CRAIG FOSTER: What DynAlign is doing is getting the machinery of the human body into a more predictable and efficient address position, so that less can go wrong. And it will start producing more accurate, repeatable shots. And the important thing is to begin with putting.

STEVE ELKINGTON: We've all had great feeling over the ball at one time or another. And it uses the bones, the know-how of the bones alignment in our body to be able to create it every time. People may watch this and say, well, I don't need to feel it. I feel good when I'm standing over the putter. They don't have any idea how good they can feel over the putter with this. This is a whole new room inside of your brain that you can lock this down.

It's not hard to do. It's simple to do. It's just a few steps.

CRAIG FOSTER: There are a lot of good putters out there, and there are people that are excellent putters. But you have those periods where things may be dropping off, uh-- or even if you are a pretty consistent putter, DynAlign can even improve and make you a more consistent putter.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. So we're here today with Craig Foster, who's come down from Seattle to see us. DynAlign-- Dynamic Pre-shot Alignment. And the reason we asked him down is because we know, from looking at his videos on "Secret in the Dirt," that he's got something that we know that we want to find more about. And he's come down to show us today.

What is DynAlign? Tell us about, you know, people that don't know you, or don't know anything about what even the subject is. What are we talking about here?

CRAIG FOSTER: We're talking about a method to move the bones into a more impact position at address, to take the tolerances we've got-- a lot of moving parts in the machinery here. And we're going to tighten those up, so we don't have all of this--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Play.

CRAIG FOSTER: Motion.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Play, whatever.

CRAIG FOSTER: Slack. It is dynamic pre-shot alignment. And it uses dynamic motion that will occur during a swing, or a putting stroke, chipping stroke, and it will remove a lot of the variables. It's similar to having a machine with moving parts on an assembly line. And when those parts on the assembly line aren't torqued and tightened up a little bit, that machine can start spitting out parts right and left.

And DynAlign basically tightens up the tolerances that we have in the bio-mechanism.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That was the reason that I was interested. You have this in the video-- right here.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You had your bones. Why don't you show what you mean when you talk-- we're talking primarily about all shots, but where I was focusing was putting. And this is video is what I saw that interests me. Why don't you show us what you're talking about here with the arms?

CRAIG FOSTER: The ultimate issue on any shot is space, angle, and impact.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Space, angle, and impact.

CRAIG FOSTER: And so we're making more certain that this angle is going to be predictable and less susceptible to motion. And so the way that it's stabilized-- the bone-- the body can naturally stabilize itself when the leading arm, hand, wrist, forearm, and the humerus bone here are wound forward.

STEVE ELKINGTON: To the end point.

CRAIG FOSTER: Well, there is-- there's what's called a hard end point, where they-- and we don't want to go that far, because that would-- that could cause stress.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Dragging there.

CRAIG FOSTER: So you're going to a soft hand range. And what happens in that situation is that the radius and the ulna bones will rotate. And then they come to a point where they become more parallel, and they don't want to go any further.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I see.

CRAIG FOSTER: And so--

STEVE ELKINGTON: So that's how they sit, they sit normally with--

CRAIG FOSTER: Normally, they'll be crossed.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Slightly crossed. OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: If your arms are putting, thumbs straight down the shaft, this bone-- these bones are crossed, but they-- so they have all of this motion.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So if we turn that, they become more or less--

CRAIG FOSTER: More stable.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Like straight there. They're parallel.

CRAIG FOSTER: More-- almost parallel. And in that configuration, then they don't want to easily go farther. And then the other thing that that creates is, that's where the stable arc comes from. Because once this motion has been stabilized, then the arm can swing more on a stable arc. And it's more difficult to get that off of the arc, going outside of it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Sure. It's almost like a train on the track, almost.

CRAIG FOSTER: Exactly. Yeah. Traditional alignment, when you have all this motion in play, it's very easy for the club to go outside, inside.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Or anywhere.

CRAIG FOSTER: Plus--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Anywhere other than train on the track, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. My history-- I grew up playing on a very old, tight golf course that did not allow slicing at all. If you sliced, you couldn't play. I was a slicer. And uh-- but I don't give up, and so I kept trying like everybody tries. You're looking for tips-- try this, that.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Maybe work for a little while.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And this applies also to this arm. How does that--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: How does that look?

CRAIG FOSTER: There's more rotation in the right arm than-- this is, I think this is about, uh, 70 degrees. Not certain. This one can go farther. But when you put them together, the lead hand, when it reaches its stable endpoint, it will prevent the trailing arm from going--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Pushing it.

CRAIG FOSTER: --any farther. So, so--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Does this one cross in the beginning, too? Like, just-- does it have a-- when you hold up the right one, right here, does it-- is this the right one?

CRAIG FOSTER: This is the right one and it is--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Does it cross-- not like at its normal-- when it sits there too?

CRAIG FOSTER: It's more parallel. It's the opposite of the leading arm. It's a more parallel, and then, as it rotates farther, it becomes crossed.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I see.

CRAIG FOSTER: And when it becomes crossed, then it's more stabilized up against the lead arm, which is the parallel bones here.

I tried everything, and then finally, one day, something filtered into my head about winding forward.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: It was winding forward that I just--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Some kind of resistance. Something dynamic.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Dynamic. And I thought, I'm going to try the-- this is kind of crazy, but I'm going to try this, because I've tried everything else, and the club face is still open at impact, and I-- and the first time did ever that was on a par five dog leg left, that you could not hit it to the right, because it's gone. And I hooked that ball around the-- down, around the corner and down into the fairway, and I just--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You saw--

CRAIG FOSTER: My jaw just kind of dropped. I said--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You saw it from then on.

CRAIG FOSTER: I got something going here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And what do you have here in these drawings here? This is your-- the sequence of events, obviously, that gets you into a dynamic pre-shot alignment.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. And we have-- it starts with traditional alignment at the beginning point, where the-- this line is what people commonly-- this is the target line, what's traditional target line. We're going to-- after the procedure, we're going to end up aligned on this line, which is about 90 degrees from the original target line, because there's this rotation moving him to the left.

