Speaker 1: Hey everyone! Shawn and Mu today. How are you? Today we're going to be talking about...
The man had a question this morning. Students say, Hey Shawn, in the backswing, should I
turn the clubface open and then rotate it shot when I'm coming back down or should I try to
keep the clubface square in both directions And the answer to that is none of the above. You
really don't want to miss this show so that you don't waste your time with any of those
theories. And you'll see just how amazing the anatomy of the human body is. I got an anatomical
expert here, plus my experience, and trust us, you're going to get the just big time. And then
you're going to see how this is going to transpire into beautiful ball-striking for yourself.
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So Mu yeah. For about 20 to 30 years ago, right
Ernie Els actually 30 years ago, been a while. Ernie Els was asked, Hey, Ernie,
what do you think about when you're over the ball Ernie was 19 years old at the time.
He's rattled off a bunch of top-fives on the PGA tour, the next rising star. And he says,
there's the ball There's the target Send the ball to the target. Next question.
Yeah. Right. And then he was asked the same question five years later,
right. And he and his coach were working on it well,
David is having me resist with the lower body, so I don't move my legs in the take-away so I can
coil upper body against lower body manipulation. Number one. And then what was happening in my arms
was getting stuck behind me. So we're making sure that I turn my face open and hinge early.
So my arms don't get stuck behind me, manipulation. Number two,
then as they get to the top of my backswing, then I've got to make sure and shift my weight
and clear my hips and Lottie dotted up. So already that's like taking a nice hornet's nest,
parking it over your head, and shaking it. Right And so we learned very quickly that that's really
not the way. Well, it took us a while. It's not the way that you need to be thinking when you're
over the ball. It's, it's, it's very chaotic. And what people don't understand is that the human
anatomy has its own reset button, right So if we let the arms hang in front of us and you guys can
try this at home right now, you bend forward, let your arms hang. You'll notice that the hands tend
to hang inwardly. That's because the shoulders are set on the rib cage a little forward.
This is the evolution, right So if I needed to sew something,
saw something, cut something, feed my face. My hands have easy access in front of me.
And if I'm jumping towards you notice how my hands split apart may come together as I jump. Okay. So
this reset button. Now, if I were to turn my hands way open, I'd be using a lot of different muscle
groups to do that. Right. I know that one of them is the anterior or posterior deltoid. Yeah,
probably it's some rhomboids somewhere in there. Yeah. Traps. So I have a lot of muscles here.
I actually felt my lats engaged too. Now, if I relax, it just wants to come all the way back. If
I do this, the opposite. If I go inwardly now, it feels like anterior deltoid. Probably some pecs.
Right. So, Hey, I'm getting good. So, so now if I relax again, look at that. So if I take my grip
and please go to, grip and wrist hand, just an oldie, but goodie Scott over 700,000 hits on
it. And then you'll see, the best video on grip ever. You'll see the knife in the grip. So our
grit videos are really like money. Okay. So once we, you get that solid grip, and if all we did
was to cut grass. So Mu goes ahead and shows me how you're going to cut grass in both directions.
And if you look at right above, you know, right next to us here, thanks moot.
You'll notice that when Moe was doing that particular exercise
in the backswing, at one point, his trail arm had to fold, right You can't continue
into the backswing with a straight left arm. So when that left arm would fold, it would rotate
the forearm. So let's say you and I are boxing. Yeah. Right. That's just not a fair fight. Okay.
So if I'm extending a punch towards you notice how my Palm is facing down. Yeah. This would be
an uppercut. But notice at one point there's a lot of tension build-up here in the arm.
If I go Palm down the tension dissipates. So this is where my impact would be. And this
is where my point of release would be correct. So I need to move my opponent back. So if you
make a fist Palm up extended Palm up, you're going to feel a lot of tension, go Palm down.
You'll feel that tension dissipate. If you bring it back Palm down and fold, it,
you'll feel some tension build up in that forearm. You go Palm up and now it's relaxed. So there's
a wonderfully natural, rotation that happens in the anatomy of the arms. So you can't stay square
throughout the swing. You could do that in a chip shot where you don't have to use the wrists,
but you won't be able to do that in the full swing. And the last thing you want to do is try
to manipulate it, take your club moot, take your normal set up here at a dress. And now imagine
you're going to take that club back and just go toe up in the backswing. Does that feel like you
had to rotate the hands a little bit too early or kind of manipulate your hands Yeah? And the issue
with that is that it let's say if you, if you're following one of mus programs and he's helping you
get fit for golf, one of our favorite exercises is the Atlas, the kettlebell Atlas swing.
Correct. So when we're doing kettlebell Atlas swing, there's this huge range of motion that
we have. You have to, you know, you're, you really have to support the kettlebell, but because you're
using you're, you're reacting to the weight of a kettlebell, your body is able to remove itself out
of the way. As soon as you manipulate the club to try and meet the ball, the brain's going to
do the opposite. Yeah. It's going to freeze the body. So now body stays put, and now you have to
do that so that your arms don't come and get stuck behind you. Right So if I were to swing the club,
like an Atlas swing, and I'm letting the weight of my arms swing back and through without hitting me.
So a really easy drill that you can do is hold your arm out to your side and let it fall.
So your arm wants to swing from the shoulder socket, but your body's in the way. Yeah. So
you bend forward, let your arms hang in front of you. If you were to let the arms fall again
and not remove your body out of the way while the upper arm is going to crash into your rib cage,
and you're going to be slapping yourself. But if the command is, take the arm and let it swing past
you toward the target, now I'm going to let the weight of the arm pass me. The brain engages that
kinetic chain. And then we got a golf swing, right So if I'm just going to swing the club back and
through without stopping, like Moody's did notice my hands come through first, then the shaft,
then the clubhead, the height, the heel of the clubhead, then the toe of the clubhead.
Speaker 1: And now notice how it wants to naturally release into a nice hinge and climb
up the other side. Then it's going to come down nice and loaded release through and come back
up the other side. So yes, there is rotation, but it's not a manipulated rotation. The instant you
take control of these arms, you will completely ruin the natural kinetic chain of the human body.
You are more on the kinetic chain, go to wisdom and golf doctor premium.com. So wisdom and golf,
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So we're not trying to keep it square. We're not trying to fan it open. We're just trying to send
some grass to the target, right. Mu is okay. So I got my intermediate point. We're at hole number
two, par-three at congressional. Nice uphill. And then we're looking at 180 yards uphill. So I got
seven iron. That's my dandelion in disguise. I see the stem of the dandelion. And all I'm
going to do is take the stem of the Daniel line and whip it up that hill. Here we go.
So nice whip up the hill. Come on in,
give me a kick. Oh, we'll have to chip that one in middle. You go.
That's all right. Easy peasy. Bunker shot for you and a chip shot for me.
All right. So we both carried it about 180 yards, 1 79 up the slope. Yeah. except that you're eight
irons, a hundred miles per hour club speed. Mine's only 93. Darn it. So we hope you enjoyed,
you know, how we're going to allow your Pinocchio to stay string-free and really
enjoy the game of golf without having to put a hornet's nest above your head.
We want to keep those Hornets nice and calm, right Like they're, they're going down for
the winter right now. That's what we want to keep them enjoying that. See you next week.