WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.719 Hey y'all, this is Ray Cipriano from Fort Worth, Texas. 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.519 I play at Hawk's Creek in Westworth Village. This is 3 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:09.199 Golf Smarter. 4 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.560 Golf Smarter number four hundred and sixty eight, published on 5 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:14.880 December twenty three, twenty fourteen. 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:20.039 Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 7 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.640 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 8 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:29.679 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets Old. Our 9 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:34.560 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 10 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:38.240 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 11 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:42.679 And to finish the swing, rather than lifting with the shoulders, 12 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:46.119 elbows and hands lifting the club up, you actually keep 13 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:50.159 the right foot the back foot turning after you've launched 14 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:52.560 from the end step and knee in hips, and you 15 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:56.039 keep the foot turning till you're up on your toe. 16 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.280 And here's a really, really big tip. I'm not kidding. 17 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.840 I've had so thanks for this one. Turn your heel, 18 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.120 turn your right heel. If you turn your right heel, 19 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.280 it controls your hips, So you turn the right heel 20 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:13.239 the hips automatically turn. Now your belly, your belt buckle, 21 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.760 your center is facing the target, and now your shoulders 22 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.599 turn automatically. One of my students calls it, they get 23 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.239 a free ride on your feet and your hips because 24 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:25.680 guess what, if you're in good posture, they're right over 25 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:27.920 your hips and feet. If you turn to your foot, 26 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.439 your heel turns your hips, now your shoulders turn your hands, 27 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:32.959 and your club come flying through. 28 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.760 Lower body Launch Power Hard two with Jamie Zimron. 29 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:47.280 This is Golf Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers 30 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.879 and golf professionals to help lower your score. 31 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.560 It's worked for your host, Fred Green. 32 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.439 Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Jamie. 33 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.879 Thank you so much, Fred, glad to be back. 34 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:02.560 Happy Honikah, Happy Christmas, Happy Kwansa, Happy Holidays to all 35 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:03.319 of us. 36 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.560 Absolutely all of the above, right. 37 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.520 Yep, everybody, everybody, all inclusive, Happy happy December. 38 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:10.840 What can you do about it? 39 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:16.479 So let's go back now, because last week's conversation was amazing, 40 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.199 got so much out of it, and it just launched 41 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:21.599 so many more questions for me. 42 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.520 I want to go back and learn a little. 43 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:27.520 Bit more before we get into the lower the lower 44 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:31.120 part of the body and how that really is so 45 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:36.120 critical for your balance. But I want to talk about 46 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:40.240 your BLISS concept. The BLISS works. What it stands for. 47 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.280 I know it's an acronym, and how we incorporate that 48 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:44.120 into our game. 49 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:50.039 Okay, well, the acronym is be as balance, l lengthen 50 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:56.000 I integrate s stretch as strengthen. So BLISS it was. 51 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.000 Actually it's a fitness system developed by a wonderful woman, 52 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.159 a teacher of mine in San Diego. Her name is 53 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:07.400 Joannie Kettler, and I've adapted it to golf. So we 54 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.639 have eighteen holes of golf Bliss. Make your golf club 55 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.319 your health club office Bliss how to take refreshing, refocusing, 56 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.400 creative activity and productivity, inspiring bliss breaks at work, fitness breaks. 57 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.120 What's important about BLISS is exactly every one of those letters. 58 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.879 Let me talk a little bit about the eye part. Integrate. 59 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.400 Integrate has to do with getting your left and your 60 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:35.039 right sides working together, literally your sides of your body, 61 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.039 your left and right hands, your left and right hemispheres 62 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.199 of your brain. It also has to do with the 63 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:45.000 lower in the upper body, getting them integrated and working together. 