C4 Bootcamp 2, Jan 31 2023, Session 3

Session 3 of 4

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All right.

Good evening, everyone.

Hopefully, we have audio and video this time.

Hopefully, we have both.

Let me know.

Audio should be better.

Don't know yet, but we shall find out.

Audio good.

All right, David.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sound good from here.

Okay.

Definitely been trying to get things going.

Sounds fine.

Good.

Good audio and video.

Nice.

So welcome to boot camp.

Session number three.

Same host.

Same.

Topic So to speak, talking about golf today, unless you want to talk about something else, but welcome, thank you for stopping by today.

Hopefully the audio is working much better.

Um, because what I found out, while we let people kind of gather in, uh, so I've bought two different transmitters in the last day and a half.

They didn't work.

And then I bought a new lab mic and then put the lab mic on my old transmitter.

And then that started working.

So long story short, I have a ton of microphones and transmitters right now.

So if this one doesn't work, we'll try another one for the next one.

But it should be much clearer.

It should be sharper.

Hopefully it is.

All right.

Steve here.

I agree, Brian.

Charles, drills looked easy.

They weren't.

Well, good.

Did you think that I was just going to make it easy on you?

You know, it's got to be a little bit of a challenge.

That's what makes it fun.

A lot of people ask me, like when it comes to golf and stuff, you know, why, you know, with other sports or other things that, you know, I did in the past, why did I choose golf?

Because it was always a challenge.

It's the one thing that I love about the sport is to never have any perfection to it.

You can always continue to strive to get better and better, and I really enjoy that.

Check the flux capacitor.

Tom, always check the flux capacitor.

It's the gigawatts that's the problem.

Flux capacitor, good.

It's the gigawatts.

All right.

Thank you, Pete.

Sounds good on my side, Jason.

Nice.

I've been practicing very hard.

I never realized how much I used my arms until doing this boot camp.

What a very telling statement, Tom.

That goes very well into tonight's topic, is overusing of the arms.

I will go into more detail, but that's, I would say, one of the top.

Few comments rotariers learn during the process is how much that they've overworked their arms in their golf swing.

I used to do the same thing, so I understand.

And with tonight's session, we'll be graduating on and moving up and further.

And, uh, what I would like for you to do?

Say hello to Anthony if you can.

I think he's in the room tonight, I know he will be helping us out, Rotary Swing, Anthony Hopkins.

And I appreciate the help today, Anthony.

And I'm going to let everybody kind of pile in the same thing I usually do because I sit here and I watch this ticker and I see it grow and grow.

And I don't want anybody that's trying to get to the live session, you know, because we're all over the place.

If they're trying to get in, I want to make sure that they get in.

That way they can ask questions live because when you got me in front of you.

or you got Anthony in the chat board live and it hits you, I want you to get all those things buttoned up.

In the meantime, if you have any questions leading up until now, this is a good time to ask.

Not anything about today's, not anything about Saturday's, but if you have any questions about what we've done so far, go ahead and do that now.

It's a good way to kill some time.

Get some information out before we get to work.

All right.

How much secondary axis tilt is too much?

Reason for too much.

Great question, Rob.

Anthony answered why.

Too much trail side push is going to be the number one reason of having excessive.

Secondary axis tilt Okay, it's typically going to be taking this trail hip or trail leg pushing too hard.

And you're trying to keep your head behind the golf ball.

And think about it.

If your hips are going this way and you're not allowing your head to move, what's going to happen to your secondary tilt?

Your secondary tilt's going to increase?

Now?

The other question on the table with this okay is how much is too much secondary tilt?

It's all dependent upon you.

As you know, here at Rotary we get very scientific and we believe in teaching based on anatomy.

So, how much is too much secondary tilt, or what is proper secondary tilt?

If I say, set my club here and I add axis tilt, so I have roughly about eight to ten degrees of axis tilt right here, okay, how much secondary axis tilt should I?

Having the downswing, what's going to be the determining factor of that?

Well, my goal in the downswing is to do.

What with my lead, leg and hips, it's to get my hip stacked and neutral over my knee, over my ankle joint.

So my secondary tilt should only be limited to how far I have to move to get my hips stacked.

Okay, So secondary axis tilt does increase in the downswing, but it should be limited to you getting your hip and neutral joint alignment, okay?

So it's a little bit of increase, but it's based on how far you have to move your pelvis, which in the downswing, you are typically going to move your pelvis roughly about six to eight inches.

Charles tried to run before I could crawl.

I understand.

Gerald, there is some side bin at impact, but how much is too much?

How much is too much side bin?

Well, if I'm here and I start, let me try to get here in the camera.

If I'm here and I start to shift and I start to post, side bend is going to be a necessary evil from impact into the follow through right here.

But if you, I think it's a little bit easier to see from face on.

The secondary tilt's only increasing so much.

So with the secondary tilt only increasing enough for my hip to get stacked, why would I require this big crunching right here of side bend?

Because what's gonna typically happen is you're gonna get too much secondary axis tilt, all right?

You're changing your shoulder plane.

So side bend is a necessary evil, but you really shouldn't have that much.

You're gonna experience more issues.

With side bend as you get here in the follow through.

Because you're kind of maintaining this position and maintaining on the shoulder plane, that's going to be where you kind of get a little bit stuck with that side bend.

But it impacted.

You really shouldn't have this big, long, drawn out angle because you shouldn't be taking your trail shoulder and driving it underneath like this and getting this really steep, uh, shoulder plane.

Paul, if you listen to tour pros interviews on the weekend, they tend to struggle with very similar issues that we Obviously, I'm much more refined level, but they're always working on something.

Absolutely, Paul.

And I don't care whether you're just a weekend warrior or you're doing it for a living.

It's all the same stuff.

They struggle with the same things that we do.

They just struggle to a lesser extent.

What was the old Rotella book?

Golf's a game of misses, they just miss a little better than we do.

Most of the times I hit the ball where the ball is, but a few times I'm hitting behind the ball where the ball is supposed to be.

Well, Jason, that's going to either be your legs or your trail hand.

So if you're still struggling with fat, You're either not getting the weight over here.

And the hips clear to provide the position of the lead shoulder to be out ahead to have that downward strike, or you're taking your trail hand and you're throwing your angle away.

Now there is a little bit of a minor one.

It doesn't really happen that much in nine to three.

If it's not your trail hand and it's not your hips, you can have some push to create the same thing.

We typically don't see that until we get into today though.

And a nine to three.

It's going to be rare to have that much thumb push, though, because you're not really going for a ton of power.

Your back will definitely exactly, uh, excessive slide leading to open club face.

Yes, Charles, so if you think about it, if you are continuing forward, Okay, so let's say we're continuing forward.

What's the club not doing?

Until you, as Anthony so eloquently put until you slam on the brakes, this club doesn't release.

Okay, so if you're still moving this way, all you're doing is delaying face rotation.

That's why shoulders, when you're working on release and you take your shoulders and you keep ripping them, look at what's happening right now.

My face is still wide open.

Until I stop, now everything catch back up and rotate over.

All right.

One or two more minutes because I just saw three more people pop in.

It seems to me like I get into a fake post-up.

It feels like my lead leg straightens, but I don't feel the lead hip is pushing back.

My guess is this is form and just sliding into a straight lead leg.

It can be from that.

But how dynamic does it need to feel?

I mean, if you've done a, if you've done a semblance of post-op in your career.

I mean, like, right now, like, I don't, I don't really feel a ton.

I feel my glute activating, I feel a little bit of my quad.

But I mean, unless I'm really trying to power something like, I don't feel this massive.

Um, engagement.

And that's, and that's actually a good kind of segue into what we're talking about tonight.

