Larry's Lesson - Pt 1

The #1 most important thing you have to learn in the golf swing is how to release the club for it is the release that both squares the face AND adds speed. They are one in the same thing. This lesson broken into 5 parts will help you finally learn how to create speed in your golf swing.

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What about your back surgeries?

Well, I have the same thing as Tiger Woods.

My lowest two discs are fused.

And then I had a problem in my upper spine.

So it didn't really affect my mobility, but they did have to remove all the muscles along my rib cage.

Really?

Yeah, I had a surreal spinal fluid leak, and they had to go inside my spine to find the leak.

So your spinal erectors are.

All the nerves coming out of my spine were bubbling.

And some of them were so bad that fluid was coming out of them, the spinal fluid.

Yeah.

And so I wasn't producing enough spinal fluid for my brain to float properly.

So for three years straight, I had a headache 24 hours a day, every day, all the time.

No, that must have driven you crazy.

There was only one doctor in the United States that could find it, and it was a Cedar Sinai in Los Angeles.

Really?

You know, it has affected my muscles a little bit in my back.

And now I have my left hip that's been replaced.

My right hip is getting pretty sore.

But the only thing I liked about you is you talked about how bad your body was beat up.

Oh, yeah.

And then you just worked on trying to get an effortlessly power swing.

That's what I want to find.

How do I get more power with less effort and less effect on my body?

And I just liked all the stuff that you talked about, the goat stuff, about right hand versus, you know, trail arm dominant.

Because I'm very trail arm dominant.

I always fight.

Should I try to swim with my left hand or with my right hand?

Yeah.

I'm always fighting that.

So that's where I'm at physically.

And I can turn.

You know, I can physically turn.

But, you know, when I play, sometimes my body just doesn't want to turn and I start going like this.

Yeah, exactly.

You know, and I do the old classic this.

Yep.

Pull it inside.

So, but I've been trying to work on what you've been working on.

And I just recently had a small procedure where I had to stop golfing for three.

I don't know about, you heard of sleep apnea?

Yeah, yeah.

So I had the Inspire device installed.

I don't know what that is.

So it's a device that's installed right here.

It's about the size of a 50 cent piece, twice as thick and has a wire going to my chest and a wire to my muscles and my neck.

So I turn it on at night with the remote.

And when I'm at night, when I'm sleeping, it keeps my airways open.

You're kidding.

Yeah.

It's called Inspire.

So I don't have to wear the mask and stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

Those are my mother-in-law.

That's supposed to wear one of those.

They haven't turned it on yet because it has to be a month.

But I had to take two weeks off from golf while it was healing.

Sure, sure.

I got another week to go before they turn it on.

No kidding.

That's all my medical stuff.

Well, it's interesting to meet somebody who's had a similar amount of surgeries as I've had.

What's your handicap right now?

My handicap is just over 11.

11, okay.

But when I worked with Chris, it was between 7 and 8.

So I could play reasonably good golf.

But one thing about our golf course is they keep it so wet that in the summer, you don't get any rolls.

So a really good drive for me, my ball carries about 200 yards with my driver.

But there, the ball won't roll.

Yeah, yeah.

So if I could get it 210, 220, that would be a huge difference.

Oh, we're going to go more than that.

We can definitely get you more than that.

Well, that would be awesome.

But I really like what you teach and your theories and all that.

I just love it.

I think it's just really good.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

That's why I decided I'm going to go back to you rather than.

I did a single plane swing, Moe Norman swing for a while with Graves Gall.

You know, I like.

He's my idol, Moe Norman.

Yeah, he was amazing.

I saw him hit balls in 99.

Oh, did you really?

That's cool.

What did you think when you saw him hit balls?

It was incredible.

Yeah.

He comes up and the first things he says is, it's impossible for me to hit the ball with a little crooked.

I can only hit it straight.

That's what he literally says.

I love that dude.

He says, as you'll see today.

And he just hit the ball so good for.

He was 72 at the time.

Yeah, he still hit it well.

And he would just smoke it.

It was just like.

He could throw things in divots like drivers or anything and hit other divots and just drum.

Yeah.

It was incredible.

You know, what's interesting about his stuff is that, even though his swing kind of looked unconventional per se, with his setup and a couple unique moves, the stuff that he did and the stuff that Hogan talked about and Jones talked about and Tiger did.

While they might look a little bit different, The core construct of what they're doing and how they deliver the club into the ball was very similar.

Like Moe's magic move is getting into the goat delivery position.

He always talks about that.

Totally.

This is my magic move.

Exactly.

And that's the same thing with this goat delivery position.

It's understanding how to do that.

Yes.

That is what allows the club to square up naturally and have speed.

And so that's really.

Even though he looked a little different, what he's saying and what he was.

the way that he figured out a way to do it is still very similar to how all the greats played.

Well, that's what I always told people.

I said, yeah, Moe sets up in the hitting position.

He doesn't start like this.

