May 29, 2026

The Keys To Solid Contact with Jim Venetos | Mulligans

The Keys To Solid Contact with Jim Venetos | Mulligans
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This week on the Mulligans episode, Fred Greene sits down with Jim Venetos to talk about solid contact.

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Hey everybody, it's Josh Cart and it's Friday, so that

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means Mulligans. Today's Mulligans episode is fine tuning your swing

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off season with Jim Venitos. Here's the episode.

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Golf Smarter Premium number five hundred and five, published on

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September eighth, twenty fifteen. Calm slash Golf Smarter from a

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listeners suggestion, We're going to meet Jim Venettas and here

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about his keys to solid contact. This is Golf Smarter Premium.

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Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast.

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Jim, Hi, Fred, thanks for having me on the show.

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Thank you for agreeing to participate here because I received

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an email from a longtime listener, a guy named Stuart Margolis,

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who said, drop everything. This is a no brainer for

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Golf Smarter. Jim is You're going to absolutely love Jim.

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Yes, Stuart's an excellent student and I had the pleasure

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of meeting up with them on my cross country trip

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this year, which was which is really fun.

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Tell me about your cross country trip.

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Well, I traveled from Los Angeles to New England and

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I taught students along the way that are members of

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my online golf school, and you know how we interact

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is just through video or through Skype lessons or through

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phone conversations. But I've never met a lot of these guys.

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So I traveled in zigzag the Northern Route all across

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the country until I got to New England. Took me

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twenty three days.

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Wow.

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I saw twenty students and it was really really cool.

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Do you drive this by yourself?

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Yeah, just solo, me and my loft and line machine.

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I adjusted people's lofts and lies that they had forged

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clubs and just gave these full day lessons with these guys.

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It was super super fun.

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Deep into your head on this trip.

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Yeah, yeah, I definitely. It's interesting, especially going across Nebraska.

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Why Nebraska.

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It's tough. It's tough, it's very flat, it's very similar.

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It's a long drive through Nebraska. You can't help but

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think of it. So I shot a lot of content

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along the way too, called him road blogs and posted them,

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posted them on my blog, just sort of reporting where

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I was at and how the students were doing. And

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I got to play some really cool courses. Got to

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play Oakmont wow, Yeah, which was amazing.

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How did you get on that?

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One of my students is His brother is a member there,

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and he had said a year ago when he first

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started working with me, gosh, I want to get you

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out here somedays so that we could play Oakmont. And

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then once I announced the cross country trip, he said,

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I want you to stay here for a few days,

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and one of the days we're going to play Oakmont.

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And it was super supermut hardest course I've ever played. Really, yeah,

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I've played US Open courses. I've played a lot of them,

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and the typical US Open course only has about maybe

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six to eight tough holes, really tough holds. There was

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not one easy shot on Oakmont.

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Not an easy hole, not an easy shot, an easy shot.

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It was outrageous. I hit the ball really good. We

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had caddies, We walked the course and the caddies telling me,

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hit it here, and it's you're hitting pinpoint spots on

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the biggest greens you've ever seen and relying upon the

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green to funnel the ball forty fifty yards sometimes to

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the target. So it was super cool. I can't wait

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to watch it next year.

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Dude, there's just wait a minute here. So now you're

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hitting pinpoint shots. You were following the lead from your

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caddy and you were probably doing pretty well and still

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leaving yourself with difficult shots.

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Oh yeah, if you didn't hit that pinpoint spot. So

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you know, I was smoking driver. I'm smoking three with

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which is a lot of what was required off the tea.

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So I'm really well set up for the approach shots

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hitting lots of wedges, you know, just between eighty and

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one hundred and forty yards, but you just can't miss,

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and the spots are super precise, and if you miss

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that spot, you know, if you hit the right shot,

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you got an eight footer. That's one of the easier

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looking putts that you've had all day. If you missed

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that spot, you might have a sixty footer. That's just

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the hardest sixty footer you could ever imagine to have.

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So it's just it's super demanding, but it was super beautiful.

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The member that had me out super gracious, you know,

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show me around, tell me about when the open was

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there before, and the history, and it was just really

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a special, special day.

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That sounds amazing. Yeah, So it was like the ball

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would hit the green and just release, take off, fall

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off the green if it didn't hold her.

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It was about a three club Winka, so the win

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was definitely influencing.

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The club is significant, and the greens.

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Are fast and obviously going to be much faster for

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the Open. But it's just, you know, even the caddy said,

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you know, of course is playing really tough today between

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positions and just between the way the direction that the

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wind was blowing. They had removed every tree on the

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course except for one, so it's really it's barren as

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can be. So the wind really influences shots. Wow, yeah,

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you'll see it next year. It's super super cool.

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What about the rough did you find yourself and having

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to deal with it?

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Rough? But the big thing there is the bunkers, right,

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they got the church pews and I avoided all church pews,

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but one set there's they have many pews, they have megapews.

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They got there's a few different holes where you come

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across these church pew strips of grass in the middle

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of bunkers is what they are.

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Oh okay, I was like, what are you talking about?

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No idea? What you meant?

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Yeah, And if you hit it in there, you really

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don't have much of a shot. You're just trying to

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play back onto the fairway.

