Hey everyone. We got Shawn Sav and Mu right here at your service today. And we're going
to be talking about how to start your golf swing. And it's such a huge subject. It's
like you're standing there looking over the ball still as a statue. And you're thinking,
how do I start this thing? Do I go with my need? Do I go with my hip or go with my hands?
What do you go with? Mu, If you had a tree to cut down with that ax, would you have to think
about how to start that ax swing? No. Sav, If you're waiting for a serve in tennis with my
1978 Owen Davidson tennis racket, which is like... Oh my goodness, 1970, you were born in 95.
Yikes! Would you have to think about what to do to start your swing? No. And if you're waiting for a
baseball pitch, you notice how every ballplayer is constantly in movement, but yet in golf,
crickets... We'll show you exactly how to be in your state of mind. So you don't have to
put up with what the think about before starting your golf swing. Stay tuned.
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Okay. Down to business, you are standing over a chip, a pitch, a bunker shot,
a drive. You, you have to already feel like you in motion. And one of our favorite drills
is called the perpetual motion drill. So let's say Sav that that tennis racket was a sword.
You want to use a sword instead. Sure. And you had a bamboo shoot here in front of you.
Let me see you swing back and through and slice through it in both directions.
You're not thinking about what to start the motion with right now, right. No,
because you're already in perpetual motion. You're
already in that action. So if you're getting ready to, I'll give you a nice command here.
If that was a nice machete and you're getting ready to slash through that bamboo shoot,
and you want to use the weight of the machete to do your work, what would that look like?
Right. So at a dress, when you be like getting ready to give it a good slash right now,
you're kind of, you're kind of in the union, right Do you really want me to do this again
You want to do the tennis So show me how you would wait for a serve in tennis.
Yeah.
You go a little shimmy right back in through. So why are you moving so that I can get ready?
Because the ball is coming at you so fast? You need to anticipate, you need to anticipate you
need to react. Now here's the deal. There are two aspects of how we perform tasks in everyday life.
If you were a dentist and you're standing over your patient's mouth, and you've got a drill in
your hands or one of those little hooks there to get rid of the tartar, would you be tap dancing
around that mouth? No, no? You're like still like a statue because your brain is getting ready
to help you perform a very precise manipulation. So when your brain senses, you're trying to
manipulate the tool to perform your task. It will create stillness. It'll freeze your body. So when
you take your phone out of your pocket, and you want to write, maybe you're a little bit more
adept than that. Apple watches all of a sudden, you're going to be still. So you can make these
fine manipulations to do your digits with, right? Now Mu, if you had an ax in your hands
and this was a tree just so happened, it just so happens. So show me how you would get ready.
I'll give you two tasks, one to split the log. Okay Alright.
There you go. So there's your famous over the top swing because
we're going that way. But if you're cutting down the tree, what would that look like
Exactly. So when you're getting ready to start, let's say you got your acts in your hands and
getting ready to deliver a big blow. Are you entirely still? Are you're getting ready to
use the weight of that ax. There you go. So you feel how you're you're heaving the ax into the
backswing, right. So whenever we're getting ready to use a weight like that, if I had a sled sham
and I wanted to do, let's say a chipping action, right
So I'm standing here. Let me get rid of that. I'm standing here, and that sucker's just hanging
from my shoulders. I'm gonna put one of these towards you guys. So I'm going to use the weight
of this sledgehammer to perform the task for me. So then, when I come to the ball
if I'm waiting there in the stillness, how the heck am I going to move this thing?
It's very difficult to do, but if I pick it up and now it feels like, okay, there we go. I'm going to
give a little heave and let the weight of the hammer do the work. So whether you're putting
or you're chipping, or you're doing pitch shots or full swings, we're always ready to use the
weight of the arms. Right Right. One arm is about 9% of your body, weight times two, plus a club
for a 200-pound person like me, that's a good 40 pounds. So I got 40 pounds of arms and club that
I'm getting ready to, you know, perform my task with. Right. But if you know, like many of you
are saying, Yeah, but Shawn, I have a really hard time feeling the weight of my club. Right, right.
That's because you're getting ready to manipulate the club to meet something. So if you set up here
and you're getting ready to manipulate the club to meet the ball, it's, you know, especially for a
guy likes you, man, it's like, man, I can't feel this thing, especially when the pressure's on.