Yeah.

But the rest of the swing is not that much different than Ben Hogan.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

He actually, especially when he was younger.

Yeah.

He had a little bit longer move and a little bit more wrist angle.

And then he had a lot coming down very similar to Hogan in that sense.

Well, in Greg's golf they show when he was young.

He had a full swing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They have a video of him.

His body moved a lot.

Yeah.

He had a full swing though.

He wasn't like just, you know, more three-quarter looking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anyway, I don't know.

What else?

What do you want me to do here?

Go ahead and hit a few.

You know, just like, you know, you've recorded some people.

Oh, can you hop off the force plate for just one second?

It just needs to calibrate.

You've recorded some people like on you and you display it.

Can you do that with me and so that I could get a copy of it?

Absolutely.

We're recording this.

I can do anything you want with it afterwards.

Because then I can take the lift or you can send it to me or whatever.

Yeah.

For sure.

Go ahead and hop back on there and stand still for two seconds.

It'll calibrate with your body weight.

Well, it should.

Okay.

We're, well, okay.

Stand still.

It's acting strange this morning, of course.

What on earth is it doing?

Let me do something like.

I'll hop off the force plate for one second.

Sorry.

Sometimes it.

I mean, I've got nothing else to do.

Okay.

There we go.

No, that's good.

Okay.

Now hop on it.

It should be.

There it goes.

Okay.

Okay.

We're set.

Yeah.

So it calibrates.

So it measures force based on how much you weigh, and then it calibrates that based on how much force you're generating into the ground.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

So swing away whenever you're ready.

Come on over here and take a look for a sec and let's start talking about what's going on.

I'm going to turn this around so that we can capture a little bit of this.

Yeah, there's several things that we're going to talk about here.

So at address, let's go back.

Setup looks really good.

Not really any big issues here.

You're a little too far back on your heels.

Like if you imagine I came up and just kind of poked you on the chest, you'd kind of fall back kind of easy.

That's not a huge insurmountable thing, but it's an easy correction.

Just to get you a little more balance, you'll move a little bit easier.

But that's not really like our big focus.

What we're going to talk about first.

So let's look at face on.

Watch your left wrist.

Notice how it immediately starts moving into flexion.

You start kind of bowing that wrist right away.

And so the club face is really shut.

So now as you've been watching a lot of the content, especially with the hack motion stuff, you know how much rotation there is in the hands of the pros.

Like they're really rotating a lot to get a lot of speed in there.

And when you bow it like this and you get it that shut, you can't rotate because the club face is already shut.

So then you would just hook it off the planet.

So you're not going to do that.

It's me.

So you do try to release it sometimes.

I hook it.

If I have problems, I hook it.

Especially as I get more tired in a round.

Yeah, exactly.

I just have good hands and I can save it a lot.

Yeah.

But I hook it a lot.

Well, this is exactly why.

So if you go into flexion with your wrist right off the ball, you have nowhere else to go.

And this is the hard part in golf swing.

This is like why, you know, typically when people kind of like preset their hands at impact, like I know I want to be here.

So I'm just going to start here.

It doesn't really work well because you need to be able to move into, quote unquote, positions throughout the swing.

But if you kind of start there, you don't give your body anywhere to move to or move through.

So it's like, imagine a pitcher like knowing like, I'm going to throw a ball and I'm going to release it like this.

I'm just going to keep my wrist in this position the whole time.

There's no speed there.

Right.

So this is a, this is going to be one of the big things that we have to fix.

But the bigger thing, like these are, this is a symptom, right?

This is, this is you saying, okay, I know I need to square the face.

I know I need to add speed because that, that is golf, right?

That's your whole job as a golfer.

I need to add speed and I need to, to have the face pointing in the direction I want to.

So when you're doing this and then, you know, you, you fold the right arm right away and the left arm's pushing across the body kind of thing.

So what this is really telling us is that you're not, this is how you associate creating speed in the swing.

So as you mentioned, you don't, You don't need to make a full shoulder turn because you've got that right arm kind of fully cocked and loaded as much as it can go.

And so this is your idea of, okay, from here, this is how I'm going to apply force to the shaft is just with my, my arms.

And so as you come down and you do a great job of getting everything to kind of balance back out.

Like right here, you're almost in a, in a perfect position, almost right?

Like you're not in a bad spot from where you took it back from, but there's nothing there.

So you can see the club faces rotating over really, really hard because you're, you've got that club face already shut.

So it's going to want to shut down on you really quick.

And so you're always going to be just knowing that that hook is there at the wrong time, if it wants to pop up its head.

So overall, like release and stuff is really good.

But what, what's really killing you is kind of like the bigger, the bigger picture of the golf swing.

Like what, and this is, this is what's difficult about this.

Like, what are you really trying to do?

What do you really want to do in the swing?

And once you understand that, then all of this stuff, the, the, the flaws that you will, if you happen in your swing, like having that face really shut, the wrist really bowed, not making a turn, all of those things don't make sense anymore.

