WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.120 Golf Smarter number four hundred and fifty three. 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:08.279 Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.919 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 4 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:17.920 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 5 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.800 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 6 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.440 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 7 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.399 You've probably seen people with very short backswings, So if 8 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:30.640 you can actually create. 9 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:32.159 A little bit more of a backswing, you're going. 10 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.079 To have a much more fluid fallow through and that 11 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.240 just adds ten to fifty to twenty yards. And as 12 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.399 I've been doing this now for six years, have slowly 13 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:41.240 increase my driving distance like aboute five to ten yards 14 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.119 every year. And that's an accumulation of all the flexibility stuff, 15 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:47.359 of all the balancing on trying to get my shoulders 16 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:49.679 a rotate a little bit farther, sort of like lessening 17 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.439 my upper back muscle mask because I'm not training really 18 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:54.600 heavy and during a summer anymore like I do during 19 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.119 the winter for when I ski, and it's just basically 20 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.520 bouncing out and trying to do things that are applicable 21 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.399 for your bent over is one of the hardest things 22 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.359 on back compared to doing exercises where you're standing up right, 23 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:06.760 and when you go on golf posture. 24 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:08.680 A lot of people can't stay in golf posture. 25 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.640 They have either a c spine it's very rounded, or 26 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.879 it's overextended, and it's almost like a hyper extended state, 27 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.040 and that creates tremendous pressure in their back and a 28 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:19.640 lot of guys stand up and as soon as you 29 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.079 stand up, you've lost your swing. 30 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:28.159 Two hundred and thirty seven rounds by September first in 31 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:33.799 Canada with Michael Hammel. This is Golf Smarter. Welcome to 32 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:35.200 the Golf Smarter Podcast. 33 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:39.040 Michael, thank you, Gred. Finally great to talk to you. 34 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.920 Well, finally, you know, it's so funny that I'm welcoming 35 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.640 you to the Golf Smarter Podcast. You're very familiar with 36 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:46.840 this program, aren't. 37 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.560 You, Yes, I've listened to it. I thinks it's day one. 38 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:56.480 Wow, it's seedback you and I have to tell you 39 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:00.280 how much I appreciate the friendship that we've developed on email. 40 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.120 This is the first time we're speaking, but you've you've 41 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.200 kept me up to date on your game, You've kept 42 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:09.240 me up to date on the weather, and it's really 43 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.800 been fun. I really enjoyed getting to know you this way. 44 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:14.360 It's been great. 45 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:18.360 Absolutely, you are definitely responsible for where I am today, 46 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:19.960 without question. 47 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:21.680 Wait, I know you speechless. 48 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.759 I know where you are in golf, not in live. 49 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.000 In golf and my excitement for the game of golf 50 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.599 and the reason why I went back to school for 51 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.919 titleists and so on. But you started the ball rolling 52 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.360 and got me excited in golf that I could realize 53 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:37.199 I could actually do it. 54 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.759 Well, you were playing golf before you you found the podcast. 55 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.240 Right, No, no, no, I did. 56 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.240 I just started. I just started listening to it. Was 57 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.439 not playing golf, was not interested in golf. 58 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:53.240 So and and what what got you interested in golf? 59 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:54.319 Why did you get started? 60 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:58.280 I was just tired of my clients, my personal training 61 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.159 clients and friends ask me to go golf, so I 62 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.560 thought maybe I'd give it a try. And so I 63 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.759 didn't want to look too foolish, so I started googling 64 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:07.840 some stuff and I found this thing called a Golf 65 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:09.560 Smarter podcast, and I thought it would give me the 66 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:12.719 information regarding what golf was about and what I needed 67 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.639 to know. And I just started listening and it sounded 68 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.800 interesting and it was probably something that I could probably 69 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:21.800 do for the rest of my life. And that's just 70 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:24.680 how it started the ball rolling and got me excited 71 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:26.879 about understanding the game of golf. 72 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:30.400 Wow, so you were just a neophied, a brand new 73 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.319 golfer at the time. And tell me where's your handicap today? 74 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.560 Unfortunately it's gone up to about a three point two. 75 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.240 So do you know how many people would love to say, unfortunately, 76 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:49.560 I'm a free Why where was it? Where did it 77 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:49.960 get to? 78 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:52.400 It got too low as a two? Oh? 79 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:56.800 My, so that's pretty remarkable. But how much golf do 80 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:57.240 you play? 81 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:01.080 Well? People are gonna hate me, but. 82 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:03.319 Oh they already hate you. You said you're three. We 83 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.039 all hate you already, Michael. 