Because when you think about muscles and the way muscles need to react and the way that they need to fire and stretch and load and all these fancy stuff that goes into the golf swing, your muscles need to be able to move, they need to be able to react.

Okay, so as I'm going through here, I'm allowing my muscles to load and stretch and fire.

But if I'm like this the whole time and I'm maxed out on tension, my muscles are already at max load.

The only thing that they're going to do is kind of dissipate from there.

They can't maintain that level.

Conversely, if you go the other direction, if you're dead, nothing's firing at all.

So everything just gets super lazy and you're just kind of moving around and lollygagging.

So your muscles need to be ready to work.

So they're engaged, but they're ready to fire.

So like when I'm moving through here and getting my hips, I'm making things feel, you know, dynamic and fast.

I don't, you've heard some players talk before, you know, that kind of feel sluggish.

Everything's just kind of feel sluggish through here because their legs are tired or they overwork things or overfire things so much.

You should never really, Kind of get to that exhaustion point.

And that's a little bit of like, what the drill that we're going to work on tonight and how we're blending it into the swing.

Um, you should never hit this fatigue.

Okay, should never hit this fatigue spot, all right, Anthony?

Here's a question that was brought to me How do you post up open your hips without closing your shoulders?

How do you post up open your hips without closing your shoulders, closing your shoulders or opening your shoulders?

I mean, I can sit right here, move my hips, my shoulders are barely moving, my hips are opening, my shoulders aren't doing a whole bunch.

So in the golf swing, the hips are going to always be out ahead of the shoulders.

Okay, you know, there's the sequence of the chain of events from the ground.

Um, so there is a.

I mean, I don't want to say there's a ton of hip dissociation.

But the only reason your shoulders are going to go like this with your hips is manual.

Like, just just stand here, clear your hips.

Like, what are my shoulders doing?

I'm straightening my watch, my left butt, cheek.

Right now.

Are my shoulders really firing open?

No, it's because I'm not using them.

The only time my shoulders are going to go with my hips is if I'm actively trying to do that.

If you think about even like the trail foot, okay, I've had, I'm sure Anthony's had the same thing.

I know Chuck has.

I know I have.

I've had countless players say, Craig, it's not me pushing off my right foot.

It's my left foot that's making my right foot go nuts.

Something doesn't add up with that.

All right.

My left foot can't make my right foot pick up like this.

I have to manually make my foot go like this.

I can sit here and post all day long.

You'll see that my foot is kind of falling a little bit, a little bit on the end step, tiny.

But my foot can't be like this because of my hips.

That's me manually doing that.

My left leg doesn't make my right leg move.

So it's the same thing with the shoulders.

It's not your post that's causing your shoulders to be super-duper open.

You're causing your shoulders to be super-duper open.

Yes, the shoulders are going to fall along with the hips.

If I'm moving back over here and I start to shift and work down, my shoulders are going to have to follow at some point in my hips, kind of dependent upon my flexibility.

Some players, you can see, have the mobility.

You don't need this kind of contortion in your golf swing, but some players.

You know, they can get their hips, you know, 90 degrees open and their shoulders square.

This feels terrible, but some players can do that and doesn't cause any issue.

But the legwork will bring the shoulders with you, but that doesn't force the shoulders open like this.

That's active motion.

All right.

Well, I think that's going to be the last of everybody.

So what are we going to do tonight?

Continue talking some golf?

So for the late bloomers in the class or the late arrivers, tonight is session three.

If we have any video or audio issues, please let me know.

Anthony, send me a text.

Hopefully we won't have any issues.

But with that being said, tonight we are going to start talking about speed.

Now, Some people may feel that this topic's a little bit too soon to start talking about.

Because they can't even get past their nine to three or their phase two.

Maybe the case, right?

You may still be back in phase two and really needing to dial that down.

But that doesn't mean I don't want you to understand what I'm doing tonight to test it out a little bit.

So you kind of know whether you're soaring too high or not, whether you're pushing yourself a little bit to the limit.

But some of the things that we talk about in this concept or, you know, in the, you know, adding of speed helps you with the prior phases.

Okay.

Because when you're trying to learn new movement patterns, one thing that players tend to do a lot of is they stay in their lane.

All right.

You know, as I spoke about in phase one, players start to work on the dead drill and they're like, okay, load, rotate, shift, post, one rep.

Load, rotate, shift, post, two reps.

That's great in the beginning.

at some point in time, you have to speed it up.

Not only just because the golf swing's fast, but you have to challenge your brain.

You got to make your brain work a little bit.

And that's what this does a little bit for you.

It starts to kind of get those neurons and those neural pathways to start to fire a little bit to be like, look, he kind of wants to do this at speed or at pace.

We've got to kind of work a little bit harder on this.

Now, this is an analogy that I use constantly, okay?

If you think about snapping when you first learn to snap, it's very mechanical and it's very methodical.

Okay, so you start putting your fingers together and you're like, and you're trying to create a sound.

And then you finally get one, It's like such a sigh of relief, I finally got one.

And then you keep practicing the same thing over and over and you get really good at it.

And then you kind of Don't have to think about it so much.

It's kind of running on autopilot.

And then you can start to do it fast without any problems.

You're just letting it happen.

There's nothing impeding it, so to speak.

It's almost reactionary.

To this point, we've worked on impact to understand what needs to happen down at the moment of truth with the golf club, with the club face.

We've also worked on having a little bit of control and release together, moving belt high to belt high to understand, okay, well, I can have some speed and some control with very little effort.

The problem is, is when we start working on these golf concepts, we start missing the forest a little bit through the trees.

We kind of forget that the golf swing is a golf swing.

that it's athletic.

It's a movement.

You have to think about the swing as in a mechanical and feel cycle.

You're going to work on components and you're going to get your mechanics down.

Okay.

And so you start to get your mechanics down and then the mechanics start to round their way back to feel.

The feel starts to pick up some pace.

Then you go back to mechanics, refine, and you kind of go on this wheel.

of working on your golf swing.

At this point, we've spent a lot of time on mechanics, okay?

And I'm not saying that today or Saturday's session that I don't want you thinking about mechanics, but you can get caught up thinking, okay, I've got to get my pressure shift over here to my trail side, not rotate my hips too much, my trail shoulder's going behind me, keep my trail arm straight, allow for a little bit of flexion in my elbow, which you don't need a whole bunch at that point or any at all.

And you can see, like, my brain's already going a mile a minute, and I've already even been like, oh, wait a minute, I don't want any flexion there.

So you start to think about these positions as you go through them too much, okay, versus being like, no, I want to just have a little weight, rotate my shoulders, let the club swing up.

It allows some things to happen.

It's like wrist setting the backswing.

It's a little bit more of a byproduct because of the weight of the club.

So tonight, I want to try to put a little bit of athleticism back in you.

So that you can start to feel your way through this and so that you can start to have a little bit of speed.

Now, one of the biggest things when it comes down to it at the end of the day, why players don't have speed, it's because they're using their arms.

All right.

We already had comments in the chat that I didn't realize how much I was overworking my arms.

And if you start to break down like all the stats, like Tour Pro stats, amateur stats, you know whether they're a scratch, five handicap, 20 handicap.

And you start to look at relative distance.

It doesn't matter what technology has done in the last 20, 30 years, everybody is stuck in this kind of 93 94 mile an hour phase with their driver.

Okay, except for the upper echelon, so to speak.

And that's because they don't realize that they're powering it with their arms.

And the arms are only going to be, are only going to create so much speed.

I can only create so much with my arms going back and forth like this.

At some point, they're going to max out.

And if your swing is relegated to just using arms, you're not going to have any speed.

Okay, because that's as much as you can power it.

Now, unless you get some big old forearms like Pi Pi, Yeah, you can have some, but it's still not gonna be that great.

You have to learn how to generate speed from your body, okay?

