Effortless Power Webinar (RSA)

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RSA webinar on how to produce effortless power in the golf swing. I cover three core topics: how to sequence the entire golf swing with 1 simple drill, how your grip could be costing your free club head speed, and finally how to post up and release all that stored up energy.


all right guys we're five minutes early just going to let everybody start to register so I'm gonna wait for everybody to start signing in we've got one there we've got a couple hundred people registered for this webinar tonight so we're going to give everybody five minutes to get signed in then we get started meantime loosen up here a little bit I am hitting a 7 iron here for those of you that are going to be asking questions I'm sure so this is all about effortless power tonight and 186 yard 7 iron we'll get the job done I'm gonna go to the chat section here just so you guys know I'm going to type a message in here now you guys can post in the chat section so it happens when you skank one off the toe and you're tight still a little better you got questions don't be afraid to post in the chat section I'm going to explain how all this is going to work just a moment you should see on the right side of your screen you should see a little chat box hey there Kenny welcome I got 52 people registered so far a couple more minutes to get that's a big seven iron there I'm loose loose as a goose we're ready hi Chip welcome 102 huh there's some effortless power boys 102 miles an hour at the seven iron not bad for an old guy thank you David we've been working on this for a while we're excited to get the new studio up and rocking and rolling gives us the ability to set up these clinics like the webinars like this so super awesome for all the rotorspring Academy members so we can certainly a lot more interactive stuff hopefully some of you guys out there have got webcams and want to jump on here hi Mike welcome Arthur I don't know about guru maybe goob but welcome hi Brian thank you Malcolm welcome hi Richard welcome everybody a couple more minutes and we're going to get rocking and rolling here oh didn't pick it up and I wailed on that one doesn't unfortunately it is just distance spin rate club head speed launch angle smash factor but it does not show direction at all hi Bruce thank you I will try not to hurt myself Barry the weather is perfect out here it is uh 70 degrees right now or so all right took we got uh we need going here at six o'clock on my clock hi Bob Graham Bonnie welcome all right so let's get rocking and rolling here I'm excited so first of all if you don't have a club with you if you can grab one if you've got room to swing it if not don't worry about it but I would like for you to be able to do a lot of these drills along with me this is the whole point of this stuff for rotorspring Academy members is to be interactive to be doing a lot of stuff together and doing it with me as we work on it so three topics we're going to cover tonight the first one sequencing sequencing is the name of the game it is the golf swing getting all these parts to move correctly together is incredibly simple when you follow the rotary swing to a five-step system I'm going to show you just how simple it is tonight and we're going to make it super easy and I want you to be able to get up move around with me do these drills with me the second thing is we're going to talk about the grip it seems kind of strange to talk about the grip when we're talking about effortless power but the grip is a huge part of the golf swing the grip is just as important as race car tires if you've watched days of thunder and you've listened to hair you know tires win races it's all about that connection with the club that is the final transfer of energy from your body all the stuff you've been building up to is all going to be done transferred through the grip so having a proper grip and I'm going to talk about a part of the grip that you've probably never heard about today that's going to explain where you can gain a lot of power with no effort whatsoever and then the third thing we're talking about is the post step move so the release happens automatically so these three things are huge for producing power in the golf swing now and we go through them each one step by step but the first thing i want you to understand is that there's just one of me i can see some questions on the screen but my eyes aren't that good in this 10 feet away i could only kind of see it so i won't be able to stop in the middle while i'm doing stuff so please try and maintain uh hold on to your questions until i get done with this with each section and then i'm going to open it up to q a and then i'm going to take questions that are pertinent to the topic come back up here in front of the camera and discuss them i have to go back to the screen to to read the question so i won't be able to answer questions in the middle because i just won't be able to stop so i'm going to go through my presentation and my little discussion get you up moving around doing the drills with me and then i'm going to answer questions so without further ado let me see if there's any questions that are important uh all right we're ready to get rocking and rolling it so first things first so get up i want you to start doing this stuff with me because the sequencing part that we're going to discuss first is the entire golf swing if you can do what i'm going to show you next right the rest of the stuff is a piece of cake stop worrying about your position at the top and your left pinky here and this and that don't worry about nonsense the stuff i'm going to show you right now is the most important part of the golf swing when it comes to producing power and consistency but since the topic tonight is all about effortless power that's what i'm going to focus on so from base on the most important thing you've got to understand is that the golf swing is really only about that big there's so little movement when you're doing the rotary swing five step system that it doesn't really require any special flexibility or any special movement how simple is this movement well you're going to do it with me so i'm not going to get into all the details about setup and access till i'm going to assume you already know how to do that stuff because there's tons of videos on it on the site so i'm just going to dive right in and talk about how to get everything to sequence correctly so the first thing that you have to do when you're trying to work on your swing and trying to produce power is you have to rotate it's called rotary swing for a reason the body is rotating around the spine the spine is everything in the swing it is the central point that which we're moving around all of our muscles are tying into all this stuff in one way or another and so we have to learn how to rotate correctly and it's super simple this is how simple it is so from a proper setup all i need to do is that that's the entire backswing if you can do what i just did you just mastered the back half of the swing so all you have to do from there is get down i'm going to talk about a couple details where people tend to get off in their swing because it what happened nine times out of ten and the online lessons that we do i just saw today we did we've done over 70 000 online golf swingers it's crazy but and out of those 70 000 that we've done in the past 15 years i would say 90 of the people do the exact same mistakes over and over again and the one thing that we see all the time is people don't rotate going back they just swing their arms and then their arms are doing everything and that's why you need to practice doing the drills without your arms that's why the core rotation stuff in step two of the five step system is arms across your chest no arms and just pull that right shoulder back