64 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.800 It has to do with the mind and body, the thought, 65 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:54.719 the visualization connected to the physical execution of what you're 66 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:57.360 wanting to do. And the other part, which is kind 67 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.599 of interesting. This gets a little deeper, maybe a little 68 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:03.599 more here, but it's the integration of the inner body 69 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.039 and the outer body. What does that mean. There's our 70 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.159 inner body kind of that inner thought process inside and 71 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:14.520 our energy, our breath, this life energy, this key that 72 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.480 we have that is actually what we're needing to get 73 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:22.519 out to our outer physical limbs and then out into 74 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.000 our golf club and into the golf ball. So this 75 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:29.360 inner body outer body thing is really it's a frontier 76 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.879 for most people. Yogi's martial artists, people in the East 77 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:37.639 know a little bit more about the inner body than 78 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.680 we tend to here in the West. Depak Chopra, who's 79 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.120 quite famous, doctor d Pak Chopra, talks about becoming astronauts 80 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.879 of inner space. So part of the training I do 81 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.120 is to help people to get in touch, focus on 82 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.360 the inside and to begin to feel that their energy 83 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:00.759 inside their mind and their body and learn how to 84 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.839 get that out to the outer body where we're actually 85 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.560 performing and interacting with the world with the tools of 86 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.879 our trade with people, with the project and the golf ball. 87 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:15.959 The thing we're trying to accomplish. 88 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.680 So now let's thank you for that explanation. 89 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:22.720 And it just makes me think, like, when you bring 90 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:27.560 that California thing with you to back to Michigan, are 91 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.000 there people who are like totally enthusiastic about it? 92 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:31.240 And I'm not talking about your folks. 93 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:33.959 Are they just like rolling their eyes, going, Oh, you've 94 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:35.319 been in California way too long. 95 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.920 Well, you know what, I just got back from Denver yesterday. 96 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.639 I was working with some corporate folks and some executives 97 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:45.319 in Denver. I have done this stuff literally all over 98 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:49.360 the world, all over the Midwest and Florida. It was 99 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:51.519 in Ethiopia not so long ago. I've been in the 100 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:54.639 Middle East, been all over Canada. They seem to have 101 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.920 life energy and inner bodies and outer bodies everywhere I've 102 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.519 ever been. Now I get to joke about it. I'm 103 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.079 from California, so I can talk about it. But the 104 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.839 thing is this is it's really not so out there. 105 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.319 It's not really so esoteric. It's definitely not just wou 106 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:14.120 woo and new agey. I do so just some basic 107 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.199 exercises where everybody begins to realize oh yeah, and within 108 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:20.920 a few minutes they're all right there with me, and 109 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.800 they're going like, boy, why never never tell me this? 110 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.759 This is makes so much common sense, and nobody talks 111 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:28.800 about it this way. I remember I had a guy 112 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:34.160 who was probably know, late seventies in Florida, Boca Raton, Florida, right, 113 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.519 and he said to me, boy, now I really wish 114 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.879 I was twenty because I'd like to really start my 115 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.199 life over now knowing this, and start my golf over. 116 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.199 If someone would have taught me about my energy, that 117 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.160 would have helped me a long time ago and how 118 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.000 it works. And it's so obvious now that you pointed out, 119 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:53.879 and it really isn't so California, and it's certainly not 120 00:06:53.920 --> 00:07:00.160 wu wu. It's actually very practical, very common sensical. You know. 121 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:01.839 I just love the Woolu Park. 122 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:04.959 Well, we still make California jokes, and I mean that's 123 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.000 the great thing. I'm from California, so I get to. 124 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:08.240 Know you're not You're from Michigan. 125 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:10.000 I'm from Wisconsin. 126 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:10.560 Excuse you. 127 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.199 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm say my bad, my real bad. 128 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.399 That is a that's a big mistake, especially when you're 129 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:21.720 talking about college sports. You know what, I just want 130 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.480 to let you know you know years ago and back 131 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.879 in twenty eleven, Mark twenty eleven, you and I did 132 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.959 a video together that has been up on golf Smarter 133 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.399 TV and people should go check this out. It's the 134 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.519 Golf Smarter TV Jamie Zimmern chipping tip. We've gotten over 135 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.759 twelve almost thirteen hundred views on that thing, so obviously 136 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.240 it's working for a lot of people. 