You have to learn how to move your body in a sequence that powers thing.

As you know, it takes 32 pounds of muscle to create 100 mile an hour club head speed.

And you just don't have that in your arms.

You have to get it from other sources.

You need to get leverage from the ground.

You need to recruit more muscle fiber in your core.

You need to load things.

Things need to fire.

Things need to contract.

And you can't get that from here.

And most amateurs are just stuck just swinging with their arms.

They never engage anything.

I did a swing review today for one of my students, a super nice guy.

And he said the same thing.

He's like, all right, Craig, I'm working on my phase three, but I can't get it above 125 yards.

I was like, all right, well, let me take a look at it.

And when I looked at it, all I saw was he was using his arms in the backswing.

And as he started to come down, his legs weren't firing.

And his arms are doing all the downswing.

And so what ended up happening, armed it back, cast it coming down.

And I said, well, you can't get the club head speed because you're relegating your speed only to one source, and that's your arms and hands.

And so if you start to put into your brain, if you want power, you've got to do it from the one thing that doesn't create power.

You have to get rid of using the one thing that doesn't create power, which is your arms.

Okay.

I don't have very big arms.

You know, back in my playing days, I was about 165.

I'm roughly about 5'10".

And I'm not that big a guy, but I could still have 118, 119 club head speed.

It's not because I have it here.

It used to drive one of my roommates crazy.

That was 6'3", about 220.

He said, I don't understand why you're two clubs longer than me.

It's because I'm not trying to use this power source.

So how do we get that as the real question if we think about the throw the ball drill?

The throw the ball drill has been on the website, I mean, since its first iteration of the website.

Because it tries to make you move through positions versus think about musicians.

You can't start to develop speed.

if you're thinking thinking is slow, you're thinking about a process, it's slow.

So we have to kind of make it a little bit athletic now.

I know some players were never thrown, never trained to throw a golf ball, or never trained to throw a ball, period, so we need to work on that to develop some sequence.

So tonight what we're going to start out with is we're going to start out with our arm and we're going to throw some balls.

And then we're going to do it with the club and then we're going to do it with both arms.

And we're going to start to get the feel of how we're going to generate more speed with our body and with our legs.

Okay, so if you're at home and you got a foam ball, you can do this with me if you want.

If not just kind of air, do this.

And I want you to think about these things.

Because you can tell a lot about your swing and what's going on and what's good and what's bad.

Just from this drill alone, so the throw the ball drill, as you've seen in the videos, we have our checkpoints now.

I've got it on the boot camp PDF as well.

The first thing that we're going to do is, I want you to take your trail arm, elevate it kind of to the base of your pectoral, and add a little bit of flexion.

You don't need any more than about 90 degrees, right?

And I'll show you from this view.

You don't need any more than about 90 degrees.

I don't want you like this.

And I want you to take this, and I want you to put your weight on your trail leg and rotate your shoulders.

If you move too much right now, don't worry about it.

We'll button it up.

But you're going to elevate, add some flexion, and rotate your shoulders.

This is the first place where I start to see people mess up this drill, is they don't realize how much they're allowing their arm to swing and not staying connected to their body.

If you want good speed, your scapula must remain in the proper position and according with your spine, because when that scapula moves down and in and starts to rotate clockwise, it connects to your spine.

It's going to be how you're able to add speed from your body.

So add some flexion in this position.

And when you get here, load into your trail leg, rotate your shoulders.

Now look at my arm right here.

My elbow is pointed down and it's still in front of my chest.

It's not like this.

When you do this, I don't want your arm rearing back like this.

That's not teaching you how to add power.

This is teaching you how to work your arms again.

A little elevation, a little bit of flexion, load into your.

Trail side rotate.

And when you get to this position, the mantra I've used with my students for decades now is kind of shift post release.

That's what we're basically doing here.

I want you to step, okay, now notice, when I step, two things happen.

I'm putting my weight on this side towards the ball of my foot, and when I do this, what else happens?

My hips start to square.

Okay, So when you get up to here, you get into position, I want you to step.

And when you step, I want the weight to go a little bit towards the ball of your foot.

And I want you to allow your hips to square with the weight on the lead side.

Then from here, we're going to post or pivot.

You're going to push into the ground towards your heel to clear that hip and straighten the leg.

To this point, have I said do anything with your arm?

All I've done, step, pivot.

Now where's my arm right now?

My arm is now in the delivery position.

I've allowed the weight, I've allowed my hips to bring my arm down to here.

And when we get here, we step, pivot, throw.

Okay?

And when we throw, we throw it at the ball on the ground, so to speak.

So if I had a ball right here, like that.

your destination or aiming point is here, throw it at that ball on the ground.

I missed it by that much.

It's not get up here towards the top, use your arm, then use your legs, or use your legs, hang on, hang on, hang on, throw it this way.

It's step, pivot, throw.

Step, pivot, throw.

Okay.

This is going to start to develop some kinematic sequence.

Okay, for those of you that have thrown a ball before, this is going to be very easy.

You would really be surprised how many people haven't done this, though.

We elevate, we add some flexion, we load and rotate, step, pivot, throw.

And when you do this, notice and feel the sequencing of how the legs drive everything down.

And it's just the letting go of the ball.

This is starting to teach you, not only sequence, but that you don't power it with your arm.

And this is why everybody's stuck swinging at slow speeds because their throw of the ball drill would look like this really with their golf club.

They would get to here and they would just go like that.

And that's why they can't get it to go any faster because they're just relegating to trying to power it with their arm.

I'm trying to use the momentum of the weight.

and the plant, and the hips getting open, and the posting up to trigger the throw of this, okay?

So at first, it's okay.

You can make some big strides like this.

You can get here, step, pivot, throw.

Doesn't bother me.

Step, pivot, throw.

Start to develop how you'd create speed.

This right here is the problem of why when players say, You teach a lot of lead side based swings or a lot of lead side based positions.

Why don't I just go back and start playing on the other side of the golf ball?

Because I'm already really good at doing everything with my trail hands.

So why don't I just train that as being the controller?

Switch over the opposite side of the golf ball.

Because this would be the hard part of teaching.

Because you've done, if you're right handed, you've done some type of sequencing.

With this side and develop some type of kinematic sequence with this side your entire life now.

To switch to this side and be like, Okay, now I'm going to do it.

Here is very hard.

You can get it, but getting some speed and getting some pace with it takes a enormous amount of time.

Okay, so if you've been with Rotary before and you're like, Well, Craig, I can release the club and I can do all these things.

I just don't hit it anywhere.

It's because you're solely just using your lead side.

You forgot that there is a trail side part to this equation.

You need to load, rotate, shift, post.

This energy is traveling passively through the trail arm.

Notice I'm not getting here and then just throwing my arm like this.

I'm allowing everything to create the speed.

I'm allowing it to transfer through my arm to the ball, right?

Especially for a pitcher or a quarterback.

If you're here and you're stepping and throwing and releasing, okay, you're releasing it.

You're not holding on to it and trying to kind of shot, put it out there.

Okay?

So with this motion, I want you to start to develop just a little bit of athleticism.

Add some elevation, add some flexion, load, rotate, step, pivot and let it throw.

This will get you to not think about some things for a second.

But you have to think about just like this right here.

When you get a golf club back in your hand, your goal isn't to try to make that golf club move as fast as possible.

That's you doing it with your arms and hands.

That's you trying to make this move fast.

Well, how come when I hit the ball far or Anthony hits the ball far or Chuck hits the ball far or you see somebody, it's.

Like, well, they don't look like they're working that hard to hit it that far.

Because we're not.

I'm not trying to get it by, I'm not trying to power the club.

The club will move fast if I do the other things correctly.

I don't have to, I don't have to worry about that.

Okay.