84 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.280 Okay, yesterday I said another personal record on two hundred 85 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.599 and thirty seven point five rounds for the season so far. 86 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.720 Here we are in the beginning of September. How many 87 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:17.879 days in this year so far? 88 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:18.439 Are you? So? 89 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:22.399 How many? How many rounds a week are you playing? 90 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:29.439 Roughly to a day? So up to sixty rounds a month? Oh? 91 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.560 Yes, we we collectively hate you. 92 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:39.199 Okay a day. 93 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.439 Don't you work? Yes? 94 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:40.000 A lot. 95 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.680 Well how much. Wait, let's let's talk about where you're 96 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.439 based and how much sunshine you get during the year. 97 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:52.000 Well, like I tell people, I'm not a fair weather golfer, 98 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.680 and in Calgary, Alberta, we can get from Like. Yes, 99 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:59.879 like I said earlier, we got snow yesterday south of us, 100 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.519 about two to three inches and it literally rained all 101 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:06.600 day yesterday. And I was besides me, there are two 102 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:11.360 other guys dressed like people that were going to go 103 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.160 to the Arctic. 104 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:13.399 I was. 105 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:15.000 There's only three of us that were on the golf 106 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.079 course yesterday, and I needed to get that round in 107 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.480 to tie my last year's personal best of two thirty 108 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.240 seven rounds. And I just golf whenever, whenever I get 109 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.040 a chance, because the season up here is so short, 110 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:27.759 and last year I never had a chance to go 111 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.759 away because we had those epic floods and for the 112 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.720 month of July, I never played much golf because I 113 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.800 injured myself and I was basically homeless for four weeks 114 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:36.600 because of the floods. 115 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.439 So, oh my gosh, I'm sorry. 116 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:41.240 Yeah, it was tough up here. 117 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:43.279 And then you guys have you know, all that drought, 118 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:45.240 and then we have all this excess rain. 119 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:46.920 So we need a. 120 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:52.040 Pipeline between Calgary and California. Huh absolutely, so yeah, yeah, 121 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.879 well we just uh, the last episode, we talked about 122 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:59.600 drought conditions here in California and you're experiencing the complete opposite. Huh. 123 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:04.079 In the you're in the north. You're in the central North. 124 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:07.839 No, southern part of southern part of Alberta, just maybe 125 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:10.920 about three hours shy of the Montana border. 126 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.160 Oh, you're in central Canada, but on the southern part 127 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:20.680 of it Western Western that's considered the westc. 128 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:23.079 BC and then Alberta and then Saskatchewan and then Manitoba, 129 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.800 and those are usually for western provinces. 130 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.120 Okay, yeah, Well, I've never understood the west thing. When 131 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:34.920 they talk about you know, like Ohio is they consider 132 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:39.199 the west, and to me, that's the mid east. It's 133 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:41.560 the middle eastern part of the country. But because this 134 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.399 country is so east coast centric that California is like 135 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.839 way west, but that everything from California to Illinois is 136 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.480 the West. It's like, what how do you do that? Anyway? 137 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.319 I mean, I still don't understand Pittsburgh is in the 138 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:02.639 in the middle part of the country, and Okay, that's 139 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.560 geography is not my best part, but the golf is. 140 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:11.759 Let's talk about your amazing accomplishments on the golf course. 141 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.399 You've been playing for I guess if you've been six 142 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.839 years now? Okay, so we've been doing the podcast. Is 143 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.199 our tenth year of doing the podcast. You've been playing 144 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:24.519 golf for six years? And what were your struggles when 145 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.839 you first started. I mean, if you're already down to it, 146 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.839 you've been down to a two, what have you struggled with? 147 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.480 And is really banging balls? You know, thirty six holes 148 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.240 a day really make the difference. 149 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.879 Well, like we talked about before before we were going 150 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.079 to do this, and some of the stuff that I've 151 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:48.920 seen since I started playing golf, people practice very poorly, 152 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.680 not the way they play. And when I first started, 153 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.319 I could not hit a straight ball. It was all slice, 154 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.959 banana slice, because no one told me that I had 155 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.519 to release my hands, and not until I actually heard 156 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.120 Tiger say that on one Golf channel and said, you 157 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:09.120 have to shake hands with the target. And as soon 158 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.639 as I started shaking hands with the target, I started 159 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:13.959 hitting the ball straight. I started controlling a little bit 160 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.879 of a draw, I started practicing more short game and 161 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.959 in the beginning, I actually did hit a lot of 162 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.279 balls on the range, but I also tore a bunch 163 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.879 of ligaments in my elbow from overdoing it and hitting mats, 164 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.600 and it never taught me anything. So unless someone actually 165 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:32.679 has a golf pro readily available watching what you're doing, 166 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.480 you just basically solidifying bad habits by just swinging endless 167 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:37.840 balls with no purpose. 