So starting in the end point together as-- the important part is to see-- this is the traditional target line here that people start with lining their club up. After you go through the DynAlign pre-shot, see, we're lined up on this line now, which is here. So we've turned the whole body 90 degrees. And you see, at the address position, we have the straight line from the shoulder down the club-- line of compression, possibly.

We have, uh, tilted-- the lead shoulder's a little bit higher, head behind the ball. And the important part is that the bones here-- you can see that the-- they're more parallel in the leading arm, and crossed in the trailing arm that we talked about.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So as we know, this is great. And this is complex looking at the moment. But I don't-- I've got a feeling it won't be once we--

CRAIG FOSTER: Right.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --get out there and shoot it.

CRAIG FOSTER: And the pointers help people see where, first of all, where the face is pointing. In DynAlign, it's helpful to track where the arc is pointed. Now, there's a-- Jack Nicklaus has a great video in one of his-- "Golf My Way" or one of those-- where he shows how the baseball arc-- if you visualize a baseball swing here, how easy it is to see that a swing can go below or above the plane. And his suggestion is to get the club up here in a baseball swing, and see that arc. And then put it down on the ground and follow it.

Well, the weak point of that is that we have, first of all, this rotational motion that's not good. And then we have the variation of above and below the plane. So after the DynAlign pre-shot--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're going to take all that out.

CRAIG FOSTER: I'm gonna take all that-- so now, I can-- it's-- now here, I'm just swinging this. And it's difficult for me to make it go above and below, and the face angle is stable. And I'm only holding it--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Back there.

CRAIG FOSTER: --the last three fingers, because of the way the radius and the ulna bones have been rotated into a stable spot. They hold it there. So with traditional putting alignment, my thumbs are right down the center of the shaft. You know, I've got this. I've got rotation and plane variations. So we're going to eliminate--

STEVE ELKINGTON: All of that.

CRAIG FOSTER: --rotation and plane. We're going to stabilize it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And is there a preference in-- like, is there a preference in thumb positions, et cetera, that is better-- there is?

CRAIG FOSTER: It's your preference. If you want to putt lead hand low, put our lead hand low.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So you can do all kinds of things there.

CRAIG FOSTER: You can do all that, and go through the pre-shot routine, and then here we are in a stable position. This is very comfortable.

And you know something else, Steve? I had the yips when I--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Oh, you did?

CRAIG FOSTER: Younger. Yes. Years ago, I-- before I had figured this out, I had the yips, and that was another reason that I kept working on this stuff. Um, I was-- if I had an uphill 10, 15-foot putt, it might go five feet right.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Oh, so you-- yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Seriously.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You had no control.

CRAIG FOSTER: No control, because I'm using-- (CLAPS) because I was using traditional thumbs down the center of the putter grip. There's all this motion that can come into play. And boy, when you're putting a ball under pressure or something, man. You-- milliseconds.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. It's not gonna work.

CRAIG FOSTER: Nanoseconds.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's not gonna work.

CRAIG FOSTER: You've got to be stable.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You have to have face. You have to be stable.

And Craig sent me this in the mail. And this is a ball, obviously, that fits on the shaft here. So you can trap that under your thumb. And you literally, as if you were rolling the ball to the hole. I guess the point of this is, Craig, is, if you had the weight of this ball and you were just going to roll it, you'd very rarely get it wrong for distance. This is my understanding of your concept.

And so you applied that into this thing, which was very helpful for my kids, particularly my daughter. Because, you know, they don't quite have a know what they're doing, really. And it's not so easy to explain to them, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: The models. Right.

STEVE ELKINGTON: They have great touch, but they just don't know how to, um, get it out of them, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: They can play catch with a ball or something. And that makes sense. So this is--

STEVE ELKINGTON: So this was good. We did this with them. And you could even slide it up and do it on to the left arm, if that was your--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: If that was your preference, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: You might be left-hand dominant, so have better feel, but--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Do this with it. And then you felt-- you felt this, this [INAUDIBLE]

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So we loved this, because it's the exact weight of the ball.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's-- simulates--

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then once you've taken it off, and you put your hand back on, you-- you actually sort of have a feel-- it feels like it's still there.

CRAIG FOSTER: You can--

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then you just go whoop.

CRAIG FOSTER: Remember how it feels in your hand. And there's a variation on the tossing the ball drill, which has been around.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And it's not more difficult than that. It's just a--

CRAIG FOSTER: It's--

STEVE ELKINGTON: A very nice, simple--

CRAIG FOSTER: --very simple.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --patented idea that helps people primarily-- and only-- with touch.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. This is all before motion. You can have-- you can DynAlign and get lined up. And then you can have a bad swing motion--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Sure.

CRAIG FOSTER: --and you can goof it up. But DynAlign also helps keep the club on a path all of back, and it helps the club from going outside too far, from going inside too far. But if I can get you in an address position where we've minimized a lot of the variables, then whatever swing motion you make now is going to have probably more predictable, better results than it did before you did this.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So we've already been at the workshop with Craig, and now we're out on the course. So step one in dynamic pre-shot is what?

CRAIG FOSTER: Step one is actually to move your leading foot off the target line to make room for all the motion that's going to follow. If you don't-- if you stand here straight and do this motion, then you're kind of-- you can get bound up. So the first motion we're going-- the first thing we're going to do is--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Open up a little bit.

CRAIG FOSTER: --step, open up our stance. And if our traditional target line is here, we're starting here, and stepping off here. And then we'll do the--

STEVE ELKINGTON: What we call--

CRAIG FOSTER: --winding forward.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --winding forward, where we don't go to the maximum on the bone, but we--

CRAIG FOSTER: Don't go to the maximum. It's not here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: But we understand-- we understand that we're just trying to get a-- this one's going to be twisted, as you said, and this one-- I think that helps more than anything, right? Because you can-- even though I know I can't see them, I feel like what you say is true. Like there, I can sort of sense they're twisted, and now they're straight there.

CRAIG FOSTER: They're-- yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: This is straight, and now that one's kind of twisted.

