C4 Bootcamp 3, Mar 21 2023, Session 3

Session 3 of 4

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All right.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

How are we doing today?

Can you see me?

Can you hear me?

Probably can't see me yet, but can you hear me?

Go to the chat.

Hello, Craig.

Hello, Larry.

Hi, Brad.

Can you all hear me?

Seeing everything okay so far?

All right.

Yes.

Hello, John.

Fantastic.

Load and clear.

That makes sense, David.

I agree with that.

We need to load and clear the hips.

Makes sense to me.

Hello, Diane.

Jack.

All good here in Ireland.

Got people all over the place today.

FRED Awesome.

Well, welcome to session three of boot camp Day three.

I will still be your humble swing guide today.

Artist the instructor Craig Morrow.

Anthony is usually helping out in the chat.

I don't know if he's going to be in here tonight, he might be spotty, so it might be all on So you might see me float a lot more to the screen and back because when I get this distance, there's no, I mean, I can't see that.

I have actually really good vision, but I still can't see that chat.

So you may see me float back and forth a little bit more than usual.

But with that being said, unless y'all see Anthony pop up in the chat and say that he's in, when we get done with our first part, Try to leave the questions until the end so that as I'm going through the presentation, I'm not kind of jumping back and forth.

Because if I see the screen move, I only want the screen to move because everybody's like, hey, we lost audio or video or there's some technical difficulty.

I'll answer all the questions at the end.

Unless, Anthony, you see him pop in and say, hey, I got everything.

Joel, you sound like you're better.

I'm better, but I'm still on the mend.

I'm not as congested, but it's there.

It's there in my left ear.

My left ear, I'm not hearing well.

I already have poor hearing.

I think that all my hearing went to my vision.

Man, I've well done over 200 plus swings and still have a very slight cast.

It's okay, Craig.

That's okay.

I mean, one of the things that.

It when it comes down to these swings, if in 200 reps you'd be perfect, you know how many scratch handicaps would be out there.

It's going to take time, especially with speed and these newer movement patterns.

I mean, I know, for, you know, when I was making a swing change.

I mean, it would take me about a month to implement it to get it at pace to where I wasn't thinking about it.

Uh, but you know, that's being very diligent and so it'll take time.

It'll get there, Bud, It'll get there.

I promise you.

You just have to hold yourself accountable and really get those proper reps in.

Joel, that sucks.

I can relate.

Yeah, I think a lot of people can.

It's no bueno.

Hello, Orc.

All right, Jesse.

I'm fine with phase two swings, but pushing it consistently when going to phase three.

Well, Jesse, if you're pushing it consistently, there's a lot of things that can create a push.

but more than likely what's happening is as you start to shift and you're getting those hips, you're getting it really shallow, but you're continuing on through, which is delaying the face rotation.

So the club can't catch up and release.

So it's not squaring up because you're continuing to rotate through instead of like, when you think about the throw of the ball, you step post, everything's now decelerating.

So you can get the club to accelerate independently of the body.

That's going to help the club square up.

And so with that being said, If you have any questions up until this point, go ahead and fire away.

I'm still going to let everybody jump in.

A second ago, the counter was 36, and now we're up to 54.

So I see people jumping in.

I'm going to spend the first five or 10 minutes to help everybody get caught So in the throwing drill, does the trail arm fire after the weight transfer and during post-up or after post-up?

Good question, Charles.

Shift post-release.

Shift, post, release.

If you fire after weight transfer, you don't get the power from the post.

The posting up as you start to pull the leverage is going to finish helping getting the arm in front.

And then as you're finishing posting up and going into the deceleration mode, that's what's going to help us accelerate and throw the ball.

Good question.

Good question.

Keith, I'm left-handed.

How stiff?

Should the left elbow be during the takeaway?

Not very, and we'll talk about that today.

So if you're left-handed, your left elbow is going to be your trail arm, so this is going to be my trail arm.

Some players in the beginning may have to force some stiffness to get over it, but relatively speaking, the arm staying straight shouldn't really be, I don't want you like this.

Like, get in here, all right, I'm gonna get every muscle in here as tight as I can.

That's the last thing that I want you.

In the beginning, you may have to put a little effort into it, but you don't want that.

Jack struggling to use the left foot to post up, using the ground too much upper body.

It is a tough thing to turn off, I agree, it is a tough thing to turn off.

But the more.

Just like if you have a mirror, or you're doing a dead drill, or you're doing the throw the ball, the more you practice feeling okay.

My back's gonna stay towards the target and I'm just gonna let my legs bring my shoulders here.

So I'm gonna feel like my trail shoulder stays towards the target.

I'm gonna let my legs bring me down, that's gonna get better.

It's just that you're trying to power it with this because you, you haven't had the feeling of how the sequencing creates the juice.

We all like to be in control.

Let's see.

Anthony found out you can watch on your phone.

Fantastic.

You were able to do that with Livestorm.

So that's good.

So Anthony may be here.

All right.

Let's see.

Leon, I can see and hear you.

Fantastic.

Hello, Charles from Indianapolis.

Got people from all over today.

So we still have some people jumping in.

So I'm going to let the late boomers jump.

Any other questions?

Anything else so far to this point?

Usually this is graduation day, but being how we add a driver to the course, today's not graduation day.

I'm still going to give you some graduation tips, but no other questions at this point.

Everybody mastered phase one, phase two, phase three.

We got this all down.

I hope so.

Ryan, how long are the videos available for replay after training ends?

As long as you have a membership, you will have them indefinitely.

They are yours.

You bought them, so we feel that you should have them.

As long as you have the membership, so you have access to the site, they are all yours.

Because we host these on the site now, like the previous boot camps, when we were using our other.

Company to do the streaming and stuff.

You know, they were hosted by them and so it was hard to kind of keep them.

And then people would share the links, I know it happened, but people would share the links and now we host it on our site.

So with that, you keep them indefinitely, because they're your links and your links alone.

Mike, When I keep my back to the target at release, the club catapults, is this correct?

Yeah, So when you keep your back to the target at release, I mean, technically, if your hips are 45 degrees open, your back's not going to be towards the target.

But what you're doing is you're allowing the club to release and snap, okay?

Because if you were here, say like to throw the ball, and you were still rotating through, you never have that slamming on the brakes acceleration of speed.

I know when I switched to a lead side release, because I was a trail side releaser, when I switched to a lead side release, that was one of the main things I had to do, was I had to really feel almost that my chest was closed to the target, even though it wasn't, but to help me get the club to release.

Got on a good stream of you from 33,000 over Canada on route to Tokyo.

That's great, Jim.

Craig, I watched your video when you had a mullet a year ago where you said, have your golf bag at 45 degrees and not let your shoulders go past the bag.

Yeah, and we're actually going to talk about that on Saturday, okay?

Because that's the same feeling as keeping your chest closed to the target.

You can't.

I mean, let's think about this.

If I'm standing like this.

Okay, and I'm obviously I'm not, you know?

Well, let's let's do it in a golf swing position, all right, if I'm standing like this and I start to shift, I'm going to try to keep my chest pointing at this mirror the entire time.

As I move my legs, I'm going to keep opening up.

My my chest is having to come, I can't separate them that much, so as I'm using my legs, my chest has no other choice to get there.

So that's a feeling that gets down, you know, back to the feel and real aspect of things.

And it was a beautiful mullet though, Craig.

It was a beautiful mullet.

As a lot of people know, I was in a major, or I had a major injury issue.

And so when that happened, I just kind of stopped cutting the hair, kind of didn't really worry about my appearance that much.

Second question, signed up for a live lesson at 20% discount.

Can I sign up for another using today's discount?

Absolutely, Ryan.

Absolutely.

At impact, you purposely hold slash keep the right hand extended or does it just naturally happen for you?

It is not natural for me.

At impact, you purposely hold keep the right hand extended.

What do you mean at impact, keep it extended?

At impact or release.

Because at impact, when you get to here, your trail hand is still going to have a little bit of hinge, a little bit of flexion to it.

As I get to here, the momentum of the club's pulling me through.

So that's how I get this big extension.

And for some reason, it looks like my camera's a little bit angled.

I'm going to turn that for just a second, just to go a little bit that way.

See if that helps a little bit.

Yeah, it looks better.

So the momentum was going to carry you through.

And that's how you get the extension.

Craig, and so you reel into out release a lot.

It was, I had one too.

Oh, the mullet?

Yeah, the mullet's fantastic.

Yeah, if you actually kept that, you'd start to really release into out.

But the more you use your hips, the more it's going to balance out your plane and path.

We got a big group today.

