1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Fred Green of Golf Smarter with our 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,400 spring back into Golf season with the late Tony Manzoni. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,320 In previous years of replaying these episodes as part of 4 00:00:11,359 --> 00:00:14,919 our archived content, we kept it to a hand picked 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,519 selection of nine. But this time and for the future, 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,839 because of your response, we're going to feature every episode 7 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:26,600 in order that Tony discussed his single pivot swing method, 8 00:00:27,079 --> 00:00:30,719 his incredible College of the Desert Golf Team's success, his 9 00:00:30,839 --> 00:00:34,840 book and video, and stories about his relationship with the 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,960 rich and famous from Palm Springs, including the godfather of 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,679 his daughter, Frank Sinatra. Last episode from July twenty eleven 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,119 was just after he released his book The Loss Fundamental, 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,840 One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. We recorded this just 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,960 after his video of the same name was published on DVD. 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,359 After he passed away in twenty eighteen, both the book 16 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:02,000 and the DVD were out of so we were instrumental 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,959 in getting his widow to agree to republish the book 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,920 on Amazon, including the Kindle format, and allowing us to 19 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:13,359 distribute the video online. All this was with the promise 20 00:01:13,439 --> 00:01:17,439 to create a tax deductible fund created in his memory 21 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,040 to benefit the first t of Coachella Valley. For more 22 00:01:21,079 --> 00:01:23,840 on Tony and everything we were able to find on him, 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,879 please go to Golfsmarter dot com. If you'd like access 24 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,799 to the video, please write to me directly golf Smarter 25 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,519 podcast at gmail dot com, or click on the Heyfred 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,640 button when you visit golfsmarter dot com. 27 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: For members only. 28 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: Golf Smarter number three hundred and twenty eight published on 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,439 April tenh twenty twelve. Stop Topping the Ball Forever with 30 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:49,560 Tony Mantoni. 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 4: This is golf. 32 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,239 Speaker 1: Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals 33 00:01:56,359 --> 00:01:59,879 to help lower your score. It's worked for your host, Fred. 34 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:03,439 Speaker 2: Welcome back to golf Smarter for members only. Tony. 35 00:02:03,879 --> 00:02:04,519 Speaker 4: How you doing. 36 00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:07,159 Speaker 3: I'm doing well and I'm so glad to have you 37 00:02:07,239 --> 00:02:09,960 back on the show. You are such a fan favorite, 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,639 a listener favorite on golf Smarter. I'm just so pleased 39 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,319 that you've gotten such nice reaction from the Golf Smarter audience. 40 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:21,319 Speaker 4: Well, I do appreciate that, Fred, And you know this 41 00:02:21,479 --> 00:02:24,120 is a labor of love for me and I'm sure 42 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,919 it is for YouTube. Oh yeah. We have a passion 43 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,159 about golf and golf instruction and you know, I'm just 44 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:32,919 trying to get something out there that helps people. It's 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 not an ego basis. I've done a lot of reading 46 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:39,479 and I believe every day that I listen to people teach, 47 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,800 I learned something and I'm just trying to get this 48 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,039 down to where it's great for the consumer, that they 49 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,039 can understand it and do it well. 50 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:49,719 Speaker 3: That's what's so special about your teaching is that you 51 00:02:49,759 --> 00:02:55,120 are able to communicate it in a fashion that the average, 52 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,719 the average golfer, the just the lay person understands what 53 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:04,400 you're saying. And it's not so technical, but it is concise. 54 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:09,120 And I think that that also is true to a 55 00:03:09,199 --> 00:03:12,400 testimony to how well your teams do at College of 56 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:12,919 the Desert. 57 00:03:14,199 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, we do have a great record, and we're off 58 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,759 to a good start again with four and zero in 59 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,439 league playing and we've played three in vacationals one, two 60 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,240 and and that was the second place in one, so 61 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,319 we're off and running. We're going after our twenty fourth 62 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,680 consecutive year to win the conference, which is kind of crazy, 63 00:03:32,719 --> 00:03:35,599 but yeah, it is what it is. And you know, 64 00:03:35,639 --> 00:03:37,879 we have a new team every two years, so it's 65 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:40,000 not like we have this dynasty that we're building here. 66 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:44,719 But well, I mean, the weather, the weather doesn't certainly 67 00:03:44,759 --> 00:03:47,039 doesn't hurt. So we draw some nice young men and 68 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,439 so far we've been lucky. Keep drawing them and we're 69 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:52,919 saying the right things and they're producing. 70 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 3: Well, that's what's so interesting is you say that these 71 00:03:57,159 --> 00:03:58,840 these kids only play for two years. 72 00:03:59,039 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 2: What age are your team members? What are they raised? 73 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 4: Right out of high school? You know, it's eighteen nineteen 74 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,159 years old, So they're all yet man, and they all 75 00:04:10,199 --> 00:04:13,039 have a dream of, you know, playing this game professionally, 76 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,120 So we try to put them on that track. Obviously 77 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,360 they all can make it. We show them the work 78 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:20,360 ethic that's needed. 79 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 3: Okay, so I know that I know that you don't 80 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,439 have much of an issue talking about your age. 81 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 4: How old are you again, I'm seventy five. 82 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,399 Speaker 3: You're seventy five, and you're dealing with eighteen and nineteen 83 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,480 year old which could easily be grandchildren or even great 84 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,160 grandchildren at some point. 