As always great common sense approach using the tools that are innate to us. I am only 2 years into this game and thanks to you – my game is trending in the right direction. Quick two part question. At address I would have my leading hand ( I am a right handed player) in a “relaxed” position where the hand feels slightly turned out. Today while at the range I turned the lead hand slightly to the right and noticed a significant difference in my ball striking. I would switch back and forth between the two settings and will definitely say with the lead hand slightly turned in to the right (see more knuckles on the lead hand) my striking is much better – I also believe it is making me bring the club back wider on my takeaway leading to more accuracy and distance. So the two questions are – Is this proper or correct? If it is proper, how “turned in” should your lead hand be?
You are absolutely barking up the right tree!!
The key is this: when you deliver your action well into the target, well past the ball, and it flies the way you want with NICE COMPRESSION, then the geip-club relation is sound!
😀👍😀👍
I do not have enough width in my swing and have used the sword drill to create width and more upper body turn. I have been trying to rotate my upper body and keeping my hips still. It is extremely difficult to execute and physically hurts. In this video your upper body and hips start together and at some point the shoulders continue while the hips stop creating a differential. Should I attempt to start the takeaway with my shoulders or using the upper and lower body together?
OMG!!!! NEVER NEVER RESTRICT ANY BODY PART EVER!!!
The restriction of the lower body is the worst thing that has ever EVER happened in this game; bar none…that and keep your head down and still.
Please see “sledge hammer axe drill shawn clement” on you tube; a nice oldie but a REAL GOODIE. Make the swing look and feel exactly like that and feel what ot is like to swing with NO STRAIN and super compression!
Hi Shawn. I know you do not like positions but would you agree that the lead arm and club at address form a straight line from the lead shoulder? Rory McIlroy has this I think, as do you I think. Thanks
Hi Julian!
It appears this way; however, because the left hand is higher than the right and when you are getting ready to use the weight of the ACU (arm-club unit) to perform your task, it will naturally fall into that look.
Make sense?
Shawn
I cancelled my membership. Seems like all the teaching is done on youtube. I don’t really get anything from just watching two people play golf together. Let me know when you start teaching again.
Thank you for the feedback Neal; next week the teaching begins again; then the week after we have a sweet series with the pre-motor cortex and goldielocks that is essential to consistent performance that you won’t want to miss!
All the best and hope to see you soon!
Shawn
Hi Shawn
Once i return home i plan to be throwing some clubs around-will have to be very early in the morning!
In the meantime, my ball striking following your drills has been very encouraging-particularly the predicting contact tee/penny drill-and this will help go a long way towards reducing the number of my topped shots.
I am finding however a bit of a false dawn in that for the life of me i cant get a decent consistent level of clubhead speed! It can be as low as in the 60s-usually in the 70s and very occasionally (for irons) low 90s. (All using my SSR device)
I have a suspicion that I am losing a lot of speed by not cocking my wrists properly in the backswing. Can you possibly refer me to a suitable video please.
Additionally, if there is not one already, could you consider doing a video which demonstrates the elements which help to increase speed significantly, working from a base upwards?
May be I am not making this very clear but demo first how low speed swingers don’t get much speed and build on from there. That way I/ others could possibly identify with the particular area we most need to work on.
Many thanks
Regards
Ian
Not sure what I am doing wrongly but after a search on website -which shows up a result in bold words-I can’t then go to the resulting video either through clicking the word or the search box ?
Thanks
Regards
Ian
Eg Shank or Shoulder Turn
Eg Shank or Shoulder turn. They come up separately from search dialogue box in bold but are not underlined and don’t allow me to open them
Curious. Not sure what I may be doing wrongly?
Regards Ian
Aha! They are YouTube videos! Great!
Is there any prospect in the future of the WiG site including those YouTube videos which are not on the site?