137 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:45.879 That's fabulous. 138 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.120 I would like to say I had one hundred million views, 139 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:49.079 but you know it doesn't matter. 140 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.600 Well, after this we probably will. Yeah, I mean, we'll 141 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.319 tell you what. You know what I did. I did 142 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:58.319 a video and you can see it. Everybody can go 143 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.199 to it. It's on YouTube. It was for this Golf 144 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.759 channel instructor search context. I had so many people wanted 145 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.000 me to win that thing. Turned out they were whatever. 146 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:10.360 It wasn't exactly a real contest. Doesn't matter. But I 147 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:15.600 actually gave about a ten minute teaching segment and a 148 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.959 lot of some fundamentals of golf and ki golf. It's 149 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:21.959 very interesting. And then I did a ninety second little 150 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.639 tip on the secret of the right knee and the 151 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.079 lower body launch power. That's what I call it, lower 152 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.399 body launch power that has over thirty one or two 153 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.799 thousand views, So I recommend people look at that. And 154 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.399 the one that you and I did on chipping is 155 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.919 perfect because that's the core drill to start to understand 156 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:44.519 how to use your lower body. And what's nice is 157 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.679 it'll give you better chipping, better short game, and that, 158 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:51.120 it turns out, is the sort of microcosm of your 159 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:53.960 full swing. If you can get that down, you have 160 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.399 not only a better short game, proper use of your 161 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:01.600 lower body, and you also have the true core foundation 162 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.120 of your full swing. So I really recommend that maybe 163 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.279 we'll get that those twelve hundred views up to twelve 164 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:08.200 thousand pretty quick. 165 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.279 Well, yeah, your golf channel instruction video has over thirty 166 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:19.080 three thousand views. That's phenomenal. Wow, congratulations, very impressive, very impressive. 167 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:21.519 So then let's go Let's go back to and if 168 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:24.639 I can use you know again stealing from you lower 169 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:26.080 body launch power, love it. 170 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:27.600 That could be the name of this episode. 171 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:32.200 Let's talk about let's talk about the lower body, the balance, 172 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:36.519 the knees that you know, all that and stability that 173 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:39.639 is so critically important that is just overlooked by so 174 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:44.639 many people. People just don't realize the value of how 175 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.399 important it is to be balanced. 176 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.720 Well, let me to overlook as a good word, because 177 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.720 if you can imagine yourself addressing a golf ball, you're 178 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:55.559 standing up tall or maybe bent, you know, to your 179 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.919 angle to address the ball. But you're up there, you're 180 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.840 in your head and you're overlooking the golf ball. You're 181 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.720 overlooking things, and all you can look at and see 182 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:10.320 is your arms and your whole body, your trunk, your core, 183 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.919 your legs, your feet get literally overlooked as you're up 184 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.320 there from up above holding your club and looking down 185 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.919 at your golf ball. And this is one part of 186 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:26.279 where being disconnected from the lower body begins. So let 187 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:29.600 me say this. A lot of people think that there 188 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.000 is no footwork in golf, or if you begin to 189 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.240 talk about there, like huh, you're just standing there. I 190 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.639 mean there's obviously footwork in tennis, or in dancing or 191 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.960 in football, right, but because we're just standing there, not 192 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.679 going anywhere, people don't think there's footwork involved in golf. 193 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.360 But I guarantee that if you talk to any tour 194 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.559 pro or any teacher of tour pros, they are working 195 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:56.120 on their footwork in a big way. So the first 196 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.679 thing is to actually feel your feet right, and you 197 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.799 get kind of heavy in your belly, connects you into 198 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.480 your legs, and that will translate right down to the 199 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.799 soles of your feet. All of a sudden, you're feeling 200 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.279 more present, stronger, more grounded as you're addressing the golf ball. 