CRAIG FOSTER: All the way up to the shoulder joint. Now, this hand wheel can rotate farther. But when it's put together with the lead hand, the lead hand goes to its soft end range, and the trailing arm will be stabilized there. And the forward winding of the rear hand-- the trailing hand-- stabilizes this hand from going this way. So--

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's a balanced deal.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's balancing.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You know, if this was the end end, and that was like-- and I jammed it, that's like a 10.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And you'd back off that. Let's say that was the-- I went from, I went from-- as we know, these bones are crossed right now.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Crossed.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And this is a zero.

CRAIG FOSTER: Zero.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then-- and we went all the way to his maximum, and we call that a 10.

CRAIG FOSTER: 10.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You come back to about a eight?

CRAIG FOSTER: It would be-- let's see. It's maybe a seven.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Seven? And let's say I went to the 10 and I jammed it, and that was a 10 jam, like I jammed it as hard as I could. How much do you back off the pressure of that, too, if I went to a seven? And how much pressure is holding it there? Is it just a very-- is it a five? A four?

CRAIG FOSTER: I would say six. A little more than-- little more than half way, you can feel it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So you don't go all-- you go all the way, and come back a little bit, and then just-- and just hold it there a little bit.

CRAIG FOSTER: I would-- uh, you can do it that way. When you come-- if you go clockwise again, then you're reintroducing some slack, and it may--

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK. So you just go to--

CRAIG FOSTER: You may have gone to far.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Just go to a seven.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's a soft end range, so it's-- and you may say on a scale of probably a seven.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK. So it's not jammed by any means.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's not jammed.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's just energized a little bit.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's just-- yes. Torqued a little bit.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Torqued a little bit.

CRAIG FOSTER: Torquing this, and putting some-- putting some motion in here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Sure.

CRAIG FOSTER: Because in a golf swing, we know that the-- there is going to be this type of motion during the release. It's very-- you don't swing a golf club and keep these bones straight. They don't do that. They rotate. So we're factoring--

STEVE ELKINGTON: We're taking that slack out.

CRAIG FOSTER: In the pre-shot routine, we're factoring in this to our advantage.

STEVE ELKINGTON: A threshold of this left arm turned, right arm turned, where you're-- if it's much-- if it's less than that, it really knocks down your chances of making it. Is that what you're saying? So if this is a 100% in there, which is only a seven--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: On the wind.

CRAIG FOSTER: Right. But it's--

STEVE ELKINGTON: We're calling it a 100% in there.

CRAIG FOSTER: 100%. This is--

STEVE ELKINGTON: If it slacks off a little bit, does it still work? Or it's--

CRAIG FOSTER: It's not as stable.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's got to be to the end.

CRAIG FOSTER: If you-- because you're rearranging the configuration of all of the bones, humerus, radius, and the ulna. They're changing.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So it's a real bone deal.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's a bone deal. That's where our stabilization comes from-- the configuration of the bones.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's natural stabilization.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: This should be totally relaxed, and this should be total-- this should be the-- the three fingers here should be providing most of the stability--

STEVE ELKINGTON: All right.

CRAIG FOSTER: --for the club. And then this is totally relaxed for feel.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So there's not-- there's no--

CRAIG FOSTER: No shoe.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I don't want a twist in that.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. And that pressure point doesn't come until there's supination. Because that supination will kind of tighten things up here. You're not putting any tension on there with your hands, like grabbing anything. It's when this motion happens, that's going to-- you see how that kind of-- that curls up your little fingers as you turn it. That's where my stabilization is, all in those three fingers.

As we wind forward, the club face is pointed into the ground, and to the left of the target.

STEVE ELKINGTON: But what I see, and what I saw in the video, is now, you're on this-- you're on this--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: What I call a roller coaster. You're like the little car on a roller coaster. It doesn't want to go any-- so once I've gone there--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --and I'm going in this motion--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

CRAIG FOSTER: Doesn't want to.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's very stable.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Everything's-- and that's why I knew that you had something for sure. Now, as we're going to get forward, we're-- of course, we're going to show everyone how to get that back around. So we want them to experience this stability right out of the get go. You'll all of a sudden be making this move, and you're like, wow. That's-- you'll know instantly that this is stable.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. It's hard to go outside or inside.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I just don't want to twist it any--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I don't want to-- it is hard to go out and inside. But from my-- what I really like the most is that it won't twist. It doesn't want to do this. Doesn't want to twist.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I want to-- if I was hitting a nail, and it was a spike right there, I would-- there's no way for me to miss it. I mean, it would just-- I could just do it all day like a machine.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's what I'm saying.

CRAIG FOSTER: Hold it traditionally and bring it up-- let me hold this now, and I'll twist this-- twist the head. And you can feel how much--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. I just got too much play, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: --motion is there. Now go ahead and wind it forward.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Now I've got this--

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. And--

STEVE ELKINGTON: I'm in this plane, and if you look at it from that view, it just--

CRAIG FOSTER: And now I'll try to twist it. And feel that in your hand.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's just-- it stops it.

CRAIG FOSTER: It doesn't want to twist.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It won't twist.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's very stable right there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That--

CRAIG FOSTER: So.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And you know, the end product for me was, there was-- you and I talked about this last night. What do you do first? Do you read the putt perfectly? I got a straight, straight putt. I could put a line down. I walk in. I've got the putter face square to the 90, but I can't hit it down the line.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Or do you have something that's very stable, and I can-- I learn how to hit a putt with a stable stroke, and then I can knock it down the line.

CRAIG FOSTER: That is--

STEVE ELKINGTON: So it's the chicken and egg, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: That's the key. You just said it. That is the answer. You stabilize your club face, then you align the club face.

STEVE ELKINGTON: First, get yourself stabilized, or get your technique. So basically, you're shooting a gun. And then learn how to aim the gun.

CRAIG FOSTER: Aim the gun. Exactly.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK. It's like, OK. I put a guy-- he's on perfect aim you know, it's a--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's a 10 footer, it's a one inch, you know, it's right on the right lip. You set him down, you make the putter straight. Everything's perfect. You move his blade. He knows it's on the right. Everything's perfect, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then he lines it up--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: But he can't hit it.

CRAIG FOSTER: He can't.

