Venkatesh Full Lesson

Think you're never going to hit the ball over 270 yards? Think you're doomed to play the white tees, swing over the top and slice? Think again.

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So, yesterday.

Yeah.

Results.

What did you experience yesterday?

So what I experienced yesterday was a revelation that I can easily simplify my golf swing.

Okay.

Now I've been thinking about this quite a bit, you know, over last night, this morning.

So for me, every time I took a swing, I had maybe 10 different things that I thought about and worried about.

Yeah.

And in the end, I maybe did one of them right, right, right, so for me, it was basically hip.

Make sure that I have access, tilt, make sure I take the club back the right way, make sure I turn the right way, Make sure I take a full swing and then bring it back without actually getting on top over on top of it.

All of those thoughts were there yesterday that, yeah, that's like 10 or 15 things that you think about.

Yeah, and in the end, you end up not doing any of it, right?

You just go swing.

Yeah, exactly.

So yesterday at the range, what I experienced was the only thought that I had was okay.

I'm gonna get a good setup with a good knee bend and that's that was.

That's a routine thing.

And then all I did think back is, how do I take my hand back?

Where I can throw a ball or flip or skip a rock over the water?

And that's all I thought about yesterday at the range.

And then, so at the range, so we went full speed, hitting balls, day one.

Yeah.

What was the ball flight difference for you?

Ball flight, strike, distance, all of that stuff.

The distance was incredible.

The distance was at least, with my pitching wedge, for example, it was at least 10 yards, maybe, 15 yards on the pitching wedge.

On my six iron, it was a good 15 yards.

Plus, you have to add on that 10%.

with the ball, the ball balls, the range balls that were there.

You had to get those balls as really bad as you know.

So it was at least another 15 to 20 yard difference for me.

But the beautiful thing is I felt that the swing was on plane and I felt like a pro swinging.

The beautiful thing for me was I didn't feel awkwardness on my swing, which tends to creep into my game.

So when you say it felt like a pro swing for you, how?

what does that mean exactly to you?

So it means that, for me, it means the takeaway was decent.

But then, more importantly, when I came back to the ball, you know, I always had a feeling that I was, you know?

I had the side bend, which I did not have to think about, which I usually think about on every single swing.

I think constantly I need to do the side bend, then my hip hurts.

Here.

I did not think of the side bend, But I noticed that my side bend was there and the finish was virtually perfect.

So that was a great feeling for me.

So mechanics-wise, we didn't work on any mechanics.

I didn't think of one mechanic.

No positions.

Exactly.

It was just feel.

It was just feel, right?

So we simplified your thoughts, got more distance.

In terms of shot shape, how was that?

Oh, the shot shape was beautiful.

I mean, it was more of a draw.

Mine always is a fade.

Yeah.

You know, more than a fade.

But I cannot, I could not drive the ball until yesterday.

I've never, sorry, I couldn't, I have never drawn the ball ever.

Never?

Never.

Oh, really?

So that feeling of that nice, gentle draw.

was pretty incredible.

I can never draw the ball.

It doesn't matter how I try.

The only thing I do, the only way I ever used to draw the ball was like this.

So it would be like a massive hook as opposed to a draw which comes from the inside.

It's a whole different feeling.

So we got you on playing.

So you were over the top before.

And balance wasn't so great when it followed through the lines.

But yesterday, what I saw at the range, you looked smooth, you looked balanced, and you were never over the top unless you started to kind of make it.

I don't even remember you making it to me.

At the range, I did not do that.

I literally, because I would know.

When I come on the top, it would be like that massive cut to the right.

And you've always swung over the top.

Yesterday.

Yeah, never over the top again and hit your first proper drop drop, all right, cool.

Yeah, I mean my driver and and I basically use the same thing for my driver.

And it was remarkable, right?

Because literally I did not think I did not put five different thoughts.

Yeah, so my, whenever I use my driver on the course, I go through at least five checkpoints.

You know, the hip right axis tilt.

Yeah, then I need to make sure that I'm, you know, my shoulders are well down, okay, and then I have to make sure that I'm lined up correctly, which is, which is, you would do that anyways, but I had to do that, then the takeaway had to be exactly on line, and then shoulder rotation full, I had to think about that, and then come inside out, was another thing that I needed to think about very consciously, pull my arm this way, very consciously, so all of those.

Those mechanical things I literally illuminated by one thought, which is really okay.

How do I throw a ball to eight to two somewhere in that range?

Yeah, eight to two.

Throw the ball, sling the ball across with a sidearm.

So, yes, I also think about that as a skipping the rock or the water.

Yeah, like, yeah, I like both of those.

Yeah, they're very, they're similar.

they're very, very similar, almost exactly the same.

Yeah, maybe a little bit of a difference.

So yesterday, What I was trying to do was simplify everything and just give you one feeling to kind of fix everything in your swing.

It's a big ask.

But today I want to take it even a step further.

I want to make it even simpler than what we did yesterday.

And give you more speed.

Fantastic.

So after what you were doing yesterday, I was thinking about how obviously a ton of things clicked, but there were a few things that I wanted you to do.

that you weren't able to do right away.

And I don't want to make it where you got to spend six months doing all these tracks, right?

So we went straight to the course full speed, right?

And that's the goal.

That's what I'm doing.

But then I was realizing the one thing I told you yesterday is that when people's, when their swing starts to go off and they can't change it, nine times out of 10, it's a power thing.

You don't have power the way that you're swinging, or you don't sense that you're going to have power.

Your subconscious takes over and then you just start eating at the ball.

And so then as I was looking back at the things that I wanted to get you to do in your swing today, it all started tying back to power.

The way that you would take your arm and move it in a way that wasn't exactly where I needed it to be.

It was more complicated than it needed to be.

I started thinking about, how do I make this even easier?

Because the goal is, with this one feeling of throwing, that you will naturally move your arm into the right spot.

You'll naturally shallow out the right way.

You'll naturally stop swimming over the top.

You'll naturally release the club.

And so we did it with a throw and kind of like the old school squish the bug feeling for the hips, right?

So we had two kind of feelings there to kind of get the lower body working and the arm working.