85 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, they really might. They become my children, There's 86 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,600 no question about that. Yeah, And I love it, I 87 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,279 really do. I learned from them in some ways. It 88 00:04:47,399 --> 00:04:49,800 keeps me from getting caught in the gap, you know, 89 00:04:49,879 --> 00:04:53,720 and staying segments. So it's a win win for both 90 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:55,600 of us well, and. 91 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,199 Speaker 3: It goes back to what we were just speaking on 92 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,959 that you're a ability to communicate with eighteen and nineteen 93 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,720 year olds and clearly to have going on your twenty 94 00:05:07,759 --> 00:05:12,920 fourth consecutive regional championship, you must be doing something to 95 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,480 gain their respect, to not have attitude from these kids, 96 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,959 because that's an age where they can really have a 97 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:22,160 lot of attitude when they come in and tell you that, 98 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,560 what do you know, old man? You know, it's I'm 99 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:26,399 just so impressed. 100 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's not easy at times. I'm not 101 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,639 going to say that it's always simple. We get a 102 00:05:34,639 --> 00:05:37,480 few kids. But you know, as I tell all the 103 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,800 boys on my team, I don't care if you're a 104 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,600 plus five. If you're a jerk and you want to 105 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:45,040 stay a jerk, then you're not going to be part 106 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,920 of my team because winning championships is important, but a 107 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,360 billion character is much more important. And that's what I'm 108 00:05:52,439 --> 00:05:55,240 really here for. A lot of these young people haven't 109 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,519 had a lot of parenting for whatever reason, and that's 110 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,360 part of my responsibility is as a golf coach, is 111 00:06:01,439 --> 00:06:05,720 to help them on that. Part of it because the 112 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:08,160 majority of them are going to go on to work 113 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,240 in the golf business or do something, and it's my 114 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,920 responsibility to show them what they need to do to 115 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:16,959 be successful. And you know, that's just how it goes. 116 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,800 And I love the kids, and you know, I learned 117 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,480 a little bit. I mean, I'm not really crazy about 118 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,519 their music, but they're not crazy about Frank Sinatra either. 119 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:26,759 Speaker 2: So they have a lot to learn. 120 00:06:27,439 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 4: You know. 121 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:29,519 Speaker 2: You know, I'll tell you something. 122 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 3: I can almost guarantee you that it's going to be 123 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:37,639 faster for them to appreciate Sinatra than it will be 124 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,920 for you to appreciate their music, because I know when 125 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,639 my when my younger kid came out of college and 126 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:48,720 started telling me about Frank Sinatra, discovered Frank Sinatra and 127 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:52,439 how cool he was. I'm like, oh my gosh, you're kidding. Really, 128 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,439 that doesn't mean I have to listen. I don't have 129 00:06:54,519 --> 00:06:57,439 to listen now all cool jay do I. 130 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 4: That's funny to popular, But you know, every you know, 131 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:05,600 when we were kids, we had our own little fashions 132 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:07,639 and some of the things. And I try not to 133 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,480 be too you know, judgmental about some of the things 134 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,120 they do, but some of the things that I can 135 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:16,040 see that it's a determ from them and people are 136 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,680 going to misjudge them. But where their pants down and 137 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,879 all that sag and stuff, And I don't want to 138 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,519 jump on them being critical pull your pants and that 139 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,720 kind of thing, because that just makes them resist more. 140 00:07:28,879 --> 00:07:31,560 So I try to explain to them, you know, what 141 00:07:32,079 --> 00:07:36,959 they're projecting and how that hurts them financially and also 142 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:40,279 people draw conclusions about them that aren't true, and a 143 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:42,519 little by little by little bartipulate way and just trying 144 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:47,759 to make sense without saying don't it starts changing and 145 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:48,920 that's always. 146 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:49,079 Speaker 3: For the better. 147 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:51,279 Speaker 2: That's a nice approach. 148 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 4: I tell them you got choices in life. You can 149 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:58,680 be common or you can be special, and I really 150 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:02,040 really hope you choose specially. And when you talk like that, 151 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,439 their eyes open up a little bit, you know, so 152 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:06,759 their minds. 153 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,199 Speaker 3: Well, that was a great piece of That's a great 154 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:13,800 golf tip right there for any parent and any teacher. 155 00:08:13,879 --> 00:08:16,399 Speaker 2: That's that's a great piece of advice. Thank you very much. 156 00:08:17,199 --> 00:08:20,519 Speaker 3: Well, as we dole out these congratulations, let me also 157 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:24,959 throw out that the DVD, the Lost Fundamental DVD has 158 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,920 been created, published and released and It will be available 159 00:08:29,959 --> 00:08:34,480 on the Golf Smarter website. Thank you very much, as 160 00:08:34,519 --> 00:08:37,639 well as the loost Fundamental dot com. Talk to me 161 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,399 about your new DVD, The Lost Fundamental, that supports the 162 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,960 book The Lost Fundamental, One Simple Move, Better Golf Forever. 163 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 4: Well, I was lucky enough to meet the young man 164 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,679 by the Adrian Hertze, and he really helped me put 165 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:56,639 this together. When we're trying to do a DVD, it's 166 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,559 really easy to talk too much and trying to get 167 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,080 your point across, so we edit it down to her. 168 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,519 It's almost almost too simple, but that's the way I 169 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,320 wanted it, and I think it's going to be very 170 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,120 effective if people watch it. You have to watch it 171 00:09:12,159 --> 00:09:15,240 a couple of times. Is the only downside to it. 172 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,600 You realize how old I really am. I've got a 173 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:23,879 young voice. But anyway, all kidding aside, I'm very happy 174 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:27,240 with the DVD. It's just a reflection of the book 175 00:09:27,759 --> 00:09:30,320 and for those of us that learn better by watching, 176 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:32,399 I think it shures the purpose. 