STEVE ELKINGTON: He can't hit it there. So which one comes first-- chicken or the egg? Do you get a guy that has tremendous drag so he can hit it anywhere, and then you aim that--

CRAIG FOSTER: That's it!

STEVE ELKINGTON: --package?

CRAIG FOSTER: That's it. You aim the drag packet.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Well, that's what I think. So Craig, you've shown us step one, where you've moved your feet open. And then you've established to roll this in, and get on that what we call the stable arc.

CRAIG FOSTER: Arc. Stable arc.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Now what do you do?

CRAIG FOSTER: So now we want to align the body with the stable arc. So--

STEVE ELKINGTON: We real-- we've realized that this is stable.

CRAIG FOSTER: This is stable.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And we're aimed too far left. And we've got to figure out a way somehow to get it down so we can keep all that niceness feel.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Keep this. We're going to-- so from now on, we're not going to do any more-- any rotation of our hands.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Hold it at the six and the seven.

CRAIG FOSTER: We-- we're six, seven. We're right there. We're stable. OK. Now I will take my trailing foot and align it-- this is our new target line. This is our--

STEVE ELKINGTON: This is our railway track to [INAUDIBLE].

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. This here's our railway track. So this is what we want. I'm stepping up to this line. And now I'll do the forward hip thrust right side bend-- forward hip thrust right side bend.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Let's see that-- let's see that again.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. That's-- that is here. This is--

STEVE ELKINGTON: So would you say that the right hip joint goes forward an inch or two? Or what does it do?

CRAIG FOSTER: It's basically-- maybe it's-- it's rotating. It's rotating.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK. So if it's in a position here--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. We're going here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK. Well, you've got a little-- you've got a little silver button here, so this may help right here. If I held that button, it goes-- OK. So it went like-- it went like two inches forward and around.

CRAIG FOSTER: And around.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Just basically like on a belt line, around two inches.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. We're just--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Is that right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Exactly. We're--

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: We're rotating our-- we're winding our hips forward here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: We've wound our arms forward. Now we're going to wind our hips forward and do a right side bend at the same time.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Right side bend meaning--

CRAIG FOSTER: This-- this.

STEVE ELKINGTON: This collapses down just a little bit.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So again, if I put my finger-- go ahead and-- if I put my finger on this-- right on the shirt here, it would drop down. And as it does, I see that this thing starts to swing around, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: It brings-- now, when I bend right side bend, it brings the putter back to and level to the ground.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Oh, and level to the ground. OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: So that I could put a ball with it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: So now we've got-- here's the stable arc. We've still got that. And now we've got the putter face on the ground, instead of pointing into the ground.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Got it.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Call them flying wedges. There's two of them. There's a real thin one between the shaft and the back of the left hand. That's one wedge-- like a, like a chock. And then, on this one, there's another wedge there. OK? So that's called the flying wedges. And when you have control of the flying wedges, then the face becomes stable, right?

So when I saw you flip over and do this, I knew I had-- the flying wedges were stable.

CRAIG FOSTER: Ah. Interesting.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Called him straight away and said, this guy on the dirt-- Craig Foster-- has frozen the flying wedges. Now, you may find this interesting. But when the guys have gone to the claw and all that.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: To me--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yuh-huh.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --and Terry and I've talked about this, is when they go to the claw and they turn the hand this way, what it does-- upside down-- is they make a big wedge. It's a big flying wedge here.

CRAIG FOSTER: Ah. OK.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And that flying wedge becomes real quiet to them.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And that's why they can putt that way. They think it's-- there no anatomical great advantage to having your hand upside down, I wouldn't think. Well, maybe there is. I don't know, but--

CRAIG FOSTER: Some people like it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: They do. But what is it doing anatomically is, it's quieting the wedge. There's no more-- you can't tweak-- you can't twitch that.

CRAIG FOSTER: I see. That's--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You know, if you got this, you can tweak-- twitch that, right? But with your deal, you can't really-- when you've got that anatomically turned over, and then you get it into position--

CRAIG FOSTER: Right. It's stable.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --you can't tweak it. It's a solid flying wedge.

CRAIG FOSTER: It hole-- in the last three fingers of the left hand, that's where the power-- the stability comes from. That's how the bones lock it in. And the other fingers and thumbs can just relax, because it's just the last three fingers in your leading hand that tighten it down.

Now, we're going to hold everything with our arms, and we're going to use our feet to--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Walk it forward?

CRAIG FOSTER: To--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Are we like a tripod now? We're like in a three-prong, don't want to move anything deal?

CRAIG FOSTER: We are-- exactly. We are-- we don't want to move anything here. And we want to shuffle back and align the putter face. So we're going to get back to the target line to the hole by just shuffling our feet, and then aligning the face with our whole body. See, now, I can rotate and change the face in alignment.

STEVE ELKINGTON: When you say the whole body, it's everything above the ankle?

CRAIG FOSTER: It's everybody-- I'm feeling everything here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's above the knees.

CRAIG FOSTER: We're all connected now.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. Right. You're only one.

CRAIG FOSTER: We're all one motion.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're all bolted together.

CRAIG FOSTER: We're bolted.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Like a Lego set.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. This motion down here will affect motion here, rather than traditional alignment. If we're here, we have all this slack.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Right.

CRAIG FOSTER: When we want to keep some torque-- torque the system-- this is applying the proper amount of forward winding to keep the system under--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Locked.

CRAIG FOSTER: --a little bit of press--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Pressure.

CRAIG FOSTER: A little torquing.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Holding that.

CRAIG FOSTER: Now, if I were to-- I want to square up my stance, if I were to square up my stance, here's what I would lose. I would lose-- I'll square up my stance now. I've done this. I get in here. OK. Now if I square up my stance, now look-- look at all the--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You've lost that.

CRAIG FOSTER: I've lost all this.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I guess the obvious answer would be if you stood square square traditional, and you got nothing, and you stood your way and you made them, so that's a pretty obvious answer, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So you got to give this a try, no matter what. Because I don't know one person in the world that cares how they look if they're holing putts. Do you?

CRAIG FOSTER: I know a lot of good putters that put into a open stance-- Bob Jones,

STEVE ELKINGTON: Jack Nicklaus.