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Amazing all right, So should I drive through Nebraska at night?

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I mean, if there's nothing in it, it's really it's

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worse than driving Highway five from LA to San Francisco.

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Huh much worse. It feels like it's a hundred times longer.

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Oh yeah, it's interested. Yeah, I've never done across country tripe.

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I don't know if I could without going on out

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of my mind.

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It is beautiful, and especially the golf courses. You know.

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I also played a lot of little, small, you know,

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a couple executive courses that just happen to be where

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some of my members are are regularly playing at. So

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it was fun to just play all levels of.

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Yes, so cool, that's so cool.

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I'm going to play Bethpage Black on the way home.

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And now do you have to do you have someone

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who can get you on or you just got to

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get there at four in the morning to try to

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get a tea time.

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You know, That's that's the folklore, right But inside Scoop says,

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maybe you don't have to get there and necessarily at four,

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but I'll probably do it just to see what the

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culture is like. I'm I'm documenting my whole trip back

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and forth so you know, I'll have some cameras going

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just see what it's like and then you know, be

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able to share that with everybody.

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Really, and where are you sharing it? Tell us? Tell

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us about your website or where you can find it.

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I have a Jim Venettes Golf Academy dot com is

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my school, and then on the school there's a blog

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and it's in the blog that is free access for anybody,

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and it's that's where all that content is, or it's

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on YouTube. I have a YouTube channel with the same

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same handle, Jim Venettes Golf Academy.

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Okay, and Vanettas is V E N E T O

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S correct vs in Victor. Very cool. How is it

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that you come across in your videos, which I've watched

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a number of them and have really learned a lot

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from you. You don't come across like the average everyday

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PGA certified instructor. You were a bit of a heretic,

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aren't you. Oh?

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I'm not trying to be, but I just have a

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very clear point of view on how I think the

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golf swing should be and I've seen it. I've taught.

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I've taught the same methodology for twenty two years and

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thousands of students, and I've seen so many just benefit

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from this different ideology, which is you know, it's really

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it's really, it's really quite simple when it comes down

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to it. I just teach non movements as opposed to movements.

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I teach the position that you could set your body

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in that will force the correct movements of the club.

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So it's really about what I teach is just about

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getting to the source of the matter. And because I've

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seen it help so many players from all levels too,

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you know, from beginners all the way up to I

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got a one student who's a phenomenal player. He's a

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Mini tour pro. He holds the course record at my

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home course of sixty one. And this kid is you know,

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there was seven months last year where I played with

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him and he did not shoot over sixty seven. It was, Oh,

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it was the most fun thing to watch ever. And

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he's super devoted to the technique. And so I've seen

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it operate on all different levels, from students that are

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handicapped in some way, or have a bad back, or

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not very strong or are very strong, and so consequently,

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I think it gives me a lot of emotion as

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I'm making my videos because I'm really trying to get

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a point across that I think can help a lot

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of people play a lot better golf.

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Right, Actually, I was more referring to your physical appearance

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versus I mean, you're the only golf instructor I've ever

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seen who wears Converse high tops, or not even high tops.

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Right, just low tops. I figure they're good enough for

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Jerry West and the NBA, they're good enough for me

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and golf. I wear them when I play golf because

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I don't have a weight shift in my swing, so

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the requirement of spikes is really not necessary. You know,

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I'll wear spikes on a day where it's it's good,

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it's going to be raining, or I'm playing a course

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like Riviera or like Oakmont where I know I'm going

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to have some lies that are going to be, you know,

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of the most demanding in nature. So then I'll I

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have put you ay classics, you know, from a few

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years ago. They stopped making them, but I bought a

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bunch of hair and I like wearing old wingtips if

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I'm going to wear a golf shoe. But other than that,

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you know, I feel, like I said, I figure, if

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they're good enough for the NBA in the sixties. They're

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good enough for me just to go.

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Yeah, nothing's changed since then.

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It's still and exactly in.

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Golf or basketball gear. Yeah, it's all this exactly the

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same since the sixties. So let's let's break your method

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down here. You know, if if you're not moving at

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all and you don't need spikes to hold you down,

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what makes your method unique? What where did you How

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did you get there?

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Well? Yeah, so you know, I learned from top one

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hundred golf instructors when I was younger. I played junior

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golf with Tiger and had a very strong high school career,

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and then walked onto a Division one college team and

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was learning from top one hundred instructors. Other guys on

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the team were taking lessons from other top one hundred instructors,

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and we'd all share that information. You know, we're just

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we're just you know, poor college kids, but we're super

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desperate to improve and get better. And we actually had

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a really solid team and you know, got nationally ranked,

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which was really a big feat for us because we

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were a low budget Division one school. But you know,

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in the process of learning the game, I just reached

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a point where I operated more off of my own

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ballflight than trying to move or manipulate the swing as

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was conventionally taught, instead of thinking about the movements for

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the swing. Like when I got to college, one of

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my teammates, who a really great player, Gerald Wong, said

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to me, you know, you seem to be able to

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hit a draw on a fade anytime you want. You know,

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how do you do that? I said, I feel draw,

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hit draw, I feel fade hit fade. So I had

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a good innate sense for how to manipulate the ball

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and hit the shots that I wanted to hit and

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take control over my ball flight. Well, it was through

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that that I found myself not needing to shift my

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weight because as I was trying to control ball flight,

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I was keeping my weight very planted. And I thought

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what I would do is maybe sacrifice some power but

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gain control over my trajectory and the shape of my shots.

