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 to try to get 70% to 80% of our weight, full shoulder rotation, having our width, our clubface square at the top, matching the lead wrist, having our axis tilt, nothing overly moving, ready to make a great downswing.

And it should be a very kind of simple position.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's literally the only way to do it.

Okay.

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

Do I look really tense right here?

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

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

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

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

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

As far as you can go.

Excuse me, I still got a little bit left.

As far as you can go.

This is about the max out for me.

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

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

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

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

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

In the golf swing.

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

As you can see, flexion creates some vertical motion.

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

Everybody does so.

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

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

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

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

And I get a question a lot where?

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

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

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

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

You're not thinking about your drill.

So if I hope, I could be wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, watch this.

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

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

But that's the same thing as right here.

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

Because it kind of has no choice.

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

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

And that's going to be.

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

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

It makes the backswing insanely simple.

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

Put it in that position.

Okay.

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

And then add your trail.

See how relaxed it is right now?

It's pointed down.

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

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

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

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

And what you'll find.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So this should help us immediately in the transition.

Now we shift.

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

Okay.

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

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

It's going to help us do two things.

One.

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

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

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

So we make our backswing.

We shift lead arm parallel to the ground.

We got our weight back.

Our hips are back to square, our waist back.

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

We post.

We've already done this in phase three.

We post.

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

Now I'm in the delivery position.

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

So we load our body.

Don't worry about the club.

We shift.

We post.

Now we just let it release.

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

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

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

Well, okay.

Well, you're firing your arms and hands.

They're overly tense.

You're not using your legs.

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

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

Okay.

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

Because it.

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

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

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

And then we let the club release.

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

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

We can get that kind of catapult effect.

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

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

how do I use the drills?

how do I?

how do I use all these things?

and what does all this mean?

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

But.

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

It's a.

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

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

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

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

Okay.

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

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

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

But the problem is is the the dead drillers and the five minuters and the five steppers.

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

And then we gave them.

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

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

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

That's why we get a little bit mechanical.

We add a little bit of release.

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

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

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

Remember my conversation the other day about mechanics and feel.

It's this cycle.

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

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

I have a student of mine limited right now.

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

You're not getting it with the golf club.

Show me your dead drill.

Just let me see your body movements.

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

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

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

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

Okay.

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

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

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

I don't have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But I'm going to do that motion.

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

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

Look at the bare bones of it.

Am I doing the basics?

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

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

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

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

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

And I never bring my golf clubs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I mean, I play tipped X100.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But I can hit it like that.

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

All right?

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

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

All right?

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

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

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

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

It's about seven to eight yards less.

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

It's not the sexy stuff of rotary swing.

It's kind of the vegetables of it.

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

which will then make you better and better.

But start where you kind of need to start.

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

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

I'm just gonna do this a million times.

Well, can you do this perfectly every single time?

Do you have that down?

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

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

We'll be here to help you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm going to have a good backswing.

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

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

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

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

But focus on those things.

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

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

No, no, what's really causing it?

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

Why am I shifting weight?

Am I rotating?

Am I doing the basic stuff first?

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

But go back.

You need to start.

where you need to be.

And then you graduate and you accelerate from that point.

Okay.

Saturday, we're going to talk about driver.

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

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

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

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

We did a lot in a little amount of time.

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

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

Go back to where you need to.

All right.

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

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

Okay.

Any questions?

I'll be happy to entertain.

And thank you for stopping by today.

If you have to go.

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

All right.

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

All right, Keith.

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

The trail elbow pit should be facing away.

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

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

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

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

Let's see.

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

I don't know about that one.

Bad habit with this and that video helped me out.

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

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

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

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

Okay.

They're going to overly do that.

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

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

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

Okay.

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

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

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

driver or the main movement in my swing.

I've made it all arms going back.

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

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

Move to finish.

What do you mean?

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

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

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

All right.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So it's going to be your shoulders finishing.

not your hips forcing that.

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

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

Nice.

How can having too much lag become an issue?

Because having too much of anything good is a detriment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And so you end up.

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

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

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

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

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

If I were to.

The club face is wide open.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's not out to the side like this.

Okay.

If I go like this, now watch what happens.

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

Just rotating, not moving my arms and hands.

Well, look at the position I'm in.

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

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

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

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

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

Ryan, got it.

Perfect.

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

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

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

There's nothing wrong with that.

But think about what happens now.

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

All right.

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

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

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

Craig, thanks for showing us.

Good, yeah, hopefully that made sense.

I think that's what you're asking.

Charles, Craig, yes.

What's your question, my friend from Indianapolis?

See, people don't think I pay attention.

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

Not good.

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

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

Please demonstrate the beginning of elevation in the backswing.

The beginning of elevation?

Well, elevation happens throughout the backswing, all right?

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

It's the only way.

It's about this much.

Only about this much.

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

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

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

The club would just go inside.

There has to be a little bit of elevation.

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

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

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

And you can have varying degrees.

You can be a little bit lower.

You can be a little bit higher.

There's pros and cons to both.

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

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

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

It's the best drill for it.

Craig, is there a rotary guy in Houston?

Not Houston.

Anthony's in Texas.

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

I think Anthony's in Fort Worth.

Craig, not to take away from you.

No worries, Craig.

It's all right.

Nobody wants to come to Georgia.

Everybody wants to go to Texas or California.

And nobody wants to come to Georgia for a while.

Or they go to Florida.

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

There's a lot of good things.

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

That's South Carolina.

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

Try it a couple times with the same result.

Can I?

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

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

I had the same issue with another student.

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

No other questions?

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

Getting too old.

Everything hurts.

If I could just sit here and watch it.

Nothing else?

Brad, this has been great.

I need to get back to phase one and two.

Thank you, Brad.

I appreciate it.

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

I'll be yelling at you on Saturday.

But that's the thing.

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

How do I lower my handicap the fastest?

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

It's something that's easy to practice.

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

to better your score.

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

Same thing with phase one and phase two.

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

Do the downloads have drills?

Do the downloads have drills?

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

And five months, Florida, five months, Michigan.

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

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

Well, thank you.

I appreciate that.

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

I rebuilt my swing five times.

And when I say rebuilt, I mean really.

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

The only way you could tell would be the hair.

But still along the way, I had.

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

I want them to tell me the truth, okay?

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

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

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

Or is it the quadratic formula?

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

Let me know.

But I'll do it.

Just tell me what I need to do.

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

Just do it.

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

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

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

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

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

It's very stubborn at doing these things.

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

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

So in pitches.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can't believe I remember that math formula.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then everything goes back to normal.

All right.

So I see people dropping off.

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

I've heard you enough today.

No other things?

I'll give you all one more minute.

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

Get the blood flowing a little bit.

All right.

Mitchell, you're most welcome.

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

How do you get that feedback?

That's tough, Brad.

That's best.

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

So film your swing as you're indoors.

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

Did I get my weight?

did I get my rotation?

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

You know, is my lead wrist flat?

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

Uh, Craig, great session, thank you.

Best drill to not cast all the drills.

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

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

All right, nobody had anything else.

So with that being said, thank you again.

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

Fine as you.

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

It's nothing crazy to us, nothing.

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

It will behoove you in the long run.

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

With SkyTrash, you do need a lot of room.

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

They get some decent feedback from it.

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

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

Kind of a plus or minus window of five.

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

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

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

I shall see you all Saturday, my friends.