In this tip, I want to talk about the day I got powerless arms in my golf swing, so here's what happened. I was working on my swing literally for 10 years after I had started taking lessons. So I was a scratch golfer at 17 and went down to Florida. When I was 19, I was hitting some bad shots, so I thought, you know, I should probably take lessons at this point. I didn't know anything about the golf swing. I was self-taught, so I went to our head pro for a lesson. So I did a lesson, went out, and shot 96. I'm used to shooting 72 or better, so shooting in the 90s was a disaster for me. I needed another lesson. I did another lesson and still shot in the 90s. The pro got too busy and left me on my own. I knew nothing about the golf swing and was shooting in the 90s. I hit a thousand balls a day, every day, seven days a week for two years, hitting it sideways. That's right, a thousand balls a day. I counted them, hitting it sideways. I was just beating balls trying to get my swing back. This is why I keep telling everybody to stop hitting golf balls. I hit more balls in a year than you will hit in your life, and I never got it just by hitting golf balls. So after that point, I took two years off. I just couldn't take it anymore. You couldn't practice any more in a day than I was practicing, and I was getting nowhere. So now I'm getting back into golf. I start going to some of the best teachers in the world. We have a house in Orlando, so I start going to Leadbetter and all these different schools. Don't get me wrong, by now my swing didn't look bad, but I was still hitting the ball sideways. This went on for eight more years. In the process of the first two years and then eight more, I have literally tried absolutely everything to get my golf swing back. This is why I can relate to people. I have tried it all. So what did I do to get it back? Well, I still remember the day. I was playing golf, hitting it everywhere. I got to another 11 at our course. It was a straightaway Par Four, 438 or 458, something like that. And I thought to myself, "About not hitting the ball with my arms" So I did three practice swings. I hit the top right here. I didn't try to pull the club down. My big thing was right here, trying to accelerate the golf club. So I go like this, I hit the top. I do nothing. I do it three
times, just letting the club go wherever it wants to go with that feeling in mind. I step up, I think to myself, same thing, and I hit it 300 dead straight. Approach shot, put it six feet. Next hole, two iron, six feet. Next hole, 300 dead straight within feet. I hit every fairway, every green, like the best golf you've ever seen in your life. It was the first time in my life I didn't try to hit or help that ball with my arms. Nobody ever told me that, so I was always here trying to bust it as hard as I could. As soon as you do that, you start twisting the face. If the face is only open or closed just a few degrees, you're gonna hit the ball everywhere. So let's say I step up and I hit a big hook. What am I going to do on the next shot? Well, I'm going to try and square the face. Now I hold it a few degrees open and now it goes 100 yards this way, and now you're in a never-ending loop of hitting it everywhere. Well, I literally did that for 10 years, but like I said, nobody said to
not hit the ball with your arms, so I was trying to hammer it as hard as I could. So after I got it and I started thinking about it, I gave people this description of what I felt that day, and that's kind of what this tip is about. I'm giving you a description. This is what I did. This is what it felt like to me. Maybe if you have this same kind of thought process, maybe it'll get you to turn your arms off as well. So what I thought was
like, think of a speedometer for a second. Okay, a speedometer on your car. Let's say it goes from zero up to, like, I don't know, 120 or 150, whatever it goes to. Okay, so my old speedometer, I saw the speedometer as right here at zero, and I'm trying to go to 100 miles an hour or whatever it is. You know what I mean, as fast as I can. So after I stopped hitting, it felt to
me like my speedometer was backwards. I felt like I was at a hundred miles
an hour slowing down to zero. You know, I didn't stop at the ball. It just felt like
it was slowing down when it hit the ball, not speeding up when I hit the ball. Okay, that's the closest thing I can give you to relate to what I felt when I turned my
arms off. It was weird, it was different. You know, it felt like I just touched it and
I hit it dead straight and killed it 300. So when you're going to turn your
arms off, it's different. Okay, so you have to get used to that feeling. I just got lucky, you know, and I hit it dead straight. So if you turn your arms off and you hit
it dead straight from hitting it sideways, you're gonna try it again. So I tried it
on the approach shot. It worked again. Next hole, it worked again. Then the next hole, it worked again and again and again and again and again, all by not trying to hit or help that shot or help the ball in any way with my arms. Okay, if you turn your arms off, you have to use your body to hit the ball, and that's what I teach, a body swing, not an arm swing. If it was as easy as just whacking away at it, everybody would be good, wouldn't
they? Or a lot of people would be good. The problem is a lot of people are
not playing to their potential, and that gets me right back to where I was, just sitting there beating balls, no idea what I'm doing, just trying to hammer every single golf ball as hard as I could, and it got me nowhere. A thousand balls a day, every day, seven days a week for two years. Trying a bucket of balls is like 75, okay? So, what's that? Probably 15 of those, yeah, a day, every day, seven days a week. So just hitting balls is not gonna work. This is why I keep telling people to stop hitting golf balls, start doing practice swings, work on some moves. Okay, get the moves, then you get the ball. It's a series of moves, though. You have to put them all together. There are pieces, put them together, and then you'll get the result. And I keep this stuff super simple for people, but you have to see it a little bit differently. Okay, I get amazing results super fast. Most of my students that come here to see me are here for one, two, or three days at two or three hours a day. So I'm not teaching the same person week after week after week. I have to get results super fast, and that is what I do and have done now for many, many years. So I'm saying it in ways that hopefully you can relate to, and hopefully you get it super fast. Alright, this is so unbelievably simple. One of the main things, though, is you trying to hit that golf ball as hard as you can, so you have to stop doing that. You're not good at it. You have to keep trying it. Hopefully, you think of the speedometer thing. Okay, right here, feel like you're putting nothing into it, feel like it's slowing down when it hits the ball, not speeding up. Give that thought a try, and hopefully you too can get powerless arms. I truly hope you've enjoyed this tip. Here's another tip that's going to help you improve your swing. Now, right below that, don't forget to click on that link because I'm going to send you some free samples of my body swing book and video series. That'll take you step by step through how to build a powerful, effortless, pain-free golf swing.
