I like this video to get the feeling of tilt. But my favorites are the external task videos. I use the fencing to get the width in my swing merged with throwing for releasing the club. Is that something you would agree with? Merging external tasks? Also, how do I incorporate taking divots into these tasks? Is there a divot only video?
I’ve asked other questions recently and appreciate your taking time to answer.

Shawn, Do you feel at any point in the downswing that you are pulling the arms and club through the ball? Avoiding that temptation is extremely difficult outside of a practice swing when striking a ball on the course. Do you feel that you imply any active effort whatsoever other than supporting the momentum created by the effect of gravity of your mass in motion down and through the ball?

Good morning from England Shawn! I’ve just joined as a thank you for your free YouTube videos that have put me on the right track over the last few months after 30 years playing off 5 without being able to hit the ball that well (I’m not joking, short game has always rescued me).

I think I wrote the comment “Amazeballs” on one of your YouTube vids and you enjoyed that! I hope you don’t mind me asking a few questions and I’ll probably send you a video at some point in the future.

I’m now hitting the ball pretty well and scoring level/under par every time I go out but being a perfectionist isn’t easy where golf is concerned is it LOL.

QUESTION
It’s the through impact whipping motion and the perpetual motion UP move with weight shift:
(I’m right handed in general and at golf)

If you set your wrist break/impact position and imagine you’re using the butt of the club to batter a door down with the up of perpetual motion then does it FEEL like you’re PULLING with your hands (weight left side, head behind ball, holding on to that release as long as possible)?

How much UP does one put in? I sometimes FEEL like I’m COMING UP MORE and/or putting MORE WEIGHT ON MY LEFT SIDE. The more I come up then the more I finish like Moe Norman but if I don’t come up as much then I finish exactly as you do. The more you come up makes the club go left faster so does that change strike/direction? Does it matter, is there a general rule in any of your videos that I may have missed?

Sorry for the long explanation, wanted to try to be clear about MY FEEL of what is happening.

Thanks,
Rob.

In the LEVELS video you discuss level of effort. Does too much effort inhibit the release and vice versa? What exactly goes wrong when you produce too much effort? Do you have a video about this subject?

Really enjoyed the video. I’ve used the one foot target for years but I’ve made the mistake of looking up at the target after I’ve taken my stance. This would sabotage my confidence in the correct line that I had seen from the back or behind view, which affected my swing and concentration. Now, no more second guessing. Thanks again, Mike H.

Shawn, your videos just released are superb, many thanks. One thing pertaining to “release and snap”. How do you accomplish this, without the dreaded “hit impulse”, that destroys an effortless swing. My best results come when I swing slow and smooth. (out of the way, out of the way) Maybe I am too old , 75, for the snap. By the way I am playing great this winter. Thanks again Ron

Shawn, Can I extend my subscription at the old rate still? It expires in March 2020.

Neal

Hi Shawn, I’m a righty golfer and I try to mirror your grip to a T but struggle with the right thumb placement. I knife the grip like you but at the top I feel tremendous strain. It might be because I cup my left wrist and the weight of the club moves to a position in between my thumb and index finger. When doing perpetual motion drill my thumb tends to slide on top of grip. Any advice?

Thanks,
Tom

Hi Shawn….I have a strong grip but at the top I have a tendency to get the club pointed at the ground (open).
I’m fighting to keep from pushing shots or fading when I’m setting up for a draw.
Today I worked to keep the club square or closed at the top with way better results. I remember watching a video over the summer where you discussed the club being open at the top even with a strong grip. I wanted to watch and it and hear your explanation of that. Or if this makes sense maybe you could explain it.
Am I on the right track or off the rails?
Thanks!

Shawn, your method and the way you present your points of view are great. Thoroughly enjoy.
My question is about the swing: do I need to lower my left shoulder in the back swing and then lowering the right shoulder in the down swing??. The reason for this question is that if I don’t do the lowering of the shoulder in the back swing it feels uncomfortable and cannot go as wide nor as high as I want to.
Thank you so much!!

Very good video series and it was fun to watch! 🙂 When we throw it is maybe more feel and less thinking. With golf club there is offcource clubface and impact. So to get speed we need arms pronation and supination through impact, like in ping pong. However when you show this (Dustin/Broeks) strong grip style, it looks like there is very litel pronation or supination and club face rotation. My question is : How your grip effects your release patterns or your favorit tasks?

