WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:06.639 Hi. This is bj Barger from Alexandria, Virginia. In addition 2 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:11.160 to joining Fred on an awesome Golf Smarter adventure to Prague, 3 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.000 I'm a member of Laurel Hill Golf Club and I 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.480 play lots of golf with LPGA, Imateurs and American Singles Golf. 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:20.600 This is Golf Smarter. 6 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:24.239 Number four hundred eighty eight, published on May twelve, twenty fifteen. 7 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:29.359 Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 8 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:33.000 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 9 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 10 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:43.920 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 11 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.520 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 12 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.840 First off, I never take a practice swing at the 13 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.479 golf ball. I would select a club. My practice wings 14 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.320 are behind the ball on the target line, and they 15 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:57.759 may not be full. I may take a full casual 16 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.560 practice swing rip on a tea box just to make 17 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:02.840 sure that I'm loose. When I set up to hit 18 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.560 a shot, I'm gonna tee it up, make sure my 19 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:06.400 feet you got a comfortable place to stand. Then I'm 20 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:08.159 gonna stand behind the ball. And this all takes just 21 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.319 a moment, and I'm going to look in where I 22 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.159 want my golf ball to start? Where's my start line 23 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.120 from there? It's why do I want my ball to curve? 24 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:16.760 If I'm gonna play a little fade or a draw, 25 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:18.920 I mean, I'm going to visualize that. So if I 26 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:20.840 wanted to start somewhere, that's one thing. I can aim 27 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.079 the face as best I can to start the ball there. 28 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.079 If I need to curve it, I need a clubhead 29 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:27.239 path go in a slightly different place than more my 30 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:29.879 face starts it, because you need a differential between face 31 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.000 and path the curve the ball. And as a golfer, 32 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:33.760 to become a good golfer, you have to learn how 33 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.439 to take conscious thought through the right experience and repetitions, 34 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.640 so it jumps the fence into subconscious. So that communication 35 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.120 isn't smoke signals, and it's not even old analog phone 36 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.040 that it's high speed fiber optic. Because when the communication 37 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.879 from brain to body become high speed fiber optic, now 38 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:52.319 people can say they're really not thinking about something because 39 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.200 their consciousness know they're thinking. It's so fast that they 40 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.239 look and react. That's rubbish. You play that way because 41 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:02.439 the consciousness one from slow calculated into some conscious look 42 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:04.079 and react behavior that's trained in. 43 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:12.800 You can avoid golf lessons and save a lot of 44 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:14.599 money using the right training aids. 45 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:19.759 With Martin Chuck, this is Golf Smarter Premium. 46 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.319 Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome back to the Golf 47 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.879 Smarter Podcast. Martin, Hey, it's. 48 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.319 Great to be back, Bretta. Thanks for having me. 49 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.840 It's my pleasure. I really enjoy having you on the show, 50 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:35.159 and I want to talk to you about what's going on. 51 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:37.719 I've been seeing you on Revolution Golf a time. You've 52 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.800 been doing a lot of golf videos, a lot of 53 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:45.080 phenomenal instruction, thank you, and really helpful stuff. I mean, 54 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:46.879 I hate to admit it, but yeah, I'm watching you 55 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.759 on Revolution Golf because I'm getting some great tips. 56 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:50.680 Thank you. 57 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.439 So doctor to me, what's going on with that? 58 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.280 Well, you know, I have a lot of fun with it. 59 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.360 It's a great platform, goes out to tons of people, 60 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.039 and you know, just that kind of exposure for me 61 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.520 is really exciting. I know that I've had a message 62 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.159 in the game of golf talk to me from some 63 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.800 great mentors, and it's just a pleasure for me. To 64 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:11.599 share that with people, you know, whether they're in the 65 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:13.520 United States, Canada, around the world, wherever. 