behind your head if you can do this you have the potential to hit a seven iron 196 yards is nothing more special than what i'm doing in my backswing than what i just did there all i'm doing rotating back that's the key of course weight shift and all that stuff again discussed in the videos on the site i'm not going to go into detail about it the whole key here is just to get those shoulders turning get your rib cage rotating around your spine now for the payoff how do we get back the other way okay well again out of these 70 000 lessons everybody throws the club from the top with their arms pushes from the right side and so on so this is the key to sequencing we're going to do this step by step together so i want you to pay close attention to what we're going to do here rotate back weights on the right side obviously now we're going to break this into chunks first thing i want you to take your left knee and move it over your left ankle not out past your left ankle not inside your left ankle not forward not back just take it and move it over your left ankle well notice my right leg didn't do anything yet if i can just move this knee as the first move the simplest way to think about this is like a pitcher or a football player anybody throwing something the first move is external rotation that gets everything starting to rotate forward in the golf swing it's the same thing we just don't get the benefit of that step so as you're going back the first thing you want to do to break this into chunks take that left knee and move it out over your foot it doesn't it can't move forward if it's moving forward that's too much it's a small movement now the second thing i'm going to do is essentially sit into that left side so you'll notice i've moved my left knee and i'm going to kind of sit almost like a squat move to get into that left side and this is what's going to start to bring my hips back to square i'm starting to sit and rotate a little bit to get my belt buckle back so watch me closely here left knee sit notice that my left knee doesn't move any further forward once i've got it over the ankle it's done that's back into neutral sitting into the left side and now i'm going to use this muscle that's loaded up my left leg and i'm going to start to stand up and push off of it let's do this one more time so rotate back nothing special here this is simple everybody can make a full shoulder turn right left knee sit into it post up done and we'll do this all together in one step turn left knee sit post up now if you look at me from face on that's a perfect golf swing i'm in a perfect impact position this looks just like tiger woods or any other great ball striker this is all i'm trying to do that is the entire golf swing that's the entire sequence right shoulder back left knee sit post done notice as i post my hips open up a little bit what did i do with my right leg nada i'm not going to talk about the right side that's when you start really trying to whale on stuff you don't need to worry about that right side right now we're going to focus on just getting the left sequencing the key to sequencing is the left side now let's do this from down the line so you can see it again from this perspective turning back just opening up my chest keep my shoulders back i want to see the logo on my shirt i've made a full shoulder turn here there left knee sit post up done look where my shoulders are they're dead squares perpendicular to the screen here straight down my target line turning back left knee sit post the entire golf swing the entire sequence the stuff that you have to do right was right there everything else is just details the arm movement is nothing compared to this if you can do what i just did you've literally mastered 90 percent of a tour caliber golf swing and it's that simple it's critical that you get these keys right shoulder back left knee sit post into your golf swing and if you can't do that right don't do anything else i don't care how you look at the top i don't care if your club face is shot i don't care if it's going way inside that's all arm stuff and none of that will work correctly unless your body is moving correctly so once you fix what your body's doing the rest of the stuff is a piece of cake so now i'm going to open up to some questions i'm sure you've got some questions about some of the sequencing there so i'm looking at the screen now go ahead and type them into the chat box if you've got questions i will try to get to as many of them as i can so go ahead with your questions i'm looking at the screen or you guys are going to make me feel really good if you don't ask any questions because that just means i explained everything perfectly clearly i don't see any questions any comments does it make sense all right steve good question roll the left shoulder in the backswing it doesn't do anything it's being turned it's being moved you don't do anything with your left shoulder in fact that's one of the greatest ways to mess up your swing is by pushing across the left side think about the golf swing happening from right here down from here up don't do anything with it how much do you sit without so i'm going to try to get to all these does the head drop during the squat it certainly can in most cases it does the more you squat the more muscle fiber you're recruiting but you don't want to make this some crazy move because then it's hard to recover from so a little tiny squat head depth is fine how do you sit without moving laterally well very simple i'm not moving my head when i'm sitting i'm doing my hips notice that my head doesn't move my hips do move laterally they have to you posting up raises the head no it's a good question though okay so i'm squatting down but as i'm posting up it's my hips that are moving not my upper body so when i'm posting up my hips are moving up but my head's staying exactly in the same place you can do this or feel this by putting your head against a wall and making this entire sequence and you'll see that your head doesn't have to move at all oh gosh lots of questions coming i'm trying to get to all of them here left knee hurts when posting up uh first of all you may be you may have some issues with your knee so you got to check that out first but most of the time if your left knee hurts it's because you're hyper extending it you don't need to lock this knee out you're posting up as if you're standing here talking to me that's the same amount of tension that you're going to have it doesn't need to be all ran broad straight and locked out to where you're going to tear your meniscus let's see oh gosh too many questions sorry okay how do you keep from rushing the swing well if you're doing it with your body it's virtually impossible to rush the downswing if you're doing with your arms you're going to rush it right away because your arms and hands can move very quickly but your trunk can't move that fast so you're not going to worry about rushing your swing when you're moving from the right parts of your body uh let's see when you squat how much do your hips rotate before you start to post up good question chip so once i squat there's a video on the site called squat to square so basically what we're doing is we're essentially squatting back to square to the target and then we start posting up so you're basically squatting back to square rich your knee always moves outside the ankle well get in front of a mirror rich and make yourself move your knee the right amount it's not that much movement if it's moving further than that you're pushing off the right side what is the weight distribution when you squat to the left i like to think about it i'm 80 on the right when i'm squatting back i get 50 50 and then i continue moving into the left side let's see do you use opposing force on takeaway and initiating transition opposing forces in the ground i think i understand what