177 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,039 Speaker 2: M hmm. 178 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:38,759 Speaker 3: Tell me about where you start on the DV. Well, 179 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,559 how is the DVD different than the book. 180 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 4: Well, it's just visual. The concept is there. It's the 181 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,440 same it's the same concept. But you see I use 182 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,039 three different age groups and teach them basically the same thing. 183 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,159 You can see their flexibility issues are different. But again, 184 00:09:58,879 --> 00:10:01,840 what I primarily say is, look, this works for everybody, 185 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,000 and this is an easy way to play the game. 186 00:10:04,039 --> 00:10:06,639 And you're not to injure your back. Uh. That's that's 187 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,639 the message. And I promise you that if you look 188 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,000 at so many of the young players on tour, they're 189 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,600 they're staying centered over that golf ball. They're not moving 190 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:19,759 their head to the right anymore. Uh. And and and 191 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,200 it's not something new, it's something that they're going they're 192 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,279 going back to. It's what It's what Hogan did, It's 193 00:10:25,279 --> 00:10:28,320 what Nicholas did, it's what Palmer did, it's what Trevino did. 194 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,600 None of those guys swayed off the ball, and and 195 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,240 their careers lasted a long time. As we hit a 196 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,399 certain age, it's really hard to move off the ball 197 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:40,559 and back onto it while you're trying to hit that 198 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:42,279 thing in the back of the back of it. You know, 199 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,039 it's really hard to do that. It's it's it's doable, 200 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:49,960 but the older you get, it becomes impossible. So that's 201 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,279 what that's what my DVD's But you can actually see 202 00:10:53,639 --> 00:10:56,600 the person doing this, and that's that's the proof of 203 00:10:56,639 --> 00:10:57,039 the pudding. 204 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,039 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I noticed that as well, and I think 205 00:11:03,039 --> 00:11:06,799 that the thing that came across in our multiple conversations 206 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,799 before even that you have the pictures in the book, 207 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,360 but you talk about this way and how that's just 208 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:14,960 deadly to your swing. 209 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,279 Speaker 4: Right. It's just you know, there's been some great players, 210 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:21,320 Curtis Strang, who's a big swayer off the ball. There's 211 00:11:21,759 --> 00:11:24,519 some great players that were but I don't think you 212 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,360 can continue that, especially as you get into your senior years. 213 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,320 And so what I think, I think it becomes almost impossible. 214 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:32,759 Most of the people you see on the driveway and 215 00:11:32,799 --> 00:11:35,320 you see them get off their right foot and their 216 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,159 body swings back. They're going in the opposite direction, and 217 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,879 then they say, well, I guess I'm getting older and 218 00:11:40,919 --> 00:11:42,759 I can't hit anywhere. Well, you can't hit anywhere with 219 00:11:42,799 --> 00:11:45,159 your arms, but if you learn how to use your 220 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,960 core properly and get your body in the right position 221 00:11:48,039 --> 00:11:50,159 relative to the ball and impact, you can hit it 222 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,320 a lot farther than you think you can. And that's 223 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,799 what I'm finding. That's the thing that I hear more 224 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,320 than anything else. I'm hitting the father, and that's from 225 00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:02,120 people that are fifty sixty seven, even eighty six years 226 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,159 old taking a lesson from me, and he claims is 227 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,039 farther than he did when he was twenty and twenty 228 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,039 years old. I'm not twenty years old and twenty years ago. 229 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,000 So because he's hitting more square, and that's the whole thing. 230 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 You don't mishit it when you're on the ball, when 231 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,399 you're moving back and forth, it's just so hard to 232 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:25,840 catch a flush. 233 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,159 Speaker 3: I recently took a trip with my buddies. I talk 234 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,120 about this every year we go on this golf trip, 235 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,000 and I noticed one of the things in looking at 236 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 photographs of us at the end of the weekend. I 237 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,440 have one friend who just he has no distance. 238 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 2: He has a. 239 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:44,399 Speaker 3: Really tough time hitting the ball farther than one hundred 240 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:47,440 and fifty hundred and sixty yards. And I notice that 241 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,639 not only is he most of his weight is on 242 00:12:51,759 --> 00:12:55,840 his back foot throughout the swing and definitely at the 243 00:12:55,919 --> 00:13:00,240 end of his swing, but he also does not help 244 00:13:00,279 --> 00:13:02,440 me on this one. He doesn't pivot his back foot 245 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,000 at all. He's right handed, so it's his right foot. 246 00:13:05,159 --> 00:13:08,240 But when he's done with the swing, not only is 247 00:13:08,279 --> 00:13:13,080 he leaning far back, but his right foot, his back 248 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,039 foot is still pointed to where the ball was tied up. 249 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 4: Sure, sure, and as it must be, because if you 250 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,679 put any any weight at all on the right side 251 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,639 and then try to turn your body left or it 252 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:28,679 has to go gets stuck. And and I'll tell you 253 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,039 put a lot of pressure on your lower back. So 254 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,519 for the listeners out there that are doing that, just 255 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,279 put all your weight on your left foot to lift 256 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,120 your heel of your right foot off off the ground 257 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,840 so that you're just on the till and barely weight there. 258 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:44,720 And then just turn your chest and shoulders. You'll see 259 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,879 that you can turn left quide a ways. Then if 260 00:13:47,919 --> 00:13:49,919 you put some weight on that right foot, try the 261 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:52,840 same thing and you'll see that you'll stop midweight. And 262 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:55,039 that's where most people are, so they don't get the 263 00:13:55,080 --> 00:14:00,279 full force of the body driving through that golf ball. Actually, 264 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,159 a good boxer, you know, it isn't in our motion. 