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Are you struggling with taking your drills to the course? Do you find that you can do the drills perfectly but when the golf ball is involved, things go downhill quickly? Then this webinar is exactly what you're looking for! Learn the exact sequence you should follow to translate those drills in ball striking goodness!
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Hello, hello Caleb, Welcome Larry, Hi guys, Matt, Hello.
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Wow, good morning.
Well, you're just getting early start to the day.
Thank you Jack, I appreciate that.
Well, it looks like it's six as the the we to online lessons and gosh knows I've done over 10,000 In-person lessons in my lifetime, so we've seen a lot of the same mistakes over and over again.
And here's the one thing that when I see somebody who's really frustrated or really struggling with their game, that they never do this right.
This is all that matters.
In the golf swing, can you do this? Right shoulder back weight shift, left knee, left hip post up.
That might have been less than 17 seconds, that's the entire golf swing.
The only thing that matters is what I just did there right shoulder, pulled back so our head doesn't move off the ball.
A little bit of weight going on the right side.
I'm going to move my left knee to initiate the downswing, I'm going to sit into that left side and then I'm going to post up done.
The entire golf swing is yours if you can do just those moves.
It's no more complicated than that when things get complicated, when we start flailing our arms around or chasing the golf club and chasing ball flight.
Every single great ball striker on the planet has done this, and every single one of you sitting in on this webinar can do those moves.
How hard is this right shoulder, left knee, left hip, over the ankle, post up done? If you can do that, then everything else builds on that core movement.
Again, in the RSA video, I spent a little bit more time talking about that.
But this is the same stuff that's in the website.
We're just kind of condensing it all into one simple move.
If you had to, boil the rotary swing down.
A tour caliber golf swing move that produces tons of power, effortless speed protects your body, gets rid of all your horrible swing flaws.
It's nothing more than what I just demonstrated.
So how do you take that movement and translate it into hitting balls? That's the next key, right? So what I just did, there was the first two steps of the RC five step.
I shifted my weight and rotated, I just put them together, and then I shifted my weight.
That a little left knee movement is just the initiation.
Just like you're throwing a ball, the first thing you do is externally.
Rotate.
Your leg just helps get us our weight moving back to the left, and then we're shifting and rotating our trunk and nothing with our shoulders.
I see this all the time in my in my online lessons, my unlimited review groups.
Guys doing this and trying to demonstrate what I just did.
It shows a complete lack of understanding of what we're really trying to do in the swing.
First of all, if I, what do you guys see wrong here? Hopefully I'll.
I'll look at your chat questions.
What happened here? What do you think I did wrong in my back swing? Go ahead and post them up there.
If you've got the answer, anybody, you'll learn.
So all I did there is I took my left shoulder and pushed it across my chest, and of course, that causes my head to move.
Now.
My head came off the ball, very good, thank you guys.
So if your head's moving off the ball, it's that you're not pulling your right shoulder back.
You're pushing from the left side.
And then the golf swings over.
It's game over at that point, as soon as you start turning flat.
So if you see from down the line, I start doing this.
And my shoulders are really kind of horizontal to the ground and I've stood up out of my posture.
Everything is going to be a bucket of compensations.
From there.
You're going to stand up by your posture, you're going to move off the ball and so on and so forth.
So all you need to do again, pull that right shoulder back, and then we need to get our core to move everything else.
Notice that my shoulders are still facing dead square to you guys.
That's all I need to do to get the arms and hands and everything back to impact is a perfect good back position right here.
And I didn't move anything from here up, it was just this core movement of step two that moved my body to here.
But all the time I see this, people trying to get into a follow-through, that's the last thing on earth you've ever tried to do in the swing, the golf swing.
The follow-through is a byproduct of just releasing the club and letting it pull you to a follow-through.
So let's put all this stuff together and start learning how to translate this into real -world applique.
So the second thing, once you've got this basic core movement, once you can do that, you have to get comfortable with the left arm.
Now, most people will go in front of the mirror and they're going to do this.
You know, a bunch of times trying to drill really fast and not really paying attention to what they're doing.