168 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.440 That's interesting. Tell me more about the shaking hands with 169 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:44.440 the target. I want to back that up a second. 170 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.159 So I'm a lefty, okay, and I played my whole 171 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.639 life playing hockey left and back when I in nineteen 172 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.919 eighty and grade ten, we went out in high school 173 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.440 to go play golf and my teacher gave me right 174 00:08:58.480 --> 00:08:59.240 handed clubs. 175 00:08:59.600 --> 00:08:59.799 And I. 176 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.559 Played hockey in my whole life left handed. Why would 177 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:05.360 I play golf right hand? He said, well, no one 178 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.960 should ever play golf left handed. So I tried hitting 179 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.399 the ball around right handed, and it was not normal 180 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.200 for me, and so I gave it up. So I 181 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.480 never took anything up to it. And then when I 182 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:21.240 started playing with my younger nephews left handed clubs, I 183 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.440 started getting the hang of hitting it, but everything was 184 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:27.480 a slice, and so now you righties are gonna have 185 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.120 to follow me as a lefty. So you basically, when 186 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.000 you take your swing towards the back, your thumbs will 187 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:38.159 face behind you correct and as you go through the 188 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:40.360 target line when you hit the ball, your thumbs are 189 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.639 now straight out in front of you. And then when 190 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.919 you actually proceed, I'm gonna say this for a righty, 191 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.559 your thumbs are now going to start facing the target. 192 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:49.879 And if you finished that. 193 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.799 Hand position with both thumbs, ninety nine percent of the 194 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:55.799 time the ball will go straight with just a little 195 00:09:55.799 --> 00:10:00.080 baby draw. But most people don't finish they hold they 196 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.240 you don't finish the swing at the top, and they 197 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:03.399 don't finish it at the back. 198 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:04.519 And you have to shake. 199 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.240 Hands with not only the target behind you, but you 200 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.120 have to finish with your thumbs facing forward to the 201 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.679 target line as well. And that's one of the biggest 202 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.759 Eureka moments I ever had. That when I saw that 203 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:17.679 on the Golf channel, when I went out to the 204 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.679 range of that day, I could hit the ball straight 205 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.879 for the first time, and it was so small of 206 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.759 a little thing, but it was the biggest thing that 207 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:28.639 changed my golf. So and I've had people watching me 208 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:29.919 and stuff like that, but they didn't know what I 209 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.840 was doing wrong. And what I've found out in the 210 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.480 last six years, golf is really finicky with the people 211 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.279 that you meet. Fifty percent I think of the people 212 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.080 don't know what's wrong with a person's golf swing. 213 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:41.840 And now the other fifty percent, No. 214 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.759 But they really don't want to share those secrets with 215 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:45.120 you because they don't want you to improve. 216 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.000 Why would they, Oh, because they're instructors. They don't want 217 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:51.720 to improve because they're all business. 218 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.200 No, not necessarily instructors, but there are definitely some instructors 219 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:57.679 that I've actually put in heads with that I've helped 220 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:01.720 people on my golf course and I've managed to tweak 221 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.960 their game and they've had some of the best games 222 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.960 ever and it was just the littlest detail. And you know, 223 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:13.840 some unfortunately golf coaches want you as because that's their profession. 224 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.279 They want to keep you around. If you fix something, 225 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.919 they may not need you anymore. But just like with 226 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.159 me being a personal trainer, I'm not going to be 227 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:26.480 able to save someone's body and fitness just within one session. 228 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.360 That's sort of like an ongoing thing and from there 229 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:34.039 I get feedback from other clients and referrals, and that 230 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.360 just keeps the whole ball running. With personal training, and 231 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:39.440 now that I found a passion for golf, I'm able 232 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:41.720 to do that and actually see what's wrong with people's 233 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.600 golf swing because I had all those bad flaws coming 234 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:50.159 and probably more so so, and because I play so 235 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.279 much golf. Now I'm trying to play catch up to 236 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.639 all you guys who are playing golf since you were fetuses. 237 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.240 That guy I'm so far behind in my will be 238 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:59.320 fifty this year, and most of you guys have been 239 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:03.080 playing golf since you were single digits, so. 240 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.679 In age single digit and age. 241 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.159 Yes see, not single digit and handicap. 