you're talking about but i'm not sure uh so if you can maybe explain that a little bit differently i can hopefully answer that let's see patrick i can really feel my right glutes activate is it good to overemphasize the squat to square until i feel the left glute the same as i can on the right side you should feel way more on the left side the right side doesn't need to be loaded up that much the right side being loaded up is more about being able to make a quick and powerful turn going back so this side needs to be stable but if it's really really tight then you're just kind of overdoing sitting into the right side going back let's see the over swinging with too much right elbow flexion at the top does this mean not enough width on the back screen it has nothing to do with what we're talking about right now we're talking about the body i don't care about your arm right now 90 of the people that we see in the lessons do not move their body anywhere near like what we just did and the entire golf swing revolves around this so if you move this correctly then we can worry about the arms later but for today we're not worried about that stuff can show what happens to the posted right leg look like once you've squatted so that initial squat move again it's all being driven by the left let me do it so you guys can see it this way left knee so the right knee is just kind of following along it's being moved because my pelvis is turning being moved by the left so the right knee is just kind of moving in slightly if i see this right knee kicked in like this which we see in all of our lessons just about people heel coming up in the air tilt your pelvis tilt your spine and that's where we start seeing a lot of problems let's see barry when you move the left knee to initiate doesn't right knee have to move also absolutely not why would my left right knee have to do anything left knee is doing all the initiation of that move business as you're shifting right to left should the inside of your right foot be pressing down not that's actually kind of got a trick question because when you start putting all this stuff together really well and really quickly then yes you actually can push it on the right side and torque on the foot and get some more power out of it that's a little bit overkill for what we're talking about today if you squat at the same time as using the knee is the bad i don't know what that means harthur doesn't the squat blow your posture lowers the club likely to dig in the dirt no why would you squat too much it's not like you're doing this that's all of my head moving that's it and then it's going my pelvis is moving up so people who think that they're you know changing all these positions and stuff it's a way over exaggeration the squat move is really subtle you're trying to activate load and stretch these muscles it doesn't need to be this massive squat mode it's not a workout let's see my pushing opposite direction of the ground relative the direction you want the club to go you are doing that with the left side for sure you're pushing up and back so yes that is correct gary regarding the squat and post how quickly should that move happen as fast as you can make it happen as long as it's done correctly there are no speed limits here so this is a whole trip to the swing when you want to swing fast the body is what needs to move fast and the arms are going to learn to keep up but typically people do the exact opposite the arms move fast the body doesn't move at all if it doesn't move very very slowly and just in response to what the arms are doing and we want the opposite your body as long as it's doing everything correctly we just talked about these simple little moves the right shoulder back left knee squat post then it can do that as fast as humanly possible let's see try to get to a couple more here before we move on where do you feel loaded to initiate the downswing there's a whole video on that what muscles you should feel in the downswing so look for that on the site you just search for muscle it'll pop right up where should the shoulders stay when you move knee then sit they don't worry about shoulders don't move don't worry about anything from here up if you're worrying about that stuff you're going to be off track worry about what's happening from here down and the shoulders will go exactly where they're supposed to you don't have to move your shoulders the shoulders get moved because they're attached to your pelvis via your spine and a bunch of connective tissue and a bunch of muscles and so on and so forth so don't worry about what that's happening worry about everything happening from here down all right so a bunch of questions there they're good questions so again to reiterate the whole golf swing getting the sequencing right is incredibly simple but here's the catch i can tell that most people don't worry about it they don't work on it and all these lessons that we see all the time it's all club movement arm movement this and that i don't care where that club goes if this stuff isn't doing exactly what i just showed you to do so if you get this working correctly then we start worrying about that other stuff so a couple more questions i'll try to get to you my hips tend to move toward the ball i assume the butt needs to stay back yep just means you're pushing off the right side there's a whole video on early extension on the site louise how are you when i do the squat move i make myself sit in the left heel while engaging the left quad it seems to help posting up a rotating this is exactly what i would do yep this is it this is the whole golf swing if you can do this stuff right this stuff is super simple the rest of the golf swing is going to fall into place for you if you take the time to master this now the trick is this part getting this to be your focus is the challenge for most people because they want to go out and play golf they want to go out and hit balls they want to go out and start swing swinging full speed right away and i'm all for that as long as this is done correctly the reality is we just typically can't do that our brain needs time to learn this movement even though this movement is incredibly simple it's no more complicated than what i just showed you but if you over challenge your brain and give it too much information too much stimulus well then it's just like anything else in life you've learned too much information is going to lead to paralysis so you've got to make things really simple so the more that you've practiced just doing this body movement by itself and then slowly introduce the arms and then the club exactly the way the five-step system is we add the left arm first so if you were going to stack this drill and start building upon it so again we've got this left knee squat post then i would just say all right step three guess what it is left arm squat excuse me left knee squat post look where my left arm is okay right now we're supposed to then i would stack that it may take me a day to get to that point it might take me a week it might take me a month it doesn't matter you're learning a proper swing so it's going to take however long it takes for you so then i would add the club notice i've got flipped upside down because i don't want all that momentum on there left knee squat post look where the hand is look all the lag i had didn't try to maintain lag didn't try to do anything with my hands and arms at this point that post up move is what would release the club then i would flip it around and so on and so forth that is the sequence that you learn the golf swing at least as far as rotary swing is concerned body first left arm club then the right arm so all right one more question is the right arm stay straight while doing this we're not talking about the right arm yet ultimately because we got to make sure you're doing your body movement correctly first