Webinar 4 - Fascia & Effortless Power

This is a webinar I did with the RSA members on how to load the fascial lines. This will help you visualize all your muscles working as one rather than trying to think about which muscles to use in the swing. If you want to learn more about the benefits of becoming RSA, click here!

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So did everybody answer the poll questions?

There's six, I think so.

Perfect.

So today, here's what we're going to do.

So I wanted to know where you guys got with that first drill, which was a very simplistic version of it.

And today, We're going to expand on that to make sure that everybody understands how to produce power and consistency.

Because the one thing that we noticed and Craig and I talked yesterday was that so many golfers were really struggling with how to load the arms and the body in the last session.

And so we went back and looked at that and now are going to expand on how to do that.

Because basically, there's not necessarily a wrong or right way to do it, but there is a simpler way to do it.

And so I was kind of giving you guys free reign to do it your own way.

And now we're going to give you a much more focused and specific way of how to do it.

And we're going to talk about that today.

I talked about the, how the right shoulder or the trail shoulder can move the right arm.

But I've had this theory for many, many years and I've been slow to really talk about it in depth.

Come on, focus camera, focus.

There you go.

So, but today I'm going to share it with you guys.

As you know, I have studied Tiger Woods Twing forever.

And the reason is it just is so simple.

Of course, nobody's able to do it.

So it apparently can't be that simple, right?

But I truly believe that it is.

And I've had a theory as to what it is that he's doing for a long, long time.

And that's what we're going to go over today because the swing mechanics, and we're going to walk through a bunch of different stuff, but the swing mechanics of what he's doing are truly efficient.

They're truly effortless.

And especially as he's swinging now today, as he's, not today, before he had his ankle surgery, you know, he moved so smoothly and well that was very, very safe on the body, but produced perfect amount of power and control and consistency.

And he's always had that, but he's always swung pretty much the same way to agree in terms of producing power.

And that's really what it comes down to.

So the things that you guys were describing as far as feeling stuck or not knowing how to do this or that, today I'm going to give you a simpler way to think about it, but I have to explain a couple of things first.

So in its simplest form, when you think about how to produce power in the swing, there's a lot of different ways to do it.

And the goats, as I've studied over the years, they kind of all did things, certain things very similar, but they all described the swing in a very specific way that is very different.

In fact, completely contradictory to what I'm going to tell you, I believe Tiger's doing in his swing.

And I'm going to show you why it is this way in just a moment, but in its simplest way of thinking about it, if you think about that right shoulder, your trail shoulder as kind of the primary mover in the swing.

So for those of you who've been around for a long time, the RST days of the old right shoulder blade glide drill, that became a very sensational video that I put out there years ago.

It's had millions of views, But it also kind of became the bane of our existence because people didn't quite know how to do it correctly.

And so once you understand this supination of the arm, and you put that together with this right shoulder blade or this right shoulder moving, it starts to all kind of fall into place to give you one thing to focus on.

So if I focus on just my right shoulder, my trail shoulder, pulling it back during the backswing, I start loading up my body in a very specific way.

But one of the things that's always been difficult to really understand is how do you, we have hundreds of muscles in the body.

Which ones do we use?

You've heard the swing starts from the ground up.

You should use your feet.

You should use your core.

You should use your arms, should your wrists and all of these things can work.

But Tiger's always made it so simple and so efficient.

And what I truly believe that he's doing is focusing, focusing is perhaps not the right word, but he's primarily moving this trail shoulder back and through.

And that's the primary mover in his golf swing.

Now, how does just moving this shoulder do anything in the golf swing?

Well, if you understand, if you think about the golf swing in terms of muscles, It's kind of hard to think about it because how would just moving this trail shoulder back do anything?

How would I load any muscles?

How would it do anything to give me any speed?

But, so I've got a bungee cord here basically.

And I'm going to explain those handouts in just a moment.

So I'm just going to put this underneath my lead foot.

And then I'm going to wrap this up.

Imagine this is kind of wrapping up around my body and it was attached to my right shoulder.

Now, as I pull this trail shoulder back, what's going to happen to this band?

Well, obviously it's going to be stretched, right?

So if I pull this trail shoulder back as far as I can and this leg stays more or less anchored in, I don't want it buckling in.

If I do this, this band then wants to snap back.

But now there's no muscle in my body that goes from my left big toe to my right shoulder, right?

That's where fascia comes in.

Now, how many of you are familiar with the term fascia?

Have you guys heard that before?

Anybody familiar with what fascia is in the body?

Tomage has, okay.

So for those of you that haven't, when we think about the muscles and how they work in the golf swing, you've heard that the golf swing should kind of feel like a rubber band.

You stretch it and then it pulls back.

And Hogan talked about that in his book.

But it's not really the muscles.

And it's only been in the last 10, 15 years that fascias begin to be understood how it works in sports and athletic movement.

Fascia is in every single part of your body.

It covers every muscle fiber, every muscle.

It's actually like a layer of saran wrap on the outside of the muscles.

It's actually inside the muscles.

It covers your ligaments, your tendons, your nerves.

Every organ in your body is covered in fascia.

But back in the old days, when we used to do cadaver dissections, they just kind of threw the fascia away and went and looked right at the muscles.