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But the cool thing was I actually gained power, and

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it comes from this simple reality. Power in a golf

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swing comes from the shaft. When you flex the shaft properly,

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and this is from a beginner to an expert, you

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get that sense that the club moves with such effortlessness,

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and it has so much power in it. You can

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almost feel the shaft melt in your hands as you

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overwhelm the club and you get the shaft to work

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and you get the club to work. Well, it's when

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the club works, is that That's when you get that big, powerful,

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ease d effortless shot that you say to yourself, what

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did I do? You know? Why is that shot so precious?

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It felt like I did nothing? And in reality, that's

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really what's happening. Is when you don't do the work,

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the club does the work, and when you can get

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the club to work for you, you actually gain power.

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So once you learn how to make the club work,

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how the club works is simply flexing the shaft, and

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how the shaft flexes is by swinging it in a circle.

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So if you swing the club in a circle, you

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create some tripetal force. It's like iron Byron, the robot

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that hits balls. All he's doing is making a circular swing.

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So consequently he's making this very effortless, efficient, powerful swing.

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Of course, it's a machine, but the dynamics for it

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still fall in line with this idea of working the

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club in a circle. So we have the same opportunity.

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We have an iron Byron right in our forward shoulder.

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It's a three quarter rotating shoulder joint that works in

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a circular manner. So that means that if you hold

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your weight still on your forward foot, you're creating the

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left shoulder becomes the axis point for the swing, just

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like iron Byron has a single access point. And then

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if you hold your weight still, you create this circular

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swing which flexes the shaft and gives you this big,

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abundant power. So in the process, how I started with

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this is just you know, I thought I might lose

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some power, but I actually gain power. I gained control

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over ballflay. But then I also gained simplicity in the

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ease of performance because all I had to do was

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stay still.

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And other instructors that you've talked to worked with discussed this.

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How do they react to that? Don't tell people the

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secret because we're going to be out of work. Is

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that kind of thing?

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No, No, I think. I mean, it's been so accepted

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that there's so many different ways to swing a golf

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club that if you're different. I don't think it really

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uh scares anybody. I think everybody is well intended in

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trying to figure out the best way to swing the club.

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They're trying to produce give their students the great experience

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that they understand with their within their within their own methodologies.

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I've just found that it's far too difficult to teach

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a student how to move properly simply because it's unnecessary.

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You know, we have this beautiful body that has these

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pre equipped joints that work very specifically. So how you

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set up your golf swing, your address position, your setup

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position already dictates how the movements in the in the

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swing are going to go. For your swing, for my swing,

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for anybody's swing, the setup position is a preset for

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all the movements in the swing. Now I teach a

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very different setup position. I teach to pre set clothes,

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which presets the path for the swing. It presets the

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contact for the swing because it anchors weight forward, and

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it presets this inside out path the traditional viewpoints on

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the swing while also are creating a preset. Then have

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the students start to move, have the students start to

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negotiate the club, shift, weight, whatever it might be that

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is that movement that triggers a good shot. I just

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get down to the non movement of it. I'm just

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coming from a place of look, if you stay still

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in this position, you're going to hit really solid, sweet

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tight draws. And so other Dolph instructors, you know, I

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definitely get a lot of paths on the back. They

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appreciate the depth to the thought on this. But also,

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you know, I get a lot of guys that say, well,

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it'll never work, and I say, well that's you know,

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that's fine. I got the proof and the thousands of

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students that all get to experience this really high quality

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shot that comes from simply holding your weight still.

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Wow. Wow. So you're saying a closed stance, meaning your

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lead shoulder right if you're a right handed right handed golfer,

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or your left shoulder is closed. Yes, So expand on

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that place. Because this is an audio, it's hard to

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you know.

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The purpose behind it is this. There's simply two fundamentals

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to the swing that I teach, and they all are executed.

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Those two fundamentals are codependent upon each other, so they

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work well with each other. The two fundamentals are this,

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we need to secure a solid contact so that happens

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by anchoring weight to your forward foot When you anchor

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weight to your forward foot, you force a descending strike

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upon the ball and that creates solid contact. That's the

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difference between a pro and a high handicapper. The pro

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hits the ball first. As soon as you hit the

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ball first, the ball reacts completely differently than if you

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hit the ground first or if your club bottom's out

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prior to the ball. So by getting your weight to

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your forward foot, you immediately secure that solid contact. That's

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also a huge fundamental for any PGA to our player,

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they're all getting through to their forward foot because this

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is how solid contact is created. Now, the second fundamental

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to what I teach is simply to have your body

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in a close position, which would mean that your left

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side of your body if you're a right handed golf or,

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the left side of your body is closer to the

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ball than your right side of your body. Traditionally, this

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would be called the closed position in golf, as opposed

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to what golf would call square, which is where the

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body is level, where the left and the right shoulders

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are both equal. I call that position neutral because neither

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the left nor the right is in control. Both the

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left and the right are in a codependent state. Of