So if you can get this drill, then you can start to sequence these positions.

All right.

In front, step pivot, let it release.

In front step, pivot, let it release.

This is the exact same motion we use in the golf swing.

All right, for those people that are afraid of getting too trail side dominant because they want to be a lead side release, or vice versa.

I'm a lead side releaser.

I don't want to be trail side dominant.

There's two arms in the swing, okay, there's two sides of your body, we got to use both sides if we want to have control and power.

I've taught you the control so far, now I'm teaching you how to have a little bit of speed in.

It doesn't mean I'm manufacturing everything with this, I'm allowing the speed to get transferred passively through my arm and hand.

When you think pitching is a great example of this.

Because if I were to get here and just throw like this, I could only go.

So I'd never, I'd never have that 100 mile an hour fastball.

All right.

They may call me Wild Thing because my accuracy would be out the window, but they ain't calling me Ricky Vaughn because I ain't getting up to 100 miles an hour.

The only way I can do that is by getting everything, using the momentum of my hips to get everything powering through.

I'm not doing it through my arm and hand.

So that's the first thing you have to realize.

So if you can start to develop a little bit of sense with this, okay, just doing the ball, then I want you to get the club and I want you to put it in your right hand.

Don't worry about it.

Even if you're over the toppers, this is helping you.

Okay.

Let's see a note just in case.

Well, I'll answer that one later, Paul.

That's a pretty in-depth question.

Sorry.

I saw a big blip and just, I have to make sure that everything's going on.

So what I want you to do is if you have a club, I want you to grab the club because you need to get a sense and feel of this club swinging, but you not being the master.

I just spent a session.

And you spent the last few days training yourself to have faith and allowing the club to rotate.

And giving into the release God.

So I'm not trying to get you to be back being a master again.

I want you to start to feel this with just a little pace.

So from this position, what I want you to do, you can either start here, just as I did with this drill, and preset it, shift post, let it release.

You can do that, preset it, shift post, let it release, or if you want, step pivot.

But what the goal is, I want you to be able to do this from the ground.

And since we have such a limited time, that's going to be where I pick this up.

So I want you to take the trail hand.

I want you to get up into your setup position, and I want you to make a backswing to about parallel to the ground height, all right?

No need to go way over here like this, about parallel to the ground height, all right?

I want you to get to this position with rotation in your shoulders, and I want you to think about the step, pivot, and release.

If you want the step, have at it.

If you want to challenge yourself, just lift the feet.

And what I mean by that is get to here and just allow your lead foot to lift a little bit.

You know, just kind of come off the ground, kind of like a Nicholas, where you're here so you can really plant with authority.

Here, really plant with authority.

But I want you thinking about your legs, okay?

You need to start to feel how the legs and the pulling up of the leverage from the ground, the momentum from the weight.

The hips moving up and back, moving away, are triggering.

Okay, I'm storing, now I'm releasing.

I'm pulling that leverage.

You need to get the feel and the sense.

Here, step pivot, let it release.

If you want to pick up your feet like this, you can go like this.

I've got no problem with that.

That helps you to start to feel how to move the pressure and develop pacing, no problem.

For players that are stuck with over the top and stuff like that, what you'll typically see is you start doing this and before your foot's even planted back on the lead side, you're already going like this.

You're not following the sequence of it.

I haven't said at one point in time today, get up here to the top and your first move be your right shoulder, your right elbow, your right anything from this right side going this way.

I haven't said anything like that.

I've said I just want you to literally get here, plant, pivot.

Huh.

I haven't swung my arm to this position.

It's been moved to this position because I physically can't do anything else.

Now watch what happens.

Oh, looks like I'm at the golf ball now.

So I'm here, step, pivot, let it release.

And just get a sense of feel of how to develop pacing with this.

And what you'll start to notice a little bit is if you want to speed up the club, what do you Fire with your hand more.

For anybody that thought that, even had an inclination of that 10 push -ups right now.

If you want to speed it up, what do you got to use more of?

What do you got to be a little bit more dynamic with?

Your legs.

Up here to the top.

And so when you get here to this position, be a little bit more dynamic.

With this, you can load with a little bit more squat, and you can post and clear the hip.

With authority, you know, announce your presence with a little more authority.

This isn't my arm, this is me just being a little bit more dynamic.

I got a few more reps than you, but if you want to have more speed, use your legs more.

If Caleb's in the room, I don't want to talk about basketball.

If he is, I still don't want to talk about it.

Basketball is a really good reference for this.

So in basketball, if we think about a free throw versus a three-pointer, okay?

So if I'm shooting a free throw, I'm going to have a little bit of legs, and as I push from the ground, That power is going to go through here, through my arms and hands, and then I'm going to release.

I'm going to have a nice release.

This is me shooting a free throw.

What happens when I go back to the three-point line?

When I go back to the three-point line, do I make that same kind of knees and release like this?

Do I make the same kind of knees and then speed up my arm and hand?

What happens if I did the same body motion and then sped up my arm and hand like that?

Yeah, the ball may go further.

but now I'm never going to make a shot.

What do I do?

My free throw to a three -pointer, I engage my legs more, and I still have that nonchalant release.

I'm still releasing it at the end, but I use my legs a little bit more to get a little bit more pop on the ball.

Everything just kind of gradually increased in pace.

I didn't just start swiping my arm at it.

That's what happens with this club.

That's what happens in your swing.

This is why you're stuck.

at your swing speeds is because instead of getting here and saying, okay, I've already gotten the mantra from rotary that I've got to step, pivot, then throw.

That sequence can't change.

So how do I get this to go faster?

Well, I'm going to make this a little bit more dynamically.

I might add a little bit more squat.

I 1000 might move through my pressure shifts a 1001 little faster.

1002 And that's going to be how I get a lot 1003 more speed.

It's not from this.

1004 Okay.

1005 It starts from here.

1006 And this goes back to like being tired.

1007 If you get super fatigued, you get five 1008 shots, you're like, ugh.

1009 Because you're trying to get good 1010 distance.

1011 Why would you be getting fatigued?

I can 1012 sit here and do that all day long.

1013 You're getting fatigued because you're 1014 using your arms.

1015 Okay.

1016 So get the club right hand.

1017 Keep it in front.

A little bit parallel 1018 to the ground, with some rotation.

And I 1019 want you to think about your step pivot 1020 and throw.

If you're still picking up the 1021 feet right now, that's fine.

If not, keep 1022 them on the ground.

Here, step pivot, let 1023 it throw here, step pivot, let it throw.

1024 Now what you?

If?

Especially if you have 1025 something on the ground right here.

Or 1026 you're filming yourself.

You will start 1027 to see where you go wrong in your 1028 sequence, and probably where you go wrong 1029 in your golf swing.

Because you'll film 1030 yourself and you'll see it, you may not 1031 even think it right now.

You'll get to 1032 here and you'll see that your arm and 1033 hand get all the way down here.

Before 1034 you've shifted your weight and before 1035 you've posted up, that's probably.

That's 1036 on the top, top, top list of.

What 1037 Anthony and myself and Chuck see on a 1038 daily basis is that players bring.

1039 They're so they're such in a rush to get 1040 this club from the top down to here.

That 1041 by the time the club gets here, their 1042 legs haven't even had a chance to work.

1043 Okay?

And you need that time.

1044 We have a video on the site called the 1045 Dump Truck and the Drag Racer.

1046 You've got to buy a little bit more time.

1047 Okay?

1048 So when you're here, the worst thing you 1049 could ever do.

Trying to have power is 1050 try to speed up your arms and hands, and 1051 yes, I know max hand speed is going to be 1052 between here and here.

All right, but you 1053 don't do that by manually trying to do so 1054 when you're here and you start to come 1055 down.