But now there's a totally different field of study that's helping people understand how fascia is actually what you're wanting to understand, how to stretch in the body, Because it's actually the fascia that's actually rebounding and giving you that stretch, shortening cycle.

So for those of you who don't know what that is, I've talked about a bunch on the website, but basically the stretch shortening cycle is that it's always been thought of as the muscles, but it's really more of the fascia.

When you start to lengthen a muscle, just for a moment, it holds this energy where it wants to rebound back.

And the faster you stretch it, the faster it wants to rebound back.

What you're doing in the golf swing is exactly that.

You're stretching a muscle very quickly, and then you're wanting it to fire very quickly.

And that's where you start really getting effortless power, Because if you don't stretch these muscles and let them use your own body to let it rebound naturally, that's where you start having to put a lot of muscular effort into it.

But when you stretch the fascia and let it snap you back, there's very little muscular effort involved in the golf swing.

And that's what I've always been fascinated with on swings like Tiger and Bobby Jones, who look like they're really not working very hard at all.

But what are they doing?

They have to be doing something.

Well, I believe it's the fascia.

And that's what we're going to focus on to help you understand how to move your body in a very, very simplistic way.

But again, if I just told you to move this trail shoulder back, and you're still pushing from the lead side, this knee buckling in your shoulder coming across your body, you're no longer stretching the fascia.

So now if you look at one of your handouts, I want you to look at the first one that looks like this.

So this is a documented spiral fascial line in the body.

And what you'll see here is that it actually, and there are many fascial lines, and I'll talk more about what this is in just a moment.

But this blue line that you're seeing is a connected, basically piece of fascia that goes throughout the entire body.

And it literally spirals across the core, around through the internal part of the body in the chest and rib cavity, and then back around to the back.

And it goes all the way up to the top of your head.

And if you actually, If you've ever been to a cadaver event where you can go and see bodies on display that have had the flesh room, the skin removed, and what have you, you can actually watch them pull the fascia from like the base of the skull, skull, and it'll move the heel or vice versa, you move the heel or the one there's actually another one that goes all the way to the big toe, and it'll pull the skull, the skull will move by moving the fascia without moving any of the muscles.

And so when you start to think about how to use this powerful feature of the body that we don't really think about, because it's not really it's not a muscle, it's this fascial lines that are running throughout the body.

And if you look at the other slide that I gave you, this is a representation of some of the documented fascia lines throughout the whole body.

And you'll see, again, to explain what the fascia lines are, your body has fascia everywhere, But there are certain areas of concentrated fascia where they like form a long piece throughout, going out throughout the whole body.

So you can see, for example, This blue line here that goes up from the heel, up through the back of the calf, back of the leg and into the glute and hip area, and then up through the spine, that's one thick area of fascia.

So if you stretch that, and then it will naturally want to rebound very quickly.

Same thing, you actually have fascia going all the way down through the fingers, from the fingertips, all the way up through the shoulder to the base of the neck, the base of the skull, all the way into the middle thoracic.

There are different fascia lines throughout the whole body.

And so when you think about the golf swing, in terms of fascia instead of muscles, Then you start to realize that the way that you can move the body doesn't necessarily need to think about it in terms of, okay, I need to move this muscle.

I need to fire this muscle and then fire this muscle.

You think about it in terms of stretching fascia from the tip of your toe all the way to your shoulder, and that naturally wants to rebound.

And that's where you're going to get that effortless power.

So again, if I pull this rubber band back up here, and I know that I have a fascia line starting all the way at the tip of my toe, going up through my body and up to my right shoulder, this is what I'm trying to do.

So if you happen to have, this is just a typical little surgical rubber athletic band, But this will give you a great feeling because you can feel immediately when you pull one of these up to your body and up to your shoulder.

That there's tension on here already.

And when I stretch this, it automatically wants to go back down.

So for those of you that are feeling that you're not really sure how to move, how to produce power, what do I fire?

Does this give you a better visual of pulling the shoulder back and keeping this leg anchored in?

And you should be able to stand up and feel this right now without having to swing a golf club.

So just imagine your left foot, just a picture in your mind, a stretch of elastic body that literally runs from the tip of your big toe, through your calf, up through your body, through your core, and through your internal organs, and all the way up to that trail shoulder.

And if you pull that trail shoulder back as far as you can, do you feel that stretching?

When you start thinking about it this way, and yes, you're all going to feel kind of, as you get a feel for this right now, You're going to feel that that leg might need to be more anchored to the ground so that you can stretch it.

But you should feel this.

Now take that left leg and let it buckle in and what changes?

Because that's what's happening all the time.

Because what we see more often than not is golfers don't know what to kind of move to, kind of get the swing started.

So instead of using this trail shoulder to initiate everything and get that fascia line stretched, they start doing this.

And this is what we saw last week, a ton of lead arm push rolling across.

If you have the club going inside, this is exactly what you're doing.

You're taking this lead arm to push the club across your body because it's in a powerful position to do so.

So it feels natural to do that.

But if you start taking the club back inside, you're stretching all the wrong parts of the body at the wrong time.

And now all of a sudden, you don't have anything to fire in the right sequence.

You have to then start trying to manipulate things.

But when you keep this arm straight and you take that trail shoulder to move that straight arm, so my arm's not really doing anything at this point.

So if I put a club in my hands during the takeaway, my arm's just staying straight, supinated out.