66 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.039 And but you're doing a lot of stuff. I mean, 67 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.960 how often are you doing are you doing new tips? 68 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:22.680 You know? I'm usually on Relution Golf once a week, 69 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.919 sometimes twice. I'm on twice this week, will beyond tomorrow, 70 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.120 be on Friday, and then usually they kind of have 71 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.080 me plugged in on Tuesdays right now, which is plenty 72 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.240 because there's a blogging component, you know, we answer questions 73 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.599 and people have questions. So every day I'm kind of 74 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.879 dedicated to get online and answer questions in the blog 75 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:42.800 to anybody that wants to ask me questions. It keeps 76 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.400 me kind of busy, is it okay? 77 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:45.960 If you answer questions. 78 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.439 Here, that's why I'm here. 79 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:51.120 But well, well, the reason I say it that way 80 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:55.280 is because right now we're broadcasting this live via video 81 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:00.439 on periscope, and so yeah, and so the audience looking 82 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.560 at you, hopefully they can hear you as well. I 83 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:04.919 know they can hear me, and I'm looking at my screen. 84 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.159 So if anybody who's watching via periscope wants to ask 85 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:10.560 a question of Martin, please go ahead and submit it 86 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:12.400 on the screen, I'll be able to see it and 87 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.039 I will ask him myself. But I have a couple 88 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:16.199 of questions I need. 89 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.279 To ask too, firewaymen. 90 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:22.160 Great, let's talk about your product line always. You're You're 91 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:27.040 beyond being an excellent golf instructor. You are a very 92 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:32.680 creative entrepreneur with non tech gadgets. But I mean it's 93 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.120 you know, like, there's so many things that need batteries 94 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:37.519 right now that you don't have to do that. You're 95 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:38.800 not creating, you know what. 96 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.319 I'm just not very smart, Fred, So there requires any 97 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.519 kind of electronics or something techie. It's not coming from me, 98 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:45.120 I'm afraid. 99 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.079 Well, let's talk about your last product, and I'm going 100 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:52.480 to embarrass you right here. You were supposed to send 101 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.959 me one of those inflatable balls. You did not, And 102 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.040 just recently I started remembering about and thinking keep your 103 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.160 arms together, keep your arms together. Yeah, So tell me 104 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.600 about that product and what the purpose of it is 105 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:09.439 and why it helps. 106 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.639 Well, you know, it's called the smart ballont I called 107 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:14.360 it the smart ball because I couldn't come up with 108 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:19.399 a better name. But the basically it's an inflatable, tiny 109 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.319 beach ball. It's on the exterior. It's got kind of 110 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.399 a felt feel to it, so it kind of sticks 111 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:26.079 to your arms a little bit more effectively than just 112 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:29.439 a plastic beach ball. And then it's got a loop 113 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:31.680 for an attachment to an adjustable lanyard, and that of 114 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.600 course lander goes around your neck and then you can 115 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.519 buil the ball up. It's a six inch ball, and 116 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.279 that ball fits below your elbows, between your elbows and wrists, 117 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.399 and when you can manage that triangle of your forearms 118 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.959 while in your golf swing, a lot of good things happen. 119 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.519 So you know, there's been products out there in the past, 120 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:49.879 and you know, all I think I did was invents 121 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.399 a little bit better mouse trap, because there's been some 122 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.399 good products in the past, but the problem was if 123 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.399 you weren't good at it, the ball dropped and you'd 124 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.360 be chasing it around or you know. So I thought, well, 125 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.160 I'm going to make something that somebody can stuff in 126 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.920 their golf bag that's pretty durable, that they can blow 127 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:05.639 up when they want to use it, you know, deflate 128 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.279 when they don't put in their bag, and then it 129 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.480 goes between your forms or also you can use it 130 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.680 as a lot of people will use it under one 131 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:14.360 arm or the other, which is a you know, a 132 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:18.000 classic connection drill that coaches have been trying to get 133 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:19.639 people to do for years of their arms that don't 134 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.920 run off their bodies so much. So it's just a 135 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:23.839 simple thing, and