Once you have a very clear picture of this is what the golf swing is.

And that's what I want to do first is say, help you understand.

This is what the golf swing is really about.

This is what you're really trying to do.

The things that Mo Norman talked about that he wasn't able to articulate all that, clearly to, to the normal man.

Like a lot of the things he's saying were fantastic, but it's, it's got to step back 30,000 feet.

Like, what are we really, really trying to do here?

Cause that's the part that's kind of missing for most golfers is like, I can figure out a way to bandaid this stuff together and work it around and be decent.

If I hit enough balls, I'll get my timing down, but you're still missing the forest for the trees.

And that's what we need.

Okay.

So that's what we're going to do first is get down to brass tacks.

So first thing we've got to understand, what are we really, really trying to do?

When you're taking the club back like this, This is getting it set so that you can easily come down with a pretty square face because you're already there.

But there's no place for your hands to go to release.

And the release point, the way that your hands have got to work is that they're going to be, instead of being bowed like this, We want to maintain a little bit of extension in this left wrist, or a tiny bit of cupping till later in the downswing.

And then from here, the wrists have to do this.

This is the whole golf swing in a nutshell.

Notice that my right wrist is moving into what we call flexion or, you know, getting into a bowing position on the other side.

But your hands doing this is the entire swing.

And once you have this idea, you'll see that this doesn't work.

Yeah.

So a lot of times people are, you know, they become obsessed with bowing that wrist and Hogan made such a big deal out of it.

And it is, of course, important to a degree.

But it's what your hands are actively doing through that hitting area that determine what's really going to happen with your swing.

Because that's where all the speed comes from.

But you have to get to the point.

There's a piston in the shaft.

This is a new training aid that these guys are testing.

That when you release it properly, it snaps down at the bottom.

But when your hands are doing this, you'll see like, it'd be very hard for me to get that piston to move.

But if I snap it, do you hear the difference?

So I'm going to actually have you use this for a second.

And you're going to work on getting, I'm going to have you put your hands right here.

We're going to get them slightly.

At this point, it should be starting to bow.

But you're going to get here.

And I want you to snap your wrists into this position.

So how would you get that piston to slide down into the shaft?

So now, relax your hands just a little bit.

Now, what I want you to understand is how would you, forget golf for a second.

Relax your hands a little bit more.

There you go.

How would you get, no, still tensing up on it.

How would you snap this club to get that piston that's up here to slide down that shaft and get it to do it at the ball?

Just using your wrists.

Yeah.

There you go.

Now, where did you hear it happen there?

Way out here.

Exactly.

Scoot over just a little bit.

So give yourself a little more room.

So now, each time, you'll have to, like, get it to go back down in there.

So now, get it to snap right here.

Late, right?

Yeah.

Boy, how do I do that?

That's what we're going to learn today.

Because at the end of the day, all that matters is you have speed right here.

Yes.

Right?

I agree with that.

Yeah, because I keep, I just, I've done it so long.

It's really hard to break that habit.

It is.

It's okay.

I'm going to let you experiment with it for a minute, because I want you to try a few different things on your own, and then I'm going to help you understand how to do it correctly.

Closer.

That was a little better.

Yeah.

I want you to keep playing with it.

Discovery is the art of learning.

I was a PE teacher.

Okay.

You get it, then.

There you go.

You're getting there.

Getting there.

Just keep going.

A few more.

Way closer, right?

We're getting there.

I don't know what I'm doing to get there, but.

This is the point.

This should be a natural, instinctive thing, how to use your hands correctly to add speed.

But it's not, Because we're so convoluted with all these different mechanical things and body movements and stuff that we forget what our hands are doing with the club.

There you go.

There you go.

Do you feel you have more speed now?

Yeah.

What I'm trying to do is when I get to here, you know you make a circle, right?

So I'm trying to apply a force here.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's when you have to do it.

Because if you're in a circle and you're applying a force here, you're just going through the middle of the circle.

Bingo.

But if you're going here, it only makes sense that you're going to apply a force here that way.

The only way you're going to get it to release down here is to release it up there.

Up there, yeah.

There you go.

There you go.

Now you're starting to understand the golf swing.

This is the whole point.

If you don't do this right, I don't care what you do with the rest of your golf swing.

It doesn't matter what you look like at the top, what your hands are doing, how you're set up, any of that stuff.

It's all setting this up.

That is the most important thing.

And once you understand that it's all about speed and that speed, the cool thing about a proper release is that it not only adds speed, but it also squares the face.

They're happening simultaneously.

They're not independent things.

You don't try to square the face, but that's what you've done.

You've made your golf swing like, okay, I'm going to square the face.

I'm just going to bow it right away, keep it hooded, going back, and then I don't have to fight this slice anymore because it's already square.

So then I just kind of come through, But then you can't release it because you're just going to hit yourself in the foot, because the club face is going to be so closed.

