Hi Shawn, is there a reason why video from behind is taken on an angle as opposed to halfway between the ball and your feet? My preference would be the latter so that I could more clearly see things like the path of the club and body.
 
Thanks so much. This helped me immensely. I
was getting too hung up on trying to hit positions.
 
Keep up the greatness!
Ron

There seem to be as much lag in the backswing as in the forward swing in the perpetual motion portion of this drill. Would this indicate the use of a lagging clubhead take away from a normal set up? Bill Mehlhorn said “the last thing to move in the take away is the club head.” I think this would be “float loading”. What are your thoughts on this technique?

Hello Shawn. I’m a new member here but have been watching your YouTube videos since 2007ish or so. Watching this video, I noticed something in your driver setup and I see alot of tour pros do the same. At address, your left arm and shaft of the club are in a straight line together…club just looks like an extension of your left arm. This seems like it makes the right shoulder lower at address b/c to put your right hand on the club, it naturally lowers your right shoulder. I’ve never thought about this before…then I thought about my driver setup and my arm club unit…my left arm and club are not like that at address…and my right shoulder is not near as low because of it…however, I feel like I drive the ball well…always play a draw…its just more natural to me..so wondering how much this left arm club shaft straight line at address matters? Should I purposely set up like this? I have a nice penetrating ball flight with a 9.5 driver….never done a simulator thing so don’t have numbers for launch angle or spin rate…but on course, I know I’m getting it to the 300 range with roll…most of my drives curve left…some more than others…most are a slight push then draw…guess my question is, what benefits do you think I’d get setting up like that at address? Looks like it would be easier to hit it higher…I pick my int. point, set up, put my left hand on first, then put my right hand…but don’t have that straight line between arm and club shaft…thoughts? thanks!

One of the best drills ever. I was hitting draws and fades further and more consistently on one leg than on two. I did the drill with my driver and my driver club head speed was faster. I gained 5mph swinging on one leg! Crazy!

Wow – I got my latest swing video comments back and one thing was to narrow my stance because I was dragging my trail foot forward (and wearing out my shoes). I was experimenting with stance width hitting balls into my net. So being a WIG person I was using Goldilocks to see what happened.

I found that my normal stance had the inside of my feet around my shoulder width, n if I went to the outside of my feet around shoulder width things changed. 9/10 shots were flushed with way more power into the net. Then I said, OK I need to go ask Shawn why this happened and more about it. Then I searched for a video so I could leave a comment in the appropriate spot, and I find this one which pretty much was what I did in my net and it added all of the answers to my questions.

The combo of a slightly stronger grip and narrower stance totally change my consistency of strike and the power delivered to the ball. The swing bottom moves forward as well. Too bad we got snowed out today from playing, but I did get a chance to solidify everything in my mind.

Thank you Shawn for all you do! The addition of Savannah and Mu has been great as well – we get to see the application of the lesson on two other people. I think it also helps to watch the inverse swing – I am not sure why though.

Shawn, 1st swing vs 2nd swing observation: In the 1st swing it looks like you are placing the club in the backswing but in the 2nd swing it looks like you are tossing the the club to the top in the backswing as happens in the perpetual motion drill. I love this drill. Anticipating having to do the 2nd swing, I guess the central nervous system makes the 1st swing better. Make sense?

Hey Shawn, we you setup for the draw or fade is the club face aimed at your target and then your feet and shoulders aimed in the direction you want to start the ball? I’m a little confused on the target alignment for the draw when you say in the video that if you want to hit the ball to the flag you aim at the flag? Is that club face?

When you take your backseing how much weight is on your right foot. Seeing your good rotation I would think most is on the right foo.t. Stack and tilt guys insist that most of your weight is always on the front foot.

The axe drill is one of the best. I can relate to that like throwing a sledge hammer against a wall of concrete in my work. The best thing I got from this drill is the bent knees or squat to get ready to heave the unit. Puts me in perfect position on plane everytime and I can even get my interlock grip on the way done.

Shawn, should any effort be made with the hands or fore arms to produce the release? Or does the release happen naturally?
Thanks

Shawn thank you for clarifying the grip especially the trail hand. Ive been playing 25 years and until now never truly understood how to hold the club. If my short practice today is any indicator this will be one of my best seasons yet. I have settled with the ten finger grip since i’ve all played baseball most of my life but was told early on it was bad and stayed away from it until now. Question for you though I saw the person before me ask about the ten finger is there anything I should look out for? Ive heard other teachers say it causes overactive right hand etc…I mean if Im hitting the ball at my target I don’t think there is anything but thought Id run it by you.

Thanks,
Mike

Can we darken the print in the text?
Thanks
Darrell

Better!

Well another day another epiphany 🙂 I went out back to hit maybe 20 balls due to a sore arm, and was trying to do the 2 ball drill. I can not seem to do it because there is nothing that I am swinging at or to (no task) for that second swing other than swinging. That is the reason I stoped taking practice swings 30 years ago.

So I modified the drill. I put a second ball down just past the first ball. Not perpetual motion because the first shot/swing is normal. I hit ball 1 and then ball two – bingo, everything locks in and makes sense.

Next step – let’s not line the balls up, let’s move them around to make it harder. This is even more fun since I really have to react to various ball positions and also the ball from shot 1 coming back from the net. If 2 balls is good, 3 balls is better. Now I changed the ball positions to be a triangle or a diagonal line, or any combo you could think of. And 150 balls later I had had a practice session that really showed me what it was like to eliminate all thought and just react while swinging the club.

The ball contact was amazing and I could evaluate what was happening with each swing (contact quality), line up the next swing and watch out so I did not hit 2 balls at once with return balls.

This was the most fun I have ever had practicing. Lots more laughing and it locked in my regular swing because as you have said, I am thinking that next swing so my posture is better maintained and I am really focused on the task at hand for my swing.

Thanks for all the great drills and videos! I think the modified 2-swing drill is going to be my stock practice method from now on. Oh yeah, I was using a hybrid and a 6 iron and thought how would it work with a driver? Yup, it totally works with a driver – flushed them all 🙂

Hi Shawn, I just have a quick question. Every time I try to hold the club in my 8-9/10 in strength it seems that I can’t go thru the ball with the same ease as if I hold it with a 3-4/10. My question is that something that I should work towards or should I keep holding it with my 3-4/10?