A lot of people are joining live.

Regarding the right-handed impact, did I use the wrong, is it extended or cupped?

So the trail hand, since we have a lefty in the group, the trail hand at impact, when I get to here and I post, this is going to be my impact positioning with my wrist.

So I'm going to have a little bit of flexion here.

Okay, my trail arm isn't going to be full.

I don't want to be like this at impact.

Okay.

I'm going to have a little bit of angle, just a little bit, because I've got to be able to transfer that force.

And if my trail hand is straight, my lead hand is probably going to start cupping.

Okay.

And think about it this way.

Watch my wrist.

All right.

I bow my lead wrist was my trail wrist.

Now I bow my trail wrist was my lead wrist.

So you have to be a little bit careful with that.

A lot of my shots are turning with too much draw to the left.

Would it be better to turn my trail hand a bit more to the right side?

Unless you have something egregious in your grip or if the ball is excessively turning, you're manipulating the club.

OK, so when you're getting down here, more than likely you're speeding up your hand rotation.

You're getting a little bit more of a flip versus a release or.

You're getting that release, and as you're releasing, you're also doing it with your chest.

That'll cause a little bit more of a pull hook.

But if you're getting like a big right to left, more than likely you're getting down here and you're speeding up your hands.

You're controlling the face too much.

If you watch me right here, does it really look like?

I'm just letting the club rotate back and forth?

And if you were to actually map this out, my club face is going to be perfectly square right here, same thing with this hand, I'm just letting the club square up.

Now, if I get through here and I speed up my hand, that's going to shut down my face, and then you're going to see a lot of dispersion or curvature on my ball flight.

All right, let's see.

We'll give them one minute.

One minute, and then we will get to, as I tell my Swinger View students, yelling.

This has been a pretty quiet group.

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Because I know it's not my teaching.

I haven't answered every question.

I hope that means everybody's like, all right, we're on the same page.

We know what we need to do.

We just got to do it.

I'm perfectly fine with that.

Anthony, you still with us just as a side note?

Thanks, got it.

Some people said I'm very fast with my wrist.

Exactly.

You're going to be deploying the speed through your wrist or, you know, from your wrist.

The club's going to, you know, the speed is going to be there.

But remember, you don't want your wrist overly manipulating.

I'm only going to be doing something really crazy with my wrist like that if I'm trying to have massive curvature on the ball.

But you don't want your hands blazing fast right there because you're just going to get too much face rotation.

We'll be here for a few.

All right, perfect.

All right, Craig, I feel like I'm posting up, but why are my hands even with the ball instead of ahead of it?

Probably have to take a look at it, but more than likely, if you're posting up and your hands are behind it, as you're starting to get down into here, you're starting to push on the club or you're starting to use your hands.

Instead of letting the hips continue to pull you up to this position, you're probably starting to post and you're like, I got a square.

You're not giving the club and arms and hands time to continue their function to get down to the release.

You're kind of putting your own control in it.

Diane, this will be the last one and I will get going.

In the throw of the ball, which bit delivers the most?

The first bit coming down or the straightening of the arm?

In the throw of the ball, which bit delivers the most?

The first bit coming down or the straightening of the arm?

Delivers the most.

Delivers the most what?

Power?

I'm not getting any power.

From that, I mean, I'm going to get some power from, you know, the change in elevation.

If I elevate a little bit, I'm going to get a little bit of power coming from there.

But I'm not really.

I'm not getting any power from this.

I.

I'm not getting a lot of power from the thrusting of my arm, I don't want to rely on how strong my arm is.

I mean, if if you think about it, or just an easy analogy.

If I was like, throwing a jab like this, Nobody's going to fear me.

All right.

They're going to get hit and they're going to be like, that's all you got.

So when I'm throwing a jab and I'm, I'm, I'm corking back like in a golf swing.

And then I start to clear and go this way.

I'm letting all the speed being transferred from me through my arm.

It's not my muscular arm effort.

And that's, that's why a lot of people kind of struggle like with phase three, because they just do it with their arm.

And they struggle with speed because they're they're trying to power with their arm.

You can develop speed, but you're going to max out, you're kind of limiting.

Hopefully that answers your question.

I was on the somewhat of a right track, but with that said, let's get going.

Unless there's a major catastrophe.

Do the questions at the end.

Or, you know, Anthony can get you, uh, Anthony.

As usual, I appreciate for being here, stopping by.

I know you're running around right now, so thank you very much for that.

And if there is a major issue, you know, just send me a text.

That's for for some people that don't know.

I kind of cheat up here a little bit, so my watch gets my text messages on here.

So if there is a major catastrophe and I'm going through and it's like, Mayday, Mayday, it's like, Okay, I, I know when to cut out.

So Today, we're going to talk about the swing overall and as a whole.

Okay, so we've been kind of talking about it in parts and different sections and how we build up.

And as some people that have been in these boot camps before, this day is usually the final day.

So I usually give a little bit more.

I'm going to save some for the weekend.

But I use this day to talk.

I use this day to really kind of blend everything together.

But it's never the same.

There's going to be some same topics.

They're going to be some same discussions, but it's never the same.

I almost kind of come up with a lot of this stuff almost before the session.

I'll do a lot of swing reviews and I'll see like what people are struggling with or what they're doing well with or what they want more commentary on.

So I try to gear this towards what I've been seeing from the boot campers.

The first boot camp that we did on the C4, the whole day.

For this day was after a conversation happened with Anthony, Anthony asked me a question and we just got to talking back and forth.

And I completely scrapped the entire final day, the day of or the day before.

So what I want to talk about today is the overall swing and the overall journey that you're going to be going on.

And trying to polish this thing off.

All right, and how and what you're going to do, but when you should do it, okay?

So up until this point, we've done a few things, and we've done a lot in a short amount of time.

We've worked on impact, all right?

We've worked on our checkpoints of getting our hips stacked, impact positioning, lead wrist, because at the end of the day, impact's really the only thing that matters, okay?

And I'll show you that a little bit later, but impact's the only thing that really matters.

Now, your clubface angle, direction, is really going to be the only thing that affects what the ball does.

So we learned a little bit of this and some checkpoints.

Then what we did is we moved on to phase two, keeping the same ones, but all we did was just add a little bit of release to it.

A little bit more movement with the body, but a little bit of release to it.

So we started to learn a little bit of impact control and feel and a little bit of release to start adding some consistency and adding some speed, learning what really happens below the belt.

Then we moved on to phase three, where now, okay, now we're learning to develop a little bit of snap and rhythm in this one.

Okay.

Phase four is just finishing the golf swing.

There's really not a whole lot that changes.

But you're only ready for phase four when you kind of have this basic stuff down.

And I'll elaborate on that.

Phase four, when you get to your phase three swing right here, all phase four is to finish the swing is you just finish your rotation and there's a little bit of flexion.

That's my full backswing.

All right, I can't go any more than that.

All right, so you're getting here, lead arm parallel to the ground, and all you're doing is just adding a little bit more rotation and flexion.

And then on the downswing, you're doing the same things that you've been doing.

And all the phases, other than maybe the impact phase with how much weight you're moving, you focus on shifting your weight, posting, and letting the club release.

And we're going to go through those stages.

But this phase is where we can start to get a little bit hyper aware or finer tuned with positions.

So as I said earlier, We get the basics, we kind of get a little bit of the movements down, but we really don't delve into all these specifics now.

Why is that?

It's because I don't really care about you worrying about perfection in your swing.

If you can't do the things that I've talked about previously, if you can't set up correctly, I don't care where your takeaway is.

If you can't shift your weight, I don't care what your lag's doing.

If you can't shift your weight and learn how to post, and you can't add a semblance of rotation, and you can't blend it and do a little bit of it in sequence and feel, whether it's perfect or not, but if you can't get a blend of, okay, In the backswing, all I'm trying to do is shift a little weight in some rotation.

In the downswing, shift a little weight, clear my hips, and let it release.

Just an overarching kind of feel of the movement.

I don't care if your club face is slightly shut at the top versus perfectly square.

Because we've done this in the order of priorities of what really matter.

You don't have to have a perfect swing to play perfect golf.

Okay?

You don't.

And a perfect swing has never yielded perfect golf.

Believe me, I chased perfection forever.

And it never yields perfect golf.

And in fact, if you go back to the data and you look at TrackMan and you look at like in the mid to late 2000s and early 2000s, everybody that had perfect numbers, perfect sequencing and all that, the number one guy couldn't make a tour card.

Lost the tour card.

But yet his numbers.

Were better than Tiger with every club in the back.

