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

    What is your weight distribution at set up and during the swing? It appears to me you are favoring the front foot.

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

      Yes, and the reason is I am getting ready to deliver my action through the ball and towards the target as well as I am partially into my follow through to give me a little momentum into the backswing. See “how to use the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy and then see “weight shift with Savy”

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  • From [email protected] on Goldilocks Series

    Shawn, great series the ball position in goldielocks weather you aim a little left for fade or a little right for draw, where are your feet stance parallel to? Are you keeping them turned slightly left or right or straight parallel to center dot and just moving ball back and forward ?

    thanks

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    • From Shawn Clement on Goldilocks Series

      If you look at fade fine tuning and draw fine tuning videos you will be able to put the pieces together and answer these questions;
      It all starts with a ball flight plan.

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  • From [email protected] on IMPORTANT GRIP UPDATE

    Hi Shawn, hope all is well. Quick question. I’m getting fitted for my new golf clubs this week. I know during a fitting, they will want you to hit a couple of balls. When I do that, I know that the fitting coach is going to try to correct me. I wanted to ask if the way you are teaching how to grip and swing the club, will that affect the outcome of my fitting? I know the coach is going to do what you said in this video – “your grip is too strong” and he/she will try to correct me, especially since I’m a beginner. Thought it was prudent to ask since golf fittings can be costly. Thanks!

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    • From Shawn Clement on IMPORTANT GRIP UPDATE

      No pressure;
      Just whip through the dandelion stem in the direction over the intermediate point; make sure you place a tee in front of the ball (a couple feet away so you don’t keep hitting it)
      Then which through the stem that way with each club without making sure of anything; see which clubs you hit most flush with most of the time and then they will determine shaft flex and material and weight, lie of club, size and material of the grip and based on the swing speed, determine which irons you should have in the bag (5 to gap or 4 to PW as an example)
      Have fun!

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  • From Tyrone Williams on Arm Swing vs Body Turn

    The chicken or the egg? Which comes first, does the body react to the arms swinging or does the body use ground forces to swing the arms? Thanx!

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  • From [email protected] on Alignment Lesson with Michael

    Shawn – I could not find a video on alignment other than this one, so here goes. I play in a company golf league and have played the same course for 32 years. There is one hole that is wide open and I have had trouble hitting my tee shot in play on this hole – it is a 500 yard par 5 that must have 200 yards of width to hit it into. Another player mentioned how hard it can be to hit a good tee shot there even though it was wide open, this past Thursday.

    The thing about this hole is that it is wide open and straight away like a runway – there is really nothing to aim at. There is a fence along the right side and a stand of trees left. Those are both common miss locations – as if the finish of a Don’t hit it… at the trees, at the fence, line of thinking.

    Have you ever done anything with how to aim on a hole where there is nothing to aim at? You have your intermediate point, but the mind (at least mine) can be unsatisfied with that, despite familiarity with the hole? I pick out a location on the fairway but I think it may be easier to lose that spot versus a tree.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Alignment Lesson with Michael

      You do understand that you always use the intermediate point to deliver the shot too right? Combine this with a specific flight plan of fade or draw and a specific height for the shot and you can fit the ball just about anywhere!
      Videos to watch:
      -Blur of club
      -unstoppable momentum-blur of club
      -alignment reload
      -and we have a whole series on alignment and side vision coming in 2 weeks, stay tuned!

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    • From Alex Hernandez on Alignment Lesson with Michael

      Shawn, could you please direct me to this alignment/ side vision series? Definitely feel this gets the best of my swing and what’s holding me back from playing my best golf.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Alignment Lesson with Michael

      Yes, you bet! Huge lesson here: https://wisdomingolfpremium.com/alignment-reload/

      this is the holy grail of alignment and how it feels so that you can stay with your task!

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  • From [email protected] on IMPORTANT GRIP UPDATE

    Two questions: it appears in the Mu demonstration at the top of the swing, you had a cupped lead wrist. Is this a concern? And I am trying to find the right position for the trail hand on the club and grip type (overlap or interlock). Should the trail hand come alongside the lead hand On the club or more on top of the lead?

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    • From Shawn Clement on IMPORTANT GRIP UPDATE

      We talk about this in our grip videos; it is NOT cupped; it is a proper hinge on the snuff box with a strong grip; just like Webb Simpson’s-Bubba Watson-Zack Johnson’s and so many others. And you want the hands facing each other-just like we talk about in the “most important video on grip ever” video.

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    • From [email protected] on IMPORTANT GRIP UPDATE

      Thanks for the info. This was very helpful, and along with shifting to the overlap grip… my swing has really improved. Thanks.

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    • From Shawn Clement on IMPORTANT GRIP UPDATE

      Good stuff!😀👍

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  • From Charlie Zahari on One Leg Drill

    Question Shawn…does this make sense to error on the side of a narrow stance in general? I feel like times in an effort to be careful I widen my stance…this drill makes me think that that is about the worst thing I can do. The wider I get the less my pendulum works. As a general rule should I error on the side of narrow with all clubs?

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    • From Shawn Clement on One Leg Drill

      You bet Charlie! See “width of stance and finish position video and this will confirm that a stance that is too wide will backfire with your natural kinetic chain! While you are at it, a nice series to watch is the kinetic chain series! 👍

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  • From Mohanjit Singh on PERPETUAL MOTION SEQUENCE FAIRWAY WOODS!

