C4 Bootcamp 2, Jan 28 2023, Session 2

Session 2 of 4

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Good morning.

How's everybody doing today?

Are we live?

One thing that I need is let me know if the microphone's working.

I was having issues when I was setting it up this morning.

The feedback or the audio was very staticky.

David, working.

All right.

So we have audio.

We have visual.

Everybody can hear me.

There's no complaints.

Still muffled those.

Static now.

Good now.

We'll do a couple tests for about a minute or two.

And if it gets worse, I'm going to try something else.

So not good now.

Hmm.

That's not good.

Audio.

Let's work on this.

Let's get this fixed before the session.

My apologies.

Static became bad right after you asked.

Video will probably be blurry until I get this microphone issue.

How about now?

How's the audio?

Better.

Great.

Okay.

So we must be doing something right.

So static is gone and everybody can hear me now?

Good.

Okay.

Well, let's go with that.

I'm going to have to work on it.

I don't know what happened this morning, but something.

I use these Seinhauer mics, and when I did my test this morning, everything was working, but you're hearing that stack.

I don't know where it's coming from.

There must be some type of interference.

Not sure, so my apologies.

So with that being said, I'm glad that we're rocking and rolling now.

Welcome to session number two.

How are we all doing today?

All right.

Thank you, Dave.

I appreciate that.

And if it changes, let me know.

My apologies.

I've been working on the last 30 minutes, and usually I get it set up.

I've already done my test.

Everything's ready to go, but this morning's been a little chaotic.

Good morning, Jesse.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Because right now, what I actually did on that one, I changed from the Seinhauser mic to.

A different mic on my computer, so it may sound a little bit far away, but I know that one's working, so I will get that cleaned up before Tuesday.

So how's everybody doing today?

Everybody ready to work?

We're gonna put in a lot of work today.

We know that session one is kind of, you know, get the little stuff out of the way.

It was set up and impact.

And even though it's so important, I know it can kind of be a little bit, you know, boring and mundane, but It is very important.

Video is still blurry, skipping for me.

Let's see.

I don't have any issues on my end with the.

I've got a tracker over here on the right.

It shows my up and download.

I don't see anything on my end.

Video good here.

Okay.

Well, good.

Well, how are we doing today?

How are we doing today?

As you know, I usually let a couple minutes of everybody kind of settling in and then we're going to get to work today.

We've got a lot of ground to cover.

What usually happens is the weekday ones are kind of methodical, kind of by the book.

Methodical and by the book.

And the weekend ones are like a lot of catch-up like, look, we got a lot of ground to cover.

And since it's the weekend, I'm going to give you a lot of homework to work on and a lot of aspects to kind of, or a lot of ground to cover.

In the swing, how are we doing so far?

Hello class, sorry, I skipped lesson number one, that's okay, you can go back for anybody.

Miss session number one?

Go to the menu, Tree Member Tools, My Purchases menu, Tree Member Tools, My Purchases.

If you did not get the PDS, which are in the handouts on this screen, okay.

If you have some problem accessing them or you did not get them, send me an email.

When this is concluded, I will get them to you, but they are right there in the handout section on your screen.

Okay, it's going to be the boot camp for this, or the PDF for this boot camp, and also all the videos I use to kind of build this program.

Love the boot camp.

Thank you Jesse, I appreciate that, thank you, thank you.

It can be sometimes hit or miss, but I always try to tell people, let me get past the first one.

When we start getting deeper into these categories, there's a lot more information to cover.

So once we get past the first one, you're gonna start to hear a lot of information.

So I'm gonna give just a couple minutes, let everybody settle in, make sure that this mic and video settles in.

Handouts are awesome.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

I put a lot of work into those.

I appreciate that.

I don't know if Anthony's in the chat yet, but if he is, Rotary Swing Instructor Anthony Hopkins should be in the chat.

Not sure, but he will be helping out today.

So make sure you give a hello to Anthony.

So far, so good.

Thanks, Mike.

Practice and drill's going well.

Awesome.

Well, before we get started, does anybody have any questions?

Anthony is with Clarice.

Believe me, when Chuck told me that we were hiring an instructor named Anthony Hopkins, I'm sure he's had it his entire life.

I was like, are you sure we want to go this route?

So any questions from phase one, I'll be happy to answer now before we get started.

So I don't waste anybody's time.

What iron do you recommend doing the drills with?

Typically a seven iron.

You can do it with anything here.

Seven, eight iron.

That's what 99% of the people do it with.

All right.

I appreciate that, Jason.

Everybody successful so far?

No question, I don't have any questions, so everybody must be nailing it.

It doesn't hurt my feelings.

I had some reviews coming in, or I've seen some reviews coming in from boot campers.

Had to do some yelling.

Do you recommend switching irons to not get used to one length and field?

You can, Mike, but I mean, in the early stages, sticking with one doesn't matter.

I mean, when it comes down to it at the end of the day, My iron swing is the same as my core iron swing.

My setup doesn't change.

There's no need for it to change.

Yes, I get a little bit taller because the club's a little bit longer, but the mechanics of it stay the same.

What I would say is get good at doing it with this one, and when you can get it repeatable, if you want to mix it up, mix it up.

But I know this has nothing to do with today's topic, but bootcamp is just to spew information.

It's to give you knowledge that I've learned over the years.

It comes the same thing like with short game people, when they're working on short game, you know they.

They work with 17 different wedges and they're like, all right.

I gotta have super flop, I gotta have this, and, you know, you know, two hops spinner, then I gotta have run out and all that.

TV shows the fun stuff, and what I mean is by TV doesn't show you all the boring and mundane parts of golf, they want to show you all these super shots.

So when I have people, you know, that come in working on shortkeep and stuff, I kind of do the same thing with them.

Like, let's get really good at hitting one stock chip.

Now, whether you're using your Sam wedge or your lob wedge or your pitching wedge or 9-iron, let's get really good at understanding the pace and the feel of that.

Then let's start to kind of mix in the other clubs.

Where are the handouts?

They should be up at the top right of the chat, Caleb.

If you don't have them, I can send them to you afterwards.

Just send me an email.

When I was at the range, I seen my balls went further than 10 to 15 yards.

Obviously, most too fast.

Yeah, I mean, most people, that's the problem.

They don't realize how hard they're actually swinging.

I went to look at supplemental videos and did not have access.

Do you have to get a separate subscription for that?

Mike, just the premium membership.

I didn't put any RSA videos or anything like that on the list.

Just the basic membership will give you that.

But like with today, I should cover a lot of the stuff.

The supplemental videos will help, but I should be able to get enough information for you to get past.

Also notice a connected evenly faced swing was better than fast.

Absolutely.

My default mistake from the drill was hitting it fat and not getting too far ahead.

Can you please suggest the cause of fat shots?

Paul The cause of fat shots is going to be lack of leg work or right hand.

But we're going to work on the leg work today and we're going to work on the right hand.

So today might be the cure for your fat shot.

What is the spine angle in relation to feet from the down the line view?

What do you mean, Rob?

spine angle in relation to feet?

My spine angle changes kind of dictated a little bit on the length of the club.

But my arms need to be hanging neutrally from the shoulder socket, so my shoulder and elbow always need to be in line with my chin lines and my trailed hands.

My spine angle is going to be dictated by how my arms are hanging down in the length of club.

I watch you over and over and did 100 reps correctly.

Love the nine to three.

Nice.

We're gonna do a lot today after practicing since your class of play yesterday.

While my woods were great, I did horribly with my irons.

Is this normal?

Should I stop playing?

Chris?

As you're going through a swing change, it is a thousand percent normal that you're going to struggle a little bit.

Just because when you typically go to the course, you're going to be in between movement patterns.

Okay, so you're probably doing some of the new good stuff, but you still have a little bit of the old bad stuff.

So when you're in between movement patterns, it makes it a little bit tough.

A couple weeks doing this, it's going to start to bleed into your swing.

Let's do two more minutes of questions and we're going to get started.

All right, Gerald.

In the PDF picture shows head and chest behind the ball at impact.

Please comment behind versus over the top of the ball at impact.

Head and chest behind the ball at impact.

Comment on being versus over the top of the ball.