But he couldn't make a cut, even though computer wise, his swing was perfect, so a perfect swing will never yield perfect results.

And that's why I leave things to this day, where you start to fine tune to where a couple degrees here and there.

Little changes here and there can make a difference when you have the the basic movement down.

But to play great golf and to play good golf, it doesn't take that much.

It takes just these big kind of simple movements that we've talked about, having the weight and rotation, having the post-up, having just a little bit of the feel of how the club just kind of rotates back and through.

It doesn't have to hit perfect positions.

That's why in phase two, I didn't say like your takeaway must be spot on perfect, like we're going to talk about today.

I didn't say, this has got to be perfect.

This has got to be perfect.

No, I just wanted you to get moving.

I wanted you to have the basis of what a proper swing is made of.

You build it, and then you tighten the screws.

But so many people get lost tightening the screws before they really understand how to move and what they're doing, okay?

Chuck used to talk about it this way, and I talk about it this way with my students.

And when you're kind of like weightlifting or you're learning how to lift weights, especially.

Uh, early on, you know, when you're first doing it, you're just learning, okay, how to lift, you're just learning how to lift.

Now.

How do I?

how do I do a curl?

Right here?

I can tell you right now.

The person that I fear in the gym, I don't go to the gym, but if I did, the person that I would fear in the gym.

Versus the one that I wanted.

And that's the same guy that I fear on the golf course versus the one that I wanted.

You're gonna go into the gym and you're gonna see two different types of people.

You're gonna see the one person that's like, okay, I can't curl 20 pounds yet, but I can do five pounds.

It's still some work, but I can do five pounds.

But they're sitting here like this and they're focusing on, okay, I'm just gonna get the proper movements and have some good form with this.

I'm not gonna worry about perfecting it, but I'm gonna make sure I've got good form.

And then when I can do that and everything's fluid and everything's moving the way it should, then I'm going to test myself and add some more weight.

But I'm going to gradually go up.

That's the guy that I'm worried about.

Us golfers, me included, all right, I made the same mistakes.

Say, no, no, no, I've been to the gym 200 times.

I've been playing golf for 20 years.

And they go pick up and I'll do it right here for you.

See, like I said, these things just pop in my head.

This is 52 and a half pounds.

All right.

Yeah.

52 and a half pounds.

And they go in the gym and they're like, I mean, I can't curl this, but they're trying, They're doing everything and they're heaving their body, and they're doing all this with their shoulder.

And they're trying to get it up.

And they may get it up once.

All right.

May get it up once.

But they don't get anywhere.

They develop all these bad habits and they don't really get down to brass tacks of getting better and what they need to fix.

Okay.

That's what I want you to kind of take away from this bootcamp.

Don't be that guy in the gym like that.

All right.

If you focus on getting the basics, getting the moves, getting a little bit of the form, starting where you need to start, you may need to start at phase one.

After this boot camp ends, you may be at phase two.

But practice like a pro.

Practice like you have a goal that you're trying to achieve.

I want more consistency.

I want to be better.

Be that guy in the gym.

It's like, okay, I'm just going to get kind of the basics down and get these moving.

Then I'll, as I get stronger, I'll test more weight.

I'll refine it.

That's what I want you to use with this program.

If you have the basics of what you're trying to do to make up a golf swing, you can play great golf.

Today is when you have that, then you can start to tighten the screws and refine.

Because all this stuff out in the golf world, everybody's got YouTube and everybody listens to these commentators on TV and all.

All this stuff, I mean, it truly amounts to nothing at the end of the day.

Oh, well.

You know, you, you've, you've got to have your takeaway here.

You know?

It's got to be one more degree down, or it's got to be here.

Or, you know, when you get up here, you need it.

It's very easy to get caught up in that, and I can tell you that nobody's ever hit a ball with their takeaway.

So now that my Tony Robbins spiel is over, If you can do Phase one, and you've got phase two, you've got a semblance of it, and phase three, you really got to feel for it.

When you start moving into phase four, all you're going to do is continue to rotate and add a little bit of flexion, okay?

That's it.

There really isn't a whole bunch more, and we're going to work on some backswing drills.

Downswing, you do the same thing as we did in our phase three.

Shift pose, let it release.

Step pivot, let it release.

But when you get to this level, You can start to refine some things.

Okay.

And I have the PDF somewhere in this room.

There are checkpoints along the way.

So how I'm going to structure this, I'm going to go from takeaway to top of the backswing to transition, downswing, impact.

a little bit of release.

I'm going to talk about a lot of things.

I'm going to give you a couple of drills, but this is when you have the basics and the big kind of core fundamentals of it down.

Okay.

So the first thing is takeaway.

All right.

So in the takeaway, what you're looking for is to have weight shift and rotation.

And when you get to set point, You want the club either toe up or slightly toed down, kind of just depending on your grip.

Okay, and when you get to this point, what you're looking for is that the club is still in front of you.

All right, you don't want to see it out here like this, overly set, overly inside.

This is a death move that is a non -negotiable wallet with me.

But when you get to this position, you want Your weight shifted.

You want 45 degrees of shoulder rotation.

You can have some hip, but you don't need too much.

A little bit of hip rotation because you want the shoulders and the core to kind of be the main drivers right now.

But when you reach this position, you want the club toe up, slightly toe down, still in front.

Now, you can go to the website and you'll see I've got a video called the RST Pencil T-Drew that'll kind of walk you through some of these checkpoints.

That's why I got that weird, funky looking cup with that pencil on it right there.

When looking at yourself from face on, this should be what you see.

That you have 45 degrees, still have a little flexion in the knee, but this is the area that you're shooting for.

You want the club and your hands kind of in line with your trail pocket right here.

You want to be able to see some width.

See how I have some extension from my hip or my thigh?

To the button.

In the club.

You want to have some width right there, because width in the golf swing is going to allow you to have a little bit more of free speed.

But in terms of what we're doing, it's going to help.

You know that you might be rotating because I can get here and move my arms and club very easily to make a takeaway, but did I rotate to do it?

I start to recruit muscle fiber early.

Like I talked about that, we need to do no.

If you tend to get overly armsy and handsy, this is going to be what you see.

You're not going to see any width or extension here.

And then when you look at it down the line, the club's not in a bad position, but I never rotated to get there.

So the first component when you start trying to build and refine these positions is, okay, when I look at my takeaway, I want to make sure that I shift weight and that I rotate.

And if I'm going to look at it from this perspective, I want to be able to see the logo on the chest.

Okay.

I want to be able to see that I have moved or started to engage these big muscles.

Remember, we move the inside.

We move our body to move the arms and hands and club and outwards.

And it starts right off the ball.

Some players have a little bit of an issue kind of getting to this point.

And what I mean is they get stuck.

They they've thought about their swing so much and they set up here and they get in a good setup and they know what they need to do.

But they get that, you know that old Sergio at Beth Page, where they start, you know, kind of milking the grip.

They're like, Hey, they just have to have something to get going well.

The beautiful news is is weight shift happens early in the swing.

We want it to happen early in the swing, and weight shift can be a really good trigger.

Okay to start your swing off on the right track.

So If you get up here and you struggle with getting the club going, just start to push your trail foot in the ground a little bit, just a little bit, okay?

You can see I'm not swaying or doing anything like that, just a little bit of push.

And what that's doing is that's generating just a little bit of momentum, taking away a little bit of tension, and it's easy for me to have weight and rotation to this point, okay?

That's a really good way if you have no idea how to start the swing, but you want to make sure you kind of get the core and you get the rotation involved, use a little bit of the weight shift to kind of help you get going.

So I don't want you to use your hands.

I don't want you to use any other things to kind of be your trigger.

All right.

The takeaway has a little bit of elevation.

It has a little bit of wrist, a little bit of rotation, but not that much that you really have to worry about anything.

It's barely any.

Now, if Chuck were giving this.

He would pick on me because when he was my coach two decades ago, I had an issue where I didn't have enough risk set.

Well, that's a case-by-case basis.

Most people, when they feel the weight of the club, allow it to set a little bit.

They allow it to set a little bit.

There's about 25% of risk set in the takeaway because you're 25% done with the swing.

That's it.

You don't need that much.

So when you start looking at your swing and you start hitting those checkpoints and you're like, okay, I can make this good takeaway and I can work up towards the top.

As you go from there and you start working up towards the top, when you get up here, what you're looking for is a good position to be able to bring the club down.

All right.

The back swing.

It doesn't necessarily have to be perfect, but you're trying to prep yourself to have a great downswing.

If you have a good backswing, and you don't have to make any counter manipulations, it will be easier.

