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Hi Shawn
Your teaching-task oriented rather than position structured-now makes so much sense,albeit I have still to put it into practice. The whole essence of the swing naturally becomes naturally much more athletic and goal directed
My reason for mentioning this is not only to say how helpful it all is to me in understanding mentally as a whole what I am meant to be doing but also to say that it all reminded me very recently of (I think it is called) Extraordinary Golf by Fred Shoemaker(?) who encouraged his students to throw clubs down the range! At the time-some 20 years ago or so) I thought it a great idea but too much off the wall for me to pursue. Not such a bright idea!
Thanks for all you do-much more than a business to you I suspect!
Regards
Ian
Great insights and realizations Ian! You are barking up the right tree!
How do you know when you reach your maximum speed?
7-8 out of 10 for velocity and compression and 3-4 out of 10 for strain or effort;
Shawn
I seem to be struggling with my effort level more than I’d like. Any suggestions to helping to maintain that 7/10 and 3/4 ratio of velocity to strain?
Hey Terry, yes!
Take a 7 iron; full backswing-then throw to a full finish and don’t go past the 125 marker. After a few of those, add 10% in the throw to finish and you have your stock swing. 👍
“…and don’t go past the 125 marker.” When you throw the club? The club doesn’t go farther than 125 yards? Thank you,
Hi Shawn
Once i return home i plan to be throwing some clubs around-will have to be very early in the morning!
In the meantime, my ball striking following your drills has been very encouraging-particularly the predicting contact tee/penny drill-and this will help go a long way towards reducing the number of my topped shots.
I am finding however a bit of a false dawn in that for the life of me i cant get a decent consistent level of clubhead speed! It can be as low as in the 60s-usually in the 70s and very occasionally (for irons) low 90s. (All using my SSR device)
I have a suspicion that I am losing a lot of speed by not cocking my wrists properly in the backswing. Can you possibly refer me to a suitable video please.
Additionally, if there is not one already, could you consider doing a video which demonstrates the elements which help to increase speed significantly, working from a base upwards?
May be I am not making this very clear but demo first how low speed swingers don’t get much speed and build on from there. That way I/ others could possibly identify with the particular area we most need to work on.
Many thanks
Regards
Ian
Many reasons for lack of speed:
1-trying to hit a ball for so long; your release gets stunted at the ball and loss of speed is equivalent to 1 to 2 clubs
2-being careful with swing positions; just strated with a students who was told to keep head still which cancelled his backswing which in turn does not allow him to whip the club with ease; also keeping head down and still past the ball causes even more damage-keeping the elbow tucked in the backswing is another crazy ridiculous thing to even work on (teachers to this day still do this on tour as part of their portfolios to nip and tuck players to injury-players on tour don’t have distance issues are are able to work around this)
These 2 areas are the reason why I love my job so much because students leave my place with massive smiles and huge sighs of relief when they start whipping and compressing the ball into 20 to 30 yards more and we did not have to purchase a $700.00 golf club to do it.
So, here are some videos to get your mind around this:
“create seriois speed shawn clement” “horse shoes and lassos shawn clement” “feet together and one leg update shawn clement” and then see “club speed” and “throwing the club” videos here on premium and the “off season training series” on premium where we walk and throw in sessions 7-9
This list of videos is to help you turbo charge the whip in your swing; do this WITHOUT STRAIN PLEASE; then apply this to a task-cutting through your stem to target, sending that carrot peel to target or throwing to target with the prediction that the stem of the dandelion is in the way.
If you let your brain come back to the ball just before you perform the task, all will be lost; I am coming out with 4 videos on “pre-motor cortex and goldie-locks” that will increase the chances of consistency by a mile too so stay tuned-2 weeks!!
Thanks so much Shawn!
I will look at these very shortly
Specifically however do any of the videos cover wrist cock?
If I am not cocking correctly presumably this makes a significant difference?
Regards
Ian
Yes, you bet!!!
See Grip and Arm motion and arm motion fine tuning videos on premium!
Shawn
I thought so!!
Many thanks once again
Off to check out!
Regards
Ian
Not sure what I am doing wrongly but after a search on website -which shows up a result in bold words-I can’t then go to the resulting video either through clicking the word or the search box ?
Thanks
Regards
Ian
Eg Shank or Shoulder Turn
Which ones are you looking for?
Eg Shank or Shoulder turn. They come up separately from search dialogue box in bold but are not underlined and don’t allow me to open them
Curious. Not sure what I may be doing wrongly?
Regards Ian
Hi Shawn
Also eg Create serious speed -one you recommended Shows up in full even on partial completion of search box but I can’t get it thereafter
Well, we don’t do shoulder turn because shoulders don’t turn! 😝
Here is the serious speed one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ-2C-O0u8
Horse shoes; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEpEjjJpKQ
My favourite shank one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjF5nXNMkuY
Aha! They are YouTube videos! Great!
Is there any prospect in the future of the WiG site including those YouTube videos which are not on the site?
Anyway thanks very much again Shawn
Regards
Ian
I have watched your videos for years and am wondering the purpose of the excessive bouncing in your knees as you swing. Is this the way you produce ground forces?
Yes! This is the way humans are wired to swing on swings, pump skateboards, pump skates and skis, and pump golf swings. See “create serious speed shawn clement” and “horse shoes and lassos shawn clement” and “hammer for more power shawn clement” and kettle bell drill shawn clement” just to name a few…see also feet together and one leg update shawn clement”
Shawn
Just looking for a clarification on the release of the throw . When you throw clubs indoors it’s at specific targets that are around waist to chest high. (This is usually where I feel the release in the throwing the club and my golf swing )When you went out doors to throw the club the first one was at that height but when you went to throw father the release seemed much higher . In the golf swing when using the task of creating more Clubhead speed(throwing club farther ) will the release feel higher ?
Very good observation Philip! Yes, I would say definitely!
Shawn
Does your Setup have to change like ball position or your tilt axis or is it just a different feeling release through the ball?
Depends on the shot at hand! Higher ball flight=more forward ball position and vice versa for lower ball flight!
I agree! Throwing the club HIGH made all the difference. My issue is casting / losing lag / going at the ball. These swing flaws let me throw clubs waist high just fine. But when I throw the club HIGH, my contact, speed and lag feels much better. This video explains it in great detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RzBIPstPg8. Thanks Shawn!
I had forgotten about that one! You can thank Michelle for that one!
Shawn
Really enjoying my Premium membership. thank you for all that you do. My question is that on your back swing. It looks like you go back slow and deliberate, and regardless of how far you want to hit the ball, the back swing is way short of the parallel. Am I interpreting correctly that the real speed comes from using the ground and throwing the club and is not too much dependent on the length of the backswing. I can’t wait to go on the range and try what I have learned so far. Thanks again. Regards, Mo Zareh
Right on Mo! Exactly right!
Not only do you have a backswing that “appears” to be shorter because of the tilt required to deliver to the target vs delivering towards the ball, you get to use the ground and engage the MAGIC KINETIC CHAIN which loads the ground and catapults the arm club unit through the impact zone and DEEP into the target when you focus on throwing the club; and the bonus is that the brain will never overdo or underdo the backswing when you throw without thinking!