RSA Full Swing Kaboodle

Want to learn how to put ALL the pieces together in one program? Then my Whole Kaboodle program is what you're looking for. This is for those that have the major pieces of the swing developed already and want to take it to the course as one full swing drill. This is a culmination of all your work. I take you from setup to the perfect backswing all the way to the follow through. It's really for "glueing" all the pieces together into one beautiful, effortless move.

Hey guys.

So this video is going to take you all the way through the entire swing.

This is how we work through the afternoon parts of the clinic, where we take our intellectual knowledge.

We learned inside, and we start applying that into kinesthetic awareness and getting your body to do these new moves.

Now, a couple disclaimers if you will.

First of all, this is the entire golf swing.

So not everybody is going to be ready to take on this whole thing.

So I'm going to break it into chunks exactly the same way that I do in the clinics, but I'm going to go from beginning to end, which is where we start from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, where we end up at the end of the day.

So if you're not doing the first pieces correctly, don't go on to the next piece because you're not ready yet.

But if you keep working on it and then you start doing those pieces correctly, then you add on the next piece and so on and so on, that's when you're ready to put this whole thing together.

So if you get to the end of this video and you're doing all these movements correctly, You can do repetitions with the entire golf swing and learn a Tour Pro perfect golf swing from beginning to end just by watching this video and applying everything.

Now again, you may not be able to do all these movements correctly.

There's nothing wrong with that.

You just need to drill them individually.

Do the first pieces of it or go back to some of the other follow along videos where I've broken out chunks and made it into smaller, more digestible pieces that you can work on just by itself, like the release or weight shift or whatever it may be.

Like I said, this one beginning to end the whole kit and caboodle.

So first, you don't need a golf club, but the most important thing, the first thing we're going to tackle is obviously getting set up correctly.

I'm going to assume that you're already set up correctly, proper stance width, axis tilt, etc.

Arms across your chest, and we're going to do our two things that we've got to focus on here.

Right shoulder back, push the right ankle into the ground.

You'll notice as I'm doing this and you're doing it along with me, I'm going to start pointing out some of the critical aspects, where people make mistakes and how you're going to start correcting them and feeling them.

As I'm looking in the mirror, the one thing I want to make sure is that my right shoulder is higher than my left.

So a lot of times what I tell people is that the left shoulder has got to go down.

Now it's only rotating perpendicular to my spine.

My spine is bent over, so you can see that my left shoulder has to go down.

We see this all the time.

So left shoulder down, right shoulder back, continue to do these reps.

You're working on the perfect takeaway.

You're only going halfway back.

So upper body stuff, right shoulder back down and in, left shoulder down under the chin, halfway back, arms across the chest.

Second piece, this right hip.

A lot of people make a lot of mistakes here that throw their entire golf swing off.

Keep doing these reps.

What I want you to start to feel is that you're pushing your right ankle and this right glute is engaged while you're pulling your right shoulder back, right ankle, right glute, right shoulder.

Those are kind of the simple thoughts for the takeaway.

You don't need to do anything else.

So I'm pushing that right ankle on the ground.

Feel that right glute activated.

Mistakes that we see all the time, turning my hips and my chest together.

This is the lazy man way to do it.

You're not storing any energy.

You're not recruiting any muscle fiber from your torso that we need where you can see here, my hips have barely moved at all.

They're going to move a tiny bit laterally and a little bit rotationally so they look like they stay on that right hip line, like I talk about in the right hip line video.

But I'm not letting my hips over rotate.

This takes all of that stored energy and gets rid of it.

You're going to feel no tension here.

So make sure there's a couple little checkpoints that you see that your belt buckle almost stays pointing at the mirror the whole time.

Right ankle, right shoulder.

So don't let that knee buckle in.

The left knee is going to almost stay where it is at address.

It moves a little bit, but not much.

So from here, we're grooving that takeaway.

I'm going to challenge you a little bit.

Put your hands out in front of your chest, or you can start with them up against your chest at first.

Keep doing the same movement.

What we're doing here is we want you to start to feel whether or not you're pushing with your hands.

If you're doing this correctly, you're probably going to start feeling that right glute waking up on you.

I'm already feeling it.

It's starting to do a lot of work because I'm loading into that right side while pulling that right shoulder back.

Even almost starting to break a little bit of a sweat because as I twist my rib cage, these muscles literally compress my rib cage.

It actually increases my blood pressure.

And so you may start to work a little sweat.

You're going to get a little exercise out of this.

That's not the worst thing in the world for you.

So keep doing it.

Hands in front of your chest.

When you're done with your takeaway, your hands should still be exactly where they started.

You're doing well with that.

You extend them out about halfway.

Same thing.

My hands, when I finish my takeaway, still right in front of the center of my chest.