So after you get to this takeaway position, you get a little bit of weight, you get big rotation, you get to this point, and you continue to go up from here.

All you're going to have is 90 degrees of flexion or less with the trail arm, and you're looking for it to be in line with your sternum.

Okay, mine's a little bit straight down, that's fine, you can have it straight down in line with your sternum.

This is a no-go situation.

You're looking for the button in the club or your hands to be roughly over your trail ankle.

Okay, because one of the big things that happens in players swing is they.

They tend to get deep and I'll show you what I mean, they tend to overwork the arms.

And so when they get up here to the top, their arms and hands go across their chest like this.

So not only are they going to tend to cast on the downswing, But they're also in a position that they have to do something to get the arms back out in front.

Because they have to do something because the club is now trapped.

And they usually get stuck, get overly with the right hand, or they spin and they start casting.

So you want to make sure that the club and arms and hands are always staying in front of the body, always staying in front of the chest.

And your checkpoint is the hands are over the trail ankle.

You want the lead wrist flat.

Trail wrist has a little bit of flexion to it because that's going to affect your face angle at the top.

Notice that if I get up here and I bow my wrist, look at my club face.

It's shut to the sky.

Notice if I cut my lead wrist, now my face is open.

So you want the lead wrist flat, with just a little bit of flexion and your trail wrist.

So that you're in a good position.

To make it easy for the club to square up coming down.

And when we look at it from the face on, you should be able to get up to this position where you see that you've retained your axis tilt.

You've got a full shoulder rotation.

You've got 90 degrees or less with the trail arm.

And one of my big pet peeves is that your arms are stopping with your rotation, or they're in sync with your rotation.

You do not want the arms continuing to swing if you aren't moving.

Okay, and what?

And all as simple as I can make that.

All I'm saying is, if you get here and your arms are just continuing to go and there's nothing going on, you're not rotating, you're not doing anything, and your arms are continuing to go.

All right, You want, when you stop rotating in the backswing, you don't want your arms going anymore.

All right.

You need them to stay connected.

You don't want to add that element of timing into it.

And so we're looking for this because we want the width.

But also, if I keep my trail arm from bending 90 degrees, what does that do to my lead arm?

It allows my lead arm to stay straight.

The only reason your lead arm bends in the golf swing, if it does bend in your golf swing, Is because your trail arm's bending too much?

I always tell students, Anthony does, Chuck does.

You know?

If you do the opposite of what you think you should do, you're probably going to be closer to right.

It's kind of the same thing in the golf swing.

We tend to blame or only see the problem.

Like, Oh, my lead arm is bending.

I've got to, I've got to get up here and keep my lead arm straight.

For dear life.

No, it's not because your lead arm's bending.

It's because your trail arm's overworking, so your lead arm is bending as a function.

It doesn't have a choice.

You can even try that.

Stick your lead arm out in front of you like this.

Grab your lead thumb like a gun.

Bend your trail arm 90 degrees.

Try to bend your lead arm.

Try to bend it.

The only way you can bend it is by adding more flexion.

But if your trail arm stays here.

I can't make my lead arm bend.

Okay.

So sometimes you need to look at the problem.

You need to look at the equation from a different perspective of my lead arms bending.

Maybe it's my trail arms fault.

That's how kind of how the golf swing works.

It's usually when you see the problem, it's usually not the main thing.

There's usually an underlying reason of what's causing that.

You know, that's why we dive so much into the anatomy of things.

But in the backswing, we're looking for 1000 to try to get 70% to 80% of our weight, 1001 full shoulder rotation, having our width, 1002 our clubface square at the top, matching 1003 the lead wrist, having our axis tilt, 1004 nothing overly moving, ready to make a 1005 great downswing.

1006 And it should be a very kind of simple 1007 position.

1008 Now, that's why in phase two, I didn't 1009 really care about your takeaway.

I didn't 1010 want you thinking about face angle or 1011 being perfectly in front or anything.

I 1012 just didn't want you to have anything 1013 egregious.

Phase three, I didn't want you 1014 thinking about like, oh, 1015 do I have this much bend in my trailer or 1016 this much flexion here?

I wanted you to 1017 focus on how you're moving and what 1018 you're doing in this one.

1019 But as you'll know, one of my favorite 1020 drills on the site to really kind of get 1021 the brain out is the two-inch hand drill.

1022 Okay, I literally do this almost with 1023 every student, even students that have 1024 done boot camps, and then come see me in 1025 person.

I've made them do it and they're 1026 like, Oh, I wasn't doing it that way.

1027 That's why I didn't feel what you're 1028 telling me.

I'm like, I couldn't have 1029 made it any simpler, at least, I thought 1030 I couldn't have made any simpler.

To have 1031 the proper backswing is to kind of forget 1032 about the club.

Kind of sounds silly, but 1033 I don't want you to worry so much about 1034 your hammer, I want you to worry about 1035 how you move you.

We have two drills on 1036 the site, we got the roll, the right arm, 1037 which is very good for the takeaway, we 1038 got.

Stop Over Swinging video, which is 1039 my video, which basically combines that 1040 into a full swing version to help you 1041 stop over swinging.

But if I take my 1042 setup right here and I let my arms hang 1043 how they would in a normal golf swing.

1044 And I stick my hands two inches apart, 1045 okay, just two inches apart from the same 1046 normal position, okay, same normal 1047 position.

Fingertip length the same, and 1048 I make a takeaway, maintaining the same 1049 spacing and the fingertip length.

All 1050 right, look at what happens for me to 1051 maintain that to this kind of shaking 1052 hands position, nothing on top to the 1053 shaking hands position.

The only way I 1054 can get my hands, my arms, over to this 1055 position, is to rotate.

It's literally 1056 the only way to do it.

Okay.

So we had a 1057 question earlier, how tense should my 1058 trail arm be in the takeaway to maintain 1059 it straight?

1060 Do I look really tense right here?

1061 My trail arm isn't going to bend if I'm 1062 not using it.

If I'm moving this to move 1063 my arms and hands and club, that's going 1064 to give me the feel of how rotation my 1065 engine moves this.

1066 If you do that, you can start to feel a 1067 little bit of your abdominals and a 1068 little bit of your obliques.

1069 And if you don't feel them, you're going 1070 to feel them now.

You take the same 1071 drill, and I want you to go as far as you 1072 can go while maintaining those two same 1073 checkpoints, 1074 okay?

1075 As far as you can go.

1076 Excuse me, I still got a little bit left.

1077 As far as you can go.

1078 This is about the max out for me.

All 1079 right, if I go any further than this, I'm 1080 going to lose my connection.

But I can 1081 feel it squeezing my lungs, I can feel 1082 the tightness in my core.

Right now, this 1083 is about as far as I can go, maintaining 1084 that.

All right, so technically speaking, 1085 that's as far as I can move without my 1086 arms moving independently of my rotation.

1087 All right, that's basically should be 1088 kind of the length of my swing now.

In 1089 the golf swing.

You are going to have a 1090 little bit of elevation, you're also 1091 going to have a little bit of flexion.

As 1092 you can see, flexion creates some 1093 vertical motion.

You're going to have a 1094 little bit of wrist, you're going to have 1095 a little bit of momentum.

Everybody does 1096 so.

When I go from this position to here 1097 and I'm fully loaded, you can see the 1098 logo on my chest.

All I'm going to do is 1099 going to grab my lead thumb like a gun 1100 and just add a little bit of flexion.

1101 That's the top of my swing, that's it, I 1102 can't go any more than that, that's my 1103 backswing.

And if you're not so concerned 1104 with the club, it makes it insanely 1105 simple to feel how the inside moves the 1106 out.

And I get a question a lot where?

1107 Well, Craig, I don't understand how these 1108 drills relate to the swing and then.

1109 But I can do the drill, but I can't do it 1110 with the club.

And I tell people, I'm 1111 like, it's because you're still thinking 1112 about the club.

You're not thinking about 1113 how you're moving.

You're not thinking 1114 about your drill.

1115 So if I hope, I could be wrong.

1116 I hope that most people in this class, 1117 all right, would think that my takeaway, 1118 it's pretty decent.

It's not perfect, but 1119 it's decent.

All right, I've got 1120 rotation, I'm loaded, club's out in front 1121 of me.

Now, if I let this go, 1122 What position am I in right now?

1123 I'm literally in the same position that I 1124 just did with my drill.

So if I do my 1125 drill and I feel the positions, and I 1126 just allow the club to react to me, I'm 1127 in the exact same position I drilled.

1128 Now, watch this.

If I go from here and I 1129 continue my same two-inch hand drill, 1130 that's my full backswing.

