Hey Paul! Glad you are enjoying the content!
Absolutely 0.0 disadvantage with baseball grip; it is super sound!!

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What you are lining up is the MOMENTUM of the swing; see the latest “alignment reloaded” video on premium; as for the shanks; what is very important is the focus on a task through the ball and not to let the ball become the target!! So get really good with cutting grass through the stem of the dandelion like in the “grass whip training series” and to make sure the arms have the room they need in front of you, please see the “football drill series”
If the shanks start, feel like you are cutting the stem of the dandelion with the end of the blade, not the centre of the blade; sometimes the brain plays tricks on you vision wise and you are actually lining up the hosel to the ball! If you set up off the toe, and cut through the stem with the toe part of the sole of the club, and you hit it solid, stay with that!

Depends on the hybrid! Some are built for draws and you don’t need to close as much; and some look more open than they actually are because the face of the club is round and not straight like an iron!
Deliver the action in the direction you want to start the ball and see how it flies for 2 or 3 and then make adjustments where needed.

Yesss sir!! It is all about the delivery THROUGH to the direction you want to start the ball after that! Please see “target confirmation series” videos on premium.

You bet Michael! 😀👍

That works! Then you simply plug it into the “goldie locks” system of prediction to match it to the ball flight plan! 😀👍

Don’t see it the same way at all; Where did you get this info?
You cannot own 2 brains and be in 2 different places at once; that was scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Arm anatomy is same for both right hand left and baseball, hockey, lacrosse, Jai Alai, tennis all have the same human dynamics, just a different tool. I understand it is shocking when you see and hear something that has gone against a prior belief; it happens to me all the time and is what makes us human! 😝😀👍

…I use your mental pictures of cutting the stem under the ball and throwing the club to the target for the left arm/hand/grip. The hand travels on a circular path around the body on the swing plane and releases to the cutting stem/throwing club motion. For the right arm I modify it and the mental picture is spearfishing. Throwing a spear on a straight trajectory at the “fish” a bit in front of the ball. The club end with the grip is the tip of the spear. That way the right arm modifies the club angles during downswing quite naturally and creates more lag, but without holding back anything. I believe that is how the good players are swinging the club, it’s the only progressive motion of the right arm that results in the proximity of the right elbow close to the right hip during downswing, which is necessary for in-to-out path and high club head speed. (All for a right handed person) Or what am I getting wrong here?

You have a good observation with the mechanics; yes!
The latest studies on human motor skill learning and the understanding that what you described is a natural movement pattern dictated by human anatomy under the laws of self preservation, Can also be applied to a baseball swing, a Jai Alai swing, a lacrosse swing, and even a hockey wrist shot. The hands cannot work independently because they are merged as one cohesive unit to create leverage and support during the swing. The key is to choose a nice task that supports this pattern naturally without thinking and then let the brain connect the dots on each shot; this is where you will find flow.

Yes, on your last post, you are talking about the opposite movements of the hands creating leverage on the handle; all of that is fine and is the flavour that the swing presents to your conscious mind in fleeting glimpses to tell the brain, hey, I like what’s going on or hey, that does not feel very good. What I don’t want happening is you thinking you need to monitor this action because the flight plan, the lie, the situation in the match, all contribute to the way you will be moving through that ball and into the picture. The hands are part of a kinetic chain of events produced in the central nervous system and what starts it is actually just before you swing in the pre-motor cortex. Have a look at “pre-motor cortex series” in premium. You have the feel and the understanding, for sure. I am just going with what I know and the feedback I get everyday from students from the last 35 years of full time teaching and also playing from both sides of the ball; which btw, the feel on my lefty swing vs righty swing are very different, but have the same purpose.

You are the master, I’m the student, as far as a golf is concerned. Your mental pictures and methodology are golden for me. But I can’t understand, based on my experience, you postulating that the hands can’t work independently while united in the grip on the golf club. That’s not what’s happening with my hands. They are sitting at different points, right next to each other but offset to each other, on the lever that is the shaft. Like two people paddling in a kayak. They depend on each other and are connected by the boat, but the effects of their paddling movements are different, relative to their position to the center of the moving mass.
Doesn’t both, the way we control clubface and club position in the 3D plane, depend on the difference how left and right hand work on handling the shaft?
Having said that, I’m not saying it is the goal to emphasize the differences in the swinging motion. To the contrary, but just the necessary amount at the right time and place, to create a flowing swing hitting the ball with precision and speed.
I believe if I ignore the difference between the two hands, I will never get more precise.

People who play musical instruments do have often high independence of left and right arm/hands. To the point where the left hand/arm can do a different task altogether. Maybe I didn’t describe my point well. Of course it can be argued – as you do – that both sides should have the same task for the golf swing. But it’s possible to have different movement patterns in both sides, and I was wondering if that couldn’t be helpful. It certainly doesn’t simplify he movement though.

This is a job for the “pre-motor cortex series” Mohanjit; let me know if you were getting ready with that kind of flavour that would keep you from defaulting to the ball.

Most of the time, the issue is in the way the lead hand yields; once you get that lead hand to snap over, by allowing the lead elbow to snap down which catapults the back of the lead hand over the ping pong ball for that top spin back hand release!

See “open the machine on the golf course” on premium!

So happy about that; thank you for the comment! 😀👍

Hi Shawn!

It’s been awhile since I’ve used your stuff and I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of conventional instruction. My game improved but I’m constantly thinking about positions and technique. What videos would you recommend for practice to begin tapping back into a more natural swing and continue improving my golf? Thanks!

Simply match the same action with clipping the tip of tee on the way up! The driver should never hit the ground unless you are hitting it off the deck;
See “hammer throw driver” in the throwing series

Thanks, Shawn. That hammer throw is helpful. Then, I read through the comments where someone had a similar issue, and you suggested the ball above the feet video. So it would seem that there an adjustment to the downswing based the club…. as you demonstrated with the long hitting stick. So, is fair to picture the swinging to the target as a straight line (actually arc) from three points…. top of the wing, tip of the tee, target? Spending time with Goldilocks as my downswing may be driving in a plane is closer to my irons, which would steeper.

Yes, short irons are steeper because of the shorter shaft; see “grass whip training” video and do this with all clubs; and you will notice that the G-force of the swing based on the length of the club and your body with iron out the plane on all of them.

Don’t go there! Your eyes are not in the usual place compared to “traditional instruction”
Stay with the task at hand and feel what you need to be able to deliver the task; see “top 3 tasks” and “task trumps everything” videos