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balance upon each other. The setup position I teach puts

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the left side of the body. For a right handed golfer,

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puts the left side of the body forward. What this

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does is not only secures the inside out swing path

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for the swing, but it also empowers the left side

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of the body. Essentially, it's strengthening the left side of

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the body. Think about it if you shake hands. When

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you shake hands with somebody, if you're shaking hands with

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your right hand, your right shoulder comes forward. You wouldn't

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shake hand with your right shoulder back, and if you did,

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it would feel awkward. Right, Well, this is a natural

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empowerment of the right side of the body. Think about

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Kobe Bryant. When he shoots a free throw, his right

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shoulder is forward of his left. It's because it's his

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right shoulder is the one that's being empowered, so it

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could support the stroke that he's about to shoot the

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ball with. Whichever shoulder is forward is the shoulder that's

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in control. Think about Muhammad Ali throwing a punch. He

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throws that punch with his lead shoulder forward. If he's

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throwing it with his lead arm, if he's throwing with

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his back arm, the back shoulder has got to bypass

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the front shoulder before it becomes strong, and once it

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does that, it becomes strong. So whichever shoulder is forward

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is the shoulder that's in control. So the two fundamentals

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for this swing are simply to have your weight forward

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and to have your body closed. When you have your

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weight forward, you secure contact. When you have your body closed,

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you secure your swing path. And it's these two components

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that all add up to a left dominant position for

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a right handed golfer. That's why they're codependent upon each other.

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It's really just empowering the forward side of your body

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is what that setup position does.

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So where does the bottom half of your body line

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up when the top half of your body, your shoulder

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is closed on the ball. Are you rotating your entire

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body there?

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Correct? And in fact, the pivot comes from pivoting the hips.

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The hips are the center of the body, so as

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your hips move, so shall everything else. So if you

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pivot your hips, your shoulders will travel, your chest will travel,

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your legs will travel, Your hands and arms will also

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travel and conform to where your hips have pivoted to.

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So when you pivot your hips closed, you immediately are

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empowering the forward side of your body, because when you

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pivot your hips closed, your grip gets stronger. When your

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grip gets stronger, that means your lead hand is more

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in control of the club. So this setup position forces

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a stronger grip. And it also takes care of how

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to attach your hands to the club because once you pivot,

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then you grip the club. Wherever your hands are at

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once you pivot is correct because it's consistent with the

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rest of your body.

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You definitely have a different approach. I mean, this is

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so interesting to me. Now what does that do to

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the alignment towards your target?

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Sure, alignment is definitely different. And you know, in the

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traditional swing, the idea of alignment is this, you square

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the club face your toes, your knees, your hips, and

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your shoulders to your target right. And because we're standing

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perpendicular to the ball, the ball is supposed to immediately

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fly directly to our left at the target. But what

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about that set up position? What about the traditional square

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setup position really influences a direction. You know, if that

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were the case, where if I could stand in that

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position where my toes, knees, hips and shoulders were pointed

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at the target. Why wouldn't I shoot a basketball that way?

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Why wouldn't I throw a dart that way? Why wouldn't

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I shoot pool that way? But we don't we get

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into these different positions. When we're shooting pool, we're throwing

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a dart, or we're shooting a basketball.

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But when you're swinging a baseball bat.

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Yeah, when you swing a baseball bat, the majority of

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batters start in a closed position. Okay, they draw the

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bat is drawn back and their their back shoulder is

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usually behind their front shoulder. Some baseball players start in

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an open position and then coil back to a closed position.

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So sure, there's a lot of different ways the guys

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start to play baseball. I look at swings in baseball,

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like Ted Williams, the most phenomenal hitter we've ever had,

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hit four hundred against the shift. You know, I mean

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this guy was phenomenal. He was closed. If you look

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at his batting position, it's very similar to what I

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teach in the golf swing. It's a closed position. He

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doesn't spin his shoulders out, He hits with his lead arm.

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You know, Raphael palmerow, Mark McGuire, those guys that are

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power hitters have always hit with their front side, so

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they set up differently. Rod Carew was more of a

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weaker hitter. He hit for bass hits, so he set

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up more on his back foot, not as engaged forward,

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had his hands in a weaker position.

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So he said he was a slap hitter.

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He was a slap hitter, right, he's hitting. You know,

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which is great or baseball, But it doesn't work for

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golf because you need power a slap hitter and golf

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all of a sudden becomes a lot weaker against the

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demands of the course.

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So now we're trying to get you know, we want

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a natural draw out of the ball. Is what you're

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explaining that hitting a fade is not to your advantage,

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although some great players played the fade.

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Sure well, it all comes down to ball spin. You know.

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Controlling the ball is all about reducing spin on the ball.

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And that's what a lot of companies are doing right

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now with their gear and with their ideas of how

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to swing driver. They say, hit up on the driver

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to reduce spin. Use these different clubs in this waiting

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system in order to reduce spin. Well, I say, what

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if there was a way to swing so that you

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could reduce spin. Now, you wouldn't rely upon these additional

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adjustments that, although maybe useful, may not be the most

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best use of these adjustments. You know, because if you

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can reduce spin on your own, because you're making a

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swing that has low spin. You know, my driver clubhead

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speed is one hundred and eighteen miles an hour. My

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revolutions on the ball are at eighteen hundred to two thousand,

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which is really low on the spectrum of spin. So

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this swing naturally reduces spin. So when you talk about

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a fade and a draw, the draw operates with less spin.

