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.

So we're going to make a little takeaway.

Shift post.

Stop.

Right?

You must stop and check your position.

Okay?

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

Start from the ground.

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

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

It's the first thing.

My trail foot's like this.

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

So is my trail foot behaving?

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

It's stacked.

How am I doing over here?

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

How's my wrist?

Is my wrist flat?

Okay, my wrist is flat.

Did my head?

stay down on the shot.

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

How are my shoulders right now?

Well, my shoulders are square at impact.

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

Alright, one quality rep.

I hit all my check markers.

Focus on this first.

I don't care about this stupid thing.

Alright?

A lot of you at home don't either.

I don't care about the ball.

Get your checkpoints first.

Okay.

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

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

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

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

I'm going to get to here.

Okay, and how do I do it?

I will go walk my way through the same checkpoints.

Okay, now I try to master my checkpoints first.

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

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

It's going to be low.

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

Lower flight.

It's starting to understand that trajectory control.

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

This is my setup.

I just moved my wrist to here to flat.

What did that do to my club face?

Delofted it.

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

It's free speed.

It's free to everything.

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

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

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

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

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

Okay?

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

Our dispersion is going to be one to two yards.

This needs to be a tight window.

It's like chipping or your four-footers.

This should be tough, should be challenging.

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

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

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

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

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

That's not the goal of this.

We will work on that Saturday.

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

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

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

Okay.

I see a couple things popping up.

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

All right.

Yeah, I just want to make sure.

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

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

Because this is going to teach you impact.

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

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

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

But right now.

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

Now.

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

I still want you to rotate.

Trail arms, staying relatively straight.

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

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

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

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

Okay.

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

Fly.

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

Okay.

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

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

No problem.

All right.

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

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

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

First thing is going to be fat.

All right.

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

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

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

What happened here?

What did I not do?

I didn't get to my lead time.

I didn't shift my weight.

Okay?

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

Now what else with the legs?

Well, I could also get here and do this.

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

I didn't post up.

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

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

Work your way up.

What's the last one?

Or the last thing?

What did I just do there?

It might be tough to see on camera.

I threw my trail hand at it too soon.

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

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

That's why we have the note sections.

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

I want you to check your weight.

I want you to check your post.

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

Okay?

That's going to be fat.

Thin.

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

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

Where are my shoulders right now?

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

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

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

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

You use them going back.

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

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

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

Also, lead hip.

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

So let's see how this looks.

I'm going to go from here.

What's the problem with this one?

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

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

I slid my hip out ahead.

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

which is going to cause it to be thin.

It's going to also delay face rotation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Girl right here you have something right.

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

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

The one thing we hate to change is grip.

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

It doesn't matter.

I could give you the secret to golf.

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

Because your feel, bye -bye.

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

Okay?

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

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

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

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

Okay?

Ball down.

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

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

My wrists are.

In position right here, my trail wrist is flat.

My lead wrist has a little bit of cuffing.

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

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

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

Same thing with this.

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

My lead wrist is now superly bowed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll give you a frame of reference.

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

What's it doing?

It's getting me across.

It's getting me steep.

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

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

You struggle with your driver.

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

And just literally look at their driver.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's pushing my club out towards the strike.

Okay?

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

You can use our little sheet right here.

The goal is 100 repetitions per day, okay?

A minimum of 100 repetitions per day.

Let me rephrase that.

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

to learn this new pattern.

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

Brain doesn't learn that way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get at least 100 reps in each session.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A little bit faster then.

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

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

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

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

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

All right, now I do my checkpoints.

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

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

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

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

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

And at the.

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

It was like these small little shots.

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

Make my swing simpler.

I need to make my ball striking more consistent.

Why is my ball striking not consistent?

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

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

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

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

But even me.

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

My rules aren't going to change, okay?

They want to change for me.

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

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

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

That's what he's talking about.

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

This is what it should be like.

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

On camera, I don't think it.

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

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

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

That's not good.

Did we lose the camera?

Interesting, Never seen that one?

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

Ever.

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

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

Thumbs up, thumbs down.

okay, all right.

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

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

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

And you learn how to feel and move.

Ah, now I remember I was so a setup.

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

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

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

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

So don't neglect the setup.

Don't neglect the simplicity of this drill.

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

We get the setup.

We make a little takeaway.

We shift notes.

