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  • From Barry Bower on Fade fine tuning

    Hi Shawn when you are setting up for fade do your feet stay lined up straight to your intermediate point out front and you swing left of point for fade right for draw with open or close face depending on draw or fade ,not sure if feet alignment is same as your swing path or diff. Not clear in video to me . Thanks.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Fade fine tuning

      Hey Barry! The camera can fool us a bit on that one; did you see the latest “shawn’s Favourite drill” and then the “tilt vision” Shawn’s Favourite drill”?

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  • From [email protected] on KINETIC CHAIN FACILITATION #6 SENDING DIVOTS!

    I recently got a GC Quad and it shows that I am hitting up on my irons when I hit a thin shot. If I look at my stance the ball is about 1.5″ in front of the center of my stance (a ball diameter).

    I listened to a club fitter and reduced the strength of my grip and my hands got further back to make the shaft more vertical. This created bad ball contact.

    I have put some Wisdom back In my Golf and strengthened the grip with great success. The question is, should the ball be at the center of my stance for irons? The iron I have in the image is a 6 iron.

    I played last night and hit some great irons shots with the hands further forward.

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    • From Shawn Clement on KINETIC CHAIN FACILITATION #6 SENDING DIVOTS!

      Oh good! Sorry I took so long as the system was not relaying these comments to me!
      ball slightly back of centre with the draw and slightly forward of centre for the fades; but the low point of the swing needs to always be in front of the ball!

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  • From Jeff Nuzum on Kinetic Chain - Part 5

    I wasnt until seeing you hit little chip shots (and me having shanked a few chips on the course yesterday) That i finally understood what you meant by doing the “elvis”. like in the feet together drill. The knees must rotate together. I now know i was definitely doing the elvis and my right knee was coming towards the ball causing the shank. Thanks Shawn!

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  • From Larry Ferguson on Working the Ball

    Hi Shawn, I was viewing your working the ball again and I thought I heard you have to release to your target and I thought withold breaking my wrist and walla my indoor seven iron speed went up. So I went to the driving range and my irons and fairway woods were launching but my driver was pop up – under the ball no matter if I address of 5 inches behind only level with ball but not a good drive

    Later played a round with this and got my first hole in one with a draw on a 150 yard par 3 but my driver didn’t work at all till I gave up
    Withholding wrists after ball

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    • From Shawn Clement on Working the Ball

      Awesome Larry! A great stepping stone with the driver to smooth things out is use the ground as a training aid and just tee the ball up enough so that when you follow the ground with the sole of the club like a fairway wood, the ball will meet the centre of the face. So tee up an inch tops!

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  • From Jeff Nuzum on USING WEIGHT TO HIT THE SHOTS-AXE DRILL WITH SAVY

    Hey Shawn,
    I feel this drill will really help me but I have a really hard time moving my trail hand up the shaft and into a normal grip. Does Sav actually go into her normal grip or more of a baseball grip. I use overlap but even that seems hard to complete. I can kindve do it but I’m thinking so much about grip that I lose focus on throwing to target. Thanks

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  • From [email protected] on KINETIC CHAIN ENGAGEMENT#7- BATTERING RAM

    Another winner. I used the battering ram technique along with my GC Quad to adjust my driver and added 30 yards – thanks Shawn! Awesome stuff… now if I can take it to the course 🙂

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  • From Jeremy Moody on KINETIC CHAIN ENGAGEMENT#7- BATTERING RAM

    Love this drill. Not about positions but about a concept of the acu action and natural flow. Captures the whole deal from the ground up. Thanks as always.

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  • From [email protected] on Fade fine tuning

    Great video as always. Just an observation, we cannot actually make out the color of the poles or distant flags from the video. We can usually work it out from your description.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Fade fine tuning

      Thanks Tim! Will keep that in mind. When doing live lessons online, my students tell me they see them but on video it is a bit different it seems…

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  • From [email protected] on Chipping

    Great video to keep in favorites. Your feet appear slightly open. Do you keep your shoulders square? I will try it both ways and see what works.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Chipping

      Left foot slightly back; but feet NOT OPEN and shoulders are square; not closed or facing the ball; centred in front of the ball so that hands are hanging naturally in the middle of the stance and naturally in front of the ball.

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    • From Quazi Johir on Chipping

      Shawn if the face is open and the body is closed to target then the ball seems to pop out to the right?

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    • From Shawn Clement on Chipping

      That would be the definition of getting ahead of the ball; see “hammer drill” in the premium site.

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    • From Quazi Johir on Chipping

      Thanks shawn! I keep hitting these chips fat, do you know whats happening? I dont know why the low point is behind the ball

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    • From Shawn Clement on Chipping

      Weight not on left side, ball not back enough and backswing direction is too inside. 3 main culprits that can all feel exaggerated when done properly so GOLDILOCKS THEM!

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    • From Quazi Johir on Chipping

      Thank you sir! I suspect its the too inside out path, something ive been struggling with mainly with my woods too!

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    • From Shawn Clement on Chipping

      Make sure you see “alignment reload” and “how to match backswing to ball direction” videos!👍👍

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    • From Quazi Johir on Chipping

      Just seeing this, left a comment on “alignment reload”, thanks!

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  • From Barry Bower on Working the Ball Strategies

    Hi Shawn when you are setting up for fade do your feet stay lined up straight to your intermediate point out front and you swing left of point for fade right for draw with open or close face depending on draw or fade ,not sure if feet alignment is same as your swing path or diff. Not clear in video to me . Thanks.

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  • From [email protected] on Major Driver Setup Nugget

    This video has dramatically changed my relationship to my ability to predict. One question: what video do you suggest to increase the clubhead speed with the driver?

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    • From Shawn Clement on Major Driver Setup Nugget

      See “club speed” video, then see “feet together back to feet apart”, “pumping up the swing” and “kinetic chain engagement series” and the one you just reviewed! 😝😀👍

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    • From [email protected] on Major Driver Setup Nugget

      Ummmmm. Cancel that question. Just reviewed heaving kettlebell/hammer. I feel very “light” on my feet with the driver, probably the last remaining remnant of manipulating the result by trying to be “accurate”. thanks!

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  • From [email protected] on LEVERAGE IN RELEASE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (4)

    I do not know what if anything I should do. I use the battering ram and have no conscience release it just happens and seems to work perfectly. I am scared to work on the release and ruin it.

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    • From Shawn Clement on LEVERAGE IN RELEASE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (4)

      Nice going Tim! The release happens; it is not anything that should ever be manufactured; if you are letting the hammer release itself, and you feel good about your compression and flights, then you can chill and get going on the course and enjoy for a while! 😀👍

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  • From [email protected] on 2 TEE DRILL WITH PERPETUAL MOTION

    Hi Shawn, I’m a long time YouTube watcher and member. Recently I started going down a “rat hole“ and thankfully you pulled me out of it. Now when I hit a poor shot I don’t think of positions I just think of my focus.

    Question…how far a part should the two tees be?

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  • From Barry Bower on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    Hi Shawn good video , notice that just before you swing the club back it looks like you almost tip your head away from ball slightly ( like your head angle not at ball.). when i do the 20, 20 9turn and tilt my head angle is always at base of ball area. Is there something that you do diff just before you take the club back that helps to keep you centered more. May be just the way i am looking at it. ??

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      It is all about how locked into the task you are; see “pre-motor cortex series” and I use that technique to stay with the task of either squeezing through the door frame or whipping through that stem or sending that divot peel into the picture.

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  • From Mark Dobson on Ball Position & Distance to Ball

    I may not be entirely done with the videos, but I have always been taught to use a 630 to 1230 swing path…does that apply to this system?

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