    Hi Shawn
    What is the fine tuning needed so that the club brushes ahead of the ball towards the target and behind the ball away from the target.
    Thanks

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    • From Shawn Clement on PERPETUAL MOTION SEQUENCE FAIRWAY WOODS!

      Hi Mohanjit! When you throw the club towards the target, and you are low enough to brush the grass, you are going to brush at the proper place naturally. Use the “goldie locks series” to fine tune ball position, distance to ball, levels and club and club face. You can use the PMD’s release points to get past the ball on each side.

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  • From [email protected] on PERPETUAL MOTION SEQUENCE FAIRWAY WOODS!

    I’ve been working on this perpetual swing with the various clubs. Sometimes, when I gather at the top and grab the ground, my push to follow through misses the timing and hands come down before my body is coming up to the finish. Would you suggest working on isolating the lower body motion as a drill to the movement correct?

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    • From Shawn Clement on PERPETUAL MOTION SEQUENCE FAIRWAY WOODS!

      The throwing the club video! You simply cannot mess that up!
      Find a safe place and some old steel shafted clubs to perform this; then see “predict contact” and the “goldie locks” series to allow you to stay on the task of throwing the club towards the direction you want to start the ball (through the intermediate point)

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  • From [email protected] on Consistency Series

    Shawn, you used to have videos on youtube where you would lift your lead foot off the ground a bit on the back swing. Do you still advocate that?I find it to be very natural, but I’m wondering if thats leading to some consistency issues on my end. It seems like sav and Mu do not do that move either.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Consistency Series

      Savy just started! She loves how it allows to finish the backswing easier! Me, left handed, cannot do without! Right handed I am now more full time with it up; I can either way but love the heaving action on the backswing better. See “walking drill” which is pure heel up! You will see it in a lot of my videos, you just have not seen it yet…😀👍

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  • From [email protected] on Backswing Series

    I do not see any braced tilt in his setup, what am I missing here.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Backswing Series

      Missing nothing; we needed to address other things first; different plan of attack for different people.

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  • From [email protected] on TURBO CHARGING TRAIL HAND RELEASE

    How did Savannah choose to hit left handed? Did she try right handed first then switch?

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  • From [email protected] on PERPETUAL MOTION-LEVITATION-KINETIC CHAIN ENGAGEMENT!

    Hi Shawn. First of all thanks for your great videos. You make golf so much simplier.

    Then to my question. When I simply use throwing the club to the target I get great outcomes and my hip turn to both ways is good, but when I start to try and get the kinetic chain and use my lower body more by the walking drill I seem to just shift my hips toward the target so that they get far too forward compared to my arm club unit. What would you suggest to do about that? It could be thoug that Im not too comfortable yet with the walking while throwing the club so that I dont let my hips turn in the backswing either so then they dont really turn at all. Anyway, what drills or tasks would you suggest to get the feel for getting my hips turn through impact and not shift?

    Thank you
    Linda from Finland 🙂

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    • From Shawn Clement on PERPETUAL MOTION-LEVITATION-KINETIC CHAIN ENGAGEMENT!

      Hi Linda! I am so sorry I did not get the email notice for your question! I just noticed you left this question a while ago; I hope that through watching other videos you got your answer? The “throwing of the club” or the “slashing of the sword” in the “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” as well as the “turbo charge lead hand release” and “turbo charge trail hand release” are awesome tasks to activate the “kinetic chain” of your human machine.
      if this happens again, if I do not answer within 48 hours, please send me the question directly at my personal email at [email protected] or [email protected]

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    • From Shawn Clement on PERPETUAL MOTION-LEVITATION-KINETIC CHAIN ENGAGEMENT!

      Hi Linda! I am so sorry I did not see this comment! Sometimes the emails from the system do not make it to my in box when there are updates to the website so if this happens again, after 48 hours of not answering, please resend your question to my personal email box at [email protected] or [email protected]
      To answer your question, throwing the club in the direction you want to start the ball, will activate the kinetic chain the best! Have you practiced throwing the club before?

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  • From [email protected] on THROWING SERIES- PART 1

    Speaking of engaging the kinetic chain… working on the driver yesterday, I noticed that it is critical for me to grab the ground well before the club reaches the top of the swing, otherwise I tend to clip the ground on the way through the shot. Am I just dealing with timing/rhythm issue? It is clear that there is a difference between the 4 pound hammer and the sledge throwing.

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    • From Shawn Clement on THROWING SERIES- PART 1

      Hey D! Missed this one!! You get the idea for sure! However you want to move on quickly from having to “think about” getting the ground and think “throw that way into the flight plan through the arc-blur”

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  • From Charlie Zahari on Battering Ram

    Still struggling with lag Shawn…this video has me thinking that I might be able to drop a baseball donut onto a club and try to build the lag feel with that (actually making the club feel more like a sledge hammer). Is that a horrible idea?

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    • From Shawn Clement on Battering Ram

      Those doughnuts are pretty good actually; JUST DON’T STRAIN WITH THEM PLEASE. Pretend you are throwing the doughnut towards the target smoothly and feel how your get pulled into a nice extension well past the ball and into the target! See “target confirmation series” and match that with “predict contact” and “goldie locks series” videos so that you can predict that the ball will be struck purely IF YOU THROW INTO THAT STRETCH FEEL TO TARGET!

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    • From Charlie Zahari on Battering Ram

      Alright…off to Big 5.

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