Well, you want the spine, so you want the head and chest over the ball at impact.

This is kind of what we call covering the ball, okay?

If you're maintaining your touchline, maintaining your posture, your spine's coming up, and you want to maintain your chest over the ball.

At impact, you want your shoulder, hip, knee, ankle all in alignment, okay?

And you want your head behind the ball, or you can be slightly kind of into the ear, into the eye, but you want your head behind the ball at impact, and you want your chest covering the ball at impact.

The only reason people don't do that is because of early extension.

Shoulders over balls of feet.

I, I never think about that, Rob, to be honest with you.

Because when I'm getting into my setup here and I'm getting into position and I'm getting my weight balance correct and not too far towards the heel of that.

I hinge forward until I can see the golf ball, and as I hinge forward until I can see the golf ball, my legs locked out.

As soon as I add this flexion in my knees to get balanced, my arms are hanging neutrally.

This is my position.

This is my go position.

I don't really think of that relative to my feet.

It's the same thing like with stance.

When people say, take your stance shoulder width apart, what do my shoulders have to do with my feet?

If I've got bigger shoulders or narrower shoulders, that determines my stance point.

My feet are connected to my knees.

My knees are connected to my hips.

So my hip.

Is deciding my stance, not my shoulders, so my shoulders aren't deciding my hinge?

The length of the club and me being able to let my arms hang from my shoulder sockets and be in a correct balance position, all right.

I'm going to do Hans's question and William's questions, and we're going to get started.

How much wrist set do you have with the right wrist and short swings?

Not much at all.

We will discuss the wrist set today.

So in a nine to three, the trail wrist, not much at all.

I mean, there's, there's a few degrees of set from cocking, there's a very minimal amount of hinge.

One more Get Williams.

What would be the most common flaw from pushing up and out on right toes?

The most common flaw?

pushing on the toes If I'm pushing off on the toes, this is this.

This is the most common flaw.

The second most common flaw is going to be getting out ahead with the hip.

So that's why you see some players, when they get back over here and they stay stuck on their right side or their trail side, and they start excessively using their trail foot, the two problems you're going to commonly see is early extension, coming up out of posture, or pushing so hard to try to get the weight back that they start pushing their lead hip.

way outside of neutral.

All right.

So with that said, we've got some ground to cover.

And as with the first session, I will stay around and answer all your questions and make sure everybody's all hunky-dory.

So no worries on that end.

So we'll get them all answered.

But as like with the first session, unless Anthony put something up or.

There's something major going on, like video feed wise or audio feed wise.

Try to keep the chat a little quiet.

I want people, not me with my ego, but I want people focusing on me right now.

Not what's going on in the chat, because you can kind of get a little bit sidetracked with some comments there.

Welcome again boot camp session two today.

What we're going to do is we're going to work on C4 Phase two now.

The only two differences between phase one and phase two is going to be the release, the checkpoints for the release, okay?

Now, when I mentioned in the first session that this one is going to be a little bit more dynamic, it is, because we're going to start to focus a lot more on our body positions and how we move our body, and we're going to start to add the release.

It's the only thing that we're really adding to phase one, okay?

You can have a perfect golf swing, and I tell all my students this.

You can have a perfect golf swing, but if you don't release it correctly, it's pointless.

There's no reason for you to work on having, well, I mean, I still want you to work on it, but there's no reason for you to work on having a perfect takeaway and a perfect piece at the top, a perfect transition, a perfect post, and not release it correctly.

Because all of that, you do that 99% correct?

but you don't release it, it's not going to work, okay?

I've had players that have all sorts of flaws in the swing, but they understand impact and release, and so they still get to play and enjoy golf to a very high level.

So this is very important in understanding how the club actually works from impact into the release.

Now, one thing that you have to realize is that the club releases itself, all right?

Sir Isaac Newton releases this club.

This toe will rotate around the heel if you don't impede it from rotating around the heel.

And what you want is a properly released club.

When you think about in a properly released club, this toe is rotating 12 miles an hour faster than the heel.

Center of the face is rotating 8 to 6 miles an hour faster than the heel.

So if you want free speed, if you want 6 to 8 miles an hour for free, All you literally have to do is the definition of release, which is let it go.

That's the reason the definition of release is what it is.

It's to let it go.

So as you start to work on this release and you start to allow it to rotate, what you're going to find is that everything that you did in phase one, just by adding this, we should see some jumping yardage.

I don't need you to get faster.

I don't need you to start adding a lot more brute force or effort.

All I need you to do is work on the exact same thing we did in phase one and start allowing the club to rotate, and you're going to have an increase in speed.

Now, I did some swimming reviews this morning, and this is why I'm going to reiterate this.

Because, as I said from the first boot camp, things that popped in my head, I'm going to talk about them.

That's why it changes from boot camp to boot camp.

What is one of the number one reasons why people don't release the club correctly?

What is it?

It's lack of proper leg usage.

Okay?

It's the legs.

Everybody's always blaming their hands or blaming the club or blaming that guy that slammed on the cart break in the back swing.

But The number one reason why people start to mess up the release is because they lack proper legwork.

They lack proper shifting and posting.

The hips have to work correctly for the club to release itself.

If you don't use the hips correctly, then you are forced to take over for Newton and make all the magic happen.

Remember, the release in the golf swing is passive.

It's not active.

You're allowing for that club to rotate.

Yes, in the beginning, do you have to work on your wrist positions and forearms, and things are going to feel active because you're having to kind of change your movement pattern.

But the release at the end of the day is passive, and it won't passively happen if you don't work your legs correctly.

I saw two reviews this morning, two players struggling with impact in the release, and the sole number one reason why they couldn't do it is because of lack of legwork.

And this is why I built this program this way.

For phase two, we're going to go and do a mini dead drill all the way up into phase two.

So we're going to work on body, we're going to add arm, we're going to add club, we're going to add release, we're going to add golf ball back.

And it's the way that I want you to work on this program between now and Tuesday's session.

Because when I start allowing you to put both hands on the club and I say, all right Today, I mean, I'll just go ahead and do one.

All right, today we're going to start hitting golf balls.

And we're going to start seeing this ball fly further.

As soon as I start allowing you to do this, this is going to be what happens.

You're going to get to here and do this.

Now, what's the problem with what I just did there?

I completely ignored what generates everything in the golf swing.

Every single clinic I've ever done, all the years I've done clinics, human lessons, when I start allowing people to start releasing and hitting the ball further, they forget all their prior knowledge, and they forget that it's the body and everything that generates the motion.

So I need your focus to be on how you move so the club can react.

Remember, a lot of these things are byproducts, and that's the most important part.

So with that being said, Let's get started.

The first thing that I want you to do is we're going to do a little bit of a mini dead drill, okay?

And this is kind of how I want you to warm up as you're working on your phase two.

So I want you to take your setup, proper stance width, get to your ax, tilt all the fun stuff, and I want you to put your arms and hands across your chest.

We're going to focus solely on body first, okay?

So I want you to take your setup, and if you're at home right now, get up and do these with me.

All right, get up.

Start feeling these things so later you can ask some questions if things aren't firing correctly.

If you got a mirror, get in front of a mirror.

Watch yourself.

Take your setup, axis, tilt, all the fun stuff.

All we want to do is a mini dead drill, 9 to 3 version.

So what do we need?

We need a little bit of weight, so I want you to push your trail foot into the ground, and I want you to make a 45 -degree shoulder rotation.

So if you look right here, I've got 45 degrees of shoulder rotation.

Little bit of hip, not much, but I can feel that I've loaded a little bit into my trail leg, and I've got a perfect takeaway body position, okay?

If you struggle with this, chunking these pieces up at first, no issues.

If you have to go from here, push your trail foot into the ground, and then rotate your shoulders at first, I don't have a problem with that.

It's going to hurt my feelings.

The goal would be to push your trail foot and do this all-in-one motion, okay?

So I want you to load 45 degrees of shoulder rotation now once you achieve this position.

I want you to push your left foot into the ground and when you push your left or lead foot into the ground, I want you to put about 70 to 80 percent of pressure into that lead leg.

When you do this, the hips should return back to square.

They didn't rotate much in the backswing, But if they did, you need to allow them to go back to square.

