Have a look at the “predict contact” and the “goldie locks series” and then finish with “target focus confirmation series”
This will get you to the next level and then let me know which one gave you the best focus!
Shawn

Thinking end of April! South Carolina or Arlanta!

Great question!
This video is for the person who is still trying to hit the ball and gets out in front and always feels the need to hit AT THE BALL. Those who are able to deliver a nice throw AT THE TARGET, you are all set! This video does also have a terrific addendum to then”pumping up the swing” video in he sense that you cannot strain the throw either. All in all, a very cool addition to the feel of kinetic chain engagement with very little possibility of arm overuse which so many golfers have grooved before they got here with us.
When you get good with this action though, you then need the support of the trail hand index finder as one of the last important links of the kinetic chain.

So are you referring to the ‘knife the grip’ concept here when you mention index finger? I guess the follow up question is how do you discern a nice throw at the target vs. at the ball? I tend to pull the ball left a lot and I’m thinking this right hand aggressive action might have something to do with that. I’ll have to try out the grip and see if this helps.

**unsolicited opinion incoming**

I only stop by to say something, because I have just recently connected some dots that have really helped me diagnose where to apply emphasis when certain results happen.

I also had a hard time discerning a proper throw at target vs. throw at ball sensation, like it sounds like your saying. In addition, I also tended to pull my shots left. I feel that the two are actually somewhat separated, although ultimately connected.

First, how to establish throw to target. For me literally swinging a sledge hammer really helped me get the feel. this was before this wonderful video with the double overlap. Once I got the sledge hammer feel, I would try to take it to the range with a golf club and couldn’t replicate the sledge hammer feel. What I found was to pay attention to the intensity of grip in my left (lead) hand during chip shots. For me, having a strong grip (in this case relating to intensity not position) during a delicate swing, proved to be very challenging. I tended to want to either girp hard swing hard, or swing light grip light. Focusing on a ‘toned’ grip as Shawn has put it, really helped. The key here though was to really focus on only the lead hand grip strength. When I watched Shawn talk about toned grip, I always applied it to both hands. focusing on the one hand, really helped me feel the “swing” of the lead arm. It’s almost as if your left arm (lead arm) is the sledge hammer, and you’re using your legs/body to swing it, while your right hand or trail hand “propels” it. Marrying this feel to where I want the ball to land resulted in a much easier and more tangible feel of “tossing at the target”. It wasn’t ambiguous, it was VERY easily identifiable. So much so, that if you question it, it likely isn’t right yet.

This leads me to what to do with the pulled shots. What I found, was once I could easily identify a correct “swing to target”, which at this point took the chip shot formula above and put it into a full swing by going “chip”, “pitch”, “gentle full”, “regular shot”, I realized, that i simply had my ball position too forward. This was resulting in pulled shots. adjusting my ball position just a little back (maybe half a ball to a ball) resulted in perfect draws.

My main thrust here is that once you get the feel down, which for me simply came from focusing on “gripping the lead hand tightly” with gentle effort in the actual swing, the rest of the game begins to fall into place quickly.

Also, as a bonus and this is probably mind numbingly simple, but face angle on a golf club means the sole of the club not the top. For years I would close the club based on the top-line, only to realize I was closing 50 or 60 degrees when it looked like 30. Realizing this has revolutionized everything. SO SIMPLE.

Anyway, good luck and keep going, i spent basically 3 years working through WIG concepts before they fully began locking in and boy shawn is right, it’s so great when they do!

Kevin – Thank you…..I am going to try this out. I too have tossed clubs and hammers at the park but had difficulty taking it to the practice range so this really sounds like something I need to train and test at the range. Appreciate the thoughtful assistance.

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Yes; exactly! For many, this action of pushing down with the right hand is so ingrained and familiar, that it sabotages the kinetic chain. So to remove that feel of comfort is usage, we do the double overlap grip and then apply the pumping action of the kinetic chain. This has helped many and when the action of the kinetic chain becomes more familiar than hitting down on the ball, then we can tweak the grip to make things more compressive through the ball.

10 finger grip is an awesome grip!! If you feel that you are delivering a nice release through the ball and into your picture, then why would you change?

Awesome that is a great encouragement. I was hoping you would tell me that! Thanks Shawn!

You bet! 👍😀

Oooh yeah man! Way to go! And not to worry, there is a time to perform and then there is a time to retool and train and man, we are just 2 days from embarking on a quest for flow states in golf that are sure to please for next season! Congrats for the benchmarks thus far and for representing Wisdom in Golf so well. See you on Wednesday for session 1 on FLOW!

