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In this concept video, we're going to talk about setup.

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There are really three key components to your setup layer or setup position.

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First is going to be your body position.

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Kind of your spine angle, knee flex, arm hang, all those things.

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The second thing is going to be your grip and how your hands are positioned on the club.

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Then the third thing is going to be where to locate the body, compare to the golf wall

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or ball position.

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So, let's go through each one of those pieces and then we'll set you up to go practice

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the drills to learn how to really do it.

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We're going to train how it should feel.

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The first thing that we discussed is posture.

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Poster can be looked at from two positions.

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The primary one that we look at is this down the line view.

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The reason posture is so important is because posture sets up your muscles so that the

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right ones are ready to be active where if you were to set up with incorrect posture,

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then the wrong muscles are ready to be active.

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The right muscles that we want to get active are going to be your core muscles, your

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back muscles, your butt muscles.

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The wrong muscles that are going to get active will be primarily your quadriceps, too

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much in kind of your upper neck shoulder area like so.

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So, our posture is going to be largely just a pretty neutral spine with a good hip

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hinge.

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So, I teach you how to find your hips so that you can learn how to bend straight from

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your hips.

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As opposed to bending from either your knees, bending from your upper spine or bending from

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your lower spine.

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The reason we have to bend is obviously because the golf ball is on the ground and so I

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have to angle my body down towards it.

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So, that first key of that posture is going to be hinging from the hips, letting your

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arms hang and just having a little bit of relaxation in your knees.

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So, not a major knee flex, just kind of a relaxed knee flex.

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If you do this correctly, you can see that I can kind of wiggle my toes because my weight

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is a little bit more towards the heel side of my foot as opposed to on the ball on my

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feet which would be more common in a lot of other sports.

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The reasons why in other sports you want to be on the ball's ear feet because that activates

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your quads which gives you really quick change directions.

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We don't really need a ton of reaction or change direction in golf because we're not really

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moving a whole lot.

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What we need instead is to anchor into our hips which will activate kind of our glutes

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and hamstrings which will provide for the engine on the downswing and provide pelvic

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stability during the back swing.

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So, the last piece to this posture puzzle is looking at your arms kind of hanging naturally

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as opposed to being locked and rigid, being too close to you too far away, etc.

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We've got drills that help you figure out the right distance and all those things.

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So, then the second piece or this brings us to the second piece is when I'm in a good

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posture, now what?

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How do I hold this thing?

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How do I hold my tool?

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So, you're going to take the golf club and the keys for finding a good grip are mostly

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to have it somewhat in the fingers, primarily in the fingers of both hands and having

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the grip strength match your body movements.

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So, I can't give you one absolute guarantee this is where your V should point, etc.

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I can give you guidelines and ways to adjust it because everybody's going to be a little

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bit different and when I look on 3D I have about 45 degrees of range of motion or 45

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degrees of variance in grip strength between some of the weaker grips on towards some

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stronger grips that I see.

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So, how do we figure out where you should adjust yours?

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Well, you're going to use ball position because let me or sorry you're going to use ball

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flight, I should say.

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Here's why.

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When you take your grip, the purpose of having your hands somewhat turn to one side or the

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other is that when you extend your arms the club face is going to be in a certain orientation,

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like so.

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The more that you turn your hands clockwise or to the right for a right hand a golfer, this

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creates a strong grip.

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It is called a strong grip because when you are arms straightened due to the weight of

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the club, that club face is going to be pointed more down or more to the left.

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This will tend to launch the ball lower and create a little bit more of a draw spin because

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it will have the tendency to be close to the path.

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The opposite would be if I turn my hands counterclockwise or to the left on the grip for

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a right hand golfer.

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Now when I extend my arms that club face is pointed more up or to the right, you can see

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that.

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This will tend to launch the ball higher with more spin which will tend to create a weaker

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ball flight.

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That's how we call this strong and why we call this weak.

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Now in general you want your hands to somewhat match up but what you are going to do is rely

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on where your body is turned so that when your grip releases the club it hits a relatively

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straight ball flight or the ball flight that you prefer.

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We have videos on how to determine what is a good kind of finger grip and how to adjust

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your grip strength based on your ball flight.

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The last section is going to be ball position.

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So ball position is roughly going to look at two different areas.

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Where is the ball on the ground compared to my feet and where is the ball on the ground compared

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to my upper body because both of those have influence.

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The reason is with my feet are very narrow like so but my body is positioned like this.

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Is that ball position forward or in the middle?

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Well it's in the middle compared to my feet but it's forward compared to my upper body.

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Our terminology we get confused if we only look at it from one perspective.

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Our stance width will be explained where we are going to have the ball position.

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Those will all be explained but the general key for ball position is your ball position for

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every shot should be for every shot except for your driver and your putter should be just

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slightly behind where the low point is going to be.

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It's much as a few inches.

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So if you were to take swings and see where the club bottoms out or brushes against the ground,

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if you were to position the ball just slightly back of where the club is entering the ground,

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then you will have more or less a solid strike on the golf ball.

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So these are the basic keys.

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We'll go over the details of them in the drill videos and how to get around them in the

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troubleshooting video.