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shawn this video is glitching also .wonder if it’s too many people accessing video at the same time .
thx mark s.
Hey Mark! This means your internet is slow today; must be a lot of online activity in your neck of the woods right now; use the cog wheel in the lower right corner of the video box and choose a lower definition to get the flow back.
Shawn, I need one further clarification on the grip and the clubface orientation (square or closed) at address. I grip the club with a neutral grip and a closed clubface. Should the clubface remain closed when I actually place the club down behind the ball at address just before the takeaway move or will the clubface be squared up as a result of getting behind the ball before making my takeaway move? Anotherwords, is the clubface to be square or closed in my final address position? Thanks
EITHER OR!! See “important grip update” for a deepening of this understanding across the board!
Shawn, on one of your Youtube videos “Is your golf underpowered??
This grip will add 15 to 30 Yards to your shots”, Savannah was demonstrating her “strong grip” with her trail hand under her lead hand at address. It appeared that she started with a neutral grip and a closed clubface and then rotated her forearms at address to what appears to set the clubface square at address. My question is by starting with her strong grip and what appears to be square clubface at address , will the clubface not rotate too open dynamically speaking. Anotherwords, my understanding from your other videos is that starting with a neutral grip and a closed clubface will end up with a square clubface dynamically during the swing. Can you clear up my confusion on proper grip and clubface position at address? Thanks
Hey Dan! They both work the same way and they are one in the same; you can either address the ball square with strong grip; or with neutral and closed face or anywhere in between; we have posted a video called “important grip update” that will clear this up even more; let me know when you see it!
Thanks Shawn. Your clarification response was very helpful to understand the proper grip, orientation of the forearm bones, and clubface orientation. I also watched your “important grip update” video that you suggested which also helped. I have been using the neutral grip and a closed clubface but the one thing that I was missing and that became much clearer was the need to tilt my body to get behind the ball,which squares the clubface at address, and aligns the 2 bones in my forearms to position me fo deliver a powerful strike. I just returned from the range and experienced better direction control and more distance .
I’m just here to say, that I’m now more certain than ever, that my grip is my fundamental swing breakdown issue. My trail hand is destroyed (skin ripped up) as the grip is moving around in this hand. I was taught to hold the club lightly. It’s practically not even on the club, just flying off really. I cannot for the life of me seem to stop doing this. I’m off to purchase a glove for this hand so that I can continue to work on my swing/golf. I’ve watched all the videos on grip – I love that you describe your grip as firm and locked on (something like that) because I can reflect that mine is not. I know it is related to where I’m releasing the club as well. My understanding of what you are teaching becomes clearer everyday, but applying it has not been as easy as I had hoped. I will finish my dissertation by saying, you can’t overdo any topic, especially grip…. I could use more grip content, such as why my trail hand wants to come loose in the downswing. With love to the best golf teacher on planet earth, perhaps the galaxy…..
Yes, the grip is the most important fundamental for sure; and the darn thing is the worst taught out there because of the way they try to show you where to put the grip in your hands instead of starting with the PURPOSE of the thing. The club is a bone that you want to wrap your portable ligaments, tendons and muscles called the hands around it and feel that your end result is a complete “arm-club unit” that is secure and locked in. Then when you do the PMD drill, you feel that the release is reacting to the weight of the club and it’s “releasing you” away from the target in the backswing and towards the target on the through swing. The only time the grip shifts is if you have an off centre hit on the face which will cause it to get dislodged. Send me pics of the grip when you think you have it!
Thank you so much for the response Shawn. It encouraged me to go to the range.
I would like to report my findings.
I asked myself where my trail hand was coming apart and when, which was at the top of my swing. Then I asked myself, how do I need to turn so that I can easily maintain my trail hand grip.
From this I discovered that I needed to turn better.
And then my lead heal came off the ground, and I was in a state of “OH!” and “AH-HA!”
Much thanks again
BOOM!! Savy just started allowing the heel to come off the ground and went to 117 MPH yesterday! Nice job Krista! You are barking up the right tree! 👍😀
Hi, I have 2 questions:
At address, is the lead hand thumb nail facing 1) away from the target, 2) forward or 3) in between?
At address, is the humeral head neutral while the forearm is pronated? Or is the humeral head internally rotated while the forearm is also pronated?
Hey Jeffery! Sorry I missed this one; just seeing it now!
1-in between
2-when you see “important grip update” you will lean towards option #2 but with other items rotated as well!