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Good stuff Chris!
The deal is to use the weight of the arms and club to perform the task; see “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy” and hit some shots with this drill; then you can use the “shawn’s new Favourite drill” to deepen the feel. Next go to the “unstoppable momentum series” which will bring everything together nicely!
Hey Chris! You bet!
see “lead hand release in the backswing” and “trail hand release in the backswing”
Another way is to super slow motion and super relaxed and wide until you feel you can whip it easily.
Hi Chris! That has nothing to do with your issues!
What was going through your mind just before you hit the fat shot?
Don’t know if you saw my answer; one of the best drills is throwing the club and if you have not done this drill yet, you really need to experience it! See the Throw the club” video and the “throwing series” and when you film your swing while throwing the club to a target successfully, you will be floored at how your weight shift happens on time and hips and chest clear the perfect amount!
Your next step is the “perpetual motion drill series” and then the “walking drill” and “kinetic chain facilitation series”
When you stay in continuous motion without stopping, the backswing will find it’s place like a tuning fork! Enjoy!
Hi Shawn, you are great. I start to produce a number of solid shots in the range. Now i have questions. i start my backswing by opening up chest and hip as a momentum. Sometimes i felt my arms swing up easy and light, but sometimes is quite rush and quick. is it ok ?but that makes me it is very difficult to figure it out when to do the trainsition? Can you recommend what videos i should watch to understand more of these two parts or get a solution? thx.
Hi Chris! Just got back from Austin and I wanted to make sure I had proper time to answer: NOT YOUR JOB TO FIGURE OUT TRANSITION
If you look at the “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy”, have you tried hitting shots with this drill? Then see “kettle bell to door frame” and if you really want to feel something cool, get a 6 pound sledge hammer and perform some nice heaves around the back yard or an open field somewhere; really telling! And if you have not had a proper club throwing session yet, YOU REALLY NEED TO EXPERIENCE THIS!! The brain will never rush a throwing action unless there is a lot of pressure like a blitz to a quarterback.
Hey Shawn – my son got me your premium video series as a gift (Thank you, Russell!!), and I’ve already made great progress. Finally, at 65 years old, I now know ‘what’ I’m supposed to do; the challenge is to actually ‘do’ it. Consistently.
One problem I keep having is hitting the ground well behind the ball even though my practice swing ‘blur’ with perpetual motion is just in front of the ball at the low point.
I’m thinking that I’m failing in the ‘go to ground’ phase (getting too low?), and I’ve also noticed that if I hold my head tilted down and sideways like you do I rarely make a good swing through to my finish. I ultimately end up fatting the swing attempt.
Help!!!
Hey Steve! Good! Glad you are making use of the comment section! What you need to do is let go of the positions and stay with the task. The last couple series on premium are all about delivering the tasks into the direction you want to start the ball INTO THE FINISH.
We want to INCLUDE THE BALL in the task and not let the ball become the task. So see all the task videos and then those couple of series and we will go from there!
Hey Shawn – thank you for the quick reply!
I actually re-watched this video, because I was feeling like my backswing had no real purpose or connection to what I’m trying to accomplish at impact. Well, I was just back-swinging without really thinking about the 2 key points in this video:
1) Get your body turned away from the target to make room for throwing; and
2) THROW!
So at today’s range session, I was working on getting that turn to happen (I really wasn’t turning much previously, it was mostly just my arms moving on the backswing) and also thinking about throwing the club as opposed to just swinging it downwards.
Instant improvement!
Setting up to ‘throw’ is a huge thing I now realize. Instead of an aimless backswing, and then transitioning to the downswing as if it was a part of perpetual motion, I tried to mimic how you momentarily stop at the top while turned away from the target, and then on the downswing I was focusing on ‘throwing’ the arm-club unit down and through the dandelion.
I immediately got better distance due to the turn uncoiling at impact, and I also had far better contact at the bottom with the release.
I still need to get more comfortable with the torso turn at the top in one smooth motion (I found I was kind of 2-stepping it on the backswing, hard to explain, but club back, then final body turn, then begin the throw), but I am seeing such improvement since the magic moment when I finally ‘got’ what’s supposed to happen at impact with the release!
So even though I’ve always told people that I’ve been golfing for 60 years and never get any better, that magic moment when I understood the release (Monday, February 28, 2022!) has been a huge game-changer. I won’t have to tell people that old line any more, because I’ve seen incredible improvement in the past 36 days!! And I’m super confident that I will only continue to get more consistent and find ‘my swing’ that incorporates all of the key concepts that you’ve shared.
Thank you, Shawn!
Right on Steve! See “lead hand release in the backswing” video for re-enforcements for your backswing and then continue with the “throwing series” and then the “target confirmation series”
Hey Shawn – I’ve been watching the Lead Hand Release over and over again, and I’ve been trying to mimic your movements. The rotation you get on your backswing; the smoothness of your arm movements up to the top; and the turn and release you get at impact.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t do what you can do. I mean, come on – you’re ridiculously flexible. My bad left knee doesn’t let me get close to the turn you get on the backswing, and when I try to get my hands and arms up where you get them before your downswing, I lose all control and mostly fail to get the club head cleanly through the dandelion.
As I said in my previous post, I have been hopeful to generate more club speed by emphasizing (if not exaggerating) my turn, but right now at my age and flexibility I don’t seem to be capable of that.
So I guess I’m feeling stuck right now.
I was able to correct a very poor takeaway as far as my arms were going, so that’s an improvement – but my consistency (what little I had) has vanished and I’m back to having no clue where the ball is going…
And what was that task you were good at again? Cutting through dandelions or peeling divots out into the target? Throwing the club?
Dandelions. But in looking at video of my ‘swing’, it wasn’t pretty or correct.
The throwing was kinda working, yes.
Maybe I’m getting too far ahead of myself in terms of progress vs expectations. But I was hoping I’d be able to go out and play some golf before visiting my son next weekend. But my home courses here are so ridiculously narrow that if you can’t hit it straight and control your distance, it becomes an exercise in sacrificing golf balls to the ponds, lakes, and marshes.
And right now, on the driving range, my shots are going all over the map – I can predict or rely on any given shot. Ugh.
Ok, there we go! We are going to throw the club in the direction that is through the intermediate point into the finish and stick the finish. We are going to predict that the stem of the dandelion is in the way of this. See the “throwing series”, the “blur of club” and the “alignment reload” videos and the “goldie locks series”
I meant to say ‘CAN’T predict or reply’
Hey Shawn , quick question. On the takeaway , I pull it back and when I bring it up. Is it straight up or do I bring it behind me. I believe it’s straight up because of the perpetual motion drill. Bringing across me doesn’t happen during the drill. Just trying to finalize somethings.
See “how to match backswing to ball direction” video; wide in the direction you want to start the ball will get pulled up the rib cage as it passes waist high and the wrists hinge straight up. See also “backswing levitation” and “kinetic chain facilitation series”
Just what I needed currently. I played S&T for years and had fallen back into keeping my right arm against my side. I also had recently lost a club distance in the irons and noticed I was not letting the left wrist hinge. Both related.
Right on Tim! The backswing portion of the “Lead hand release” video is a great help as well! 😀👍