the right arm is the very last thing that you need to worry about in the swing and most people are nowhere near at least from the lessons we've seen at the point where they need to worry about what this right arm is doing it's going to be told what to do by the body and the left arm the right arm obviously has the fold going back and has to release coming down but that's going to happen automatically when your body is moving correctly all right so now i want to talk about the grip first of i'm not going to get into the nuts and bolts of the position of the grip there's a whole video on that that gets into great detail about where the grip should be and the lines and all that stuff what i want to talk about is something i see quite a bit and that is the spacing of your hands on the club so i'll move close to the camera so you can see my hands here now a lot of times i see and there's actually a lot of old school way of thinking about the golf swing is that they teach you to kind of have this little trigger finger way down the shaft here and then your hand ends up spread way down the shaft and you can see i can get that set up there you can see a lot of left thumb here and turn to the sides you can kind of see this so this when you have your hands this far down the shaft where you're you know maybe an inch and a half away from the steel that is way way way too separated now why does that even matter well again you've seen videos on the site that talk about this pendulum motion of the swing the left arm acting as a pivot point and so on and that this left hand just needs to be a passive hinge passive clamp on the club and that's how the club is going to release automatically you never try and flip the face over your post up move and all the momentum of the club is going to allow this to happen now however you can slow this down or even stop it by having your hands down the shaft too far and it's going to cost you a ton of speed for no reason think about remember happy gilmore when he was putting right this is happy gilmore putting stroke maybe i should have practiced playing like that might have been better for me this obviously doesn't feel like you're going to move the club very fast your whole body's got to try and move to get this thing to go now this is an extreme exaggeration of this example but the same principle is true when your hands are a little bit down the shaft too far and that's why i hate this trigger finger idea one of the reasons i hate i also obviously encourages you to push against the shaft but as your hands are this far down the shaft and spread apart the hands now get to work independently and you're really going to want to push against the shaft so how do you get the proper feeling of the release and the grip working together here's what i want you to do so if you've got a club this is the time i want you to step up get up and grab it and we're going to start working through this so the first thing you're going to do is you're going to go just left arm only and i don't even worry about post up move or impact position or set up position just stand up and swing the club back and forth with just your left hand and your last three fingers only take your forefinger and your thumb completely off the golf club and swing it back and forth and what do you feel well you should feel as you're letting your wrist just swing the club back and forth and your wrist is very soft the club naturally wants to unhinge and uncock on the way down and release and turn over and it happens very fast i'm not putting any effort into this whatsoever this is the key once you start rotating your body correctly and you post up correctly we want to allow that club to release you never ever try and flip the club over you never try and release the club in fact if you have a proper grip you don't even have to try and square the club face that happens automatically it's way too hard to try and square the club face manually with your right hand which is exactly what you're trying to do when you slide your hand down the shaft even if it's just a half inch that alone makes a huge difference in speed and i'm going to show you how to feel so go back and forth just do this a few times no thumb no forefinger swinging back and forth don't don't even think about how to turn right now we're just focusing on the wrist and the release now put your right hand on and i want you to put your right hand right on top of your left it's not going to be touching the shaft at all it's thunder forefinger still off the club and do the same thing and you were asking alton earlier about what's the right arm do the right arm right now it's just following along with what the left arm is doing i'm not trying to do anything with it i'm not trying to put it in a certain position i'm turning my body just like we did at the beginning now of course i've advanced adding the club because we're trying to talk about the risks here so turning my body left knee sit post up and release so i'm going to do this back and forth while my right hand is just on top of my left now you should feel that that club has really got a lot of zip to it and you're not doing anything you're just trying to hold on again your hands are a passive clamp on the club when you think about that that way all of a sudden the consistencies that you're struggling with in your swing are going to start to go away because you are no longer in the driver's seat you're putting sir isaac newton in the driver's seat and you're putting his physics to the test that club naturally wants to rotate and release due to the momentum inertia that we have built up with our bodies during the swing now get used to that freeze flowing swing there's a lot of release speed here getting my right hand just on the left following along now do that same drill i want you to put your right hand separated by about an inch and a half on the shaft and do the exact same thing and then if you can if you feel comfortable you can even put it down here on the steel and you'll feel it's kind of yanking you around of course your hands are separated a little bit this is an exaggeration but you can feel how now everything kind of wants to work a little bit separately my hands have to release kind of a different point they're working differently they're working independent i no longer have the feeling of all the weight of the club head which when you take your left thumb and forefinger off the club and just hold on to the club with your last three fingers you don't have any choice there's the club's just too heavy and it's swinging too fast for to try and control it so all of a sudden you get this freewheeling release as soon as you put the right hand down here down the club now all of a sudden you've got to do something with your arm to try and help release the club and you're losing all of that effortless free speed by using your hands as a passive clamp so as you keep working on this this is a great drill to do anytime just putting your right hand on there on top of your right or on top of your left and let the club swing back and forward and then just slowly keep working it down some golfers i believe jim purick actually does a double overlap grip where his pinky and his ring finger on his right hand actually double overlap on his left hand this is a good way to force yourself to have this nice freewheeling release here in your actual swing it's a great way to practice you don't have to do that the right hand can sit on the club totally normal but you want that right hand slip up the shaft covering up that left thumb not down here where you can see the left thumb sticking out here because again that's my hand working independent so any questions on that grip grab a drink of water here why start reading some questions should the right thumb be on the top side top or side of the club that's covered in the grip video it sits