Larry's Lesson Pt 2
Larry's Lesson Part 2
With their arm pushing against the shaft.
That's not what you're really trying to do.
Because that's just going to keep driving the club through and it's going to release late.
If you think about throwing with your hand to extend that wrist, to widen that angle, with that pressure point in your fingers, you have to have a lighter grip.
You can, I'm not saying you can't hold on to it firm, but you can't be death gripping it to where your wrist is locked up, because then the only thing you have left is to push with your arm and shoulder, which is going to make you rotate, which is going to make the club release later.
So now try to get the club in your fingers a little bit more of the right hand and strengthen the left hand just a little bit.
Because that'll give you a little bit more leverage.
And then as you go back, start feeling the club head kind of doing this.
Get your wrists to swing back and forth.
So you'll see I'm kind of moving full release.
just to get the feeling of what my hands are supposed to do.
And I'll feel if I'm really tight, my shoulders are going to have to turn through.
If I'm a little bit looser, so I can move faster, now my shoulders aren't turning.
I'm just releasing my hands.
So now, I can throw it from my fingers back here, and it releases back here.
So feel it in your fingers.
Yeah, there you go.
So now you're gonna start paying a lot more attention to how you put your right hand on the club.
Yeah, because I know before I was just, okay, I'm gonna get strong.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah, so now the way that the club sits in the cradle of these fingers and up against this point, this is everything.
Because now as you go to the top, you can feel it.
Oh, I can feel that club head there.
There you go.
Yeah.
Notice when you do it, you're looking at the screen in front of you.
And when I did it, I was looking down at the ground.
There.
Feel how the timing is better?
Yep, feel those fingers in your right hand.
There you go.
Note your follow through there.
Watch me for a second.
So when you come through, the reason it releases just a little bit late is you're doing this.
You're still turning through.
What you need to visualize is you're trying to do everything back here.
Your body's staying back here.
Your chest is staying pointed back here for right now in order to get that club back out in front of you.
But if you start doing this.
It drags the shoulders.
The shoulders drag the hands and arms and the club in late.
So instead of trying to turn through, throw it back here.
And then I'm pulled around to follow through.
But I'm never trying to turn through.
I am trying to stay back here, throw the club at you, keep my chest looking at you.
And then I just get pulled around to a nice, relaxed follow through.
That's the feeling.
There you go.
See how your shoulders were more relaxed that time in the follow through?
There.
Better.
That felt a little better.
We're getting there.
You know, you talked about me doing this.
Yeah.
It doesn't feel like I'm doing that yet.
Yeah, yeah.
It feels like I'm, it's probably better than it was, but it's not feeling like when you were just there.
Wide with that right arm.
So one of the things that's going to make this hard is that as you go back, yeah, see, your right arm is still really folded there.
So go ahead and set it up for me again.
Alright, so now, I don't want to give you too much to think about, but I'm going to have to give you something that's a little bit more of a mechanical thing here.
And you're doing it well there.
The way that you keep this arm straight, if you start activating this arm off the ball too much, it'll bend right away, and then your wrist will bend, and you'll get too much deviation.
The trick to having a simple backswing is taking this left shoulder and having that move everything in the backswing.
So now look, you've already made an 80 degree turn.
And your takeaway is not even done right?
And now you keep pushing that shoulder, don't do anything with your arms, keep taking that shoulder across there, that's a full shoulder turn.
Yeah, and now your body, your pressure would already be going back to the left, yeah, and then the arms would be going, but they'd be getting pulled down.
So what you tend to do, and this is where the golf swing will always fall apart, is that you take it back and you fold this, And then you try and throw it, and it's so hard to get it to release properly, and you'll tend to throw it into the ground.
But now, if I take my left shoulder and I use that to push everything back, look how wide my wrist and my arms are still.
I'm doing this.
So now as I start to throw, I'm trying to get rid of way less angle than you are.
And that's the whole trick to this.
So use that left shoulder to drive everything back.
Yep.
So now you made an 80-degree turn.
And as you're doing this dynamically with speed, your arms would have a little momentum, they'd swing back, and then you'd have way less angle to get rid of in your right arm.
Exactly.
Like, where's optimal?
Is it like way out here?
You want to keep this puppy as wide as you can.
Okay.
Right?
And the only way you can do that is by not activating it.
As soon as you activate it, it's over, right?
Right.
What do you mean by activating it?
You activate any muscle and then you try to pick it up.
As soon as I start doing that?
Yeah, it's toast.
Okay.
And it can even start here.
When you start doing this, you'll feel your bicep want to engage.
Exactly.
So you want to keep that pretty quiet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then from there, it's way, way easier to get it released than from way back here.
Yeah, exactly.
It should feel more balanced.
All right.
So go back to the top.
Okay.
So now here's the trick to this.
Once you're here, you should feel muscles down the left side of your body stretching a little bit.
Okay.
Now the trick is what you're doing when it goes off a little bit.
Take a breather for a second because I know I'm wearing you out.
So the whole key to how all of this stuff really works together is really you have to use both sides of the body.
Right now, you're overusing the right, trying to get it to release, which we want to use it, but everything has to work together.
And what you need to think about in the swing is that basically, when one side's pulling, one side's pushing, and one side's pushing, one side needs to be pulling.
They have to work in opposing pairs, and they generally kind of do the exact opposite, right?
So if the right side's pulling back, the left side's pushing to help.
When you're going back, and you get here, this needs to then help pull you back down.
But instead, What you're doing is just throwing with your right arm and not using this to help pull everything back down.
So then you've all of a sudden, you're just going to be kind of looking like this, like you're a little out of seat.
Exactly.
You're just kind of going there and just throwing it with your arm, right?
So there's a balance, like the body has to work with the arms.
Okay.
So when I go back with this left shoulder, as I drive it down and back, I feel it here and these muscles want to go.
So then if these go really quickly, the quicker I can throw with my hands.
But if I go here and I just do that, it is, right?
But I can't give you like 50 ,000 things to think about, right?
So instead, as you start getting going back here, now you're going to start feeling, okay, my concentration with my body is feeling this because I want that to help me go back the other way.
And that helps widen the angle.
It helps pull the shaft down, pull the hands down, all that stuff.
So now as I'm here, then I can throw, and the swing is more balanced and synchronized.
It doesn't feel like that.
And this is where it has to happen, where it's difficult to learn, is that this stretch that you feel here, it's just there for a split second.
You've got to use it dynamically.
So go back to the top.
Now use this to pull everything back down.
Start unwinding.
There you go.
And as this is unwinding, this can throw, exactly.
But this has to start unwinding first to get everything going back.
And that's why when you look at what the greats all talked about, like Lee Trevino said, when you start that takeaway, the only thing that better be moving is your left shoulder.
That's how he thought about the swing.
Bobby Jones thought about left side.
Ben Hogan thought about left side during the takeaway.