What I want to do today.

Is focus exclusively on release back?

And the reason for that is as we were talking about how.

I I feel like I can get you to swing really close to being like the goat, like Tiger.

And we made a huge step, like we did three years worth of work in a day.

Yeah, but I think if we go even further with it, to focus inclusively on the release and how you really get speed.

Because I came up with a theory last night and that is that tiger, I believe, I could be wrong, but I believe that what Tiger is doing in his swing, especially now as he's gotten older, is what a lot of golfers would call, or a lot of instructors would call it pro -flip.

And a lot of golf instruction today is taught by these guys who tell you to hold the club like this.

And then just turn your head and your body through and hold the face off, which is berserk that people teach that.

But they do.

Tiger definitely doesn't do that, right?

We showed you how he's releasing.

This left hand's breaking down.

The right hand's fully released.

It's hard.

If you're getting your speed that way, then I think a lot of things will change how you're trying to get the club to go back.

Because when you get back and you're trying to really get this arm loaded and the shoulder's tight, then all of a sudden, once those muscles are tight, you can't override that.

Everything's just going to kind of fire and it's out of sequence.

So instead, what I want you to feel today.

Is I'm going to focus exclusively on the release and the speed that you're going to be able to generate in the release exclusively with your right hand?

And then we're going to slowly make that bigger.

And I think that what you'll see is that your your backswing, your takeaway.

All of those things will fall perfectly into place without me teaching you any positions or mechanics whatsoever.

So even easier than what we did yesterday, but different.

Yeah, I'm I'm convinced that just thinking of this as trying to, you know, try and throw a ball, right?

Yeah.

At the 82 position, I'm convinced that everything else will come as I know I have to, I have to work on the one thing where I can't have my hand over here.

So I've been doing like a bunch of drills between last night and today, you know, I've done maybe a hundred hundred reps.

I'm just getting my hand in parallel with mine, right?

That's the only thing that I'm thinking about because I'm not going to throw the rock or the ball from here, right, exactly.

So, so that's that was an easy fix.

Okay, and the release, and the way you taught me the release, where you're basically using, you know it.

It's a game changer for me because I can feel it, I can feel the club, even without having a club, I can feel it go that way.

Yeah, and that's exactly how you need to, at least in my view.

It feels great.

It just feels great.

I'm going to use this swing step.

You can use a club upside down.

Let me stand over here for a second.

Can I spray this?

Yeah, yeah, of course.

So here's my theory.

After seeing what we did yesterday and looking more at the swings of Tiger, that I was showing you and what he's done to change his swing.

So here's the simplest way to think about this.

If you were to just forget golf and forget everything you've ever heard about golf and everything you've ever thought about golf, for a second, you just didn't know anything.

And I just said, I want you just to produce as much speed as you can.

Unfortunately, most people do that by just heaving their body at the ball.

And then the club doesn't go fast, but their body's going really fast.

They're out of control.

So forget every piece of golf instruction advice.

And again, What I'm going to tell you is probably completely counter to what Every golf instructor has probably ever said in the history of the game.

So it's going to seem a little weird at first.

But when I look at it on video and I started feeling it for myself, it's exactly what I think he's doing.

And it makes sense as he's doing it more as he's gotten older.

When Tiger was younger and he was fit and healthy before his back got destroyed, his body speed was blindingly fast.

His hips were insanely fast.

Everything was insanely fast.

And now he's toned that way down.

But he still has power.

Right?

So, when you think about speed in the swing, what would be the simplest, fastest way to produce speed?

It's the way that it's the opposite of what everybody's teaching today, especially these guys who are teaching you.

I see guys online literally going like, turn your head in your chest and do this well.

How fast can the club move?

If I'm doing this, it's insane.

What I believe Tiger's doing is nothing more than that.

There's nothing that you can do to move that faster, but well, it is an active throw.

But what I found interesting yesterday, when people try to throw, they really try to get their whole arm aggressively into it.

So if you hit a couple shots, we're on mats, it's kind of tough, but where you're hitting it a little heavy, hitting back behind it, that's because the arm is trying to throw too hard, so the club bottoms out, it doesn't shallow out, it gets too steep, it's too aggressive.

What I want to propose to you today is that it's less arm speed.

and more just an active release with your right wrist.

So it's not a passive thing.

It's from here to here, how would you generate speed?

Exactly.

Yeah, and I was trying, I think of it as like a swat.

It's almost like a table tennis thing, but it is.

Everybody's teaching you to do less and less with your hands, and I think.

Tiger, as he's gotten older to take more and more strain off his body, is doing more with his right hand.

Because this is really fast, that's what generates right now.

I can try to move my whole body.

Like, but listen, there's no right, there's no whoosh there versus, I mean, that's three times the speed, right?

Yeah, for sure, so it feels, yeah, it's a whole lot faster, feels like sound.

That's pretty indicative.

The sound is going to tell you a lot, right?

You can very clearly hear the difference between this and that it's a no-brainer right now.

Most people are afraid of actively doing this with their hand because they're afraid they're going to scoop and flip and whatever.

And they will if they don't do this correctly.

But I'm going to show you how to do it correctly so that you can actively use your right hand to unhinge, uncock and rotate all at the same time and still square the face up the same way ever.

Sounds good.

Okay.

So it's going to be even simpler than what we did yesterday.

And then we're just going to take that move and slowly make it bigger.

What I mean by that is what I want you to do at first is just a really short swing, fully load your wrist and release it and start feeling this.

So we're going to check it.

It should be fully released.

And from this angle, you're going to see when it fully releases, the wrist is actually going to.

Right.

Bow a little bit on this side, and when I show you these videos of Tiger, his left wrist is really, really cupped on this side of the ball.

A lot of guys and I've always been like, as a lead side, dominant player, my left wrist stays pretty flat and rotates over.

Tiger definitely doesn't do that as a right side guy.

And when the right wrist, when the left wrist cups this much, this early in the follow-through, his right wrist is bow.

The only way for the right wrist to bow is for you to actively hit with it, to actively throw with it.