Love the slight forward press to activate your turn back away from the ball. Ever so subtle, but effective in helping you load up on the back swing. I love that you narrate your way through the thin shot to bring on ‘bliss on a stick’ on the next one. What I love about how you go through this lesson is that you’re using data. You’re using the sound, the feel, and the contact as data to inform your next steps. Data has no emotion! You aren’t taking your thin shots, or the glancy, sliding shots off the face personally. You are using them as data to inform your next steps. Removing the emotion from not so good shots is critical to finding the joy and curiosity in our own games. It’s hard to be joyful and curious in the moment when our games fail us, but you are modeling the importance of doing so. As we’ve done a couple lessons together, I’m finding a new energy in my swing and my game. I’m still coming up short applying it on the course, but the contact is there and the distance is coming back into my long game. What is your advice for being patient on the course in order to find joy even if we aren’t striking it well? I’m guessing your answer might be ‘let go of expectations and enjoy the ride’. Do you encourage tinkering on the course or just getting on with it and playing? Talk to me Coach!

Shawn, a question about “compression”. It seems to me hitting off the mat and hitting off grass changes things a bit. Doesn’t the mat force the club “up” occasionally? Thanks for the video! Looking forward to next week.

hi shawn, appreciate this chipping lesson. One question : i struggle with the engine of the motion. You say the weight and the momentum does it all. The knees , like in the full swing , are , so i presume , are also an engine . Anyway the arms do not participate. Do I understand it correctly?

So Shawn I just had to share that I had a “breakthrough” range session today using the throw the football task. I was having trouble getting the feel of throwing the driver to the right and as I was trying to diagnose why the ball was slicing out to the right even with a more closed face I stumbled upon the fact that it had to do with the path of my elbow. When I imagined my elbow passing closer to my side without getting stuck I started to get a better swing path more inside to out. I didn’t like thinking about body part positioning while trying to complete the task of throwing the club clipping the tee to the right edge of my intermediate point but I couldn’t find the right feel. So I sat there for a while going throw slow motion with the club to try to capture a feeling from a task that would allow me to throw in a way that would put my elbow in a better position without thinking about it. That’s when it clicked. I needed an underhand throwing motion. My mind then went back through the archives of your videos and I remembered the recent one containing the football throw. I then took my setup and visualized throwing the football underhanded to the right edge of my intermediate point. It was an instant fix. I was absolutely amazed at the difference. All of the sudden I was getting consistency and compression like I’ve never experienced. I then used that same football throw task with all of my clubs. I use Wishon Sterling single length irons and it was like an epiphany of immediate bliss on a stick. I finally felt like I was using my kinetic chain as I see you demonstrate. I went through a large bucket of balls with all clubs having shots fly off the club like I’ve never experienced. After I got home I went back and looked at the earlier football drill videos and learned even more which I think will help fine tune what I’m doing. I think I might have finally unlocked the final piece I’ve been missing. I can’t wait to go out and see if I can repeat and build upon my progress. I never realized how important leading with the elbow and giving it space is to proper kinetic chain, swing path, directional control and generating massive lag. I finally feel I can work the ball as desired with both the fade and the draw. Such a simple concept that I’ve been missing that has unlocked a whole range of untapped ability. I also have adopted using the diagonal stance for all clubs now and that in conjunction with discovering the football throw task (I’d never tried it before) has opened up a whole new level for me. I am Very excited to start working these developments from the range to the course. I can already sense that my problem is going to be re-establishing my gapping as I think I’ve added 20+ yards to all clubs if not more! Thanks for all you do. Your efforts have really gotten it down on the shelf where even a knuckle dragger like me can reach it! I broke 90 for the first time in over 15 years a couple weeks ago. I just picked the game back up a year and a half ago and thankfully I stumbled upon you and Wisdom in Golf. Hopefully I will be able to report I’ve broken 80 for the first time ever very soon. I feel I’m on the brink of a Major scoring breakthrough as my short game has also improved dramatically especially since incorporating the flow state concepts of your latest videos. I’m actually seeing the desired shot and putting, chipping and throwing the club into the picture with so much more confidence now. So Absolutely Amazing how our brains and bodies work. It’s been such a fun ride following your lead and tapping into things I’d never dreamed I’d be able to do. All the best!

Dave Pike