So I'm still checking myself in the mirror, making sure I have axis tilt.

You'll start getting into this stuff where you start dealing with no tilt.

That's how you get into the old reverse pivot.

So keep checking yourself in the mirror.

Right shoulder back, right ankle, right glute.

Hands in front of the chest.

A little bit further out, same motion.

Notice I'm not moving my hands.

My hands are being moved by my body.

That's the key.

Hands don't do much during the takeaway.

Now I'm going to go all the way out to a dress, just like I'm going to hit a club, hit a ball, same thing.

Watching my hands in the mirror, notice the gap between my forearms.

There's a little bit of one, but it's not like this.

This is if I tilt my shoulders, and if I turn really flat, notice you can't see a gap at all.

So as I turn 90 degrees to my spine, there's a little gap between my forearms.

Not one that Flipper could jump through, it's not a big hoop here, but you need to see a gap in between your forearms in the mirror.

As we look down the line, notice that my hands, as I turn, are going to end up right about, try to make sure I'm square with the camera, right about over my toes when they're pocket Again, not moving my arms, moving my body.

You can see the logo on my shirt.

If I just swung my arms, it would look like this.

Notice that my right elbow is bent, left elbow is wanting to start to bend, and my logo gets smashed.

I want you to be able to see it, so I'm actually turning my logo.

Those of you that have the rotary connect, which should be all RSA members, take that rotary connect, move that bar up against your chest, and think about turning the bar to the mirror, not moving your arms.

That's a huge key, and what that rotary connect is so good for, and that's why I want you to use it.

So halfway back, keep doing these reps, we can shake hands.

That's my other checkpoint for the takeaway.

Your left hand, as you go back, you and I can shake hands.

It's not like this.

It's not like this.

We're shaking hands halfway back.

Now, done a little bit of work here.

You've probably built up a little bit of sweat, a little bit of tension, a little bit of fatigue.

That's a good thing.

Take a break.

It's more important to be super focused on what you're doing, paying attention to these little checkpoints that I'm giving you, feeling the muscles engage, watching yourself in the mirror to see when you start to do your swing faults, moving your head off the ball, sliding your hips, kicking that knee in, turning your belt buckle with your chest.

Those are all fatal flaws that are going to cause a ton of compensations in your swing.

So shake that out a little bit.

Now what do we do next? Well, before we go to grabbing the club and all that stuff, I want to get the downswing sequence put together as well.

So we're going to go back to our arms across our chest, axis tilt, good setup.

Remember we're hinging from our hip socket, chin back, shoulders back.

A little takeaway drill, that all looks good there.

Now what do we do from here? Shift to the left using that left leg.

You're kind of sitting into that left glute, not pushing off your right, sitting in, pulling with that left leg and posting up on it and getting your hips rotated to about 30 to 45 degrees open.

So now my belt buckle kind of out over my shoe, not at the mirror, out over my shoe.

Let's do that again.

Right shoulder back, right glute, left leg, post up.

When I say post up, I mean straighten that knee.

It's not locked out and hyperextended.

It's straight kneeing and it's straight to the point as if you were standing here talking to me.

Think about doing a squat.

When you do a squat, you don't lock your knees out and hyperextend them.

You get them into neutral.

The same is true here.

We need to be able to continue to apply force and post up and stabilize so that knee is straight.

I see this all the time.

This is a terrible place, weak place, and also a place that you can damage your knee.

It typically only happens when you push off your right side.

We're not pushing.

We're pulling and sitting into that left and posting up, ramrod straight.

If you grab a club and drop it down from the center of your hip socket, you can kind of use your first belt loop as a little cheat guide, a straight plumb bob line.

Should go from the center of your hip socket, center of your knee, center of your ankle.

That's golden.

And that's what we're trying to do every time.

So let's go back again.

Right shoulder, right glute, left leg, left glute, post up.

Hips open.

Guess where my shoulders are? Right shoulder, right glute.

Make sure this right knee is not straightening up as you do this.

Maintain about the same flex that you had it addressed.

You'll lose some, but this is going to allow your hips to over rotate and tilt.

So try and feel that you've kept that same knee flex.

That's going to keep your glute engaged.

Now shifting to the left, posting up, look at my shoulders.

If I just dropped my arms down in front of me, guess where they'd be? Perfect impact position.

That's what we're trying to get here.

Right shoulder, right glute.

Left ankle, left glute.

Didn't do anything with my shoulders.

We see this all the time though, and this is devastating.

That's not a golf swing.

That's a really weak way and a guaranteed way to cast it and come over the top.

So, don't turn your shoulders.

Shift and turn your hips.

That's what allows the club to shallow out, maintain lag, and get into a stable impact position.

Let's see if we can do that with our arms now.

So, arms extended out.