just to the side of center did anybody get a feeling of that boost of speed without any effort when you had just your left hand thumb and forefinger off the club and you put your right hand on top of your left anybody get that feeling of the club kind of zipping through impact without you having to do anything this is all about effortless speed right so hopefully you guys kind of got that feeling it's a great drill to practice no questions on this yes doug all right cool you thought he felt the release there this is the beauty of the swing is getting your hands soft you don't want to be trying to steer the club square the face with your hands nobody can do that consistently unless you slow way down i want a ton of speed where i can hit a 196 200 yard seven iron without having to work for it that's the whole key it was just like it grazes the carpet and zips through it's exactly right you should never ever be trying to take a divot in the golf swing that may sound kind of counterintuitive like most stuff you hear from rotary swing tend to go against the grain a little bit if you're trying to push the club down that's your right hand taking the club and pushing it on a tangent path down instead of letting the club release my club face usually closes too much to control i have to feel that i'm holding it off is that correct no absolutely not if your club is closing too much there's something else going on you're flipping it over you're coming too far from the inside there's some other swing plane or path issue that's causing the club to flip over the club's going to release automatically that's why everything in the rotor swing is a system you can't look at one thing isolated by itself and say oh well this is happening so i need to change this that's how you start changing or chasing band-aid fixes in your golf swing there's something else fundamentally wrong that's causing that let's see can you use interlock grip sure no problem i overlap it's more of a preference thing there are some biomechanical fundamentals into it but i don't want to make too big of a deal out of it i do think that's a little bit easier for your hands to release when the right pinky is not locked into the hands but it's not a huge deal uh how do you stop the shoulders from moving with the knees and squat moving from the left side if you move from the left side your shoulders will not move i'm standing here like i can move my left knee completely without my left shoulder it's not my shoulders moving at all but let's focus just on the grip stuff now can you show placing both thumbs on the club with the proper grip i don't want to get too much into details on stuff that's already covered in great detail on the site there's a video on the site with the close-ups of the proper grip but that should show you pretty much what we're looking at should the right pad totally cover the left thumb that's a good question again covered in the grip video on the site but basically it covers the vast majority of it yes let me see if i can scroll if i saw a couple other questions go through that i didn't catch let's see don my lead hand feels like it's working hard doing this drill it will at first you've got to learn to create momentum with your body turn and everything else so the left hand can be light but if you're not used to using your left hand it may take some training to get comfortable with that let's see the top of the backswing should the thumb and forefinger be on the club yes absolutely when you're doing the drill it's perfectly okay for it to be off we're actually telling you to keep it off let's see arthur huge momentum that's great that's what we want to feel all right i think that's all the questions i see on the grip stuff so if you put just these two things together the sequencing of the body and your right hand no longer trying to be down the shaft and pushing against the shaft and causing it to work independent of the left consistency and effort of speed is going to be the byproduct the body is the star of the show the arms and hands follow along remember the rst mantra the backswing mantra big body turn tiny little arm swing your arms don't have to do that much when your body is moving correctly so now let's get to the money maker this is the most important one because we can make this beautiful backswing this great turn get loaded up properly have a proper grip where our hands are further up the shaft we're going to make that shaft effectively as long as we can remember for every half inch of shaft length that you have it's about two miles an hour of clubhead speed that's why your six iron swings faster than your seven iron so when your hands are further down the shaft you're just basically taking that seven iron and making it into a nine iron get your hands up near the top that's why your grips are tapered i talked about that in the video too about the left pinky and how that works but the key again you want to have this thing with as much leverage as you can possibly create because leverage is effortless power again if my hands are down here i've got to start adding a lot of effort to try and get that club to release my hands are way up the shaft you can feel the club just zipping through without you having to do a thing but how do we get that release with that with our hands being up on high on the shaft and our wrist being soft how do we get that to happen automatically that's what we're talking about in our third and final topic of tonight which is the post-up move so how do we get everything to release totally automatically it happens from the left side so when we started out we did this little left knee sit and when i'm talking about the sit we're just basically finishing our weight transfer sitting into it and getting our left hip in line with our left knee and over our left ankle that's neutral joint alignment this is critical because that's going to be the most powerful and stable and safe position for our left hip and knee and ankle to be in and that's going to allow us to then drive up off of it remember you always want to move in the opposite direction the club's going what direction is the club going in the downswing well it's going both out away from me right because the ball is out there and the club's coming from back here somewhere so the club's moving out which means i need to be moving this way if the club's going that way the club's also going down because the ball's on the dirt so i need to be moving up that's how you get the club to release automatically your hands are soft they're high up on the shaft and your left side is leading the only thing that we've got to do and the critical part of the post-up and again the stuff that i see done wrong all the time and all these online lessons we're doing is getting that left leg straight it's critical that you get it up and stop moving it's locked into place here now again you shouldn't hyper extend your knee you're not straightening it to the point that you're hurting your knee that's way way way too much but again think about like you're standing here talking to somebody that's how straight it has to be but the critical thing is that your hips have to post up and by post up that means stop moving we're done once we get here everything else is done it's not moving anymore so what happens is if this hip the lower body the pelvis is doing all of the movement in the downswing and it stops moving then what's going to happen to the club well it's not going to magically stop right there's all this momentum that's bringing the club down so as soon as you post up and stop and get locked into place that's when the club really zips through and you can see even just make these tiny little swings i can get a lot of speed by posting up and slamming on the brakes fully engaging my left glute straightening my left leg again not hyper extending as long as it's in neutral we're