And again, if you want to take as much strain off your back, if you had a bunch of surgeries like he has and his foot and tip, his leg, all of that, then the place to get speed is this.

And all you have to do is do it correctly so that you're not scooping and doing it wrong.

But you can see if I do this with both hands on here through impact, my wrist is flat like I need it to be, but then it's immediately releasing over.

And that's what you can see with Higer's flatter follow-through and his right wrist kind of being.

Almost bowed in that release.

It's not like this, right?

So what?

I want you to feel from here to here?

And start generating as much speed at the ball, there's no point having speed out here, the ball is long gone.

So I want you to feel what it would do, what you would need to do with your hand to feel this.

And what's interesting is, by solely doing this, If I keep my legs relaxed and I start doing this, it becomes natural for my foot to start wanting to slide back.

It's not me.

This is a natural thing.

I don't have to think about it.

It's just if I was trying to get my hand to do this, it would become very natural.

So that's all I want you to do at first.

Just hand, super short swing, and get a feel for what your wrist would be actively doing to release that.

So the theory behind all of this.

If you're focusing on producing as much speed right here with just your right hand, Then everything else you will be doing to preserve that speed so that you can produce it down here at the bottom.

So when you go to the top, it won't make sense to have your muscles really tight.

All you're really doing is releasing your wrist as fast.

If that's where the vast majority of all your speed is coming from, then going back at the top, you may feel really relaxed.

All you're trying to do is get to the point where this can happen really quickly.

So the whole point is if you can focus on just the release.

And the number one priority in your entire golf swing is just this.

With your hand, then everything else will tone down with your body.

You won't feel the need to put your arm way back here and make this big, powerful turn.

Because it's not going to help you do this any faster, right?

And as you start to feel this, you'll feel like, if I go back a little bit further, do what does the sound change.

Does it get a little louder?

And that's really what we're trying to figure out is that how fast can you move this with the shortest swing possible?

Again, my theory has always been Tigers had the fewest moving parts, right?

So making this huge, complicated, Convoluted loop with your swing doesn't make sense if you're just trying to figure out how fast can you do this?

Because there's no way that I know of to produce any speed faster than that.

So if we do this and start making it a little bigger, a little bigger.

At some point, the sound's not going to get any louder.

So there's no point in making a more aggressive swing, there's no point making a bigger turn.

There's no point getting your arm loaded up, your shoulders tight.

All of that stuff that most golfers struggle with.

It won't make any sense.

So that's how I'm trying to kill, like 50 birds with one stone.

But we get here and then everything just slowly gets a little bigger and that's the only thing that happens.

Okay, so it's literally the release, how fast can you make that?

make that nice?

There we go.

I didn't consider that possibility.

This is why this is experimental.

No, it just slipped, all right.

Okay, that's how fast it went, you couldn't even see where it went.

So we have the feeling of speed.

That's right.

I couldn't see where it even went.

I think it's in orbit.

It's the Conseco orbit name.

All right.

So, well, we learned we can get a shit ton of speed really quick.

That word really quick.

We might have gone through this too.

Yeah.

I'm glad it didn't go through me.

Oh, boy.

So the feeling I need to have is this, right?

You're trying to get the speed down here, right?

So, there, okay.

There we go.

And you're saying that.

How's that feel?

Yeah, I'm again simulating throwing the stone or skipping the stone.

It feels like I'm moving at supersonic speed.

Yeah, and you are.

Yeah, literally I'm like whipping that thing, right?

So now let's take the club.

We'll take it upside down.

A little heavier, a little more mass.

And let's feel the same thing.

You can feel it down there, right?

Yeah.

Worrying about my body turning at all, but you're still getting speed, right?

No, yeah, and I'm getting the body turn.

See, That's what I was saying is that I believe there's one overarching motion that he's doing that dominates everything else, and the body and everything else is just responding to that.

Right?

It's not the other way around in his case, right, as a right-sided, dominant player.

So let's take a look.

You've got perfect lag.

Yesterday you were struggling with your boundary, right?

But there's no, like you can stay here all day long.

You're producing way more speed, right?

Let's flip the club upside down.

And let's try and feel what happens when we try to feel the same thing.

One hand?

One hand still.

You can choke up on it.

It doesn't really matter.

Just get a feel for control with it.

Okay.

So not.

See how the club kind of jerky around?

This is what I was saying.

So I think a lot of times when people are doing this throw-the-ball drill.

And I even experimented with this yesterday because the right-hand stuff is new for me as well.

that when I tried to really be aggressive with my right arm, my shoulders got involved, and my arms started getting involved, and my elbows started to hurt, and I'm like, whoa, this is not right.

It's your wrist.

This, but your arm is relatively relaxed.

It's just helping move this wrist into position and speeding it up a little bit, but the majority of the speed isn't in your arm, it's in your wrist.

Yeah, that's.

It makes sense?

Yeah.

It does, yeah.

The first one was not very good.

So start with a really, really short swing.

So just go back like halfway and just focus on releasing visceral speed.

How fast can you release that?

I can still cure the whoosh.

It's not as loud.

I think you'll, hopefully I'll get them.

Let me, let me follow up this side.

So one thing I want to see, and this is helping me watch this.

As you're doing this, you're kind of getting this arm bent.

Think of it again, throwing with the wrist.

So it's not trying to scoop it.

You're throwing the club head with your wrist and it's doing this.

It's going.

Unhinging, uncocking, release.

But your arm, if you're bending your arm, you're kind of trying to help it, muscle it with your arm, think about your wrist.

So if you just held your arm straight, this would be the feel right.

And then as you extend it a little bit more, a little bit more, it's just that that you're trying to feel better.

You're definitely not going to get the same swoosh sound with the clubs.

Flip right side up, it's just too heavy, right?

Yeah, okay, so there you go good, there you go good, much better.

I get it.

oh, much better.

yeah.

So your arm and shoulder should be relaxed.

Yeah, I think your left legs are posting up now.

You've got tons and tons of lag.

Tons of lag.

And then a great, look at your wrists.

Like your hands are slowing down, the club is releasing.

Yeah, and you can tell.

And it's pulling you around.