My arm is being brought by my step 1056 or shift, it's being brought in front of 1057 me by my post, and now I'm delivering it.

1058 Okay, 1059 You need to film this sequencing.

If 1060 something doesn't feel right or it's not 1061 getting faster, go take a look at it.

See 1062 if the first thing that you do is get 1063 your arm and hand down here, where you 1064 start pulling or racing or spinning.

1065 And if that's something that you struggle 1066 with, test yourself out.

Get up here and 1067 stop.

1068 Just stop right here.

1069 Don't move anything.

1070 And start to shift your weight in post.

1071 And notice that your arm and your 1072 shoulders are going to start to come with 1073 you.

I didn't move that.

I didn't go like 1074 this.

I allowed my legs and my sequencing 1075 to bring my arm and hand down.

1076 This is going to be how you start to 1077 generate lag.

This is going to be how you 1078 start to shallow out the club.

This is 1079 going to be how you speed things up.

1080 Now, when I talked about earlier about 1081 the force of the trees and being overly 1082 mechanical, this isn't something that you 1083 can be crazy mechanical with.

If you want 1084 speed, it's about going through the 1085 motions with it.

1086 But you got to start to feel this.

So I 1087 want you to kind of turn your brain off a 1088 little bit.

I want you to think about 1089 being a kid again.

It's so fun for us 1090 instructors.

We can go to a driving range 1091 and we can literally just be like, yep, 1092 that's the kid I want to teach.

That's 1093 the kid I want to teach.

Because kids 1094 lack what?

They lack strength, right?

1095 They're little, right?

They haven't 1096 developed yet.

So when they're young, 1097 they're grabbing this club.

1098 And when they're grabbing this club, this 1099 thing weighs 100 pounds of them because 1100 their arms are about as thin as this 1101 shaft.

But you can see them, even though 1102 they might be moving all over the place.

1103 You can see their legs automatically 1104 start to engage.

They're allowing these 1105 things to happen, and you can watch these 1106 seven, eight, nine, ten year olds start 1107 to develop all this crazy speed and good 1108 swings.

When never worrying, never being 1109 taught a mechanic.

Because they're just 1110 allowing their brain to naturally figure 1111 out.

Okay, if I want this thing to go 1112 fast, I've got to work my legs because I 1113 don't have the strength in my arms and 1114 hands.

1115 Then what happens?

You get older, we get 1116 stronger.

And we start shifting it from 1117 here, and we start moving it up to here.

1118 And this becomes our main power source.

1119 You wonder why?

You're like, I can't hit 1120 it as good as I did when I was a kid.

So 1121 that's what we're trying to do here.

You 1122 know, you can use my analogies of 1123 basketball or baseball or whatever.

It's 1124 the sequencing and it's the moving 1125 through these positions, even if, even if 1126 I don't teach you anything, 1127 Okay.

I don't teach you where your club 1128 face should be right here, how many 1129 degrees of wrist set, or where your head 1130 should be, or anything like that.

And 1131 this is the only thing you get from this 1132 boot camp.

If it's the only thing you get 1133 from rotary, is the fact that I'm going 1134 to move weight to this side, and when I 1135 get weight to this side, I'm going to 1136 shift and post.

1137 If I do nothing with my arms and hands or 1138 even think of, even if you just get that, 1139 you'd be super surprised how much better 1140 you would be because there's going to be 1141 something in your swing where that isn't 1142 happening.

For those that lose tush line, 1143 I'm up here.

1144 What's this doing?

First of all, it's 1145 getting my weight over here and it's 1146 allowing my hips to square.

All right.

1147 First, the first move in the golf swing, 1148 in the downswing, when I'm up here at the 1149 top, as I start to recenter, Is this lead 1150 knee externally rotates?

Okay, it's the 1151 first move.

This lead knee externally 1152 rotates.

All right, so when I'm making 1153 this little step, what automatically 1154 happens?

It's a lot easier when you step, 1155 this lead knee externally rotates.

As I 1156 start to pivot, well, look at what 1157 happens.

I get to hear my weights here.

1158 My hips are still back now.

I'm training.

1159 Okay, now I'm going to post.

Well, look 1160 at, look at where my left hip's going.

1161 It's going behind me.

1162 Now I've taught myself how to maintain 1163 touchline.

I didn't have to literally do 1164 anything but fix how I'm stepping and 1165 pivoting, okay?

1166 And when we start to think about the club 1167 bottoming out, gaining momentum, having 1168 that speed, I'm taking my hip and moving 1169 up and back, okay?

1170 which triggers the club to go down and 1171 out.

So if I'm really aggressive with 1172 this post and I can get my glutes to 1173 fully engage and fire, I can really use 1174 the centripetal into centrifugal force to 1175 really pop that club head.

1176 All right.

1177 I think I like a figure skater.

It's an 1178 easy way to kind of picture it.

1179 I've shown a student the other day.

1180 You all have probably seen this video on 1181 the website.

1182 And I said, look, I was like, this is my 1183 number one training aid.

1184 Now, obviously, you don't hit balls with 1185 it or do anything like that, but I love 1186 to hit students with this when they're 1187 misbehaving.

I'm a big fan of negative 1188 reinforcement.

If anybody ever comes for 1189 an in-person lesson, I apologize ahead of 1190 time.

Big fan of it.

1191 So if we think about this.

1192 To get this to move faster, did I start 1193 going all over the place and doing all.

1194 1195 I'm making these nice, tight motions, 1196 just like my body, to create a lot of 1197 speed and a lot of simplicity to it.

I'm 1198 continuing to move in the opposite 1199 direction of where this ball is 1200 constantly, but I'm not making any wasted 1201 motion.

If I'm starting from the top.

1202 my force of movement, let's say I switch 1203 it up to here and I'm trying to move 1204 this, what happens?

This is over the top, 1205 casting, you name it.

All right.

1206 But if I'm moving my body in the correct 1207 sequence and in the correct way, I can 1208 always maintain plane and I can speed it 1209 up with ease.

1210 Now I can get into that one on physics 1211 and swing plane and all that.

1212 It's a little bit better tool to that, 1213 but I want you to see to make that go 1214 fast.

1215 Did I really exert a ton more?

No.

To 1216 speed up my club, all I did, I started 1217 firing my legs a little bit more.

I 1218 didn't speed up my arms and hands.

I 1219 didn't do anything crazy like that.

1220 So I should have a club around here 1221 somewhere.

1222 So once you can get the sequence with 1223 this, and once you can do it with the 1224 club, 1225 the next evolutionary step is to get both 1226 hands on it.

And the goal would be.

1227 We load and rotate, get the lead arm to 1228 about parallel here, and now I want you 1229 to do the same thing that you're doing in 1230 the throw of the ball.

1231 Okay, I want you to let it go.

1232 And what do I mean by that?

I want you to 1233 get lead arm parallel, shift post, let it 1234 1235 Where's my trail arm right now?

It's the 1236 same exact position that it was when I 1237 was throwing my golf ball.

1238 Here, shift post, let it go.

1239 Here, shift post.

Let it go This doesn't 1240 mean power with your arm, you do not 1241 power with your lead arm or arm, period.

1242 This means that I'm moving shift post, 1243 letting it go.

I'm just introducing my 1244 trail hand to still get the same feel of 1245 how power transfers passively through my 1246 arm, not actively.

You're never trying to 1247 push it out there, okay, 1248 That's weak.

It's not very powerful.

Can 1249 you add more muscular effort and all that 1250 in a trail side release?

Yes.

We'll talk 1251 about that Saturday.

1252 But the weakest thing would be trying to 1253 take this club and powering it out there.

1254 So if you can get this, where you're 1255 getting up to here, 1256 shift post, let it go.

1257 Here, shift post, let it go.

This is 1258 going to help you speed up the club and 1259 learn how to let it go.

