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Hey everyone! Shawn and Mu!. Hey Guys! Yeah, man, my buddy. So what we're going to be talking about
today is why is it that you're all arms and you can't get your body to move. You can't
get your body to shift. Yeah. Shift weight. You can't get your body to clear the hips.
You think you're defective, but in actual fact, you're Pinocchio without the strings
move. And I, we're going to show you this awesome, easy task. That's going to activate your body
and turn you into a freaking golf striking machine. Okay? Now move. Yeah. Last year you
had a lot of pivotal moments. You had pivotal moments in your short game with shipping. Yeah.
What was the difference between utilizing my legs a lot more? Utilizing the legs in the chip shot.
Cause many of you are thinking about, Ooh, I got to freeze the legs I got to, you know, not move.
And all of a sudden when you don't move, it becomes all arms. So the first thing we want
you to understand is the way the body works, right If, if, if I was getting ready to let's
say, sow something into my grip here, well, I would,
you know, hold this really tight to my body and then I'd take my needle and,
and do my thing or draw or whatever I needed to do on this grip. Yeah. My,
my brain has to freeze my body and turn me into a statue so I can make these fine manipulations.
So when you're starting out, yeah, you're being careful. Yeah. I was very careful. When you're
trying to put the club on the ball because the ball is very small and the clubface is a small
surface and your brain says, be careful, watch out. And the culture in golf is such
that they're telling you that you're defective and you better watch out and you better make sure.
And we're not in that camp at all. You are Pinocchio without the strings. You're already
amazing. And what we're going to do with you today is we're going to show you how to throw the golf
club. And one of the things that you performed really well was that nice kettlebell throw.
Yeah. And so instead of throwing the kettlebell, I'm going to take this little four-pound hammer
here, and let's see you just swing it back in through without stopping like a long chain. Okay.
And pretend you're going to, heave the hammer over the tripod into that golf Academy son. Okay. Nice.
Can you, you see how that's working right there. Notice how his body is turning out
of the way. Why is that? Well, even if you only had one head, imagine you're bowling
with that hammer with your left hand. Okay. Just swing it back in through, without a
look at his shoulder, how much they're turning, see other facing you.
And now all of a sudden they're doing a full 90 degrees. Why is that Because the arm has to
swing freely from the shoulder socket down? So there you go. And then hold that finish.
Notice where his weight is. When I ask my students right out of the gate, when did the weight shift
They'll say, well, right about when I'm over here? Right, Where in actual fact, that shifted
way before that. So let's say you and I was boxing. Okay. You're a lefty. Right So let's
see you snap a punch right here. Left-hand what went first. just like a nice-looking punch.
So excellent. Yeah. Nobody ever fails that you would never pitch like this.
Right? You'd wreck your shoulder. So the first thing the brain's got to do, go ahead and set
up. Right, The first thing the brain's got to do is to put pressure on that lead leg.
And now, it uses the ground through the leg, through the core,
and clears the rib cage and pelvis out of the way. So that that arm has, that has access.
Right So go back into your loaded position. Now don't move the body and try to bring your hands.
It's impossible. It's like now you're T-Rex so back to a nice snap. Okay.
Look at that. Look at the extent you mentioned now, so you get width and extension and body
activation when this turns, right Yeah. Big time. When turns, how do you get that to turn? Well,
you get yourself a task. That's going to engage it through pure self-preservation right. So
if I take my golf club now and I'm want to throw my club in that direction,
this is what it would look like. And before you start throwing clubs, I want you to go check out,
throwing the club, Shawn Clement at you remember the throw that when we did we'd move and I had a
nice throwing session at one of Savannah's tournaments, he should've seen Mu's face.
His eyes were big. Like dinner plates, all were on the grounds gone. I'm trying to
throw it over there and it's going backward. Right, That's what's going to happen to you
at first. Then when you continue throwing, you'll be able to throw accurately like that.
So if I'm throwing the club towards Mu, the brain's got to go get the ground, use the
ground to get the body out of the way. See what happens. So I have access to throwing towards you.