265 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,840 It's a body motion, and and everything throwing the ball, 266 00:14:06,919 --> 00:14:10,440 whatever the body has to be, has to be in 267 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:13,480 position for the throw. It has to be in position 268 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,600 for the punch. So if it's not a position you're 269 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,480 going to, it's going to be a weak motion. And 270 00:14:17,519 --> 00:14:19,279 that's what this is all about. I'm not trying to 271 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,720 reinvent the wheel here and then Holding discover this as 272 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,440 have a lot of players. But the closer you're the 273 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,399 center of gravity of the body is about four or 274 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:30,879 five inches below the naval The closer that center of 275 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:34,399 gravity is during the backswing to a pivot lake, the 276 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,519 faster you're gonna pivot, and the freer you're gonna pivot. 277 00:14:37,639 --> 00:14:40,279 That's just that's just a scientific fact. That's not that's 278 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:42,919 not Tony Manzoni's theory or anybody else's theory. That's just 279 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,639 how it is. And Holding the smart enough to discover this. 280 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,960 In a book called Maximum Gulf Uh with one of 281 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 his students, John Sleeve, he said, I find that the 282 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,080 more I'm on the left side of the top of 283 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,360 the slane, I can pivot my shoulders faster on my 284 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:05,200 left my left axis, consequently hitting the ball farther. So 285 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:08,080 Hogan made the statement a often time ago. It's just 286 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,879 that there's as so many people caught this thing. Well, 287 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,679 isn't that reverse weightship? No? I had nothing to do 288 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,639 with reverse wayship reverse weight ships is on the on 289 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,200 the dolls wing where your body is going backwards towards 290 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,320 the right foot. You can put all the weight you 291 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,919 want on the left side at the top as long 292 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,919 as you move forward with the second move. So you know, 293 00:15:28,559 --> 00:15:29,919 I mean, you know, when you try to hit the 294 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,840 ball low, you're you're moving forward, then the club closes 295 00:15:34,879 --> 00:15:37,519 a little bit. Well, in a sense, we're just centering 296 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:40,120 ourselves on the golf ball instead of putting our heads 297 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,360 behind the golf ball, and we make contact as we're 298 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,720 turning through the ball. We're not We're not making contact 299 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:49,399 as we face the ball. We're making contact as our 300 00:15:49,399 --> 00:15:52,200 body has rotated towards the target. If you think about 301 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,600 Alaka Sorensen, she had only one of the best moves 302 00:15:55,639 --> 00:15:57,919 I've ever seen except for Hogan, because she looked like 303 00:15:57,919 --> 00:15:59,639 she was looking at the target when she hit the ball. 304 00:15:59,679 --> 00:16:03,200 But that just because she was moving through prior to impact, 305 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:07,120 and that's where all that power came from. 306 00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: At the very beginning of this answer, you mentioned lifting 307 00:16:12,519 --> 00:16:16,879 the heel of your right foot. Now, is that just 308 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,120 as a test or in your setup, as a. 309 00:16:20,039 --> 00:16:22,799 Speaker 4: Test as a test, but one of the things that 310 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:27,600 I do to ensure. As I put my right foot, 311 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,279 I kicked my knee in and I put I really 312 00:16:30,279 --> 00:16:33,360 feel my weight on the inside edge of my right foot, 313 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,399 and as I coil, I try not to gather any 314 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,000 more weight than that position. And then when my hip 315 00:16:39,039 --> 00:16:42,200 turns behind me, my shoulder turns behind me, I'm actually 316 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,080 displacing weight more towards the left side. If I was 317 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,240 in a cylinder and I turned my right shoulder, my 318 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,279 weight would be going towards my left side. There's no 319 00:16:50,399 --> 00:16:52,720 question about that, and no one could argue with that. 320 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,080 And so what I'm doing is I'm bracing between the 321 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,320 instep of the right foot and and the and the 322 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,680 instep of the left foot. So I embraced there, but 323 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:09,079 primarily the majority of my weight is left, okay, because 324 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,440 that's where I have to have that impact. So I'm 325 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,119 just kind of cheating a little bit. I'm getting it 326 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,640 over there sooner. See. Now, all I have to do 327 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:19,039 is to rotate hard rotator around that axis and the 328 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:21,839 club head comes the last. My body is first and 329 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,319 I get I get terrific compression on the ball. You know, 330 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,799 for our old guy, I can still hit the ball. 331 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,319 They're pretty good. Uh, shockingly Uh. And I'm certainly not 332 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,279 a physical specimen, but I'm in the position to hit 333 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,759 it as destiny with as much power that I have. 334 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,559 And I think everybody out there probably hasn't reached that 335 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,359 position unless they've read my book and been practicing. Uh. 336 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,119 If they're in the middle of their stands or on 337 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,799 that right side where they're hitting the golf ball in, 338 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,039 there's no way that they're compressing the golf ball like 339 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:52,440 they can. 340 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 2: Uh. 341 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 3: And then of course there's the the sweeping of the 342 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,720 ball versus the compress of the ball, you know, or 343 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,400 trying to lift the ball. That's the other thing I 344 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,519 found that the same player did. Not only is he 345 00:18:05,599 --> 00:18:08,640 not turning, but he's with all that weight going backwards. 