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  • From [email protected] on The Grip

    Hey Shawn,
    Very instructive video. I keep learning. I have remained at nearly flat learning curve, until I started with your instructions. One small point. The video keeps stopping at times. May be an olde video. One thing more. At what spot of the ball do you focus, on different shots?

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    • From Shawn Clement on The Grip

      Use the little cog wheel in the bottom right to adjust the resolution and bring it lower to either 720 or 360 when the internet traffic is too busy in your area. NEVER FOCUS on the ball; the ball stays an intersection on the way to the target. See “blur of club” video for more on this and next week’s upload will have a fantastic update on that too. Shawn

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  • From [email protected] on One Leg Drill

    Hi Shawn. I just recently found your videos online, and I love the style to your teaching. It hits home to me a lot more than some of the other very technical instructors online. I have been playing consistently (roughly 20 rounds a year) for a little over 3 years now, and currently sit around a 20 handicap. I am very much interested in more consistent contact and in increasing my distance. I’ve gone through all your introductory beginner videos, and I just came to the drills section. This morning, I was working on the feet together and the one leg drill. I am 47yrs old, 6’00, 195lbs, and fairly athletic. No matter how hard I tried, I could not hit the ball further than 156 yards with my 7 iron. And, that was hit center of the face, with as much velocity as I could muster. I’m obviously not doing something fundamentally right. With my driver, I struggle to hit the ball over 230 yards. Granted, with the driver I very much struggle to hit center of the clubface a lot, but still … there must be something with my swing that lacks that “whipping” action at contact. Are there any drills you can point me to that will help me create more clubhead speed? Thanks very much for any input you may have!

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    • From Shawn Clement on One Leg Drill

      Hey Dan! Distance comes from the quality of the throw or whipping action of the sword; there could be a few small things you do that are short circuiting the action.
      1-you need a grip that will do a solid job of compressing and releasing-see the grip videos of course and the first video of the “consistency series”
      2-you need to know how to throw the club well-see “throwing the club” and “club speed” videos on premium
      3-you need a full backswing-no resistance-full turn and a solid release action-see “lead hand release” (does both) and “trail hand release” and “release fine tuning”
      4-lastly; so many try too hard to keep the level in the swing and that is very detrimental to the speed and flow; if you have a solid task, (see task trumps everything) then things will fall into place-see “pumping up the swing” and “open the machine on course”
      Let me know how things go in a couple weeks!

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    • From [email protected] on One Leg Drill

      Thanks very much! I will definitely work through those videos on the range and get back to you. It’s amazing how much distance you and your students get without ( what looks like ) much effort at all! Meanwhile, I’m using everything I got, with inconsistent and weak results!

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  • From [email protected] on Chipping

    Hi Sean, What do you recommend for a club to chip within 5-15 yards of the green with no obstacles to fly over? Does bounce matter. I currently use a 54 degree wedge with 11 degrees of bounce. After watching your videos my iron play has improved and now it is time to focus on the weakest part of my game – the short game!

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  • From [email protected] on Posture

    Shawn, why is my swing bottom almost at my back foot rather than more centered between my feet? Is this from not getting my weight shifted to my front leg, or something else?

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    • From Mitch Sanborg on Posture

      If your trail arm fires too soon the clubhead will bottom out too early. Focus on swinging your lead hand through the ball and into the follow through.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Posture

      Hey Mitch! The feet together drill has a section in the video where we talk about the “catapult effect” of the return of the butt away from the target as a counter balancing self preserving act. This effect pulls the arms and club through the ball and takes the arms out of the equation. The other videos I would point you to would be the “kinetic chain series” and the “kinetic chain engagement series” which will continue to drive the point home that the human machine will falter when you focus on body parts and develop to it’s full potential when delivering a “self preserving task” to a specific direction.

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    • From Shawn Clement on Posture

      Go to the ‘feet together drill” video and see where you bottom out with that one!

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  • From [email protected] on Arm Swing vs Body Turn

    The core of wisdom in golf – enough said!

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  • From [email protected] on Driver - Part 2

    Hi Shawn,

    I have been making some good progress with working the ball both ways throughout my bag, but I am struggling to get the driver dialed in. When I try to hit the draw my miss is a snap hook generally off the toe. My thought is that in an attempt to make sure I don’t cut across it because it is forward in my stance I am actually swinging to far to the right of my intermediate point. Does this make sense based on the ball flight I described. Any ideas out side the obvious of release it to the intermediate point and not to the right of it. Thanks for your help!

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    • From Shawn Clement on Driver - Part 2

      See The “great driver nugget” video later in the list; there is an important stance detail missing for driver draws that is quite key!!

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  • From [email protected] on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    Excellent explanation and demonstration of how focusing on momentum puts “heft” into one’s shots.

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  • From Sumit Aggarwal on GRIP PRESSURE POLISH (2)

    Hi Shawn – it’s been a while since I’ve been on the channel. Great to see you and sav together. Last year, we had strengthened my grip pressure. I find that my left hand is always holding the grip with less pressure and my right hand is the one I tighten. I’m keen to see what happens if I tightened my left hand d grip pressure. My forehand in tennis is better but I always find easier to hit the center of my racket in my backhand. So sounds like I real should be holding stronger with my left hand . Makes sense?

