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  • From Mohanjit Singh on PUTTING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (15)

    So to goldilock alignment you are using side vision for intermediate point or point of break?

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    • From Shawn Clement on PUTTING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (15)

      Hi Mohanjit! None of the above. You check for fall line first by walking around the hole, remember that? This video is for routine ONCE YOU HAVE THE PICTURE. Then you goldie locks the set up until it fits the picture.

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  • From Sam Pochucha on Wisdom in Golf 1.0 - Part 2

    Thank you, thank you. That swivel explanation of the pivot may be the best single thing I’ve ever got from a golf lesson, video, book, or article. It’s so simple, easy, and effective. Putting that together with target focus, weight forward setup, and release out in front has made a huge positive difference for me.

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  • From Larry Ferguson on Lead Hand Release

    Hi Shawn I was thinking when I was using the hammer that i would not break my wrists to hammer a nail. So is the golf swing left hand approach similar keeping the same as nailing the nail. through the hitting zone?

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    • From Shawn Clement on Lead Hand Release

      Don’t think hammer then; think slash the sword or throw the football; see “football drill series” and the “throwing series” videos on premium! 😀👍

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  • From Thomas Kihr on MATCH BACKSWING TO BALL DIRECTION

    Dear Shawn!
    I‘m practicing your method now since 3 days and i have to say, i never swung the club in that way and i have distances i never thought i could achieve. Great!

    Now may question, cause i haven‘t found a place i could put it:

    What or which way would you consider to start your swing?
    Are there maybe any training plans available, e.g. starting with chipping, then pitching, full swing? How about half swings – in order to get the feeling how the club moves, how i pact feels, etc.

    Sorry to bother you with such a question, but it would help me massively to work out a plan and to get a better and more confident player.

    Many thanks in advance, i appreciate every single video here on this site!

    greetings Thomas

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    • From Shawn Clement on MATCH BACKSWING TO BALL DIRECTION

      Hey Thomas! Glad you are enjoying it. A couple of series that resume what you should be going through in order of importance are the “beginner series” and the “senior series” then you can go to the “off season training series” and the “consistency series” and then see “the process series”. Essentially, start with a task, and add the full release to it-see all the “Task” and “release” videos. Then you see the “target confirmation series” and the “pre-motor cortex series” and anything that catches your eye in between. 😀👍

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    • From Thomas Kihr on MATCH BACKSWING TO BALL DIRECTION

      👍😀🏌🏻‍♂️

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  • From [email protected] on PUTTING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (15)

    I tried the doorbell (ding/ dong) today and it really helped my putting and wedges. Do you use that also for the driver and hybrids or do you use something else?

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  • From [email protected] on Clubhead Speed

    working on grip do you turn driver in to closed position like irons to get a proper grip

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    • From Shawn Clement on Clubhead Speed

      Yes, sometimes more and sometimes less and sometimes the same depending on the driver you have; see “predict contact” and “the goldie locks series” to get a more complete gist; also see “fade fine tuning” and “draw fine tuning” videos. 😀👍

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  • From [email protected] on PUTTING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (15)

    in your arm putter unit do you feel the tricep attached to your pecs?It feels more solid when I do

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  • From Larry Ferguson on Making Consistent Contact

    Hi Shawn I think my club stays on the ground after I hit the ball ( a wiffle golf ball). The tee lies flat on this ACU-STRIKE MATT about 3 inches away and I hit it. I just thing about the forward
    brace leg and press down at contact You know Shawn I spent 2 years with TOP SPEED GOLF with 5 different areas where don’t get the total pictue . You make easier much easier

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    • From Shawn Clement on Making Consistent Contact

      Hey Larry! Right on! What you want to do now is connect what you are doing to a flight plan of the golf ball. You pick the flight (draw or fade), you pick an intermediate point, you set up and then deliver the direction of your divot on the accustrike mat to the direction you want to start the ball. The feel of the action to deliver that way should feel whippy, or slingy, a whipping skip along the mat in that direction and feel like you are doing it with ease. See “pre-motor cortex series” for the feel part, and the “target confirmation series” for the delivery part and let me know if you can connect what you are doing to the picture. In my “top 3 tasks” video, what you do would equate to the “carrot peel” task.

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  • From [email protected] on CHIPPING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (16)

    Wait, wait, wait… Those are Vockey wedges! the Callaway deal didn’t cover the wedges?
    I love the tip about hovering the club slightly since the ball is back in the stance. Brilliant stuff.

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  • From [email protected] on CHIPPING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (16)

    Great video again! I see others stating not using so much forward press as this will reduce the risk of hitting the ground and give more variety of type of chips as well as keeping the ball by the front foot by default?

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    • From Shawn Clement on CHIPPING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (16)

      And why are they hitting the ground? 🤔. Maybe because they are hitting at the ball instead of focusing on a task of cutting along the ground towards the target? 😝😝
      EVERYTHING we do here is tried and true according to human anatomy and human motor skill behaviour when on a specific task. Let me know how you do!

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  • From [email protected] on CHIPPING ROUTINE - OFF SEASON TRAINING (16)

    One of the things I find useful is place cocktail napkins in locations I want to land the ball. I’ll put several out there from 6’ away every 3 or 4 feet but all on the same target line. I turn that into a game giving myself three then two shots at each target to hit the five or so targets out there. If I miss I start again. On a green I’ll use tees. Really gives you a great idea of distance in the air vs roll out based on the wedge or club loft.

