to hit your checkpoints 1442 because I know it's kind of a form 1443 follows function thing.

It's going to be 1444 really tough if you're getting here and 1445 you're hitting every single checkpoint 1446 where you're stacked, your hips are open, 1447 shoulders are squared, flatly gripped, 1448 trailflips behavior.

1449 The ball is going to start to react the 1450 way that we want it to react.

So your 1451 goal between now and Saturday is to do 1452 it.

Get at least 100 reps in each 1453 session.

Now I know that this one is a 1454 little bit, you know, it seems like 1455 backtracking, or it seems like first 1456 grade for golf.

As I mentioned, when I 1457 first came to Rotary over two decades 1458 ago, I was playing professionally for a 1459 living.

Chuck literally made me stand on 1460 Sugarloaf mountain and just outside 1461 Ocala, Florida.

I sat there and I hit 1462 these same 15-yard shots over and over, 1463 and over again.

No matter that I was 1464 already a plus handicap or anything like 1465 that, I had to fix my problem.

And I 1466 couldn't fix my problem at 100 miles an 1467 hour.

1468 A little bit faster then.

1469 But I couldn't fix my problem at 100 1470 miles an hour.

I had to do it in these 1471 small little increments because my brain 1472 couldn't take the challenge of going from 1473 here.

and making my back swing and 1474 working from here and fixing my lead 1475 wrist position and fixing my shoulders, 1476 fixing this overly spinning position that 1477 I got myself into.

1478 So I had to take, you know, the biggest 1479 buckets I could find.

I would sit there 1480 like this, doing this exact same phase 1481 where I'd make a little takeaway, shift 1482 those.

1483 All right, now I do my checkpoints.

I'd 1484 look at it, see what the ball does.

I'd 1485 go from the ground up, and I'd go to the 1486 next one, and I'd go to the next one.

And 1487 then for me, After about every five, I'd 1488 go back to my camera.

I'd make sure I had 1489 a really high speed camera for the day 1490 back.

And I'd go back and I'd look, can I 1491 hit these checkpoints?

And at the.

I 1492 still even thought at the time, it's 1493 like, What am i sitting here doing this 1494 stuff for?

It was like these small little 1495 shots.

But I'm retraining my brain and my 1496 mind to what I want at impact I needed.

1497 Make my swing simpler.

I need to make my 1498 ball striking more consistent.

Why is my 1499 ball striking not consistent?

Well, 1500 Craig, you're overworking your shoulders, 1501 or you're too much spin, and this is cut.

1502 Okay, well, let's get down to brass tacks 1503 and fix the prop.

I'm going to get this 1504 wrist and this impact fixed first.

Then 1505 as I start to get bigger, and I can still 1506 maintain this with a little bit more 1507 pace, now as I start to go through it, I 1508 can fix it.

But even me.

It doesn't 1509 matter whether you're a plus handicap 1510 right now and you're doing it for a 1511 living, or you're a beginner and you're a 1512 40 plus handicap.

1513 My rules aren't going to change, 1514 okay?

They want to change for me.

1515 Impact's the only thing that matters at 1516 the end of the day, and you need to know 1517 what it feels like.

1518 I can tell you all this information until 1519 I'm blue in the face, but you're not 1520 going to get it until you feel it.

You're 1521 not going to get it until you're like, 1522 okay.

That's what he's talking about.

I 1523 can feel some weight, I can feel some 1524 hip, I can feel much.

This is what it 1525 should be like.

A lot of players come 1526 back, they're like, Well, Craig, I'm 1527 hitting the ball a lot better and my 1528 swing looks better.

On camera, I don't 1529 think it.

I don't think it feels right 1530 because there's a lot of preconception of 1531 what you think it should feel, feeling 1532 real.

Work the same with two different 1533 animals 1534 or your mission, if you choose to accept 1535 1536 is to start getting a better setup.

And 1537 as silly as that sounds, 1538 so many problems can be fixed by a proper 1539 setup.

1540 That's not good.

1541 Did we lose the camera?

1542 Interesting, Never seen that one?

Okay, 1543 hold on a second, guys, I've never seen 1544 that.