But now from here, all of this from my right shoulder diagonally across my body to my big toe, everything just wants to be able to fire back down.

And that's the simplest way to put the entire swing together is thinking about it in this diagonal stretching pattern.

So if you look at my body here, like the club going from my foot to my right shoulder, the further I get this trail shoulder back, the more stretch I get.

The more stretch I get in that fascia and the faster I do it, the less the rest of my body has to do.

I don't have to fire hard with my arms, push with my right leg or any of that stuff.

Instead, what you start thinking about is how do I create torque in the golf swing?

And that's another thing that this is going to help you start to feel.

Because what a lot of times golfers do, and a lot of great golfers tell you to do the opposite.

Like Gary Player, for example, he loved the idea of taking a step and walking through, the old Gary Player walkthrough.

If you do that, you're literally doing the opposite of what Tiger's doing.

Because you're not stretching that fascial line, you're having to push hard off the right leg to try and move the club forward.

You never see Tiger stepping forward or really any modern great players, because power is so important in the swing.

And so they're much more compact.

And what they're doing is stretching these fascial lines and then creating a lot of rotational force and torque from this trail shoulder.

So once you have this trail shoulder stretched, or this whole body stretched with the trail shoulder, so I'm trying to move my trail shoulder as far away from my left big toe as I can get it, what's going to happen to that side bend?

Well, you're going to have side bend naturally.

So I don't have to think about tilting my left shoulder down.

If I pull my right shoulder as far away from my left big toe as I can, I'm entering side bend.

So if you look at it from this view, I naturally have side bend.

And so it looks like my shoulders are kind of tilting this way.

But what I'm really doing is trying to stretch that fascial line.

Does that make sense so far?

Christopher, yes.

If you're doing this right, and you're staying anchored in, you should feel the stretch in your core.

And that's one of the things that Tiger has talked about a lot is my golf swing is really core driven.

Well, what does that really mean?

Because the muscles in my core, you kind of think of your abs and your obliques and all that kind of stuff.

But it's really the muscles are of course they're involved.

But when you think about it as stretching one fascial line, It makes so much more sense why you would get into side bend, Because I'm not trying to get into side bend and contract these muscles on the left side of my body per se.

I'm trying to lengthen that fascia from my right shoulder to my left big toe.

So then what do we do from there?

All it is from there is unwinding, letting that go.

So one of the things that you'll, Tiger's lower body movement has always looked better than everybody else's in my opinion.

It's always looked really smooth, somehow powerful and fast, but it doesn't look like he's pushing really hard.

It doesn't look like he's pulling really hard.

What is he really doing?

And we're going to look at it in just a moment because he's got a, I'm going to show you a drill that he's doing.

It's going to help you understand and visualize this a little bit better.

What I believe that Tiger's doing and what I want you to feel, once you stretch that right shoulder back, all you're going to do is let that start to unwind.

Now, if you're doing that correctly, starting to drive that trail shoulder back down toward the ball, what are you going to do on the trail side?

I automatically went into side bend.

So for those of you that are struggling how to get your arms back into GDP, it's not really your arm that's doing, of course the arms involved, But if you try to go to the top and you don't get this trail, shoulder back to get that shoulder fired, and you just kind of lift your arms, which is again, Craig and I were talking about it on our call yesterday, discussing what you guys, we saw a lot last week in the first session is that this left arm pushes across the body, the right arm folds really early.

And now again, I'm exaggerating, but my trail shoulder never has to move.

So I never open up my chest and pull that right shoulder back.

Instead, I kind of keep it cramped because this right arm kind of acts like a piston in the golf swing when it's used correctly.

If my right arm stays straight, it helps drive that right shoulder and shoulder blade back, which helps stretch and open up this side of my body, which is what we were talking about last week.

As the shoulders going back, I'm stretching this, this part of my core.

So then it can then snap.

So your hips are there to support that move when you're looking at doing it the way that I believe Tiger's doing it.

So rather than thinking about turning my hips, what I'm doing is creating a stable anchored base, stretching this and then firing it as quickly as I can, or it's going to happen very, very quickly, and then simply letting the club release from there.

So now let's take a quick look at Tiger, doing some movements that are going to help you visualize this a little bit better.

So the first one is Tiger doing a little drill on the practice, on the driving range.

And one thing you're going to notice is that as he goes back, Tiger's always kept his arms super straight for super long in the swing.

And he's never looked like he's fought to do that.

It doesn't look like he's fighting his arms folding.

He's looks relaxed yet they're straight.

Now, obviously it takes some muscular tension to do that, but if the movement was coming from the arms, that right arm would always fight to fold.

And then it would also want the club to go inside.

Here you can see him taking his thumb off the club.

That's how relaxed his grip is there at that point.

He's trying not to put a lot of pressure into that grip with his right hand yet.

And then from here, his arms basically just let the club go up.

But notice how steep his shoulders are at this point.

His right shoulder, from setup has basically just gone more or less straight up is what he's going to feel.

So now if we kind of draw some simple lines here.

So imagine there was that rubber band that I was just using, that red band attached to the back of my trail shoulder.

And that fascial line's going back across the front of my body.

It's going into the inside of my core, down this leg, and into my big toe.

So the more that I pull this shoulder back and up a little bit to steepen it, the more that I'm going to stretch that fascial line.