346 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,920 It looks as if he's trying to lift the ball. 347 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,319 He's not letting the club do its job well. 348 00:18:13,319 --> 00:18:15,519 Speaker 4: With your way going backwards, your arms skill only goes 349 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:18,000 so far and then they start going up. So, as 350 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:19,839 I tell people, when you hit a ball fat or 351 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,319 he hit the ball thin, it's because you're behind the ball. 352 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,559 That's that's the reason. I mean, you know, it shows 353 00:18:26,599 --> 00:18:29,279 itself in a different forms, but you're behind the ball. 354 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,720 When you're loving through the ball, the club is still 355 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,519 it's actually shallowing out. But when you stay way behind it, 356 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:38,759 the club that is going up, it has to go 357 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,160 up because your center of your swing is a foot 358 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,240 or two behind that golf ball. So so the forward 359 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,000 arc starts way too early. And that's why a lot 360 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,359 of people can't get an iron in the air because 361 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:51,799 they're too far behind the ball. 362 00:18:53,279 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 3: Oh well, actually, now that we're going to cont I 363 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,319 know this friend is not listening to this, so I'm 364 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:00,960 going to keep in. I'm not even to use his name, 365 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,839 So I'm going to keep talking about this because I 366 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,839 noticed so many things after talking with you so many times. 367 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:10,839 I'm now looking at at other people so differently than 368 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,039 I had in the past, because basically I wasn't looking 369 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:16,480 at them, I was looking at their ball. But he 370 00:19:16,599 --> 00:19:19,000 tops the ball a lot, I mean, there's there. It's 371 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,440 frequent that the ball is rolling off off the tee. 372 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 2: I mean he rarely. 373 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 3: We get all excited when he hits the ball in 374 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,799 the air. Woo, great hit. Whether it goes right or left, 375 00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:29,359 it doesn't matter. It's like, oh you got it, you 376 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,640 make great contact. Do you hit the ball in the air. 377 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 4: Well, there's two things that cause topping. I've always believed 378 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,680 when people say you looked up, that's just infanity because 379 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,200 nobody's looking up. But what if you tighten up prior 380 00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:45,119 to impact where everything stops. When you tighten your hands, 381 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,359 and in the anticipation of impact, your arms pulled back, 382 00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:53,000 your muscles contract so the club comes up a little bit. 383 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,400 That's one way to top it. That's how most people. 384 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,480 I always tell people, you top it because you're tight, 385 00:19:57,599 --> 00:19:58,400 not look up. 386 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,519 Speaker 2: But wait, and how how can we notice? 387 00:20:01,519 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 3: Because I noticed that he when he's about to hit 388 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,640 the ball, even when he pulls his club back, his 389 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:10,920 whole face just turns into as if he's he's trying 390 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,960 to How do I be kind about that? 391 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,759 Speaker 4: He's got to look it's because he's he's he has 392 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:20,039 a hit thought. He's absolutely doing it perfect. He's telling 393 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,039 his body that he's going to hit something. The body 394 00:20:22,319 --> 00:20:25,559 FLEs it up, getting ready for that blow. Uh. That's 395 00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:29,359 why everyone talks about swinging through the ball, swinging past 396 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,559 the ball, using the ball as a point of reference 397 00:20:31,599 --> 00:20:34,400 to line line the body, but not not as a 398 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,359 target once When you when you do that, your instincts 399 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:38,799 are going to jump right in and you're going to 400 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,799 tighten up your hands and you're going to do it now. 401 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,480 Some great players can purposely try to hit it a 402 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:46,839 little harder, but I promise you we've all done this. 403 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,920 We take one more thub on a hole because we think, well, 404 00:20:50,079 --> 00:20:52,079 I'll hit an easy five instead of a six, and 405 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:53,799 you blow it right over the green. Well, that's because 406 00:20:53,799 --> 00:20:57,279 you're swung. You were trying to hear anything. You're swinging smooth, 407 00:20:57,839 --> 00:21:01,000 so you're you get you get maximal flexibility to get 408 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:05,599 maximum uh thrust. You get everything nothing scrolling down at impact. 409 00:21:05,759 --> 00:21:10,440 And when we topped the ball, it's an accelerating move. Uh. 410 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,599 That's why I say when you when you stay behind 411 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,559 the golf ball and you're gonna you're gonna you're never 412 00:21:16,599 --> 00:21:18,559 gonna get fairly loose up. I can tell you that 413 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,599 you forget about hitting the three wood in the air. 414 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,160 It's just not gonna happen. Uh. You've got to be 415 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,799 moving through that golf ball so that club can shallow 416 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:28,400 out and catch that ball a little bit on the down. 417 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,359 If you're hanging back, it's that club's coming up too 418 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,119 soon and you're gonna hit. You're gonna hit the middle 419 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:33,960 or top of the ball. 420 00:21:35,319 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 3: So for somebody who's been playing the game for twenty 421 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,599 thirty years and has all these issues, it's not going 422 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,720 to be very easy for them to make some some 423 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,119 changes into their swing, into their into their basic mechanics. 424 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,160 And I don't did after all lesson it's it's still 425 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,039 he's going to forget it next in two weeks if 426 00:21:53,039 --> 00:21:53,359 he doesn't. 427 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 4: Well, I don't really teach swing so much as I 428 00:21:56,319 --> 00:22:00,160 teach uh the relationship of the body to the golf ball. 429 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,599 If I can get your body at address in the 430 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,799 right position, and if I can get you to move 431 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,319 your if you're right hand and get your right side 432 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:14,519 past that ball prior to impact or at impact, I 433 00:22:14,519 --> 00:22:18,119 don't care what your hands do. If they're somewhat connected 434 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,640 to the body there to they're going to react on 435 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,880 their own. You can't purposely square the club of your hands. 