Look what happened. Yeah. Weight shift, engaged. Whoa. Look at that. I got a weight shift and then
the hips are going to clear. Why? Well, if I were to throw my club overhand, overhead,
nobody ever messes that up either. How did my brain know when to let go? Had a target. Right! So
right about there, because I'm trying to throw the club in your direction. Yeah.
So what happens if I do it underhand Well, I can't get to the target from here.
No. So my brain's going to go get the ground, use the ground to get my body out of the way.
So I have access to the direction I want to go on. How about that. Now, if you make the ball, your
target and you say, I'm going to put this club on the ball, I'm going to be real careful about it.
That's what you're going to get. If I'm taking the club and I'm throwing it in that direction,
the next one you want to see is predicting solid contact and direction, Shawn Clement.
So when you throw the club, you know how to put the ball in the way of that throat.
If I throw from here, I miss. If I throw from here, I top, if I throw from here, I'm cutting
the dandelion stem. So I'm throwing to the right edge of that intermediate point in that direction.
What's it going to feel like when I throw that way Yeah. It feels like
that. That was pasted. Then all of a sudden, everything is moving in the proper direction.
Right. Okay. One thing that really helped move and one point we were talking about, okay,
you want to feel like you're throwing with your legs, right Yeah.
So you, you were able to throw the club pretty good with your hands, the arms,
and you were able to fake it because you're an athlete. You know what I mean. This guy played
a lot of football. Okay. So what we needed to do is get you to, what does it feel like when you're
throwing it with ease And then you said, well, it feels like I'm throwing it with my legs. Right
Just like what we did with the, with the hammer right there. Right. So let me see you pretend
you're going to throw the club with your legs in this direction here. Okay. And it's like the
second serve in tennis, right That's a nice little effort. Throw seven out of 10 over there. Okay.
All right.
So now what do you want in the way And, and one of the things that really lit you up
and connected you to the target and that's the deal. If we can get you connected to the target,
the targets out there, right This can't be your target. No, that would be like me saying, move, go
to your car. So you get to your car and you go now what Yeah. I go home. Nothing. You go, well, what
was the point Right That's not how we work. Right, You go to your car cause you got someplace to go.
This is your car. Where do you want it to go You got to connect that with your action.
So if you set up to the ball here, Mu, okay. What you're going to see when Mu sets up notice
he's using the full surface of his club from the bottom of the shaft of the toe of the club.
And he's got a close that he's cupping the ball. It looks like this. See that you can't go with a
square face because when the hands come through, first, it opens the face. So you close the face
that when you get to the ball, you're actually cupping it properly and compressing it in the
direction of the target. Go ahead. So now you're saying, okay, there's the target. We're going to
hit a little draw. We're going to start it left edge of the target. Right So now your
brain is connecting this compression point with that target. Isn't it. All right. Let's see it.
Sav just exploded out of her chair. What the hell was that
Yeah, that's a good, good reference for compression. Cool. Did you see that go?
Yeah. Now his attention was on the direction he wanted that ball to go. So he was compressing
through the ball. That's why you never want to practice with an impact bag because the impact
bag is designed to stay in place. You get hurt too. Right Exactly. Now, if you really want,
he noticed how he was able to really come through there, and also please do it with a steel shot.
The club, not a graphite shaft, the club. We learned that the hard way. So we have a direction
for the compression. So now if we take a ball, you're squeezing the ball into that picture
and you're trapping it in that direction with the face of the club. Correct
Oh, did you hear that Yeah, that was compressed? Yeah. So there's the secret sauce
we are sending the weight of the arms and the club were using the weight of the arms and club to move
the ball into the direction that we want the ball to go in. This is what activates your lower body.
This is what activates your weight shift and the body clearing.
This is what gives you the gift of a golf swing. You can never let the ball be your target. You can
never focus on manipulating yourself into positions. When you're looking for positions,
the brain is asking the body to freeze up and now your body is not going to move anymore. But
when you're asking your brain to use the weight of your arm club unit, to deliver a throw that way or
to deliver a compression that way you get a golf swing, I hope you enjoyed that. See you next week.