CRAIG FOSTER: Jack Nicklaus.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. Jack did. I putted open stance, I play open stance. Everything I do is open.

CRAIG FOSTER: I think the squareness of the feet, hips, shoulders--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Not as important.

CRAIG FOSTER: --sounds good. It makes sense to people. I want to hit it straight. I want everything straight. Well--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Straight off of here.

CRAIG FOSTER: Straight--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Straight sideways of it. So whatever, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: But if you don't add some torque to it, you have too many more possibilities.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So we've got-- we've got that, that, open.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. Now--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Starting to come around, I'm coming around.

CRAIG FOSTER: And everything is stable. The whole body is stable. And I'm aiming the putter face by shuffling my feet-- rocking my feet.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Pretty much like a robot that I-- like a fridge. Like I'm pushing you--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Like I rock the fridge and twist it, rock the fridge and twist it--

CRAIG FOSTER: Right. Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: We're not moving anything.

CRAIG FOSTER: We're not moving any-- we're looking at our face alignment and lining up with--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're saying, that's where I want to be.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah

STEVE ELKINGTON: Right there. Something like that.

CRAIG FOSTER: And if I feel that there's something wrong with the alignment, I will--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Divide the pressure?

CRAIG FOSTER: I will step back, re-waggle, redo everything in there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Well, let me be-- let me be more specific. How do you-- if you come in here, and you've got all the pressures-- you got the arm pressure, you've got the hip pressure and the set, you're set, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: How do you get from here to here without losing it?

CRAIG FOSTER: OK.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You put the arms in, then is a foot, foot, and you've still got all the pressure.

CRAIG FOSTER: No. I would-- once you make your practice stroke, you're getting in here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: All the pressure.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. OK. Made a practice stroke. I would walk it in. I wouldn't put that and move this way. I would--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Feet first?

CRAIG FOSTER: I would move the entire club face with my hand, because then, you can do fine face alignment with the body.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Just a little in and a little over?

CRAIG FOSTER: It's an arc.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And how do you know that you're going to hit it right when it's square? You see this.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Is there a ball position concern?

CRAIG FOSTER: Well, here-- here's the thing. If we have stabilized the face against rotation, we've created an arc, the relationship of the club face to that arc will not change.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So it's perpendicular to the arc at all times?

CRAIG FOSTER: So it is perpendicular to the arc. And we can hit it on any part of the arc, because the face is going to be perpendicular there. So we don't really have to worry about

STEVE ELKINGTON: Ball position?

CRAIG FOSTER: Ball positions.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So is this like the-- like the greatest thing ever? In other words, does that mean that your path is-- it's not just a little, minuscule spot to hit it? You could actually hit it on any part of the path?

CRAIG FOSTER: You could hit it-- You could. Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Because it's perpendicular to it--

CRAIG FOSTER: Because the face is not rotating to the path. The face is always square to the path.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's-- that's impressive.

CRAIG FOSTER: So-- OK. I'll put-- I'll play this back. I'll play it-- I'll play it back. Now de-lofted the putter. I've got my face--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Because you're not allowed to move the triangle, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Right.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Hold show, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Right. And so I've taken five degrees lopped off of this putter. But now, if I want to get a little more stable, or a little--

STEVE ELKINGTON: More feel back.

CRAIG FOSTER: Less loft, if I want to do that.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Or you just preferred player's choice of being off the back.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. You feel-- you feel comfortable in that position.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Or maybe if you feel comfortable with the putter-- the ball more forward in your stance. If you could-- this way, and you can see down the line a little bit better this way, as well. That's another advantage of having--

STEVE ELKINGTON: And what eye-- what eye are you dominant?

CRAIG FOSTER: I am left eye dominant.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I am too. So--

CRAIG FOSTER: So um, the other advantage of having the open stance-- what's called an open stance-- is that now-- and my head is behind the ball. My spine is-- we have secondary spine angle here. Head behind the ball. So now my-- and if I rotate my head on apple on a stick, I'm looking right down the target line.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK. So is there a-- I know you're square to the path, and that's great. Is there a honey hole that's just like-- is there a honey hole that you find yourself, that it's just like the perfect-- a honey hole being the perfect spot, like--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --your foot position that you just sort of nail every time, where it sits in-- do you like it between your feet? Do you like it-- is there a honey hole?

CRAIG FOSTER: There's your-- whichever one you like.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: It can be whatever is comfortable to you.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: So no, I don't-- there's no dictation of any specific ball position.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's two inches inside the foot.

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: Don't need it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're taking out all the slack, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah, it is.

STEVE ELKINGTON: The slack in the sails. Right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Slack. Right

STEVE ELKINGTON: You've got the sail on the boat pulled tight right from the get go. You're not waiting for the thing to catch the air, right? It's already pulled tight. So you're ready-- you're ready to race, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: In a way. There's no slack. All the slack's taken out. We're doing that with the structure. Structure of what we have, every one of us has. And that's the bones, right? Bones.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Natural-- we're using natural physical stabilization mechanism here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Let's just-- walk us through again. You're already putting these steps that you've shown us how to do it. And there's really no more than this, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: No more than that.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're-- you've got the-- you've already put your foot in over here. You've got that. You've rolled that.

CRAIG FOSTER: And--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You just swinging yourself around. You swing into it.

CRAIG FOSTER: And the whole time, I'm still focusing on this part of the real estate.

STEVE ELKINGTON: When you say this, you're talking about the intended--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --break line?

CRAIG FOSTER: I-- I'm never breaking my attention from-- I'm seeing--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Because this is not-- you've taken care of this.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Your brain now already knows this is done.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Like, a lot of us have problems. We have to get up there and be still thinking about our stroke. You're saying that you don't think about your stroke anymore.

CRAIG FOSTER: Not at all.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Because you--

CRAIG FOSTER: I'm thinking about rolling the-- all I'm thinking about is rolling the ball to the hole.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. OK. Because you know you've got something to hit it with.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: (WHISTLES) Back door is better than no door, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: The good speed--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yep.

CRAIG FOSTER: --made that ball go in.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's right.