Now, I'm not 1131 going to let it go, just in case, because 1132 I've got a lot of breakable things in 1133 here.

1134 But that's the same thing as right here.

1135 I didn't have to worry, and I don't have 1136 to worry about making sure the club is 1137 going to perfect positions.

1138 Because it kind of has no choice.

It's 1139 going to go kind of where I go.

1140 If I move like this, the club's going to 1141 kind of react to that point.

1142 And that's going to be.

1143 how you refine your backswing, but still 1144 not get lost in the weeds.

1145 You move in the big stuff to move to that 1146 position.

It makes the backswing insanely 1147 simple.

And then if you look at it and 1148 you're missing these checkpoints or you 1149 get up here towards the top and your 1150 right arm's like this, it's like, no, my 1151 elbow needs to be down.

Put it in that 1152 position.

1153 Okay.

1154 If you struggle with what the right arm 1155 should feel like, make a lead arm only 1156 swing.

1157 And then add your trail.

See how relaxed 1158 it is right now?

It's pointed down.

It's 1159 a lot easier to get the feel of where it 1160 should be if you go that way like that.

1161 Or you can do a trail arm too, as long as 1162 you keep it in front of the chest.

If you 1163 struggle with the lead arm feel, then add 1164 your lead arm.

1165 But still have all the inside and all 1166 these components moving the outside to 1167 get there.

And what you'll find.

1168 is that when you get there, and when I 1169 get to this position, my arms are pretty 1170 relaxed right now.

Yes, I'm supporting 1171 the weight of the club and a lot of these 1172 things, but my arms are pretty relaxed, 1173 all right?

1174 My core and my legs are loaded, but my 1175 arms are pretty relaxed because if my 1176 arms are way overly tense at the top, 1177 what's going to tend to happen?

1178 I'm going to tend to use them first thing 1179 in the downswing.

Because they're the 1180 ones that are loaded, they're the ones 1181 that are tense.

1182 So if we take that same notion of the 1183 top, when we get up to said position, now 1184 that we've loaded and rotated our core 1185 and our body, our arms should be chilled.

1186 So this should help us immediately in the 1187 transition.

Now we shift.

1188 And by the time we get our weight back to 1189 this side, the goal is to have the lead 1190 arm parallel to the ground by the time we 1191 have the weight back to this side.

Okay.

1192 And so when we do this from here, my arms 1193 are relaxed.

So when I shift with my arms 1194 and hands being a little bit more relaxed 1195 than the core, since I loaded and 1196 stretched it, it wants to fire first 1197 versus my arms and hands.

It's going to 1198 help us do two things.

One.

It's going to 1199 help us create a little bit of down cock.

1200 Two, it's going to help us shallow out 1201 the club because my arms are pretty 1202 chilled right now.

So when I shift back, 1203 it's easier for the club to start to 1204 shallow out and start to drop down 1205 because I'm not so tense with it.

1206 So we make our backswing.

We shift lead 1207 arm parallel to the ground.

We got our 1208 weight back.

Our hips are back to square, 1209 our waist back.

Now from here, we still 1210 don't do anything with our arms and 1211 hands.

We post.

1212 We've already done this in phase three.

1213 We post.

We move from the ball of the 1214 foot back towards the heel to clear the 1215 hip, straightening the leg.

Now I'm in 1216 the delivery position.

Now you just do 1217 the same release that you've been doing 1218 since phase two.

1219 So we load our body.

Don't worry about 1220 the club.

We shift.

We post.

Now we just 1221 let it release.

1222 And that's the sequencing that you need 1223 to work on in your swing.

1224 That's the only things that really need 1225 to happen.

If you look at your swing and 1226 it's like, okay, well, I do that in the 1227 backswing, but then I get steep.

1228 Well, okay.

Well, you're firing your arms 1229 and hands.

They're overly tense.

You're 1230 not using your legs.

So you need to chill 1231 out with your arms and hands.

Make sure 1232 that you kind of sequence the backswing 1233 correctly and then load them and make 1234 sure that as you come down, they're 1235 staying relaxed so they can react to your 1236 legs.

1237 Okay.

1238 You know, fixing over the top is, you 1239 know, one of the simplest things.

Because 1240 it.

You're just firing out towards the 1241 golf ball with your trail shoulder or 1242 trail arm because you're trying to power 1243 it with this, okay?

So as we work on 1244 this, you load, rotate up to here, the 1245 body's loaded, we shift, make sure that 1246 we get everything back by lead, arm, 1247 parallel.

We post, so as we enter this 1248 trail thigh, we're done with our body 1249 stuff.

And then we let the club release.

1250 We had a comment earlier that said, Hey, 1251 when I, you know, I feel like my chest is 1252 square or closed, or my back to the 1253 target.

You know, the club releases with 1254 some whip, you know, I really kind of get 1255 this catapult effect, same thing we're 1256 doing right here, everything's relaxed, 1257 we post and now the club can speed up and 1258 whip.

We can get that kind of catapult 1259 effect.

Because we're not trying to power 1260 it with this half.

Okay, so a lot of 1261 players ask, you know what, 1262 how do I use the site?

how do I use the 1263 drills?

how do I?

how do I use all these 1264 things?

and what does all this mean?

And 1265 and I won't give you, you know, too long 1266 a spiel on this.

But.

But C4 has 1267 everything that Rotary's ever done, kind 1268 of intertwined.

It's a.

It's a little bit 1269 of a kind of culmination of what we've 1270 done for two decades and what Chuck's 1271 done for two decades.

Where, you know, we 1272 had a very mechanical version 1273 of the old five minutes, which has all 1274 the bells and whistles and stuff in it, 1275 which people got really good, but they 1276 got too much in their brain.

1277 And then we had the RST five step come 1278 out, which was kind of the precursor to 1279 dead, which got people moving, kind of 1280 got them out of thinking too much about 1281 the golf club and got them being athletic 1282 again.

And then we had the dead drill, 1283 which refined the RST five step, which 1284 made it really snappy and really a little 1285 bit more detail program oriented.

1286 Okay.

1287 And then we had Axiom, which Axiom is 1288 what allowed us to start getting people 1289 to be athletic, 1290 understand how the trail side works in 1291 the swing.

Because up until that point, 1292 we were very lead side based, lead side 1293 dominant, because everybody's mostly 1294 everybody's too trail side dominant.

1295 And so Axiom allowed us to start allowing 1296 people to develop speed, Put some 1297 athleticism and 1298 get an easy feel, an easy kind of win 1299 because that side was already trained.

1300 But the problem is is the the dead 1301 drillers and the five minuters and the 1302 five steppers.

They got to lead side 1303 dominant and they're missing the power.

1304 And then we gave them.

And we gave you 1305 all the axiom and you got the power and 1306 the feel back, but then you got to trail 1307 side dominant.

Because we gave you too 1308 much free reign, because you forgot about 1309 all the other things.

And so C4 is the 1310 blend of all of this stuff to make it 1311 work.

That's why we get a little bit 1312 mechanical.

We add a little bit of 1313 release.

And then we add some pace to it 1314 to get you to not kind of think about it.

1315 And then we come back to this where we 1316 kind of get you thinking about positions 1317 and things and mechanics again.

But then 1318 we want you to kind of round it back out 1319 the field.

Remember my conversation the 1320 other day about mechanics and feel.

1321 It's this cycle.

1322 You can use everything that we've ever 1323 done, which is intertwined in C4 to help 1324 kind of get over the hump.

If you're not 1325 very good at using your body and using 1326 your legs, you can go back to your dead 1327 drills and really get these positions 1328 down until you can do it without thought 1329 or do it as you're talking like I am.

I 1330 have a student of mine limited right now.

1331 He joined like a week ago and we've kind 1332 of gone back and said, look.

You're not 1333 getting it with the golf club.

Show me 1334 your dead drill.

Just let me see your 1335 body movements.

And when he posted just 1336 his body movements, he had seven 1337 different flaws.

And I'm like, okay, 1338 well, if you can't get from here to here, 1339 how are we going to expect that you can 1340 do it with the golf club at 100 miles an 1341 hour?

And so we've spent the last few 1342 days, we're finding his body positions 1343 and movements.

And now he's really 1344 starting to kind of cook like, oh, I'm 1345 feeling these things.

1346 Okay.

Well, 1347 for example, let's say, all right, Craig, 1348 I get the fact that you're telling me 1349 that, you know, the arms and hands come 1350 straight down and this shallows due to 1351 the shifting of my weight and the arms 1352 staying chilled out, but I'm having 1353 trouble kind of getting over that hump 1354 because I can't get my arms and hands 1355 chilled out.