Ever.

Don't, don't shoot the 1545 messenger just yet.

Let's see there we 1546 go, all right, we're back.

Thumbs up, 1547 thumbs down.

okay, all right.

So this 1548 impact position in getting this feel with 1549 this down.

Okay, since I kind of lost my 1550 train of thought since I got the video in 1551 the shoot, um, I know it's kind of seemed 1552 boring and mundane.

But it is one of the 1553 most important parts that we have to hit 1554 these positions.

And you learn how to 1555 feel and move.

Ah, now I remember I was 1556 so a setup.

So many problems can be fixed 1557 by just having a correct setup, 1558 if you think about it this way, just even 1559 with setup.

If I set up my weight too far 1560 on my heels, I'm going to constantly 1561 train myself to have early extension.

It 1562 doesn't matter how many drills you do, no 1563 matter what, you're never going to fix 1564 that issue when it all could be solved.

1565 And all kind of work itself out with 1566 setting up your pressure in the proper 1567 spot so you balance the proper spot.

1568 So don't neglect the setup.

Don't neglect 1569 the simplicity of this drill.

If you've 1570 watched any of my journey, 1571 you have me going through phase one to 1572 the introductory section on the website.

1573 We get the setup.

We make a little 1574 takeaway.

We shift notes.

And we work on 1575 our checkpoints from the ground up.

1576 Okay?

1577 This needs to be like riding a bike.

1578 You should be able to get into the setup 1579 every single time and be like, okay.

1580 Here.

1581 This should be like riding a bike for 1582 you.

Because if you can make that to 1583 where it's as boring and mundane as it is 1584 for me to do it right now, it makes it a 1585 whole lot easier.

Even when you have some 1586 kind of off positions.

Okay?

1587 So I'm sorry.

I think I ran over time a 1588 little bit.

My apologies on the camera.

I 1589 know this isn't the fun and sexy day.

But 1590 be ready.

Saturday, we're going to kick 1591 some things into gear.

I'm going to have 1592 you get up and start working with me.

1593 And then when you get up and start 1594 working with me, and we start adding in 1595 the next phase, then we're going to add 1596 some speed.

1597 We're going to add some bigger swings.

I 1598 promise you, in this whole entire boot 1599 camp, we're going to go from impact all 1600 the way to the top.

We're going to talk 1601 about takeaway.

We're going to talk about 1602 top-to-back swing.

We're talking about 1603 transition.

We're talking about lead arm 1604 release.

We're talking about trail arm 1605 release.

But I've got to do this session 1606 so that you understand at the end of the 1607 day where you have to get.

1608 Okay?

It doesn't matter what you're doing 1609 with any of this stuff.

1610 This is where we're trying to get.

1611 This is where we're trying to get.

You 1612 can see I'm doing it with a little bit of 1613 gusto.

1614 You have to be able to understand and 1615 feel this position and get there.

Because 1616 even when you have your off days and you 1617 know that, 1618 days aren't going to be so bad.

1619 So my apologies for running over a little 1620 bit in the camera.

1621 So with that being said, it is Q&A time 1622 with Craig and Anthony.

1623 For those of you that can't stay, the 1624 replays will be on the site as soon as I 1625 can get them up.

More than likely, they 1626 will be early, early a.

m.

Eastern time.

1627 They will be there if you can't find 1628 them.

Menu Tree, Member Tools, my 1629 purchases, you will see the replays and 1630 you will see where you can join these 1631 sessions.

Okay, that is all I got today.

1632 So if we have some questions, you need me 1633 to do a jig, whatever you need me to do, 1634 I'm here to answer.

Post them up.

Let's 1635 talk about.

1636 Maybe we don't have any questions.

1637 We usually have some questions.

1638 Maybe my internet went down.

1639 Okay, Rob, proper arms and hand position 1640 at setup is where?

Define proper arms and 1641 hand position if I don't cover it on 1642 this.

1643 So at setup, 1644 proper arms and hands position, what 1645 you're looking on from face on is the 1646 lead hand to be just on the inside of the 1647 lead.