And then that's going to let everything start to fire on the way down.

So here you'll see some interesting movement on how Tiger's moving his hips, the way he thinks about what he's trying to do.

You'll actually see that he's not trying to get hard onto that left side.

And that's what a lot of tour pros do nowadays, because they're big rotators.

Tiger never did that.

What he did is try to stay back a bit more.

And you're actually going to see him do a drill where he's actually correcting himself.

So here, right there, you see that he's actually trying to, he's showing what it would feel like to kind of sit harder onto that lead side.

And then he's like, nope, that's not what I want to feel.

I want to stay back here.

And you'll see his right heel coming up off the ground.

And he's staying back and letting his hip open up.

His arms look totally relaxed.

They're not doing anything.

He's getting that shoulder back.

And that's what's giving room for the arms.

But this, I'm going to play this through just one more time and play the whole swing here.

And look at how smooth and effortless this swing is.

Nothing in it.

Now I'm going to play the whole thing really quickly.

Let the whole thing go and just watch him do this movement.

And then I'm going to walk you through how to feel this.

He's getting hard into that right leg there, letting the left leg get pulled back.

Now the left hip is moving straight back.

Doesn't want to get onto the lead side, stay back and go.

He's going to do it one more time.

Right shoulder up and a smooth effortless swing.

Now let's look at a couple more things here.

And this should be all right.

So watch how he takes his setup.

The tiger always sets up to the club or to the ball with his right hand first.

And then he puts his left hand on there.

And watch his left arm.

I'm going to play this through at speed first.

Did you catch that one more time right there to catch it?

What'd you guys notice?

Anybody catch anything?

I'll look in the comments real quick.

All right.

Did you catch it that time?

Left elbow twitch.

Little elbow bend.

Okay.

So now I'm going to walk you through it.

So as he sets up, his right arm is extended.

His left arm is very bent.

Now, right here, he's going to make another little adjustment.

Look at how much the left arm bends there as he kind of re-grips.

But his right arm is still extended.

Never is he letting that right arm bend.

Now he's going to make a bigger move in just a moment.

So he's still working on getting his fingers on the club to feel comfortable with that right hand.

Right arm's still very straight, straight, extended.

And another thing, if you're really perceptive, you'll notice that his left arm is lower than his right, which I'll explain what that means in just a second.

It's easier to see that from down the line.

Right arm, very extended, very high.

His right arm, right elbow, or right elbow and forearm is higher than the left.

And then he's going to make one more big move.

Look at that.

Why do you think he's doing that?

Right arm's still straight, left arm bent, tucking back into the side of the body.

All right.

Now, why do you think he's doing that?

Any guesses?

No guesses.

Nobody knows why he's doing that.

Loosening the fascia.

That's a good guess.

A trigger for his body to move.

Interesting.

Okay.

D-loft, release tension.

Make it easier to get into the grip, making sure elbow's pointing down the line.

These are all interesting guesses.

I like it.

All right.

So here's why he's doing that.

First of all, as he walks into the ball, his right arm is straight and his left arm he doesn't care about.

It's kind of like this.

And as I mentioned at setup, I'm going to stand closer to the camera here so you can see this.

So his right arm's like this, The elbow pits out and his left arm is soft and relaxed, and it's pulled back into the body a little bit more.

Then as he starts to take his grip, he's still kind of doing this.

If you're holding onto the club and you know that you're going to control it with the trail side of your body, this thing has got to be taken out of a position where it wants to push and roll the club in.

And that's what he's doing here.

He's getting that arm so that the right arm is dominant and the left arm is there to help provide stability and support.

So now when you look at this from face on, it may look like my arms are probably, you know, kind of at the same height.

But when you look at it down the line, my right elbow is definitely a right form is higher than my left.

Now, why would you want your right arm higher than your left?

Well, again, if Tiger is taking the shoulder and going to exaggerate, going steep with it so that he creates left side bend, that right arm needs to be able to stay in front of the body.

So if he's flat with it and he pushes with the left arm, which is always going to make your shoulders turn really flat and roll the club to the inside, that's going to beat up that right arm.

But that right arm, he wants to stay pretty straight.

So now if I keep that right arm straight and I just basically start stretching that right shoulder, that's how I get to the top of the swing.

That's how simple it is in this pattern to do what Tiger's doing.

I'm literally doing nothing with my right arm.

I'm just moving my right shoulder and then letting the wrist set a little bit at the top.

If I bring my arm up there, I'm in a perfect position at the top.

All of it is done by this.

But if you're set up, a lot of tour pros, and you'll see all sorts of different things happen on tour.

You'll see them with a really bent right arm where it's really soft.

I know that golfer who's set up like this, that's bent right arm and a stiff left arm.

I know they're going to be more of a body rotator and more lead side dominant.

Nothing wrong with that.

You can play great golf like that.

But you'll never swing like the Goat and truly have really effortless power in the simplest way possible than like this.

This is the simplest way to load all of the body, all of the muscles, just by pulling the shoulder back and keeping this foot anchored in.

Again, you'll never see Tiger do this in the backswing, which we see all the time.

As this foot stays anchored, my entire body, Every muscle is now connected that I need to use to create a rotational move in the swing or create power, whether you want to think about as rotational or not.

This, from my right shoulder to my toe, every muscle in here is now loaded.

