Hey Gary! Have you tried just spraying sand for a 1/2 hour to different parts of the green with no ball? Then place a plastic ball marker or poker chip down and blast a couple of those out and then put a ball on top of the poker chip or marker. This way, your brain has time to make the transition and SEE THINGS CLEARLY before you take the shot! 😀👍

Yes, that is the idea; but it is the weight of the club head that provides the momentum for this as the lead hand YIELDS out of the way of the trail hand BEING RELEASED out of pure self preservation! See “snap release polish” in premium and practice leading the parade!😀👍

The “arc-blur unstoppable momentum” series combined with “pumping up the swing” videos! 😀👍

What you need is the feel on the otherside of the task, the snap release! See “lead hand release” “trail hand release” “release fine tuning” and my favourite, “snap release polish” videos. Then see “predict contact” and “the goldie locks series” videos and finally, the « target confirmation series » enjoy!

Hi Ernst! The key to the backswing is to have enough to be able to WHIP EASILY through the ball and towards the target! See the latest off season training and I believe it is in the # 4 or 5 where we do backswing focus where we do VERY SLOW-VERY RELEAXED-VERY BIG TURN-VERY WIDE ARMS and stop at the top. Then ask yourself, will it be easy to throw the club to the target with a whipping action from there?

Understood! Great idea!!

See “perpetual motion drill series” and “pre-motor cortex series”
both are fantastic!

Yes, see “pumping up the swing” and “feet together back to feet apart” videos as well as the latest 2 or 3 videos from the premium channel where I talk about the equestrian “lunge whip”

Hi David! Haha, of course! It is called abandonment of control! See “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” and then “release fine tuning” then you must learn draws and fades and you want to start with the draw so see the “working the ball” video and then see “draw fine tuning”
when you try to “make sure” your brain freezes the body and the swing is sabotaged; it’s good for a dentist who needs to stay still when drilling a tooth but for golf it is like a swing of an axe, or a baseball bat! You don’t ever make sure when doing those activities. So see “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with savy” to deliver the draw shot, you will love the freedom and the compression!

Simply means that we filmed the tasks in slow motion; combine this with the kinetic chain series of videos and you will see them in a more complete light! 😀👍

You bet Flip! 😀👍

That was exactly the intent and Driver is next week! Looking forward to bringing that to you! 😀👍 Shawn

And we are so blessed to have you Marc! Love reading your feedback and looking forward to more stories on the golf courses in Italy! 😀👍

Hi Ernst! What you want to do is use the analogy that resonates with you the best and perfect that one and plug it into your golf swing to get you to release deep into the picture target flight plan! 😀👍

Yes, we brace into the front side because we are getting ready to swing into the backswing to gather the momentum and get out of the way to throw the club with ease towards the target. See “kinetic chain series” for a better understanding. Then see “arc-blur unstoppable momentum” series for the feel and view of being centred through the shot.

As for the side you should be on, do you bat from the same side in cricket and is your backhand better than your forehand or at least equal in tennis?

Thanks Shawn. I have seen the videos to which you refer so will review again. I try to pick a single focus as a swing thought and have, in the past, selected a physical swing thought (e.g. get out of the way). Very recently I am learning to focus my mind on the direction I would throw the club rather than the direction from where I would hit the ball. I know, I know, you have been saying that for years but it is a great leap of faith and mind game to takes one’s mind away from what one is looking at (the ball) to the target – which in many instances is not a physical spot but a direction in the far distance (e.g a tree). I find it much easier to focus my mind on a target when I can see it (e.g a landing spot on the green). Your goldilocks sequence is great for that.

I bat the same way as golf (i.e. left handed) and my (right handed) backhand (squash) is much the stronger side for me. In batting the top hand on the bat (the right) is very dominant for good stroke play with the bottom hand being mainly for balance and power. Many left handed batsmen are right handed people. I have read that some international batsmen play golf the other way round to avoid messing up their mind (I guess). Not sure what that indicates but I do know that if I relax into a cricket swing mindset it results in a wonderful golf slice.

Ok, good! You are on the correct side; see the first video in the “consistency series” to see just how much you can go with the face closure and practice “lead hand release” and “turbo charging the lead hand release” videos as the feel to look for when throwing the club to the target; you are throwing into a full release snap into that direction of target you have in your mind and this would be the task in the “target confirmation series” which would be next. Shawn