Thigh No big forward press, no 1648 addition of cupping behind.

So you want 1649 the lead hand just on the inside of the 1650 lead thigh, where the club is relatively 1651 vertical or straight up from down the 1652 line.

Proper arms and hands positioning.

1653 You want to be able to draw a line from 1654 the center of your shoulder socket, 1655 through your elbow joint.

And if you're 1656 going to draw a line from your chin, you 1657 want it just on the edge of your trail 1658 hand.

So we don't want this, nor do we 1659 want this, because you can see how that 1660 would affect that line.

1661 Hopefully that helps.

1662 Paul, 1663 so that I don't use the arm too much on 1664 these short swings, can you please go 1665 over the weight shifts in these small 1666 swings?

Well, Paul, if you really 1667 struggle with it, I would advise you, you 1668 may be the candidate to put a little bit 1669 more on the lead side because when we 1670 start making things a little bit more 1671 dynamic in the next one, it'll be easier 1672 if you'll wait.

It's a little bit tough 1673 in these small ones.

1674 But with this weight shift, 1675 As I go back in a phase one, I really 1676 don't want a whole ton of weight shift 1677 this way because I just don't have the 1678 time to really get these legs dynamic.

1679 Okay.

1680 So if you're starting out 50-50 right 1681 here, you're going to have about a 20% 1682 change right here.

You don't need 1683 anything crazy.

And for me, I literally 1684 feel like I'm getting here and falling 1685 into my lead side.

So if I'm here, my 1686 takeaway.

1687 For me, I start pushing my lead foot into 1688 the ground.

Now, we can think of Axiom 1689 where we start getting a little bit of 1690 that's going to be further down the road.

1691 For these, since I don't want a whole 1692 bunch of trail foot, 1693 get to here and just stop.

Just stop.

1694 And think about it.

If I'm going to get 1695 to this position, just stop right here.

1696 How am I going to put weight on my lead 1697 leg right now?

Just fall into your lead.

1698 Let everything just kind of fall into 1699 your lead leg.

And you'll feel it.

a 1700 little bit of flexion increase, a little 1701 bit of engagement in the quad and glute, 1702 then you just start to clear the hip.

But 1703 I've always had the sensation of this 1704 kind of just falling into the lead side.

1705 I'm here, I fall into my lead side.

1706 It is the inner thigh adductors that 1707 pull.

1708 Just as a side note, if you want to go to 1709 the preventing hip pain video, it's a 1710 drill where it'll help you feel these 1711 inner thigh adductors if you want to feel 1712 a little bit more pulled.

So don't 1713 prevent hip pain, and that'll give you a 1714 good drill to get that pull from you.

1715 Head.

If you flatten the left wrist, does 1716 it open the club face?

1717 Okay.

So the hinging and flattening only 1718 control the law.

1719 So flattening the lead wrist should not 1720 change the orientation of the face.

It's 1721 only the rotation of the forearms and the 1722 wrist that will change the orientation of 1723 the face.

The flattening and cupping only 1724 changes the loft of the face.

1725 Did you say the lead wrist should be flat 1726 at setup or only at impact?

The lead 1727 wrist should be flat at impact, dude.

1728 So if you have a slightly strong grip, 1729 You're going to notice that when I set up 1730 here, I've got about two knuckles, and 1731 I'll get a little bit closer on the 1732 camera.

1733 I've got about two knuckles showing right 1734 here, okay?

So I have a little bit of 1735 initial cupping due to the fact that I 1736 don't have a very weak grip.

1737 Then it works to flat at impact, okay?

If 1738 you're already flat, you're going to be 1739 working the bode, which probably means 1740 that you have too much forward press at 1741 setup, or your grip is too weak and 1742 you're way too much in the palm.

1743 Can you swing towards the camera?

1744 Certainly.

1745 Like full swing or just phase one?

1746 So for phase one, I'm trying to get this.

1747 I don't want to hit a ball that way 1748 because I don't want to destroy the 1749 camera.

But if I go to here, this is what 1750 it should look like.

My head's down.