People tend to kind of just use the right arm too much during the takeaway, and that's what causes that narrow, collapsed feel, and then you've got to huck it from the top, and everything feels really disjointed.
But the greats all looked really nice, wide.
They're stretching this.
They're pushing this back, and then that's really quick to bring everything back down.
So that's why Nicholas felt like he could throw it from the top as hard as he wanted, but he had a caveat, as long as I'm moving left.
Instead, what you're doing is here and just throwing without moving left.
Does that make sense?
Little closer.
So it's a little too much right side push still.
So right shoulder driving through.
A little closer.
How's that feel?
Yeah, it feels a little better.
Before it felt like I was just, like you said, I was going here and I was just trying to throw it.
Now it feels like I can pull a little bit through.
Exactly.
Both sides have to work together.
There you go.
You'll find when your left side of your body is helping pull to initiate the downswing, you'll be able to apply even more force and more speed to the shaft.
But it'll happen naturally.
You don't have to try it.
It's really about the timing of things.
And it really just comes down in a very similar way to a throw, okay?
If I was going to throw, the first thing I would do is take that step and rotate my hips, right?
And rotate my center of my body, my core.
you would feel that stretch, right?
That allows you to then throw harder with the right arm.
But if you just went like this, there's nothing there.
So as you get comfortable with this, you don't have to think about it so much, which will take a little bit of time.
But as you get more comfortable with this, this has to happen so fast.
It can't happen fast enough, this left side stretch.
So your back swing's got to be, like by the time you've had a chance to formulate a thought, you should already hit the ball.
That's how quickly that left side stretch has to be.
I stretch that left side, I have to get it all the way to there.
You do, yeah.
I have to get it all the way to there.
Yes.
Yeah, for sure.
Because there's no doubt when I start having trouble, I'm just like there.
I saw it immediately.
The first swing you made today was that, right?
I know that's the issue.
But again, if you don't understand why you want to do this, why you want to make a full shoulder turn, then you're not going to do it.
Better.
You're moving better.
There you go.
That still feels way better.
Yeah, it's a lot better.
I feel like I have a long ways to go, but it feels a lot better.
You're making a much better backswing, much more full swing.
Use that left side pull.
A little bit more.
So, we're on the spot.
So, take a breather for a second.
One of the things I'm going to have you work on is that Tiger Challenge drill.
I don't know if you saw that on the website.
I don't remember.
Okay, so just, I think it was last week, I posted it.
It's just a clip of him hitting an eight iron, right?
And it looks so smooth and so effortless.
It's just like he's not doing anything.
He's just.
Puring these eight irons, 165 yards, right?
And part of the key to it, a big part of the key, is dynamic stretching.
The way that you stretch the muscle and then it naturally, called stretch shortening cycle, it wants to rebound back.
That's the real secret to effortless golf, if you really want to understand it, Is that I've got to stretch these muscles?
And then they will hold that tension and want to spring back for just a split second.
And if I lose that timing window, then I have to apply force some other way.
That's what's happening to you.
You go back and you almost kind of pause at the top.
And it's not really a pause, but you kind of slow down.
And then that stretch shortening cycle is gone.
And then you have to fire really hard with your right side.
And that's why you kind of feel like, I got to kind of turn, or I got to do something really hard with my right arm or something to get that speed.
Instead of feeling like it's, oh shit, it's kind of pulled me through.
It has to be both, right?
So it's.
Either here and then or and then I get ripped through and that's what you're looking for.
So that's why they have to work together that throwing motion and pulling motion are kind of one in the same.
Just like they would be if, as a pitcher was turning his hips right.
They have to do both the easiest way, I think, to kind of start feeling that again.
A big part of it is just getting this left shoulder to go down.
And in this way so that you feel the stretch in the left side of your body, your obliques that are going to help fire that trigger.
But you have to truly go fast, you really, you cannot go to the top, pause and go.
Some guys can do that and they're just like super athletic and can go here and then really fire everything.
But most of us, we're not that coordinated, and it doesn't have to be that way, right?
I want my swing to be kind of on automatic as much as I can.
The less I think, the better I play.
And especially is true in the backswing.
If I'm not thinking anything on the backswing, I will always play way better than I have any backswing thoughts.
Because it just makes everything start to trigger automatically.
And you take advantage of the things that are built into our muscle fibers.
And that's what we want to do.
So I'm going to have this in a moment.
I'm going to put that up there.
You're just going to swing.
I'll put it up on the screen.
And you're just going to try to match his pace.
And you're going to be so far behind, it's not even going to be funny.
But this is an eye-opener to realize.
Because you're going to watch him be like, he's barely swinging.
But how's he hitting it so much further?
And this is going to help you start to understand how that works.
Okay, so take a breather for a second because it is going to be tiring.
I've never been able to play golf without thinking about my golf swing.
It's never.
I'm always thinking about something and I know it's not good, but I don't know.
I just I'm just not a natural.
You know, I didn't start until I was 25 as a hockey player, and I never was.
I just never was taught how to play golf ever.
Well, I have lessons, don't get me wrong, I've had lots of lessons since, but Not many people really understand the golf swing.
I haven't met anybody that does that.
You're lucky to find one.
I've had two instructors in my life that really, well, Chris helped me, but I didn't see them very much.
I really only had a couple of instructors ever that really helped me.
It felt, oh, that feels like easy.
It's such a simple, complicated thing.
It is.
It's really simple and complicated.
It is.
The whole trick, and this is what this whole Goat code study a bit has been about.
For me is like, when I started, I've always been a huge fan.
I learned how to play golf on Jack Nicholas Golf My Way tapes.
It's like when I was a kid, I burned those VCR tapes and used them daily.
And then, of course, Tiger came around.
I was just like, I want to swing like that guy, right?
And as I started studying the goats.
And of course, I read Hogan's book and all of Bobby Jones's videos and all that stuff, and I loved them.
All.
I'm like, but when they describe the swing, it's so annoyingly simple.
It's, oh, I just feel this.
I just do this.
And I'm like, well, are they just naturally born with it?
I don't personally really believe in that kind of stuff.
I mean, certainly talent plays a role in things, for sure.
I'm never going to run like Usain Bolt.
But I can hit a ball with a stick like Tiger Woods.
It's not doing anything complicated, right?
So I'm just going to play this video.
And I just want you to watch it for a minute.
Just to internalize the feel of his swing.
Yeah, it looks like he's going so slow.
Super slow, right?
It does.
I know he isn't, but it looks like it.
There's nothing in that.
There's no strain on the body.
No.
There's no complicated mechanics.
There's nothing here.
Anybody is capable of swinging something like this in the ballpark, okay?
So you're going to see there's a countdown timer.
And that countdown timer is going to be kind of your cue to like get ready.
So when the one goes away, you start your swing.
Okay.