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If it has less spin, that means it goes farther

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because it's spending less time spinning backwards. If it has

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less spin, it goes less offline because spin not only

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00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:42.960
affects the ball backwards but also from side to side.

473
00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:45.400
So if your ball is spinning less, you're going to

474
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:49.559
have better misses and create more power. Well, this swing

475
00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:53.839
creates that low spin shot. I was invited down to

476
00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.440
the Titles Performance Institute because one of my students who

477
00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:58.920
is fifty eight years old, and when I started working

478
00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.640
in with him, he was a a ten handicap who

479
00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:04.720
was working with Butch Harmon at the time, and he

480
00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:08.200
was struggling to play to his handicap in tournaments. So

481
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:09.680
he came to me. He says, Jimmy Bee, can you

482
00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:11.880
make sure I never come over the top again? And

483
00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.039
I said, sure, Market's easy. If you set up clothes,

484
00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:18.160
you'll stay closed. Well, he was a one handicap within

485
00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.720
seven months. He could play to it in tournaments. He

486
00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:25.839
qualified for the club Championship at Wilster Country Club, shooting

487
00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:29.359
seventy three seventy one. I mean this guy could flat

488
00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:33.640
play under pressure. Once he learned this ideology, well, he

489
00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.200
went down to the Titles Performance Institute to make himself

490
00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:39.880
a custom fit set of clubs. He actually went down

491
00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:42.359
with Claude Harmon. He was friends with the Harmon family,

492
00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:48.680
so Butch's son Claud and the founders of the institute,

493
00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:53.400
Dave Dave Rose. Greg Rose was so impressed with his

494
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.480
ballflight characteristic so that he actually invited me down to

495
00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.079
come and explain to him what was going on with

496
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:02.480
this guy's draw because his draw was high ball speed,

497
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.279
mid launch angle and low spin and they're not seeing

498
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:09.559
that normally. They're seeing different characteristics in the ball flay

499
00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:13.000
than what this swing produces. So I went down, I

500
00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:15.599
met with the guys. I talked with them for four hours,

501
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:17.720
and that's what we talked about. We talked about ball flight.

502
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:21.359
I got to believe that it's more than just closing

503
00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:27.640
your shoulders to achieve your method of contacts.

504
00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:30.319
That's the setup position. So once you get your shoulders

505
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.519
closed and your weights forward, that's the setup position. And

506
00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.119
that's it. That's as simple as it is.

507
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:37.720
Then shoulders closed, weight forward.

508
00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:40.640
Weight forward, seventy percent of your weight on your forward.

509
00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.759
Foot at all times during the swing.

510
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.319
At all times, and you leave it there the entire

511
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.000
time during the swing. And what that does is it

512
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:50.359
presets the movements for the swing, so that during the

513
00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:54.039
swing all you have to focus on is stillness of weight.

514
00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:57.440
If you eliminate having to worry where the club's going

515
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.279
because we preset that in the set up position, you

516
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.319
eliminate having to deliver the strike upon the ball because

517
00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:06.119
we've preset that in the set up position, your weight's

518
00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:08.079
not moving. If your weight doesn't move, the club's going

519
00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:10.200
to return right back to the same spot every time.

520
00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:14.039
So it creates an ease of performance while also producing

521
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.160
this super high quality shot. It's tight draw really powerful.

522
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.599
And I've always heard that you know, with a tight draw,

523
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.759
you're going to get more roll out of it, and

524
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.559
you're saying you're going to get more distance in the air.

525
00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:32.000
Well, yes, And so that's that idea of a draw.

526
00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:35.160
Before was that draws are good because they spin less

527
00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.799
and they roll more. But sometimes draws turn into hooks

528
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:42.119
or draws are hard to stop, right. That comes from

529
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:44.880
trying to hit a draw off of your back foot.

530
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:46.759
You try and hit a draw off your back foot,

531
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:50.119
you lose the spin characteristics. If you hit the same

532
00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:53.160
draw off of your front foot, you get this beautiful

533
00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:55.920
flush shot that takes one hop and stops and has

534
00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:58.480
all kinds of check on it. I could spin balls

535
00:28:58.519 --> 00:29:01.759
back if I want to, but they never do because

536
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:04.640
the spin rate is so low and efficient that everything's

537
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:07.240
one hot stop, one hot stop, and that's from one

538
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:08.839
iron all the way down to sandwich.

539
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:09.559
Wow.

540
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:14.359
Yeah. Really, it's really a special ball play. And you

541
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:17.279
know it when you see it because it's penetrating and

542
00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:19.720
it's driven, and you know it when you hear it

543
00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:21.759
because the sound is flush. And one of the cool

544
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:25.559
things about the way this setup position works is it

545
00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:30.680
allows a beginner golfer to immediately start hitting these super

546
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:35.119
high quality, professional quality shots, because this draw is not

547
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.440
just like a weak faith It's not just like a

548
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.599
bunted shot that is playable, predictable, but doesn't create power.