My 1751 trail foot's behaved.

You can see that my 1752 belt buckle's pointed over here.

1753 Lead arrest is flat.

I don't have a whole 1754 lot of rotation of the club face because 1755 I'm not releasing it yet.

1756 I'm maintaining pretty much the face 1757 square to the target.

It's going to be 1758 rotated a little bit, pretty much.

1759 So you're not posting up, i.

e.

open up 1760 your left hip at all.

1761 To feel weight, Paul, when you said 1762 weight shift, that's what I feel for 1763 weight shift is falling into the lead 1764 side.

But remember, my hips have to be 1765 open at impact, so I am going to post a 1766 little bit in here.

It's just not.

Very 1767 dynamic right now.

So I'm not trying to 1768 hit it anymore.

But my hips.

I'm going to 1769 feel like I'm falling a little bit into 1770 the lead side and then just straightening 1771 up my lead leg.

I have to post a little 1772 bit because that's going to be the only 1773 way for my hips to get open.

So on your 1774 question, you're just saying.

With weight 1775 shift, that's what I was kind of limiting 1776 that to.

Is the feeling of falling to get 1777 the weight over there as I post weight.

1778 Post 1779 Arthur, middle of the right side of my 1780 back is sore from practice the other day.

1781 What's that indicate wrong with the 1782 movement?

Middle of the right side of 1783 your back.

Well, I would have to see it 1784 to give you a proper diagnosis.

1785 Typically, though, the middle, 1786 you're talking about kind of like, let me 1787 see if I can.

1788 So you're talking about like thoracic 1789 right side right here, or are you talking 1790 more lumbar?

Because that's going to 1791 change a little bit.

1792 If we're talking kind of like that, you 1793 know, middle thoracic, more than likely 1794 it's too much.

Excessive secondary tilt 1795 and side bend, so you can see I'm putting 1796 myself in this position.

It's going to 1797 usually be caused by two things.

You're 1798 excessively pushing off your trail side, 1799 which is increasing this tilt and putting 1800 in a lot of tilt and side bend.

And 1801 crunching that spot right there.

If it's 1802 getting a little bit lower, it's 1803 typically going to be the same thing.

But 1804 what it's doing is you're pushing off of 1805 this and creating this early extension 1806 and you start to pinch.

You can kind of 1807 even see.

I'll do it from here, I'm not 1808 trying to show you my fan, but if I do it 1809 from here, you can kind of see how I 1810 create this curve right here.

Anytime you 1811 start to get kind of in that excessive 1812 side bend position, like I was talking 1813 about earlier, with the facet joints, 1814 you're starting to crush them.

Okay, and 1815 that's where you start to get into big 1816 problems.

You start having bulging, disc 1817 errors.

Because generally gets pushed 1818 this way, all that bad stuff, yeah, so 1819 that middle thoracic, that's going to be 1820 a lot where that comes from, it's going 1821 to be.

Typically, you're trying to either 1822 push too much with this side and you 1823 start to get a ton of secondary tilt.

Or 1824 really trying to power it this way.

So 1825 the lead shoulder gets high.

You get a 1826 lot of tilt right here and you get in 1827 this kind of curve, kind of looks like 1828 old Jack Nicholas.

That's going to be 1829 what really does it?

Because you want 1830 your spine to stay still tall through 1831 here.

You don't want all that excessive 1832 side pin.

Watch what happens in my head 1833 when I do that.

1834 That just puts you in a really precarious 1835 position, especially at speed.

1836 All right, William, if we can't hit 1837 balls, reel, or foam for a few days, will 1838 air swing still be helpful?

Yeah.

I mean, 1839 the ideal would be if you had something 1840 to hit.

1841 But if you can't, I get it.

1842 I have it in my old apartment or 1843 anything.

I couldn't do that.

I probably 1844 shouldn't even be doing that in a year, 1845 but I've been pretty good at drywall over 1846 the years.

1847 These are foam balls I got off Amazon.

1848 Somebody want to know what I was hitting 1849 last time?

They're pretty cheap, and they 1850 don't really damage anything just as a 1851 side note from Go Sports.