And all I had to do with my right arm is just keep it straight and let it get moved by the right shoulder.

And then on the way down, right shoulder moving everything down.

And now by doing this, I can control the loft on the club face with that right arm, but I'm not using my right arm per se.

What I'm doing is keeping it straight at address all the way to the top, loading this fascial line, driving that down.

And now perfect GDP position, perfect club face control and de-lofting it.

And that's why this arm, He keeps getting it loose because he doesn't want to get it in there where he wants to push across the body.

He's getting this arm.

This arm is straight.

I'm literally engaging the tricep muscle to keep this arm straight and then bringing my lead arm on there to help with assisting that.

Does that make sense so far?

Seems easy with one hand, adding the left is a challenge.

That's the key.

What Tiger's doing is he's not using his left arm.

That's why he keeps shaking it out.

He keeps extending it and bending.

It's like, I don't want to get this thing at a point where it wants to push.

So your right arm getting higher than the left, which is not how you would want to be in a lead side pattern.

You would want them to be more level or even the right to be slightly lower.

But in a trail side pattern, my left arm is really not doing anything.

So my right arm is straight.

If you look back at that video, it's actually, I think I can share it on here.

Notice how great the right arm is.

Left arm is just, you don't care about it.

This is a chipping pattern we're going to look at in just a moment.

And we'll save that.

John, I'm not sure what you mean by that.

But if you're saying you can only get your right arm to horizontal to the ground, you got to keep turning.

That right shoulder's got to keep going back.

You don't need to do the rotation with It feels like you don't need to do the rotation.

I think I know what you're saying, but I don't want to guess until I know for sure.

I'll speculate here.

But essentially, if this right arm is straight and this right shoulder's moving it, that motion that we were talking about last week, about getting that supination to throw, it's very natural to do that.

That's the only position your arm is in a position to be able to do anything with is to throw.

So let me see if that's what you're talking about.

Yeah, like what we're doing last week.

Okay, perfect.

So if it's here, my wrist can only supinate.

That's the only move I have because I didn't do anything else to mess up all this motion.

That's why keeping this straight, and why I was telling you to exaggerate.

Kind of having the butt of the club and your forearm last week, and then moving it with your shoulder.

Now I can supinate.

But it should, should happen pretty naturally.

If you're using this to create power, if you're using that fascial line from the left big toe to the right shoulder to create power.

Focusing on upper body rotation on the downswing feels like yes.

So this is one of those things where again, I'm going to contradict what every single great golfer's ever said.

If you look at the goats from Lee Trevino, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, every single one of them were adamant.

And I mean, to the point of, like, Ben Hogan probably would have smacked you over the head if you did something different.

That they all wanted you to push the club back with the lead side.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I just don't believe that's what Tiger does.

I believe, and I'm going to show you again in just a moment, some more evidence of showing how he is much more trail side dominant.

If you look at Tiger swing, his arms were always dead straight, right?

But that's so hard to do.

If you're moving your arms, if you're just moving your shoulder, It's very easy to keep your arms straight and create a lot of width in the swing and have very little wrist set, which he has by doing this correctly.

How do you prevent wanting to hit with your shoulders and keeping shoulders and spinning up?

Asking for a friend.

So again, back to what I was saying, I'm going to contradict what every single great golfer's ever said in the history of the game.

I'm saying the exact opposite of what Bobby Jones said and what Ben Hogan said, and not that they didn't swing well.

They did, of course.

They're great ball strikers.

All of them took the club way inside.

Ben Hogan, flat, shallow around.

Bobby Jones, extremely inside on the takeaway.

That's what a lead side push does in the golf swing.

So what you're asking, Christopher, how do you keep from using your shoulders?

I'm telling you to actually use your right shoulder to hit the golf ball.

If you want to swing like the goat, in my opinion, Tiger's got the greatest swing of all time.

And what I believe he's doing is loading up that right shoulder.

You always, always see Tiger with a huge shoulder turn, even on a wedge shot, a super little short wedge shot.

He's got a huge shoulder turn because he's focusing on stretching that fascia line, getting that right shoulder behind his head, and then using that right shoulder to drive the club through.

Now you can do this to whatever degree you wish.

You'll see some tour players nowadays who have a lot of rotation and they really drive that right shoulder through.

And that allows you to hold the face very square for a long time.

Tiger doesn't do it to nearly that degree.

It requires more side bend and more rotation.

He's always gotten here.

And then using that trail shoulder, it starts to drive, But it's also a platform, as this right shoulder is back and loaded as it starts to unwind, naturally because that fascia wants to rebound.

He's then starting to throw the club with his arms and letting the club release.

And so that's how you create a very simple, smooth, effortless looking golf swing.

So I'm going to have my right arm straight, my left arm.

Don't really care about it.

It's going to help.

It's going to help me keep the club from going inside.

I'll talk more about that in a little bit, but all I'm trying to do is I'm going to pull my right shoulder back, back, back, back, back, back, and I'm going to use it.

And that's the whole swing.

As long as I don't do anything with this arm, I keep it supinated.

I keep this wrist firm, you know, not letting it flop around up there.

And then I start driving, letting that fascia line unwind.

I let the club release from down the line.

You're going to see all I'm doing is just turning my, pulling my right shoulder back.