Oops! Answered my own question! “You really get a sense of how to hold the arc of your swing in that direction.” Part 2: 5:30!

Will keep working with the concepts in part 2 this month.

Thanks for the content!

Haha, good stuff! Good old part 2!😀👍

Exactly right! When I realized this, I knew we were on to something really special! It’s time for a deeper dive! 😀👍

Ah que tu as tout compris; je suis tellement fier!
On continue de plonger! 😀👍

On the contrary Philip; the best way to cut grass with a “grass whip” is to engage the kinetic chain so that one can whip through with ease and velocity; like a samurai slashing effortlessly and majestically through a straw dummy with his samurai sword! It is simply a task that you personally do not resonate with and that is perfectly fine! We have so many others that could easily fit the bill. The throw you mention in your post is superb and you seem to not have connected the prediction of cutting the stem based on your throw to the target which I have seen so much of before.
So for you, throw into the flight plan “through the intersection that is the ball” but so many see the ball and react to it as if it was the target and this is the sabotage. So we replace it with a stem so that the mind CAN SEE IT’S WAY THROUGH TO THE FLIGHT PLAN and realize only afterwards that the stem was cut.
What does it feel like BEYOND THE BALL when you cut through the stem with the feel of a powerful and easy slash? Connect with all the sensations of the task-you will be in the moment-

Great comment Jeremy; You the right track! See the comment I responded to Philip too. Get into more immersive detail about the feel of the weight of the ACU collecting and snapping the ball over the intermediate point and into the flight plan. Remember how reluctant you were letting those arms levitate up the rib cage in the backswing (nananana)? Go ahead and use those legs to heave the ACU away and up change directions smooth as silk, and then Fall-gather down the arc as you squat down with it to prepare for the “deploy-whip” with some nice heft through that stem collecting and releasing wide and deep into that picture; where the end of the rope when the right hand snaps over the left hand and nicely tugs on the shoulder sockets and gets pulled up into the finish. Use the PMD moderately but with full range of motion to get this flow more assimilated and let the GC Quad do it’s thing once in a while to examine curvature to adjust clubface angle if needed.

Let that ball on a string ride it’s arc and “open the machine” (see that video on premium)

We are having so much fun opening golf swings that have been shut down by “be careful” and “watch out” and “stabilize this and keep that still”…The absolute joy in the smiles of our new students and those back for their second winter is amazing; so much relief in not worrying about “defective” body parts coming around to sabotage the swing. They are realizing that they can trace things back to the original focus they had just before they swung the club and forgive themselves for not having the right focus or no focus at all! 😀👍

Very different!! If you were to ask the average golfer what they are focused on during this blocked practice, they could not even tell you. They hit a shot, brain says yes-no-close- and they rake another ball without a flight plan, a set up half baked because of the lack of planning, no feel to deliver into the flight plan. It is only AFTER they hit the shot that they decide if they want that shot or not and then the next shot is chosen by default. You can get something accomplished or it can go south in a hurry if you start chasing your tail with WHY things are going wrong and what body parts you will use to fix it.

Just looked at it; sorry to say, I am not much of a fan. Look at the underlying reasons for it’s existence:
1-club and body going back together-why are golfers already in a state of manipulation at address? What are they getting ready to do? Most are trying to place something somewhere; which leaves the body in a standstill. We want to get ready to use the weight of the ACU (ARM-CLUB UNIT) to deliver a task in a specific direction that we are allowing the action to flow on…very different.
2-shallow out the club on the downswing? Yikes! Why?? Because when you go after the ball, you are over the top? Hmmm, let’s cut some grass in the direction of the target instead! 😝

Thanks for the reply! I got excited seeing so many people raving about it, but in the back of my mind I kind of knew it went against your teaching and what you’re trying to accomplish. Was hoping this thing would get me in the “perfect positions” naturally without thinking about them while still keeping a task focussed approach.😂

They make things sound so nice while praying on our fears don’t they? 😉

Thanks Rob!!

Hey Eddie!
You bet! The more G-force you produce, the more pressure through the hands will be necessary to get through the shot! The lie of the shot and the intensity of the shot play a role and your Central Nervous System will take care of the pressure and match it to the task and intent.

If you are trying to hit the ball Hard vs whipping through the dandelion stem with ease and velocity it will change the dynamics big time. Shawn