And then they're going to grab a club and they're going to start wailing away on balls.
If you do that, I can almost guarantee you, given our more than Online lessons we've done that.
You are going to fail at getting the results that you want.
It does not translate to go from doing a mirror drill with your arms across your chest.
No ball, no club, none of that stuff, not in the context of the swing, and then all of a sudden going out to the range.
You've skipped 50 steps in between, and that's the stuff that you've got to realize.
We need those 50 steps, or it's really just a few steps, but we need those few steps in between to help us bridge the gap.
As you heard in my car analogy, from the parking lot to the racetrack, we can't just go from the first time you've ever driven a manual transmission to a race your next day, it doesn't make sense.
So with the golf swing, you if you're going to make a change and you're trying to learn just again, this, the whole golf swing that I just demonstrated earlier.
If you can just do that, then we just need to stack pieces on top of that.
The next piece that we stack, of course, is the left arm.
That's step 3, right? So if we can just do that same thing, forget about.
My arms are sticking out in front of me, I don't really care that it's there.
I'm thinking about the same drill I just did a minute ago right shoulder, back, left knee, sit into the left side, post up.
Hey, look, where my left hand is.
Would you guys be happy if this was your impact position? Of course, it's perfect.
All I did was just let my left arm be moved by that simple core movement that I did at the beginning.
Once I have that right, I grab a club.
Now here's the disconnect.
If you're working on this movement and you try to do all of this in five minutes, there's no chance that your brain has built any pathways, as you've known from the learning videos that take, you have to actually go to sleep for your brain to actually construct those pathways.
So you need to be a little bit patient when you're first learning something new.
So getting to the point where you add the club into the mix is not something that you're probably going to do the first day.
If you can't do this simple move right now, like I just did here without thinking about it and doing it with some pace, that's the other thing.
Once you add the golf club, everybody starts to speed up.
Because this thing and your wrist start working hand in hand, right? You can now feel like I've got something here.
I want to try and hit the ball.
That is a death move in the swing.
You have to feel that the club is only being moved by your body.
So that's why we flip it upside down, so we don't have the mass of the head and the momentum.
So we go back to that same drill, left arm shifting, posting up, and I'm right back in my impact position once you can do that.
And the club, and I didn't think about the club.
I didn't worry about where it was going, I couldn't care less.
I thought right shoulder, back, left knee, send the left side post up.
My swing plane was perfect, my path was perfect, all of that stuff was.
I didn't try to do anything with it, I just let my arm and club follow along with that core body movement that we started with.
Then let's say that you've spent a couple hundred, maybe a couple thousand reps to get that right.
Where you look at it in the mirror, you look at on camera the clubs coming down where it's supposed to.
Then, and only then you take that club and flip it around and start making the same move.
With the momentum now, you'll see that the club's going to want to naturally release.
I can't just stop it at impact like I was a minute ago.
All of a sudden, I now have all this mass that wants to release and I want to let that happen.
So now my arm, I just got to soften up my wrist, do the same thing left knee, sit, post up.
Hey, that's the whole golf swing.
All I gotta do next is add that right arm in there.
I rarely see people do exactly what I just did in these drills in our unlimited review groups.
I see all the time I say, Hey, here's all I want you to do.
Just show me a video of you doing just this drill, and then they send me in a video.
They're just ramming away.
Golf balls does not work like that.
You have to take the time to go through the sequence, you need thousands of repetitions, and there's no way around it before you're really ready to stack everything back on there.
If you put your right hand back on too soon, you have the club in too soon, or what have you? It's going to lead to inconsistent results and you're not going to be able to create the same movement pattern that you saw me do at the beginning.
But let's just say that we're at that point.
We've spent a few weeks doing just these drills.
Now think about that, a few weeks where you just did nothing but what I did.
Stop hammering balls.
A few week investment period in your golf game will last you the rest of your life.
By learning how to swing perfectly, ending up in a perfect impact position, a perfect swing plane, a perfect path, no injuries.
You can play painlessly, and you can play effortlessly if you'll just take a few weeks time to master the stuff I just showed you.