But also, if 1260 you're an over-the-topper and all that, 1261 and you're doing this version of the 1262 drill, As you start to work through here, 1263 well, this is going to help you work your 1264 legs without taking over so much.

Because 1265 I don't, I don't see anybody go like that 1266 very often.

So it helps you start to 1267 train speed, but not get the trail side 1268 overactive in the wrong direction.

Okay, 1269 once you can kind of graduate from there, 1270 then it should be here.

L shift, post l l 1271 l notice.

When I get down here into 1272 impact, I'm done, I.

We've already 1273 trained this, okay, should be posted up.

1274 Shoulders gonna be relatively square, 1275 hips open 35 45 degrees.

And what we want 1276 to do is we want to have an L to L shaped 1277 swing.

Okay, if you got a seven iron, we 1278 should be able to get that about 150 1279 yards.

I know there's going to be some 1280 genetics, I know there's going to be some 1281 age limit it, you know, 1282 limited ability, so to speak, 1283 1284 rotational wise and all that, you know, 1285 like for me, I got a terrible left hip.

I 1286 can't use it as much as I would like.

Um, 1287 I don't know some people, they have, you 1288 know, bad backs and this and that.

So I 1289 understand there's going to be some fine 1290 lines with this, but you should be able 1291 to hit your seven iron 150 yards to hit a 1292 seven iron 150 yards.

I wish I had a 1293 little, my little meter here is 1294 literally.

1295 Like, that's my 150-yard shot.

1296 Like, if I wanted to hit this 150 yards, 1297 that's what it would look like.

Does it 1298 really look like I'm doing that much 1299 effort?

1300 I mean, I know my yardage isn't my pace 1301 like that.

1302 This is a 150-yard shot.

1303 I'm using a combination of my legs, 1304 proper leverage in my wrist, okay?

1305 And the goal is going to be to get it 150 1306 yards.

And in that 10-yard dispersion, 8 1307 to 10 yards, 1308 left or right?

1309 Okay.

1310 Now, if you go to the driving range, you 1311 start doing this.

1312 You're like, 1313 hey, feels good.

1314 It's only going 100 yards.

1315 It feels like I'm doing everything I 1316 should be doing.

1317 What is the first thing I want you to 1318 think about?

1319 What's the very first thing I want to pop 1320 into your head?

You go to the driving 1321 range, you're feeling good.

You're like, 1322 all right, I did my phase ones blam, all 1323 right, 10, 15 yards, that thing's on a 1324 string.

I did my phase two.

I got to nine 1325 And you're like, all right, I'm going to 1326 get to my phase three.

1327 Huh.

1328 That only went about 20 yards longer than 1329 my phase two.

1330 But I don't feel like I have any more in 1331 the tank.

1332 What's the first thing I want you to, 1333 what's the first thing I want you to pop 1334 into your head?

1335 I must be using my arms.

1336 because that is the only way you're stuck 1337 not having the club head speed that you 1338 want, is you're relegating your club head 1339 speed back to your arm.

So more than 1340 likely, if you look at your sequencing, 1341 you're going to see, oh, yep, I'm 1342 releasing it.

I didn't finish my post.

1343 Or I got over here to my lead arm, and 1344 when I got to this position, I never let 1345 my arms go.

I hadn't mentioned this 1346 tonight, but you can also go the other 1347 direction.

I started to shift and post, 1348 and I try to leave my arms back here so 1349 long that my body and everything's open 1350 and my lead arms getting pressing.

I 1351 never let anything react well, not dead, 1352 not overly tight, I'm letting my arms 1353 react to my weight and post to create the 1354 snap.

But if you go out there and you're 1355 not getting your speed, you're like, 1356 Craig told me this.

All I'm doing is I'm 1357 that guy with the throw of the ball, 1358 drill or gal, or whoever that's going 1359 like this.

1360 And he's getting all the speed in his 1361 arms.

1362 And that's why it's not going anywhere.

1363 And until I change that, I'm never going 1364 to have any speed.

I don't care.

I mean, 1365 you can go work out.

You can start 1366 working on those forearms and stuff, but 1367 I'm not going to have any speed if I 1368 don't change my mindset that my arms 1369 don't create speed.

1370 Okay.

1371 It doesn't come from my arms.

1372 It comes from my sequencing.

It comes 1373 from my legs.

It comes from my lag.

60% 1374 or more of your club head speed literally 1375 just comes from your wrist.

1376 Literally just comes from your lag, all 1377 right?

The lag in the club, all right?

1378 So I need you to change that.

1379 Now, that doesn't necessarily mean, okay?

1380 that you got to hear and you look at it, 1381 you're like, wow, I did everything 1382 correctly coming down.

1383 It looks like I'm doing it correctly.

1384 Well, what happened to your backswing?

1385 Did you just take your arms and go like 1386 this?

And then you did a good shift and 1387 post?

1388 We didn't wind anything.

1389 Remember the backswing, you're spending 1390 this whole time getting a little bit of 1391 weight, a little bit of momentum and 1392 recruiting muscle fiber.

1393 So if you just took your arms to here and 1394 then you sequenced with your legs, yeah, 1395 you might get your 125, your 130.

1396 You may get 150.

1397 But you're still going to tap out, 1398 especially when you get to the longer 1399 clubs.

1400 What's going on?

It doesn't necessarily 1401 mean I'm just using my arms in my 1402 downswing.

1403 I might just be using my arms in my 1404 backswing.

1405 And that's why no matter what I do coming 1406 down, since all I did was use my arms 1407 coming up here, it doesn't matter how 1408 much I race my body coming down, I still 1409 don't have speed.

1410 Okay.

1411 So you can always just kind of think 1412 about that.

1413 Where am I losing it?

Or when you lose, 1414 what's the first thing pop into your head 1415 and figure out where it is that you're 1416 using that.

And so hopefully what this 1417 starts to do, or what this drill and what 1418 this does, is it starts to make it back 1419 athletic again for you.

We start to round 1420 a little bit from our mechanics, and we 1421 start to put it a little bit more in 1422 feel.

Okay, I can develop a little sense 1423 of rhythm and rhyme with this.

1424 I can do this.

1425 I can get this feel, picking up my feet, 1426 moving through here.

I can start to 1427 develop a little sense and rhythm.

I can 1428 start to get out of my own way.

1429 I can delete some thoughts right now.

1430 Okay.

And the beauty about this is, 1431 especially if you struggle with over the 1432 top, 1433 you struggle with early extension, you'll 1434 see on like the last page of the PDF, you 1435 know, I have over the top casting, 1436 reverse pivot, early extension.

It's 1437 because this drill fix a lot of that.

If 1438 I'm getting here and I'm kind of stepping 1439 into this side, it's going to be really 1440 hard for, I don't even think I can do it.

1441 It's going to be really hard for me to 1442 reverse pivot.

1443 It's not going to really work out that 1444 well.

1445 For early extenders, this is going to 1446 teach you to shift and use your legs.

1447 You're not going to get here and then 1448 step and then push off this way.

You're 1449 going to miss the target.

You're going to 1450 miss the ball.

You're going to get here.

1451 If anything, 1452 players are going to step their back like 1453 this.

1454 Okay.

So it's going to help out with 1455 that.

It's going to help out with the 1456 shallowing of the club because you're 1457 allowing your arms to kind of chill out.

1458 Until you get done with your lower half, 1459 which is going to start to create 1460 secondary tilt, as we talked about 1461 earlier, which will help you start to 1462 shallow out the plane.

It's going to help 1463 with casting, because your first movement 1464 from the top isn't from where and where, 1465 isn't from your hand nor your shoulders.

1466 Which, that's how we go fishing, right?

1467 No fishing here unless we're using 1468 dynamite might be able to get me to go 1469 fishing if we can go with some dynamite.