But if you let it hang from the shoulders, you feel the weight of your arms and clubs swinging
from the shoulders. Right now, I'm feeling the G forces of this arm club, unit tracking. Right So,
if I'm getting ready to let that arm club unit track, then all of a sudden, my body is reacting
to the arm swing. But as soon as I try to manipulate the club to meet the ball,
so I'm going to, I'm looking at the ball, I'm going to make sure I put that
very small center of gravity, of the golf ball and the small center of gravity of the clubface.
And I'm getting ready or center of mass, I should say, and I'm getting ready to place it. The
brain says, Hey, wait a second. We're looking, it looks like this is a careful operation. Right So,
as soon as you start being careful, the brain is going to was going to really freeze your body. And
now you can't move anymore. Right. And that's where, if you look at some of our past videos,
we talked about throwing the club, but with the legs, right. Initiate that kinetic chain.
So let's do that for a second. So let's take the sledgehammer and what I want you to do.
Let me put something out there. Let me give you a golf ball to throw that with. So I'm
going to give you a target. Okay. So let me see you heave that hammer over that ball right there.
Yeah. Nice. So notice as he was doing that, you'll see, I'll, I'll even put that in slow motion for
you guys. You'll see that after he finishes taking it back, there's a squat that occurs,
and he's using the ground to him, the hammer out there. That's a big one. Right?! So that's why
we talk about how we're throwing. We want to feel like we're throwing the club in the direction of
the target. So if we were to throw a here, move here's my left hand at six iron. All right. So,
take that sticky glove off for me. Would ya Okay. This is, by the way,
this glove is called the claw. Right. And we're testing it right now. And B and I noticed the one
when they call me up, the, the material you have here is just like your receiver material, right.
When your receiver days, it's really grippy. So if you have a tendency to sweat from your hands,
this glove is amazing. So it's perforated here. It's very light on top. And this grippy stuff, you
know, even when it gets wet, it grips like crazy, right So in the rain or in the, in, in sweaty
hands situations or things like that. So I've seen a lot of sweaty palms in my career. And usually,
those people have about 10 gloves in the bag. And when one gets too wet, they air it out on, they
have a special little rack, they have a, you know, what I'm, who I'm talking about. They then grab
another fresh glove, and they put that on, and it just gets long in the tooth. So you get the
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Right. And we, we really feel that it's a worthwhile product
for those of you are looking for a lot of durability in the Palm. And because it never,
it never gets crusty. Yeah. Right. Right. So far, we're really, really pleased with that
glove. You've had that all summer. I mean, look at it. Right. It's been really good. And you can
wash it and reuse it again. Exactly. Yeah. So, Oh yeah. It is machine washable. Yeah. That's right.
How about that, Yeah. All right. Take it off, please. Because that'll be too grippy
for throwing a club. It'll just stick in your hands and go backward, and Savvy is back there,
you know, so you see the net over there. Yeah. So toward that net, stay to the left
of the hammer, and you just throw it there. Okay. Yeah. So do a little perpetual motion.
Oh, dude. You're getting good at that. You remember the last time you threw that,
I was waiting for it to go there. Please. Don't go in the trees.
No, no. This time I was on point.
Yeah, man. You were super on point. Yeah. So when you see that in slow motion,
because we're throwing something. Yeah. Notice when you're getting ready to throw something,
you can't be still. No, because your brain is, is keying in on the weight of the instrument,
and it's getting ready to deliver the weight of the instrument. Right. So if I'm already back in,
through without stopping, so right now I'm going to do the same throw I'm feeling so knows how
I'm bouncing up and down. Yeah. I always do that. So I'm in my follow-through. I'm in my
backswing. He noticed that little bounce. So, I'm heaving it back, throwing it through, so
there are a wonderful ebb and flow to that action. So, Johnny Miller used to talk about how
he would plant the trailing heel to start the swing. I adapted that naturally afterward.
And I went back into my, my animals. Right. And I'm going, Oh yeah, Johnny Miller used to do that.
So that little, that little validation really helps there. Or Gary players to kick his knee in
and start back, Tom kite used to bounce and start back. I do that. Left-handed actually okay. So
Sav, how do you start your golf swing? I do kind of like a little forward, a little forward press,
a little shimmy. Right. And sometimes it can be very subtle. It doesn't have to be very big.