So now what you've got to understand is that the release is adding speed and squaring the face.

They are one in the same.

You can't have one without the other.

And so by me telling you how to release this, or I didn't tell you, you just figured it out by using this thing, that you started adding speed, but you didn't have to worry about squaring the face.

Because in order to release it properly, that club face has to be rotating through the hitting area.

Didn't have to tell you to do that.

You just started feeling it by hearing where this is releasing, right?

So that's the whole key.

And everything that you're trying to do in your swing from this point forward is just making that happen naturally.

It's setting yourself up for that to happen.

That's it.

So once you have that, then it's okay.

Now this doesn't make sense to take the club back like this anymore because you're never going to, you saw where the release was happening way out here.

There's no speed there.

And that's why you're carrying it 200 yards instead of 250 yards.

All of the speed isn't exactly what you just did there.

If you start releasing this and as you felt, you discovered it perfectly on your own.

You have to, your intention of releasing this club has to be way out here.

It can't happen down here.

It's too late.

You'll never ever get it to release in time, but always release out here.

That's why this training aid is so cool is because you hear it and you can actually hit balls with that, which is what I want you to do next.

So now we can do the same thing, but put it into real world applique because when you hit that ball, The sound of the strike and that piston slamming down into the bottom of that shaft should be simultaneously.

Should be happening exact same time.

What'd you feel there?

That was pretty close.

Pretty close, right?

Yeah.

I mean, compared to what I was doing before.

Yeah, exactly.

Before it was way out here.

Exactly.

And it's hard when you're hitting the ball.

That's what's so important about a training aid is you have to be able to hit balls with it while you're using it, or it's pointless.

Perfect.

The timing was immediately different.

I don't know if I'm taking it away correctly, but.

We can fix all that stuff because you'll find that it'll make your release easier as you start adjusting your takeaway.

This thing's going to put me out of a job.

I don't think so.

A little late, right?

A little late, yeah.

I can feel the crump face.

Yeah.

I hit it off the toe or something weird.

Pretty close?

That was close, yeah.

What you're going to find is the difference between that one and the same thing.

What's the second one?

The second one was where they were timed perfectly.

You couldn't hear a distinction between the sound of the ball hitting the face and the piston sliding gun, right?

They were like simultaneous.

That's perfect.

That's what we're looking for, right?

That one was a little bit late, right?

What you're going to find is you're going to have to be faster with your hands.

Faster with that release your hands.

Which is really.

This is your power, right?

This is where all the speed is, is how this hand moves.

This one, it can add some, but it's not nearly as forceful as this guy.

So what you're going to want to feel with this right hand is you start throwing it way back here.

And throw it as hard as you can from immediately.

Start trying to release that angle until you get to the point where, if you could, that it would happen back here.

But you'll never get it to release that early.

What did you feel?

That was pretty close.

Pretty close.

I think it was a little late.

A tiny bit late.

A little bit.

So you've got to be even more aggressive.

Get that wrist throwing the club head earlier.

Same sound.

That was close.

It was the same time, right?

That was close, yeah.

If not exactly the same, it was microseconds.

It was really close.

That was close too.

Keep experimenting with it.

Listen to the feedback from that.

And start trying to release it earlier and earlier.

And with more and more force from that right hand.

That was the same time, right?

All right.

Let's take a look at this on video.

So now, let's take a look at the takeaway.

So the takeaway's still gotten it shut.

But your left wrist, you compensated.

So you bowed it immediately.

But then you're like, that's not going to work.

So you actually got back into extension.

Because you know if your wrist is in this position, you have something to snap.

If it's like this at the top of your swing, your wrists don't work right.

You didn't do that consciously, though.

Exactly.

That's the whole point of this.

This stuff should be natural and instinctual.

It shouldn't be something where we're like, oh, I've got to make myself go here.

Okay, now I've got to go to position two.

Now position three.

Well, I was thinking about when you were doing like the hack motion about the wrist.

And I was thinking, because you wanted the wrist more, not that.

You wanted it more just here.

It's got to be slightly an extension.

But then when I was just practicing at home, I said, okay, how can I consciously get it into that position?

That's not easy to do.

Yeah.

You know, as you're swinging.

You have to understand what you're trying to do down here with your hands.

Once you understand what you're doing down here, Then this stuff at the top happens naturally, because you can't do this if this isn't in a reasonable spot.

So you naturally got back into extension.

So now you have something with your hands to be able to hit with.

And then as you come down, we're really, really close to being in a really great impact position.

We just got to get the body to work a little bit better with it.

But from there to being able to now have force, and this is what you should feel.

You should feel like now I can actually be aggressive hitting the golf ball.

I don't have to be like, oh, God, I don't know where this is going to go.

I'm going to fight a hook.

It should never, ever enter your mind again.

You want to be like, I got to go.