And then you're going to go, it's going to go three, two, one, pull the trigger and go.
And I don't, you don't have to hit balls on anything.
I just want you to try and match the pace.
That's it.
You can turn and face the TV too.
Yeah.
Yeah, just don't hit the force plate and you'll be fine.
All right, are you ready?
Okay, get ready.
How'd you do?
Well, I think I was releasing a little late, but not bad.
And if the swing felt pretty good.
Okay.
I mean, it felt, it didn't feel like I was fighting it.
Okay.
It felt like the club was doing a little more work.
Good, good.
You know what I mean?
It will happen naturally as you start moving in the right sequence.
And the only way you can have the right sequence is the right speed.
Yeah.
You have to have a, I'm not saying you have to have a fast tempo, but in my.
20 something years of teaching golf, 20 almost 30 years, 28 years teaching.
Never do I have amateurs that swing too quick.
They're always too slow, they're always too slow going back.
They're too slow to start down all of this stuff because they're thinking, Too much.
They're thinking through like 80,000 different things in a pre-flight checklist.
And of course you can't play golf.
You wouldn't do any other athletic sport like that in the world, right?
Golf is the only one that we try to make an exception for.
But it doesn't get to buck the rules.
It has to play by the same stuff, okay?
So what you'll find there, and I'll show you again in a moment.
I'm going to have you do this again.
But your downswing always started late.
And that's what happens in everybody's case.
So everybody has the same thing.
So now, okay, if the downswing starts late, what's really happening there?
And what you're going to find is it's just always excess movement.
The reason that Tiger's able to start down so quick, and again, it doesn't look like it, but it's really, really fast, is he doesn't have any excess movement, which means no excess right arm bolt.
Because if I go to the top and I make a good turn, and then I'm like, okay, well, now I'm going to load this arm up.
That's a lot of time and travel and space for my hands to go.
Same thing with my wrist.
I add a lot of wrist movement.
That's a lot of time.
And you'll find that you're just like, you're not going to match it.
So now I'm going to get behind you.
I'm going to video you going through this.
And we're going to go back and look at it on my phone and see where your pace really is.
All right.
Nope, nope, nope.
Just swing.
Yeah, so just face the TV.
And let me hop behind you here real quick.
And we're going to video it.
Yeah, catch the next one.
Here he goes.
Pretty good.
You got a head start on his takeaway.
You cheated.
That's okay.
That's okay.
But what you're starting to get there.
But it felt like I was getting closer to the right release point.
Exactly.
It felt like it.
Without you trying to think about releasing at this point.
Exactly.
Yeah.
This is the whole point of this.
Why you should just burn this in your brain and watch this every night.
Okay.
To start getting like, and just stand in front of the TV and just make practice swings until you realize, I can't, I don't have time to think.
There's no time to think.
Yeah.
I don't know if you tried to think there, but it's just like, it's not going to happen.
No, I was thinking about just, just getting, turning and getting, just.
I was just trying to swing like that faster rhythm or just getting back and going.
Exactly.
And that's all there's time for in the swing.
That's literally it.
You have no time to try and set your wrist this way or do this or whatever.
To swing is the fast.
And if you put Ernie Els next to him, it's as slow and languid as Ernie Els swing is.
His tempo and Tiger's tempo are like identical.
They're swinging at the same pace.
So it's not, it's an illusion, the way we look at things.
And then we translate it into our brain like, oh, I'm going to swing like Ernie Els.
Well, there's a video of Mo Norman and the guy's timing his swing, driver, and just doing pitch shots.
From ball to ball, his driver and pitch were the same to a thousandth of a second.
Yeah.
So he did a little pitch shot.
And that from there to there was the same as this full driver.
Exactly the same.
It's identical.
There's a video of Rory McIlroy on Instagram right now of a driver and an eight iron.
And from takeaway to impact is exactly the same.
To the same frame.
But I was surprised that even the little pitch shot was exactly the same.
Exactly.
It's the same thing.
You can't pitch like this.
You're not going to be able to coordinate the motion.
It's just like walking.
It's like trying to think through walking.
You're like, okay, I got to move this hip flexor and extend this quad.
It doesn't work.
And this is where golf doesn't have to be that hard.
It's really not.
Once you start understanding some really basic things about what you're really trying to do, you need to release the club with speed down here.
And you need to set everything up in your backswing to make that happen easier.
So by using this left shoulder, like Trevino talked about, to help push everything back, it keeps you from trying to pick the club up with your right arm and bicep.
Because as soon as you do that, you're always going to swing too long.
And then if you're swinging too long, you're going to start down too late.
And then all of a sudden you're discombobulated.
But when you swing back with some pace, there's just not enough time to screw it up.
The club's going to have way less time to go off plane.
And if you're truly matching his pace, you will have to start swinging on plane naturally.
Because if you start taking the club back, like so many people do, you start going back like this.
By the time you get up here, he's already hit the ball.
There's just no time.
So you're going to realize, okay, Without me talking to you about swing mechanics at all and playing and your hands and your wrists and all this stuff, you're going to have to realize like, well, I can't do that.
I just got to be there and go.
There's just not enough time.
And so now as you start kind of getting the feel for this idea of my arms just kind of have to stay really wide.
And that's what Tiger does perhaps better than anybody.
When you look at his swing.
As he's going back, he looks like this all the way to the top.
Yeah, exactly.
So now that you know how to move the club back with this, that allows your arms to stay straight longer.
And that's kind of your focus point.
I got to move this quick, get this dynamic stretch, let that pull me back.
If you've ever read Hogan's book, he liked the idea of, he imagined there was a rubber band attached to the left side of his body to a wall back behind him.
And so when he went back this way, it stretched that rubber band and then it snapped back.
Is how he thought about his downswing.
Because that makes everything fire on automatic.
So as long as I'm, you know, transferring weight, If I'm doing like you're talking about, my left shoulder gets back here, my hips are going to have to be turning into a better position.
They have to.
Without even me thinking about it.
Exactly.
Because sometimes I'm thinking about, okay, I've got to get those hips turned.
It just doesn't work.
It doesn't work like that.
I like to think of the way that Trevino put it.
The only thing moving in the takeaway is your left shoulder.
That's how he kind of phrased it.
Of course, that's not true.
but our brains can't think about anything more than that, right?
So now if I focus on just getting this left shoulder to go down this way, look what happens to my hip.
I just move this.
Your hip's in the exact same position as mine, but we didn't try to move our hips.
Some golf, some people back in the day used to think like, well, Your legs are just kind of two pegs at your upper body, standing on, and your upper body's doing all the work.
And then golfers who swing like this say, well, that's not true.
My hips aren't working right.
If you have the right understanding, the right visual in your mind and the right sequence of things that you're trying to This stuff from here down will kind of take care of itself.
So if I go back with this left shoulder, it pulls my knee forward.
My knee, my hips go down because your left knee should be lower than your right knee.