1470 So, with that being said, I hope all this 1471 made sense.

I know I'm a little bit harsh 1472 on players during this or during this 1473 phase, but I don't want you to get stuck 1474 and I want you to train.

I want you to 1475 understand that speed isn't, it's not 1476 this myth.

It's not this unicorn to try 1477 to attain.

1478 It's relatively simple.

The problem is is 1479 you've spent your whole career getting in 1480 the way of having speed, and the reason 1481 you've done that is the same reason.

I 1482 hurt my club at speed, you know, when I 1483 started reworking my golf swing earlier 1484 on, my club head, speed started dropping 1485 because I got so obsessed with this club 1486 head position.

That here, here, here.

1487 Versus sequencing and moving through 1488 positions and allowing them to happen.

1489 And it's because we get so caught up on 1490 this silly thing.

We start thinking so 1491 much about what's going on with us that 1492 we start to get our own way a little bit.

1493 And we kind of need to get back to being 1494 young with the swing again, to making it 1495 natural.

1496 You know, when you see players that have 1497 simple swings, they look like they're not 1498 doing a whole bunch and all that, it's 1499 typically because.

They're not doing a 1500 whole bunch, and they're using very 1501 little effort, but they've kind of 1502 realized the fact that the more I try to 1503 do, as in kind of brute force effort 1504 -wise, the more I kind of screw things up 1505 on my own.

1506 And I'll leave you with this before we 1507 get to questions.

1508 It's kind of like the person, maybe you, 1509 the person you go out and play with.

1510 He says, oh, I'm going to hit the long 1511 ball today, whether in a scramble or a 1512 tournament or a best ball or something.

1513 And the guy on the first tee gets, and 1514 he's just swinging out of his shoes all 1515 day, 1516 trying to hit, you know, 1517 trying to hit it deep.

And he's hitting 1518 it all over the map.

1519 And at this point in time, by the end of 1520 the round, you're like, all right, I 1521 can't watch any more of this.

And you 1522 come up to him on 18, or he has an 1523 epiphany.

1524 Because, all right, I'm just going to 1525 make a smooth swing here.

I'm just going 1526 to try to get this one in play.

We've 1527 been searching for my golf ball all day.

1528 So I'm just going to get up on 18.

I'm 1529 just going to make a nice smooth swing, 1530 get it out there.

And all of a sudden, 1531 not only does it stay in the fairway, 1532 it's like that was the longest one I hit 1533 all day, but I felt like it didn't do 1534 anything.

1535 Might be some truth to that.

1536 All right.

1537 Thank you.

If you have any questions, 1538 please stick around.

I will be happy to 1539 answer.

And as always, much appreciative 1540 of spending your evening with me.

Your 1541 homework between now and then is to start 1542 to understand this kinetic sequence.

1543 Okay, this kinetic chain of how to 1544 develop speed and try to work into this L 1545 to L position, still sticking with the 1546 same fundamentals.

Now, if you do this, 1547 And what we did on Phase one and two, 1548 completely break down.

You go back to 1549 phase one and two, all right, until you 1550 can kind of challenge yourself a little 1551 bit, all right.

AP Physics I'm still in 1552 level one class.

Hey, we can talk about 1553 physics all day long, who you want to 1554 talk about, all right?

I've got a lot of 1555 things popping up here.

1556 Uh, let's see.

Um, I'm going to start 1557 with Gerald's comment, so if I, if I've 1558 missed anybody, my apologies, put it back 1559 up, I'm going to start with Gerald's.

Is 1560 the throw the ball drill the essence of 1561 trail side release, or is that a 1562 different motion?

Is it the essence of 1563 trail side release?

Not necessarily the 1564 throw the ball drill?

Is the essence of 1565 how to sequence the body to add power?

1566 There's more that goes into being a trail 1567 side releaser, and there's more that you 1568 can add to it when it comes to the golf 1569 club.

1570 For trail side releasers, will it help 1571 you train being one?

Absolutely.

1572 I'm a lead side releaser, but I still do 1573 the throw the ball drill.

It's more about 1574 sequencing the body and how to learn how 1575 to use the legs to transfer energy more 1576 than the perfect kind of releasing of the 1577 club.

So it's more about getting the hips 1578 and the sequencing than just.

Being the 1579 first iteration of teaching a trail side 1580 release.

Uh, the power is at the bottom 1581 of the swing, at impact.

Yeah, the the 1582 only time you need speed in the swing, 1583 Jason, The only time you need speed is 1584 between here and here.

What good does 1585 having speed at the top do nothing?

1586 Because by the time you've, you're done, 1587 you've already expended it.

1588 From here to here is going to be where 1589 you see the vast majority of speed, where 1590 you want it.

It's in the last three feet 1591 of the swing.

1592 Typical tour pro will have about a 70 1593 -mile-an-hour gain right there with a six 1594 iron.

1595 Tom, where did the Pat's helmet on the 1596 bookshelf, where did you get that?

1597 I played in a charity event in Maryland, 1598 just outside Baltimore.

In 2002, so this 1599 was after the New England's first Super 1600 Bowl.

Uh, so that one's signed by Tom, 1601 and obviously back then nobody thought 1602 anything like that.

I got it at a charity 1603 event and since it was the first Super 1604 Bowl and the first one I've had, that one 1605 ever since might have gone up in value 1606 since then.

Being in Atlanta, I don't let 1607 anybody see that, though.

1608 You're welcome.

Jason.

All right.

Charles 1609 hands high in the backswing, over toes 1610 and not heel, as I've been told in this 1611 drill.

Or in general, you're talking more 1612 about full backswing, that's Saturday.

In 1613 the backswing.

You want your arm, your 1614 hands relative, a little bit more over 1615 your ankle joint.

Being out in front of 1616 your toes is going to be way too far in 1617 front.

1618 Can you talk about lead thumb push?

1619 Lead thumb push.

1620 That would be taking this thumb on the 1621 club and losing your angle.

1622 So lead thumb push typically comes from 1623 trying to overly control the club.

So 1624 when players get to here or they start to 1625 get into a full swing, 1626 The grip and the wrist get very tight and 1627 it feels very powerful because think 1628 about it this way.

When you're up here at 1629 the top, the club starts to back in a 1630 little bit on the thumb.

And so you start 1631 to get a lot of pressure there.

And when 1632 you start to get that pressure, you want 1633 to get rid of that pressure.

And it feels 1634 actually fast to get rid of that 1635 pressure.

But when you load muscles, you 1636 get max load and wants to get rid of it.

1637 So when this thumb starts to get the 1638 pressure of this golf club, it's natural 1639 to feel like you want to start pushing 1640 this away or you want to get down here 1641 and you want to start pushing the club to 1642 get more speed.

But then you're 1643 relegating things back to your arms and 1644 hands.

So lead thumb push.

When you start 1645 to sequence coming down, 1646 you've got to take from that tension 1647 level of up here and you've got to go 1648 back a little bit closer to that dead 1649 territory.

My arms and hands are chilled 1650 right here.

My lag is going to increase 1651 and it's not going to fire until I start 1652 to use my legs.

It's usually just the 1653 tension aspect.

1654 If there was a training aid or a magic 1655 weapon or anything like that to get rid 1656 of it, 1657 I'd already be retired.

1658 It's typically just tension, my friend.

1659 With the throw the ball drill with the 1660 club, should your hand be at your trail 1661 quad at the conclusion of post-up?

1662 You tell me.

1663 When I start the sequence coming down, 1664 the weight's going to bring my arms down, 1665 the post is going to bring my arm to 1666 right in front, just as I'm starting to 1667 enter kind of my trail thigh right here.