549
00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.799
This draw is flush. This ball moves, and the ball

550
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.279
when it lands has action, it grabs, and it stops.

551
00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:55.559
Unbelievable. It just sounds so dare I say simple?

552
00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.839
It is simple. It's the hardest part that I have

553
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:04.680
because as I teach this, you know, I my greatest

554
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.680
students are the fifty to seventy five year old guy

555
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.160
who's already tried every different methodology and has said, you

556
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.720
know what, as I'm getting older here, I'm losing some

557
00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:17.920
strength and power. I really I need something simple, and

558
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:19.960
they end up finding me one way or another. You know,

559
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.839
the swing I teach doesn't create back pain, so I

560
00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.519
get linked with a pain free golf swing. But I

561
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.640
also get linked with, you know, just this idea of

562
00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:32.160
something new and different. You've tried everything else, now try

563
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.279
to stay still, try to trust because you know what,

564
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.480
every golfer's hit that amazing shot, they've hit that pro

565
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:41.519
quality shot, they just don't know how to do it again, right, well,

566
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:43.440
this is a way to allow you to do it again,

567
00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:45.759
because it's just about the setup position and then it's

568
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.039
just about maintaining stillness during the swing.

569
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:53.000
Are you an advocate of now getting beyond just the swing,

570
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.119
like target golf or visualization? Oh?

571
00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:01.079
Sure, Yeah. I was lucky enough, you know. So I

572
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.279
went to college and played D one college in ninety

573
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:08.240
to ninety four, and right about that same time, a

574
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:10.359
friend of mine who ended up playing on the Nationwide Tour,

575
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:13.279
who was also on my team, was my best golf

576
00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:15.599
and buddy. He and I would play endless rounds, either

577
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.720
during competition or away from competition. Great player Tony Bordwell,

578
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:23.680
a guy found us who had been on the PGA

579
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:25.680
Tour and he said, you guys look like you got

580
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:28.319
some talent. I want to tell you what I didn't have.

581
00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.559
And I feel that was the difference between the reason

582
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.240
why he made it or didn't make it on tour,

583
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.480
and it was about visualization and imagery. And so he

584
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.240
worked with us for three years all through college on

585
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:44.759
visualization and imagery. And yes, I believe that everything is

586
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.960
done properly with the balance of mind, body and soul.

587
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:53.200
So the body in golf is your technique, your swing,

588
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.960
your physical ability to control the ball. Your mind in

589
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.920
golf is your strategy and the rules that's in your

590
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:03.640
mind is responsible for saying, Hey, you know the pin's

591
00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:06.079
tucked back right, I want to come up the left

592
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:07.920
side of the fairway so I have the best angle

593
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:11.880
into the pin. Then your body executes the shot through stillness.

594
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:15.160
But then it's your soul that makes that shot beautiful.

595
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.920
Your soul is your heart of a champion, your ability

596
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:24.319
towards creativity, your your depth, your dedication, your drive. And

597
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:28.400
it's this that I think when you combine all three

598
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.640
puts you into the zone of peak performance. Like think

599
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.400
about Michael Jordan. You know, had the perfect physique for

600
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:38.640
playing the game in his position, had a great understanding

601
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:40.839
for the game, and had a massive drive to win.

602
00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:43.480
It's a combination of those three things that I think

603
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.880
put him in the zone. Often, Jack Nicholas the same way,

604
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.480
Tiger at his best, the same way. When you have

605
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.440
all things in balance, I think you create the zone

606
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:56.160
of peak performance. So visualization and imagery is a huge

607
00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.920
part of soul. You know, I see the shot and

608
00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:02.319
I feel the shot, and that allows me to then

609
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:06.799
have more precision in executing the shot. It's like throwing darts.

610
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:09.319
You know, you look at the smallest spot on the

611
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.279
dartboard and you're gonna have a better chance of hitting

612
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.079
that area than if you look at a general area.

613
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.279
You know, small targets create tight results, right.

614
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:21.279
No, Like someone once said to me on the show

615
00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:24.079
that if you just aim for the fairway and you

616
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.400
miss by ten yards, that's a terrible shot. But if

617
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.000
you pick a very specific spot in the fairway and

618
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.079
miss it by ten yards, that's a great shot for sure. Yeah.

619
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.519
So being precise, no doubt. I think that's a part

620
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:38.640
of the sole aspect of the game. It's like, you know,

621
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:40.920
how good you want to play? I play around of

622
00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:42.920
golf every day in my mind perfectly.

623
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:45.599
We all do well.

624
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:47.599
Yeah, and that's good. I think that's that's a way

625
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:51.519
to train your ability towards imagery and focus, because that's

626
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:53.240
kind of tricky to do. It's good to do when

627
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:55.440
you're driving in traffic and you you know, you can

628
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.200
let your mind wander a little bit. I don't know

629
00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.079
if that's safe, but you know, you take the opportunity.