1356 Well, if you're a little bit more of a 1357 feel based and this thinking just isn't 1358 quite clicking, Then you can go to Axiom 1359 and you can focus on all your clockwise 1360 movements for right-handed players, 1361 counterclockwise movements for left 1362 -handed players.

But like with Axiom when 1363 we first launched it and how I teach 1364 axiom to players.

I don't have them.

1365 Refine it and make it perfect first, I 1366 have them go through, just getting the 1367 movements down at first.

But let's let's 1368 say you're the player has the tendency to 1369 go inside and over the top.

All right, 1370 I don't care about you having a perfect 1371 swing plane to hear, a perfect swing 1372 plane to hear.

I care about you doing the 1373 opposite of anything you've ever done 1374 because that's not going to work for you.

1375 So like with Axiom, you can take this and 1376 you can focus on, okay, I'm going to make 1377 my clockwise motion so I can feel the 1378 club staying.

I'm exaggerating, but I can 1379 feel the club staying out in front and 1380 shallowing out coming down.

But I'm going 1381 to do that motion.

1382 a little bit big just to make sure I get 1383 over the hump, get out of my own way, and 1384 then I'll kind of worry about refining 1385 1386 But that's how I want you to think about 1387 your swing.

When you send in a review, 1388 when you look at nothing, it doesn't have 1389 to be perfect.

Look at the bare bones of 1390 it.

Am I doing the basics?

Once you get 1391 those kind of basic and core movements 1392 down, then you can be overly nitpicky 1393 about your swing.

1394 But you'd be really surprised how much 1395 better golf you would play if you kind of 1396 forget about this guy and you just did 1397 the simple movements, but you did those 1398 correctly and you did them well.

1399 Golf's going to work out a lot more in 1400 the long run.

In the last clinic, which 1401 was the last swing that I took, or the 1402 last boot camp.

1403 Each clinic, you know, everybody's always 1404 like, oh, Craig, I want you to hit a ball 1405 or show me how to hit a draw or hit a 1406 fade or whatever.

1407 And I never bring my golf clubs.

I rarely 1408 even know where my golf clubs are half 1409 the time.

1410 And, you know, I'll borrow somebody's 1411 club and I'll start hitting it.

And 1412 they're like, well, how do you pick up 1413 somebody's club and, you know, 1414 start hitting it?

You know, to me, I 1415 actually prefer the women's set of clubs.

1416 when they bring it to a clinic, because 1417 I've been standing up talking all day for 1418 four hours.

And usually the women's clubs 1419 are a little bit lighter, a little bit 1420 more forgiving in the shaft.

I mean, I 1421 play tipped X100.

So my first swing of 1422 the day after I've been standing for four 1423 hours, not what I want to do.

But they're 1424 like, how can you go from what you're 1425 swinging into a lighter shaft that has a 1426 little bit more kick?

You know, it 1427 doesn't have, you know, it's got too much 1428 whippiness for you.

Because I have the 1429 feel, but I'm not really thinking about 1430 the club.

It takes me about a swing to be 1431 like, Okay, I move me well.

This club's a 1432 little bit lighter, it's kicking a little 1433 bit faster.

I just need to take my time, 1434 allow it to kind of develop, keep that 1435 load in the shaft.

But it's because I 1436 kind of let the club react to what I'm 1437 doing.

But, you know, I look at my golf 1438 swing and we start with impact, and we 1439 start with these basic things, because 1440 impact's the thing that matters at the 1441 end of the day.

So when I get up here and 1442 I hit a golf shot and I'm not going to 1443 swing very fast.

Because I've already got 1444 put too much dents in my wall over here.

1445 But if I make a golf swing for me like 1446 that all right now, I may not have had 1447 all the bells and whistles perfect.

But I 1448 hit that pretty solid and that's I 1449 haven't made a full swing in who knows 1450 how long.

But I can hit it like that.

And 1451 the same thing that I show the clinic 1452 students, well, I can also go like this 1453 and hit it solidly.

1454 All right?

1455 Because I understand, regardless of what 1456 this club's doing and what's going on 1457 throughout here, as long as I get down in 1458 here and I'm using my legs, I've got my 1459 weight and all this, the club's going to 1460 correct itself at some point.

Newton's 1461 very good at making things happen for 1462 you.

All right?

So just like with the 1463 axiom, if I'm getting here and I start to 1464 come down, this club.

1465 shallowing out and rotating through the 1466 weight of the club starts to kind of 1467 correct itself for me if I'm not really 1468 being overly bossy with it.

1469 Same thing if I just pick it up like this 1470 and hit a shot versus my own backswing.

1471 Now, yes, I can't hit it as well as I can 1472 my normal, but I hit it pretty much the 1473 exact same.

It's about seven to eight 1474 yards less.

1475 So what I'm trying to leave you with, or 1476 what I'm trying to get you to kind of 1477 think about, is don't kind of skip the 1478 beginning stuff because it's not really 1479 fun and might seem a little boring.

1480 It's not the sexy stuff of rotary swing.

1481 It's kind of the vegetables of it.

But if 1482 you get that stuff down and you get the 1483 feel and you're not thinking about these 1484 things so much, then you can start 1485 working on the refining.

which will then 1486 make you better and better.

1487 But start where you kind of need to 1488 start.

1489 Don't hold yourself back by jumping too 1490 far ahead.

I wanted you to test out phase 1491 three to work on the legs and do things 1492 of that nature, but don't hold yourself 1493 back because you're like, I'm ready for 1494 that.

I'm just gonna do this a million 1495 times.

1496 Well, 1497 can you do this perfectly every single 1498 time?

1499 Do you have that down?

1500 Because if you don't, go back and get 1501 that first.

1502 Those that go the slowest in the 1503 beginning will always progress the 1504 fastest at the end versus vice versa.

1505 We'll be here to help you.

And I'll 1506 answer a ton more questions on Saturday 1507 for what anybody has.

1508 You've got your PDF that's got your kind 1509 of checkpoint swing-wise.

1510 But to make your swing, torque, caliber, 1511 to make your swing and hit all these 1512 positions.

It's not rocket surgery, I 1513 know it's called rocket science.

Somebody 1514 said that in a clinic once, and I've 1515 stolen it ever since because I think it 1516 fits much better, so it's not rocket 1517 surgery.

All right, if you allow yourself 1518 to stay focused on these big things, all 1519 right.

I'm going to make my backswing and 1520 I'm going to focus on weight and 1521 rotation.

1522 If I have weight and rotation, I just 1523 kind of allow the club to set up a little 1524 bit right here.

I'm going to be able to 1525 get to good semblance of a takeaway.

And 1526 if I could just keep rotating, I'm going 1527 to allow for a little bit of flexion, no 1528 more than 90 degrees.

1529 I'm going to have a good backswing.

If I 1530 shift my weight and I don't worry about 1531 rushing my arms or trying to power 1532 anything from the top.

I'm going to have 1533 a good shallowing out and a good lag.

If 1534 I let my legs bring my arm and hand down, 1535 I'm going to be in a good delivery 1536 position.

Then all I got to do is let the 1537 club go okay, then all you have to do is 1538 let the club do what it wants.

But focus 1539 on those things.

See, that's when, you 1540 know, when I'm looking at somebody 1541 swinging, when I'm working on my own 1542 swing, those are the components that I'm 1543 looking at.

I, I rarely look at this guy 1544 At some point, I do have to look at it 1545 because, I mean, when I first look at 1546 somebody and I see somebody going like 1547 this, casting and coming over the top, I 1548 don't grab their club and say, okay, hey, 1549 feel down cock.

No, no, what's really 1550 causing it?

I want you to look at your 1551 swing the same way.

Why am I shifting 1552 weight?

Am I rotating?

Am I doing the 1553 basic stuff first?

Because that's going 1554 to have much more effect on having the 1555 proper swing than you truly, really know.

1556 But go back.

You need to start.

where you 1557 need to be.

And then you graduate and you 1558 accelerate from that point.

1559 Okay.

1560 Saturday, we're going to talk about 1561 driver.

1562 I'm going to try to help everybody else 1563 out, 1564 getting a little speed, getting a little 1565 bit of accuracy out of it.

1566 So everybody kind of understands what 1567 needs to happen to hit the driver very 1568 well, because being in the fairway is 1569 much more fun.

1570 If you have any questions about this 1571 session, I'll be happy to answer them 1572 now.

1573 Thank you for stopping by today, and I'll 1574 be happy to answer any question if 1575 something pops in your head between now 1576 and Saturday.

