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I have been working on my backswing…. throwing the club to the top vs. slowly moving the club to the top. The later seems to provide a bit more control by keeping a tone in the arm club unit, where throwing the club to the top sometimes makes for loss of control at the top. Does this make sense?
Yes! See “toss vs place shawn clement” on youtube; an oldie but real goodie!!
Question about the lead/trail arm in the back swing… we talk about the arm club unit… so are the lead and trail arms work with the same outward force? It seems at the top of the swing…. using the weight of the club alone does not seem to get my high enough of an extension. So, if I pull a bit away with the trailing hand/arm… it allows the higher extension. However, I am not sure this is correct. Thoughts?
Not quite the way to go about it; see the “upward levitation” video we did more recently; when performing the Perpetual motion drill, as you naturally turn to get out of the way of the swing of the arms, the arms get PULLED AWAY from the body and you are just letting them create their own width.
What engages them further is when you are getting the system ready to sling the action and release into the direction you want to start the ball.
Got it. Thanks, Shawn
I hit balls on Tuesday after work and my so tact was mediocre. I went back to the 1 leg drill and hit the ball solid. I then realized my backswing was the culprit. When I heave the he ax in the backswing I think I am kind of taking a step or transferring my weight too far on my right side then turning my hips which was effecting my contact. I then began my backswing by simply swiveling my hips and my contact was amazing. I returned to the range again last night to see if I could repeat my success and it was even better. I felt that I had so much more room to go get the ground and throw the club to the target. Is this just a feel for me or is this how we should be starting the backswing
Right on Joe! You did it! You felt the difference in the one leg drill and was able to plug it into the golf swing!
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Hi Shawn – Just a question about the top of the full swing… Should we keep the lead arm straight, or allow the elbow to bend at the top?
Neither one! You should never have to think about that! 😝
The very best drill for backswing that has succeeded in 99% of my students is the “backhand sword” drill demonstrated in our “lead hand release” video on premium. When you gather fully in the backswing and allow the wrists to hinge when they want to, it will evolve in the right direction!
Also use “trail hand release” and “release fine tuning” to complete the set! 😀👍
Excellent! Thanks, Shawn. I can see that I have putting my brain’s focus on the wrong things. Love this system again. Not sure why ever walked away from it a few years back. Thanks much.
Dave
Hi Shawn – Me again… so, someone on the forum shared an old video with a comparison of you shooting and arrow. You made the comment that the left arm should be ramrod straight. So, can we say that this is old information that you have since updated?
Yes, this is slightly outdated info but it was mostly for getting the feel of “not collapsing” from someone who was completely collapsed! And so, from one point to another it would feel like the archer; makes more sense now?
Perfect! Thanks, Shawn. You’re the best.
Let’s see if I have this right: Watching the student’s hands I could tell when he hit a good shot because his fingers had ‘levitated’ to the top of the Henderson poster on the wall. (you could hear the difference in the ball compression) Against Bubba’s poster, the top of the student’s head also levitated from Bubba’s mid-section (at address) to above his chin (at the top of the swing). Then it drops back down for contact followed by a similar climb of the head and hands on the follow through.
So for a complete swing, this means that the orbit of the head is shaped like a ” U “. The bottom of the ” U” on the downswing is a head drop in a natural move to garner ground forces. The old style thinking was to hold the head rock steady. Strictly interpreting that concept messed up a lot of people over the years. I share the fear of the student in reaching for the sky since you feel your head and torso pulling off the ball on the backswing. Getting older I have lost flexibility so I have been fiddling with this to regain some distance. I have been getting mixed results. The ball does go straight with good distance but half the time it is chunky.
What keeps you from topping the daylights out of the ball or sticking the club straight into the ground? Is the best way to learn this is by incorporating high hands into the perpetual motion drill?
Hey Jon! You have the general understanding of how this works; however, you must understand that your fat shots have nothing to do with “the probability of a mistake” as we are not defective machines at all! The original task you hold in your mind just before you swing is the key and of course it must be associated with the proper task or “means by which” you deliver the shot to the target.
We are actually designed to do what you described beautifully! As “BY LATERAL MACHINES”, we walk this way, swing on a swing this way, ski, skate, you name it; you are made for this! So what you want to focus on is a task to get you through your shot and into the flight plan you determined you need to get to your end target. See “the walking drill” and combine this with “pumping up the swing” and have a blast with the “kinetic chain series” which is a great view.
Then you can get into the “off season training series” or the “consistency series” for some nice practice.
Let me know how things go!
Shawn