630
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.720
I do it usually in a real peaceful space where

631
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:06.279
I'm just thinking and I just play a course perfectly,

632
00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:08.400
and I do it as many times as I can,

633
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:11.360
and it teaches me how to see the shot, It

634
00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:13.679
teaches me how to stay focused for the duration of

635
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:18.039
the round, and I tell you it often manifests itself

636
00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:21.320
the next day on the course where I find myself, Wow,

637
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.239
I'm five hunder through five, just like I was last

638
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:27.320
night in my brain. So I think that that's a

639
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:31.440
real important aspect to just making your game complete. You know,

640
00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:34.079
the game's hard enough as it is. The more weapons

641
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.519
we can bring to the course, the better chance we're

642
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.480
going to have to at least, you know, fight or

643
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:41.039
win the battle against the course.

644
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:49.000
Well, Stuart Marglus, thank you. Your recommendation is phenomenal. Jim

645
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:58.119
Jimmy v huh Jim talking basketball again. Tell everyone how

646
00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.920
to get in touch with you and and how to

647
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:03.960
take advantage of your offerings.

648
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.559
Cool. Yeah, I got a website. It's a monthly subscription.

649
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:09.320
It's got hundreds of videos on it that have all

650
00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:13.440
been organized specifically to meet your golf needs. When you

651
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.599
sign up, you choose what golfer type you want to be,

652
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:20.480
and then that's going to set a prescription. It's going

653
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.000
to enact a prescription for you that gives you a

654
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:26.360
linear path of videos that you're going to watch to

655
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.320
learn the skills that you need to become the golfer

656
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:33.000
that you want to become. And you get unlimited access

657
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:37.360
to me for video analysis and email communication or Skype

658
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:40.400
lessons or even talking on the phone. And you get

659
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.000
a week free trial so you can check it out

660
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:47.079
see if you like it. It's www dot Jim Vanettos

661
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:50.440
golf Academy dot com and you could send me an

662
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:54.360
email at Jim at jimvnettisgolf Academy dot com if you

663
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:56.920
have any questions or if you find it to be

664
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.119
an interesting concept that you might want to explore.

665
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.360
If anybody didn't write that down because you're driving or something,

666
00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:07.440
just write to me and you know the drill on that,

667
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.800
and I will put you in touch with Jim. So

668
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:14.280
tell me now that when I submit videos to you,

669
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:16.000
what's the process there?

670
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.519
Yeah, I give you a video analysis. I have a

671
00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:21.920
telestrator app that I use called power Chalk, and it's

672
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.360
really great. I do these about eight minute analysis of

673
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:27.679
your swing of what I like about what you're doing,

674
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.480
what I want to see you improve upon and what

675
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:32.760
I want you to do to improve upon that. I'll

676
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:36.440
give you either a drill or a request of you

677
00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:38.719
for the week. You know, try and accomplish the setup

678
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:42.159
position by the time you send me the next video,

679
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:44.960
and then we'll work on stillness. Then we work on alignment,

680
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:48.480
and just keep progressing from the swing all the way

681
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.440
into playing shots, because you know, so often people play

682
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.280
golf swing and that's such a shame that you lose

683
00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:58.360
the opportunity to actually play the game. When you learn

684
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.320
this swing, you reach a point where you can take

685
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:03.760
the swing for granted, you're gonna hit solid draws if

686
00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:05.920
you stay still. So now you get to start to

687
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.519
play shots, and that's really the fun part of the school.

688
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:11.960
I have a lot of supplementary material. One of the things.

689
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:14.760
One of the things is called the shot consult where

690
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:17.639
I put myself in a situation I give you a beginner,

691
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.360
an expert, and intermediate solution for getting out of that

692
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:25.039
tight spot. And so it's a way to start to

693
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:28.480
learn how to play a variety shots and see different

694
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:29.679
shots on the course.

695
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.519
Fabulous, fabulous. Listen. I'm gonna break for an announcement here

696
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:38.679
and talk about audible dot Com. For a moment, but

697
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:43.239
I usually will come back and have you provide us

698
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:45.920
with a tip. But what's so cool is that you

699
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.159
have already sent me a video of you providing a

700
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:55.000
tip on where did it go? I had it written

701
00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:58.079
down here, the key to solid contact. Yeah right, and

702
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:03.000
it's really good. I've already watched it. You emailed to

703
00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:05.000
me about a half hour before we started recording, and

704
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:06.360
I've already seen it three times.

705
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.760
Yeah, I know the key.

706
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.880
Now, I know the key. Well, everyone's going to learn

707
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:16.159
that too, Jim and again Jim Vanettas golf Academy dot

708
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com and Vanettas's vas In Victor.

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E N E.

710
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:23.920
T isn't tom os Vanetas correct?

711
00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:24.719
That's it.

712
00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:27.639
That's it, dude. I really hope we can get you

713
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back on the show. This was so entertaining as far

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as being an overload of amazing information.

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Uh oh, you're awesome, Fred, thanks for having me.

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You're welcome. Okay, this sucks. As we started to throw

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that one at you, as we have just completed our

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Labor Day holiday weekend here in the United States, I

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joined the ranks of sixty year old idiots everywhere who

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are known as weekend warriors. Well, that's what we're referred

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to by emergency room doctors in attendance. Yeah. So I

722
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:04.960
grew up date with daily access to a swimming pool

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and spent most of my days either jumping off of

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diving boards or the neighbor's roof. Yesterday I got a

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00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:16.400
pretty good swim in at a pool that had a

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diving board, and I was sucked over to that diving

727
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:21.119
with like, oh, come on, I got to be able

728
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to do some of these things still, right, don't I

729
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kinda well? I got a couple I can do well.