And at this position, you'll notice that my shoulders are still closed.

My hips are square.

And all I want you to do is work your pressure from the ball of your lead foot towards your heel and straighten your lead leg so that you can post.

And when you do this, this is what it should look like.

Everything is stacked.

Your belt buckle's out in front, 35, 45 degrees.

Shoulders are square.

And the trailed foot.

Is on the end step, you're just rolling, you're allowing the trail foot to roll a little bit on the end step.

Okay, this is.

The first part of the homework is to be able to do this fluidly and to be able to do it with a little bit of pace.

So you're going to go right foot, right shoulder, left foot post.

You should be able to make a mini dead drill nine to three with this and hit all your checkpoints.

We shouldn't see the head going this way, We shouldn't see the weight falling back this way when you pose.

You need to be able to move your body into this position.

Now you can see, I'm doing it with a little rhythm and run.

I've done a few before, okay?

That's what you need to first work on, is you need to feel how to move your body first, of the utmost importance, because when you start releasing the club, you're going to forget about what's going on with your body.

Okay, and that's the most important thing.

The body is the engine of this one.

I saw a comment, I just want to make sure enough no feed because I felt the repeat lost.

Bad connection Anybody else getting a bad connection?

or is that just Chris Connection Finder?

Okay, so when we're looking at this, We have to be able to feel our body positions.

Because this is what I really want you thinking about.

I want you to think about how you're moving your legs, a little rhythm and rhyme.

Now, if you're struggling with getting a little rhythm and rhyme to this, it's okay to allow for a little bit of lifting of the feet.

I'm not saying do this on a daily basis in your full golf swing every single swing.

I'm saying that if you're someone that struggles with getting some rhythm and feeling the legs and moving some weight, let your left foot lift a little bit.

Let your right foot lift a little bit.

This will give you a little bit of the feel of how to just kind of move some of that pressure in your legs.

It's okay.

And you can do it just in this small version.

If anybody watched some of my C4 journey, this is one of the things that I do when I get to the range and I'm a little bit locked up and I'm tense.

I start to just let my feet lift just a little bit, just enough, so that I can get my legs activated, I can get them awake, because that's what I really want to be thinking about then today.

It's kind of what I'm doing with my body and my legs.

I can tell you, I rarely think, if ever, about this guy.

I really don't care about this guy.

He just kind of follows what I do.

So the first thing is I want you to be able to feel weight, rotation, shift, post.

Okay?

Once you can do this, I want you to add the lead arm into the mix.

Okay, now with adding the lead arm into the mix, everybody's always like, well, Craig, I want to be a trail side player.

I want to be a trail side releaser in the golf swing.

We will talk about that in phase three and phase four, session three and session four.

For right now, I need you to start to understand that you're still going to be controlling ball flight and allowing for release with your lead hand.

Okay, Just like we did in phase one, impact is being controlled by the lead hand.

Okay, So at this stage, we still need to understand how the lead hand is allowing for the release.

Remember, your lead hand has the glove on it for a reason.

So I want you to take this same motion, I want you to get into your setup, lead hand in front of you.

You see how I'm kind of shaking hands with the ground, you can do grip or shaking hands.

I prefer shaking hands just because it allows me to kind of see the rotation, kind of the orientation of my lead wrist, what have you.

So what I want you to do from here, once you do some body drills, you can take a trail arm, put it behind you, hang it, doesn't really matter.

I typically put it behind me, but I got my mic there.

So as we move from here, I want you to do the same thing.

Little right foot, trail foot, trail shoulder, to shaking hands position around pocket height.

Then I want you to push your lead foot into the ground.

Post, work into this impact position.

You'll see that my glove logo is facing the target.

My lead wrist is flat to bow.

And then I want you to allow for it to release.

Now notice when I allow for it to release, I didn't rotate my chest.

I didn't rotate my hips more.

The only thing that happened is I allowed my lead arm and hand to swing and release.

So we're going to go from here.

Should look just like this.

You can see that I'm not getting here and then just rotating my hand down and then working my legs.

I'm getting here, I'm working my legs, shifting, posting, which is pulling my arm and hand in front of me, then I'm allowing for it to release.

Okay?

I want you to get the feel of what it's like to do it without the club.

Set up, rotate, shift, post, let the club release.

I don't want to see any of this.

I don't want to see any of this.

And then moving the legs.

I want you to feel how your weight, rotation, your weight, your pose, is allowing for your arm to swing and move from these positions.

You know, we talk about this fulcrum position in the lead shoulder all the time.

And it's so important.

You need to feel how your lead arm and hand work from that fulcrum position, kind of like a grandfather claw.

So take the tension out.

Get this set up.

Trail foot, trail shoulder, shift pose, let it release.

Okay?

So I want you to be able to build a little bit of pace into this.

Build a little bit of rhythm and rhyme to this.

We shouldn't see any excessive head, any excessive toes, what have you.

Once you can kind of get the flow with that going.

All right?

And let me actually show you from down the line.

Because I want to show you, you know, from down the line, this is one of my pet peeves when people do this drill.

is that they set up right here and that they're arm and hands out like this.

They're like, all right, Craig, I'm here, I'm here.

It's all well and good, but the problem is the club's down here.

And I want your drills to mimic exactly what you're going to do with that little devil over there, okay?

So you're going to hinge forward, get into position, let your lead arm and hand hang where it would be if you're holding a golf club.

Not way out here, not way in here.

Let it hang where you'd be holding golf for.

You're going to go trail foot, trail shoulder, into this shaking hands position right here.

Then you're going to shift post and let it release.

Notice as I work down, you can see my left butt cheek.

My trail foot's rolled off the instep.

My head and chest are staying down.

And the club's released.

Make-believe club.

Because I'm back in this shaking hands position on this side.

Trail foot, trail shoulder, shift post, let it release.

I know this kind of seems a little, like how's this going to help me out in my golf swing?

This is the problem.

You're not focusing on how you move.

You're thinking too much about that guy.

Once you get that down, I typically would start with people flipped over.

But today, we're going to start in the normal position.

So once you can do that motion, and you can get moving through the positions, grab a club, lead hand only.

Now when you grab it, lead hand only.

We're going to take our setup, do the same things, and we're going to focus on the trail foot, trail shoulder.

We're going to make a little takeaway.

Okay, you can see I've got 45 degrees of shoulder rotation.

My weight's in my trail side.

Now I'm going to go through the same thing.

Shift post.

And I want you to let it release.

Now look at what happened when I let it release.

My chest stayed square.

My head's looking this way, but my head stayed in position.

My hips are open, chest square, club's released.

You have to start to get the feeling of letting your legs lead the way and the club releasing.

This will create a nice, shallow angle of attack.

And if you've got a mat in front of you, I've got my gym floor right here.

It's just going to be kind of grazing the ground.

Remember, rotation, okay, at the end of the day, inherently shallows plain impact.

So as you start to allow for this club to release, it's going to start to shallow out how you're working through the strike.

It's going to start to get rid of those big leading edge kind of deep divots, okay?

Once you can work into that position, And I'll do a couple from down the line as well.

We get set up here, the arm in hand.

Here, shift post, let it release.

About a centimeter away from breaking in here.

Here, let it release.

I want you to start checking your checkpoints.

Now what I mean by starting to check your checkpoints, everything should remain the same as what it was in phase one.

All those five points stay the same.

But there's two I want you to look at.

That are new.

Number one when you work over here.

Is the club towed up or slightly towed in?

All right, it has to be towed up or slightly towed in.

Or you didn't release it.

If your club is like this, you have way too much tension and you're not aligned for the club to release.

So as you work through here, the club should be towed up or slightly towed in.

You don't need it facing the ground like that at this point.

Toed up or slightly toed in.

Your lead wrist should still be flat.

Now, it may have a little bit of cupping.

Going back to session number one, if you have a really, really strong grip.

Now, let's strengthen my right here.

You can see I still would have a little bit of cupping right there, but you can see that my club is released.

But that's only if you have a really, really strong grip.

Okay.

So as you move through this.

You should be able to feel your body, and you're allowing the club to release.

I want you thinking about your legs and letting the club release.

And you can see the pace that I'm doing this at.

I'm not really racing through this right now.