God, that's a whole different way it looks.

Very different.

What looks different to you?

Oh, just the side bend.

The side bend and the wrist.

arm position, the leg.

My leg was, I'm sure my leg was this.

Yeah.

As opposed to.

Exactly.

So by prioritizing just what you're going to do with your wrist, without me telling you to do anything by maintaining lag, you have Sergio Garcia as in lag, because you're prioritizing just releasing the speed from your wrist.

So when you think about it that way, then.

swinging hard from the top with your shoulders, your arms, throwing hard.

None of that stuff really makes sense.

And you felt like the first time you did it, like, oh, it kind of gets you around.

So if you think about just doing this, you got into side bend, you shallowed out the club.

I'm going to video from down along too, but you can see from face on, like, dude, you've got so much lag.

And now it's just a matter of getting that feeling of it, releasing with the most amount of speed and letting it extend your arm down the line, pull your arm straight.

I mean, The big thing that I see is I'm not trying to do the side bend right, right?

Because when you try to do the side bend for me, what happens?

I get the side bend way before I start to bring the club down.

Exactly right, this is what we were talking about.

If you're trying to manipulate yourself into certain positions that you know are correct, yeah, you'll always do it the wrong way at the wrong time.

It should happen naturally, right?

Because my side bend would be something like, exactly like that, exactly as opposed to now my side bend.

I'm not even thinking It should happen as a result.

It should not be a cause.

That's right.

Okay.

Same risk, right?

Same thing, yeah.

Shorter.

Look at how much lag.

Look at the club to your forearm.

So I'll tell you something.

Technically, I've been trying to get that position.

The club to your forearm?

For months.

Club to the forearm position?

Yeah.

I have never succeeded in doing that.

And I'm not even trying here.

That's what my argument has always been is that all of the positions in the golf swing, every single one, Should happen as a result of this overarching movement and never be trying to move yourself into these positions.

Everybody's trying to, not everybody, for a long time, most people have been trying to swing like Tiger and it just seems unachievable, right?

But now you have the club in the same spot as him.

You have the same amount of lag more if you only do it with one hand.

And then you're feeling how he's producing speed.

So you're starting to get a feel for what it feels like to swing like Tiger and end up in the same positions and have that level of speed.

And it's easier to do this than anything else.

Like it's literally just prioritizing how you release the club and being aggressive with that, active with that.

And you're getting into all of those things that you wanted to do.

Now let's try it with both hands.

It just feels.

Chuck, It, It, It.

It It, It, It.

It just feels like literally the feel is taking over the entire golf swing without having to think through anything.

That's, I think, the easiest way I can summarize how I'm feeling.

So in other words, all I'm thinking right now is to.

So today, all I'm thinking about is to do that.

And everything else is following suit.

So it's the same thing.

Everything else is following suit.

That's the goal.

It's not how do we group together 50 different positions.

It's how do we get those positions to happen as a byproduct of one movement, one basic movement.

Both hands now.

Same feeling.

Nothing changes.

The tightness of the swing is to me, everything feels tight and connected, tight, so tight to like, tight, as in, like, um, tight.

Not in terms of the body being tight and stuff.

It's like everything is connected, like nothing is loose.

Yeah, yeah, okay, loosey-goosey, that's what I mean, you know, nothing?

wobbly, you know what I mean?

It feels like a golf swing.

I'm getting goosebumps.

Let's see what the camera tells us.

We've got a little bit of reverse pivot stuff.

Look at the leverage coming down.

Holy cow.

So now I'm telling you basically to flip it.

What most instructors would call a pro flip.

There's kind of two different ways of flipping it.

There's the old school, the amateur scoop in it like this.

But what a pro flip?

What guys call a pro flip is when their arms are rotating over.

That's why everybody's teaching, holding off the release, right?

But by me telling you to flip it, look how flat your left wrist is in the back, look at that.

oh, it's dead flat and you see the the shaft lean.

Yes, lovely, so by me telling you to flip it.

You're doing anything but flipping it, and you're getting a ton of speed and a perfectly balanced.

And that's still with a reverse pivot, you recover and get into a perfect tour pro impact.

What do you think about that?

Come every day.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

I gotta admit, even I'm a little impressed with that.

This is what I wanted.

I love that swing.

Look at that.

So if we continue down this path of one simple thing, focusing on the release, everything else is happening.

Everything else is happening.

Yeah, I mean, that swing literally all I thought was, okay, I'm going to take the rock, take the rock, move it back, not too high.

So that's the only thing that I consciously tried to do.

The rest followed through.

Like everything is like connected for me right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, the feeling is complete connection with everything.

Awesome, right?

I don't have to put a shit in.

No, no, that's what's funny about this.

I feel like everybody in the golf swing is dancing around the issue, right?

Trying to get the person to have lag, right.

Lots of different ways you can drill that or whatever.

But I didn't tell you anything about trying to create lag.

Yeah, at all, but you've got tons of lag, right?

I didn't tell you to get your wrist left, wrist flat, in fact, telling you to flip it basically right, telling you to actively release that right wrist right, and your wrists are dead flat.

With more shaft lean impact than before, yeah, yeah, right.

well, the only way I used to get shaft lean before is literally go this.

Yeah, yeah, right, so now, yeah, I don't have to do that.

I'm like, shaft lean for maybe a couple degrees and then that's a whole different feel for me.

I know where that will go.

It's a whole different feel.

Let's go straight to hitting balls.

This is unbelievable.

I was doing the 50 or 100 reps this morning.

I got up this morning and kind of stretched a little bit.

I was doing the 100 reps.

It felt so good because all I did there was okay.

You can't do that.

You can do this.

And that's all I need to do.

I just need to say, boom.

It was unbelievably simple.

We'll get it even simpler.

Effortless.

Effortless.

I mean, that sound was different.

So in a real swing, hitting a real ball, look at how much lag you have.

Almost perfect.

And again, this is still from a little bit of a reverse pivot.

So even with that mistake, you're able to get into that position coming down.

I see that slight reverse pivot, for sure.

A little reverse pivot there.

But the shaft lean is amazing.