Your left hip should be lower than your right hip at the top of the backswing, which makes it easier to shift my pressure, right?
So if I just do this with my left shoulder and I let that muscles that got stretched rebound me back, and my left shoulder is getting pulled around.
Well, my hips straightens up, my hips open, my leg straightens up.
But I never thought about any of those things because it's just not nearly enough time.
So that's a great way of thinking about how to get your body to move correctly.
Is this?
And let it rebound.
And if you're going fast enough, it's going to So that's kind of what I want you to try and feel next.
We're going to do this one more time.
And I want you to try and feel that dynamic stretch and just let it pull you because you're going to feel out of control.
which is not something that we try to kind of tend to want to avoid, But you need to let yourself kind of start moving really quickly in a way that you can't consciously control it.
All right, here we go.
Okay.
Let's do it again.
So what now?
What did you feel?
Well?
That one?
It felt like it was short.
Okay, that last one?
I didn't.
I didn't get the stretch.
I was kind of like, there and go, Yeah, yeah, I was only partially, I wasn't, I wasn't stretch.
I'm getting that rebound.
So what will happen when you do that?
And this is going to be your tendency because of how you've swung for so long.
Yeah, is when you feel that you're not going to turn your body, you're going to swing your arms.
And then you're going to feel out of discombobulated and you're going to huck it.
And you're not going to know what to do from there, what you're going to, when you're going to get it right, your arms are going to feel like they didn't do anything, and you're going to feel like this left shoulder drove everything back.
And the stretch is what you're focusing on, and then you can worry about your hands, but that's going to be the key.
As soon as you start moving your arms off the ball, your body won't move, it'll, your arms will take over and then you'll be late.
So show me one trying to get that stretch left shoulder going back.
That's great now, but we want we don't want to hold it, right?
Yeah, I want you to come down from there Okay, Try a few like that.
Little Armsy still relax your arms, relax your grip a little bit more, left shoulder back.
There you go a little better.
Let's do one little adjustment to this.
So when you're going back, again, what I want to kind of get in your mind is the concept of time in the golf swing.
Time is extremely precious and you've got very little of it.
And everything that you're doing in your swing, you kind of want to start understanding, how do I take things out of my swing that are making it take longer to happen?
So one of those things is if you have a pretty wide stance right now.
If I make this big wide stance and I make a shift to the right, well, that's physically going to take more time for me to get back over here.
So now what I'm going to have you do is a little drill to exaggerate this a little bit.
That'll make it easier for you to feel how to unwind the left side of your body.
So instead of taking this big wide stance, we're going to take a narrower stance.
And for right now, I'm going to have you just put all your weight on your lead side, like a stack and tilt kind of move.
Now go back and just.
You don't want to think about moving off the ball.
Your left foot's just going to unweight for a split second.
Yeah, there you go.
Now do it as quickly as you can back and through.
There you go.
Better.
Better.
I know that feels wildly fast, but we're good there.
Hang on the left side more.
I'm going to really exaggerate this.
There you go.
Be careful of swinging the club back with your arms.
Keep your arms straight.
Push the left shoulder down.
Okay, watch me for a second.
So when you went back there, you're kind of doing this, okay?
So what I want you to get the feel for, and again, the reason you're doing this is because your arms are kind of pulling you out of position.
If I took my right arm off the club for a second, and I just went back with my left shoulder, I'm here instead of here.
Yeah, there you go.
So now you should feel like this left knee kind of, instead of going back this way in the backswing, which is going to move you this way, you're going to feel like it just kind of comes forward.
Feel the difference?
Now in a real swing, this is a little bit of an exaggeration, of course, But what's really going to happen is that same feeling of you, kind of feeling like you're hanging on the left side while your left shoulder is going down.
It helps your shoulders get steeper, which is very important.
But what happens is instead of.
shifting here and then shifting here, what happens is I'm just barely off that left foot for a split second.
So it's more of an unweighting, not moving off the left foot to transfer weight to the right and then trying to move back.
It takes way too long.
That's why this kind of stack and tilt is hanging on the left side drill.
You're like, well, I'm already there, right?
So now it's way easier for me to turn and unwind with that left side of my body if I'm there.
And then in the real swing, I still kind of want to feel the same thing.
But of course, I let my pressure, you'll watch my feet.
They're moving very quickly this, but I feel like I'm hanging more here.
I'm not trying to do this.
Yep.
Hang on it.
There you go.
There.
Stay more on that left side.
Just really exaggerate it for a few.
Hang more on the left side.
Okay.
Let's make a little correction there.
First of all, what does that feel like to you compared to normal?
Well, it feels better, but it doesn't still feel like.
It's not where I'm.
feeling like the club is doing, I feel like I'm manufacturing too much speed.
It doesn't, still doesn't feel like the club is just going like pulling me through.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what's happening here, as you go back, as you start coming down, you start kind of throwing your shoulders and arms at it in an inefficient way.
Okay.
This left side has to lead everything.
So if I don't, even if I'm hanging on this left side and I still kind of fire my arms, like your knee is kind of still bent at impact.
Right, if I pull this out of.
Oh, this stuff, yeah.
When he started in this position, that's what he felt.
I don't have to post up because I'm already extended.
Gotcha.
Whereas if you are here, you have to post up to get out of the way.
Gotcha, yeah.
I've been doing that for two years now, not posting up.
I see.
Plus, my hip got so sore when I was posting up, it just hurt really bad.
Gotcha.
But my left hip is replaced now.
Gotcha.
I don't feel anything.
Okay.
So I need to be posting up, too.
I've had a lot of people with hip replacements, thousands of students with hip replacements.
So, A, I know usually once it's replaced, they feel like a million bucks.
But the reason that people would generally hurt their hips is just not posting up correctly.
Right?
I mean, that's all that it comes down to.
So what you're going to start to feel is as my left shoulder goes down, and now I have this stretch, and I want that to turn and unwind me, it straightens my left leg.
Yeah.
I'm not trying to straighten my left leg, per se.
Exactly.
Watch that.
So do it again.
Your left shoulder goes down with your left shoulder.
And now use that.
It'll pull your left leg straight as your shoulders are unwinding there.
Okay.
Yeah, exactly.
There you go.
Good.
So that's why, like, Hanging on this side and then letting it straighten up is the feeling of what you're trying to do through impact.
What you're doing is kind of getting too far back here.
And then you throw your arms.
There's not enough time for you to shift.
And once you start throwing your arms, if you're back here, you'll stay back here.
Because you've got all this force pulling you this way.
Right?
That's why you've got to be this way and even going further left.
Better.
We're still late with our body rotation there.
Closer.
Getting there, how's that feel?
I feel like you're getting a little bit more of a whipping motion with the club.
It's so helpful.
This is like the best training aid is this simple video.
There you go.