And we work on our checkpoints from the ground up.

Okay?

This needs to be like riding a bike.

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

Here.

This should be like riding a bike for you.

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

Even when you have some kind of off positions.

Okay?

So I'm sorry.

I think I ran over time a little bit.

My apologies on the camera.

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

But be ready.

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

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

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

We're going to add some bigger swings.

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

We're going to talk about takeaway.

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

We're talking about transition.

We're talking about lead arm release.

We're talking about trail arm release.

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

Okay?

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

This is where we're trying to get.

This is where we're trying to get.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

m.

Eastern time.

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

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

Okay, that is all I got today.

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

Post them up.

Let's talk about.

Maybe we don't have any questions.

We usually have some questions.

Maybe my internet went down.

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

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

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

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

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

Proper arms and hands positioning.

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

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

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

Hopefully that helps.

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

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

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

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

Okay.

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

You don't need anything crazy.

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

So if I'm here, my takeaway.

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

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

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

Just stop.

And think about it.

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

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

Just fall into your lead.

Let everything just kind of fall into your lead leg.

And you'll feel it.

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

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

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

It is the inner thigh adductors that pull.

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

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

Head.

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

Okay.

So the hinging and flattening only control the law.

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

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

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

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

The lead wrist should be flat at impact, dude.

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

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

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

Then it works to flat at impact, okay?

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

Can you swing towards the camera?

Certainly.

Like full swing or just phase one?

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

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

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

My head's down.

My trail foot's behaved.

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

Lead arrest is flat.

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

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

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

So you're not posting up, i.

e.

open up your left hip at all.

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

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

It's just not.

Very dynamic right now.

So I'm not trying to hit it anymore.

But my hips.

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

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

So on your question, you're just saying.

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

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

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

What's that indicate wrong with the movement?

Middle of the right side of your back.

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

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

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

Because that's going to change a little bit.

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

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

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

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

And crunching that spot right there.

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

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

You can kind of even see.

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

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

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

You start having bulging, disc errors.

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

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

Or really trying to power it this way.

So the lead shoulder gets high.

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

That's going to be what really does it?

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

You don't want all that excessive side pin.

Watch what happens in my head when I do that.

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

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

Yeah.

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

But if you can't, I get it.

I have it in my old apartment or anything.

I couldn't do that.

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

These are foam balls I got off Amazon.

Somebody want to know what I was hitting last time?

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

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

Weather.

Make air swings.

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

I've got this right here.

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

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

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

Chuck and I really like to do this.

Now, you won't be able to see.

I got this mirror here.

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

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

And making air swings are perfectly fine.

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

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

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

So I can look at it like, oh.

I can watch myself.

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

I'm hitting my position.

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

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

How do you keep your front shoulder down?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's giving me a ton of secondary tilts.

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

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

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

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

All right.

Thank you, Rob.

I appreciate that.

I appreciate that.

Every camp's a little bit different today.

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

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

A lot of what I'm telling you today.

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

I've got a lot of depth.

So I'm covering those things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you I.

I don't care about the rest of them.

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

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

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

Um, you know more specifically about the shoulder issue?

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

Good start.

Thank you, William.

So two or three things.

I have resisted this training for too long.

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

Very, very telling, William.

So true.

So true.

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

I don't care.

I don't care who you are.

I've seen Tiger train over and over again.

I've seen Chuck.

As you've seen Chuck's original swing.

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

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

That's not how they do it.

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

Swinging hard, seeing that ball sail high and far.

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

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

I wish there was an easier cheat for this.

Brain only learns one way, unfortunately.

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

So left or right is very common.

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

Good, Ronnie.

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

But experiment.

I ideally want it to stay on.

Experiment.

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

Like literally just the fingertips.

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

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

But that's good.

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

I promise you it will help you down the road.

All right.

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

So I hope you enjoyed the first session.

Please utilize the website.

We are here for you.

We've got the forum board.

We've got the community board.

We've got the swingers.

We've got live ones.

We've got in-person ones.

We've got everything at your disposal.

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

You have the information.

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

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

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

Make sure you got it.

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

Thank you, James.

Jim.

No problem, Ronnie.

Thank you, Dave.

Awesome info.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Eric.

Paul, what do we need for the live lesson?

Anything?

iPhone, iPad, webcam.

Pretty much anything.

Android.

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