you know, the poleasing thing about it 136 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:25.399 is it's been picked up by a lot of tour 137 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.920 players and it's been fun. Like Darren Clark, you know, 138 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:33.600 Ryder Cup captain major winner, sent me a video of 139 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.560 him using it, you know, at royal Port Rush, his 140 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.480 club in Northern Ireland, and it's on vine, you know, 141 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.079 which is another apvocant keep track to all these apps. 142 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.079 Nowadays there's there's Darren Clark using it, and then a 143 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.000 lovely gallon the LPGA tour Beatrice Riccari uses it. She's 144 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.800 been a great proponent of it, and then Charles Howell 145 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.040 uses it, and a bunch of tour players do it, 146 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.160 and honestly, I haven't reached out to get him away. 147 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:57.839 They've found it and they've ordered it and they they 148 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.480 use it. So you know, I'm monitored that they considered 149 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.279 a training aid worthy of use and I'm excited to 150 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.079 you know, help help out with that kind of level 151 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:07.240 of player. Want to get better. 152 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.480 That was very subtle, Martin. But I feel like a 153 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.600 total scumbag right now saying why didn't I get my 154 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.680 smart ball on these people who are making millions on 155 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.680 the tour, you know, And I'm just I'm. 156 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.519 Happy to send you one man in my oversight. Unfortunately, 157 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:25.439 you know how you get you get busy. Next thing, 158 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.680 you know, it's yeah, you're very busy. 159 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.000 So so explain how it works and what it's supposed 160 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.920 to do, because I know that there's multiple functions for it. 161 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.199 Well, you know, like I said, you know, you blow 162 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.360 it up. You put the lanyard around your neck, so 163 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:42.199 you've got the suggestible thing, and you kind of get 164 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:45.800 it fit for your personal body shape in height, and 165 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:47.480 then you kind of hold u between your forums and 166 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.000 if you can go back and make a back swing, 167 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.839 certainly in a pitching motion a three quarter shot, if 168 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:53.319 you can manage your arms, you're going to become a 169 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.800 pretty effective player in that aspect. If you're very flexible, 170 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.800 like a lot of the younger people and professionals are, 171 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.279 you know, you can take this and pretty much hit 172 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:06.680 full shots with it. So most players fred are stuck 173 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.439 with a whole mentality you know, you've got to keep 174 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.000 your head down, stay down, stay down, stay down. So 175 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.720 they've got that that's almost that infliction to such a 176 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.000 degree that their arms and their body don't work together. 177 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:19.519 And when that happens, their elbows separate too much, and 178 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.040 then they don't have a decent radius of their golf swing. 179 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.680 The combination of arms in club is a unit. Well, 180 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.959 the ball smart ball helps keep your forearms, sort it 181 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.240 together so that it's easier for you to maintain that 182 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.159 swinging radius and you'll have a little bit more success 183 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:34.639 and reliability hitting a golf ball. 184 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:36.960 And when you don't inflate the ball. 185 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.600 Oh, when you don't inflate the ball, you'll use it 186 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:41.919 under your left arm, between your left arm and pack 187 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.279 or right arm and pack. And when it's in there, 188 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:47.399 you've got the ability, you know, to feel some arm connection. 189 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.039 More so so it depends on what you you know, 190 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:51.559 what you need and what you want to work on. 191 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.240 You know, there's the whole idea of connection in a 192 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.039 golf swing made famous by Jimmy Ballard, you know, in 193 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:00.600 the late seventies and eighties. You know, it helps with 194 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:04.960 that feeling, the the awareness of forearms sting a in 195 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.559 a proximity to one another, made famous by Ben Hogan 196 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.600 in the fifties in his great book You know, So 197 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:12.080 it helps with elements that coaches have tried to get 198 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.799 people to understand for years, and it's it's just a 199 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.080 it's a simple product. I mean, it really is. It's 200 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:19.159 you know, like I said, I'm not very smart, and 201 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.600 therefore it's a pretty simple product. But I'm glad it 202 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:22.159 helps people. 