Just by allowing this club to rotate, this is going to start to alter the shots that we did in the first one.

This is going to start to teach you how to effortlessly have speed.

Because you're moving the legs, you're allowing the club to rotate, and instead of kind of racing for dear life, we started out with these little small shots, and now we're allowing for a little bit of release, which is going to start to allow the ball to jump off the face a little bit more.

And you'll realize kind of how far it's going for so little effort.

That's kind of what I want you to get out of this.

It's not just the consistency of this.

This is going to help with consistency, and that's why the category is called consistency.

But it's also going to teach you how much you're kind of overworking.

To get the ball to go a certain distance, or get the ball to just go distance in general.

Okay?

So I want you to get really good with your lead arm and hand only, shifting, posting, letting the club release.

Notice that in my extension.

I'll go through all the faults and fixes in a second.

But I want you to be able to work through this position.

Once you can do this lead arm and hand only, You got to eventually add the trail hand back.

Now, how I like to do it is I like to do it with letting go and then leaving it on.

And what I mean by letting it go is a little bit of the BJ release drill.

If you look at the checkpoints, I think the pages for some reason on the bootcamp got messed up.

If you go to page 11, you'll see the checkpoints.

All right.

So if you think about the checkpoints, you'll see under the release category is BJ release.

That's the next stage of the evolution I'd like for you to work on this.

I want you to take your trail hand, put it on the club, get in our setup, all the good stuff.

I want you to focus on shifting, making the same body rotation that we did in our drill.

And I want you to focus on shifting, posting, and letting the trail hand go.

So that's going to look like this.

Notice where my trail hand is right now.

My trail hand is still down here at impact.

My chest is still square, my hips are open, my lead leg's straight, and the club's released.

This is going to start to introduce allowing the club to release without taking over with the trail hand.

Okay?

Because this trail hand at this stage in the game, even though it's on there, is applying energy.

Even though you may not think that you're using it, it is.

It's doing something.

No matter how little you think it's moving.

So we go from here.

I want you to let this trail hand release.

Okay.

From down the line, ready to get set up.

I'm going to move back over here.

Hopefully, yeah, I think I'm on camera.

We go from here, a little takeaway.

Shift post, let it release.

Notice how my hips are open.

My chest and head are staying down.

And when I look at my checkpoints, my toes are actually slightly down right now.

My lead wrist is flat.

Okay.

So we're here.

Look at my trail foot.

My trail foot's rolled off the instep, my hips are open, my chest is down, my head is down.

Once you can advance beyond this stage, you've got to start to leave the trail hand on the club.

Now the number one question I'm going to get is, Craig, I can't leave my shoulders square anymore.

Yes, because you have a trail hand on the club.

But they still need to remain square at impact.

So once you can graduate, And start doing full nine to threes.

You're going to take your set up, all the fun stuff.

We're going to go take away, shift post, let it release.

And when you look at this position, you should see some width.

Lead arms staying straight, trail arms staying straight, the club, and the rotated toe up, toe down position.

Okay?

But when you start doing this, you'll feel how the speed starts to pick up a little bit.

Just allow.

For that free flowing of the motion, you're still providing a little effort.

But the club, because both hands on there right now and working the legs, the speed is starting to increase.

But like I mentioned earlier, the first thing that's going to go out the window is you're going to forget about your legs.

I did a live lesson yesterday where I told the student that I don't care what happens in between that live lesson and the next live lesson.

I don't care if he's coming over the top, I don't care if he's casting.

I don't care if he's stupid, but if he comes back at me and he's not using his legs.

I said, I'm going to turn off the camera and I'm going to wait for the next lesson.

Just because I can't fix the other stuff until I get down to the root problem, and the root problem is usually below the belt right now.

Okay, so we're going to take the setup.

And then you go through your checkpoints.

Remember, don't worry about the golf ball until you can hit your checkpoints.

Okay, until you can see the staff, the trail foot rolling in, the club release.

Don't worry about any of that stuff.

We'll do this from down the line right here.

As we go from here, we got a little pressure, let it release.

Notice how I'm staying in this position, my head's staying down.

Trail foot, club released.

And I'm going to make sure that I can do these reps before I start worrying about these things.

Now at this point in time, once you can kind of feel what you're doing, I want you to start to add the ball back.

I want you to start to challenge yourself a little bit.

You can do lead arm and hand only, okay?

And what I mean by that is you can take the setup and hit some reps like this.

There you take the setup and get your trail hand out of the way, load, rotate, shift and let it release.

If you're in front of me for an in-person lesson, this would probably be what we'd be doing until I started seeing the club release.

Okay, you can do that, but if you're allowing for it to release and you have the good feels with it.

Start challenging yourself a little bit with that trail 1000 and kind of start out with that.

V.

J.

1001 We're going to take the setup, we're 1002 going to get the position, 1003 take away, shift post, 1004 let the trail hand go.

Now notice my 1005 trail hand's still here, my hip's still 1006 in position, my trail hand's still in 1007 position, my head's down, my club's 1008 released.

1009 If I didn't hit that one well, I still 1010 wouldn't look at the ball flight until my 1011 checkpoints were there.

So for me, I did 1012 all my checkpoints.

And I know what that 1013 contact felt like and that was a pretty 1014 good strike.

So that's a win.

But if I 1015 look at myself and all my checkpoints are 1016 there and the ball striking just isn't 1017 quite there yet, that's okay.

Because the 1018 most important thing is let's get this.

1019 If this gets fixed, that'll get fixed.

1020 I'll do one of those from down the line 1021 as well for you.

1022 It's a pretty tight lie right here.

1023 We're going to take our setup.

1024 Make our takeaway here.

1025 Let it release.

Notice my trail foot's 1026 still behaving.

My hips are open.

My 1027 chest, all good.

1028 Okay?

1029 Once you can get good, letting the trail 1030 hand go, letting the club release, 1031 hitting those checkpoints, then we need 1032 to polish off the full 9-3.

1033 And when you start polishing off the full 1034 9-3 with both hands, 1035 You're going to see, oh wow, the ball is 1036 now going 40 50 yards versus 10 15.

But 1037 you really didn't change anything, the 1038 only thing that really changed is that 1039 you allow for the club to release.

So 1040 once you can graduate to that, we're 1041 going to take our setup, get our ball 1042 position, everything's good.

Make our 1043 takeaway shift post, let it release 1044 notice.

I'm maintaining my positions over 1045 here, 1046 I can see that my toe is up.

1047 I can see that my forearms are crossed 1048 over.

They're not like this, 1049 nor like that.

1050 My hips are open.

My trail foot's there.

1051 You need to start allowing for good 1052 things to happen in your swing.

1053 People get so concerned.

1054 With this position and that position, I'm 1055 going all the way over here and making 1056 things happen with the club because you 1057 hold the club with your hands.

It makes 1058 perfect sense.

1059 It's where you're getting a lot of your 1060 feel from.

1061 The problem is, if you want a simple 1062 repeatable swing and you want things to 1063 happen versus you having to force them to 1064 happen, then you've got to move your body 1065 around.

You got to kind of forget about 1066 this guy.

1067 So from down the line, we're going to 1068 take the setup here.

1069 Let it release.

1070 Okay.

1071 And that's going to kind of be the goal, 1072 is to move through these positions.

1073 Now, like with phase one, 1074 the takeaway, we're not trying to perfect 1075 the takeaway at this stage, but a really 1076 poor takeaway can hurt you from achieving 1077 this mission.

If you throw it way inside 1078 or you throw it, you know, push it way 1079 out.

But if you push it way out, then 1080 you're not doing the very first thing 1081 that I talked about, which was weight and 1082 rotation, 1083 right?

Not many people are going to go 1084 like this and then rotate their 1085 shoulders.

I mean, it's kind of a 1086 physical impossibility.

As soon as I 1087 start rotating, it's going to start to 1088 create some depth in this one.

1089 But if you get here and you start really 1090 rolling it like crazy or, you know, a 1091 very 1092 exaggerated takeaway, 1093 you're not going to be able to achieve 1094 these positions.

So like what Klaus was 1095 saying earlier, when it comes down to 1096 this takeaway, we're looking for 45 1097 degrees of shoulder rotation, the trail 1098 arm to stay straight.