They actually 1852 feel pretty good, but if you don't have 1853 access to a golf ball or anything right 1854 now, 1855 yeah, just do it.

1856 Weather.

Make air swings.

1857 If you have a chance with a camera or a 1858 mirror, you'll see.

I've got this right 1859 here.

I don't expect you to have this 1860 thing come set up.

But if you're going to 1861 do air swings, 1862 one good thing that will help is if you 1863 have something to get feedback.

You can 1864 take your iPad and stand it up, put it 1865 just on the camera so you can watch 1866 yourself.

1867 Chuck and I really like to do this.

Now, 1868 you won't be able to see.

I got this 1869 mirror here.

But what I used to do a lot 1870 of is I would pick up my head in the 1871 mirror, and I would map my way through 1872 these positions.

1873 And so I would do that, and then I'd 1874 build up a pace.

And making air swings 1875 are perfectly fine.

Now, let's see if I 1876 can go over here.

Yeah, so you can see 1877 how I've got my reflection in the mirror.

1878 And I would sit here and go like this and 1879 map it out.

So I can look at it like, oh.

1880 I can watch myself.

Like, oh, okay, my 1881 hip's stacked.

I'm hitting my position.

1882 So watching yourself is a really good 1883 thing to do, especially in this early 1884 phase.

1885 Jason, how do you keep your front 1886 shoulder down in the forward swing?

1887 How do you keep your front shoulder down?

1888 I think the better way to phrase that is 1889 why is your shoulder coming up.

So what's 1890 going to make if I'm going for my little 1891 takeaway right here in phase one?

What's 1892 going to make my shoulder go this way?

1893 The only way I can make my shoulder go 1894 this way is if I'm staying right here.

1895 And I start pushing excessively off my 1896 trail side 1897 and I create this secondary tilt, that's 1898 going to make my shoulder go up.

1899 So first thing is you're pushing too hard 1900 off your trail side because it's getting 1901 your hips leading out ahead, and it's 1902 leading to a lot of tilt.

1903 Now, when I'm in this takeaway position, 1904 I feel that there's – we'll talk about 1905 this in phase two because this is a big 1906 area with people.

I'll kind of feel how 1907 my shoulder, 1908 if there was a shelf right here, kind of 1909 feel how my shoulder – just stays below 1910 breaking the proverbial shelf.

1911 But typically this shoulder is coming up 1912 because I'm pushing too much to my trail.

1913 It's giving me a ton of secondary tilts.

1914 My head starts to fall back and my 1915 shoulder starts to go up.

You're trying 1916 too much to do it with that.

If I'm just 1917 hearing the takeaway right here, I'm just 1918 feeling my left shoulder just unwind down 1919 the same way it went back.

1920 In this phase one, it's because you're 1921 probably trying to weigh over power when 1922 the trail's up.

1923 All right.

Thank you, Rob.

I appreciate 1924 that.

I appreciate that.

Every camp's a 1925 little bit different today.

I kind of 1926 went off on a little bit of tangent a 1927 couple things, but it's just from what we 1928 see.

When I do these things, Chuck and 1929 myself and Anthony do videos and stuff, 1930 a lot of this is from our experiences.

1931 A lot of what I'm telling you today.

1932 It's because of everything that I keep 1933 seeing on a swinger.

1934 I've got a lot of depth.

1935 So I'm covering those things.

1936 Paul, another way to ask about the front 1937 shoulder is how to keep the right 1938 shoulder back, not use the shoulders in 1939 the swing.

1940 Yeah, I mean, that's one way of doing it.

1941 But you can also, Paul, you can also get 1942 to here.

And keep your shoulder back and 1943 not move it, and eventually, if you don't 1944 move your shoulder, the shoulder's going 1945 to get high.

They're going to have to 1946 move at some point, so you're going to be 1947 a little careful with that.

I can square 1948 my shoulders in these small shots, but my 1949 sense from the ball fight is that I'm 1950 using my shoulders too much.

Getting 1951 ahead of it, I know, but the issue is the 1952 shoulder control and the full swing, and 1953 we'll do that right now.