Yeah, because with my emotion, it always felt like how can I hold on to the right spot to release it so it won't hook.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So you've got all, and then you start, you know, if you start taking lessons, You start trying to build in all these different compensations around this misunderstood concept of what the golf swing is, right?

Now you know it's this, and now that I know how to do this, everything else just starts adjusting a little bit to make that more powerful, more under control, easier to do.

And that's where all the speed comes from, to protect your back, protect your hip.

You've got to have the speed from this.

You can do this stuff all day.

It's never going to hurt your body.

Because when I, when I tweak my back, it's always this muscle right along my spine right there.

Yeah.

That one I tweak.

Okay.

A lot.

So that's going to happen when you're trying to turn to hold the face open?

Yeah.

Because the only way you're going to hold.

So it would be this muscle right there.

Yeah, so that's, your spinal erectors are there.

I can't remember what that's called.

But also, you know.

My anatomy class, but that's the one that causes me trouble.

Well that's, think about why that's going to happen, right?

So let's say, people have back problems, back pain for all sorts of reasons.

But if you've got the club face like this, and you, again, your subconscious, your proprioception is going to take over in the downswing.

You're not going to have time to think it through.

Your brain's just going to be like, okay, I got to do something to keep this thing from going way left.

So you start rotating your body to hold the face open, but you put more stress on your back, right?

If I'm like this, this is no stress on my back.

This is a lot more stress.

Not that you can't do this, but once you've got a bad back.

I don't know why I hurt that so much.

Exactly.

Because you're fighting that club face wanting to turn over.

Instead of, and this is the thing about golf, the club face wants to turn over, right?

So you can either fight it, and there's guys who turn a lot to fight that club face.

That's one way to swing.

Or you can let it do what it wants to do and use that to your advantage instead of something that you're fighting against, right?

So you keep feeling this, not this.

And the more you start getting used to making short swings, which was the point of that Rombo drill that I put out last week, was for you to learn to create speed from a very short swing.

The only way to do that is to release your hands correctly, right?

So if you go and just make a little swing, how else would I get any speed?

I have to apply force to that shaft with my hands.

And as you start doing that, this isn't going to make any sense because you're going to be.

How would I apply force with my left wrist already bowed that much?

And your hands are super, super tight on the club.

When I grabbed them, every time you started to take the club back, you murdered it.

Because again, you're fighting holding that club face open.

Instead, what would be ideal is if your hands were a little bit softer, because that would allow your wrist to move faster.

So you'll start going from this and holding off to this and like, I actually want this thing a little bit more cup because that gives me more leverage to throw that club head.

And then if it's not shut, I can throw it more aggressively and it's still going to square up.

Does it make sense?

So hop back in there and let's just do a little tweak.

So go ahead and set up for So now when you go back, your first instinct is this.

Okay.

Now let's think about, if you were going to make a really short swing, you were going to go back to here.

Wouldn't this feel more leverage in your hands than this?

So now if you were to come down from there and you were to snap your wrist, that's where we would be.

So we don't want to start here.

We want to start here.

So you've got some leverage.

And now make a short swing and try to get that piston to snap.

See how late it was?

Closer.

Need to play with it for a minute.

Closer.

I still want to blow it.

Okay.

So here's the trick to this.

This is what I was, the reason I want you to do this drill is for a reason.

Okay.

So this little rombo drill, let me borrow the club for a second, is going to be very helpful for you.

Because what you'll find, I'm going to show you a couple of different things that are going to happen here.

So it's pretty close, right?

In order to do that, I'm doing this with my hands, right?

But of course my hands are moving fast, so it's making, I'm not just losing all my angle.

What I'm trying to do, in the simplest terms possible, is make this move as fast as possible right here.

That's it.

So in order to do that, I better start getting it out here, or I'm done.

Okay?

Now watch what happens.

I'm going to make a little change.

I'm going to do what you're doing.

Where'd you hear the release?

Yeah.

Now, do you have any idea what was different between that and this?

You can hear it.

Yeah.

Can you see it?

Well, I mean this, the first swing is, the club is more in front of you.

Yes.

And the other swing is kind of behind you and getting stuck.

You're so smart.

You got it exactly.

So the second swing, I was doing what you're doing.

Which I feel like I'm getting stuck all the time.

I hit a drive and it feels pretty good.

And I say, but I can hit it.

I know I can hit it 30 yards farther.

It just feels like I'm stuck all the time.

You are.

Exactly.

And the reason that you hear the difference in those two release points is how I'm moving.

And that's where we're starting to kind of get to next.

Once you understand that we got to get that speed down here, then we start figuring out what makes it easier to do that.

What you have a tendency to do is bow this wrist and get your left arm back here and beat the right arm up.

So this right arm bends a lot.

And so now you've got to get rid of all this angle in a really short swing.

It's not going to work.

So what you said was exactly right.

It looked like the club was more in front of me.

So instead of pushing my left arm and just kind of swinging all arms, I just turn my shoulders a little bit and that keeps the club in front of me.

