Hi Shawn, I luv this video on the lead hand release, and was really looking forward to the following week when you stated you would be talking about the trailing hand release, I saw your grip video you did next but would luv a video on the trailing arm release like the one done above – how about it!
Hi Scott!
See “upward levitation”, “the unstoppable momentum” series and the latest “perpetual motion” video; you don’t want to be letting that arm-club unit droop behind you and be in a position where you need to manipulate the club TO THE BALL. You need to be in a position to allow the club to fall through the stem of the dandelion AND OUT IN THE DIRECTION YOU WANT THE BALL TO START ON.
Hi Shawn. Great initiative. I’m a new member and submitted my first swing review yesterday mentioning that I felt like I was drinking from a fire hydrant. I’m looking forward to get easy access to the different concepts you are regularly referring to (tasks, goldielock, perpetual swing, throwing the club, etc.). Looking at the various comments on the site, I’m confident that this is a great place to learn but, like most of us here, I’d like to be able to quickly find the elements which will help me improve the most. Thanks
Hi Shawn, how do you know when a task isn’t working for you? How do you know if it’s the task itself or something with setup, focus or something else? How long should you stick with a task before moving on to another task?
Great question! Would love to see you execute a couple of the ones that resonate with you; if you are not a part of eagle, you can use the “email question” feature on our www.wisdomingolf.com website and see “lessons” and “online options”
Send me a face on and a down the line view of a 7 iron shot and I will help you choose!
Also send a clip of one of your favourite tasks!
Working of the draw with various irons, I noticed that as the club go to the longer irons, the club face needs to be less closed. My 4 iron has just a slight closed position, in contrast to an 8 iron, which is a lot more closed to produce a similar draw. Does this make sense? Or am I doing something wrong?
This along with “Swing too Fast?? Rushing Downswing..”, took me over the hump. For the first time in years I can fell momentum, “levitation” at change of direction, release and acceleration towards the target with any club, every time, IN MY PRACTICE SWING. Above the ball I go right back to rushing and trying kill Mr. Callaway. I can’t seem to stay with my target or the feel with any consistency.
I know you address this in many videos but if you had to pick one, which would it be?
Alright! Time to dig a bit deeper!
You made a nice practice swing; you scootch into the set up with the ball, you predict that if you deliver your unstoppable momentum in the direction you want to start the ball, you will not only cut the stem and compress through the ball but the ball will leave on the right line and curve the way you want it to.
Then what? You forget everything at hit the ball?
Is there a link to the video « Swing too Fast?? Rushing Downswing»? I am unable to find it. I also seem to go full samurai when I am hitting a ball as opposed to a practice swing. 😄
Yes. It’s the transition from the backswing that completely breaks down. Even when I properly complete the backswing and can feel the natural pause, instead of allowing the weight and the body to “get out of the way” my hands drop down to hit the ball. usually the ground first.. Seems to happen as a reflex. I can’t keep any of the rhythm i establish with the practice swing or drills. Looking back at the swing, I realize I lost focus on the task at some point but can’t tell you when that happened.
Hey Paul – if ever I get a little uncertain about transition I think of 2 Shawn nuggets
1 Outa the way, Outa the way – as in you are moving one side of your body (Hips, shoulders, arms, hands, club) up to the top of your swing – like heaving an axe and then reverse (IE Lead side then trail)
2 the other “feel” is throwing the club to the target in the same way you could skip a stone or throw a ball. If you have never tossed a club in your practice swing (in nets) it is an amazing drill/fell for me.
My warmup starts with baseball, then 30% effort to build speed, then throw club at target before i even hit a ball! Good way to psych out your mates too!
Right on Marc! Did not get the reply in my emails from Paul on this one for some reason. Paul, check out “target confirmation series” videos and we have a great video we are uploading tomorrow on the 6th part of our off season training which is all about staying to the end of the kinetic chain.