1099 We need to maintain the angle in our lead 1100 wrist and the angle that we had in our 1101 trail wrist.

And I'll show you what that 1102 means.

1103 When I go from here and I make my 1104 takeaway, what I want you to notice is 1105 that I still have a little bit of cupping 1106 in my lead wrist, and my trail wrist is 1107 still relatively flat.

1108 The club is parallel to the ground around 1109 pocket height.

You can see I have a 1110 little bit of wrist up there, and that's 1111 just me allowing the weight of the club 1112 to settle a little bit.

I'm shifting 1113 weight.

I'm rotating.

I'm just allowing a 1114 little bit of the weight of the club to 1115 set a little bit.

1116 This is going to get me into a good 1117 takeaway and a position to really make 1118 this 9 to 3 work.

1119 If we look at that from down the line, I 1120 start from this position.

I make my 1121 takeaway.

What I want you to notice is my 1122 trail wrist is still pretty similar to 1123 what it was at address.

It's still flat.

1124 If I get here and I start hinging back 1125 with it like crazy, what's it going to 1126 do?

A, it's going to tend to get inside, 1127 but B, It's going to shut down the face, 1128 okay?

And if the face gets overly shut, 1129 you're not going to want it to release in 1130 the downswing.

1131 You're going to be like, oh, I get here, 1132 my face is facing the ground.

Well, if I 1133 release it now, I'm going to start 1134 hitting 10-yard pull hooks.

1135 So you want this trail wrist to remain 1136 relatively flat, the leave wrist to 1137 maintain a little bit of its cuffing, so 1138 you're in a balanced position.

1139 We just have to kind of be in the window.

1140 If the club head's a little bit outside, 1141 if it's in line with your toe, even right 1142 here, no problem.

We just can't have this 1143 or this.

1144 Because that's going to make a 1145 difference.

1146 Okay.

1147 Trying to make sure.

1148 And so that's going to be what balances 1149 out your 9 to 3 so that we can start 1150 getting our numbers.

1151 Results with this.

1152 Now as you're going through this phase, I 1153 want to talk a little bit about some of 1154 the faults and fixes and some of the 1155 things that you may see or come about.

1156 Because this should be a very shallow 1157 strike.

If anything, straight, maybe a 1158 tiny little bit of a draw.

1159 The most common things that I see is 1160 first the push.

1161 Push this shot right here.

What's going 1162 to be the most common reason for the push 1163 to be in this one?

Okay, the push in this 1164 version is going to be getting here to 1165 nine 1166 I've always kidded around with my 1167 students that are like, Greg, you can't 1168 stop pushing the ball.

Well, are you 1169 pushing?

1170 It's kind of a simple way to think about 1171 1172 So if you experience a big push, check to 1173 see if you're pushing.

1174 If you experience a big pull, that goes 1175 to the other side of the equation that 1176 I'm talking about with the shoulders.

1177 Now, if I get down here into this 1178 position and I rotate my shoulders, but I 1179 also.

Let the club release, I'm like, 1180 Hey, I'm rotating my shoulders, but I'm 1181 going to make this club kind of release.

1182 I'm going to start hitting it for me left 1183 of left, which would look like getting 1184 here and now look at what happened.

I let 1185 the club release, but my chest and 1186 shoulders spun through the shot, with the 1187 club face rotating over.

And that's going 1188 to create a left of left shot.

So if 1189 you're struggling with the pull, check 1190 your shoulders, more than likely you're 1191 letting the club release.

1192 But you're taking your shoulders and 1193 you're now spinning them, which is 1194 getting you a little bit steep.

And when 1195 you get a little bit steep, but you still 1196 allow for that release to happen or make 1197 it happen with your trail hand, you're 1198 going to have left left.

1199 Okay?

1200 So we want to shy away from that.

1201 Excessive draws and fades.

1202 Okay?

1203 Typically excessive draw, 1204 once we take the shoulders out of this, 1205 is getting down here and flipping.

1206 Now I want to show you the difference.

1207 This is a flip.

1208 This is a release.

Now what's the 1209 difference?

1210 Flip.

1211 Release.

1212 Notice how when I'm releasing the club, 1213 I'm still maintaining this kind of 1214 radius, this grandfather clock effect 1215 from my lead shoulder.

1216 When I'm flipping, 1217 this essentially stops, and I'm manually 1218 making the face rotate over.

Now all of a 1219 sudden, my grandfather clock, I don't 1220 have this width and extension coming 1221 through.

1222 See how I have width and extension here?

1223 That's a flip.

I'm manually making it 1224 happen.

Remember, the release is passive.

1225 It's not active.

I don't make that 1226 happen.

If that happens because I'm using 1227 my legs, my body's slowing down, and the 1228 club releases independently of my body.

1229 It's not because I'm making that happen.

1230 So if you're kind of getting excessive 1231 rotation on the ball, especially draw, 1232 I want you to check, after you check your 1233 shoulders, 1234 Are you flipping it?

1235 You need to passively let this release.

1236 Check your legs, make sure the hips are 1237 open, the chest is square, and the club 1238 is releasing and extending.

If you're 1239 struggling with that still, 1240 when you put your right hand on it, also 1241 check your trail hand.

1242 Because the trail hand is very good at 1243 making this shut down, but that still 1244 kind of gets back into the flip.

1245 If you start hitting a lot of excessive 1246 fades or going to the right, 1247 spinning the shoulders can delay the club 1248 face leaving it open, but also tension.

1249 If I go from here and I hold on to the 1250 face, I still have this width that I just 1251 talked about a second ago, but look at my 1252 club face.

It's facing the sky.

You have 1253 to allow for it to release.

1254 If you get to your checkpoint over here 1255 and the face is like this, it's going to 1256 be extremely hard to hit it straight 1257 without.

1258 doing some excessive rotation with their 1259 body, which now is going to start causing 1260 you distance, casting, and all this other 1261 bad stuff.

So if you start hitting 1262 excessively to the right, check your 1263 tension.

Check to make sure that you're 1264 not gripping your body through a pull 1265 down to the face, but you're allowing for 1266 it to rotate.

1267 One big key in this is having a little 1268 bit of faith.

1269 What I mean is in faith that the club 1270 will square up.

1271 You don't have to make the club square.

1272 Period.

Flat out.

The club is always 1273 rotated.

1274 Always rotated.

Does anybody tell you 1275 anything?

1276 If I were an Iron Byron or I were a 1277 machine, notice how if I hold this club 1278 up and I let it go, what happens?

1279 Why would I let it go if the face went 1280 down like this?

1281 Conversely, 1282 if I were to pick up.

I might have one 1283 around here somewhere.

Give me two 1284 seconds before I gave it away.

1285 Conversely, I pick up this thing.

This is 1286 not my butter.

1287 And I hold it up here like this.

How come 1288 the face stays pointed to the sky?

It 1289 doesn't go down this way.

1290 Why does it stay pointed to the sky 1291 versus what my iron is?

Well, it's 1292 because my putter.

Not my putter.

That 1293 putter is more face balance.

It's 1294 designed not to rotate.

1295 To like a straight, straight type of 1296 stroke.

For somebody that uses a lead 1297 hand low, that would be very good for 1298 you.

1299 This thing, when I do the same thing, 1300 this toe.

Why?

Because it's designed to 1301 rotate.

This head is designed to rotate 1302 around the heel.

1303 Around the entrance of the shaft.

1304 Okay, so don't let anybody tell you it's 1305 not designed to rotate.

And what I mean 1306 by this big thing is you have to trust 1307 that this club will square up for you.

1308 That's one of the biggest problems when 1309 it comes down to releasing the club.

It's 1310 the giving up of control.

1311 You must give up control to gain control.

1312 Okay, you must give up control to gain 1313 control.

1314 It's tough.

It is because you want to, 1315 you feel this, you want to control the 1316 shot, you want to make sure this shot 1317 goes exactly how you want it to go.

So 1318 I'm going to impart my will on this 1319 thing, I'm going to make sure this thing 1320 is square.

I have a way easier this time 1321 and squaring it up in the same position, 1322 just letting the club square up when it 1323 wants.