242 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:15.720 I don't understand what you're trying to catch up. You've 243 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:17.519 surpassed most players as it is. 244 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.879 Oh I know, but what alamsos once you have you 245 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:22.679 ever played hockey? 246 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:23.200 No? 247 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.320 So what amsos for you to learn to play hockey? 248 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.480 Now all your patterns and motor skills have been solidified already, 249 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.320 you might be able to take some of those things 250 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:38.120 from baseball and from golf and simulate probably a better 251 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.080 hockey swing, but you're never fully going to get the 252 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:41.759 hockey swing. 253 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:44.519 I'll never fully get the golf swing. I started playing 254 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:45.279 in my forties. 255 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.720 No, that's that's not true, but it's it's much put 256 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:54.440 it this way, it's much harder bo mechanically and connectic wise, to. 257 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:55.799 Take up the game later in life. 258 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.360 Yes, and then when when you started, like when you 259 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.799 look at mac Roy's swing when he was five, it's fallless. 260 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.399 He's better swinging at five than did most guys have 261 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.759 swung their whole career when they started at twenty or thirty. 262 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.000 But you know what, golf is pretty much the only 263 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.720 sport you could probably do for the rest of your life. 264 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:15.919 And that's why I just found so much passion with it. 265 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:18.480 Because of all the things that I've done to my body. 266 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:21.679 I've had nineteen serious lower back injuries and two dislocated palvises. 267 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.000 Golf is not one of the biggest things for me 268 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:27.879 to do. So the body does not want to do rotation, flection, 269 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.799 and extension all at the same time. And then when 270 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.919 you do it poorly, you actually create even more injury potential. 271 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:35.679 So I have to rethink my training, I have to 272 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.360 rethink my practice all that stuff in order to get 273 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.120 to where I am today. So I, like they say, 274 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.519 it takes a village to you know, create a child. 275 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.320 And with your podcast, with my friends and clients and 276 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:50.960 the TPI stuff, I just managed to condense it a 277 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:52.720 little bit quicker than most people do in ten or 278 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:53.320 twenty years. 279 00:13:54.879 --> 00:14:00.240 So as a TPI, let's talk about what it is 280 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:02.440 to be a two GI instructor and what that's done 281 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:03.000 for your game. 282 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.840 Oh that was tremendous down two and a half days 283 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:12.159 down in Mesa with you top quality TPI titleist professionals 284 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:18.279 of LPGA, MDS, PGA tour players, the personal trainers, Cairo's 285 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:22.919 physios put together twelve assessments, of which fifty percent of 286 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.240 the people that have actually assessed fail and they have 287 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:29.320 failure built right into them. And so for me actually 288 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.440 assessing myself, I actually found out that I actually had 289 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:34.919 a left glute that would never fire. 290 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:38.000 And if you can't fire your glues, which. 291 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:40.000 Makes up eighty percent of the golf swing from the 292 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.279 ground up for power wise, you're not going to have 293 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.679 a very efficient game off the tee as well as 294 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:46.480 your mid irons. 295 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.399 And it actually even affected my short game. 296 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.799 So it just showed me the full aspect on exactly 297 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.639 what the tour pros have to go through to get 298 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.759 golf fit and that it was fit before of doing 299 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.000 a powerlifting and being a bodybuilder and stuff like that. 300 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.720 But I wasn't golf fit. I did all the wrong 301 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:06.440 things not applicable to the game of golf. And that's 302 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:08.240 what was an eye opener. And so when I came 303 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:12.399 back to Calgary, I revamped my entire training program. I 304 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.360 understood the flaws that my clients were talking to me 305 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.080 about their aches and pains, because as I start to 306 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.480 get into golfing a little bit more, I understood what 307 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.279 they were talking about the game of golf, and then 308 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:27.759 that completely changed my passion for fitness and it was 309 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.360 all specifically designed just for golf fit. 310 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:36.960 Fascinating. Let's pursue the concept of golf fit and what 311 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.000 you learned about it and why is that different from 312 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.360 what you were doing as a bodybuilder. 313 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.240 Well, bodybuilder is just aesthetics from the outside and trying 314 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.679 to have your upper and lower balance with your sides 315 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:49.559 and your front and back. 316 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.320 But golf that's not necessarily So bodybuilding is not necessarily 317 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.200 a fitness it's a display. 318 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:56.799 That's it. 319 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.240 So even when I was a powerlifter, I looked totally 320 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:03.639 different as a power lifter, like very bulky, very thick, 321 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.759 compared to when I was a bodybuilder, completely two different physiques. 