I'm telling you, I posted that video up and it's only gotten like 14,000 views from members watching it.
And I'm like, you guys, this is gold.
If you just did this, you don't need me anymore.
Because that's one thing you talked about is by doing certain feelings, you automatically, your body does the right thing.
And that's what I need.
I can't make my body do the right thing and then feel it later.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't work.
That's what Green's Golf does.
They're just like position, position, positions with the body.
But it doesn't work that way.
I got to swing to get the right feeling and then my body's moving in the right way.
But they work on positions.
Positions, positions, which is fine, but I've done that.
That's what most talk said.
Yeah, he got, he had five or six positions, he had to hit them all.
And so that's what they teach to me.
I, I I think I put this in an email.
The right mechanics will sometimes translate to the right feel for a golfer, sometimes he'll be able to take those and and glue it together.
He's athletic enough, he has the right picture, he has enough natural movements, whatever he can make, those mechanics translate in the right feel.
But not always.
But the right feel will always translate to the right mechanics, or it's not the right feel.
This is it.
When you understand where that release needs to happen with something like that, where you get that feedback, you can hear it, you know right away, and then you know how fast you have to move, And there's just not enough time to do all this goofy shit that you're trying to do in your golf swing.
And then you understand where these little movements are coming from.
Speeds from here, this has to work together, and that's it.
That's really the whole thing.
And then you don't have to worry about 16 different positions, you know?
So get that left side to unwind quick, good, make a nice big turn.
Keep the right arm wide.
Good.
Let's hit a couple.
How was the sound?
I think it was on the money, wasn't it?
Pretty damn close.
There you go.
From where you started, where they were all super, super late to right there, it's a night day.
Well, even though it doesn't always feel super fluid, I am getting the timing down better and release better.
Yeah.
1000 The fluidity is going to come with 1001 practice.
1002 There you go.
All three of those were 1003 released at the right time.
So even if it 1004 doesn't feel perfect, You're still going 1005 to be able to hit good golf shots while 1006 you're getting used to adjusting to this 1007 field.
1008 So much better.
So much better.
1009 They're not for sale yet.
1010 No, but I've been working with these.
Let 1011 me ask you a question.
1012 Just honest feedback.
Okay.
1013 So they have called this thing the tempo 1014 king.
1015 What does that connotate to you?
If you 1016 see a training aid and you're on the golf 1017 channel and you say, 1018 You see this club, and they're like, hey, 1019 here's the Tempo King.
It's going to help 1020 you work on your tempo.
It means 1021 slowness.
It means slow, slow tempo.
1022 That's what it means to me.
It's like.
1023 I told you.
That's what it means.
1024 Tempo to me.
You know, they talk 1025 about.
Because every time you see on 1026 TV, all the amateurs' tempo is so bad 1027 because they're just so quick.
And 1028 they're really not.
According to you, 1029 they're not quick at all.
They're like 1030 way too slow.
Exactly.
1031 I don't know if I would call it the 1032 temple.
You're right, I don't think, I 1033 don't know.
You have to think about what 1034 you want to call it.
I, I, so I'm talking 1035 to these guys because I, they're great 1036 guys.
I love the training, it's it's 1037 brilliant and you can hit balls with it, 1038 and it's heavier to get a little more 1039 muscular speed.
Because once you pick 1040 that thing, everybody's like, Oh, dude, I 1041 got I can swing fast now, right?
And I 1042 said, call it the consistency king or the 1043 speed king, but not the tempo king.
1044 Because everybody thinks tempo is slow 1045 and we're going back and forth on this.
1046 But I just want to get your feedback, 1047 it's funny, you said the same thing, 1048 slower, slow, easy tempo.
Yeah, that's 1049 what it means to me, I, I, I think that's 1050 what it means to most golfers.
So like, 1051 I'm like, tempo, it's hard to define what 1052 tempo is, but what I.
What I told them I 1053 I would use it for is for teaching 1054 people.
1055 Release?
It's almost like, yeah, it's 1056 like the snap factor.
Like you're trying 1057 to snap it at the right time.
Yeah, yeah, 1058 exactly.
It's just like there and.
1059 Exactly.
That's what it sounds like.
To 1060 me, it teaches you how to produce speed 1061 by teaching you how to release it 1062 properly at the right time, which at the 1063 end of the day, it's the only thing that 1064 matters in golf.
You can do all sorts of 1065 other goofy stuff, but if you release it 1066 the right way at the right time, you're 1067 going to be all right, you know?
1068 So yeah, we're going back and forth on 1069 this, but I'll have to send him a clip of 1070 this.
1071 You're becoming a golfer, Larry.
1072 Absolutely.
1073 Well, we've only been going an hour and a 1074 half, so we're ahead of the curve.
1075 There you go.
1076 As you get comfortable with this, That's 1077 when those pressure points in your right 1078 hand are going to start becoming more 1079 valuable to you and make more sense.
1080 Because right now you're having to think 1081 too much stuff.
1082 You're taking a lesson.
There's too much 1083 stuff to think about.
1084 But as you start getting comfortable, 1085 when your left side starts firing more 1086 naturally, then you'll be like, Now I can 1087 just start focusing on the feeling in my 1088 fingers and my right hand once your body 1089 starts moving correctly.
1090 A little different timing there.
1091 It's still not there.
I know it doesn't 1092 quite feel like I'm getting just enough.
1093 You don't have enough left side.
1094 The left side's not helping.
Not enough, 1095 yeah.
That's why, like, when you're going 1096 out and practicing, just practice hanging 1097 on the left side and clearing that out of 1098 the way as quickly as you can.
1099 There you go.
1100 Yep.
1101 Sometimes it's confusing because, you 1102 know, I'm.
I feel like I'm more right 1103 hand dominant, but when I hit more with 1104 my left side, it feels like it goes 1105 straighter and easier.
1106 Left side's pulling.
It stabilizes the 1107 club.
1108 But you've been talking about right side 1109 down versus left side.
That's still not 1110 quite clear to me.
1111 Yeah, so let me explain that real quick 1112 because it is confusing.
1113 Right side dominant or left side 1114 dominant?
There are simple little things.
1115 It depends on how far you want to swing 1116 the pendulum.
If you want to be really 1117 right side dominant, it's not really a 1118 golf swing if you're just using nothing 1119 but your right arm.
If you want to be 1120 really left side dominant, you're not 1121 going to have any power.
1122 What rotary swing was always about, like 1123 I did my first throw the ball drill in 1124 like 2009, right?
So a long, long time 1125 ago is I've always added right arm.
It's 1126 just how much of that you want to add.
1127 But that doesn't mean when you start 1128 adding right arm, that your left side of 1129 your body just doesn't do anything.
it'll 1130 block you and it'll be in the way.
1131 So it's a matter of how much you want to 1132 feel that, But you don't throw away all 1133 the fundamentals of the golf swing that 1134 have been there for eternity, as far as 1135 how the left side has to clear out of the 1136 way.