Versus me thinking about every 1324 single piece that goes through here, I 1325 get at the same spot every single time.

1326 But if I were sitting here, thinking 1327 about trying, okay, I'm going to get this 1328 two degrees, three degrees, four degrees.

1329 I'm going to get down here, hold this, do 1330 that.

I can't do it.

1331 Golf swim is too fast.

1332 I'm not that good.

1333 So you have to have a little bit of faith 1334 that if you work through these positions 1335 and you allow the club to release it, 1336 we'll square.

You're going to allow it to 1337 square when it happens.

1338 Players will often come back.

1339 Session three and say, Whoo, my lead arm 1340 is worn out.

Yeah, it's, it's killing me, 1341 it's burning.

If you're using muscles for 1342 the first time and you're a little bit 1343 sore because you've never released it 1344 properly, no issue.

Okay, so if you've 1345 always been a lifelong holder on to the 1346 face and you've never allowed the club to 1347 release, and you're a little bit sore, no 1348 problem with that.

1349 If you get tired doing this, that's a 1350 whole other bag of chips.

1351 Okay?

1352 I could sit here and give every single 1353 session of the boot camp doing this.

1354 And never get tired.

I consider doing 1355 this all day long.

1356 If you do five shots and all of a sudden 1357 you're like, you're breaking a sweat.

1358 You're starting to get a cramp.

You're 1359 like, somebody give me a banana, some 1360 electrolytes.

1361 Then you're getting here and you're 1362 yanking it.

You're forcing this thing to 1363 happen.

And you're going to get tired 1364 because you're using a lot of muscular 1365 effort.

All right?

You should be able to 1366 stay right here.

1367 You should be able to get on a conference 1368 call.

You should be able to do whatever 1369 daily activity that you want to do.

1370 You're like, okay, I've released the 1371 club.

1372 I'm going to do this all day long.

1373 Because all I'm doing is I'm taking the 1374 same just la, la, la.

I'm not dead.

1375 There's a fine line.

I don't want you 1376 dead.

Dead would be still have feeling.

1377 Still feel a little bit of activation.

1378 But all I'm doing is I'm taking the same 1379 nonchalant.

I'm plugging in weight and 1380 rotation, shift post, and letting it 1381 release.

And notice how everything's just 1382 speeding up.

I'm not really doing a whole 1383 bunch, But I'm letting the momentum from 1384 my body and the rotation and the extra 1385 width into posting up from the ground.

1386 And starting to generate a little bit 1387 more speed and a little bit more free 1388 rotation to the face.

So if you get 1389 excessively tired doing these kind of 1390 lead arm only things, you're doing it 1391 wrong.

And it means that you're trying to 1392 make this happen, 1393 okay?

1394 Our goal with this is still the lower 1395 ball flight.

1396 It should be going 40-50 yards.

If you're 1397 using the 7-iron, you're using the 8 1398 -iron.

It should be going 40-50 yards.

Our 1399 dispersion with this should be 5 yards 1400 left or right.

1401 Because this is a little bit more 1402 challenging, dispersion changes a little 1403 bit.

But that's still a pretty tight 1404 window.

You should be able to hit a 50 1405 -yard shot in a 5-yard dispersion left or 1406 right.

1407 With the ball flight that you want, it 1408 should still be a little bit low to mid 1409 if you're going really high.

And you may 1410 need to go back to phase one or check 1411 your checkpoints.

Because then you're 1412 probably going back to overworking the 1413 trail hand and getting a little bit more 1414 scooping motion into it, hitting it hot.

1415 But like with phase one and impact, at 1416 the end of the day, the main thing is 1417 impact, not all these other stuff.

So if 1418 we can really hunker down and handle 1419 what's going on between 9 1420 I know this may look simple with me 1421 sitting here doing this, but this is 1422 where all the good stuff happens.

1423 If we get here to here, you can make this 1424 motion down in here.

1425 The consistency and the effortless speed 1426 is going to start to go through the roof 1427 because you're really taking care of what 1428 really matters in the swing, which is 1429 kind of everything below the belt.

1430 Now your homework, 1431 is to work on all this.

You're like, 1432 Craig, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1433 I can't do all that.

I only got three 1434 days in between now and Tuesday's 1435 session.

1436 I want you to work on some body 1437 components, and I want you to work on 1438 body arm and club components, okay?

You 1439 start where you need to start.

You may 1440 get this and get in front of a mirror and 1441 be like, all right, Craig, I can do this 1442 mini dead drill in my sleep because I've 1443 already done the dead drill before, and I 1444 got really good at doing body.

You don't 1445 need to sit there and get really good at 1446 something that you're already good at.

1447 Stack the arm to it or stack the club to 1448 it.

You need to kind of rep where you 1449 need to rep.

But I would tell everybody, 1450 still take 10 or 15 reps just to feel it 1451 body-wise.

It just helps the legs wake up 1452 and all the good stuff start to kind of 1453 work on their own.

1454 But what I want is a minimum of 100 reps 1455 every day, all right?

Now, for some 1456 people, they start working their body and 1457 they're like, Craig, I.

I have to do 90 1458 body ones, and then I can try 10 shots.

1459 Or I'm going to do 90 of these, and then 1460 I'll try to do one of these with a club 1461 and a ball.

That's okay.

Remember, you 1462 have to kind of go at your own pace with 1463 those.

1464 But I want you to still try to do a 1465 little mixture of both, 1466 okay?

1467 Even if you're already good at it.

So 1468 just kind of warm up that way.

1469 I still do these things.

I did an 1470 interview this morning where.

We were 1471 talking about this release, students in 1472 phase two as well.

1473 And he was like, okay, you know, it took 1474 him about three or four reviews, but he 1475 sent one back this morning.

He's like, 1476 hey, now I'm starting to get it.

I'm 1477 really starting to hit these a lot better 1478 now.

I'm getting the feel for not 1479 overworking and all this.

I said, great.

1480 He said, you're going to be doing that 1481 the rest of your life.

1482 I still, to this day, I still go to the 1483 range when I go.

1484 I warm up this way.

It just allows me to 1485 start feeling the club, 1486 just kind of do its own thing, get my leg 1487 worked down.

1488 It's a great way to warm up and kind of 1489 start getting out of your own way to get 1490 your session going when you practice.

1491 But I still want at least a minimum of 1492 100 a day, and you start with what you 1493 need to start with.

I still would like 1494 you to put a couple body moves in there, 1495 but you don't need to sit there and do 1496 300 body moves if your body movements are 1497 perfect.

1498 Warm up with it, add the arm club, work 1499 through.

The phases, okay, you kind of 1500 gauge where you need to be.

But if you 1501 add both arms, hands and club and you get 1502 to here and you're not hitting any of the 1503 checkpoints, take the step back.

Those 1504 who go the slowest will excel the 1505 fastest.

At the end, it always works that 1506 way, force in the hair, right?

Always 1507 will work that way.

This whole learning 1508 takes time, takes proper reps.

1509 If you come back at Tuesday and you say, 1510 Craig, I couldn't do it with a club.

I 1511 couldn't do it with a golf ball.

But by 1512 Tuesday's session, I was able to get here 1513 and my body motions are flowing.

I'm 1514 maintaining touch line.

My trail foot's 1515 rolling in.

I'm posting up.

I can really 1516 feel how I'm working here.

Awesome.

1517 You don't understand how much better 1518 you're going to be in the long run with 1519 golf.

Okay?

1520 With that said, I know it's a Saturday 1521 morning.

I know people have things to do.

1522 Thank you for stopping by today.

1523 Questions?

1524 Answers?

1525 I'm at your disposal.

And I see the chat 1526 going nuts right now, so I gather there's 1527 a few.

If you have to leave, remember the 1528 replay will be up.

1529 MenuTree, Member Tools, My Purchases.

1530 I'll get that up as soon as I can.

1531 And thanks for spending your Saturday 1532 morning with me.

This is what we need to 1533 work on between now and Tuesday's 1534 session.

Let's get to work.

If you have 1535 questions that can stand by, I'm gonna 1536 have that, all right, so I'm gonna wind 1537 this back a little bit.

Um, all right, 1538 I'm gonna start with Dave's question, 1539 because it's hard for me to go all the 1540 way back.