in a safe position where we can be assertive with it and the harder you're trying to hit the ball the more aggressive you're going to be with this but on your normal shot you don't have to be crazy it's not like you're trying to jump off the ground you do that with a driver when you're really wailing on one but what you really want to feel here is just getting it straightened up and stopping that's key the other important part of the stopping is it has to happen long before impact so if we're going to go back to our sequencing drill with the body and we add the arms to it left knee sit post up by the time my hands are here my hips should basically be done moving and all i'm going to have happen here is my hands are soft they're going to release and that is the entire swing if i can put those things together turning back left knee sit post up soft hands and as long as i stop moving with my hips the club's got to release it has to pick up speed because energy is going to be transferred up my hips stop moving everything else is still going the club rips through and that is the key to effortless power i'm going to talk about just for moment what i see nine times out of ten and that is that people are pushing off the right side and so as they come into impact their hips are still turning or their left knees bowed out because again they're pushing off the right side and so then the club just gets dragged through the hitting area and the shoulders keep turning and that is a death move for the swing and that you're never going to hit a 200 yard seven iron by continuing to rotate through you have to post up and the beauty of it is once you post up and stop moving it's free speed the hands and everything already set into motion and so this is going to be the key to getting effortless power out of your swing so so a couple questions come through so let's talk about some questions about getting post up uh doug in one of the roadshow videos you were trying to get a gentleman to post up sooner how soon should this just occur hopefully i just answered that doug i like to drill it the timing and sequence of this at speed can be slightly different but when you're drilling the sequencing left knee pose or squat post up i want the hands to be about in front of the thigh because from here there's nothing else to do but for the wrist to release so when you're practicing it drill getting your hands to here the club shaft should still be parallel to the ground and then the club's just going to release from there let's see david why rory's hips need to stop and the body will continue david is a great example rory's hips actually move backwards and then continue moving forward so yes it's exactly what he's doing he's just doing it so extreme that he's actually reversing the movement called torque and that's what's really aggressive with his release don't need to go that quite crazy but that is the idea how do you stay down while posting i tend to raise up and hit thin steve if you're raising up you're using your arms i guarantee it your body is not driving the down swing when you start throwing the club from the top your body senses this your proprioception takes over and it freaks out and everything stands up you lose your posture to keep from digging the club into the dirt do it again where should the clubs and hands be when initiating the post up okay so let me do the whole thing left knee sit to the left side starting to post up look where my hands are right in front of my thigh club shot parallel to the ground in the real swing the club would keep moving but my body is done let's see can't you move your left knee without weight shift is it hip rotation that moves the left knee no it's the left knee that moves technically it's external rotation from the pelvis that's moving the left knee and you're starting that weight shift during that time but then the weight shift is really going to start to happen as you start to sit more into that left side how do you stop raising the upper body of post you're using your arms steve as i mentioned before and that's why i don't hit a turn is it okay to start the move left before the backswing is completely finished in the real world that's exactly when it does happen brian it's a great question so we try to break things into chunks because most golfers can't learn it all in the dynamic sequence and speed well nobody can right if we can't learn everything full speed when we're doing it for the first time our brains just can't do it nobody can so when you're going back in the real world my hands would probably be about right here and still go well maybe a little bit though maybe 10 o 'clock 10 30 and then still going back while this left knee is starting to initiate everything back so yes your hands will still be going back while your body starts to get everything going back to the left so that's a really dynamic sequence and once you get the movements down we don't have to think through them mechanically you don't have to think through them at a conscious level of thought where you're going to tell yourself okay turn back and then now left knee okay now she said sit um and then post up it's going to start to happen fluidly dynamically and that's when you start getting real speed what causes swaying versus turning you're pushing there's a ton of videos on the side about this if you're swaying you're moving you're pushing from one side and pushing from the other so go look at those videos there's a whole video on the wall drill on how to stop swaying uh if you if you're at that point where you're standing up out of your posture and swaying your whole golf swing i promise you is happening from here up and nothing is happening from here down the way that we need it to so swaying is almost always caused from pushing instead of pulling you pull your right shoulder back your head's not going to go anywhere all right any other questions on the post up move we've covered the entire golf swing in 46 minutes actually 40 minutes because we started uh five minutes early so the whole thing turning back sequencing the lower body first that has to be your focus hands on the proper position on the shaft post up move it's all going to happen same movement for all clubs come on miguel come on guys can you please answer this question for miguel don't make me answer something like this anybody anybody going to help miguel out no one bueller thank you patrick why would it change when you pick up a different club your body didn't change your pelvis width didn't change your muscles didn't change your attachment points didn't change it's the same for every single club in the bag ball position is the same posture is the same obviously your posture is going to change a little bit because the length of the shaft but your body movements are the same this is the whole point of looking at the swing objectively the body is the whole key to the golf swing the body is going to tell the club what to do not the other way around let's see steve you did not mention starting the downswing before finishing the back so i actually did just talk about it um please do more of these rsc bonus this was the whole goal it took me a while to get the studio together but yes the whole point of rotary swing academy to be much more interactive and doing a lot more stuff interactive with you guys so that we can get questions done in real time and get feedback and questions answered stuff that we see all the time and you know things that are pertinent so yes i definitely plan to do more of the uh these rsa webinars so for sure that is the goal any other questions on anything that we've covered we literally if you can do just what we did and nothing else you are going to hit the ball like that the alarms are just going to follow along it's not that hard to move correctly the golf swing is impossible though when you're trying to learn it with