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  • From [email protected] on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    I think this is the best explanation I’ve heard about finding that ‘green light’ feeling that I experience occasionally when the ball just goes boom. I know the feeling but sadly our relationship is intermittent and fleeting. I have never had a way to describe it and therefore duplicate it. Most of the time I know I just swing when the clock in my head says swing… hoping I’m doing enough things right that something good happens. I think I understand what feeling or idea to lock into now…. and it is genius! What I like so much about how you explain this is that the unstoppable momentum is out beyond the ball so not only will your brain organize your swing to get you out there, it takes away from attention “at” the ball. The feeling is out beyond the ball so for the most part the only job is to lock into the feeling and line it up to go in the right direction Seems to work in the garage with the whoosh sound but can’t wait to try this out at the range.

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      Can’t wait to hear about it! I have so many examples of shots we just executed on the course this week with Savy and I that validate massively all the aspects of this video;

      It is a great time for golf! 😀👍

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  • From [email protected] on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    Congratulations on making NBC Golf Academy – ‘unstoppable momentum’ guys!

    Another great video for me – getting into the head space of ‘flow’.

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      Good stuff! We are getting into a whole new stratosphere because of the evolution away from positions and perfecting our tasks into our flight plans! So great to share this ride with you! 😀👍

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  • From Jeremy Moody on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    …As you said Shawn, you have the club for the shot, you have the intermediate point, you have the distance to ball and path with Goldilocks . After that the real task is letting the swing momentum work. All the thoughts of..’ don’t go right, hit the ball, get over the trap, hit it harder’ ,..etc only create doubt and get the brain to sabotage the kinetic chain. Best tutorials. Best explanations as to how we work. The Golf Channel Academy could use such wisdom in their instruction. Nice…J.

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      See how awesome you understand this now?? I tell you man, I am still on the fence with your equipment; your shafts are too light on those cobras…you should go see the boys at TXG and just try out some irons and see what they recommend. I just tried the Callaway Epic Forged which is a monster; hit the 7 iron with easy swing at 210 yards consistently…my 4 iron is my 210 club…(I am staying with my blades still though…and yes, of course the lofts are beefed up to 27 degrees on the 7 iron but that packs quite the punch and the fun factor is wow…the new G-710 from Ping are spectacular too and Savy’s new irons are perfect where the Ping I blade stops at 7 iron and then she has 7 and 6 from G-710 and we just got her new shaft on the driver and yesterday afternoon in Phoenix, she drove the ball 305 and 315 respectively on 2 holes on the back nine…the shaft made a nice difference on that club for her and it’s because we were able to try them at Club Champion in January in Orlando.

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  • From [email protected] on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    My pre shot routine is the sword slash drill and it is what I think about as I step into the ball. Am I sabotaging my unstoppable momentum by consciously thinking about this

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      Heck no!! The machete is a heavy sword that cannot be stopped once in action! 😀👍

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    • From Russell Hogue on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      That’s my go to swing thought too. However, sometimes I focus so much on slashing with the right side that I can feel my left arm not “getting out of the way.” I really like the swing about the head picture of how the momentum turns over the hands/arms together.

      I shot 77 today in terribly cold and windy conditions.

      1. Get behind ball and pick flight plan.
      2. picture slash of heavy sword to cut through dandelion stem on a path toward target.

      I mishit about 4 shots in the round. All fat…all caused by allowing strain to creep in an effort to try and hit the ball. . .relaxed cut through the stem with unstoppable momentum. That’s the picture.

      Great video Shawn.

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  • From [email protected] on How to Start the Swing

    Hey Shawn, Savannah
    Well I still am having a rough time with the Driver, lost all confidence, so started using my 5 Wood and 80% in the fairway with that and I cant seem to figure out the Driver. 5 Wood going about 185-200 m off the tee. Keeps me in play so not sure what to do with the Driver…so frustrating..anyway hope you both are well and will check in again soon..thanks for all you do. I really enjoy watching all the videos..hopefully soon It will play out ..ciao

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    • From Shawn Clement on How to Start the Swing

      Did you see the “great driver nugget” video as well as the latest videos on the driver on youtube we just made??

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    • From [email protected] on How to Start the Swing

      Shawn – I agree that we need to set our brain to thinking about the task (cutting the dandelion). However, before we get to automatic…. it would seem that we need to start from some point of understanding to get to the top of the backswing, to maintain balance while making a full turn. It seems that… If I don’t focus on my feet action and ground forces to start the swing…. I miss a full turn and the machine falls apart. What might I be missing?

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    • From Shawn Clement on How to Start the Swing

      Have you spent some solid time cutting grass in both directions like in the “grass whip training” video on premium?

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    • From [email protected] on How to Start the Swing

      Ah. I have not done that. I’ll start working through that series now. Thanks.

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  • From [email protected] on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    Would a momentum swing have a pause? Do you do that for driver to pitching? Were most of those swings draws?

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      Never try to make things pause; the pause comes from you not dighting the momentum of the swing. See “anti-manipulation” video on premium.

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  • From Theodore Skinner on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

    Mickey Wright explained her long hitting by the way she used to practice: every day she would hit shots with no follow through. How does that fit with unstoppable momentum?

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      Would love to see where this is written….

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    • From Theodore Skinner on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      I got it from Mike Bender who reccomends hitting balls with no follow through as a dril, Don’t get me wrong – I am one of your disciples.l

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    • From Shawn Clement on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      Ok, good! What is the context and what is the purpose of the drill?

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    • From Theodore Skinner on UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM

      I guess training a good impact position and perhaps helping to transfer energy into the release as the hips stop turning, and perhaps physically training the legs to cope with the stress as the club goes forward at high speed as the body stays back.

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