In the video you close the face and take a neutral grip. Then at address as you square the club face the grip becomes a super strong grip. Are you meaning to demonstrate how to get a strong grip or are you saying that’s how you would get a strong grip rather than taking a strong grip on a square club face. I know that closing the club face does work doing if this way. Just a little confused.
Hi Sean, I’m wondering where to focus my eyes as I swing. I am struggling with inconsistency. Sometimes I make flush contact but more often than not I strike the ground early. I am working on keeping my head still and I think if I had the correct eye target in my swing it would help tremendously.
See “grass whip training shawn clement”
Eyes are on the grass between the leading edge and the ball; BUT THE TASK IS TO WHIP THROUGH THE STEM OF THE DANDELION in the direction you want to start the ball! The stem being in the center of the ball; so the only way to the stem with the sole of the club is for the ball to meet the face of club first!
See top 3 tasks as well and check out the “peeling of the wood” too! Great task!
Hi Shawn, I have thrown clubs, hammers, hockey sticks, hammers duck-taped to clubs literally by the hundreds and my swing is definitely better. However, keeping the correct lag still is elusive when hitting a shot. I found a eureka aid that gives me instantaneous feedback . Its called the SG Lagtastik and is demonstrated by Stewart Smith on Youtube. I have been it using for 5 months and it. has been great. Since it attaches to ones own club while making actual shots, its easy to transition into on course play. I would like to know if you’ve experimented with it with your students and get your feedback on its utility.
Thank you
Looking for a bit direction, or video. Playing this morning…. the WIG approach has immensely improved my game. I have went from the 100s. To the 90s, to the 80s! Enjoying the game more than ever. Even my drives have improved. However, I noticed that drives go astray when I tend to rush to get to the ball. In my mind. I am thinking more distance…. but the results are not good. I have been doing the predict videos and the kinetic chain. Any specific videos you may suggest. Just trying to be more deliberate with my practice time. Thanks.
This one is important! Think of the driver and all shots as a nice solid second serve in tennis. First serves are for long drive competitions with 8 balls to put in the grid. You want a nice 7 of 10 for speed and velocity and only 3 of 10 for EFFORT. what matters is full range of motion and full abandon.
See Hammer throw driver in the “throwing series” videos on premium.
So with the short pitch (30-40 yds)…. are you returning to your normal grip with a slightly open face, as opposed to using a lowercase Y as you would use with the chip?
For years from countless instructors we have been taught to grip the club diagonally into the middle knuckle of the lead hand. It was from your grip videos that I started gripping it at the base of the fingers you know like a suitcase. I will test logic thru trail and error. Over the course of 3 days I hit hundreds of golfballs using both methods. The results are eye popping astonishment. Don’t believe it test it for yourself. I have seen numerous instructors draw that line diagonally with a perminate marker onto a golf glove. I am absolutely 100% convinced that was b.s. I am compressing the golfball like never before. Thank yinz all. Great work
Shawn, I think I am getting this but still do not see the whole picture of slashing with a sword compared to the golf club. the visuals mix it up for me because the sword is horizontally flat as see it but the golf club is more vertical and it seems to me as you come down you have to more your arms to align with the vertical face of the club. If you could cover this more with an actual flat sword and show how it is the same motion with the arms and elbows I think it would benefit me and perhaps others. This is a big stumbling block for me. There is another problem: When I set up like hogan with the inside of the elbows pointing out, it seems very awkward and out of place instead of the elbows pointing towards each other. what am I missing here?
The sword blade is the leading edge of the club; like a sawing action through the stem!
As for elbows; if you feel there is too much tension and strain to “place” them the way you are perceiving, then do a goldie locks with them and find the arm position that allows to you swing with ease and freedom in the direction you want to start the ball.
No control! The weight of the arms and putter are being used to roll the ball in the direction you want to start the putt. The CNS (Central Nervous System) works at it’s very best when reacting to external factors and not manipulating or fighting against the flow or grain.
Go get a 6 pound sledge hammer and putt with that for a while; see my youtube video on that called “take a sledge hammer to your short game shawn clement”
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