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I pushed it one too many times. I felt a

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little twinge of something like nah, I'm good, no bad idea.

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I pushed it too far and ended up tearing the

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muscle in my right calf. So right now, as I'm

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sitting here producing this week's episode, my leg is elevated, good,

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it's being iced twenty minutes on tinmutes off, and I

736
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haven't wrapped up in a badgage. Plus I'm now walking

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00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:55.920
with a cane, so obviously that means there's not going

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to be any golf for me for the next couple

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of months, which really burns me because I was supposed

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to play tomorrow at Silverado with a golf Smarter listener

741
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who flew in from England and he's visiting family and

742
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he wanted to play, and I was so excited about trying. Anyway,

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Sorry Lloyd, and later on everybody, if you're in the

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Bay area, let me know you're coming in. We'll play

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golf together. Well if I'm in one piece anyway, So

746
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what does this all mean to you? Nothing? But if

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you don't want to miss an episode, it might not

748
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:33.199
really sure if we miss an episode over two or

749
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two over the next few weeks, I hope you'll understand

750
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that I just didn't have it together to try to

751
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get more interviews. I just couldn't do it. But another

752
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:46.639
possibility is to rerun some old episodes that are particularly special.

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But I'd love your suggestion on it. Would you prefer

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reruns or just skipping a couple of weeks, And if

755
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.880
we do some reruns, I'm really interested to know what

756
00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:59.840
you would think. Do you want to hear something specific

757
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on a topic or on a guest. You want to

758
00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:08.199
hear about golf course architecture or fitness or nutrition or putting,

759
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:11.320
or do you want to hear something from Jim Waldron,

760
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or doctor Joe Parent or any of the myriad of

761
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:18.039
guests we've had over the five hundred plus shows. Send

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00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:22.679
me your thoughts to Fred at Golfsmarter podcast dot com.

763
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But now I want to get back to Jim Venettas.

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So before this all happened to me, I watched a

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lot of Just this weekend, I watched a lot of

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Jim's videos on his site at Jimvnettas goolf Academy dot com.

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Again Vanettas's v as in Victor E N E t

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is in tom Os jimvnettesolf Academy dot com. Well, then

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I went out and hit some buckets. I recorded and

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uploaded some of my swings on video for Jim to review,

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and then I played a nine hole par three course,

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and I gotta tell you, Jim's method of weight shift

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and stillness had pretty impressive results for me as I

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was just getting the feel of it. I was actually

775
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really impressed of how well I was hitting the ball

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just trying to do those things, and I think he

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might be onto something that can also work for you.

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So right now I'm going to play the audio portion

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of a video that he sent over to me. On

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the keys to making solid contact. You'll probably want to

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watch the video as well. I'm going to publish it

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on our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash golf

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Smarter TV. If you've not been there yet, please check

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00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:35.840
it out. There's a lot of stuff you can learn

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from there. And if I can also get this to work,

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I'm going to try to upload the video to our

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golf Smarter TV channel. The video that I sent to

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him then he sent back to me with his comments

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and advice and they were really good and I think

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it would give you a better idea of how he

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does his thing. So here we go with a golf

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Smarter exclusive Jim Venettas and his keys to making solid contact.

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The key to solid contact is simply this. You have

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to hit down on the ball. But hitting down on

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the ball has nothing to do with intending to strike

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down with your arms. Instead, hitting down on the ball

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happens based upon the position of your weight. You see,

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your weight determines the bottom of the arc for the swing,

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meaning wherever my weight's at at impact is where the

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low point of the swing is going to be. So

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my weight's on my back foot, the weight the contact

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00:43:33.559 --> 00:43:35.079
point is going to be directly in front of my

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00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:38.239
back foot. If my weight's on my front foot, the

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contact point is going to be directly in front of

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my front foot. Now, if you just take this logically,

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we need to hit down on the ball, which means

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we need the low part of our arc to be

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ahead of the ball. So when you place your weight

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on your forward foot, what you're doing is your securing contact. Now,

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if you leave your weight there guaranteeing solid contact, it's

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if your weight drifts that then you have the responsibility

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to put your weight back to where it started from,

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and that's where you're gonna deal with contact issues. But

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if you load seventy percent of your weight onto your

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forward foot by making this pivot in your body so

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00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:20.960
that the weight falls to your front foot, now immediately

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00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:25.199
you can just hold your weight still and have consistent

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00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.320
solid contact every time. Now, the cool thing about this

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is you also create power because by holding your weight still,

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you create leverage. By being pivoted clothsed, you eliminate spin

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from the ball. And also solid contact equates to power.

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So if you can get into your forward side and

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then stay there, not only will you be able to

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focus on the simplicity of just holding your weight still

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throughout the sway. But you're gonna guarantee solid contact, you're

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gonna guarantee power, you're going to guarantee control over your spin.

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So the key to solid contact is all about your weight.

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The position of your weight determines the bottom of the arc.

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If you want solid contact, you need to have the

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bottom of the arc ahead of the ball, and you

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do that by placing your weight on your forward foot

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and keeping your weight there the entire time through the sway.