So now I don't have this massive angle that I'm trying to get rid of in such a short period of time.

So that's what we've got to see.

How does your back feel?

It should not be something where you're trying to generate a lot of torque on your spine.

That's not the point.

What you said is exactly right.

I'm trying to keep the club more in front of me.

Because as soon as I create a lot of angles in the swing, this is great, but it's really hard to time getting all of this stuff to happen at the right time.

But from right here, in a little wrist set, it's easy to get that to happen at the right time.

It's way out far in front of me.

Exactly.

Instead of in here, it's up here.

Exactly.

So this, the good thing is I don't, I mean we're going to see, but I want you just to try and rotate your body a little bit.

And we'll dial in how to do it exactly.

But I want you just to try and, this will help you keep your arms straighter.

And when your arms aren't pushing this far back, you'll be able to keep your grip pressure a little bit easier.

Because now you've got it back here.

You've got a lot of force going back this way.

You've got to tighten up on it.

Here it's kind of a swing.

Both hands.

I have control.

I can move the club around and then I can add that speed at the bottom.

Yep.

Exactly like that.

So again, a short swing, kind of rombo drill.

Just try to keep your arms soft and just turn your shoulders and then snap the wrists.

Closer, huh?

That's way better.

It's not there, but it's way better.

Yep.

Atta boy.

There you go.

You're going to feel it.

Every time it happens later, your right arm is going to be further back behind your body and folded more.

And when it happens earlier, your arms are going to be straighter and you're going to make a bigger turn.

That time, you went like this.

And then you released it down here, right?

There you go.

Can you feel how much more speed you can apply now?

Yeah, it feels a lot different.

There you go.

You're adding hand speed now.

Now, I saw your left wrist was actually cupped at the top.

Huge change and you're doing it instinctively.

Close.

Nice and wide.

There you go.

Little deep with your arms that time.

Pretty close.

Take a breather for a second because this drill is kind of tiring.

But you can see now that you can actually start actively adding force to that shaft.

You can actively start using your hands.

And everybody's terrified of casting the club and I'm going to scoop and flip and lose all this lag.

And of course, that's true if you don't do it correctly.

But when you start adding real force to the shaft, you start trying to make that club head go fast with your wrist in the correct way, then the auditory feedback of this, knowing that it's snapping right here at the ball, you've got speed.

And without speed, golf sucks.

It's no fun.

You're just going to drive yourself crazy.

You have to get speed first above all else.

And then once you produce speed the right way, then everything else starts to make sense.

Like if I sat here and said, okay, Larry, you know, you're getting the club a little inside and you're getting a little stuck.

Let's spend the next 45 minutes working on your takeaway.

Well, we can do that.

And it's not a wrong thing to do, right?

Because you are taking it back shut and your arms getting really folded, and you're not turning, and your arms are getting deep, right?

But what you need to do first is understand what the hell is the whole point of all of this.

And then all of that other stuff makes a lot more sense.

Like, oh, well, you.

And you saw it.

Like, well, if your arms are more out in front and you're not trying to get rid of this, I can snap it out here.

But if you're like this, by the time all of this extends and releases, it's out here and the ball is long gone and then you're just.

You're not playing golf anymore.

As much as it pains me to say it in many ways, good golf is played with your hands.

And that's what Mo Norman talked about, Ben Hogan talked about, Tiger Woods talks about.

I had always been a little bit more of a passive hands guy, used more of the body, more of a modern kind of swing.

But as I approached 50 years old now and I've had all these surgeries and I've got arthritis and all these things, I'm like, I'm not going to put that kind of stress on my body anymore.

I can use my hands and create more speed with way less effort.

And I just have to have the right visual in my mind of how to do it correctly.

And that's what you're learning with this.

So one of the things that we've got to do now, you're starting to get this idea of maintaining, you know, Not just picking the club up like this and creating a lot of angles because angles are hard to get rid of.

That's why I like the hack motion data that you're seeing.

These modern tour pros, they don't really do anything with their wrists.

It's relatively very little wrist set.

So how are they getting this speed?

It's again through this throwing motion, this release motion.

But they know like if I do this with my wrist, it's just that much more timing in my swing.

And these guys have to be so precise now and they've got to hit it so proper that they're just trying to take out as much timing out of their swings as they can while not losing any power.

They need to have that speed.

So now one of the things that you've got to start doing is as you're going back to get this feeling of, okay, I know that my arms, I need to stay more in front of my body, but I still want to do this.

How do I get out of this?

Your whole body has to work together to allow this to happen.

So if you try and just take it back with your arms and you keep your hips kind of locked in place and your shoulders don't turn, you're always going to get back here.

There's nowhere else to go.

Otherwise your backswing is going to be this long, 1000 you know?

1001 So what you've got to start feeling now 1002 is letting everything go back.

So if I, 1003 you know, a lot of times people in your 1004 case, this is not the issue, but people 1005 like, they let their hips turn too much.