And right at the bottom, I've got a huge whoosh of speed I didn't work for at all.

That to me is the most effortless way to swing the club.

Now, Christopher, to answer your question, you wouldn't want to spin your shoulders.

That would be turning really flat.

We're not trying to turn our shoulders per se.

We're trying to load and stretch and lengthen this line from my left big toe to my right shoulder, and then let that come down quickly.

And that moves my hips.

Look, I didn't move my hips at all.

I'm actually using my hips as a stable base, but look where they go.

And now I'm in a perfect impact position all by just focusing on moving that.

So I know you guys are all trying that right now.

I'm going to give you a couple minutes to try it.

And now give me some feedback, what you feel, or let me know if you have any other questions while I'm going to show you another video here.

Any questions or comments before I show you this next video?

I think you're speaking French.

Oh, power.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Power.

Yes.

Yes.

We want power.

This is what's, again, Tiger's always had crazy speed, but he doesn't look like he's working for it.

And to me, The only way that I could start to make sense of how he could swing so smooth and so effortless was with his fascial lines.

Feels like up and down motion, doing less.

Good.

Feels more relaxed, have more control.

These are all wonderful things.

Yes.

This is what we're looking for.

Something very simple, One piece to focus on that moves everything and gets you a golf swing without you having to try and piece together.

different things.

Is there a component set of drills we can see in video?

I don't have anything like that put together right now.

This is partly why we're doing this and why you guys, Why?

I'm asking so many questions and getting so much feedback from so many different golfers with so many different swings, because I would love to put this together as the goat drill of having one thing, just like the dead drill.

The dead drill gave you some really simple stuff to focus on, but this is very specific.

This to me is kind of the secret sauce to how Tiger has had such a simple, repeatable golf swing for so long.

And so my aim with what we're working on right now and why I need your feedback is how do I take any golfer from any level, any playing ability and teach them this to get them the ability to have a really simple, really powerful swing that also feels natural and it feels intuitive.

It's not like, okay, do this and then do this.

The golf swing can feel so wildly weird, especially when you're thinking about all the different muscles that are fine.

Literally hundreds of muscles are involved in the golf swing, but I don't think about any muscles.

I think about turning my entire body into one muscle.

And that's what the fascia allows you to do is it allows you to literally connect every single muscle from your core, your legs, Your trunk to your head.

And use them all as one muscle working together instead of a hundred muscles working in a million different ways.

Phil, this answers many questions and one move, not as confusing.

Good.

Lead leg feels like it drives straight back.

Yes.

Kevin, that's perfect.

Thank you.

It's easier to get in a side bend in the back.

Last swing.

All right, we're getting there.

So Kevin, You mentioned something about it, feels more linear, and that's what I was wanting some to kind of get more feedback on.

The golf swing can be rotational.

It can be straight line.

It can do all sorts of things.

And again, there's a million different ways to do it.

But to me, the goal has always been the simplest, most powerful, efficient way to do it.

I've been obsessed with that for three decades.

1000 And when you think about what you're 1001 really wanting to do in the golf swing, 1002 yes, there's rotation.

Yes, there's 1003 vertical force.

Yes, there's linear 1004 force.

But to me, 1005 what I'm trying to do with, especially as 1006 far as my legs are concerned, because 1007 that's one of the most confusing things 1008 as to what you're supposed to do in the 1009 golf swing.

1010 This, to me, takes this part of your body 1011 and makes it a support base for what this 1012 is doing.

So instead of saying, okay, I'm 1013 going to go to the top and now turn my 1014 hips.

That's not a golf swing.

I mean, 1015 you can swing like that, but you're not 1016 creating any torque that way.

So what 1017 Kevin was saying about it feeling more 1018 linear?

1019 Here's a visual I want to put in your 1020 head.

So if you don't like the idea of 1021 the right shoulder kind of going up and 1022 back to stretch this, you can think of it 1023 as kind of going more straight back.

And 1024 that's going to make your left knee go 1025 kind of straight forward.

1026 And then your left knee is going to go 1027 straight back.

That helps you kind of get 1028 the motion of what your legs are supposed 1029 to do.

So when you saw a tiger kind of 1030 doing that drill, he would make a big 1031 turn.

I'll grab the club.

So it looks 1032 more like what he was doing there.

So now 1033 here's that little tiger drill where he 1034 had the white sweater on.

So he's making 1035 a big turn, no reset, 1036 arms just kind of swing up here.

And then 1037 all he was doing from here, pushing this 1038 left hip straight back.

He didn't want to 1039 fall forward.

He wanted to push it 1040 straight back and come up onto his toe.

1041 And that is what helps the right shoulder 1042 come back down to the ball.

So your hips, 1043 obviously they have to move, But I want 1044 it to be relatively instinctual, And it 1045 should feel that they're moving kind of 1046 straight back and straight through my 1047 right leg in the backswing.

As this right 1048 shoulder goes back, my right leg is 1049 straightening.

1050 That's going to help my shoulder get even 1051 higher.

That's going to help me stretch 1052 this fascial line even more.

Now you can 1053 see some guys like Brooks Koepka, for 1054 instance, you know, he keeps a lot of 1055 knee flex.

I feel a lot of pressure in my 1056 right hip.

That's a great way to swing.