Right shoulder, right glute.

Left ankle, left glute.

Look where my hands are.

That looks like a pretty good impact position.

I've got a nice secondary tilt.

My shoulders are in their proper position, 90 degrees to my spine.

My head's back behind the ball.

Left wrist nice and flat.

Post it up on the left side.

Right foot rolled to the inside.

Not heel up.

That's pushing off the right.

During all of these drills, there's no reason for that right heel to come up.

So let's do it again.

Right shoulder, right glute.

Left ankle, left glute.

Post up.

And now we're going to get to the release point in just a moment.

Right shoulder, right glute.

Post up and release.

Now the release, I like to do it where your right hand stops at impact.

Your left hand turns over.

You can shake my hand this way.

So I'll turn so you can look up the line now.

Right shoulder, right glute.

Left ankle, left glute, release.

We're shaking hands.

Not this.

Definitely not this.

This is what we see more often than not where people just pull the club through or shove it through with their hand and never let the club release.

It must be allowed to rotate over and release.

So right ankle, right shoulder, left ankle, left glute.

As I release, I'm going to keep that right shoulder away from the ball as long as humanly possible.

So get back into my setup.

Turn back.

Post up and release.

My arm stops.

My shoulders are square.

Hips are open.

And now, keeping my hand here, I'm going to reach under, not across, under with my right hand to get it into an impact position, or excuse me, a release position.

It also has to rotate in order to get there.

So let's try it again.

My hand is rotated and released, catching up with the right.

Now, let's put this whole thing together in a little drill where you can actually hit balls.

You don't need to hit balls yet.

I don't want you hitting balls yet.

I want you just focusing on the body movements.

So I've got a club here.

It doesn't matter what club you use.

We usually use a second iron.

I happen to have a three wood.

It makes no difference.

I'm going to go left arm only during this drill initially.

Shift to the left.

Post up.

Now notice that as long as I don't do anything with my arms and hands, I get into a perfect impact position with this three wood.

That's all I'm trying to get into right now, here, halfway back.

Notice I've got tons of width.

My hands are pocket high from down the line.

The club is straight over my feet.

I'll show you that in just a second, shifting, posting up, impact, done.

Let's take a look at down the line, do the same thing.

As I go back, my hands should be right about over my feet.

If anything, if you make a mistake on any side, keep the club head slightly outside your Don't make this mistake.

This is way too much rotation.

Turn back.

The club's right in line, shift, release.

Turn back, load up on the right, shift to the left.

Post up.

Notice that my shoulders are square.

Now from here, I'm done.

My body is done, and all I'm doing is letting the club release.

Turn back, shift, post up, release.

Make sure when you shift that you get all the way over to the left.

As I'm doing this, I should still have about this much lag angle when I'm doing these drills.

If you're like this, this isn't going to work.

There's no power left here.

Now you've just got to drag it through or flip it through so that you're not doing anything with your arms.

You're shifting, posting up, and then letting the club release.

That angle must be there to have something to release.

That's what I want you to really concentrate on.

You almost feel that the left palm is able to hold the club with the last three fingers without it going anywhere, without it dropping.

You're almost able to effectively push down.

You're not going to do this in a real swing, but it's a helpful feeling at first to keep your hand on top of the club to keep in this point where you have lag, and then let it go.

Let it release.

Now, let's see the hard part.

You've got 90% of the golf swing down.

The rest of it's just details.

So now, we're going to put our right arm in there, but it's barely going to be involved with the club.

In fact, at first, I'm not going to let you touch it at all, it's just going to mirror it.

Same thing.

Notice I've got my nice wide takeaway.

My right arm is perfectly straight.

It's exactly like the drill we were doing with no club earlier.

Shifting to the left, posting up, release, let the right arm stop at impact.

Now in the mirror, try and keep your right shoulder in the same position while you reach across and let your right arm rotate to get to the ball.

You'll notice you have to pull your arm back a little bit, and you'll have to let your shoulders turn a little in order to get your hands on the club.

Many of you are going to be in this position or this position.

This is the chicken wing.

How did you get here? It's purely from pushing with that right side.

So forget that stuff.

That's why we're letting the right hand come off.

Shifting and posting up, release, right arm stops, reach under.

You're going to notice as you do this, your shoulders are going to be steeper than you may be used to if you're used to doing this and just pushing from the right side.

So that's okay.

Here, under, trying to get my shoulders to get steeper, to get my hand on the club, not flatter and across.

You may notice that this position is a little bit challenging to hold or uncomfortable.

That's okay.

In the real swing, you move through it in a thousandth of a second, never really hold that position.

So don't make yourself stay in this position because it's not very comfortable.

It's something you move through so fast, you won't even know that you do it.

But what I want you to gather from this is learning how to release the club independent of your body.

