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 and kind of start out with that.

V.

J.

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

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

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

So for me, I did all my checkpoints.

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

So that's a win.

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

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

If this gets fixed, that'll get fixed.

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

It's a pretty tight lie right here.

We're going to take our setup.

Make our takeaway here.

Let it release.

Notice my trail foot's still behaving.

My hips are open.

My chest, all good.

Okay?

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

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

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

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

Make our takeaway shift post, let it release notice.

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

I can see that my forearms are crossed over.

They're not like this, nor like that.

My hips are open.

My trail foot's there.

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

People get so concerned.

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

It makes perfect sense.

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

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

You got to kind of forget about this guy.

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

Let it release.

Okay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And I'll show you what that means.

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

The club is parallel to the ground around pocket height.

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

I'm shifting weight.

I'm rotating.

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

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

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

I make my takeaway.

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

It's still flat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We just have to kind of be in the window.

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

We just can't have this or this.

Because that's going to make a difference.

Okay.

Trying to make sure.

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

Results with this.

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

Because this should be a very shallow strike.

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

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

Push this shot right here.

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

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

Well, are you pushing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay?

So we want to shy away from that.

Excessive draws and fades.

Okay?

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

Now I want to show you the difference.

This is a flip.

This is a release.

Now what's the difference?

Flip.

Release.

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

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

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

See how I have width and extension here?

That's a flip.

I'm manually making it happen.

Remember, the release is passive.

It's not active.

I don't make that happen.

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

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

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

You need to passively let this release.

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

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

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

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

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

It's facing the sky.

You have to allow for it to release.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You don't have to make the club square.

Period.

Flat out.

The club is always rotated.

Always rotated.

Does anybody tell you anything?

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

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

Conversely, if I were to pick up.

I might have one around here somewhere.

Give me two seconds before I gave it away.

Conversely, I pick up this thing.

This is not my butter.

And I hold it up here like this.

How come the face stays pointed to the sky?

It doesn't go down this way.

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

Well, it's because my putter.

Not my putter.

That putter is more face balance.

It's designed not to rotate.

To like a straight, straight type of stroke.

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

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

Why?

Because it's designed to rotate.

This head is designed to rotate around the heel.

Around the entrance of the shaft.

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

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

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

It's the giving up of control.

You must give up control to gain control.

Okay, you must give up control to gain control.

It's tough.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can't do it.

Golf swim is too fast.

I'm not that good.

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

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

Players will often come back.

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

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

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

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

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

Okay?

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

And never get tired.

I consider doing this all day long.

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

You're starting to get a cramp.

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

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

You're forcing this thing to happen.

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

All right?

You should be able to stay right here.

You should be able to get on a conference call.

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

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

I'm going to do this all day long.

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

I'm not dead.

There's a fine line.

I don't want you dead.

Dead would be still have feeling.

Still feel a little bit of activation.

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

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

And notice how everything's just speeding up.

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

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

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

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

Our goal with this is still the lower ball flight.

It should be going 40-50 yards.

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

It should be going 40-50 yards.

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

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

But that's still a pretty tight window.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now your homework, is to work on all this.

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

I can't do all that.

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

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

You start where you need to start.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's okay.

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

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

Even if you're already good at it.

So just kind of warm up that way.

I still do these things.

I did an interview this morning where.

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

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

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

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

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

I said, great.

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

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

I warm up this way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who go the slowest will excel the fastest.

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

Always will work that way.

This whole learning takes time, takes proper reps.

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

I couldn't do it with a golf ball.

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

I'm maintaining touch line.

My trail foot's rolling in.

I'm posting up.

I can really feel how I'm working here.

Awesome.

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

Okay?

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

I know people have things to do.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Questions?

Answers?

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

Let's get to work.

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

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

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

Okay.

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

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

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

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

and you're bailing out of the shot.

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

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

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

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

Can you touch on that?

Also, should the lead knee be locked at post?

The lead knee should not be locked at post.

Nothing in the swing should ever be locked.

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

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

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

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

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

You're moving weight.

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

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

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

I'm starting 50-50.

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

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

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

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

Not sure I've ever felt 10 true releases.

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

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

Exactly.

Exactly.

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

I kind of said it better myself.

The release action is exactly the same for a driver.

The only difference in a driver and iron swing.

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

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

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

A little bit short game, which is a specialty.

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

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

Okay.

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

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

And everything's going to get back to balance.

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

It was like a figure eight.

Thank you, Terry.

I appreciate it.

Klaus, thank you.

Thank you.

Apollo, I much appreciate it.

Let's see.

Eric, I have a similar practice room.

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

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

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

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

All right.

I can get any.

train monkey to make whatever ball flight.

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

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

It may give you some feedback.

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

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

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

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

That confidence is going to go up.

All right.

Larry, this seems easier than phase one.

Maybe it's a more dynamic move.

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

This feels more relaxed.

I agree, Larry.

The problem is I've seen your swing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It looks like Anthony got Dave.

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

Anthony, it looks like you got him.

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

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

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

Gradually.

So you can go.

You can.

You can.

Accelerate through this as fast as you want.

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

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

I mean your actual fingertips.

Just put your fingertips on it like this.

Just introduce.

You can even take your nails.

Just introduce the trail hand and start letting it go.

For people that are lifelong.

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

Okay, if you're really, really bad.

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

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

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

Just go straight fingertips at first.

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

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

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

Yeah.

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

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

One, close your eyes.

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

Close your eyes.

Start feeling your way through the swing.

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

You can't see the thing.

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

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

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

But look at the yellow ball.

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

Okay?

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

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

How do I go from range to course?

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

You're just changing your mindset.

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

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

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

Golf ball.

That shouldn't be on your list.

It's not on my list.

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

I'm focused on moving me.

If I move me correctly, I have no choice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So that's the simplest way.

Make it natural.

Make it athletic.

Just like throwing a ball or picking up the feet.

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

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

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

The post up is a vertical movement.

It's not a weight shifting motion.

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

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

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

I can't say weight.

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

Obviously, this is using my shoulders too much.

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

Clamshell ball.

Clamshell drill.

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

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

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

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

I used to do it.

Get about an inch away from here.

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

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

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

Right hip, back to square, hip open.

Practice it this way.

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

Climb shell is the best way of doing it.

And you're just trying to overpower with push.

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

Anthony, I got William.

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

Thanks for the session.

Absolutely, Rob.

And that's the thing.

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

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

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

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

It was doing awesome.

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

It's pretty magical.

We'll be learning the whole thing.

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

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

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

But I think you stick with the mini.

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

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

Anything else?

Give me one more minute.

Jesse.

Thanks Craig.

You're awesome sir.

Thanks.

I appreciate that.

I appreciate that.

Jason.

Sorry.

My eyes are losing sight right now.

Thank you, David.

I appreciate that.

And thank you for the compliments.

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

We appreciate his help on today's session.

Thank you, Dave.

Thank you, Jim.

Much appreciated.

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

I mean, the more we get into this.

Larry.

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

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

Thank you, William.

Thank you, Dave.

Thank you, Dave.

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

I try to keep this room.

as PG as possible.

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

Tightness in the left hip at post.

Is this normal?

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

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

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

You probably pushed too much.

You didn't post correctly.

On the outside, yeah.

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

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

It's a great way to tear a labrum.

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

Get it set here.

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

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

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

Yes, the post is for putting on the bricks.

I will see you on Tuesday.

Get to work.

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

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