1057 If you want a lot of rotational force, I 1058 want to be as efficient as humanly 1059 possible.

So I'm going to let this leg 1060 straighten.

It's going to go in a 1061 straight line, straight back behind me.

1062 And then in the downswing, as my 1063 shoulder, as this starts to unwind, my 1064 left leg is going straight back this way.

1065 So I'm just going here.

It's easier to 1066 see it from this view.

1067 So now as I go back, my right shoulder is 1068 going back to the wall and up, my right 1069 leg is straightening.

My right hip's 1070 going straight back.

Now my left leg is 1071 just going to unwind and do the exact 1072 opposite.

Now my hips are wide open, but 1073 I didn't try and turn them.

I tried to 1074 push this left foot straight back.

But 1075 now that should happen if you're using 1076 your hips for resistance to create 1077 torque.

As I'm driving this right 1078 shoulder back, it should drive that hip 1079 back.

So hopefully that answers that.

Let 1080 me read some of these questions here.

1081 I feel like it happens more naturally.

1082 Yes.

Yes.

1083 Get into side bin.

1084 Seems smoother.

Less to think about.

1085 Okay.

Any other questions on what I was 1086 just talking about there so far?

1087 Okay.

So now let me share my screen one 1088 more time.

1089 Okay.

1090 So now this is Tiger hitting a chip shot.

1091 And this is how I want you to start 1092 practicing this this week in baby steps.

1093 So I'm just going to play this at first.

1094 Okay.

Now, There is no question in my 1095 mind that Tiger has been one of the 1096 greatest chippers of the ball in the 1097 history of the game.

1098 This dude can get up and down from 1099 anywhere.

1100 Now, how's he doing it?

Is the chipping 1101 stroke a little baby golf swing?

1102 I think in Tiger's case, it is.

So I'm 1103 going to play this frame by frame here 1104 for just a second.

1105 Now, what do you think he's moving to 1106 move that golf club?

Obviously, it's not 1107 in much hip rotation.

His hips are pretty 1108 close to dead square at impact.

1109 So what is he moving?

What do you guys 1110 think?

1111 Any guesses?

1112 Oops.

1113 Right shoulder, shoulder.

Why do you guys 1114 think the right shoulder?

1115 I'm going to show you.

1116 That's exactly what he's moving.

1117 So now we're going to zoom way in here.

1118 Take a close look.

1119 Oops.

1120 Okay.

So now watch the creases on his 1121 shirt right here, right behind his right 1122 armpit.

1123 Watch what happens.

1124 Did you see that?

1125 They're a little bit wider right there, 1126 and then they compress right there.

That 1127 right shoulder is what's initiating that 1128 movement, and you can see at setup his 1129 right lat right here.

Let me use this.

1130 This little, oh, geez, that's a big line.

1131 This right lat, You're going to see that 1132 disappear 1133 because it starts to go back as he's 1134 pulling that right shoulder back behind 1135 his head.

1136 So now when you look at this closely, you 1137 can see that shirt seam, the creases in 1138 the shirt get more compressed as that 1139 right shoulder starts pulling back, and 1140 then on the way down, he's just going to 1141 drive that right shoulder through.

1142 And you can see how much rotation he has, 1143 even on a little baby chip shot right 1144 here, how much rotation he has of that 1145 right side through the ball.

1146 That's all right shoulder drive to get 1147 that club to work.

So just on a baby chip 1148 shot, What you're going to practice this 1149 week to start getting a feel for this and 1150 start building up from here, your right 1151 arm is going to be straight.

1152 Your left arm, you're going to kind of 1153 keep it relaxed.

1154 Right wrist is straight.

And now I'm 1155 going to initiate that with that right 1156 shoulder starting to go back.

And if 1157 you'll, if you will go on YouTube and you 1158 watch some of Tiger's practice sessions, 1159 you'll see him sometimes just kind of do 1160 this.

1161 Like maybe it's just for a split second.

1162 He's just trying to remind himself that's 1163 what he wants to feel.

1164 But if you guys remember from the old 1165 days where I started that whole swing, 1166 the RST stuff with pulling that right 1167 shoulder back behind your head, it keeps 1168 you centered.

Tiger's head never sways 1169 way off the ball.

He never pushes the 1170 club from the left side.

He never has a 1171 club going inside.

And when the chip 1172 shots, you'll see, let me grab a wedge.

1173 Tiger keeps the club face very square or 1174 even, come on camera, 1175 you know, what might even be considered 1176 closed going back because there's no 1177 manipulation from his hands.

And so this 1178 is what you're going to focus on this 1179 week.

1180 As far as what your left hand does on 1181 this chipping stroke, the left hand is 1182 going to stay in this cupped position.

1183 And the, you're going to feel like the 1184 back of your hands kind of pointing more 1185 towards the ground.

For those of you who 1186 struggle with this, the club going away 1187 inside, this is going to feel wildly 1188 different.

But the one thing I want to 1189 see from every single one of you next 1190 week is that the club head stays outside 1191 your hands every single time.

It should 1192 never, ever go in here again.

Now, if you 1193 swing with a lead side push, like a lot 1194 of the goats talk about, again, nothing 1195 wrong with it.

1196 But if you want to do it like the goat, 1197 your left hand, your right hand staying 1198 back, right shoulders moving it.

Notice 1199 that my club face is staying outside my 1200 hands and staying shut.