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  • From Ross Gordon on FEET TOGETHER / ONE LEG- OFF SEASON TRAINING (14)

    Hey Shawn I always go back to the feet together drill. One thing I noticed recently from using this and throwing the club is how it makes my release more outwards as opposed to underneath does that make sense? When I separate my feet it’s easy to stand taller, I lifted my lead shoulder like mu to get that club long and straight underneath me and have my trail wrist in a bowling position facing down which feels like I’m using the battering ram straight back and through… but my feet together I can’t get into that position the club feels too long so my shaft angle isn’t as aligned to my arms angle and my wrists release like a sling of a ball more horizontally. That made a huge breakthrough for me I hope that made sense

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    • From Shawn Clement on FEET TOGETHER / ONE LEG- OFF SEASON TRAINING (14)

      Hey Ross!
      the closer the feet are together, the less you can tilt and vice versa because the body needs support under the tilt. Makes sense with the description you gave?

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    • From Ross Gordon on FEET TOGETHER / ONE LEG- OFF SEASON TRAINING (14)

      It does mate yeah and makes sense why i can feel how feet and knees together makes my club release more outwards and both hands feel like they are doing a topspin shot in tennis, my hands and body stay low and in posture, with my ass catapulting the throw . Split stance or 1 leg I still tend to get left side much taller it’s not so much tilt of body just a long left arm and then I can throw it more underneath me like using a cricket bat and swinging for a six like Sav and Mu. But cos both feel solid im not sure what to go with and sometimes get stuck between the 2 feelings which is obviously a short circuit. What do you think?
      Need to book a facetime with you as soon as I can get to a course buddy

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    • From Shawn Clement on FEET TOGETHER / ONE LEG- OFF SEASON TRAINING (14)

      Good stuff Ross; the answer has to fit together with the shot you are getting ready to deliver into. Low draw feels less titled and high fade feels more tilted. So see “tilt mile markers” and all the tilt and head position videos on premium and match that up to different tasks and shots. See also the “match task to target” videos.

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  • From Eric Strebel on DIAGONAL SERIES PART 3-LONG IRONS AND FAIRWAY WOODS

    Hi Shawn,
    For a 3w high draw, when you say it feels like “I can get up that high now” when you set up, what is actually happening to deliver more loft to the ball? For the stinger, it makes sense to me that the face can be delofted with a path extending closer to the ground. For the high draw, is the club skipping the turf at impact with maximum loft delivered? It seems only so much loft can be delivered before striking it thin. What is the loft of your 3w? I have mine set to 15.5 and can never get close to the height you’re hitting it!
    Thanks!(long time fan, since the days of the tip jar)

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  • From Brian Parks on G-FORCE TRAINING - OFF SEASON TRAINING (7)

    Great video as always Shawn. Stuck at 105-107 mph club speed. Looking to reach 112-113. Any advice how you reached this point in your golf game?

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    • From Shawn Clement on G-FORCE TRAINING - OFF SEASON TRAINING (7)

      Hey Brian! It can be either lack of turn in the backswing, lack of use of legs to pump the swing’s g-forces in the through swing, it could be a tweak in the grip…So this is where we need to get together on a skype or facetime call after you send me your videos for review; to answer your question off the cuff is very difficult.

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  • From Eckhart Diestel on Hammer Drill

    Hi Shawn,
    do you have an alternate image with the same effect as the ‘dandelion stem’ ? I’d love to use it; so far my mind is looking for it, just does not “see” it. I just seem to not perceive the sole of the club as being a gras cutting tool, my mind rather perceives the entire club face in motion. At times I can perceive the ball as ‘floating’ above the playing surface, but not consistently. I go with ‘carrot peel’ and ‘sending two tees towards the target’ as well as ‘fixed lowest point of the swing’. In all these my mind does not perceive the leading edge of the club as being in motion, but as stated, the entire clubface. For ‘unstoppable momentum’ I ideally would like to have, next to goldilocks, suitable imagery for the feel through the bottom of the arc, – finetuning. What do you suggest – do I have to wait for the dandelions to grow 🙂 ?
    Best regards
    Eckhart

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    • From Shawn Clement on Hammer Drill

      My original was the sole of the club as a flat stone that skips on the surface of the water; I use this in the fairway woods! See my fairway woods videos and look for that feel and sound in your irons too; it has been a great help to many of my students and I will need to make another video about that to add to the task list for the irons on premium! 😀👍

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    • From Eckhart Diestel on Hammer Drill

      Thank you,
      indeed, I successfully use your goldilocks guidance with the sole of the woods; it is very helpful. I will try to mentally ‘widen’ the sole of my irons and play them more like woods.

      In one video you mention that you see the bottom of the club hitting the ball hitting the gras catching the soil etc., suggesting that you ‘feel’ and predict the divot. That feeling and prediction has eluded me so far as well.
      Eckhart

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    • From Shawn Clement on Hammer Drill

      When you see the “predict contact” video, the deal is you throw the club in the direction you want to start the ball with the prediction that the SOLE OF CLUB is low enough to deflect. See where that deflection is when throwing to that direction and place the ball at the backside of the scuff mark.

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