322 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:07.080 Wow. 323 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.360 Like the powerlifter was extremely strong and powerful, but not 324 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.279 very cut and not very lean because you want to 325 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.320 have a little bit more body fat to protect the joints. 326 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:18.919 And where as a bodybuilder, my joints hurt all the 327 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:20.440 time because I was so lean. I was less than 328 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:24.879 two percent body fat and like paper thin skin and 329 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.759 tired all the time. But I wasn't that strong. Interesting, 330 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:31.120 but I look strong, because. 331 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.519 That's that's that's surprised me. It was always when you 332 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.639 see bodybuilders, they look incredibly fit and amazing shape. 333 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.639 But as you get leaner and leaner and leaner, you 334 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:41.440 don't have a lot. 335 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.679 Of body fat to protect your joints, and you're extremely 336 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.919 exhaustive from trying to maintain such a low body fat level. 337 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.720 And it kind of makes you go crazy too, because 338 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.720 you're carbol depleted and you're tired, and you're you know, 339 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.919 training three four times a day and of cardio and weights. 340 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.840 But when I went to the TPI and took up 341 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.799 the golf fitness there, it was a complete mind blowing 342 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.519 experience that I needed to now balance out both sides 343 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:10.000 a little bit more efficiently, more rotation from not only 344 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.960 my wrists, my elbow, shoulders, you know, mid thrastic upper 345 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:13.799 back neck. 346 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.079 And at the same time, I really had. 347 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.759 To watch on over torquing for my lower back, and 348 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:21.960 I did tweak my back a few times when I 349 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.759 first started on trying to swing too hard and especially 350 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.960 trying to keep up to guys that were I was 351 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.839 playing with that could just crush the ball eighty tow 352 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.160 one hundred yards farther, and I thought I just needed 353 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.200 to swing harder, but it was there was just no 354 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.480 power in my swing. I swung, but absolutely no power. 355 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:41.880 And I learned how to slow it down like Freddy 356 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.559 Couples and Ernie L's and get more rotation. And now 357 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:47.599 you know, I'm within ten to fifteen yards of these 358 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:48.880 guys when I started. 359 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:51.440 And you're probably ten fifteen yards beyond. 360 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.079 Them some of them. 361 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:55.519 Yeah, yeah, because if I you know, I know how 362 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:57.720 to play a cut now with my driver, and I 363 00:17:57.759 --> 00:17:59.720 know how to play a draw, so I can play 364 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.920 both sides. Because one of the guys I used to 365 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:06.160 play with what was taught by Moon Norman, our Canadian 366 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.920 legend and Billy Casper, And one of the biggest things 367 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:10.799 that they said is you never ever fight the wind. 368 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:13.559 So in a draw wind, for me, left to right 369 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.279 it's my go to shot. And when there's a right 370 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.880 to left wind, I've learned how to cut it into there. 371 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.920 And sometimes my longest driving in a cut wind so 372 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:24.440 far as three fifty six yards. 373 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:29.839 So I got all that one that day. Yeah, you did. 374 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:31.279 And you weren't swinging hard. 375 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.000 Absolutely not. 376 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.960 I was actually choked down and I just cranked on 377 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.400 it and I hit up on it and I just 378 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:39.319 left it into the wind, and I said, just see. 379 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:40.759 You, and I'll see you when I get to you. 380 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.440 And by the time I lasered it and put it 381 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:46.079 on the GPS with another guy who came out to 382 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:50.480 three fifty six. That's but that's something that most people 383 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:54.519 are not willing to learn to hit it. A little 384 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:57.319 cut and a little draw, and those things are game savers. 385 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:59.319 And that's why I've dropped my index so far, because 386 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.119 half the holes on my track out of twenty seven holes, 387 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.079 half of them are cuts and half of them are draws. 388 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.400 And I have to be able to work it around 389 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.119 from right to left, especially on the long par fives, 390 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.880 or I'll never get there in uh sometimes he even 391 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.400 three because it's such a hard dog leg left on 392 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:17.920 some of them when they go when I go down 393 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:20.079 into our valley that I just can't get home in 394 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:21.720 three because I'm stimmied by trees. 395 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.480 So all right, now more about golf fit, what that 396 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.240 means and what we need to do. 397 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:28.799 To get there. 398 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:32.400 Well, the biggest thing, eighty percent of it is glutes 399 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.599 and abdominals, and most people don't have strong enough glute 400 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.599 to balance out both sides to stay stable. And like 401 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:41.240