1577 We did a lot in a little amount of time.

1578 A typical bootcamp, the four days are the 1579 four phases, but we did the four phases 1580 in three days.

That's a lot of 1581 information in a little amount of time.

1582 Go back to where you need to.

1583 All right.

1584 But as you're building this swing, don't 1585 get lost in the weeds by trying to 1586 perfect every little movement.

It's the 1587 worst thing you can do for yourself 1588 because a perfect golf swing has never 1589 yielded perfect results.

Okay.

1590 Any questions?

I'll be happy to 1591 entertain.

And thank you for stopping by 1592 today.

If you have to go.

1593 You can watch the questions on the 1594 replay, which should be posted in the 1595 morning.

1596 All right.

1597 Keith, I've watched a Chuck video about 1598 chicken wing, and he said that the trail 1599 elbow should be pointing at your hip on 1600 the takeaway, which is why I asked how 1601 stiff it should be.

All right, Keith.

So 1602 with that, the trail elbow, when you take 1603 your setup.

The trail elbow pit should 1604 be facing away.

It's not externally 1605 rotated like a Hogan thing like this, but 1606 the trail elbow is facing away.

So if I 1607 just sit here and rotate, it has no need 1608 to externally rotate anymore at that 1609 point or internally rotate.

The elbow 1610 pit's facing away at setup, so when I 1611 load and rotate, 1612 it stays there, all right?

1613 There doesn't need to be any excess 1614 motion with this.

1615 Let's see.

1616 I was trying to imitate Jordan Spieth's 1617 elbow protrudes back swing.

I don't know 1618 about that one.

1619 Bad habit with this and that video helped 1620 me out.

But I think it's still, so I'll 1621 relax it more.

Yeah, I mean, overly 1622 forcing things is usually never a good 1623 thing.

1624 John, most of the times when you use your 1625 arms, is it because you grip the club too 1626 hard?

I mean, gripping the club too hard 1627 will force you to, I mean, typically when 1628 players put the death grip on it, they're 1629 going to overly work the club.

1630 Okay.

They're going to overly do that.

It 1631 doesn't necessarily mean that you're 1632 going to work the arms too much.

Most 1633 people work the arms too much because 1634 they're underdoing this.

1635 So if you think about like what, you 1636 know, I was doing in my drill right here.

1637 Okay.

1638 Well, if I go from here and I make my 1639 back swing, okay, and I just fold my 1640 trail arm like this and I don't rotate, 1641 okay, I get to this position.

My arms and 1642 hands are really tight, but my body 1643 isn't.

1644 So regardless of kind of my grip tension, 1645 my arms want to go because I haven't 1646 given my body a reason to kind of be the 1647 main.

1648 driver or the main movement in my swing.

1649 I've made it all arms going back.

I'm 1650 typically going to use all arms coming 1651 down.

1652 When I move, 1653 finish the backswing, should I be turning 1654 the shoulders or turning the waist?

Move 1655 to finish.

1656 What do you mean?

1657 When I move to finish the backswing, 1658 should I be turning?

Oh, so you're saying 1659 you should be turning your hips or 1660 turning your shoulders.

1661 Well, what's going to happen is as you 1662 get to a certain point, the shoulders are 1663 going to be the ones that are pulling the 1664 hips in the backswing.

All right.

So I 1665 don't want you to get here and then turn 1666 your hips like this to try to finish your 1667 backswing.

Even though if you struggle 1668 with making a full turn in the backswing, 1669 it's okay to allow.

1670 We want 90 degrees of shoulder rotation, 1671 45 degrees of hip.

But if you can only 1672 get 80 degrees of rotation, you can allow 1673 your hip to rotate more to facilitate the 1674 extra rotation.

Just remember, it's the 1675 pulling of the shoulders that are pulling 1676 your hips back right here.

So it's your 1677 upper half rotation that's doing this.

So 1678 it's going to be your shoulders 1679 finishing.

1680 not your hips forcing that.

1681 So James, getting refocused on the big 1682 movements has really been helpful.

Shout 1683 out the club and coming in two to three 1684 degrees in to out versus five to 10 1685 degrees out to in.

Nice.

1686 How can having too much lag become an 1687 issue?

Because having too much of 1688 anything good is a detriment.

So James, 1689 if you have too much lag, 1690 At some point in time, you've got to get 1691 rid of it.

1692 I mean, the whole key to the swing is 1693 releasing the club.

1694 But if you have too much lag, it's going 1695 to tend to steepen things.

It's going to 1696 tend to mess up your angle of attack.

1697 But the whole purpose of everything is to 1698 allow for a release.

If you have too much 1699 lag, you don't have the time to get rid 1700 of it.

And so you end up.

1701 Really jumping, or really forcing your 1702 body, or getting overly handsy?

Because 1703 you've got this really loaded angle that 1704 you just don't have time to square up the 1705 club.

So you start throwing your hands or 1706 you start really kicking your hips.

So 1707 when you get too much lag, it really 1708 steepens it.

And if you think about it, 1709 if I've got too much lag right here, 1710 like this, 1711 well, what's my club face right now?

1712 If I were to.

The club face is wide 1713 open.

I don't have time to release it, so 1714 I'm gonna have to do something.

So too 1715 much lag is actually going to slow you 1716 down because the club can't square up, 1717 accelerate independently.

I saw Chuck put 1718 the club in front of him at a 90 degree.

1719 And when he shows inflection and rotates, 1720 I think to show a good position in the 1721 backswing with your trail arm.

Yeah, I 1722 mean, there's, we have the five minutes 1723 perfect backswing, three functions in the 1724 right arm, 1725 five minutes perfect backswing pitfalls.

1726 I mean, your goal in the backswing, if 1727 you elevate and add flexion right here, 1728 you can see my trail arm's still in front 1729 of my chest.

It's not out to the side 1730 like this.

1731 Okay.

1732 If I go like this, now watch what 1733 happens.

I'm just going to hint, I'm 1734 literally not going to do anything but 1735 rotate.

1736 Just rotating, not moving my arms and 1737 hands.

Well, look at the position I'm in.

1738 I'm in the same position that I'm in in 1739 my normal back swing.

All right, so all 1740 that is is just adding elevation, a 1741 little bit of flexion.

1742 I'm hinging, not changing anything, just 1743 rotating.

So you can see how the arms do 1744 relatively little in the swing.

1745 That's why I'm able to just kind of 1746 preset it that way.

1747 Ryan, got it.

Perfect.

1748 John, what happens when in the backswing 1749 your hips are more than 45 degrees?

1750 It's okay if your hips are more than 45 1751 degrees in the backswing.

1752 So if you're in the backswing, you've 1753 gotten 90 degrees of shoulder rotation, 1754 but it took you 55 degrees to get that 1755 full shoulder rotation.

1756 There's nothing wrong with that.

1757 But think about what happens now.

1758 If your hips are rotated that much, 1759 they've got further to go in the 1760 downswing.

1761 All right.

So there's going to have to be 1762 a little bit of reactionary tilt.

You're 1763 going to have to start down a little bit 1764 sooner and or take your time.

Because 1765 your hips are going to need time to 1766 rebound to get back because they now have 1767 more distance or ground to cover.

1768 Craig, thanks for showing us.

Good, yeah, 1769 hopefully that made sense.

I think that's 1770 what you're asking.

1771 Charles, Craig, yes.

1772 What's your question, my friend from 1773 Indianapolis?

1774 See, people don't think I pay attention.

1775 I've got that elephant problem that they 1776 talk about, like an elephant never 1777 forgets.

1778 Not good.

For golf, I can tell you that 1779 no other questions, no other drills, no 1780 other nothing.

Come on, there's gotta be 1781 something, all right, Charles.

Please 1782 demonstrate the beginning of elevation in 1783 the backswing.

The beginning of 1784 elevation?

1785 Well, elevation happens throughout the 1786 backswing, all right?

1787 So as I start to load and rotate right 1788 here, and I start to get the trains off 1789 the tracks, I'm going to have a little 1790 bit of elevation in my takeaway.

It's the 1791 only way.

It's about this much.

Only 1792 about this much.

1793 that's how I stay in front of my chest.

1794 I have to have a little bit of elevation 1795 to keep the club out in front of me.

1796 Because if I didn't add any elevation, I 1797 just was rotating, what would happen?

The 1798 club would just go inside.

There has to 1799 be a little bit of elevation.

So as soon 1800 as I start to load and rotate, it's going 1801 to start to elevate a little bit.

Now the 1802 vast majority of elevation happens from 1803 the takeaway to the top.

So as I continue 1804 to rotate from here, I'm going to have 1805 more elevation.