Like Ben Hogan, if you read his 1137 book, I don't know if you've ever read it 1138 or not, but the entire book is about 1139 don't do anything with your right arm or 1140 hand.
He called them swing wreckers.
1141 They'll destroy the swing.
Bobby Jones 1142 said the same thing.
But then Ben Hogan 1143 also said, 1144 At impact, I wish I had three right 1145 hands.
1146 Right?
This is the kind of confusion 1147 stuff that goes on in the golf swing.
The 1148 reason that you can feel that you wish 1149 that you had three right hands in the 1150 golf swing is because this side is 1151 clearing out so well.
If it's clearing 1152 out of the way, you can hit with the 1153 right arm as much as you want.
But if 1154 this is blocking you, it's not going to 1155 work.
1156 So that's why there's so much confusion 1157 about this stuff is that it's not.
All 1158 right arm or just left arm?
or why don't 1159 you just take that one off and just play 1160 with your right arm?
It doesn't work like 1161 that.
This left side still has to clear 1162 to help make room for this.
It helps 1163 speed this up.
Just like in a throwing 1164 motion, I mean, I honestly, I don't think 1165 a throwing motion in the golf swing is 1166 exactly the same because you have two 1167 hands on it.
If you're, if you were to 1168 throw a baseball like this, you wouldn't 1169 throw it like this.
Because you don't 1170 have that much freedom of movement in 1171 your right arm when this is attached to 1172 it, right?
So they have to work together, 1173 it's just a matter of.
A lot of times, 1174 people want to feel one thing more than 1175 the other, and all of them can work, 1176 right?
Tiger Woods talks exclusively 1177 about his right hand.
I've never heard 1178 him talk about his left hand, 1179 like hardly at all.
He doesn't think 1180 about it, but he's used it properly since 1181 he was five years old.
He doesn't have to 1182 think about it.
This is what I'm trying 1183 to get with you.
Once you have this 1184 working, then you can focus on this 1185 thing.
But if you just did this, it's 1186 going to throw everything off.
They all 1187 have to work together.
1188 Well, it's my fault for not doing a 1189 better job explaining it, I'm sure.
1190 Yeah, get that left shoulder.
No, don't 1191 try trying to pick your arms up.
Keep 1192 moving that left shoulder.
1193 Keep moving the left shoulder.
Yeah, you 1194 don't even try to.
The last thing you 1195 need to try and do is get your arms to go 1196 to the top of your backswing.
You just 1197 leave them where they are.
I promise you, 1198 if you tried to keep them in your 1199 takeaway position and you kept moving the 1200 left shoulder, they're going to go where 1201 we want them to.
1202 The number one guy in the world, he 1203 doesn't really use any wrist cock.
None.
1204 Scotty Scheffler's like this at the top.
1205 He's like that.
But I guarantee you he's 1206 turning.
Oh yeah, he's turning.
But he 1207 has tremendous speed and his feet are 1208 moving all over.
But he just turned and 1209 then just.
The more consistent you want 1210 to be, the more you're going to move your 1211 body and the less you're going to move 1212 your hands.
1213 The timing is there, and the more you get 1214 that left side working, which is, again, 1215 I think the best way for you to feel that 1216 is to exaggerate hanging on the left 1217 side, because if you're already there, 1218 and just do one, actually, put 100% of 1219 your weight on your left foot, and now 1220 just pivot around that left foot the 1221 entire backswing.
1222 You see how you can clear quicker?
Yeah.
1223 You're not waiting to get back.
Because I 1224 can clear, I can.
Then you can throw 1225 harder.
I can throw down.
1226 Exactly.
That's it.
Yeah.
So don't be 1227 afraid to hit balls and just hang on the 1228 left side, exaggerate it until you get 1229 the feeling of it, and then you'll start 1230 being able to balance it out.
1231 Yeah, didn't have quite the turn.
It's 1232 too much arm swing, not enough left side.
1233 So you really want to try to feel that 1234 you're driving that left shoulder back 1235 and turning your body, keeping your arms 1236 wide.
1237 And the more that you feel that, so like 1238 that whipping feeling that you're 1239 chasing, where you want to feel that 1240 effortless feel, it comes from these 1241 staying wide.
The moment that you get 1242 them narrow, 1243 you narrow up your arc.
And that costs 1244 you speed with this free speed in the 1245 golf swing.
1246 So the moment you fold that right arm by 1247 stopping your turn and trying to pick 1248 your arms up, now you've got to apply 1249 muscular force to get this arm 1250 straightened back out.
Otherwise, you're 1251 screwed.
You're not going to be able to 1252 make contact.
1253 Exactly.
1254 Yep, just keep turning.
Keep turning that 1255 left shoulder.
1256 And then as you unwind that really 1257 quickly, That club is going to whip 1258 through and you're just going to be able 1259 to sling it through with your fingers.
1260 Pretty good?
Yeah.
1261 I'm starting to understand more how I 1262 need to feel.
Exactly.
1263 That's the goal.
There you go now, look 1264 at your finish.
Your finish is more here 1265 instead of Where you were before.
Like, 1266 fighting everything and muscling it 1267 through, you're starting to swing it.
The 1268 wider you are with your arms, the better 1269 you turn, the easier this is gonna be on 1270 the body.
1271 There you go.
Way better golf swing.
Way 1272 better.
1273 You know, sometimes I get lucky and I do 1274 that and I say, wow, you've got 240.
What 1275 did I do?
1276 One time I hit a ball.
I was feeling like 1277 I was going just way out here.
Yeah.
And 1278 I hit a ball and I was looking for it.
It 1279 was 50 yards farther than I ever hit it.
1280 And it didn't feel like any effort.
It 1281 was like 295.
Yeah.
That was literally 50 1282 yards longer.
1283 It felt like I didn't even hit it, but I 1284 couldn't figure out what I did.
That's 1285 the trick, right?
1286 You make a turn, you stay wide, your body 1287 helps, and then you can throw.
1288 There you go.
1289 That feels a lot better.
1290 Well, for an hour and 40 minutes in, 1291 We're doing all right.
1292 And we're not sitting here working on 1293 mechanical static position stuff, you 1294 know.
1295 I know, it just doesn't work.
1296 Being a former PE teacher, I understand a 1297 lot of different things about movement.
1298 Yeah.
1299 Wide, turn those shoulders.
1300 Good.
1301 That's a lot better.
I mean, it's still 1302 not there.
1303 Well, the thing is you have the formula 1304 now.
It's this left side stretch is so 1305 important going back.
It helps you stay 1306 wide with your arms.
You're not going to 1307 feel like the need to load them up.
1308 And then the quicker you get it, the 1309 faster that fires and the more you start 1310 to get to focus on what your hands are 1311 doing.
But your body has to clear out of 1312 the way first.