Now, once you've done that, let's add that right arm back in there.
You can do the same drills, and I've talked a lot about how to write at the right arm.
Was just mirroring it so that you're not actually touching the club at first.
So if you look at the step five, we talk about mirroring it, touching with your fingertips, lightly wrapping your fingers around.
But all you're doing is the exact same drill that we started with, nothing changes from here.
That is the entire golf swing.
All we do is stack a piece, they are, then we stack the club, then we stack the right arm and then we're ready to hit balls.
It might take you three weeks, it might take you three days, it might take you three years, it's not gonna take that long, but it doesn't matter.
As long as you can do this core movement, the golf swing is going to be yours.
You are going to own the golf swing and hammer.
200 yard seven irons if you can, just do these simple movements.
So the one last translation piece that I like to use with my students is a foam ball.
Once we get to the point where we're ready to stack all of this stuff together and start hitting balls, your best friend is to go to Amazon and buy a little foam golf ball like this.
Because that little white devil, just the fact that it's hard makes you tense up, that makes you want to hit something, because it's hard, you're hitting it with a piece of steel.
This is not a marshmallow.
Over here, the golf balls are hard, so you all of a sudden start trying to swing harder.
In a way that you associate with power, which is typically going to be all right arm, right hand, hitting the club hard with your hands, push it against the shaft hard with your hands.
Take that out, take the temptation out and work on the nine to three drill.
Doing what we just did, it's just going to be smaller, so do it with foam balls at first.
So I'm ready to put my right hand on here.
Let's say it's been a few weeks, maybe a few months.
Whatever it is, however long it takes you to master that core movement is however long it takes, but this is an investment for your lifetime.
Now I'm going to go nine to three.
So I made a little bit of a turn here, right? Just turning back, shifting a little bit.
Left knee and I can break into chunks while I'm hitting balls like this left knee, sit, post up, I couldn't care less if there's a ball there, I couldn't even feel it.
What, really, when I hit it? Which is great because it allows me to start doing these movement patterns and reinforcing them.
While something is actually in the way, I'm actually hitting something, it's crazy.
I'm sure you guys have all experienced this, how our brains freak out and forget everything that we just worked on.
When we put the little White Devil in the way.
All of a sudden, we're concerned about consequences, we're concerned about looking stupid if we're on the range.
I don't want to shake it, I don't want to chunk it or hit it thin, or whatever it is.
We all have those fears, we don't want to be embarrassed.
So when we go out there and we start hitting a hard ball in front of people, we all of a sudden start saying, Well, we're just going to let our proprioception take over.
In my hands and do what I know how to do to hit the ball, put the bat on the ball, and all of a sudden stuff goes completely awry.
And your golf swing looks like crap.
And you go right back to your old movement patterns.
That's why this foam ball is a really good intermediate step, because it takes all of that stuff away.
You can do this in your backyard, you don't need to be out the range doing this, save yourself the money on the balls and just keep repeating this movement pattern.
So I can do this here in front of the mirror, so I can check everything and say I'll make a little bit bigger swing here.
I'm going to go back all the way to the top, so now I'm happy where I am here.
And then left knee, sit, post up and release, that is a great rep.
The fact that the ball happened to be in the way is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter that I'm hitting the ball there.
It's getting my brain used to swinging the club through, letting the club release instead of trying to hit something with my hands.
There's a reason it's called a golf swing and not a golf hit.
And this little ball will allow you to start to feel it because there's absolutely no point in hitting this ball hard.
It's not going to go anywhere, it's not going to go more than 20, 30 yards, and it's going to fly crazy anyway because it's foam.
So you can get past that, that step, that hurdle of making the big leap from.
Okay, I have this new movement pattern, I'm moving well, club feels different.
Everything feels a little wonky because it's new to me.
But now I'm just going to go out here and hit balls, it's too big of a leap.
Do this in your backyard and then bring the real ball into the equation and go back to the nine to three drill.
You're not ready to just start wailing away on this ball yet, you've got to get used to this little step.