just your arms and hands so you're welcome dennis thank you so much uh any other questions before we go uh thank you steve very kind what is the max distance of back and the left knee can move laterally ah good question david so i will answer that one so i wouldn't say that there's a max distance per se understand this the more that the left knee moves in the backswing the more that it has to move in the downswing and there's so little time to make all this stuff happen that you want to move it as little as relatively possible don't lock it in place but as long as you make that full shoulder turn that's our goal you've got to turn your hips however far you've got to turn your hips to allow that to happen depending on your flexibility but it shouldn't be much your left knee might move in an inch or two any more than that and we're really going to start putting ourselves in a position where we're going to really spin the hips out coming down and it's hard to time all that awesome thank you so much doug uh the release of the hands happen at the left shoulder the release is happening actually happening once those hands get here the hands are starting to release they've got to if you're holding your hands to here then the club's way too late and club face is either going to be wide open coming to impact or it's going to be digging a trench you're going to be digging squirrel graves can you face oh sorry i saw a couple more questions there i'm going to try to get to all of them in just a second uh you're welcome what is the intensity of the post i just mentioned that steve so hopefully you watch this replay and you will listen you'll get that point again uh showing the position of the club on the down the line yeah we didn't do that so that's a good good one so we go all the way to the top now left knee sitting into the left side starting to post up the club should work right down my right forearm right in line with my hands and then out on top the plane in the ball so hopefully that answers that try to get to a couple more here you're welcome i thought of the webinar jam pat so i will give myself a cookie just for you guys so you know i am a huge chips ahoy chocolate chip fan the original chips ahoy not that soft crap want the real deal like i had when i was a kid let's see can i just train with three fingers on the left hand absolutely we do that on drills all the time oops uh chip at the range today hitting the ball off left arm only great problems creeping with adding the right hand doing it too soon you've got to do the sequence to where you're just lightly you don't even touch the club with the right hand and then you mirror and then you lightly touch it just like i do in the five-step system it's critical that you don't add that right hand fully onto the club too soon when does the right foot come up and rotate it comes up when it's pulled up by the left side and do that with the left side to camera i'm not sure what you mean by that uh what causes the hands to separate the top uh i don't know what you're talking about steve unless you've got a really funky grip and a lot of sloppy wrist movement and your hands might come apart uh left foot flare out to best achieve these moves that's discussed in the video on should you flare your left foot at address so the video on that uh business maybe talk briefly about what percent of weight on each side as you're moving as i mentioned dennis uh we'll come back in front of the camera for that one for a second so weight shift on the backswing is going to be 70 to 8 i actually go 85 to the right um so 70 to 85 to the right is pretty much normal for most tour pros and then you get you go back to kind of the squat to square you're 50 50 more or less you may feel more pressure on the left but you're going to keep transferring that weight as your pelvis you'll see once i'm over here i do the squat to square my pelvis is still transferring weight and that's when i get to 80 90 on the left side is at impact right before i release the club very kind of you bob thank you uh let's see who offered me a moscow mule i saw that somewhere i want to miss that thank you harry very kind all right copper mug my man that's what i'm talking about can you show us a squat move with left side facing the camera uh richard i may be retarded but i think you mean this so if this is correct i'll do the whole thing this is a good good idea though to put it all together and seeing it from up the line although most people don't video this but if you have a mirror you can at least see what's going on here so we're going to go here left knee sit post up there are my hands in front of my thigh and i'm just released from there let's see best money you've ever spent thank you william very kind very kind guys thank you for all the compliments i appreciate it my arms come low and inside even with a good takeaway steve you need to focus on your body and get a swing review immediately because the questions that you've asked show me that you have uh you're lacking understanding of the core fundamentals of rst so please get a swing review up as soon as possible so we can get you going on the right track what causes the shoulders to be closed after posting up would be not enough hip rotation uh what caused me to hit right as a left -hander jim that is there's a million things that go on there so please focus on the core rst five-step system go through the fundamentals right don't worry about ball flight yet because if you are you once you learn the five-step system let me answer this for everybody real quick ball flight is a result of what you did with everything else right once you start boiling the swing down to something stupidly simple like i just showed you just this that's the whole freaking golf swing that's everything diagnosing every single miss will come right back to this because if this is the core and if this is working correctly the arms have no choice but to go more or less where we want them to as soon as the arms start taking over the body movement then you're gonna have every miss under the sun you're gonna fat then chunky left right etc so focus on the body movements first and then the ball flight stuff is really simple to diagnose let's see uh all the certified instructors that we have are listed on the site if you go under the instruction tab we have everybody listed there um actually i feel my left three fingers is taking the ride with the club yeah absolutely you should feel this is what that video i just put out the other day about the two club drill the stuff we just did tonight you can do the same stuff with two clubs it's harder of course but then you really get the feeling of the momentum of the club it taking over your hands and giving you this free boost of speed and your hands the last three fingers are just along for the ride please thank you so much appreciate the kind words all right any other questions guys we'll wrap it up it's been about an hour hopefully we got a lot out of this there's a lot of material in here and there's going to be a replay available so you can watch this again you should get an email on it with the replay link pretty much right after this so hopefully there's a lot of stuff i covered on a short period of time but uh any other questions great thank you awesome thank you guys all right guys thank you so much i hope you enjoyed it and if you've got any other questions post them on the site and we will uh see you soon take care

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Jeremy
Hi, I’m interested in some kind of device that is going to check the core swing statistics that are helpful and relevant. What is that device Chuck is using here? And do you have any recommendations that are under 1000? I’d love to know my clubhead speed, ball speed, smash factor, carry/roll distance and any other relevant stats that RST views as useful. Thank you!
