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  • From Tyrone Williams on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

    The GoPro perspective was an added benefit.

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  • From [email protected] on The Grip - Part 3

    Unfortunately, I have been using a “baseball bat” grip for years (for trailing hand), and just watched your grip videos. Lead hand is ok, any suggestions in how to transition to an interlocking? It feels so unnatural to have my right hand pinky not on the club, and my index finger is also wrapped.

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    • From Shawn Clement on The Grip - Part 3

      Baseball grip is a solid grip! No need to overlap or interlock; we always start our beginners with baseball grip or 10 finger grip; about 10 to 20 percent continue on with it! 😀👍

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  • From Jeremy Moody on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

    Hi Shawn, great video. I notice a subtle “getting the ground” with the lead foot prior to the cut. Manipulators stay in the middle and lose the momentum, no?

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    • From Shawn Clement on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

      Exactly! No better way to ruin a kinetic chain than by “interjecting yourself” into it to “make sure” of something! 😝

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  • From [email protected] on Hammer Drill

    This drill has helped me eliminate excess movement in my swing. I developed a “flip” at the beginning of my transition, which killed club head speed and consistency. While I “envisioned” throwing the hammer, actually throwing and comparing the feeling of that task also eliminated turning too far inside and being “stuck.” This drill should be part of the consistency and beginners series IMO. Much thanks

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    • From Shawn Clement on Hammer Drill

      Thanks for the great comment Jason! Very happy this task struck a solid chord! Now get really good at it and plug it into your shots on course!

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  • From [email protected] on DIAGONAL SERIES PART 4-DRIVER!

    Hi Shawn what should be the width in your stance for driver ?

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    • From Shawn Clement on DIAGONAL SERIES PART 4-DRIVER!

      Shoulders on top of feet for shorter clubs and shoulders inside the laces for longer clubs and just inside the feet for the Driver. See “width of stance and finish position” video.

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  • From [email protected] on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

    Hey Shawn, you asked Mu to “bring the club higher up” (my words) in the backswing so that he could follow the downward slope. How does he do that without manipulating the club?

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    • From Shawn Clement on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

      It is a heave, or a mini heave. The arms and club are hanging heavy from the shoulder sockets and cannot be used; so how do you send them into the backswing? You are using a mini kinetic chain where you nudge the momentum forward and then heave back and away and then you have the momentum to engage the through-ward chain towards the place where you want to land the ball; like a lumberjack with an axe. See “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy” and “upward levitation” videos.

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    • From [email protected] on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

      I think I get what you mean. I’ll give it some practice tomorrow and see what happens. I’m really starting to feel the momentum of the weight of the arm-club unit and using my legs ala Mu’s instructions and I’m sure this will help get it started in the intended direction. Many thanks as always.

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    • From Shawn Clement on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

      Right on! Let me know how you do!

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    • From [email protected] on PREMIUM SHORT GAME MAGIC

      I tried that out today, a little nudge towards the target before heaving back really helped with nailing my aim. Another gold nugget to add to the collection.

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  • From David Kerr on Consistency Series

    Hi Shawn, so I am focusing on intermediate point, my arc and blur but I still hit everything left (with irons a straight pull 15 yards to left of target). It’s like my brain is wired (or my release is wired) to just hit it left when I throw the club 🙂 Any advice on how to get face aligned right?

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    • From Shawn Clement on Consistency Series

      Curving left or straight flight going left?

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    • From David Kerr on Consistency Series

      Played again today, I worked to really focus on throwing out to the right to try and promote a draw… I got a lot of hooks (as well as on my fade shots they are going straight left). That ball just wants to go left!

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    • From Shawn Clement on Consistency Series

      Good! All you need to do is goldie locks the grip until you see the results you want! See “goldie locks series” videos!

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    • From David Kerr on Consistency Series

      straight flight going left, thanks.

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  • From [email protected] on Brandel Chamblee - Anatomy of Greatness Book

    Shawn

    Regarding ball position, are you saying the center of the heals as a starting point for all clubs? Lob Wedge thru Driver.

    Ron

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  • From Don Paradise on At Home Rehearsals

    Having a hard time with my timing right now. Way to quick . What to do?

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    • From Shawn Clement on At Home Rehearsals

      See “using the weight in the swing-axe drill with Savy” as well as “throw the club” and the “throwing series” videos as you cannot rush throwing a club!

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  • From [email protected] on BACKSWING LEVITATION

    I am absolutely lost with regards to arms falling and getting that feel.

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    • From Shawn Clement on BACKSWING LEVITATION

      The video you want to go see is one of our pillars, “arm swing vs body turn” and then go to “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy”

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  • From [email protected] on Pre Motor Goldie 2-fairway woods!

    I have had a real bad time of topping my fareway clubs. I think it the rush to get back to the ball. I top it and it goes hard left. I know i must be too far ahead of the ball. Any tricks to slow down the downswing and keep my body from moving forward too soon. Frustrating these used to be my best clubs.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Pre Motor Goldie 2-fairway woods!

      Have you seen the latest arc-blur series? Start with “blur of club” then “unstoppable momentum Arc-blur kinetic chain” and stay off the STRAIN!! If you are standing there in the middle of the fairway on a long par 5 and are saying “I gotta get down there as far as possible”, you are setting up for disaster! Stay with a yardage you can get to with ease and deliver a nice flow of “unstoppable momentum with 3 out of 10 effort.

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    • From [email protected] on Pre Motor Goldie 2-fairway woods!

      Yes its too much strain and causes the throw from the top. It was a scramble so you tend to go for everything.

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  • From [email protected] on KINETIC CHAIN | ARC-BLUR | ON COURSE TOURNAMENT PLAY SITUATION

    It looks like before you start your backswing that you are braced off the front leg. Am i seeing that wrong?

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  • From [email protected] on Battering Ram

    Shawn can you please clarify something for me. Are tossing a hammer/horse shoe on the downswing or skipping a stone? The are two very distinctly different motions. Thanks!

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    • From Shawn Clement on Battering Ram

      It depends on which one you jive with! This is why we have a selection of tasks that have worked with a wide range of golfers! Some love skipping stones and associate well with that and others not.

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  • From Tom Britt on FEET TOGETHER DRILL

    Sean, love your instruction and the gang. I’ve always hit ball better with feet closer together. Getting hip re-replaced and unable to use regular width stance right now. Found I could still play if I keep feet 1 foot or less apart. I’m a 17 and just shot 80. Would you ever recommend using less width for some students? Thanks, be well.

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