Not yet, right?
Because 1313 you've got to get this thing going.
And 1314 once this is working and you get filled 1315 with that, then you're like, okay, now I 1316 can start paying attention to the 1317 sensitivity thing, the little pressure 1318 points, how I want to shape the shot, 1319 whatever I want to do.
1320 That's the.
It's a rumor that I've been 1321 told.
1322 Oh, yeah.
I bet you could probably hit a 1323 fade right now.
I could teach you how to 1324 do it very easily.
That actually started 1325 a little right.
1326 Yeah, well, actually, when I started 1327 working on your stuff, yeah, then I did 1328 start.
Yeah.
1329 Even though I wasn't doing all the right 1330 things, it was, you know, I've been 1331 working on some of the things that you 1332 did.
1333 And actually, one round, before my 1334 surgery, I've been averaging six greens 1335 in regulation.
Oh, my gosh.
1336 Oh, yeah?
I shot 78.
Nice! Yes, and I 1337 shot seven.
1338 I always felt I got to get at least 50% 1339 of the greens regulation.
Yeah.
But I'm 1340 hitting it so short that it's difficult.
1341 It's so hard.
It's so hard.
Yeah, I don't 1342 play from the back tees.
I only play from 1343 the middle tees.
1344 Do you feel like you're able to pick up 1345 speed swinging this way compared to 1346 before?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
1347 Because before, with a shut face, you 1348 couldn't add any release in there.
No.
1349 You'd just hook it off the planet.
Yeah.
1350 Now you should feel like you don't need 1351 to take it back.
Ever since I was young, 1352 when I was done, you know, I played 1353 hockey growing up.
When I started playing 1354 golf, I never felt like I could swing 1355 hard.
Yeah.
Because if I swung hard, it 1356 just hooked more.
Yeah, yeah.
You've been 1357 doing like this your whole time.
I didn't 1358 as far as I did when I was 25.
No 1359 kidding.
Because I never swung hard then.
1360 Yeah, you couldn't.
If I swung hard, I 1361 literally would just hook.
So I don't 1362 have to swing super easy all the time.
1363 Oh, that's frustrating.
I hate that feel.
1364 I want to be able to pummel that thing.
1365 Even on your takeaway there, you're 1366 bowing your wrist so much less than 1367 before because it doesn't make sense.
1368 I want to record one because it looks 1369 great.
1370 Yeah, just stay nice and wide.
1371 I'm ready.
1372 Let's take a look at this.
1373 All right.
1374 I'm going to take a look at this one 1375 here.
1376 You still bowed at that time.
1377 But you're recovering there.
You're 1378 actually in a great spot at the top.
If 1379 you look at your left wrist there.
1380 And your turn is bigger, but we still 1381 need more, right?
You're still trying 1382 to.
Yeah.
You just.
And when I say 1383 you need more, what I really mean is you 1384 need less arm swing and you will turn 1385 more by default.
It's because I'm still 1386 not getting a wide enough.
My hand should 1387 be more up here somewhere.
Well, look at 1388 your right arm.
It's just totally bent, 1389 right?
It's already 90 degrees.
The 1390 average Tour Pro at the top of their 1391 swing is only bending their right arm, 1392 like maybe 70 to 90 degrees.
1393 You're bending at 90 down here, so by the 1394 time it gets up here, it's 120, Which 1395 again, Means that's just that much more 1396 stuff you've got to try and get rid of as 1397 you're coming down into impact.
1398 It's a timing game.
We don't have that 1399 kind of time.
1400 The more that this left shoulder helps 1401 drive everything back, the less you feel 1402 the need to do anything with this.
1403 As that happens, as this turns more, it 1404 stretches this more, which makes it fire 1405 faster.
which makes it all of this stuff 1406 take care of itself.
So should I be more 1407 like right there?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
1408 And you want to feel, I always tell 1409 people, keep your right arm straight 1410 throughout the entire swing.
You can't do 1411 it.
No.
Right.
But feel that you're just, 1412 it never bends.
Because I do, I have a 1413 mirror and everything I can work.
So I 1414 should just be there.
1415 Well, what I want you to be careful.
I 1416 feel like I'm pulling with my right hand 1417 there a little bit, though.
And that's 1418 why it's folding.
That's why it's 1419 folding.
It's got to be this.
1420 My right hand can't be doing anything.
1421 I've never heard any of the greats talk 1422 about anything positive about using the 1423 right arm or shoulder, ever.
1424 Right hand, right fingers, yes.
Right 1425 wrist, sure.
Right arm and shoulder, 1426 nothing.
Never.
I'm sure somebody has 1427 said something, but I've never seen it.
1428 Right?
So it's left shoulder going back.
1429 That right arm staying nice and relaxed.
1430 Again, think of how you'd throw a ball.
1431 If you're going to throw a ball, you're 1432 going to use momentum to swing your arm 1433 back.
You're not going to pick it up and 1434 get tight with your arm.
It doesn't make 1435 any sense.
That was a really good 1436 baseball pitcher.
You know this motion, 1437 right?
Yeah, definitely.
1438 So it doesn't make sense.
The golf swing 1439 is tough because, again, we're moving too 1440 slow.
And if you're moving that clip, and 1441 this is what I was going to tell you 1442 about practicing in the mirror.
I want 1443 you to be careful with that.
The mirror 1444 is super valuable, but it can also.
1445 Completely destroy what you're trying to 1446 do.
Because if you go to the top and 1447 stop, you have to fire this right bicep 1448 and you have to fire this front delt.
1449 Exactly.
So it's going to just train your 1450 brain to pick these things up and start 1451 using them too aggressively, and then you 1452 lose the whole swinging feel of the golf 1453 swing.
Okay, 1454 Good, but you could be still pushing that 1455 club back more with the left shoulder.
1456 You picked it up with the right bicep too 1457 much.
1458 Good.
That's always going to be your 1459 right bicep firing too much.
1460 Yeah, you're going to pick it up.
1461 Drive it back with the left shoulder.
1462 Push everything back with the left 1463 shoulder.
1464 And as you keep practicing this, it'll 1465 become more and more natural.
Because 1466 what you'll find is that this, when you 1467 get too narrow, like you did better, but 1468 you still got a little bent, and then you 1469 were kind of like this.
Then you kind of 1470 have to do some stuff with your right arm 1471 to get the club back out in front.
But 1472 what you'll find is it kills the left 1473 side.
1474 It makes it where you don't want to fire 1475 because this starts going, right?
So what 1476 you're going to find is that as you start 1477 getting more comfortable, this dynamic 1478 stretch is going to be really, really 1479 important.
1480 and that it'll let your arms stay more 1481 relaxed.
But as you start getting that 1482 feel for it, That's what I want you to 1483 start trying to pay attention to is if 1484 you stretch this left side properly, it 1485 should fire very quickly.