1668 If I got to here and I sequence like 1669 this, my arm and hand's still back down 1670 here, now I have to use my whole arm and 1671 hand to get back down to the golf ball.

1672 It's way too far to travel.

Or if I use 1673 my arm and hand and now I use my legs, 1674 now you can see how I'd be way too far 1675 out ahead.

So typically it's going to be 1676 right around that trail thigh.

The 1677 shifting and posting to there.

1678 It's going to be where you start to get 1679 that.

1680 Anthony, I think Charles got you.

1681 Charles, I think you're correct.

And may 1682 be leading to over the top of the club 1683 face.

1684 Ira, cause of hitting near the heel with 1685 the driver.

1686 Doesn't really have to do with phase 1687 three, Ira, but I'll answer it.

1688 Typically hitting the heel from the 1689 driver is caused by two things.

It's push 1690 from this trail hip.

And when you have a 1691 driver, especially with the radius, 1692 when you push from the trail hip, what 1693 typically happens is not only does the 1694 hip come in eating up space, but that 1695 push also changes your secondary tilt.

So 1696 you get too much secondary tilt, you have 1697 early extension, and now you're swinging.

1698 too far into out, which will move it out 1699 towards the heel.

1700 Because now you've got two faults that 1701 are telling the heel of the club to go 1702 towards the golf ball.

1703 Eric, 1704 thanks C, recorded myself a couple times 1705 and wanted to make sure I had it correct.

1706 No problems, that's what you need to do.

1707 If you're not recording yourself or using 1708 a mirror or doing anything like that, 1709 you're doing yourself a disservice.

1710 So you have to have feedback.

1711 I don't care who it is.

1712 You have to have feedback.

1713 Okay?

1714 And the same thing when it comes down to 1715 releasing.

I don't care if you're a lead 1716 side releaser.

I don't care if you're a 1717 trail side releaser.

This shouldn't 1718 change.

1719 I'm a lead side releaser.

So I get down 1720 here.

I control everything on my lead 1721 side.

But this drill is how I learn how 1722 to sequence my legs and develop a sense 1723 of speed.

1724 Lead side, your power side.

Or, excuse 1725 me.

Lead side, your control side.

Trail 1726 side, your power side.

1727 All right.

1728 Rob, appreciate it.

1729 Paul, how is the power transfer from the 1730 body through your arms and into the club 1731 head?

Is it a matter of centrifugal 1732 force, rotational torque, that creates a 1733 counterweight kind of going away?

Yeah, 1734 Paul.

1735 So, if you think about that.

I mean, you 1736 don't want to get into where you're.

I 1737 don't want to get too crazy on this.

1738 Remember what's happening in the 1739 downswing is everything's accelerating to 1740 decelerate.

And so you're getting this 1741 kind of independent acceleration, all 1742 right?

So I know that kind of looks like 1743 a flip, but you're getting this kind of 1744 independent acceleration.

1745 So when you make your backswing right 1746 here, your sapulus starts to move down 1747 and in, which starts to connect with your 1748 spine.

So when you start to shift and 1749 come down, it stays with your spine.

And 1750 as you're pulling up the leverage from 1751 the ground, you can get into parametric 1752 acceleration and all these things.

1753 As you start to sequence this, 1754 you're accelerating to peak, so to speak, 1755 and now decel.

You're slowing.

To get the 1756 club to accelerate.

So you can think of 1757 this kind of like double hinge pendulum, 1758 so to speak.

Or the, uh, the Trebuchet, 1759 if you google or watch, kind of the 1760 trebuchet.

That's a really good way of 1761 saying that, but I don't really want to 1762 get into parametric acceleration and all 1763 that.

But when you're, when you're 1764 thinking about centrifugal force, that 1765 false force, yes, that's why, like, if 1766 you know, if I think about, you know.

1767 Centripetal force, my, which is more 1768 going to be your kind of rotational force 1769 right here.

When I start to spin my 1770 shoulders, I'm using centripetal force, 1771 which the effect on the golf club is 1772 going to be my centrifugal force.

Okay, p 1773 first, then f, all right.

So that's going 1774 to be what happens.

In effect.

I'm here.

1775 And with the rotation, the centripetal 1776 motion and the slamming on the brakes, 1777 the effect is going to be 1778 The Centrifugal Force on the club.

That's 1779 why the more dynamic and powerful I am 1780 with my post, moving up and back is going 1781 to trigger the club to go down and out.

1782 Because I'm using the centripetal to turn 1783 it into centrifugal.

1784 Physics 102.

1785 William, thanks for having me.

Thank you, 1786 thank you.

I appreciate that.

All right.

1787 No more questions?

Nothing?

1788 Nada?

We got all this?

I'm surprised 1789 nobody made me hit one.

1790 I think somebody in the last boot camp, 1791 you got to do a phase three now that 1792 we're getting into this.

1793 But the only problem is I have to have a 1794 little bit of a lower trajectory.

See, if 1795 I launch this, 1796 Jack's going to die.

1797 Or Tiger.

1798 I figure if I hit daily, he's going to be 1799 fine.

He's indestructible.

1800 So if we're doing this drill right here, 1801 we want to get L, shift, post, let it 1802 release.

So we should be going L, L.

1803 You can hear just a little bit of speed 1804 to it.

And that's not even a real golf 1805 ball.

1806 Apollo, thanks, Greg.

Can you please 1807 recall me where I can find the material 1808 on the website?

1809 Which material?

The PDFs are in this 1810 right here.

So if you go to the top, the 1811 handouts are there for the bootcamp.

1812 And there's a video list right there.

1813 Just go to the magnifying glass and put 1814 in just like the first word of one of the 1815 videos you want to see.

Everything will 1816 populate.

1817 Member, 1818 menu tree, member tools, my purchases for 1819 replays and joining.

1820 Enjoyed the Craig getting his act 1821 together videos.

I haven't finished with 1822 that yet, Charles.

Don't worry.

I will be 1823 back.

I think I just put a dent in my 1824 wall.

1825 I will be back.

1826 Holidays, traveling, 1827 weather.

Weather in Atlanta has been 1828 miserable for about two months.

I love 1829 the fact that we're getting rain right 1830 now, but I will be back.

I think after 1831 this boot camp, you'll see me back in 1832 action.

1833 Tom, so the follow through from the right 1834 hand is passive.

Yeah.

1835 You don't need your right hand.

1836 I don't need it.

1837 Now, if I'm a trail side releaser, which 1838 we'll talk a little bit about on 1839 Saturday, 1840 you're going to be keeping it just a 1841 little bit more active as you're using 1842 just a little bit of push from there.

1843 But it's.

It's like this moment in time 1844 of a window.

Not like I'm still here and 1845 I'm still being active with it on the way 1846 through.

The ball's gone.

It doesn't 1847 care.

1848 Once the ball's gone, it doesn't matter.

1849 Okay.

With that said, I think I will 1850 skedaddle.

I see people are leaving the 1851 room.

1852 I don't see any other questions.

Anything 1853 that I missed, Anthony?

All good?

1854 Hopefully everybody can still hear me.

1855 Anthony thinks so.

All right.

See you on 1856 Saturday.

Okay.

So on Saturday, be 1857 prepared.

1858 I'm not going to say it's going to be a 1859 longer than usual session, but typically 1860 the last one is the last one.

So at last, 1861 because I will stay here and make sure 1862 that any question that you have, whether 1863 it's my tire, 1864 golf swing.

1865 Who to bet on the Super Bowl, money 1866 lines.

1867 We can answer all that.

1868 So thank you, everybody.

I appreciate you 1869 giving me a chance.

I'm going to head 1870 out.

Anthony, thank you, thank you.

1871 And we will say arrivederci for now.

Get 1872 to work, get your reps in, and we'll see 1873 you on Saturday.