436 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,039 And that's just crazy. I get these guys say your 437 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,480 risk has to be flat at impact. That's that's because 438 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,319 of momentum. You can't put them there. The club's moving 439 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,839 seventy eighty miles an hour depending on how strong you are. 440 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,039 There's no way to do that. But if your body's 441 00:22:37,039 --> 00:22:39,519 in the right position, that will happen. You know, there's 442 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:43,319 if you're rotating through that golf ball and you're and 443 00:22:43,319 --> 00:22:45,119 that club has last and your hands are going to 444 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,119 be your hands are going to be flat in impact, 445 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,240 they're not going to be cuffed. But once you stop 446 00:22:50,319 --> 00:22:52,960 that body, then the momentum of the arms going forward 447 00:22:53,279 --> 00:22:55,279 are going to cut the wrist. That's why that happens. 448 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,119 It's just that people don't go through the ball. When 449 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,039 you're hanging a golf ball, you have few mind. Has 450 00:23:01,039 --> 00:23:03,920 to be a position A, position B, and the balls 451 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,880 in the way of you going to those positions. If 452 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,240 you target the golf ball, you're never going to get 453 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,119 the position B. And consequently you're going to cup your wrist, 454 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,119 You're going to swing up prematurely, you're going to hang back. 455 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,440 All those things are going to happen just because you 456 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,200 didn't get through the ball. I mean, I have women 457 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,559 that I teach and I say, look, when you get 458 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:23,720 at the top of the swing, oh, I want you 459 00:23:23,759 --> 00:23:26,039 to do one thing. Get past the ball with a 460 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,400 turning motion. And they're always so shocked when they see 461 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,119 they hit so much farther and hit the ball up 462 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,160 in the air. But that's I mean, that's that's the 463 00:23:35,279 --> 00:23:38,160 core thing here that has to happen. No matter what 464 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,200 you do with your hands at the top of your swing, 465 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,160 they can be cup flat. I don't I don't care 466 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,759 about that doesn't mean anything. Then a cup wrist at 467 00:23:45,759 --> 00:23:49,440 the top tier with his flat wrist, who cares? What 468 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,119 matters is at the bottom. And the only way you're 469 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,720 going to go through impact properly is that the big 470 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,079 muscles have to be pulled in the little muscles. Once 471 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,440 the big muscles stopped and the little muscles move forward, 472 00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:03,559 all hell breaks loose. I'll let you're lucky you time it, 473 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,720 you know, And you hear more and more players talking 474 00:24:06,759 --> 00:24:09,799 about I want to eliminate the timing action of the 475 00:24:09,839 --> 00:24:12,559 golf swing because there's just too much pressure out there. 476 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:14,559 You can't get it out there and be timing the 477 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,039 rolling of your hands and things like that. And that's 478 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:18,640 been taught for years. I mean, that's how I was 479 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,200 taught to play. You can't do that now now if 480 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,319 you're going to play at that level. 481 00:24:28,599 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 3: On our third and last round of the weekend, in 482 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,319 the back nine, he was my friend was so frustrated. 483 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,799 Speaker 2: He said, what am I what am I doing? What 484 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:39,400 can I do? 485 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,839 Speaker 3: I keep, you know, rolling the ball, and I'm like, 486 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,799 are you asking me for advice? Because I kept my 487 00:24:44,839 --> 00:24:47,599 mouth shut all weekend and I'll be And all I 488 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,039 said was, try. 489 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:53,559 Speaker 2: Moving the ball back about an inch in your stands. 490 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,799 Speaker 3: Just move the ball back a little bit and see 491 00:24:55,799 --> 00:24:58,519 what happens. Because if you're continuing to hit the ball, 492 00:24:58,599 --> 00:25:01,519 that must mean that you're you're you're you're on your 493 00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:03,920 upswing a little too early. Because I didn't want to 494 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,039 say yeah, because you're leaning on your back foot because 495 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:08,839 you're getting no rotation, because in the middle of a round. 496 00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:09,519 Speaker 2: That's not going to help. 497 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's no way to do. 498 00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:13,079 Speaker 2: So I just said, just move the ball back and 499 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:14,599 see what happens. 500 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:17,279 Speaker 3: And his next three shots were the best shots of 501 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:18,319 the weekend. 502 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 2: And he kind of looked at me, like, what where. 503 00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 4: What the essence? In essence, you move he moves his 504 00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:29,519 head more forward by moving the ball back. You see 505 00:25:29,519 --> 00:25:31,359 what I mean, I'm moving the ball back in the stands. 506 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,519 The head position now is more forward of the ball 507 00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:36,880 than it was when the ball was forward. So in essence, 508 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,519 you did kind. 509 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 2: Of that hmm. Interesting, And I didn't even know I 510 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:42,680 did that. 511 00:25:43,519 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's what that's what you did, you. 512 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 2: See, because I read the Lost Fundamental. 513 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 4: Well, look, you know absolutely notall. There's a lot there's 514 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:54,920 a lot of great teachers out there, but I know 515 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 that this concept is is based in the science, and 516 00:25:58,079 --> 00:25:59,920 I know that when the body is in the right position, 517 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:05,279 you can get your best. Everybody has a best. Some 518 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,119 of us are limited because we're not athletics, some of 519 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,720 us are weak, whatever, But everybody can play this game 520 00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:12,960 and everybody can enjoy it, and everybody can get the 521 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,759 ball up in the air that has never been, that 522 00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:17,680 has never been. I've never had a lesson, and of 523 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:20,359 thousands and thousands of lessons that I've give, I've never 524 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,079 had anyone not be able to get it in the 525 00:26:22,079 --> 00:26:24,599 air once they understand what they're supposed to be. 526 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:29,519 Speaker 2: Right, right? And what about is the hip rotation? 