You shouldn't 1486 be able to stay there very long.
You 1487 shouldn't even be able to go back very 1488 far.
You should feel like that's almost 1489 restricting you.
1490 But don't stop on the way down.
Fire it.
1491 Better.
Let's do it again.
Just your 1492 left.
Focus just on your left side.
1493 Stretch it and fire it.
1494 Still a little right side push.
1495 So I'm going to do a little thing here to 1496 help you out just a little bit.
1497 Go ahead and go back.
1498 Do you feel how the little more stretch 1499 there?
1500 Okay.
1501 Again.
1502 Feel it there?
See how you're getting 1503 through quicker?
Two on that left side.
1504 You're going back and then you start to 1505 pick this up and it pulls the left hip 1506 out of position.
1507 Whereas if you kind of feel like, if you 1508 watch in the mirror, watch me for a 1509 second.
1510 So watch there.
Here's what you're doing.
1511 Just a little bit as you pick this up, 1512 right?
But if I'm here, it looks like my 1513 left hip never moves.
You see that?
But 1514 it's moving this way.
1515 Yeah.
1516 Any lateral movement that I'm going to 1517 have in my swing, if I want a little 1518 lateral shift, which is totally fine, it 1519 happens like almost before I start the 1520 club back.
1521 But if I'm doing it while I'm making a 1522 backswing, now I got to somehow do that.
1523 It's too late.
So what you want to see in 1524 the mirror is that it looks like your 1525 left hip never moves.
To me, from my 1526 perspective, it looked like my left hip 1527 never moved.
But I know it's turned 45 1528 degrees.
It just didn't go this way.
Does 1529 that make sense?
1530 That's why kind of hanging that feeling 1531 of hanging.
Now, watch your left hip in 1532 the mirror and get it to where it looked 1533 like.
It never moves that way or that 1534 way.
1535 Now you see how you're already there.
1536 Closer, yeah.
1537 So just bring it forward as you come 1538 back.
1539 There you go.
1540 So now you can see that you're already 1541 there, right?
But in the real swing, you 1542 got momentum going this way, so you would 1543 kind of unweight that foot for just a 1544 split second.
1545 And then you'd already be on your left 1546 side.
So that feeling of just kind of 1547 doing that will help you a ton to make 1548 your transition happen at the right time.
1549 A little better.
1550 Let's do this for me.
1551 If you were, throw the club down for a 1552 second.
1553 If I said you had left hand only, and I 1554 said you have to throw a frisbee with 1555 your left hand only as far as you can, I 1556 don't care where it goes, but you had to 1557 throw as far as you can, how would you do 1558 that?
1559 Try a couple.
1560 So that's a lot of just arm by itself.
1561 A little better.
1562 So that's still doing this.
What I would 1563 do if I was going to throw a frisbee as 1564 hard as I could, is I would be moving 1565 back while my hips are actually going 1566 this way.
I wouldn't be trying to fire 1567 that.
1568 There, yep, that's it.
1569 There you go.
1570 Do you feel how this is twisting, turning 1571 now to get that arm some help?
What you 1572 were doing before was just trying to pull 1573 with your left arm, which is you just 1574 don't have enough muscle back in the back 1575 delt to try and get any speed there.
So I 1576 can do that, but it's not going to feel 1577 very powerful.
But instead, if I was 1578 doing, trying to feel like I'm turning 1579 and moving my hips before my arm starts 1580 coming down, yep, exactly.
1581 Now the trick to that is, is as the arm's 1582 going back, 1583 I'm starting to get ready.
I need to be 1584 getting ready to go back to the left, 1585 like immediately on the backswing.
So if 1586 you look at the, 1587 there's a video on the site called the 1588 four pressure shifts.
And what I'm 1589 showing there is that there's a little 1590 push off the left to start and then they 1591 go back.
The tour pros do.
But by the 1592 time their arms are like at the takeaway 1593 or a little bit to nine o'clock, all of 1594 the pressure they're going to shift to 1595 the right is already done.
And now 1596 they're starting to what we call recenter 1597 and move back to the left immediately.
1598 Whereas what you're doing is you're going 1599 back here and then coming down everything 1600 together as one.
Exactly.
1601 So that's why I was saying like with a 1602 Frisbee or like a baseball, you know your 1603 right arm's going back while my hips are 1604 going this way.
Right?
So my hips are 1605 opening while my arm's still going this 1606 way.
1607 The left-hand Frisbee drill.
1608 Same thing.
My hips are going first.
Yep.
1609 And it's not a huge amount.
It's just a 1610 little dynamic stretch.
1611 But it helps get everything firing 1612 sooner.
1613 and gets the sequence down.
1614 You don't have to try and like twist your 1615 hips wide open or anything like that.
1616 There you go.
1617 It's just feeling that little dynamic 1618 movement of your hands still going this 1619 way, while your hips are going this way.
1620 And it's a hard thing at first, because 1621 we really kind of want to just make 1622 everything stuck together.
But this will 1623 be a great drill when you're just 1624 practicing.
Just loosen up and be like, 1625 okay, my arm's swinging back.
And I like 1626 to take a step.
I think it's a thousand 1627 times easier to do it.
Which is why if 1628 you've ever done like a happy Gilmore 1629 swing.
1630 Most people hit the ball, they don't know 1631 where it's going, but they hit it so much 1632 harder because they get that dynamic 1633 stretch.
With the Happy Gilmore, you're 1634 taking that step, and while your arms are 1635 going back this way, you're going this 1636 way and getting ready to turn, right?
And 1637 then you release.
So that's why we're 1638 working on this left hip movement so that 1639 it can go first.
But if it's back here, 1640 all that stretch is gone.
1641 Yeah, so your left hip should already be 1642 going.
1643 Like here's a good way to practice this 1644 if you're going to do this.
So go ahead 1645 and set up like you are right here.
1646 That's totally fine.
You hold the club 1647 however.
It doesn't matter.
1648 Okay.
1649 Now your left hip should already be going 1650 back while your arms are going this way.
1651 That's what you're going to feel.
1652 It won't happen that soon.
1653 But in your mind, and when I say back, I 1654 don't mean just shifting.
I mean turning.
1655 There you go.
Even sooner.
1656 There you go.
1657 Now again, these are kind of 1658 exaggerations.
1659 It's just to help you get that feeling of 1660 that little, quick, short stretch that 1661 happens right at the top of the swing.
1662 And that's when you're going to get that 1663 swinging motion instead of kind of like 1664 this hanging back throwing motion.
1665 This is why.
If this doesn't work, you're 1666 never going to have that swinging 1667 feeling.
1668 Yep.
1669 So Larry.
We've been two hours.
Does 1670 this all make sense?
Yeah.
1671 On the right page.
I feel like you're 1672 heading down the right path now.
1673 Awesome.
1674 So I recorded all this for you.
Okay.
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