1541 Let me make sure Anthony or nobody's 1542 gotten that yet.

Okay.

1543 All right, so Dave, I consistently hit 1544 the face off the toe from the center of 1545 the iron.

I want to be sure I understand 1546 from what you're saying, it's because I'm 1547 pulling my shoulders up ahead of my 1548 release.

All right, so if you are 1549 striking the toe, all right, if you're 1550 striking the toe in this shot, you need 1551 to check your lead shoulder.

1552 More than likely, you're taking your lead 1553 shoulder.

and you're bailing out of the 1554 shot.

So when you start to move this 1555 fulcrum position, 1556 okay, that's going to be what moves the 1557 ball out towards the toe.

1558 So the first thing I want you to check is 1559 the shoulder staying square and the club 1560 releasing from the fulcrum position, 1561 okay?

1562 Mike, can you describe the feeling of how 1563 much pressure on the lead and trail foot 1564 during the drill?

It feels like my head 1565 wants to move my hips as well.

Can you 1566 touch on that?

Also, should the lead knee 1567 be locked at post?

The lead knee should 1568 not be locked at post.

1569 Nothing in the swing should ever be 1570 locked.

1571 It feels like my head wants to move with 1572 the hips as well.

It's okay to have a 1573 little bit of head motion, all right?

So 1574 if you're thinking about moving weight, 1575 You can see, even my head's moving a 1576 little bit.

It's not going like this and 1577 this, but the head may move about a half 1578 inch to an inch in the back, so it may 1579 move about an inch to get back or an inch 1580 and a half.

So it's okay to allow the 1581 head to move just a little bit.

You're 1582 moving weight.

If my head stayed 1583 perfectly centered and I moved my weight, 1584 what would happen?

1585 The only way for me to maintain a lot of 1586 my body positions, the head's going to 1587 have to move just slightly, okay?

1588 Describe how much pressure on the lead 1589 and trail feet during the drills.

I'm 1590 starting 50-50.

1591 I'm going to about 70% of my weight, 70 1592 to 80.

1593 80 is a little bit a lot at this stage, 1594 but 70 to 80 at this stage, because the 1595 vast majority is going to be done on the 1596 take, but I'm going about 70 to 80 to 1597 here.

I'm getting 70 to 80 back to my 1598 lead leg, and when I fully post, I've got 1599 90 on that lead leg.

1600 In my lifetime, I've felt 3 million flips 1601 and swings.

Not sure I've ever felt 10 1602 true releases.

This seems to be the 1603 essence of the difference between hitting 1604 at the ball and having a swing that moves 1605 through the ball.

Is the release action 1606 the same for the driver as an iron?

1607 Exactly.

1608 Exactly.

1609 That's the difference between hitting at 1610 the ball and the ball getting in the way 1611 and the club squaring up of itself.

I 1612 kind of said it better myself.

The 1613 release action is exactly the same for a 1614 driver.

The only difference in a driver 1615 and iron swing.

Is setup and we will talk 1616 about that in phase four.

All right, so 1617 the driver and iron the exact same swing 1618 setup differences, but the release is the 1619 exact same.

The only time the release is 1620 going to change is for specialty shots.

A 1621 little bit short game, which is a 1622 specialty.

Weight shift is evenish from 1623 to heel, trail side and then to the front 1624 of lead, side, foot, then the heel 1625 resolving and post-up.

Yeah, Rob, the 1626 weight moves like a figure eight in this 1627 one.

1628 Okay.

1629 So when you're starting from here in your 1630 balance, it's going to move towards your 1631 trail heel.

1632 Weight's going to move towards the ball 1633 of the lead foot.

And everything's going 1634 to get back to balance.

And then as you 1635 start to post, it's going to move from 1636 the ball of the lead foot towards the 1637 heel of the lead foot as your pressure 1638 moves up towards the ball of your trail 1639 foot.

It was like a figure eight.

1640 Thank you, Terry.

I appreciate it.

1641 Klaus, thank you.

Thank you.

Apollo, I 1642 much appreciate it.

1643 Let's see.

1644 Eric, I have a similar practice room.

1645 Would you recommend I go to the range to 1646 practice space through better track ball 1647 flight?

If you need to start in here, I 1648 would kind of try to perfect a little bit 1649 of the move here.

But getting outside, if 1650 you can, it's only going to help you.

You 1651 don't want to teach a swing based on 1652 ball.

All right.

I can get any.

1653 train monkey to make whatever ball 1654 flight.

1655 So you don't want to teach a swing based 1656 on ball flight.

1657 But if you're hitting your checkpoints, 1658 it would be good to see what the ball's 1659 doing.

1660 It may give you some feedback.

Oh, I'm 1661 hanging on to it or I'm spinning my 1662 shoulders.

You can kind of see if you're 1663 hitting your checkpoints or not.

But 1664 you're also going to start building some 1665 confidence.

You start hitting this shot 1666 over and over again, do the same thing 1667 over and over again.

That confidence is 1668 going to go up.

1669 All right.

1670 Larry, this seems easier than phase one.

1671 Maybe it's a more dynamic move.

In phase 1672 one, I get stuck and have a hard time 1673 getting weight forward.

This feels more 1674 relaxed.

I agree, Larry.

1675 The problem is I've seen your swing.

1676 Phase one can be a little mechanical and 1677 it can be a little bit stiff.

1678 But if I had you in front of me knowing 1679 your swing.

I wouldn't let you do 1680 anything with release until you had this 1681 position, 1682 okay?

Because I see too often this, and 1683 this scooping and flipping, and people 1684 not understanding how much it really 1685 feels to have that lead hand-to-head and 1686 bowed.

1687 But I can understand when adding release 1688 and moving the legs a little bit more, 1689 things start to happen.

But you still 1690 have to have and own that lead feel with 1691 that kind of flatness and bowing.

1692 It looks like Anthony got Dave.

On the 1693 follow-through, it feels like my lead arm 1694 bends and my trail is straight.

1695 Anthony, it looks like you got him.

1696 David, I tend to scoop the ball when I 1697 put my right hand on the club.

I think I 1698 feel the proper release in swimming with 1699 the left-hand only swing.

And I get the 1700 same feeling when putting my right hand 1701 back on the club.

1702 Gradually.

1703 So you can go.

You can.

You can.

1704 Accelerate through this as fast as you 1705 want.

So if you feel that when you're 1706 doing lead arm and hand only, this is 1707 money, literally just put your fingertips 1708 on it.

And when I mean fingertips, I'm 1709 not saying like this.

I mean your actual 1710 fingertips.

Just put your fingertips on 1711 it like this.

Just introduce.

You can 1712 even take your nails.

Just introduce the 1713 trail hand and start letting it go.

For 1714 people that are lifelong.

1715 over workers of the trail side pusher, 1716 scooper, flippers, you'll still feel how 1717 it wants to do that.

1718 Okay, if you're really, really bad.

But 1719 what that'll do is it'll start 1720 introducing.

Take the fingertips, then 1721 start to put a little bit more of the 1722 hand.

You're going to have to just work 1723 at deleting them, but just start at the 1724 base with it.

Just go straight fingertips 1725 at first.

1726 Gerald, I know the ball is supposed to 1727 go, is supposed to just get in the way.

1728 But the instant I put a ball down in 1729 small shots, I can feel everything 1730 changing for the worse.

1731 Anthony got you, Gerald, but I'm going to 1732 add to that.

1733 Yeah.

1734 It's because you start thinking about the 1735 ball and the result and all of that fun 1736 stuff.

1737 If it really bothers you, there's two 1738 tricks you can do.

1739 One, close your eyes.

1740 Now, I know it's kind of hard to check if 1741 your eyes are closed.

Close your eyes.

1742 Start feeling your way through the swing.

1743 Put it into this kinesthetic awareness 1744 where you're solely focusing on your mood 1745 because you don't even know where the 1746 ball is.

You can't see the thing.

1747 You can also do a trick where if you set 1748 up the ball here, you can put another 1749 ball in front of you.

So if I take these 1750 two balls right here, one good way of 1751 getting rid of the hip is if you set up 1752 to this ball here.