1006 You're doing the opposite.

You're keeping 1007 them too restricted, right?

So if my hips 1008 don't allow them to move and I want to 1009 make a reasonable backswing to have any 1010 leverage, well, something's got to move.

1011 Something has to move the club up there.

1012 And in your case, it's, it's this, right?

1013 We've got to free this up.

So now if I 1014 let this go, 1015 well, now I can get up here and I can get 1016 all the way to the top and my arms are 1017 still super wide, Which means I can start 1018 throwing immediately and adding force to 1019 that shaft immediately from the top.

So 1020 the idea of like keeping your hips 1021 restricted and all of that stuff is death 1022 for you.

You've got to start moving and 1023 letting everything go so that you can 1024 keep your arms more out in front.

Because 1025 again, the only thing that really matters 1026 is right there and how you release that.

1027 So now let's get your hips to move and 1028 everything to move back together so that 1029 your arms can stay more in front.

1030 Bigger turn, bigger.

1031 Even more.

If you need to get some more 1032 pressure over there to make it easier to 1033 shift, there you go.

Because your goal is 1034 how, how can I keep these more out in 1035 front of me?

And the more I move this, 1036 the more I can keep this wide.

1037 And then as you start accelerating, you 1038 can get it released in time because 1039 you're not trying to release it from back 1040 here.

1041 Big turn.

Good.

Now throw it from there.

1042 A little late.

1043 Getting closer.

1044 Big turn.

1045 Snap it at the bottom.

1046 All right, let's hit a couple just like 1047 that.

1048 Yep, take a breather if you need to.

My 1049 body doesn't hurt though.

Good.

I'm 1050 getting winded.

1051 It's unusual.

1052 This club is heavy though.

It is heavier 1053 than a normal club for sure.

1054 There you go.

That's one of the reasons I 1055 like it because if you're not, like 1056 you're used to, you know, having the 1057 wrists in a position where they can't 1058 really apply much force.

1059 As you start getting used to this, you'll 1060 feel like my hands kind of got to work a 1061 little bit to get it to release.

1062 The heavier weight of this, when you go 1063 to pick up a real club, it's going to 1064 feel like a feather to you.

So as you 1065 strengthen your grip and you start 1066 getting used to applying force with a 1067 heavier shaft, but it's not too heavy 1068 like the old heavy weighted swing clubs, 1069 you can get hurt swinging one of those 1070 things.

They're too heavy.

This, you can 1071 swing, But it's going to strengthen your 1072 hands and help you get a little bit more 1073 power by applying more force into it.

So 1074 it is heavier for sure, but I like that.

1075 The weight of it's perfect to me.

1076 Yeah.

So now what I want you to do is 1077 just play around with it a little bit.

1078 I'm going to make like a nice, big, 1079 relaxed turn.

Let's just see what 1080 happens.

Does it make it easier?

Does it 1081 make it harder?

1082 What'd that feel like?

1083 Pretty good, yeah?

1084 Big turn.

1085 Good.

1086 You can hear the timing.

It's really 1087 close.

1088 It's just a tiny bit late.

It's still not 1089 there.

1090 Close.

That's not bad.

Yep.

1091 I mean, look, these are going to be good 1092 golf shots.

Like, we're just, we don't, 1093 we're not tapping into our full 1094 potential.

Yeah, I can feel it's not, I'm 1095 hitting them a little thin.

Yeah, yeah.

1096 I'm not hitting them flush.

Yep.

I can 1097 feel that.

1098 That's why I said, having a training aid 1099 that's, gives you feedback, but that you 1100 can actually hit balls at full speed with 1101 is.

Will this kind of just naturally help 1102 me from doing this?

1103 Or just, is that something I have to, 1104 we'll have to lay your conscious?

No, 1105 we're going to have to work on that.

But 1106 again, we kind of got to understand what 1107 the whole, you know, what the whole thing 1108 is all about first.

1109 Yeah.

I mean, it's, it's just a golf club 1110 that's heavier, that has a piston in it.

1111 Right?

So it's, it's not going to fit 1112 magically fix anything if you don't 1113 understand what you're trying to do.

1114 All right.

So we're close there, right?

1115 You feel like you can apply some force, 1116 but it's not quite, you know, you're not 1117 getting everything out of it.

Right?

No, 1118 I still, I know it's, it's still not 1119 enough.

1120 I still feel like I'm still feeling the 1121 way inside that I should be.

Yeah.

You 1122 know, I'm not, it's not in front of me 1123 enough that I can just, like really get 1124 there and just, yeah.

1125 I can really feel that it's not quite 1126 there where I can force and just, you 1127 know, it's like you were talking about 1128 the effortless swing.

Yeah.

1129 Well, that just feels like the club is 1130 doing all the work.

Yeah.

That's what I 1131 want to feel.

The club's doing, it's 1132 working.

Exactly.

Without me even having 1133 a lot of force to it.