201 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.080 These are keys to what a lot of instructors say, 202 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.480 take an athletic stance, but so many people don't even 203 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.320 know what that means or what that feel like. So 204 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:23.720 that's the first part of it, and footwork you typically 205 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.200 in general, I would say there's controversies about this in 206 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.559 the golf swing, but the mounern golf swing, the left 207 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.320 foot if you're right handed, the left foot stays down 208 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:37.480 on your back swing. Now, some weight rolls into the 209 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.600 arch of your foot, and that allows your right hip 210 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.759 to turn, and then that lets your spine turn and 211 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.559 your shoulders turn. But it begins down there and your 212 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.840 foot and your left foot and your left end step. Obviously, 213 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.960 if you're a left handed golfer, it would start in 214 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.240 your right foot, but we try to keep that foot 215 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.039 down on the ground, and what that enables is this 216 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:03.320 sort of dynamic tension, dynamic coil of the body. If 217 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.600 you lift that foot, lift the heel up too much, 218 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.399 what can happen is that you sort of sway your body. 219 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.360 Your energy sort of goes floating up there into right 220 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:13.480 up or outer space. 221 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.279 Are we're talking about. 222 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.240 We're talking about the left foot of the right foot. 223 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:18.399 Now for a right handed golfer, for. 224 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.279 A right handed golfer, the left foot right. 225 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.679 On the back swing the right and so many people 226 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.279 do that. It's I don't know why. It seems like 227 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.919 a natural thing when you're not instructed that you on 228 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.440 your back swing, that right heel comes up and you're 229 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:36.960 and the left heel comes up, yeah, and the knee 230 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.600 is now pointing not towards the ball or straight, it's 231 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:43.200 it's pointing way behind you. 232 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:45.080 It's pointing right yeap. 233 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.039 You lose, yeah, and you lose, you lose that connection 234 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.360 to the earth. It allows that kind of coiling of 235 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.440 your energy and your power as you rotate, you know, 236 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.879 into the back swing when that heel comes up, and 237 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.519 a lot of times it comes up either from lack 238 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:04.720 of proper instruction, you just don't know any better, but 239 00:13:04.759 --> 00:13:07.200 it also comes up. This is where fitness comes in. 240 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.879 If your muscles are too tight, if you can't really 241 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.399 rotate if your hips and your low back and your 242 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:20.799 quadratus lumborum these things are too tight, or your hamstrings, 243 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.480 you can't keep that foot down. So part of fitness 244 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.519 is too in flexibility as well as strength training in 245 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.279 the quads and the legs, but particularly flexibility enables that 246 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:37.320 left foot to stay down on the backswing, and along 247 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:40.360 with the left foot and the left end step. Okay, 248 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.000 the left heel stays down pressure on the left end step. 249 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:46.120 What happens in the right leg we're talking about lower 250 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.440 body on the back swing. I'm going to tell you 251 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:55.440 what happens with the right leg is nothing in a sense. 252 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.240 I mean when you address the ball. I always tell 253 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.879 people toes a little out, knee a little in. Okay, 254 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:06.080 you've created this kind of knees in toes are out 255 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.360 a little bit, particularly the four toes, but they're out there, 256 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.919 flared out just a little bit. The reason for that 257 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.720 is anatomical. It enables the hip joints to be more 258 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:19.159 open so that you have rotational ability. A lot of people, 259 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:21.360 the first thing I look at is in a person's 260 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:25.000 stance is their feet. And if they're pointing straight ahead 261 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:31.600 real square, that locks the the trocanner the hip. It 262 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.480 locks the rotational ability, and then people have a hard 263 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:38.159 time turning. They strain their back and they're all they 264 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:39.799 can do is try to lift the club with their 265 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:41.720 shoulders in their hands, and all of a sudden they're 266 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.279 in their upper body a little flare out of the 267 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.919 toes and pull the knees in a little bit towards 268 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.200 