1753 So you can see I've got the red ball I'm 1754 setting up at.

But look at the yellow 1755 ball.

And the whole time, just look at 1756 the yellow ball as you're making your 1757 move.

1758 Okay?

That way you're not thinking about 1759 trying to hit the ball.

1760 But that's kind of the essence of how do 1761 I go from practice swing to golf ball?

1762 How do I go from range to course?

1763 It's just a mindset kind of change with 1764 that.

1765 You're just changing your mindset.

As 1766 soon as the ball gets in front of you, 1767 you're not.

I'm not saying you're not 1768 thinking about the swing and stuff, but 1769 you're adding to your list.

1770 Now you're thinking about shift, pose, 1771 rotate, all these fun things.

Golf ball.

1772 That shouldn't be on your list.

It's not 1773 on my list.

1774 Heck, even the club isn't on my list.

I'm 1775 focused on moving me.

If I move me 1776 correctly, I have no choice.

1777 I've got less than six months golf 1778 experience, so, uh, so far, the hardest 1779 part is this whole shifting weight under 1780 the front foot.

Sorry to be a pain, but 1781 can you touch up on it one more time?

1782 Don't, don't make it that exaggerate, 1783 don't make it, um, too complicated.

Mike, 1784 if I told you to, you know, throw a ball 1785 for anybody with some hand eye 1786 coordination or athletic motion, what 1787 would you do?

But if I said, Hey, right, 1788 let's have a game catch, I mean, would 1789 you sit here like this and throw a ball 1790 at me?

Or would you be like, All right, 1791 I'm just going to stop throw?

You would 1792 instinctively move your weight from your 1793 trail foot to your lead foot, okay, so to 1794 make this a little bit easier, 1795 instinctively do something that you 1796 normally would do.

If you're shifting 1797 weight, just kind of pick up the peak, 1798 all right, so if you're struggling with 1799 weight, think about it.

If you make this 1800 motion to here and you allow your left 1801 foot, if you're right-handed, to get 1802 light, you're going to feel more weight 1803 on this leg.

1804 Now, if you plant your left foot and let 1805 your right foot get light, you're going 1806 to feel weight move to your lead side.

So 1807 at first, you may need to allow your feet 1808 to pick up like this to get this natural 1809 feeling.

And then you just start to tone 1810 it down where you're still feeling 1811 weight, but you don't have to have this 1812 kind of big change in your feet.

1813 So that's the simplest way.

Make it 1814 natural.

Make it athletic.

Just like 1815 throwing a ball or picking up the feet.

1816 Since I've always swayed through the post 1817 and shift, is it right to say that the 1818 post up is just the natural continuation 1819 of shifting weight into the left heel?

1820 Uh, I wouldn't phrase it that way, 1821 because the vast majority of weight shift 1822 and that lateral motion is done by this 1823 time in the golf swing.

Okay, when you're 1824 posting, you really don't want to be 1825 shifting weight, 1826 Because when you're posting, 1827 if you're trying to still shift weight 1828 and post at the same time, you've got two 1829 different directions you're trying to go.

1830 The post up is a vertical movement.

1831 It's not a weight shifting motion.

That's 1832 why when you get to here, and I say get 1833 70 to 80 back over here before post, it's 1834 because the post is a vertical movement.

1835 You don't want to be shifting weight in 1836 post.

So I could say moving the pressure 1837 from your ball to your heel.

1838 I can't say weight.

1839 Even in phase one, I noticed that in my 1840 checkpoint at finish, my right knee is 1841 too crossed over and my right heel is too 1842 far off the ground.

Obviously, this is 1843 using my shoulders too much.

Any drills 1844 for keeping the right hip back and right 1845 foot more grounded?

1846 Clamshell ball.

1847 Clamshell drill.

1848 I mean, I still think that's the best.

1849 You know, you can either use a chair like 1850 I have right there or get your butt up 1851 against the wall.

1852 I can't really do it because I've got, 1853 well I can do it with a chair.

1854 So if you've got a chair like this, you 1855 can hit balls like this.

I used to do it.

1856 Get about an inch away from here.

So you 1857 can see I've got about a hands width away 1858 from right here.

It's going to be hard 1859 because of my mic right here.

1860 But let your hips move into the chair and 1861 work into the chair.

Right hip, back to 1862 square, hip open.

1863 Practice it this way.

1864 Because if you take off your foot, your 1865 push line is going to come off better.

1866 Climb shell is the best way of doing it.

1867 And you're just trying to overpower with 1868 push.

1869 Once you start releasing the club 1870 correctly and moving through these, it'll 1871 be better.

1872 Anthony, I got William.

1873 Rob, 40 years of early extension because 1874 of poor weight shift.

Thanks for the 1875 session.

Absolutely, Rob.

And that's the 1876 thing.

1877 A lot of these things are because of poor 1878 weight shift or you make up these 1879 problems.

So just like I was saying with 1880 the feet, Rob, you know, if you just get 1881 this feeling right here of moving your 1882 weight, you want it naturally to move 1883 weight to your left leg, go like this.

If 1884 I just said, hey, let's move weight back 1885 and forth.

You wouldn't naturally go like 1886 this to shift your weight.

It was doing 1887 awesome.

I haven't heard of the Dead 1888 Drill, I had, I had heard of the Dead 1889 Drill.

It's pretty magical.

We'll be 1890 learning the whole thing.

Or sticking to 1891 the mini as you described, so you can 1892 stick with the mini right now or do the 1893 big version.

Uh, we're going to get into 1894 the big version, we're just starting with 1895 the mini right now.

I think sometimes 1896 when we make things smaller, it's easier 1897 to kind of start to feel and then we're 1898 going to build up through the whole 1899 thing.

But I think you stick with the 1900 mini.

For what we're doing right now, no 1901 problem.

All right, looks like we got all 1902 the questions answered.

Anything else?

1903 Give me one more minute.

Jesse.

Thanks 1904 Craig.

You're awesome sir.

Thanks.

I 1905 appreciate that.

I appreciate that.

1906 Jason.

Sorry.

My eyes are losing sight 1907 right now.

Thank you, David.

I appreciate 1908 that.

And thank you for the compliments.

1909 If you can, please give a big thank you 1910 to Sir Anthony Hopkins for helping out 1911 today.

We appreciate his help on today's 1912 session.

1913 Thank you, Dave.

Thank you, Jim.

1914 Much appreciated.

And like I said, these 1915 things are going to really ramp up more 1916 and more.

I mean, the more we get into 1917 this.

1918 Larry.

Do you want me to stick with phase 1919 one until you show me that legs and 1920 impact position?

1921 So until you post a swing where you have 1922 this, 1923 where you miss on this side of the legs, 1924 I would recommend that.

1925 Thank you, William.

Thank you, Dave.

1926 Thank you, Dave.

1927 How much is UK going to lose by today, 1928 Caleb?

1929 I try to keep this room.

1930 as PG as possible.

I know golf is a four 1931 -letter word, so I'm going to leave that 1932 one be right now.

1933 Tightness in the left hip at post.

Is 1934 this normal?

Well, it depends on what you 1935 mean by tightness and where.

1936 If you're feeling your glute activate, 1937 you're feeling your butt cheek activate, 1938 and you're feeling these muscles kind of 1939 fire, that's normal.

If you're feeling 1940 tight on the outside portion of your lead 1941 hip, you probably messed something up.

1942 You probably pushed too much.

You didn't 1943 post correctly.

1944 On the outside, yeah.

So you're more than 1945 likely what you're doing is you're taking 1946 your trail foot, pushing too much.

So 1947 you're pushing your lead hip outside of 1948 neutral.

It's a great way to tear a 1949 labrum.

So what you need to focus on is, 1950 especially since you're new to going, get 1951 your weight over here.

Get it set here.

1952 And then focus on posting, leaving your 1953 weight there first.

Okay, just the 1954 vertical motion so you can start to tone 1955 down excessive pushing.

All right, ladies 1956 and gentlemen, I will see you all on 1957 Tuesday.

Yes, the post is for putting on 1958 the bricks.

I will see you on Tuesday.

1959 Get to work.

I'm signing out, I'm gonna 1960 go yell at more people.

1961 And I will get the replay off as soon as 1962 possible.