CRAIG FOSTER: Because I'm thinking since we're on a level putt here, my distance wall that I'm feeling-- see, I'm-- after I've lined up the putt, I'm just-- I'm looking at this wall, wide wall. And I'm feeling the ball. Because that-- no longer do I have to worry about this line. That line's done.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're done on that one.

CRAIG FOSTER: Now I'm just doing this-- I'm rolling up to that wall. You know, I know that this is a flat putt here-- basically a flat, not uphill or down hill. So I know that my target right now is going to be a little bit behind the hole, because that's where I want to get. I don't want to be short. And so I already know that my distance is going to be a little bit behind the ball. And so that-- now we're all alignment. This part is all alignment-- all down the line. That's what we're doing here.

We're stepping left, getting-- torquing. Now we're walking in. I'm all alignment-- still all alignment. Still alignment. OK, alignment's done. Now I see my brick wall.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And stroke phase. Right? Just bang.

CRAIG FOSTER: I can really relax my fingers and my hands for touch-- for feeling this ball. Anytime you start getting pressure here, you're robbing feel for distance. If you hold a baseball really hard, you're not going to be very accurate. If you use a putter grip that's this big around-- yeah, it'll take your wrists out, but you just won't have that--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Is the fat grip doing a sort of a DynAlign by freezing the joints into this fashion?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. I wouldn't put DynAlign connected with a fat grip, because it's just--

STEVE ELKINGTON: No.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's the opposite.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Very bad, yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Well, but--

STEVE ELKINGTON: But it's still in the same vein of just locking stuff down.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's trying-- it's trying to remove this.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Trying to take the wrists out. But it robs you of feel.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Feel.

CRAIG FOSTER: Your-- you know, the brain surgeon, when he goes in with the scalpel, doesn't have a big baseball bat handle on it. He's got this.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Little guy.

CRAIG FOSTER: Because that's where the feel is. And we-- so we're activating all that.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And you have this invention that you have for feel and touch that you--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. The right touch.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Which is just like rolling the ball, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: It's just like rolling a ball.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Except for I'm gonna roll these ball-- you know, the weight of this, you know. Very rarely do anyone-- you know, does anyone ever get this way off, right? As far as touch.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. You'll--

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's just natural, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: After you play catch with a ball for a little bit, you get-- you can feel how hard you need to--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You invented this for touch--

CRAIG FOSTER: --roll it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --where you just strap that to the--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Because you'll see-- sometimes you'll see players hold a ball in their hand.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: When they're waiting to putt. And they'll hold it in their hand like this. So I'm going to hold that ball just as if I were going to roll it. I've got it in my hands just as if I'm going to roll a ball. And I can use my normal putting grip on there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then you just-- you just imagine that-- you look down there like I just threw those, and-- or rolled those, and you just feel the same thing.

CRAIG FOSTER: What it's-- the information that this is giving to your neuromuscular system is the amount of force it takes to break gravity-- to make this putt move. Now, that address--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Putter head move. Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: The putter head move. OK, we have gravity is hold-- is holding this steady. I'm not doing anything, but gravity is holding it steady. I have to decide how much force to break gravity to make my back swing. And the sensation of the mass of this ball in the hand tells the neurological system how much force is necessary to break gravity-- to make a stroke.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Sure.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. So I'm visualizing the distance. And when I-- I'm visualizing a wide wall this way for distance control. I'm not judging my distance by looking down this line. I want to see a wide wall, because then I-- it's a bigger target. And that's distance-- distance is this way. Distance is-- distance control is not-- that's an infinite line. That keeps going. That doesn't tell you a lot.

When you put it underneath the left hand also in practice, it just sensitizes the left hand to the motion that we're making.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yes.

CRAIG FOSTER: You may be right-hand dominant, but this is-- since we've got two hands on the putter--

STEVE ELKINGTON: It may feel better.

CRAIG FOSTER: It may feel better.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So the player's choice, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. Player's choice.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So we're going to see your routine and, you know, if-- you're already doing-- you're already doing something up here, it looked like it took a bit of work out of there. But you're going to show us how to blend it.

CRAIG FOSTER: Oh. Blend it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You've just hit it on the green. You've hit a nice shot, and you've coming in, and you've already started winding. We're going to see you blend the whole thing. You already started to move to the right and twist in. And you shimmy everything around. That ball-- I could see that little black line on that ball just tracking right up there.

You're already walking in to the left. You've already started shimmying around there. It's real stable. Just not wobbling around any.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's wobbling from my coffee.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. Wow. Wow. That was tight. That was nice, Craig. Think I want a foot back.

CRAIG FOSTER: Foot back.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And just throw it all over, keep the integrity.

CRAIG FOSTER: I'm right side bending.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Right side bending.

CRAIG FOSTER: Also a little forward hip thrust.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And see, the pointer's way left still.

CRAIG FOSTER: So the pointer is way left, and I am-- now I'm just kind of--

STEVE ELKINGTON: You're like a-- you're like a fridge. I'm kind of rocking you around, because we can't move anything other than the whole show, right? Now you're-- you're sort of in the game now, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You feel you've got yourself a round there. Boom.

CRAIG FOSTER: So we want to use our starting position, and this is the line that we're going to end up on. But the pre-shot is going to take us away from that line. I'm stepping back with my leading foot. And now I am winding forward so that the putter is into the ground and to the left of the hole.

And now, as I wind back my whole upper body to the target line, keeping my leading hip with some tension in it. And now I'm going to walk this back and align it with my entire body. I'm moving that face by rotating my entire body, and not my hands.

I'm going to step back with the leading foot, wind forward with the hands, club face is down into the ground to the left, and I'm going to right side bend a little bit. And then hold that, and use my feet to shuffle back into align the face with my entire body. Like that.

STEVE ELKINGTON: When they get the wow factor, the lock down wow--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: When does-- how long is that? Does that come pretty quick usually?

CRAIG FOSTER: You know, it-- it depends on the person. Some people are more mechanically adept, and they have-- their mind is-- uh, they have mechanical aptitude. And they can get it really quite quickly. Other people learn in a different way. And so everybody learns things in a different way. And so hopefully-- some will take longer than others. But, uh, just know that if it is difficult at first, you may be doing something that needs revision.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Not-- yeah. Not precise.