the golf club. The golf club's kind of right there 269 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.039 in the center line. If you toes out knees in. 270 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.200 What happens is Number one, you've got your weight on 271 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:59.600 your end steps. That's helpful. That's what Jack Nicholas said. 272 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.320 Right golf's play between the arches of your feet. Uh. 273 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.799 In classical golf instruction, it's referred to as pronating. When 274 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.399 you get your weight on the end steps and the 275 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.320 toes are flared out a little, the knees are in 276 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.480 a little Number one, you're locked in around the center line. 277 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:16.600 That's a good thing. You're not going to sway so much. 278 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.480 Number two, you can actually push a little bit on 279 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.240 that left end step and you're able your hips are 280 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.039 open enough that you can make the rotational turn. 281 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.000 I just realized something that months ago, maybe this year, 282 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.879 early this year or last year. But I realized that 283 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:42.320 on my follow through of my swing, I was rolling 284 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:48.840 over my left foot, so my like so on the 285 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.200 outer part, so that when I was my swing was complete, 286 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:57.759 that the sole of my foot was up right and 287 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:01.120 pa and facing back towards my other foot. And it 288 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.080 was suggested to me that a simple fix on that 289 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.879 would be just open my toes, you know, open my 290 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.559 stance right, point my toes out a little bit. And 291 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:17.000 I just realize that since I've been doing that, my 292 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:21.039 back pain is a lot less. Is that coincidental or 293 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:22.919 is that something that's help? 294 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:25.200 It's Anna chocolate. 295 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:31.039 Flown away right now, And I thought of me, so 296 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.360 I don't have to go swimming every week. 297 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:35.399 Well, no, here's the thing. I mean, you know you 298 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:37.279 will end up a little bit on the outer part 299 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.159 of your left foot and the follow through, but you know, 300 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.919 it sounds like that was really exaggerated in your case. 301 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:47.080 And when you have toes out, knees in and address 302 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:51.360 actually the forward foot, left foot if you're alrighty, right 303 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:55.879 foot if you're lefty, So we'll be flared out a 304 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:59.840 little bit more than the back foot. That's because as 305 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:02.720 you keep your you know, your forward foot down on 306 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:06.400 the back swing, and you keep that back knee flexed, 307 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.400 but without straightening, without swaying over to the side, it 308 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:13.920 just stays put where it is. Then you're able to 309 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.880 kind of turn into that back leg load and coil 310 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.680 up your power, and you actually want some kind of 311 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.240 a stop on that rotation. You don't want to just rotate, rotate, rotate. 312 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.359 That's why you turn the backfoot out a little bit, 313 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:28.920 but not a lot. Now when you're coming through, and 314 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.200 we'll we'll talk about that part in a minute, but 315 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.920 when you're coming through, you're coming through it. You know, 316 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.400 seventy eighty nine dred miles an hour with a lot 317 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.160 of power and speed and energy. That's a lot for 318 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:43.799 a skeleton, muscles, for a body to handle. And so 319 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:47.440 if that forward foot is flared out even a little more, 320 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:51.240 it allows us to go shoom and really release and 321 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.799 still have some some hold, some stop there so that 322 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:57.680 we can have a balance finish. But that's what takes 323 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.880 the pressure off your back and even your knees. 324 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:07.119 Give me a drill, give me some help to not 325 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:08.920 for me, of course, for a friend of mine. 326 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:11.119 Yes, yeah, it's definitely not. 327 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:16.559 A friend, he is you with thirty three thousand views. 328 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:24.039 But on the how to remind myself how to create 329 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.759 a drill for myself to make sure that I keep 330 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:31.960 my left heel down on the backswing, How do you 331 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:33.599 keep the lower body quiet? 