527 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,079 Speaker 3: You know, as we get older, we get into our 528 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,240 late fifties, our sixties, and god bless you in your seventies, 529 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:40,119 the hip rotation. Some people just don't have that kind 530 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,880 of flexibility. I don't know what kind of workout regimen 531 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,240 that you have or if I have. 532 00:26:44,279 --> 00:26:47,559 Speaker 4: No flexibility, No, I don't do any of that. I 533 00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:50,720 don't have any flexibility. But when my weight is on 534 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:56,400 my left access and I turn my chest left, my 535 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,880 hips turn left. Everything works when my when the center 536 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,160 of my chest is to the right of my legs, 537 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,640 like I was taught, take it back to put the 538 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,359 stern them on top of the right leg. Okay, so 539 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,319 there's a leaning of the upper body back behind the 540 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,839 lower body. Then the legs have to go forward because 541 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,119 the legs, the left hip has to align itself to 542 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,200 the outside of the left footed impact. So there's that 543 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,920 little sliding move that you had to make. But with 544 00:27:24,079 --> 00:27:27,440 this concept, what you're doing as you're coiling, as you're 545 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,319 turning in your backs, when you're actually putting, you're actually 546 00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:35,680 getting to that position where you align that hip leg thing. Okay, 547 00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:38,279 so now you have a forward access. Now all you 548 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:40,759 do is turn the top around the axis. The lower 549 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:43,160 body works right with it. When you throw a ball. 550 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,039 Did you ever think about shifting your legs or moving anything. 551 00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:50,160 I mean, your body, your top part is connect to 552 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,759 the lower part. But if you chilt your top part 553 00:27:52,839 --> 00:27:55,119 over to the right, of course, the lower part has 554 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,960 to go forward to bring the top part back. But 555 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,920 when you're more centered to the ball, you're I hate 556 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,480 to use this word stacked, but you're stacked on top 557 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:05,279 of each other. So if you turn, the top of 558 00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:07,680 the lower part turns too, as long as there isn't 559 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,799 wait on the right foot, and again for the for 560 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,640 the listeners, just stand up, put primarily most of your 561 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,640 weight on your right foot, and just take your left 562 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,559 shoulder and turn it as left as you can. You'll 563 00:28:19,559 --> 00:28:22,400 see that you're hips and belly turn with it, so 564 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:25,759 you don't have to worry about hip rotation. See, And 565 00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:28,720 that's that's one of the beautiful things about this is 566 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,279 that you can control. And in my video I show 567 00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:33,240 you that. I show you that when you're at the 568 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:34,720 top of that position, all you have to do is 569 00:28:34,839 --> 00:28:37,119 just clear your chest. Everything else will turn with it, 570 00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:39,440 so you don't have to get your legs out ahead 571 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,240 of the you know, like say legs first, then top. No, 572 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:46,279 you don't have to do that. So we're eliminating all 573 00:28:46,319 --> 00:28:49,720 these little timing things that we had to do. Hm. 574 00:28:53,279 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 3: I have so many more questions, but we don't have 575 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:56,720 time today. 576 00:28:57,359 --> 00:28:59,039 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you, I. 577 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 4: Want to talk to the pros off, So I'm just 578 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,759 going to say. I'm sure there's some golf goes out 579 00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:05,440 there that are saying that guy's nuts, But all I 580 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:06,559 asked you to do is try it. 581 00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:08,119 Speaker 2: Okay, well you're not. 582 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 4: You know. 583 00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 3: I came out there last year with a friend of 584 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,559 mine and you spent an hour with him. 585 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 2: And the video is up on YouTube. 586 00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:19,759 Speaker 3: It's on the golf Smarter TV channel of your you know, 587 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,559 the highlights of the lesson that you gave my friend Neil. 588 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,200 And I'm telling you, ever since that lesson, he has 589 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,599 been a maniac on the golf course. He says that 590 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,799 he continues to do what you taught him in less 591 00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:35,319 than an hour, and his game has just gotten so 592 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,079 much better. He's so much more confident. So, yeah, you 593 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,599 may be out of your mind, but it works. 594 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 4: Well. Yeah, everyone says that anyway, But I think that 595 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,039 I think that this is just an easier way to play. 596 00:29:50,079 --> 00:29:52,039 It's not the only way to play. You can be 597 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:54,119 a handfer. You can fan that club open and close 598 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,799 it on the dollsling if you choose. You just you 599 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,599 just weigh all your way to the right and try 600 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,400 to get it all going back to the left. You 601 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,559 can do that too, It's been done. I only say 602 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,880 that I say this confidently. This is an easier way 603 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:07,319 to do it. 604 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 2: Well. 605 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 3: Next time we get together, I want to talk about 606 00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:14,000 your tempo and the swing rhythm, and I want to 607 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,559 talk about ballflight. We've never really talked about ballflight. I'd 608 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,160 like to get your theories and ideas on that. But 609 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,359 also my friends and I, you know, we travel every year, 610 00:30:25,359 --> 00:30:27,160 and you and I talked about this before, but I'm 611 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,519 going to throw this out here right now. So we're 612 00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:33,079 talking about coming down to the Palm Springs area next 613 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:39,480 April twenty thirteen and on. I want you to put 614 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,599 on your calendar right now the morning of April sixth, 615 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,240 Saturday morning. I'm hoping that you're available that you can 616 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:51,039 meet with me and my three buddies. And I'm going 617 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:53,279 to throw this out here to the Golf Smarter audience. 