CRAIG FOSTER: But once you get it--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Once you get it, it's locked down.

CRAIG FOSTER: --you won't-- I don't think you'll go away and go back to, uh--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Other way.

CRAIG FOSTER: --a traditional alignment.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So I'm going to give my interpretation.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Right off, you know, right out of the gate, we've got, you know, I just-- I'll bring these together. I'm gonna grip down on it a little bit because-- give me a little bit more room there.

CRAIG FOSTER: Stop. That's step number two. Step number one, you've got to get out of the way. So-- so somehow you have to open up--

STEVE ELKINGTON: I'll get better.

CRAIG FOSTER: --here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's already a--

CRAIG FOSTER: Slide that in there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --won't happen again.

CRAIG FOSTER: Slide that in there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It won't happen again. OK, so I got that in there. I got that. I'm going good, right-- I got that?

CRAIG FOSTER: You're-- you're there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I'm coming in, and I'm going to swing this one this way, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: You're going to keep your torque that way.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: And counterclockwise.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Got my torque. And then I'm going to start dropping in-- dropping in. Right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. A little side bend, a little--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Start dropping in, keep moving around, keep moving around, dropped in, dropped in, dropped in. I feel pretty locked down right here.

CRAIG FOSTER: You look pretty darn nice. A little open stance.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So I've got your deal. I've got it wound forward. And as we say it, I wound everything with it.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That was--

CRAIG FOSTER: And that's where this hip rotation came from.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I sort of locked it.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It won't go much further than that. So I kind of walk in but it's-- I've kept it there. Now, once I get to here, then do I swing it around?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Then-- you've still got torque here. So you're turning the whole thing.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: We turned it--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah, I got it now.

CRAIG FOSTER: We turned it counter-clockwise to lock in. Now we're aligning, because everything is going to turn now.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I take-- I take this to the end point, too, I do. And like you said, on the arms, if I slammed it, that's as far as it would go, but you don't go all the way--

CRAIG FOSTER: No.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You go maybe 70%, 80%?

CRAIG FOSTER: Soft hand rein.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Just hold it there.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I feel it. I've sort of felt like everything's turned all the way.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then I sort of just leave that in a torqued feel.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And then I just come and drop it in.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Sh-zoop.

CRAIG FOSTER: All is one piece. So nothing is moving independently. Your upper body isn't moving all separately.

STEVE ELKINGTON: All together.

CRAIG FOSTER: All together. And it's-- and that's why the final alignment is kind of rocking on the feet.

STEVE ELKINGTON: To get around.

CRAIG FOSTER: Because I'm-- everything is one piece.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah, right. I've got that, and I'm gonna got that. There. I've got that torqued in there still.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And I'm just going to drop down. But I still kept the torque this time.

CRAIG FOSTER: This is a better setup. I like that setup. I like that. I like that. Looks-- that looks nice. You're a little bit open, but you have a good--

STEVE ELKINGTON: This was important. This was very-- this was really good, but--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That sort of got-- this is just as important.

CRAIG FOSTER: It's just as important. And then also, it's we've got the hips going this way. And then, as this is the right side bend and forward hip thrust will maybe drop it-- it's dropping the upper part down. The hips are--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Staying there.

CRAIG FOSTER: Staying there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Do you leave that wound and just drop the top lot?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes, yes. Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I see it.

CRAIG FOSTER: There you go. That's a nice looking setup there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's so draggy.

CRAIG FOSTER: Nice looking setup.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So let me just clarify that if I can, Craig, let me just-- I want to confirm a couple of things with you, OK?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. Yup.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So when people get this tape and-- I've got that. That's an easy one to get. That's very understandable.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And I also want everyone to realize that I've wound that one to an end-- end feel.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Now I've left that. I've left that--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I've still got it wound, OK?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Almost like stiff legged.

You You don't need to be stiff legged, but--

STEVE ELKINGTON: But I'm just saying--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --for the camera. Now, I'm gonna leave that there, I'm gonna-- look at me. I'm gonna cut that off.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I'm gonna leave that wound-ness there.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK.

STEVE ELKINGTON: And I'm going to just drop this against the back of it. Is that right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. Yes. Because you still want to feel--

STEVE ELKINGTON: I want to feel that--

CRAIG FOSTER: You want to feel some-- little bit.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That gives-- that gives me the intent--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: --for going that way.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's a crazy roll, isn't it?

CRAIG FOSTER: With DynAlign, some of the-- a lot of the game improvement type designs with extreme perimeter weighting can mask the feel. You can use extra large putting grips, but those mask the feel as they're taking the wrists out. With DynAlign, you can use a putter that has a smaller grip for good feel, and not excess perimeter weighting. You know, you don't want to use an antique, necessarily. You don't watch black and white TV anymore, either.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah, you want something with a nice sweet spot.

CRAIG FOSTER: You know, get something with alignment on it. But it doesn't have to be some extreme game-improvement club that's going to mask your feel. You want a player's club that you can get some feel. And DynAlign allows you to be stable in your alignment and still have a very good feel with your hands.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Now the idea is to make it stealth, so that you can go out and do this, and nobody is going to say anything.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Oh, camouflage, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: Camouflage.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I would come out of here--

CRAIG FOSTER: Stealth.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I would come out of here, and I've got that. And I would just put all that in there.

CRAIG FOSTER: There you go. There you go.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Keep that. Let's keep that. And then just drop that against that. And basically, I could leave my-- I could almost leave my stance wherever I wanted to.

CRAIG FOSTER: There. You could--

STEVE ELKINGTON: And wind this against it. Like drop down behind--

CRAIG FOSTER: Exactly.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Exactly. Now and-- now, I feel-- I feel my hips-- now, your hips are staying-- they're remaining-- once you've turned them this way, they're remaining there. And then you're dropping down--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Against them.

CRAIG FOSTER: --against them. I feel my hips go-- as I drop down, I feel my hips go a little bit forward. See?

STEVE ELKINGTON: OK.

CRAIG FOSTER: A little bit forward here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So let me ask-- let me see if I can show this somehow. Well, I got this cup right here, and this is my hips. And they're wound-- they're wound there. OK?