You still had shaft lean.

And look at the release.

And a lot more speed.

The little burst of speed at the bottom.

The shaft lean is amazing.

That's the first shot.

Yep, this is the first one.

And obviously when we're going to hit balls, we're going to always go back 20-30% from where we're at with our drills.

So make a couple practice swings, get that feeling in the practice swing.

Hit a ball again.

There you go.

Just focus on the swat at the bottom.

Everything else responds to that.

It was not a clean hit, but the swing felt great.

I mean, the swing felt beautiful.

Like, everything was connected.

That looked better than the last one.

Yeah.

You had more leverage later in the swing, and then a quick hit at the bottom.

It was really good.

But, you know, I consciously thought of the side bend.

Sorry, the axis tilt.

Gotcha, yeah.

Move the ball up in your stance just a little.

Yeah, perfect.

Ball compression.

Feel a little better?

Oh my god, that was compression.

Look at the release, the extension and the release, right?

So now, as you're really swatting it at the bottom and letting the wrist rotate over, the extension and width, you have no more chicken wing, right?

No more chicken wing.

But look at that sway.

Yeah.

That's working, bro.

Look at your impact position, it's like, almost perfect, not much you can do from there, see, I love the feeling and I'm not even I don't even started to do my leg.

Yeah, exactly.

But these easy swings, you're starting to get access to more or less unlimited power.

Yeah, you can hit.

This is so easy to do and to feel, and it's not all this body driven stuff.

It's just.

I want to swing a little bit, I hate to use the word harder, if I want to swing a little faster.

It's doing this, just making this come my hand move a little bit quicker, right?

But the focus is all on what you're doing with that release, the right hand.

And when I, you know, when I showed you this video, The Tiger, you see that width and that extension and how much he's throwing.

You're now looking like that, without me talking about.

Eat your chicken wing, let's fix your chicken wing.

It's one thing and it's getting you to have lag, shaffling, proper back position, whole extension and release by just this one feeling and nothing else.

Which, To me is super cool because I don't have to spend months and months and months trying to get you to have lag, proper impact position, proper release, with none of it.

It's just there.

So I mean, can we say two feelings?

The first feeling is throwing the rock or the ball, right?

second feeling is really releasing, releasing your wrist.

Yeah, for sure, so wrist, the movement of the wrist.

And I, what, I what?

The way I'm thinking about this in my own head is that the act of release, the squat is the driver.

Now, instead of yesterday.

We're talking about the throw, and the problem I see with focusing on the throw is it can lead to shoulder and elbow.

An arm like too much, and it doesn't really.

It doesn't help you produce any more speed, because what happens if you're really aggressive with that throw?

Then the SWAT happens too late.

Or you don't release it at the right time, or it goes down into the ground and you take it, you hit it fat, right?

Whereas with this, if this is the priority, this is number one, and then the throw becomes secondary to that.

So yeah, you got to get your arm in that position to throw that hard.

It's the SWAT where all the speed comes from, And the arm is the secondary parameter.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, yeah, totally.

So this is primary now.

And the throw is just to help you kind of get it in the right ballpark.

But the swat is the priority is how I think about it.

Okay.

No, I get it.

I get it totally.

Bump that hip a little forward.

There you go.

There you go.

That looks good there.

There you go.

How does it feel?

It feels fantastic.

I'm not even swinging hard.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm just kind of.

These sorts of sounds are foreign to me.

It is.

I mean, it genuinely is.

Yeah.

You were saying that yesterday when you were hearing me hit balls at the rain.

Yeah, the sound is completely different.

Yeah.

And the sound is.

I love.

For me, I love the feel of the compression, the sound of the strike, and the sound of the ball hissing through the air.

Those are my three favorite things about golf.

The rest of it is all, eh.

But that's what I play for.

And when you understand, everybody feels that.

Everybody says that when they hear me hit a ball or a good ball striker hit a ball.

It just sounds different.

But to me, the real trick to the sound is a combination of how the club's working through the turf, where the club's hitting the ball in the face, how it's hitting it.

But more importantly, it's when the speed is produced.

That's the big difference.

Every amateur on the planet who casts a thumb and swings over the top, they're producing speed really early in the swing, and then it decelerates.

Right.

Every tour pro on the planet is producing speed really late in the swing for a very compressed period of time, which is what you can hear when you're swinging on a stick, right?

That's what you're trying to do.

And by focusing on just maintaining so that you can swat at the bottom, I tell you.

I don't know if there's a better word for it, but to me that's what connotates in my mind.

There's really only speed from here to here.

That's it.

And so when you prioritize that, and that's why I don't like the throwing hard from the top as much, because it kind of still gets you in that position where you accelerate too soon, and it's hard not to hit it fat.

This, you're starting to get that feeling of the last three feet is where all the speed happens, and the rest of it is, and I can see it in your fall through now.

Now it's like, yeah.

Release, right?

It's like almost slow-mo and like Ernie Els-esque.

Into the follow-through, where you're all your energy is dissipated a really, really short period of time, and then the rest of it is just chilling out and balancing into the follow-through.

So I do agree.

I mean, look, that my conscious.

Now.

That last shot, the only thing that I thought about was, okay, get it to a point where I'm not too far off.

Okay, that's just a that's just a feel that I need to have for my back swing.

And then release as soon as possible is how I'm thinking about it.

After that, I'm done with my swing is how I'm interpreting it.

Exactly.

You're just holding on to the club to keep it from flying into the trees.

Yeah, exactly.

That's it.

So you'll never forget that one.

I've seen funny things.

That one's a new one.

But that was just the speed, man.

That was just speed.

Yeah.

1000 Watch your axis tilt.

Yeah, that's set 1001 1002 Came up that was incredible compression, 1003 right?

So again, I did exactly what I 1004 told you I was thinking of, which is 1005 really, how do I get it fast from about 1006 here?

Yeah, how do I?

1007 I want a video online.

It looks awesome.

1008 Your chaplain impact is perfect.

I didn't 1009 tell you how to do chaplain.

1010 I'm not even thinking that, man.

I'm 1011 like.

Just happening.