618 00:30:53,319 --> 00:30:56,039 Speaker 2: If you want to be Tony. Do you do clinics? 619 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 4: Yeah? 620 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:02,559 Speaker 3: Sure, okay, So Monday is Saturday morning, April sixth, twenty thirteen. 621 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,599 If you have any interest in joining Tony Manzoni and 622 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,359 myself on a one maybe two hour clinic, a Golf 623 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:16,160 Smarter clinic one on one with Tony, you start sending 624 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,440 me emails you let me know if your calendar. I'm 625 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,000 giving you a year to think about this, right, I'm 626 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:22,599 not going to keep mentioning it. I'm just going to 627 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,839 throw it out here this one time, and maybe Tony 628 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,880 Will will get something together and bring a group of 629 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,240 people instead of just my foursome. 630 00:31:31,079 --> 00:31:32,839 Speaker 4: That would be great fun, I really would do. It 631 00:31:32,839 --> 00:31:33,599 would be great fun. 632 00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. 633 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 3: Because I know that some people, some Golf Smarter Listeners, 634 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:41,559 have traveled across the United States to come and have 635 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:42,799 one on one sessions with you. 636 00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:47,079 Speaker 4: Yes they have. I've had a ton of them, and 637 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,839 as far away as New York. And there's a one 638 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,960 fellow in France that is coming down on late. 639 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,559 Speaker 2: And he's a Golf Smarter listener. 640 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 4: He's a Golf Smarter listener. 641 00:31:57,519 --> 00:32:00,119 Speaker 2: Wow, in France. How cool is that? 642 00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 4: I Well, you know, when I first did the first 643 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:06,799 interview with you, I thought this was a sum in 644 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,200 cal kind of a deal, and I had no idea 645 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,960 that you were worldwide. And I started getting emails from 646 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,640 people from Switzerland and I heard of the golf maner 647 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,599 blah blah blah, not what in the heck? 648 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,599 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you know you were thinking radio when the 649 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,359 first time we talked, and I think it was about 650 00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:25,240 the shot watch, right, it was shot watch. 651 00:32:25,319 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was about shot watch. That's exactly right. So 652 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:32,839 I had no idea. You know how important you're You're 653 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,519 what you're doing is I mean, it's fantastic. 654 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 3: Really, I don't know that important. I'm just saying that 655 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,519 it's important. No, we have a we have a far 656 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,000 reach because we're on the internet. You know, it's it's 657 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:45,839 a global idea. I don't know if it's important, but 658 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,279 what you're saying is important. I'm just giving you the soapbox. 659 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 4: Well, I mean fellows like me that that have something 660 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,440 to say about the golf swing, you know, whether you 661 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,880 whether you agree or not. At least it's an opinion, 662 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,440 that's all there, and it's people thinking. And how would 663 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,359 I do that if it wasn't for your company? You know, 664 00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:09,039 I'm surely not a household name in golf. I mean, 665 00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:10,759 you should be family. 666 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 2: But we don't want to hear what they. 667 00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 3: Say about you at home, all right, So let's let 668 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:23,240 everybody know. Now, please come to golf smarter dot com 669 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,599 and pick up if you haven't already picked up Tony's book, 670 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,759 The Lost Fundamental One simple move better Golf Forever. You're 671 00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:33,279 one of the few who have not in the Golf 672 00:33:33,319 --> 00:33:38,440 Smarter audience. The book is only twenty dollars and plus shipping. 673 00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:41,000 Now we have to mention that they're shipping different shipping 674 00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:45,519 fees for overseas, for Canada and for the United States. 675 00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:47,720 I think the United States it's like five bucks or something. 676 00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:51,119 But so the book is twenty dollars now. The DVD 677 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:56,039 is available again. It's only available at Golfsmarter dot com 678 00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:59,640 or at the Loss Fundamental dot com. But you know 679 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,920 it's it's also lets Tony know where they're hearing about 680 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,960 it when you buy it from us. 681 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,559 Speaker 2: And the DVD is. 682 00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:10,519 Speaker 3: Well, you say, twenty nine ninety five thirty dollars plus 683 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:14,360 the shipping. And the shipping comes from Tony, not for me, 684 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,599 but I just help him handle all the orders and 685 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:20,320 it's an easier way to come. So please come to 686 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,519 golf Smarter dot com and go into the golfers mart 687 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:29,199 there and pick up one or both of Tony's latest 688 00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:33,840 contributions to your game improvement, The Loss Fundamental. 689 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,840 Speaker 2: Tony Manzoni, you are a hero, my friend. 690 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 3: I really enjoy talking to you and you are coming 691 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:41,480 back soon right. 692 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,159 Speaker 4: We're not sure. 693 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,599 Speaker 3: You may be back in next episode or two weeks, 694 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:49,559 but we can't record anything today but because our schedules 695 00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:52,039 won't allow. But we will get you back on very 696 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:54,519 soon because I still have more questions. 697 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:57,320 Speaker 4: fALS great to me, Tony, and thank you so much 698 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,679 for the opportunity to tell you what might series are about. 699 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:01,119 It also