CRAIG FOSTER: Counter-clockwise.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I cut myself off there, and this is my-- I just drop down against that, still wound. Is that right? I just pshh. Yeah. So I put that down and cut myself in half.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. Yeah, there you go.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Drop down against it. That's hit well.

CRAIG FOSTER: Little bit speedy, that one.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Little bit speedy. I'm just trying to get-- uh, I'm just trying to get orientated.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah. There you go. Like it.

STEVE ELKINGTON: What I like about this is, players don't-- you don't have to worry about your, you know, everything being lined up parallel and all that kind of thing. It's a real dynamic, right? It's the name of the business. Maybe your company. It's-- it's dynamic!

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Because after we've done that, we're aligning the face by moving the rest of the body. It doesn't matter where your shoulders are.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Now, if there is degrees of drop out-- if there's degrees of I'm not against the maximum--

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah?

STEVE ELKINGTON: Where-- where's the pitfall? Where do you-- where are you likely to lose it?

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. You're likely to lose it because you have excess potential for motion--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Drop out there.

CRAIG FOSTER: --here. Drop out there.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So don't drop out. Stay on the endpoint.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So I feel it now.

CRAIG FOSTER: Feel firmness here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Now I feel-- I feel good there. That was nice.

CRAIG FOSTER: Are you feeling the stability here?

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah, I am.

CRAIG FOSTER: And are these relaxed?

STEVE ELKINGTON: Very.

CRAIG FOSTER: Very relaxed for feel here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's almost like the whole show is happening from these top three fingers.

CRAIG FOSTER: These top three fingers, when the configuration of the bones will firm up the grip. So that's what your stability-- this is your feel.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You couldn't get those off of there.

CRAIG FOSTER: I can see white.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah. You wouldn't get those off of there.

CRAIG FOSTER: But you've got--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Nothing here.

CRAIG FOSTER: Soft hands here.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Nothing here.

CRAIG FOSTER: For feel. So--

STEVE ELKINGTON: I've got a little bit of pressure on these other two here.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah

STEVE ELKINGTON: But not like the backs are.

CRAIG FOSTER: Not like the back, so that's where the stability. So you're feeling for rolling the distance--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah, I just--

CRAIG FOSTER: --is fully-- you have-- you're fully sensing.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I'm just like, boom. I feel like I'm--

CRAIG FOSTER: You're fully sensing that.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I feel like it's just holding it, and it's just going to be like a concussion, like a-- just, it's just something's that's going to be just purely swinging and hitting the ball.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yeah.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I got all that. That's good. I'm all the way to the end. I'm not giving up that, and I'm not giving up all that torque I've built up. And I'm just gonna--

CRAIG FOSTER: You're even more stable.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I'm gonna drop down, and I'm just gonna make this stroke. And move in, and then I'm-- now I'm gonna fridge it, get fridgerated around.

CRAIG FOSTER: Down in the hole.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Yeah.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK, now how about this?

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's incredible feel, right?

CRAIG FOSTER: How about this? Go back and putt the way you did before with-- don't do any of the DynAlign now.

STEVE ELKINGTON: No, I don't want to do that.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I've been doing that for years.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK. (LAUGHING) Sorry.

STEVE ELKINGTON: It's taken me a long time--

CRAIG FOSTER: I was testing! I was--

STEVE ELKINGTON: Hey. It's taken me a long time to get here. I really don't want go back.

CRAIG FOSTER: OK.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Let there, huh?

CRAIG FOSTER: I like that. I like, I don't want to go back. That's a good quote.

STEVE ELKINGTON: If I were gonna come around, I'd go with the fridge, and keep the torque. Go with the fridge.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes. Keep-- yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Keep the fridge in play.

CRAIG FOSTER: No independent motion in your hands, wrists.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You have to make those little bits at the end.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: The millimeters you do with the ankles.

CRAIG FOSTER: With the ankles and your entire body.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Who.

CRAIG FOSTER: I think it's rolling. Loved that address. It just looks-- it looks dynamic. You're in motion. You're no longer standing there with square feet, hips, and shoulders in a static position. You can make putts that way. But you're in a dynamic position.

If anybody out there has yips, I've had yips when-- years ago.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You don't have yips now.

CRAIG FOSTER: I don't have those anymore. And I don't think Steve looking at my stroke now--

STEVE ELKINGTON: No way.

CRAIG FOSTER: --would say I have anything that resembles a yip.

STEVE ELKINGTON: I don't think you could do it with DynAlign because you've got the-- the bones are right. The bones-- it's the alignments.

CRAIG FOSTER: Right. It's a natural stabilization by the bones. And yips-- yips has never really-- has never been solved. There's all kinds of studies on yips. If I want to challenge any dirters out there--

STEVE ELKINGTON: That'd be a good one.

CRAIG FOSTER: --who have yips, because I know there's some out there. Uh, give DynAlign a look. Because, uh, I feel pretty confident that I can cure your yips permanently.

STEVE ELKINGTON: That's great.

CRAIG FOSTER: No training aids.

STEVE ELKINGTON: No training aids. No.

CRAIG FOSTER: No braces. You don't have to use-- you don't have to use gimmicks.

STEVE ELKINGTON: No gimmicks.

CRAIG FOSTER: You just have to know how to use the body's natural stabilization.

STEVE ELKINGTON: This is where I started today, you know. Started today like everyone's gonna start. I'd turn that one over, turn the body over. Real wide-- you know, real stance. And then I come around, still keeping the weight there, twisted there. That's very important.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: You have-- it's hard for you to believe this, but these little inches of holding these torque are so important to make or break this deal.

CRAIG FOSTER: Yes.

STEVE ELKINGTON: So that's there. And then I come around, and I come around, and I come around until now. Now, I'm just relaxed. I'm just going to do it now this time without straining anything.

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CRAIG FOSTER: Bingo. There it is. There you go.

STEVE ELKINGTON: Can't-- just can't not hit that ball perfect right here. It's impossible.

CRAIG FOSTER: (LAUGHS)

STEVE ELKINGTON: Give you one of these before I go.

[SLAP]

CRAIG FOSTER: (LAUGHS)

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