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Glad I found this video, I was getting caught up in hip rotation, trying to intentionally move hips first in the transition, resulting in very hit and miss shots. This video is great, humorous and brings me back to the natural process of letting the body work as intended. Thank you Shawn.
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Hello Shawn
I don’t know English very well and I’m using a translator.
I hope you understand my post.
I am a new member of your team.
According to what I saw in this video, there is no artificial separation that so much talk about, first the hips and then the shoulders. Spinning the belly button. I understood that the separation is natural, not forced, which I really like.
Best regards and thanks to you I regained the joy of playing golf.
Kris
Exactly! See “lead hand release in the backswing” for more on this!
Hi Shawn,
When I turn in my backswing and allow the momentum of the club to go to the top of the backswing my arms go very far. In fact at least once during every golf season I strain the rhomboid muscle and lat muscle in my left side and have to take time off from golf. I’m not sure if I am subconsciously trying to make a huge backswing in order to try and hit it far. I would like to play injury free but not sure how to stop over-stretching these muscles on my left side.
DEFINITELY STOP DOING THAT! Your perception of the backswing is definitely off:
1-feel like you are using 1/10 effort to get 7/10 velocity towards the target on the way out
2-peak speed is way past the ball to the target-feel like if this was your full time job, you can whip the grass clippings out there and do this all day and get up the next day and do it again.
3-keep your attention on the target side of the ball and use 2 extra clubs to send grass clippings with momentum; if you overdo the backswing, you will not be able to use the weight of the ACU to perform the task.
4-See “arc blur unstoppable momentum series” and “perpetual motion drill series”
let me know how you do!
Thanks Shawn for recommending some of those videos. I also watched a bunch of other ones and I don’t remember which one it was but it was one where you said that the arms should be “in front of my body” in the backswing. I was swinging the club more around my body and really stretching out my left lat muscle. It has made a huge difference! I don’t feel any strain in my backswing.
I also like that you recommend allowing the hips and legs to turn into the backswing. I was actually told in previous lessons by another instructor to “keep my knees facing forward” through my backswing to keep a “stable base”. I would try swinging making my legs feel like tree trunks (not moving). This always felt wrong to me but I kept trying to do this thinking it was the right way. It feels to natural to allow my whole body to turn.
I’m so happy to have joined this premium channel and look forward to playing injury free.
Right on Nancy! Our instincts are so good; nice to now be allowed to listen to them! 😀👍
Right on Nancy! Our instincts are so spot on! Keep me posted to your progress!
I am a ‘returning member’ and want to renew my training however I have an issue to resolve since returning in Dec ’22 in that my membership page says I have a ‘problem with one of my memberships’. I am paid up on the annual rate and the ‘monthly rate’ is not needed anymore, but it will not ‘cancel’. The member web page is blocked somehow…
The old membership is the only ‘problem’ I can see.
Need your help to resolve. Thanks, Lindsay
Absolutely no problem! Just send me an email at [email protected] and give us the email you are using for the account; we will look into it!👍
Shawn, I used the old Leadbetter’s book admonishment of MOVE THE BELLY BUTTON FIRST, This takeaway move allowed me to hit laser irons, all pretty much the same height, penetrating and very consistent. I also float-loaded the takeaway. However, I couldn’t hit the driver very far. So eventually, I gave it up and went back to the arms swing I grew up with. In watching this video, along with the catapult videos in your really excellent Consistency Series, I realize I was only swinging halfway in the belly button method, just then dropping my arms without turning through to the finish. Now in my 70’s, I’m going to utilize the same belly-button takeaway, which turning my butt away, and turning through to the finish. I am concerned about losing power. Any suggestions?
Hey Gene! To complete the backswing, please see “lead hand release in the backswing” and the latest “super slow-super relaxed-super wide backswing” series and for the follow through, see “kinetic chain facilitation series” and “task update” and “task 2.0 series.
the full backswing facilitates the activation of the kinetic chain in the downswing and when this happens, hang on to your hat! 😝
Polish the power with “trail hand release” and “snap release polish” and then the “turbo charge lead hand release and trail hand release” videos and the awesome “throwing the club series”
Thank you sooo much, Shawn. You really are an amazing teacher in every respect.