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Can you direct me to where to squeeze through doorframe video is? You squeeze ball through mat and catch the ball???
Hey Nate! https://wisdomingolfpremium.com/hammer-drill/
enjoy!
CyberVision is the name of company. What is a CyberVision task?
Simply means that we filmed the tasks in slow motion; combine this with the kinetic chain series of videos and you will see them in a more complete light! 😀👍
Hey Shawn,
thanks for this video:)
question: when you are imagining a nail with your golf club, where is the nail, is it a nail 1 meter above the ball or the nail is on the middle of the ball? If the nail is on the ball, then i suppose the golf club can be imagined as a sledgehammer
Yes, the ball is the head of the nail and the club face is the face of the hammer. You are using the WEIGHT of the arm-club unit to squeeze or compress the nail through the base of the door frame and the ensuing elastic collision makes the ball leap off the face into the air TOWARDS THE DIRECTION YOU WANT THE BALL TO START ON.
Hey Shawn,
Thanks very much for the hammer drill, I have recently observed great improvements in my game with this drill 🙂 this came just after i trained with a real hammer and a door frame at home. Fade is working really well (even if i will have to work to get more distance) and I hope i will get the draw soon too 🙂 Question: To hit a low fade do you imagine a nail that is on the ball and oriented toward the ground that is in front of the ball? Could you tell me wich video should i watch to hit low fade?
Thanks
Sincerely,
Sebastien
You want to master the low draw first; then once you understand that you are “throwing the club low along the ground” to keep it low (never try to hit down on the ball) then you will feel how the fade will be very similar! Start with hitting low draw shots with a pitching wedge or 9 iron and master this first!
I have been trying again yesterday on the golf course the hammer drill, my technique is unstable, Maybe I’ve to train on the perpetual motion to be able to fix my swing plane each time because sometimes,using the hammer drill, my swing works great and sometimes it doesn’t :p.
That is completely OK! The key is that you want to confirm that you are hammering THROUGH and into a SPECIFIC DIRECTION into the FLIGHT PLAN. Remember the dart team experiment?
team 1-go after bull’s eye 1 hour per day for 2 weeks
team 2-repeat the same arm motion mechanics for 2 weeks 1 hour per day.
team 1-15% better after 2 weeks and misses are 15% closer
team 2-23% WORSE
SO BE CLEAR about the task AND THE DIRECTION you are letting the momentum send the ball into; then become good at it! 😀👍
Homework: combine this with “arc-Blur-unstoppable momentum” series which is a series I enjoy meditating to.
Hello Shawn,
Analysing several videos in wich you are using the hammer, I think I might have some misconceptions on how to position the hammer so that the ball can fly in the proper direction. I have attached an image where it seems that the tip of the hammer is pointing toward the ground in front of the ball. So my question is how should be placed the tip of the hammer at adress?
thanks 🙂
image
Nononono!!!!!!! Do not look at this!!! See the nail you will be hammering through the door frame; this means the hammer collects the nail at this angle and then as the compression goes through the wood, the hammer face becomes less and less pointing to the ground!!
Hello Shawn,
Thanks for your reply, understood to visualize only the nail. Just to let you know I was thinking it would be nice to have some mile markers with the hammer to use the hammer correctly. I’ve seen in particular that at the top of the backswing the angle of the wirst is at about 90 degrees and this angle is maintained until the clubhead realease by itself naturally with the centrical force. Using this last mile marker and let the hammer fall naturally on the nail I had few nice results and good contacts this morning :). I’ve also observed some identical sensations using the battering ram image.
In the same way, i wonder where should i visualize the nail for chip shots? In fact the ball is more at the back of the stance and having a nail even more at the back seems quite tricky. Also I can’t use the mile marker with the wirst at 90 degrees at the top of the backswing for chip shots. Then I don’t really feel or know how to let go the hammer or the battering ram at the top of my backswing for a chip shot.
thanks 🙂
There is no nail through the ball; the ball represents the head of the nail. So you simply squeeze the ball through the doorframe with the face of the wedge and the ball pops up and onto the part of the green where you want to land it. There is so much loft on a wedge that you would bend the nail upwards, and this is the idea right?!😝
Hey Shawn,
Trying my best to feel comfortable hitting the nail with the golf posture, I am having issues with not enough room with the hammer and my arms to hit the nail. See the image to know about this. Any tips?
Thanks 🙂
Yes! The “football drill series” to give it the elbow room!!
Hey Shawn,
I think I have made good improvements this week by relaxing my arms when I hit the ball. I was in fact forcing with my arms without noticing it.
The good tip i used to discover this is this one: I took the club upside down (same way like the task slash throw a bamboo), I tried to hit the ball with the tip of the grip to a target that is very near like two or three meters after the ball. I’ve noticed that when i tried to be careful my arms are not relaxed and the tip of the grip easily misses the ball, whereas when my arms are relaxed then it become easier to hit the ball toard the target and it’s far more powerful two!
Now my contacts with the ball are better and my understanding of the the taks to use (hammer, cut grass..) is a lot better.
Seb
Now this is very good feedback Sebastien! Very good! 👍😀👌💪
Hey Shawn,
Some news of my training:
I am now working on the walking drill as you told me to.
I’ve the feeling that the roll in of the left foot is a detail that can make a big difference to help me turn my hips proprely in time with the rythm of the arms and the swing in general. As a consequence a good roll in would help to levitate the arms freely in both directions.
Also, I’ve the feeling that the entire left leg can be used as a ‘motor’ or a ‘clock’ that gives the rythm to the rest of the body. The left leg seems to help keeping the rythm of the swing going in both directions: in the bakcswing it is the roll in of the left foot that will be used to keep the rythm, in the downswing the left heel will be used (to press toward the ground) . I think having the left leg as a ‘clock’ will allow me to load progressively a good squat in the backswing that will be then realeased in the downswing. I will try out these things at my next golf session.
Sebastien
Nice awareness to the action while walking! As long as you keep matching this action to your task and not loose sight of the flight plan. It is to help you deliver effortlessly into your “moving pictures” 👍
Hello Shawn,
I’ve realised that the secret of the swing is more something related to what you call: abandon, loosing control, instinctive etc.
So i’ve tried to find different exercices to work on instinctive motion:
Question: For the hammer drill at chipping, at adress position, do you visualize the hammer below the sternal notch or the hammer should be at the ball like the club face at adress? Also to facilitate the downswing I try to imagine the face of the hammer after the release. Do you have a precise image of the hammer that you are visualizing? When you say I visualize the hammer hitting the nail, are you seeing the face of the hammer actually hitting it?
Thanks
Seb
Shawn, could you direct me to a video or video series that has tasks oriented to shot shape & height?
Yes! This series:
https://wisdomingolfpremium.com/task-to-shot-matching-series-part-1-hammer-through-door-for-low-shots/