203 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.639 You don't have to be smart to make a great product. 204 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.159 You're right, I'm an example. 205 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.279 Why is it important to you know, the idea of 206 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.240 keeping under your arm like that so that your arm 207 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.480 doesn't sweat, swing out on your on your back swing. 208 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.120 Right, yeah, yeah, So why should improve a golf swing? Right? 209 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.840 Everybody falls in love with the target line, so they 210 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.519 always see the ball and they see the pin. They 211 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.200 want the ball to go A to B and that 212 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.000 makes perfect sense. But what we get sucked into as 213 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.360 golfers is we try to control the clubhead to make 214 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:55.120 it go down that line, and that defies the geometry 215 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.279 of a circle. So when you have anything like when 216 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.600 you have connection awareness, you realize pretty quickly that the 217 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:06.080 only thing successful can be a rotational motion that produces 218 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:09.639 a straight shot, you know, via good contact and trying 219 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.480 to guide something down the line actually destroys speed and 220 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:17.120 destroys control. So getting those things under check with something 221 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:20.639 like a connection connection exercise, whether it be just a 222 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:23.080 towel across your chest and you're holding with both arms, 223 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.559 you know, that tends to be kind of cumbersome and awkward, 224 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.360 whereas the smart ball, when it's deflated, feels it's a 225 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.960 thin little bladder really, and it fits in your arm 226 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:34.519 quite comfortably, and it's just again, it's a simple way 227 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.159 for you to practice. And when you relax and your 228 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.559 arm comes away, it doesn't fall on the ground. You're 229 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.360 not picking it up. It just kind of hangs from 230 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:42.840 the lanyard that's around your neck, as it does when 231 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.679 you're using it blown up between your forearms. 232 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.039 That is such a cool idea. It is so simple 233 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:56.519 and it works so well. 234 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:58.840 You wait for my next one coming soon. 235 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:00.720 Oh boy, can you talk about it? 236 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.200 Yes, I can. It's called the Sammy. You know, it's 237 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:04.240 called the Sammy. 238 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:05.159 Because that's my middle name. 239 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.000 There you go, but it's for my daughter Sammy. Samantha. 240 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:12.679 We Sammy, and it's an acronym for structural awareness motion instrument. 241 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.679 I can't write that. I can't write that a structural 242 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.600 awareness awareness motion uh huh. 243 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:24.519 Instrument aka Sammy. And the reason being is because she 244 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:27.519 goes to this clothing store and they have these chapsticks 245 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.120 on a badger real you know, the little zippy badgerils. 246 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.159 So the chapsticks she can put on her belt, she 247 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.399 can put on her chapsticks. She can let go of 248 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.519 it and zips back to her belt. And it made 249 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.919 me think of a George Newtson application for connection between 250 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.279 the butt of the club and the left hip bone. 251 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.639 Well for the right end of golfer. See, he didn't 252 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.039 and this is another thing, kind of going back to geometry. 253 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.440 He didn't want the hands chasing the target line. He 254 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.919 wanted the hands working on a concentric hand path. So 255 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:56.840 back up and in down to a low line, back 256 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.639 up and in. Well, well, my daughter said to me, 257 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.440 she said, hey, Daddy, you can do something with this 258 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.120 in golf. And it was a fleeting comment and a 259 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:06.120 fleeting thought, and then she ran off to go chase 260 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.320 the dog or something. I mean, it was literally that fast. 261 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:10.519 So I thought of myself, you know what I could, 262 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.559 So I grabbed her little Chino because she once she 263 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.799 gets onto something new, it's like, hey, what happened to that? 264 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.639 She didn't even think about it. So I kind of 265 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:21.279 took her little chapstick badge reel and modified it a bit, 266 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:23.759 and then I sent it off to my designer friends 267 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:27.159 and we made it into a multifunctional badge reel that 268 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.879 can connect to your thumb, to your