Exactly.

And that's 1134 what, so what we've got to do now is help 1135 you understand why it's still just a 1136 little bit late.

Cause that's, there's a 1137 couple, there's several different things 1138 that are going on there.

But the first 1139 thing I do is talk about your grip.

So go 1140 ahead and take your grip.

1141 Okay.

So now let's understand in an ideal 1142 world, again, forget golf a little bit 1143 for a second.

1144 Let's take it back.

Go ahead and take, 1145 take your grip.

1146 And now if, if you didn't know anything 1147 about golf and I just said, there's a 1148 piece of wood down here and I wanted you 1149 to hit that piece of wood really hard.

1150 What would you do with your wrists?

1151 So you would D this is called ulnar 1152 deviation, right?

You would be doing 1153 this.

That's where you can apply the most 1154 force with your hands right now.

Right?

1155 So the whole thing about your grip is 1156 that when you're setting up, yes, your 1157 grips changed because you adjust it a 1158 little bit so that you know, like if I 1159 was going to do this, how would I do 1160 that?

And you're like, now, wait a 1161 second.

1162 That club face is wide open.

How's this?

1163 This is stupid, Chuck.

This isn't going 1164 to work.

Well, because you're also coming 1165 from back here.

1166 Guess what's going to happen to that club 1167 face?

Right.

It's going to turn.

But you 1168 don't need to try and turn it.

Does that 1169 make sense?

Yeah.

What you need to do is 1170 slam that puppy down while it's rotating.

1171 So that's how you're going to get that 1172 speed.

And again, it's not going to be 1173 like this, I'm not trying to really push 1174 it hard.

I'm trying to push it fast.

1175 Right?

I'm trying to throw it.

So when 1176 you get the understanding that that's 1177 what your wrists are trying to do is move 1178 into deviation, ulnar deviation like 1179 that, while it's rotating, that's the 1180 whole swing.

1181 So now.

So is my grip okay like this?

1182 We're in the ballpark.

I'm going to make 1183 some little tweaks over time, but what I 1184 want to do is get you to feel it first, 1185 this deviation, and see if that helps you 1186 release that piston easier.

1187 Do you want me to take a bigger swing?

1188 Yeah, yeah.

Bigger turn.

1189 keep trying gotta get a feel for it 1190 slamming down is maybe not the best word 1191 because then you can start to extend your 1192 right arm and hit it fat like you have a 1193 couple times here think about just 1194 applying speed how would you get your 1195 right wrist to move really quickly there 1196 you go 1197 what are you feeling there close okay so 1198 it's a couple things so one thing when 1199 you hit when you're the latest with the 1200 release point is when you're trying to 1201 continue to kind of turn and swing 1202 everything through like you're kind of 1203 taking your hands and you're kind of 1204 pushing them through and you're turning 1205 your body through and the release happens 1206 late and you can hear it when you get it 1207 right your body slows down your body 1208 almost kind of slams on the brakes and 1209 that gives your hands a chance to release 1210 so imagine like if I do it like that if I 1211 get it to release out here 1212 now if I turn my body what's gonna happen 1213 to that release it's always gonna be late 1214 right so when you do it really well you 1215 focus on your hands your body slows down 1216 and your release is different instead of 1217 kind of turning through it's and then you 1218 get pulled through by the club yeah 1219 that's the feeling that you want with 1220 your hands exactly yeah yeah so you're 1221 still wanting to kind of help it through 1222 push the handle through think of throwing 1223 the club head instead of pushing the 1224 handle okay that's kind of the visual for 1225 it yeah exactly so now another little 1226 tweak that we're gonna make is 1227 understanding how your hands work on 1228 there so you take a little bit of a 1229 weaker left hand and then your right hand 1230 kind of cinches up on there think about 1231 your fingers all right so your pressure 1232 points are going to be right here at the 1233 base of this first knuckle right on top 1234 of it and this middle finger and these 1235 these really these two middle fingers 1236 this is where you're really you're gonna 1237 apply most of the speed from the trick is 1238 people start trying to apply speed or 1239 force with their shoulder with their arm 1240 pushing against the shaft that's not what 1241 you're really trying to do because that's 1242 just going to keep driving the club 1243 through and it's going to release late if 1244 you think about throwing with your hand 1245 to extend that wrist to widen that angle 1246 with that pressure point in your fingers 1247 you have to have a lighter grip you can 1248 I'm not saying you can't hold on to it 1249 firm but you can't be death gripping it 1250 to where your wrist is locked up because 1251 then the only thing you have left is to 1252 push with your arm and shoulder which is 1253 going to make you rotate which is going 1254 to make the club release later so now try 1255 to get the club in your fingers a little 1256 bit more of the right hand and strengthen 1257 the left hand just a little bit so 1258 that'll give you a little bit more 1259 leverage and then as you go back start 1260 feeling the club head kind of doing this 1261 get your wrists to swing back and forth