Notice that my body's not really moving, but just on these little swings, I got a pretty good chunk of speed here.

My right arm's not really doing anything.

My shoulders aren't doing anything.

My hips are just posting up.

I'm just using that left leg to create speed by pushing that leg into the ground.

My shoulders stay back, chest stays back.

So, now, as you start to go out and hit balls or do this inside into a net or what have you, I'm going to let you slowly start to touch it with your right hand, but I literally want your fingertips only.

So, I know you're going to laugh at first, but trust me, as soon as we do this, we're going to see all kinds of bad stuff happening.

So make sure you're looking in the mirror as you're doing this because I'm going to see a lot of this.

What happened here? I didn't turn anymore because now I have my right hand on there and I think, hey, let me just pick the club up.

And now my right arm's bent.

I didn't turn.

I've got no power.

We're right back to where we started, even because we're just touching it with our fingertips.

That's how deadly this right hand stuff can be for most amateur golfers until they train this left hand properly.

And your body, of course.

So, right hand is just touching with fingertips, halfway back.

Nice wide takeaway, shift, post up, right hand stops at impact.

Keep training to get into this impact position.

Same thing, fingertips.

Back, shift, release, pull the club back.

Keep checking yourself in the mirror that you look like me into this position.

Now eventually, what I want to do is start holding onto the club longer and longer.

So I'm going to wrap my fingers around it just a little bit more, not just the fingertips on the side.

But now I'm going to let my fingers very lightly cradle it.

Halfway back, check in the mirror that my takeaway is good.

Shift, release, I'm going to start letting it hang on there a little bit longer.

Lightly touching it.

This is the old VJ release drill, right? I'm barely holding onto it, putting it all together without the pauses, right? It's okay to break this into chunks like this.

Stop and check, shift, stop and check, stop and check, and so on.

Your goal is eventually to make it to where those pauses become more one fluid movement, but don't rush to get there.

Take your time.

Stop and check and make sure the position's right.

These are easy positions to get into when you take your time.

And then you're just going to slowly start ramping up the pace, slowly start keeping your right hand on there a little bit longer, slowly start adding some speed right now.

For those of you that are ready for it, what we're going to do from here is pretty awesomely simple.

How do we hit it any further? I want you to turn back a little bit more instead of going to take away a little bit more rotation.

Notice I've turned about 70 degrees, shift and release.

Club goes a little bit past three o'clock on the other side, halfway back, same thing.

Still watching myself in the mirror as I do all this, getting some pace, getting some release in there, a little bit of down cock.

So that time I added a little bit more pace by keeping my wrists nice and soft as I shifted.

That's what brought me into this delivery position with a lot of lag.

I was able to release it and get a lot of speed without a lot of effort.

A little bit more.

And so you notice even into that position, I'm still looking down or looking at the mirror, not looking out to go see the ball.

That's how you're going to come out of your posture.

We see it every day in the clinic, so please, please, please keep your head down.

Don't turn your chest to go see the ball and make sure on every single drill that you're doing that that left arm remains straight, non-negotiable.

If we need that width and we need that pendulum release from this arm.

So if we keep doing this, we know you're pushing off the right side.

You're shortening the radius of the swing and you're costing yourself speed.

So from this point on, it's simply a matter of making a little bit bigger turn.

Nothing is changing from the drill from where we started here or excuse me, here, here.

It's all the same stuff from nine to three.

That's the whole golf swing.

So all you're going to do from this point on, maybe you can only go here and do the drill correctly.

That's okay.

Take seven, 10, 14 days.

Keep doing that as you get that down, add a little bit more turn.

You're going to be surprised how far that ball is going to go with so little effort.

When you start maintaining lag the right way, when you start turning your body to create power, when you start shifting your weight to bring the club down, remember going halfway back.

And if I just try and keep my arms up here and shift, look where my hands are.

I tried to literally keep my hands up there.

All I got to do now is just release it.

Pretty simple.

From here, you're just going to slowly keep making a bigger turn and slowly work into a full swing.

Keep doing these reps.

Drops, shift, right shoulder back.

Even if you need to pause here, shift, release.

Same thing this way.

As you're going back, just start checking.

Club head is straight in line with my hands.

Keep turning.

Shift.

You can watch yourself in the mirror.

As you shift, that club should shallow out.

If you're going this way with your arm, it's when you're going to see it change that it goes like that.

And that's how you start coming over the top.

If you find that you're doing that, go to the top.

Left arm only.

Shift.

Your left arm will just want to fall down naturally right into position.

Same thing.

And then you just keep adding more and more.

And that is the whole golf swing, the whole kit and caboodle, and that's how you get from A to B to C, all the way to Z.

Full swing, full speed, full release, following the RST five step.