Hi Peter!
I kind of don’t want you to be thinking about that during the swing because of how our machine cannot interpret dynamic motion consciously as it happens very well. A good video for practicing weight shift propely is the “walking Drill” in premium.

However; just so you know:
Address: 60-40 distribution in favour of the left side (for right handers)
Backswing 70-30 in favour of the right side
Top of backswing: back to 60-40 in favour of left
Impact 70-30 in favour of left
Finish 90-10 in favour of left

This is where the flop shot comes in very handy Sandy! See the open faced chip and I have another one this coming week on premium with the flop in the Pre-motor cortex series.
Also, a few years back, I did a lesson with John; and we worked hard with the grass whip getting him to use momentum to ‘SAW THROUGH THE STEM TO THE LEFT OF THE TARGET FROM THE HEEL TO THE TOE.

So when doing with the driver, you are doing the same thing except slightly on the way up!
You will get there for sure.

Shawn

Correct!!!
Alignment to the left of end target and momentum to the left of end target.
You rock man!

As an ex rugby player who lifted a lot of weights in my time it was the bain of my life, Still i have trouble intermittently trouble with tennis elbow. Theraband flex bar works a treat. whenever i get a twinge i do a few twists on the bar, almost instant relief

Very good! Do you have a website or a youtube video link with the exercise?
Shawn

Hit shots on the rubber tees; hit air divots when going to the range; see my oldie but goodie “how to stop topping and take better divots” video on youtube

Hey Jeff!

For me:
Low shot: drive low through door frame or throw it low
High shot: zip through dandelion stem along the ground or flip a carrot peel up into the height you want to send it on. See which task work best for certain shots!

Awesome John! Thank you!
Talk soon; need to run a couple things by you! 👍😀

1-feet together drill-remember the purpose of it: knees and feet together-suction through arches at all times. Use the return of the butt to catapult the falling arms through the cut of grass to the target.

2-is she trying to keep her head down? You would be amazed at how deeply incrusted this bad boy can be!
We did this video Donna and I and I will re-do a nice acid test for it: after she takes her backswing, it should be easy to bring both legs together and have same knee flex but if her left knee jets out, it will be very difficult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um4G4T_6UN8

Thank you very much for the link. That oldy but goody is gold. I thought I was centered when in fact I wasn’t turning my hips quite enough and ended up swaying a bit. This made it evident when bringing both feet back together. Now I have a whole new feel to get use to in my back swing.👍

Thanks again for all your great work!

I put an ax handle or a grass whip in her hands and she doesn’t do it. She understand the spine tilt and why.
Her left knee goes to far toward the ball

Oooooh yes; this is my area of absolute expertise!!
See the kinetic chain series videos in premium-HUGE
Then see the Throwing the club video on premium just below the kinetic chain series 1-7
Enjoy!!
BTW, we are already wired to achieve this and THINKING about how to move the hips first is a good way to SABOTAGE THE ACTION!!

Hey Joe! Get a clip on your phone from face on and down the line; edit the clip to just the swing in regular motion and email straight to [email protected]; best to do 1 at a time. Let me know your target and flight plan to target and what your task is to deliver to the target. Shawn

Right on Ronald! Awesome stuff man!
Keep representing, much appreciate the comments and feedback;
Shawn

Thank you Matt, much appreciate the feedback and this is a very important question that I very much care to answer as often as possible.
Because our side vision is so distorted, it is not wise to go at the direct target, which would also be a 2 dimensional focus.
The intermediate point is used to set up AND for delivery of the task. Your task of slinging the perfect carrot peel through this intermediate point or throwing the club through and past the intermediate point with the prediction that the stem of the dandelion is in the way of this throw is where the magic is.
Knowing that the intermediate point you picked was from your binocular vision from down the line and this vision is super accurate, is something you can always go back to in your mind to keep you confidently on task.
So, if the distance to ball, ball position, level of posture, grip and club face relationship (the complete set-up) FITS your task, then you are free to allow the task to happen with mental and physical ease.
What a fantastic game played with a fantastic machine!!! 😀👍👌

Thank you Shawn, that makes perfect sense 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏌🏻‍♂️🏌🏻‍♂️🏌🏻‍♂️

Right on Mark!
Savannah got her light bulb moment on it; her swing is looking and performing on the next level now; with right heel bolted for the first time ever through impact;

Shawn

Went to the range today and applied what I learned in this video. Light bulb session! Wow! Great results. Solid contact. Prediction ability was off the charts. I swiveled that posterior right away in the.backswing and it allowed me to get right into a good backswing position that allowed me to swing deep into downswing for increased distance and better contact. Combined with what I learned in your last grip video the feeling was awesome!

Right on Mark! I can feel the glow of that light bulb moment from all the way over here!! 😀👍

Your last comment was spot on Mark; awesome!!

Regarding shoulder plane…I think it’s more a matter of getting used to the early swivel. In others words I was focusing on getting my butt moving forward so much that my takeaway was rotating at about the same plane…very shallow. Then, when I changed my focus to have my takeaway match the downswing I was thinking about I figured out how to swivel my butt out of the way while bringing the face of the club back on the path I wanted. A path that kept the face on track with what the desired downswing path would be. The checkpoints you taught us. But what’s interesting is the results from those different backswing paths. The challenge for me is to make sure I get my butt out of the way when making the backswing. If I get too focused on backswing path I sometimes forget about swiveling those hips. So it’s just a matter of creating a habit now.

The next layer I discovered now is that the shoulders need to move back on a different plane than the hips. I experimented with steeper and shallower planes with my shoulders on the backswing. Big differences. I tried to apply Goldilocks to the plane. Very steep, very shallow and something in between. Very interesting results still experimenting with this. But I found a plane with my driver that allowed me to hit my driver farther than I ever have. Hit the net at the end of my range. On the fly. I’ve never been able to do that before. 👍

Goldie locks is the bomb!!
What is prompting you to look at shoulder plane? Anatomically, the shoulders and hips have different purposes…

Hey Neal! Please do not worry about that; we really really suck when it comes to “how much” our body parts move and where they move to. The best drill is the sword drill; where you hold the club upside down with the lead hand and turn until you feel that you can use the mass of this lead arm and sword to slash through a bamboo shoot with power and heft and EASE!
See the video I did for Golf Wrx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k6QOcAQrk8&t=89s
Also see “purpose of backswing” video on premium

The 20-20 head is on all shots that need to go to a target. If you want to beat the ball into the ground, then that is another story…😝
It is the original “pre-turn” or anti sway of old days that I am talking about; the days where I was still talking body parts a little bit. For draw, ball back, you don’t want to stay ahead of the ball unless you are hitting a very low draw under a branch and the face is much more closed.