But now, like if you look at the last video we put out on the, from one leg back to two legs, your
backswing that leads foot is like Bubba Watson. Now Jack Nicholas and Bobby Jones. I mean, you
notice how you gravitated toward that naturally. Yeah. So we're bilateral machines. Okay. So if
I was to walk towards you, you'll notice my center of gravity never goes outside my feet.
Right. So everything stays pretty much in the center. So I am falling forward towards
you. I can't present my foot in your direction cause I can't go anywhere. Right. Right. Then,
the centers here, the leg goes up, right. So I have to fall forward to come towards
you. So I've fallen forward. Now the swing of my arms helps me up so I can take my next step.
So there's a nice ebb and flow to that walk. I can walk to the clubhouse back and forth
for days doing that way. But if I were to go like this, I would make it, my legs would be burning.
I have a hard time making it off this driving range, which is about 200 yards deep. So in
the backswing, you notice how, when I'm doing my heave, I'm going forward and up it's okay.
So you're up into your follow-through then you're back down and then back up into the backswing.
Right So this, if you feel this upward motion during the swing, it's totally fine. A lot of
you have been told, you know what be careful, you got to keep your head down. Don't let the
head come up. And here you are trying to get going, but you say, no, no. Keep the head down.
So it kind of has a double whammy effect of inhibiting your backswing, right. So the head
drops forward, and now you got to drop the knee forward to go on top of that. The knee
going forward is even preventing you from going back even more. And you'll see now on tour. And
this is what we've been professing for the last 15 years. You'll notice on the tour that the hips
have way less restriction than they did. 15 years ago, 15 years ago, everybody was gone.
Don't let that right pocket go back, and then they'd pop a rib, or they'd pop a Fossette joint.
You know, even, even, Roy McIlroy at age 16 had, had to take a break at like a 10-week break from
golf. Yeah. And later on, about three years ago, remember when he had a fracture in his upper rib
cage because there's too much resistance going on. Right Exactly. So you look at,
a lot of careers have been cut short because of all this restriction. So if you are still
at the address and go back with the arms, you're forcing your arms against the machine. Whereas
if you're using the weight of the arm club unit, and you're heaving that arm club unit back. Well,
if you look, go back to that axial move. Yeah. So if I had a tree right here and I wanted to deliver
my accent to the side of that tree, well, the first thing I'm going to do is I gotta heave it.
So you notice I went forward a bit and I'm heaving it up. So notice now that ax can fall,
you know, through the tree where I want, where I want it to hit the tree, right. So
this would be more of a, of a golf swing plane right here. If I'm up here while I'm
going to heave it back and support the arc, this would be more like a driver
or a baseball bat. Exactly. And this would be more like a wedge. Okay. So either way, I'm using
a heave. And when I do that, notice how the body turns beautifully out of the way. So I have my
back to you guys. I heave it, see how my lead knee is rotating in my butt is facing the target.
My spine goes from the coccyx all the way to the back of my head.
So when I turn my back to the target, that includes my butt. So you get, but to target
that lead knees got to rotate in. If it goes forward, you can't turn. And if you can't turn,
then you can't use rotational momentum, and you can't engage that kinetic chain properly.
And that's one thing that's really saved you this year. When you lost all the weight,
you needed a lot more rotational momentum to get through the ball. So you, you started
really opening that backswing, and you've really benefited from it. You've got your distance back
now at one point you'd lost like about a club, and then you've got that club right back. So,
so that in essence is you can't be still at address.
So you have to use weight.
Speaker 1: That's right. To deliver your blow. So whether you're delivering a baseball bat to
a ball or a tennis racket, it's all about how you're going to use weight to deliver.
That's why we talk about momentum. And on the premium channel, we have a series of
unstoppable momentum. And so I hope you guys enjoyed that.
There's a couple of little shots in here to show you how, you know, our,
we have a nice drone perspective, and we did a few with the GoPro. So I'll, I'll, we'll leave one for
you here in the regular channel. You gotta see it. It's so awesome. And then we did it with the chip,
the pitch, the irons, and the woods on the premium channel. So enjoy that. See you next week.