Yeah, just 1012 happening.

1013 I don't think I've ever hit a ball 1014 better.

No?

1015 No, I mean, did you see that?

I was 1016 looking at the screen.

1017 There was quite a bit of elevation.

1018 So, a little tiny bit steep, 1019 but we've got to get more of that 1020 feeling.

And this is where, as you start 1021 going through this squat drill, your 1022 lower body still has to work, right?

So 1023 we still have to get that feeling of 1024 making, the whole trick to this is you 1025 just got to make room.

If you're steep, 1026 It's because your body's in the way of 1027 your elbow, right?

So if I come down and 1028 my body's here, well, it's now got to go 1029 around my body to get back to the ball.

1030 And your subconscious is not going to do 1031 anything other than figure out a way to 1032 get it back over there.

If your body's in 1033 the way or not, it will figure it out.

1034 That's how you swing stick.

Okay.

1035 So now what we've got to feel is we've 1036 got to make room for this elbow, to be 1037 able to come down to make room on the 1038 inside.

Once we have that, 1039 all.

That's it.

That's the whole thing.

1040 You've now got room to release.

So now 1041 you've just got to start feeling.

And 1042 this is again why the reverse pivot is so 1043 detrimental.

1044 Because you're moving your hip.

The whole 1045 thing is your hip has to move this way.

1046 Right?

1047 Somewhere it's got to move this way and 1048 it's got to rotate.

But it has to stay 1049 that way.

What do you mean?

The thing is, 1050 I'm okay with.

Every, you know, before 1051 I hit every shot, I'm okay with doing 1052 this.

Yeah, but yours has been sliding 1053 back.

And then it's sliding back.

1054 Exactly.

So that's what I'm saying.

So if 1055 your hips start here, but then they go 1056 this way, remember, the whole point is 1057 the hip has to go this way or there's no 1058 room for the other.

I watched some of the 1059 three videos that you have on axis tilt 1060 and losing axis tilt.

So the one thing 1061 that I did do was just say, okay, I need 1062 to really rotate this way, keeping the 1063 hand right in the view.

You had the feel 1064 of the hand.

Right.

Right?

1065 That.

Right.

So, and I did that 50 times.

1066 But I just need to do that a bit more, I 1067 think.

Well, we're still getting that.

1068 It's pulling us back into mechanics and 1069 positions.

Right.

That's why I hesitated.

1070 So, no, it's okay.

But that's how we 1071 generally have thought about teaching 1072 this stuff.

Right.

So, there's another 1073 way to think about it.

Again, if you're 1074 thinking about making room for your hand, 1075 think about the angle that your hand is 1076 going to throw.

1077 If I want my hand to trace kind of this 2 1078 o'clock path, 1079 how would I do that?

1080 I have to go deep.

You don't have a 1081 choice.

I have to go deep.

So if I just 1082 say, and maybe can we do this with a 1083 string?

Yeah, yeah.

Can I move these 1084 around?

Of course.

1085 So let's just pretend, for sake of 1086 argument, 1087 that that's more or less our hand path in 1088 our head, right?

So if I'm standing 1089 here.

And I know that my hand has got 1090 to trace this path.

Not exactly, of 1091 course, but that's the feeling, right, 1092 that what I would want to do, I wouldn't 1093 want to reverse pivot because now my hand 1094 wants to go on this path.

Oh, right, 1095 right, right, because I tilt this way, I 1096 tilt this way, I've got a straight path.

1097 But I now I'm saying, my hands got to go 1098 this way.

Well, It makes sense that I 1099 would kind of get my hand starting to go 1100 back this way at the beginning of the 1101 swing instead of this way.

This doesn't 1102 make sense now.

1103 And then if I'm already going back in my 1104 back swing this way, well, guess where my 1105 hip goes?

It doesn't go this way.

1106 It naturally goes that way without me 1107 trying to mechanically tell you to make 1108 it, stay there or whatever.

So now it's 1109 going this way because I'm trying to get 1110 my hand, even in the back swing, to go on 1111 this path more inside.

So it's easier for 1112 me to bring it this way.

Can I just see 1113 it from there?

Sure, sure.

Because one of 1114 the issues that I have then is.

Getting 1115 the club way inside, but that's your 1116 wrist, right?

Oh so, watch, so I can take 1117 my hand on.

I'm literally going to trace 1118 this line.

Okay, yeah, watch what 1119 happens.

The club still stayed outside my 1120 hand.

Yeah, but that's me following this 1121 1122 And then as you add rotation, that's what 1123 brings the club back to a square path.

1124 Right.

1125 Make sense?

Okay.

1126 1127 you know, 1128 unfortunately, I'm not going to see you 1129 after today.

But so what do I do?

Do I 1130 continue to do the feel aspect of it?

1131 Maybe it's maybe after we're done, maybe 1132 that's a question more appropriate.

But 1133 really, you know, what do I do after 1134 you're gone?

Right.

So.

1135 Before it was all for me, rotary swing 1136 and mechanics and that, 1137 right?

So now it's a whole different 1138 ballgame.

For sure.

It's a feel and now 1139 it's just a flick.

1140 Everything that I'm trying to do with 1141 this to be, to focus on this trail side 1142 dominant thing, I want it to be 100% 1143 fielding.

No mechanics, no positions, 1144 none of that stuff, right?

So that's what 1145 we're figuring out is what do you.

take 1146 from that?

How do you respond to that?

1147 And then I figure out what I need to say 1148 to make sure that that's short on the 1149 right path.

But the goal is, if you're 1150 doing this, then those positions, they, 1151 A, either happen naturally, or B, aren't 1152 anything you need to worry about shortly.

1153 That's what we're trying to get to.

So 1154 how do we cut past all of that stuff and 1155 get straight to the goods?

Right.

So now 1156 what you're showing me with this is, 1157 forget about the mechanics of the axis 1158 tilt.

Well, you do need access to it.

I 1159 mean, the set up fundamentals.

The 1160 mechanics of that.

Yeah, you do need it.

1161 But forget the mechanics of it.

1162 It's the path in which you are.

Think 1163 about the big picture is what we're 1164 trying to do, right?

