Shawn, been revisiting the PMD in conjunction with the release work you’ve had me doing

There’s a specific feel I have sometimes that I can only describe as the club head is always behind my hands in both directions and when it “releases” it’s “jumping” over my hands into a leading position

So on the backswing / takeaway it’s slightly outside my hands, as the release in the backswing occurs around 4 o clock the club head jumps “behind” my hands. Then the downswing my hands lead the trailing clubhead through impact and then it jumps to the other side again at 8 o clock

The sensation of its sort of being towed through the impact zone by the kinetic chain and always remaining behind my hands.

Is this what you’re seeking ?

Shawn thanks for kind offer to view my swing. I need to work on “backswing master class ideas before making any videos.Can I take a rain check. I’m the self – conscious type.

I just wanted to tell the WIG world that I had a 220 yard drive two days ago. My longest are 200. First drive of that day and nothing that distance since (lol) but encouraging.

Shawn

I have been watching for a couple of months now and have been making improvements to my swing. I loved you story about the Dart throwing and after watching this one on the backswing I can honestly say the dispersion of my shots is getting tighter! however I lost some distance due to also putting a pause at the top of my swing which has forced me to slow down in my downswing and get to the ground before easier and not over rotate. I love the accuracy but need to now work on getting distance back. Suggestions?

Also my driver swing has gone off a bit and need to refine that to get rid of a slice that has come in along with a lower ball flight and sometimes hitting the ball at the very top of the club at times.

Joe

Hi Shawn,

When you are setting up to your ball are you placing more weight on your front foot, in order to ensure that your weight shift to the rear and then back to the front?

OMG. The blur concept is nothing short of genius.

This is a great task Shawn. I still can get the arms a bit too far across my body in the backswing, and I instinctually stop the rotation and end up cutting across the ball. This shows up under the gun when trying to “make sure”. Played 9 holes with this tonight and hit 7 greens and shot +1. Even as a trail hand dominant player this is viable. Good stuff! Really got a full turn for me and was hitting my normal distances with way less effort and no over the top misses

Your misses are absurdly good Shawn!

Shawn how important is that pause at the top of the backswing. Seems to me it’s important to let everything catch up. Am I right?

Hope the wedding was fun Coach! This video is so good! I’ve been doing a lot of backswing work. I realized I was lifting my arms IN the takeaway, not allowing the trail arm folding to get the club up

When I lift, pause, let it fall it basically goes out to in. No access to the right side of the IP

When I just rotate the body to start the backswing first, getting the ribs out of the way with conviction in the takeaway, I have access to the right side of the IP

Great mile markers!

Wow Shawn, this is literally the Holy Grail in so many ways, and is a wonderful meeting point of two great disciplines. Just as wearing a polo t-shirt has nothing to do with hitting a good golf shot and what it takes to get there, so too, being a monk has nothing to do with the “feedback loops” one has to perform to achieve true mental well being. Either social constructs may have contextually helped you to do the process, but neither are “fundamental”.

I hope you’ve been able to go down the rabbit hole with the box breathing, I believe your prior work in golf will really prime you for great success there. Box breathing before meditation works really well, as it really primes the body to switch from residual fight/flight modes to the parasympathetic. If I may, coming from long years of study in the Philosophy/Meditation area, one tip…make sure to give at least 5 to 10 mins at the end of your box breathing to soak up the inner state you’ve created with it and really just do nothing but enjoy it. Shine the light of your awareness on it and just observe it. Its fundamentally training the brain to see what it is capable of experiencing within itself and over time you’ll be like Seve Ballestero’s attitude of 4 putting, but with the vicissitudes of everyday life.

Your mind will remember that “home base”/”zone” and really resist ever leaving it and creating unnecessary “bee hives” around everything, which seems to be our default mode that everyone gets by adulthood. You will still make efforts to better any situation, like Seve’s putting efforts to get the ball in the hole, but your mind won’t “suffer” situations any more, as was its past habit, and consequently you will not only be more blissful, but actually more beneficial with actually handling them, which is quite an accomplishment!

Anyhow, thanks so much for your work in golf, it has really helped me enjoy that side of life and literally your way of teaching makes it 100% compatible with some of the highest philosophical teachings (e.g. Stoicism/Yoga/Buddhism/Christian Contemplation) of how to “actually” live the “good” life that I have ever found in my academic and practical studies. If, Socrates ever played golf, and you were alive, he would have most definitely inquired with you first on how to properly do it! Thanks again and all the best!

Great drill Shawn. I strike and release it better when I do the drill, then when I actually play and start from a static position in the setup. I can’t seem to get the same momentum as in the drill. Thoughts on how to incorporate it?

Maybe it’s the camera angle but when Sav takes her backswing it seems to go back along the inside. Is that what’s actually happening?

This is me when I’m going poorly! Messing around today w lead arm only swings chipping. Then I’d lightly add the trail hand and I could feel the weight of the club so much better

Took it over to full swings. Same thing. I felt to me what felt like a later set and way more lag coming into the ball. The ball jumped so effortlessly.

What is the follow up video to this you allude to in the beginning? Is a good way to apply this to feel a lighter trail hand grip pressure though the swing?

Iir almost felt like those “Scottish lag” videos you’ve done in the past and you demonstrated to me at the clinic in CT a couple years ago.

this has been extremely helpful. Mo’s trigger finger blows my mind. I can’t stretch mine that far with a vice! lol