Nine you the I in to to this to How as as So and that and So I as as my is as as as the it's to this bad bad the swing reviews they have seen everything under the sun they know exactly what's going on in your swing within two seconds of looking at it and they know exactly how to fix it so send in a video of you just doing a drill say hey you know I just watched this webinar with Chuck and he's just showing you this whole simple core movement is all I got to do is all I'm working on am I doing it right perfect that's how you're going to know if you're not sure by looking at the mirror and using the videos to help yourself to go through these checkpoints then just submit your swing for review and we will tell you exactly what's going on and this drill think about this how simple is how long is it going to take you to get this right shouldn't take any time at all and if you let us help you with that we're going to get you there super fast let's see should I get a few more questions in here before we wrap up guys as far as the BOSU ball yeah it's not going to hurt anything let's see Phil when I do play I try to focus on part of the core volume I don't have all the core movement settle down yep you just need more repetitions okay so the reality is if you continue to play golf with your buds you are slowing the process down there's no escape so if you do play is there a way to minimize the damage it's inevitable great question you're getting it so but two things I want to talk about that one is how much time do you typically lose if you go out and play totally anecdotal I've talked about this a million times before but using my own game is as an example and the pros that I've worked with the amateurs I played with what I have found is that on average for if you're in the midst of a change you're really working on something that's a core change to your swing I have found that for every round of golf you play one round of golf that you play you'll lose about two days of practice I have no scientific evidence for that it's completely anecdotal but I've done a lot of lessons and I've played a lot of rounds of golf and I've worked on my swing a lot to know that by the time that I get back to drilling and after 18 holes in 70 swings or 70 shots I have started to kind of wander and waver just like everybody does you may step up to the first tee and be like all right I got this I'm gonna Chuck said just focus on feel like a nine-to-three swing or just focus on my core movements or whatever it is and by the third hole you're like oh that one went right so better save with my hands or better aim over here and by the sixth hole you're like oh screw that guy doesn't know what he's talking about I'm gonna do this and then by the 18th hole who knows where you're at and if you stop and you think critically and objectively about your rounds of golf we've all done that we all go through with the best you know tensions but then after hitting a couple balls OB or just whatever hitting a couple bad shots then all of a sudden we start reverting back to our old habits so do you slow your ability to improve down yeah there's a reason that when you see guys who are really the best at making a swing change and honestly most of the tour pros they're usually just kind of doing little tweaks the only guy that's really made huge changes that I can think of off the top of my head or obviously tiger and think about like nick faldo nick faldo went through a huge swing change they did mostly on his own but led better helped him out a little bit was a second set of eyes for him when he did that he took like nine months off period now that's playing at the top level and making huge changes and what have you but he already had some really good fundamentals in the swing you may be starting at the point where you're a 90s shooter so you may not be at the point where it might take you nine months just to be able to kind of get the whole picture together rather than making a huge change when tiger makes a huge change he takes time away from the game you need to do it doesn't mean you can't go out and play practice rounds as long as you go out there with the right mindset go out there with you know a box of top flights you don't care about losing and go out there in the afternoon when nobody's out there and work on the drills and start to see some of the results pay off that's the great thing about being able to do these changes on the course as you start to realize like oh wow i've never been on this part of the course before i've never hit my irons that fought never had this club into this green or whatever you start to see little tidbits of encouragement and that keeps you motivated to keep going but it's really important that you really play smart if you're going to go out and play while you're making a big change i hope that answers your question ted uh trying to find a mirror to use in the yard eric uh we have one on the site that's a small one that you can stick in your bag that's probably the best piece of advice that i can give you unfortunately just this giant mirror i have back here is one that i actually just hired a glass company to make for me and i said i want the biggest freaking mirror that you can put in here and so that's how i end up with that uh head can move up and down and outside outside the scope what we're talking about frank it's all covered on the website chip if you can do the nine to three drill properly using left arm only then add the right hand and it's fat or thin does it mean you change your core movement or can you move your cooler properly and mess with the clip out because right here great question chip now these are kind of the questions i'm looking for because this is a progression question chip's gone from the idea of okay i'm doing my nine to three drill and now i add