332 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:40.039 Well, that's a that's an interesting question. And you know 333 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:45.000 some people will you know, maybe put a tiny piece 334 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.240 of board. You can just get a little sort of 335 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.000 board and put it on the inside of the foot, 336 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.920 you know, inside of the shoe, and they don't want 337 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.440 to move that board, you know what I'm saying. So 338 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:56.240 that's just a. 339 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.720 Little vision, not in the shoe, literally in the shop. 340 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.880 Sure, no, no, next to it, next to it. You 341 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.880 could put a golf club down right next to that foot. Yeah, 342 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.000 and you don't want to be moving the golf club, 343 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.240 you know what I'm saying. Or you could have a 344 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:12.839 golf club that is on the other outside of the 345 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.079 foot and you don't want to you know, you could 346 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:17.480 put your foot in a little track, you see what 347 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.440 I'm saying, and so you want to keep it there. 348 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.640 You don't want to be lifting it or rolling over 349 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:26.839 it or stepping on it. You know. That's a basic one. 350 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.759 But let me say something else. So the forward foot 351 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:33.880 stays down. Right. Most people, not most, but a lot 352 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.759 of people tend to lift the heel on the forward foot. Now, 353 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.960 then they do something really interesting, which is they come 354 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.559 down in the down swing impact phase of the swing, 355 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.240 leading with their shoulders and their hands, and they try 356 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:51.119 to hit the ball hard, kill it with their upper 357 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:54.640 body right, not knowing how to engage and properly use 358 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.440 the lower body. And then what happens is they try 359 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:00.680 to hit it with their arms and that back. For 360 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.119 a righty, that'll be the right foot, a left would 361 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.359 be the left foot, but the backfoot they tend to 362 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.480 keep on the ground or to only rotate through a 363 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:13.200 little bit, and it's actually sort of you know, bass ackwards. 364 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:19.519 So they keep but they lift the forward foot and 365 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:21.519 they keep the back foot down when they're supposed to 366 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:24.480 keep the forward foot down, and as they come through. 367 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:27.599 It's just like throwing a ball. You could be throwing 368 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:30.680 a baseball, you could be hitting a baseball, you could 369 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.920 be throwing a football, you could be hitting a tennis ball. 370 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.680 All of those throw the ball sports, which is what 371 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:41.279 golf is a throw the ball sport. They all the 372 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.759 body mechanics of throwing a ball before the arms, the shoulders, 373 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:50.559 anything gets engaged. The back foot, the instep of the 374 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:54.519 back foot rolls a little bit, that sort of slight 375 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:57.519 pronation the d step of the foot, and then that 376 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.799 kicks in the back knee. Gary Player was huge on this, 377 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:05.720 by the way, best example. And so right foot, right 378 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:08.799 knee for a right e and then that starts to 379 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:13.200 turn the hips, and then that allows the shoulders elbows 380 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:16.880 to just relax and drop into place. Then the hands 381 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:21.599 come through, they release through the golf ball, okay, And 382 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:23.839 so at that point you're kind of on your right 383 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:27.759 end step and to finish the swing, rather than lifting 384 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.440 with the shoulders, the elbows and hands lifting the club up, 385 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:35.680 you actually keep the right foot, the back foot turning 386 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:39.119 after you've launched from the end step and knee and hips, 387 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:42.799 and you keep the foot turning until you're up on 388 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:46.039 your toe. And here's a really really big tip. I'm 389 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:49.240 not kidding. I've had so many thanks for this one. 390 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:53.519 Turn your heel, turn your right heel. If you turn 391 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:57.160 your right heel, it controls your hips, So you turn 392 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:00.839 the right heel, the hips automatically turn. Now your belly, 393 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.599 your belt buckle, your center is facing the target and 394 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:08.440 now your shoulders turn automatically. One of my students calls it, 395 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.839 they get a free ride on your feet and your 396 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.920 hips because guess what there, that's what's if you're in 397 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.440 good posture, they're right over your hips and feet. If 398 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:21.519 you turn your foot, your heel turns your hips. Now 399 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.720 your shoulders turn, your hands and your club come flying through. 400 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.759 This is right there visualized on video in lower body 401 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:33.160