So it's really.

So 1165 if you had no axis tilt, your hips start 1166 sliding.

You can see that your hand is 1167 going to want to not go.

It's not going 1168 to want to go that way.

It's going to be 1169 steep.

Exactly.

So what I'm trying to get 1170 you to feel is the big.

Exactly.

It's 1171 really that.

Yeah.

1172 So, yeah, there is no reverse pivot.

1173 Yeah.

1174 It shouldn't make any sense.

If you 1175 prioritize the feel, you prioritize the 1176 big picture, then all these mechanical 1177 things should happen.

So it shouldn't 1178 make sense to set up like this.

Because 1179 I'm telling you, my hand's got to go 1180 diagonally that way.

Why would I set up 1181 where it wants to go that way?

1182 Okay.

1183 Okay.

Yeah.

Wow.

1184 I mean, I'm totally, 100% sold.

I love 1185 feel.

I love feel based, right?

Like my 1186 putting is feel based.

Yeah.

Right?

All I 1187 do is I figure out, okay.

The slope and 1188 my putting is literally feel, but I don't 1189 practice, do the practice, right.

Yeah, 1190 so I like the feel based, I think I'm 1191 good with the feel based stuff.

I think 1192 everybody needs to feel their golf swing 1193 because I don't know anybody that can 1194 think mechanical thoughts and hit the 1195 ball.

Well.

Yeah, it just nobody can, 1196 right, right?

So the whole point is, even 1197 with what I've done with rotary swing for 1198 the lead side, dominant stuff, even 1199 though you're still using your trail arm.

1200 The goal is you learn the mechanics and 1201 then you translate that to feel over 1202 time.

1203 Now I'm trying to flip that around and 1204 say, I'm going to teach you just feel and 1205 the mechanics will take care of 1206 themselves.

1207 So it's just a paradigm shift.

1208 I love that because now all I do is to 1209 have a couple of simple things in my 1210 thought before I hit them all.

As opposed 1211 to 10 different mechanical things which 1212 almost never work because the body is.

1213 Either tire, whatever the keys.

Your 1214 brain just can't process that much stuff 1215 that fast and still hit the damn white 1216 devil, as you call it, right, exactly 1217 right.

So, so it's literally, yeah, I 1218 just wanted to get that.

Yeah, there you 1219 can do a few.

Yeah, the cool thing is 1220 that you can do this and hit balls right.

1221 Yeah, right away.

You don't have to like 1222 drill in front of the mirror for a 1223 thousand reps.

Yeah.

1224 Start finding that feeling.

Do you have a 1225 thought on where I should address my ball 1226 or any of that stuff?

What do you mean?

1227 A lot of people advocate here, here, in 1228 relation to the ball.

I put it in the 1229 center of the face because that's where I 1230 want to hit it.

1231 That's what I try to do.

1232 If you're having to move it around, it's 1233 because there's some other goofy shit 1234 going on in your swing.

1235 Your right hand looks really soft.

1236 You're gonna have to swat, so you need to 1237 hold it.

1238 That feels so good.

1239 What's the feeling for you?

How would you 1240 describe it?

The feeling is, 1241 I did the turn without having, I know 1242 there was no sway in that swing.

Gotcha, 1243 okay.

I know there was no sway, and then 1244 push, 1245 release.

1246 I can't wait to see this on the course 1247 today.

1248 Oh, my goodness.

1249 Yeah, we have, yeah.

1250 3.

50 we have the time.

We can just go 1251 earlier and see.

Okay.

Yeah.

1252 What's your schedule after?

I mean, are 1253 you planning on heading back home or 1254 what?

I'm heading to a motocross track 1255 tomorrow and then I'm getting to the 1256 mountains as fast as I can, getting out 1257 of the city.

Where's the motocross?

Over 1258 here?

Glen Helen.

1259 East somewhere.

Oh, Glen Helen 1260 Racecourse.

Yeah.

1261 Yeah, that that didn't release, but still 1262 it went like a bullet, that sounded 1263 different 100 because I, I forgot about 1264 all that and just did.

The release is the 1265 most important thing, right?

That's 1266 In this way of thinking about the swing, 1267 it's all about that squat.

And everything 1268 else is just trying to set that up to 1269 make that easier to happen.

If you do 1270 something that makes it harder to do 1271 that, then we're off track, right?

1272 So that's why, as I was thinking about 1273 this last night, how do I get you to get 1274 your arms where I want, all this stuff, 1275 about making you manipulate and position 1276 your arms.

1277 And as I started thinking about this, if 1278 we could just prioritize nothing but 1279 this.

Everything else should start to 1280 fall into place without you having to 1281 work on any of it.

Like you saw lag, 1282 impact position, all of that stuff.

It's 1283 wildly different than where you were 1284 yesterday.

1285 Yeah, the swing feels so much different 1286 for me.

1287 It's like, wow.

1288 That might went back to my frickin' old.

1289 That's alright.

Okay, let's go.

1290 One thought.

1291 How was that one?

1292 Awesome.

1293 I love the feel of the surf.

1294 A little steep.

A little steep still.

So 1295 the more you start thinking about getting 1296 your hands so that they can travel on 1297 this path, you'll start to get rid of 1298 this little reverse.

It's better.

Your 1299 hip didn't slide as much, but it's still 1300 ingrained in there.

1301 Just a quick little interjection here.

1302 This was his swing before I came down 1303 here to work with him.

1304 That's crazy amounts of lag.

1305 difference at impact.

1306 Look at the difference in how you're 1307 releasing.

Look at the difference in the 1308 release.

1309 So much better and easier.

You just, 1310 yeah, you don't have to think about 1311 anything, but you can go out and play, 1312 yeah, much better golf immediately.

Oh, 1313 for sure.

So look, yeah, and I'm not even 1314 trying to do stuff like, you know that, 1315 yeah, yeah, yeah, I can't wait to do.

I 1316 can't wait to do that because that's 1317 gonna give me an extra oomph of power for 1318 sure.

Yeah, As long as you understand 1319 this SWAT, right?