belt, to your 269 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.039 to your to your placard on your shirt. Basically, if 270 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:36.240 you want to monitor your right elbow extension, your bending, 271 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.879 left arm, your how your hand path is, how the 272 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:44.240 the flippiness of the shaft relative to your hands. I mean, 273 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.879 we can connect this thing anywhere. So as an awareness device, 274 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.519 I've been testing it in my golf school for you know, 275 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:53.440 a couple of months now, and people love the thing because, 276 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.000 you know, for example, if you're a if you if 277 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:58.879 you flip it a little bit, Let's say you chip 278 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.519 and you know, you hit pitch shots and you're trying 279 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:04.360 to educate your hands, and you know you're trying to 280 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:08.240 have just really simple, solid, you know, impact hands that 281 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.919 are transported by pivot. Well, if you if you attach 282 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.600 the sammy to midway down the shaft and then attach 283 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.080 it via its little kind of gator clip to your 284 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:21.759 left shirt sleeve. Now you have this string running down 285 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.720 and it's pretty easy to see if that's strings, you know, 286 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:27.799 waving around inappropriately compared to what a good player is 287 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.639 going to do. So it's just a feedback device. If 288 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.759 you want to. You can use it on your left arm, 289 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.200 you can use it on your right arm, bisk, you 290 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.559 can attach it anywhere. The hardest thing for me to 291 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:39.879 do now with this product that's going to be coming 292 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.360 out about ninety days is to make the video short 293 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.840 enough because there's so many applications to use the thing. 294 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.399 So I'm excited about I think I've got one tour 295 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.559 player that uses it all the time, Buddy, I coach, 296 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.519 and you know it helps him with his backswing with 297 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:59.960 you know. So again it's just these little products that 298 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.159 come up with our you know, I teach every day 299 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.559 all day long, and so I'm always wondering, you know, 300 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:07.360 what can I do in the short term to inspire 301 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.200 some feeling for this person so that they've got something 302 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:14.600 to benchmark through their awareness for And thus, you know, 303 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.159 this new product is Sammy. And then I've got another 304 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:18.919 one come with Fred. I've got about three or four 305 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:20.639 things coming down the road here to add to the 306 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.559 touristri touristrik or product line. 307 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.759 You while you must be exhausted, your brain must hurt. 308 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.840 No again, they're all simple. There's they're really they're really 309 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.440 really simple stupid things that are you know that that 310 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:35.720 I'm glad to say to help people out. You know, 311 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.279 I've got I know this these sexy words. This one's 312 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:43.639 called the tour Striker Power Sleeve and it's another awareness device, 313 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:46.159 you know, for the left arm or right arm, depending 314 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.519 on what your issue is. And you know, it's just 315 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:53.679 a very simple little kind of tube deal that that 316 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.840 will help people understand, you know, what their left arm's doing. 317 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.399 You know, whether it's bending, whether it isn't, where it's bending, 318 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.759 where it isn't. And you know, so those products are 319 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:04.600 coming soon, so it'll be. 320 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.919 Fun and we can find them beyond just online or 321 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:08.879 be on. 322 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.279 Tours trigger dot com. You know that some of the 323 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.360 attorney leise and this and that is just being organized 324 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.919 and the web pages are being built and you know 325 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.440 again they're they're pos in place, good old China, and 326 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.080 the product will be available, you know, sooner, hopefully sooner 327 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:26.960 than later, but those things it takes a while for 328 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.159 customs and shipping and so forth. 