I have to do 1201 nothing to square the face.

All I got to 1202 do is move that right shoulder right back 1203 down to the ball.

1204 Perfectly straight, super simple chip 1205 shots.

My right shoulder goes back.

1206 You're going to hit every single shot 1207 super straight.

And this is how you're 1208 going to start.

Right shoulder back.

1209 Easy chip shots all day long.

And then 1210 you're going to start working on that 1211 going bigger.

And the way that you go 1212 bigger is you make a bigger turn.

You 1213 don't do anything with your arms and 1214 hands.

You just keep getting that right 1215 shoulder back, right arm straight, 1216 supinated, 1217 right shoulder drive.

1218 You got a golf swing.

1219 So now one thing that I want to caution 1220 you on 1221 is not videoing your swing.

1222 If you don't video your swing, You're 1223 probably not going to get this because 1224 what it feels like and what's really 1225 happening are pretty wildly different.

1226 When you do it correctly, like I just 1227 showed you, it's literally just my right 1228 shoulder moving back and through and 1229 stretching those lines.

And my hands and 1230 arms are really not doing much, 1231 but you need to video your swing.

You 1232 have to video your swing.

I'm begging 1233 you, please use your phone.

Everybody's 1234 got a camera now and start videoing your 1235 swing.

And if you're not sure if you're 1236 doing it right, I talked Craig into 1237 giving you guys half off the first month 1238 of a URG.

So if you want to take 1239 advantage of him, it's about $3.

78 a day.

1240 You can get a golf lesson from Craig 1241 every single day.

Just upload your video.

1242 Even if it's just a chipping stroke, 1243 like, okay, I know what we're doing.

1244 Craig's going to help you understand what 1245 you're doing wrong and make sure you're 1246 going along this process the right way.

1247 So realizing how much you're shoving the 1248 club and all these little things, it's 1249 going to be so much, it's going to take 1250 so much longer.

This is just going to 1251 speed things up.

So, uh, for those of you 1252 who don't know, that's Craig there on 1253 the, uh, on the left and the pink shirt, 1254 Craig and I won the, uh, member pro 1255 tournament at my golf club of an Idaho 1256 years ago.

Craig's a former tour player.

1257 I coached him when he was on tour.

He's 1258 been working with Rotary Swing for like, 1259 a decade, and nobody knows the video 1260 content better than Craig does.

And 1261 probably nobody's done more swing reviews 1262 than he has.

So I highly encourage you to 1263 take a look at that, uh, save yourself a 1264 bunch of time and headache.

So that will, 1265 1266 let me answer some more of your questions 1267 now.

So I'm going to stay around for 1268 that, uh, for less distance.

Do we go 1269 back less?

Yep.

Absolutely.

1270 Uh, Harold, thank you.

Make it look 1271 great.

It's so simple.

I'm not kidding 1272 you guys.

I am literally just keeping 1273 this arm straight, this arm supinated, 1274 move my shoulder back and move my 1275 shoulder through.

You guys should all be 1276 like bad-ass chippers by next week.

It's 1277 that simple.

1278 Uh, where does the J release move fall 1279 in?

So the same thing it's, you know, as 1280 I'm going back, I'm starting to throw the 1281 club.

Cause, remember, We're doing all 1282 this stuff really slow right now 1283 to take advantage of that fascial stretch 1284 and that stretch shortening cycle.

The 1285 faster you load this, the faster 1286 everything's going to happen.

And so the 1287 faster you get your core to unwind, the 1288 more you're going to throw from the top 1289 to keep the club to catch up.

So that 1290 movement's all still the same stuff.

It's 1291 just, this gives you one thing to focus 1292 on to get everything moving together in 1293 sync and getting power.

1294 Uh, anything else?

Any other questions?

1295 I got a new dirt bike that just came in 1296 today.

So if you guys, you guys don't ask 1297 any questions, I'm going to get out of 1298 here and go pick that puppy up or this 1299 thing months ago.

1300 No more questions.

You guys are out there 1301 chipping right now.

1302 Don't get hurt before next time.

1303 I will definitely do my best, John.

I 1304 appreciate it.

Can you do a driver swing?

1305 Yes.

Let me grab a, that's not a real 1306 driver.

Let me grab one.

1307 1308 here's one.

1309 All right.

1310 Will Anthony be hurt if I move to Craig?

1311 I'm not sure.

Anthony's on the call.

You 1312 have to ask him.

1313 So with the driver swing, I'll just hit 1314 one off the deck here.

1315 So right arm is going to be straight, 1316 going to be nice and tall.

One of the 1317 things that I've changed with this is I 1318 don't have 1319 very much axis tilt.

Because I'm trying 1320 to keep my right arm straight and it's 1321 going to be a little bit more extended 1322 out in front of me.

So I set up pretty 1323 tall and pretty upright with my spine.

1324 And then from here, all I'm doing, so 1325 notice the club face, just like my chip 1326 shot, right?

I did nothing with my hands, 1327 just here.

1328 Keep pulling that right shoulder back.

1329 There's my driver swing, right shoulder 1330 is going to drive and release.

1331 I can drive as hard as I want with that 1332 right shoulder.

1333 When I do this, if you want, you don't 1334 have to drive that hard, but you get the 1335 idea.

1336 All right, guys, have a great weekend.