If you I.

I 1954 don't care about the rest of them.

Even 1955 if you're good at it, like I said, I 1956 don't care how good you are at golf right 1957 now.

I want you to get the shoulder 1958 squared impact right now.

Turning them 1959 off, we will make the swing bigger, we're 1960 going to add release, we're going to add 1961 speed, we're going to do a ton of 1962 different things.

Um, you know more 1963 specifically about the shoulder issue?

If 1964 I can get them off, I will start to shift 1965 what needs to work to make sure that they 1966 stay.

1967 Good start.

1968 Thank you, William.

1969 So two or three things.

I have resisted 1970 this training for too long.

I can fix 1971 stuff while I'm going full speed, but my 1972 experience and my swing tell me I can't.

1973 Very, very telling, William.

1974 So true.

So true.

1975 Sooner or later, all of us, we kind of 1976 have to take our medicine and be like, 1977 you know what, I've got his shoes and 1978 I've got to fix them.

1979 I don't care.

I don't care who you are.

1980 I've seen Tiger train over and over 1981 again.

1982 I've seen Chuck.

As you've seen Chuck's 1983 original swing.

His swing didn't look 1984 like it does now, back then.

1985 I've seen all the best in how they train.

1986 That's not how they do it.

1987 So, it is a tough pill to swallow because 1988 we all, we all enjoy getting out to the 1989 driving range.

Swinging hard, seeing that 1990 ball sail high and far.

1991 But we don't enjoy chasing it all over 1992 the place.

1993 So this little kind of baby stepping into 1994 this, we all have to do the same thing.

1995 I wish there was an easier cheat for 1996 this.

1997 Brain only learns one way, unfortunately.

1998 So I have a long history of spinning my 1999 hips in really fast through impacts and 2000 swinging all right hand through impacts.

2001 So left or right is very common.

Even in 2002 this little drill, my right hand will 2003 stop trying to overpower everything.

2004 Good, Ronnie.

I'm not happy that your 2005 right hand is overpowering everything.

2006 But experiment.

2007 I ideally want it to stay on.

2008 Experiment.

Why don't you just put your 2009 trail hand on the side right here?

Like 2010 literally just the fingertips.

2011 And see if you can keep the shoulders 2012 square and keep that lean hand ahead.

2013 Just to keep them on there so you're 2014 aware of them, but you can't use them 2015 because you really can't use them with 2016 that fingertip in.

2017 But that's good.

But you need to master 2018 it at this pace and this size.

I promise 2019 you it will help you down the road.

2020 All right.

So with that being said, I am 2021 going to eat some dinner.

2022 So I hope you enjoyed the first session.

2023 Please utilize the website.

We are here 2024 for you.

2025 We've got the forum board.

We've got the 2026 community board.

We've got the swingers.

2027 We've got live ones.

We've got in-person 2028 ones.

We've got everything at your 2029 disposal.

There is no reason you should 2030 not get better from this day forward.

You 2031 have the information.

2032 The only reason you're not going to get 2033 any better is because you don't listen to 2034 me.

And I'm not trying to be harsh about 2035 that, but it's the truth.

2036 I have students that are like, ah, Craig, 2037 I got this.

2038 Make sure you got it.

If you got it, I 2039 promise you it would be better.

2040 Thank you, James.

Jim.

2041 No problem, Ronnie.

Thank you, Dave.

2042 Awesome info.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank 2043 you.

Thank you, Eric.

2044 Paul, what do we need for the live 2045 lesson?

Anything?

iPhone, iPad, 2046 webcam.

2047 Pretty much anything.

Android.

2048 pretty much anything will do it these 2049 days all right and anthony if you're 2050 still here my compadre i appreciate the 2051 help on the keys all right with that 2052 being said thank you everybody and truly 2053 do appreciate that you give me an 2054 opportunity to help you out and we're 2055 going to keep working forward i know 2056 today's it's important saturday be 2057 prepared get up do some work because we 2058 got a lot of stuff to cover thank you 2059 paul i appreciate it thank you jim