And you can have varying 1806 degrees.

You can be a little bit lower.

1807 You can be a little bit higher.

There's 1808 pros and cons to both.

1809 Ideal goals being in line with the base 1810 of your pec.

1811 But it actually starts, as soon as I 1812 start to load and rotate, I'm going to 1813 start to have a little bit of elevation 1814 to keep it in front of the chest.

If you 1815 struggle a little bit with that, go to 1816 the four-square drill.

It's the best 1817 drill for it.

1818 Craig, is there a rotary guy in Houston?

1819 Not Houston.

1820 Anthony's in Texas.

1821 I think, Anthony, you're in Fort Worth, I 1822 think.

1823 I think Anthony's in Fort Worth.

1824 Craig, not to take away from you.

1825 No worries, Craig.

It's all right.

Nobody 1826 wants to come to Georgia.

Everybody wants 1827 to go to Texas or California.

1828 And nobody wants to come to Georgia for a 1829 while.

Or they go to Florida.

1830 Georgia's a very pretty state, I promise 1831 you.

1832 There's a lot of good things.

It's the 1833 peach state, even though we're not the 1834 number one producers of peach.

That's 1835 South Carolina.

1836 Ryan, I clicked on the 20% lesson link, 1837 and when it takes me to the next page, I 1838 try to log in, and it takes me to another 1839 page that is not a login page.

1840 Try it a couple times with the same 1841 result.

Can I?

Yeah, just contact 1842 customer service and we'll make sure that 1843 the link works for you.

1844 Just tell them, hey, you're trying to do 1845 this and we'll make sure it works for 1846 you.

1847 I had the same issue with another 1848 student.

1849 So it's not, I don't think it's just you.

1850 No other questions?

1851 I really need to be sitting here working 1852 on my swing.

1853 Getting too old.

1854 Everything hurts.

1855 If I could just sit here and watch it.

1856 Nothing else?

1857 Brad, this has been great.

I need to get 1858 back to phase one and two.

Thank you, 1859 Brad.

I appreciate it.

Don't worry, it's 1860 not over yet.

I'll be yelling at you on 1861 Saturday.

1862 But that's the thing.

1863 I'm sure that most of you all have heard, 1864 when you're a higher handicap, what do 1865 you think one of the most common 1866 questions we get?

How do I lower my 1867 handicap the fastest?

Well, an easy way 1868 is just to get better at your short game.

1869 It's something that's easy to practice.

1870 And getting up and down much more often, 1871 being better at chipping and putting is 1872 going to be a quick way.

to better your 1873 score.

But you're also, it's because 1874 you're focusing on simple, basic kind of 1875 fundamental movements.

Same thing with 1876 phase one and phase two.

To start getting 1877 your swing better and start enjoying 1878 more, focus on the smaller ones that you 1879 can get down faster.

1880 Do the downloads have drills?

1881 Do the downloads have drills?

1882 I mean, the handouts have the positions 1883 to go through, and the video list gives 1884 you all the videos I use to put this 1885 together.

1886 And five months, Florida, five months, 1887 Michigan.

Yeah, Keith, that's the best of 1888 both seasons.

1889 Charles, Craig, really appreciate your 1890 approach and honesty regarding the swing 1891 and your swing.

Well, thank you.

I 1892 appreciate that.

1893 As a lot of the students that know me, 1894 You know, I worked with five of the top 1895 100s.

I rebuilt my swing five times.

1896 And when I say rebuilt, I mean really.

If 1897 you looked at my swing during those five 1898 errors, that's not the same person.

The 1899 only way you could tell would be the 1900 hair.

1901 But still along the way, I had.

1902 I don't want people to tell me what they 1903 think that I want to hear.

I want them to 1904 tell me the truth, 1905 okay?

1906 And I want them to kind of cut through 1907 and just say, look, just tell me what I 1908 need to do.

1909 Tell me exactly what I need to do, 1910 whether it seems really simple and boring 1911 and mundane to me or whether it seems 1912 really complex.

I mean, is it a squared 1913 plus b squared equals c squared?

Or is it 1914 the quadratic formula?

Is it negative b 1915 plus or minus square root b squared minus 1916 4ac all over 2a?

1917 Let me know.

1918 But I'll do it.

Just tell me what I need 1919 to do.

Don't tell me, oh, no, it looks 1920 great.

Just do it.

No, just give me the 1921 exact formula I need to use and let me go 1922 burn it into memory.

1923 So I've seen all different styles and 1924 what works and what doesn't work.

And 1925 obviously, Chuck and myself and Anthony, 1926 we all base a lot of our teaching on our 1927 experiences as well.

But we still base it 1928 on the fact that the brain only learns 1929 one way and one way only.

1930 And sadly, your brain doesn't want to 1931 learn anything, and that is mine.

It's 1932 very stubborn at doing these things.

1933 Jack, do phase one, two, and three work 1934 for pitches?

1935 Basically the same thing, but Jack, the 1936 pitches are kind of a specialty.

1937 So in pitches.

You really don't need a 1938 big dramatic post up because you're not 1939 trying to power it, and you don't need a 1940 big old power release because you're not 1941 trying to, you know, hit anywhere.

The 1942 kind of the closer you get to this, the 1943 green.

You don't want a ton of face 1944 rotation or overly active legs.

Because 1945 it's not about power, it's more about 1946 dialing it down to accuracy.

But your 1947 your phase one and your phase two, 1948 You know, because those are a little bit 1949 smaller.

Those will definitely help you 1950 out with the short game for sure.

1951 I can't believe I remember that math 1952 formula.

1953 Yes, Craig, you got to be a member for 1954 the drills.

1955 But there is some light at the end of the 1956 tunnel with it.

You still have enough 1957 from what we've done in here to be able 1958 to build a good semblance of the swing.

1959 And I even think right now we're running 1960 an insane deal right now.

I think it's, 1961 you know, for first time ever, I think 1962 it's only like $9 for the month.

And if 1963 you haven't done anything, you can still 1964 do a seven-day pretrial.

1965 Then everything goes back to normal.

1966 All right.

So I see people dropping off.

1967 So they're like, all right, Craig, I'm 1968 tired of you.

I've heard you enough 1969 today.

1970 No other things?

I'll give you all one 1971 more minute.

Give me a winner question, 1972 and then we'll get ready for, or I'll get 1973 ready for Saturday.

1974 Get the blood flowing a little bit.

1975 All right.

1976 Mitchell, you're most welcome.

1977 Hitting indoors when you don't have the 1978 room to see where the ball ends up.

How 1979 do you get that feedback?

That's tough, 1980 Brad.

1981 That's best.

1982 I think you're just going to have to be a 1983 little bit more particular on your 1984 positioning.

So film your swing as you're 1985 indoors.

Because if you can't get the 1986 feedback where the ball's going, then you 1987 need to be very meticulous about, okay.

1988 Did I get my weight?

did I get my 1989 rotation?

or, you know, am I hitting my 1990 checkpoints at impact?

You know, is my 1991 lead wrist flat?

Just be a little bit 1992 more picky on your videos until you can 1993 get outside.

Uh, Craig, great session, 1994 thank you.

Best drill to not cast all the 1995 drills.

There isn't a best drill, frisbee 1996 drill, four-step, lag builder, 1997 reshaping your swing for lag three, to 1998 name a few.

That's what I would say, Oh, 1999 you're welcome Brad.

All right, nobody 2000 had anything else.

So with that being 2001 said, thank you again.

2002 I know today that is not like any kind of 2003 like major drill or insights, but it's 2004 more what you're going to work.

Fine as 2005 you.

And when you make, just go from a 2006 phase three to a phase four, it's just 2007 finishing your rotation.

It's nothing 2008 crazy to us, nothing.

Um, but you know 2009 this, get the other stuff first, all 2010 right, I promise you get the other stuff 2011 first.

2012 It will behoove you in the long run.

2013 Charles, I use SkyTrash with almost real 2014 make of home.

With SkyTrash, you do need 2015 a lot of room.

Yeah, I have a lot of 2016 students that use the SkyTrack at home.

2017 They get some decent feedback from it.

So 2018 that's an affordable way to try to get 2019 some.

Or even have some guys that use 2020 like the earnest launch monitor that we 2021 sell on the site just to kind of get a 2022 reference of speed.

2023 Kind of a plus or minus window of five.

2024 And what they're doing speed wise, so 2025 that's it.

Thank you and I shall see 2026 thank you for the help today.

2027 If you're not, and you've disappeared, 2028 and I would understand why, no problems.

2029 I shall see you all Saturday, my friends.