Coming back to this video as I was looking for anti-sway concepts for my wife. This is excellent for fixing that common problem. Recently I started adding the “pre-turn” to my own driver setup and it really works great. Thanks again.
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Shawn
This is the one that has done it for me .Putting my head in the right position and my backswing on the correct path which also allowing me to drop the club in the slot without manipulation.My drives are 40-50 yards longer and go where generally where I want them to.When I blackout and default to the ball I usually shank them.I spent past 3 years in a bad place wondering why I was wasting my time.I now have the confidence that I can return to good golf with intent.
Thanks for your unique perspective on the game .
I’ve seen some of your videos where you have a slightly open stance to target when drawing the ball. This contradicts the diagonal set up in this video. Is it a matter of preference and what works to try and draw the ball?
This has been a gradual awakening as like you, I had been brainwashed by what the golf teaching industry has been dishing out. Through my constant studies, we got to alignment and ball position which are interrelated in a big way and in order to decipher this properly, we needed to have a constant alignment pattern. Now that we know that the intermediate point is the be all and end all when taken with human binocular vision, the delivery into the flight plan through this IT will determine ball position and the physical makeup of the person swinging will determine stance and ball position.
Bottom line: there are many ways to skin a cat and we just found another!
I got to play yesterday for the first time since watching this series. That diagonal stance is the TRUTH!!! I used it on all shots. It makes it so much easier to keep the back swing on the target line and for the hips to turn.
You bet! A bunker and flop shot are pure fades; and fades are easy to perform as you have seen my set up in this video for a fade; I seriously love the way the set up looks in here and could not have demonstrated any better!! Which shows how natural this set up can be!
Shawn
Hi Shawn, in your “hinge” video IIRC you said that the square or open stance opens the door for the pull/hook. Could you please explain why this is so?
Because of the lack of support under the body’s center of gravity beyond the ball; however, hitting power fades is perfectly fine! This is mostly with the driver though;
Shawn
I tried 9-holes with the diagonal stance today and was surprised how well it worked! 🙂 Just for fun I even putted with it! 🙂 In my case, I got a better brace to the left leg and my best shots were those who felt like the one legged drill. The best thing with this stance is that it frees the brain from thinking of aligning body parts and instead the only thought is to align the momentum. against a (intermediate)target .
Yes sir!!! Just played 18 holes in the pouring rain and same results; lots pf GIRs and a 2 over front and 2 under back which was filled with birdie tries! So much fun!
Came back to review my grip especially the trail hand and discovered after seeing the video several times I missed getting my lead thumb right in the lifeline of my trail hand. I hand it close but not locked in there. Probably why I have been a regripper over the ball. I will bet that has effected other other areas of my swing like a left pull.
Must not have been right as the feel is total solid now.
Just the basics first. 👍
Hi Shawn, really appreciate your take on golf instruction. Have used lots of different utube teachers and became very disillusioned, watched your free ones for a while and decided to subscribe, I’m now looking forward to practising, instead of feeling like it’s a chore. One of the things I struggle with is going from say an 8 iron to the driver, I get myself in a rhythm with one club, but when I pick the next one up, it takes me a few shots to get back into a rhythm with that club, any pointers would be appreciated, many thanks, from. Martyn in the UK.
That will evolve for sure; what is important is you getting used to the prediction process; the prediction based on you getting ready to deliver a nice action in the direction of where you want the ball to start into the flight plan.
“when I deliver that lumberjack feel in that direction, does it feel like the ball will be struck nicely and will it fly the way I want it to?”
See “predict contact” and “goldie locks series” as well as “blur of the club”
Shawn
Shawn your videos are great — so clear and so helpful! I found this one terrific but I was confused about the section about the closed face. Do you really close the face that much as you take your grip? Sorry if this is obvious to others. Thanks for wonderful teaching! Chrid
Hi Chris! Do you have issues missing shots to the right? This is the question I ask because most will say yes and most will cure the direction when they close the face the amount I talk about; it seems like a lot; but when you look in the mirror or take a picture from the front you will see that it is not. If you start to hook the ball, and you can confirm that you had released the swing well past the ball, then it would be too closed.
Shawn
Shawn – your exaggerated swivel with the big left heel lift in this move was just the thing I needed to get the backswing comfortably in position, feel the ground, and then to be able to let it swing. Felt great. I’ve always kept the left heel down, or tried to minimize. Maybe that was limiting my range? Should I just let the heel come up?
Good stuff!
For many, the heel off the ground is essential; my left handed swing cannot function without; not even close!
Right handed I am able to perform with or without; no issues!
Shawn
It is! It may not look like it at address, but it certainly is dynamically closed for me!
For so many other students of mine, it would look closed; and then you simply allow it to evolve as you get better with your release and it’s effectiveness,
Shawn
This is the fun part; you get to swing your own swing! 😀👍
If you feel a nice action, low strain where you could do it all day, nice contact and direction where you get to hit personal best shots, then stick with it and let it evolve and enjoy.
Shawn
New to thinking ball is not target
My issue is I have a long fluid practice swing
But actual swing is short
Brain wants to get back quickly to hit ball
Any thoughts
Thanks
David Wiesen
-Full practice swing and observe blur of club
-Then bring set up to 2 tees and predict blur will cut through both tees and perform till you have success with both tees being cut through with view of blur
-Then place 2 tees flush with ground and repeat
-then place a ball on the first tee and cut through both tees with blur and see what happens when the ball meets the club face because of this focus and task.
-adjust club face to match the flight desired.
See “predict contact” and “goldie locks series”
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