It's like once you have 1320 that, then you're going to start feeling 1321 as you use your feet to push against the 1322 ground.

All that does is make your wrist.

1323 Yesterday we were talking about more 1324 about getting the arm to release faster.

1325 And again, that's where I felt like you 1326 would start using your body too much.

1327 You'd start making a back swing without a 1328 lot of tension in the wrong places at the 1329 wrong time.

But if you think about your 1330 wrist.

1331 And just doing that, and then feet doing 1332 this start making a ton of sense because 1333 it starts happening totally naturally.

1334 Okay, let's see if I can shallow out 1335 rather than come that speed.

Yeah, I 1336 scooped that one, it's okay, right?

I 1337 tried.

I went way shallow, 1338 And then I scooped as opposed to release.

1339 I had to see it on camera to know if you 1340 shoot.

1341 Move the ball up in your stance a little 1342 bit.

There you go.

1343 I didn't even complete my swing.

1344 I go, I'm done.

1345 Well, that's what's cool about this is 1346 that you're getting all that.

So your 1347 spine is still leaning toward the target 1348 at address.

1349 So part of that is once you get the ball 1350 up in your stance, don't get your body on 1351 top of it.

You've got to set up more 1352 behind it.

Because again, you're trying 1353 to do everything you can to get your hand 1354 to trace this line.

1355 Until you get the feeling of moving your 1356 body.

this way.

1357 Every time that I swing, I'm going to do 1358 this.

It's going to wipe across.

1359 If I wanted to hit it off the hosel, The 1360 easiest way to do that would be to swing 1361 away from the inside, because guess what 1362 I'm leading with?

The hosel.

1363 So your toe shots, you need to move more 1364 towards the center of the pose.

So how do 1365 you balance that out?

You have to start 1366 exaggerating the feeling of coming.

more 1367 from the inside so the club works out 1368 this way.

When you're steep, it always 1369 wipes across you.

So you have to just 1370 start exaggerating this, committing to 1371 this, and try to hit a few off the heel.

1372 And then you'll start to feel how you've 1373 got to shift your path, to come more from 1374 the inside instead of getting steep.

1375 So exaggerate one.

1376 Yeah, and then just try to swing across, 1377 like try to swing this way, like we were 1378 talking about yesterday.

1379 Get your upper body leaned away.

So do 1380 everything you could to swing severely 1381 into out.

So ball position here.

Yeah.

1382 Do you feel like it would be easier to 1383 swing from the inside there?

1384 Yeah.

1385 There you go.

Now swing out here to me.

1386 From there.

1387 That's how you hit the ball off the heel, 1388 and now it's just counter those.

So the 1389 problem is our feels off right right.

So 1390 you need to feel exactly that this put 1391 your yeah, that that, not that there.

Now 1392 swing down that string line, there you 1393 go, okay, 1394 X is tilt.

1395 Do you think it's a function of muscle 1396 memory that.

Yeah, you're just used to 1397 setting up.

Everybody's swing, when you 1398 start building in all these 1399 compensations, are just based on what you 1400 feel you're doing with the ball.

Like, if 1401 you start hitting it fat, instinctively, 1402 everybody starts moving it back in their 1403 stance.

And then this actually makes the 1404 problem worse and worse and worse, and 1405 you realize it.

So, because you were 1406 swinging over the top, and probably were 1407 hitting it fat at some point, it feels 1408 more instinctive to get on top of the 1409 ball.

But the truth is, you've got to 1410 do.

Like I said yesterday, just do the 1411 exact opposite of everything you think 1412 you want to do when you fix your swing.

1413 And it's probably right.

But doing what 1414 we intuitively want to do is almost 1415 always wrong.

1416 So if I want you to hit the ball cleaner, 1417 I'd actually move the ball up in your 1418 stance, not back in your stance.

So it's 1419 those types of things.

So when you're 1420 doing this, you're just used to doing 1421 this because that's what your brain is 1422 saying.

I feel comfortable that I'm going 1423 to be able to get the club back on the 1424 ball by doing this.

You've got to now 1425 learn to trust that.

1426 to exaggerate it, being way back here, 1427 you're actually gonna get the ball 1428 better, but your brain is not ready for 1429 that yet.

So you just have to force it to 1430 get into that point where you can get the 1431 ball up in the stance, swing more from 1432 the inside, and just try to hit this one 1433 off the hosel.

1434 Okay, all right, I can try.

1435 There you go.

I did, I mean, yeah.

1436 Did you get it closer to the heel?

Yeah, 1437 closer to the heel.

1438 How about the axis tilt?

So that was 1439 better because you naturally started 1440 setting yourself up to swing more from 1441 the inside.

1442 That's still reversing.

1443 Move the ball way up in your stance.

It's 1444 way too far back.

1445 There you go.

Now get behind it.

1446 when you turn this time.

Try to hit it 1447 off the hosel.

1448 All we're doing here at the rear is 1449 pivot, right?

Yeah.

1450 Well, both of them, you're kicking the 1451 left leg and the left.

1452 So what you've got to feel when you go 1453 back, again, think about it from a feel 1454 perspective.

If you were going to skip 1455 that stone, would you do this?

1456 It doesn't make any sense.

So again, 1457 think about, you've gotten your body used 1458 to doing this.

And again, what you need 1459 to feel is, how would I throw that 1460 sidearm throw?

Well, I would never do 1461 this with my legs.

1462 Right?

So that's what you've got to feel 1463 is again, if I'm going to do this 1464 skipping the stone, but I'm skipping it 1465 out to two 1466 And then you feel what your leg's going 1467 to do naturally.

1468 There you go.

1469 Sounded more solid.

Oh, flush.

100% 1470 flush.

What'd you feel different?

1471 I did exactly what you told me, which is 1472 really, get it across.

1473 Get it in parallel to the slide.

1474 The second thing I.

1475 So the SWAT is the primary thing, The 1476 secondary thing is, how do I get my body 1477 to stop doing all this goofy shit that 1478 I've built into my swing accidentally.

1479 I can feel that, I can still feel that in 1480 the middle of the club.

Feels a little 1481 better out there.