329 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.799 For those of us who are lucky enough right now 330 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.120 to be watching on periscope where I'm looking at you 331 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:42.120 via Skype, can you give me a visual right now 332 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.639 and explain what you're doing of what tourist trike a 333 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:46.080 power sleeve actually does? 334 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:48.799 Can you? You know, so you get a golfer who 335 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.919 you know, they may not know me back up a bit. 336 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.720 They may not know whether they get a lot of 337 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.039 left double bend, you know. But more the most important 338 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.759 thing with the power sleeve is that when somebody tries 339 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:02.840 to keep their head down too long, typically you get 340 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:06.159 some kind of a chicken wing condition when your left 341 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:09.120 arm can't bend. Like I'm not saying that this isn't 342 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.879 a device that is on you to lock your left 343 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.080 arm straight. That's not the point of it. The point 344 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:16.080 is for you to feel the awareness of when you 345 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:18.960 bend it. A good swing, a left arm will eventually bend, 346 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.679 there's no question. But I want somebody to be able 347 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:26.279 to move their arms relative to their body and have 348 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.120 the awareness of where these issues happen. So if they 349 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:32.919 have that awareness, it's amazing. As we get older, you know, 350 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.879 I'll come back to the whole head down thing, because 351 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.159 that's to me, the biggest poison in golf is that 352 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.519 as we age. You know, I'm forty six. You know, 353 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:42.759 we don't have the same mobility we once had when 354 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.000 we were seven. So if I talked some keen seven 355 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:47.879 year old and I was a coach, and I said, okay, 356 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.919 young Martin, you keep your head down, son, and you 357 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:53.320 just keep your head down. That seven year old's got 358 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.519 the mobility to go and hit a golf ball, and 359 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.720 he's like a rubber band and he's gumby, and he 360 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.200 can have he can move the structure of his farms 361 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.440 and arms and body long enough to hit really good shots. Well, 362 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.720 use you age that mobility unless you work on it 363 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.279 every single day, Like say a tour player who hits 364 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.599 three hundred balls a day or two hundred balls a 365 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.640 day or five hundred balls a day and practices you 366 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.319 know seven, you know they're going to play five six 367 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.160 rounds a week depending on the week. They're going to 368 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:21.880 keep building in this mobility because they do it all 369 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:23.920 the time. Well, if you take a golf of twenty 370 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.480 five or thirty or forty or fifty. Good luck with 371 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:31.519 that mobility. Okay, So a better person to mimic to 372 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.839 play good golf is more like Anika Sorenstam, my personal 373 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.559 favorite golfer, because you know, she's basically not even looking 374 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:40.359 at a golf ball when she hits it. Now, I'm 375 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.319 not here to say don't look at a golf ball 376 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.559 when you hit it. I'm here to say, have the 377 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.960 awareness of a motion that can pass through a golf 378 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.599 ball and then not act like calipers on a break 379 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.480 disc and slow things down to where arms and club 380 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:57.240 and everything kind of lose the swinging rhythm. Well with 381 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.400 the power sleep you kind of it's a it's an 382 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:03.400 instant wareness. You know right away, you know where I 383 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:05.240 wear it all the time. I love it. You know 384 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:09.680 right away where the issue happens. And therefore you know 385 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:14.440 you can you can target the relaxation needed the you 386 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.759 can target when you need to kind of release your 387 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.839 eyes from the ground, which is basically follow the golf ball. 388 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.000 But once you have it on, it's easy for people 389 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.359 to go, oh boy, I feel a sudden tug here. Okay, 390 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.079 well I'm going to find that tug. I'm going to 391 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:33.039 ease up on that little hitchy part that clearly can't 392 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.880 be helping me. So once again, all my stuff is 393 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.160 there to provide a feedback for the person to learn 394 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:47.119 a little faster, all. 395 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:49.119 Right, So let's see if we can work on this idea. 396 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:56.119 I have recently discovered for myself that if I slow 397 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:01.920 my swing down consciously, and whether it's slowing it down 398 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:06.000 or just making a smoother, you know, stroke through the ball, 399 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:09.039 like especially with my driver, I'm going, okay, I only 400 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:11.200 want to hit the ball one hundred and fifty yards 401 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:14.359