August 22, 2023
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jeremy. Unfortunately, the more expensive ones provide the most accurate data. The one Chuck is using we sell on the site. ES14 Launch Monitor. He also uses a GCQuad as well.
August 22, 2023
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Jeremy
Thanks Craig, I also meant to ask do you have any recommendations on hitting mats that are good for joints? I’m currently looking at the Simturf EZ Tee Hybrid.
August 23, 2023
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jeremy. Some players I know use that one and are satisfied. (Other than price). I will ask some review students that hit indoor what they use.
August 25, 2023
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Kyaw Thet
Hi Craig, Thanks for your comments on my videos uploaded on facebook group (my facebook name is "Jiv" in case you got confused ) Can I use the right hand grip that Chuck showed here for my actual games?
November 26, 2020
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jiv. Absolutely if you are going to be a lead side swinger. The only issue in a real game you will lose a little support in the backswing if going at a strong pace.
November 26, 2020
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Kyaw Thet
Thanks Craig; I haven't played on the course for around 7 months since I joined RST. Keep working on the DEAD Drill to achieve my focus on the body movement. May be I will send you a swing review once I play in the course. Now I am trying to get comfortable hitting full swing with lead arm only. Is that OK?
November 26, 2020
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
I would recommend that when you go full swing add some trail support. No need to hit full lead arm only shots. Yes. Once, you get out. Film the move so we have an idea for adjustments.
November 26, 2020
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Kyaw Thet
Thanks Craig, Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2020
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Jens
Once i externally rotate my lead leg. Am i assuming right that the sitting into the left side is squatting and pulling my left oblique, so the opening of the hips is done the same way in the transition as in the post up, just that i squat instead of posting?
November 17, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jens. Yes. The shift/squat/oblique to help sit and square the hips. Similar to the post, but the lead leg won't be straightening and the glutes won't fire to full engagement/contraction.
November 17, 2019
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Jens
I feel that i get a better awareness of my left leg if i first squat slightly and then externally rotate my left leg and then pull from my left side. Does this mess the sequence up or is it ok to do it in this order to feel the muscles that need to fire?
November 17, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jens. You have to start shifting the weight first. What I would be afraid of is that you will lack initial transfer, or the hip socket will start getting out ahead of the knee joint too much.
November 17, 2019
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Jens
I found this one cuz i remembered seeing it existing at some point when i was a premium member. It doesnt show up under my RSA folder however. Noticed the other videos in the playlist arent there either. Are there other series i should be aware of that i can search for now that i am an RSA member?
November 17, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Jens. Everything should be under your RSA Academy. I can't think of any that aren't listed there. I will update this post if I find more.
November 17, 2019
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Jens
Might just be my phone browser then. Will check from computer!
November 17, 2019
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Kim
Trying to get the post up move right in the Boot Camp drills! In order to maintain spine angle and axis tilt during the post up move, does the left hip move from square after “squat to square” to moving behind and back during the post up move, thus opening the hips and bringing the arms down to the right thigh?
September 22, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Kim. Exactly. The hip not only moves up, but must move back.
September 22, 2019
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Tom
A technical request - I think it would be very helpful for Chuck to also face like he was going to hit a ball at the camera when he is demonstrating proper movements so that we could see what we would see in the mirror when we are working on our reps. Even better if he could show, perhaps at the end through the magic of technology, reversed views so we could see the image exactly how a right-handed player will see themselves in the mirror while practicing.
July 23, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Tom. I will make sure your request is viewed by Chuck.
July 23, 2019
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Tom
41:00 to 41:17 ----> RST in 17 seconds! Excellent instruction delivered in a clear manner. Thank you
July 15, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Tom. Exactly. Thanks for the post. Keep it simple.
July 16, 2019
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Mario manuelito
Good day I am A subscriber of RotarySwing through the internet and it has helped me a lot. Am I not eligible to access the latest webinar? Thanks Mario coronel
July 12, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Mario. The webinar is for the RSA Membership only. Not the normal Premium RST Membership. I apologize. If you are a RSA Member. Please Contact Customer Service.
July 12, 2019
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Mario manuelito
Thanks Craig for the fast response. Sorry I misunderstood. Watching the videos as a normal premium RST member has helped my golf game a lot and has brought back the joy in playing golf. It’s sad though that I can not access the latest Webinar . Thanks a lot again and more power to the RST team. Have a great day .
July 12, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Mario. My pleasure. Thank you for the compliments. The RSA Membership basically gives you the clinic experience without having to travel to one of our clinics. That's why we have to have a separate deal.
July 12, 2019
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Scott
Hi Craig. Just letting you know I’m still working on things and will get some video to you next week.
July 13, 2019
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Hello Scott. Great. No worries. I have been out of town and won't return until Monday. Let's get to it!
July 13, 2019
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John
This was worth the entire cost of joining the program. Thanks
July 11, 2019
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Chuck
You're welcome! Had fun doing it!
July 12, 2019

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