the right arm and all of a sudden something changes i was hitting it great with my left arm only but then as soon as i put that stupid right hand on there all of a sudden i start chunking it or hitting it thin what happened did my body break down did my arms break down that's a great question first of all you should know that because you should be able to see the difference when you video your swing put them up side by side an app on your phone to put your swing side by side is like 10 bucks we don't sell them we don't have them on there where you can use the swing analyzer as part of your membership so if you don't have an app to do it right there on your phone just use our swing analyzer on the site it's part of your membership it's totally included so put your swing up there and see what changed if you're not sure submit your drill with the left hand only and then submit your drill with the right hand on there for a swing review and then we can tell you instantly oh well what happened here just to answer your question chip the most likely culprit is that the right hand started to take over and then the body slowed down and that's what we see nine times out of ten is that once you're doing this left arm only drill you'll find that you can get yourself in these perfect positions really quickly really easily and then the right hand goes on there and now you look like this i didn't shift i'm hanging back i didn't turn my hips my shoulders are now turning and it's because this little guy all of a sudden changes your pro your perception of the swing because it just starts to take over it's so easy to do you're right-handed you're right side dominant you want to use that that means that you you're overusing that right hand typically when you're hitting it fat and thin together it means that you didn't shift so you're kind of hanging back because the right arm starts to take over too soon your focus went away from moving my core and shifting my weight like we did here and it went into hitting that stupid little wall and then the right hand says i'm more than happy to help out with that let me show you what i can do oh i jumped let me try to get oh and i flipped it and hit it then that's what happens nine times out of ten let's see try to get a couple more in here let's see yeah taylor yep the eyeliner mirror that we saw on the side just because it fits in your bag it's really simple um you've described the feeling in your hands and wrists as the club goes through letting go i'm releasing the club it's called a release for a reason it used to say that the extension takes place just just after posting it but i feel myself that it takes has to take place the same time the extension is taking place otherwise you won't convert up and back into down or not uh so that's a good question one that'll trends uh into the uh the bonus video because i talk about the timing of the post up move and all of this stuff together in that rsa webinar a little bit more so the long story show the simple answer is you're posting up you're doing the drills that you're posted up while your hands here and again this is all covered in the rsa webinar that you're going to get to watch next so you're going to drill to here and then post up now the actual timing and sequence of it in real life is that you're actually posting up as you're releasing the club that is what actually releases the club so you start learning to simultaneously put those two together rather than at first you're going to chunk it post up and then release and so on i'm going to talk about that in depth in this video so that's what i'm going to do next so for those of you golf junkies out there who want just even more information and more stuff let me you guys should see this coming up in the right hand side so you should see a little offer uh if you don't see that let me know but uh if you click on the buttons where the chat is you'll see one looks like a little megaphone there's a little button there that says watch the webinar now so let me know if you can't see that but you should be able to and that's going to take you straight to the webinar that i did last week for the rsa members you'll see that we take a little bit different approach with rotary swing academy because it's more hands-on stuff the rotary swing academy is more of hey we're going to help you walk through this the rc rsu the rotary swing university stuff is more of a diy we're giving you the information we're giving you six swing reviews to make sure that we can make help you progress through it with rotary swing university you get a free swing review every other week for the rest of your life as long as you're a member so much more hands-on we're doing a lot more drills that are more follow along i'm talking through what i feel and what you're going to sequence and so on so that's what i wanted to share with you guys who attended this webinar tonight so let me if you can't see that let me know otherwise feel free to click on that uh the little button there that's going to get you over to the webinar and take a look and then hopefully that answers your questions that you've had for tonight so thank you so much for attending i'm going to close this up now unless there's any more questions that i can answer but otherwise thank you so much guys i appreciate it glad i was able to share some stuff hopefully help get you on the right path to get you where you're going caleb uh oh just saw a couple that's something else okay cool you're welcome bill you welcome you guys thank you so much for attending you're welcome chip you're welcome thank you patrick you're welcome guys thank you mike you're welcome bill you're welcome glad you enjoyed it all right guys we'll see you soon in our next webinar hopefully take care
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