Anyway thanks very much again Shawn
Regards
Ian
Well, we don’t do shoulder turn because shoulders don’t turn! 😝
Here is the serious speed one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ-2C-O0u8
Horse shoes; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTEpEjjJpKQ
My favourite shank one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjF5nXNMkuY
Many reasons for lack of speed:
1-trying to hit a ball for so long; your release gets stunted at the ball and loss of speed is equivalent to 1 to 2 clubs
2-being careful with swing positions; just strated with a students who was told to keep head still which cancelled his backswing which in turn does not allow him to whip the club with ease; also keeping head down and still past the ball causes even more damage-keeping the elbow tucked in the backswing is another crazy ridiculous thing to even work on (teachers to this day still do this on tour as part of their portfolios to nip and tuck players to injury-players on tour don’t have distance issues are are able to work around this)
These 2 areas are the reason why I love my job so much because students leave my place with massive smiles and huge sighs of relief when they start whipping and compressing the ball into 20 to 30 yards more and we did not have to purchase a $700.00 golf club to do it.
So, here are some videos to get your mind around this:
“create seriois speed shawn clement” “horse shoes and lassos shawn clement” “feet together and one leg update shawn clement” and then see “club speed” and “throwing the club” videos here on premium and the “off season training series” on premium where we walk and throw in sessions 7-9
This list of videos is to help you turbo charge the whip in your swing; do this WITHOUT STRAIN PLEASE; then apply this to a task-cutting through your stem to target, sending that carrot peel to target or throwing to target with the prediction that the stem of the dandelion is in the way.
If you let your brain come back to the ball just before you perform the task, all will be lost; I am coming out with 4 videos on “pre-motor cortex and goldie-locks” that will increase the chances of consistency by a mile too so stay tuned-2 weeks!!
Thanks so much Shawn!
I will look at these very shortly
Specifically however do any of the videos cover wrist cock?
If I am not cocking correctly presumably this makes a significant difference?
Regards
Ian
Lying in bed early am. Cold and damp. Nice vlog. Enjoyed the thought process especially Shawn always working off an intermediate point with a flight plan and the obvious effortless kinetic chain. Nice process of putt reading and stroke production. Just seems to slow everything down for smooth action in all phases of the game. Good attitude and high skill helps also.
Good morning Jeremy! Thank you for the feedback; wait till you see the “pre-motor cortex combined with Goldie locks series coming up in 2 weeks! Looking forward to your comments on that one as this is another level of mental game that is very easy to acquire and implement.
More consistent executions are coming! 😀👍
First comment on your vids for me. Great video this and it mirrored exactly what the pro at my local club taught me today (I bought a batch of 6 lessons prior to discovering the legend SC ). He made no mention of dandelions though, but in general exactly same set up, weight position, y shape in front of body throughout. No doubt thanks to watching your other vids I grasped it extremely quickly, much to the pro’s surprise! His smile was bigger than mine! Pretty gosh darn good you might say 🙂 thanks Shawn for your great vids and explanations!
Hi Shawn
Your teaching-task oriented rather than position structured-now makes so much sense,albeit I have still to put it into practice. The whole essence of the swing naturally becomes naturally much more athletic and goal directed
My reason for mentioning this is not only to say how helpful it all is to me in understanding mentally as a whole what I am meant to be doing but also to say that it all reminded me very recently of (I think it is called) Extraordinary Golf by Fred Shoemaker(?) who encouraged his students to throw clubs down the range! At the time-some 20 years ago or so) I thought it a great idea but too much off the wall for me to pursue. Not such a bright idea!
Thanks for all you do-much more than a business to you I suspect!
Regards
Ian
Hey Terry, yes!
Take a 7 iron; full backswing-then throw to a full finish and don’t go past the 125 marker. After a few of those, add 10% in the throw to finish and you have your stock swing. 👍
I took a broom and cut it to the length of a driver put several wraps of tape on the end of the handle and applied grip tap. I did the perpetual motion drill and the only way I could swing faster on the down swing was to push off the ground with my left leg (right hand golfer) and it felt like a natural move nothing forced. This was a wow moment for me.
How wonderfully resourceful you are! Love it!! Great minds think alike!😀😎
Hope many of you struggling with this read this post; I will be making my broom soon! Shawn
Shawn, I’m struggling with hitting my 3 wood and hybrid both off the deck and off the tee. I will toe hook, top or thin it or hit it solidly, but it will be an unplayable block. I’m attributing all this to ball position, but I am keeping the club head in the center of my stance, ball just forward of that. On the range, if I hook it or top it, I move the ball slightly back. However, once I move the ball back I block it. I’m using my intermediate target and swinging over it with both fade and draw set up. I’m at a loss for what to do, and would really appreciate your help.
Time to send in some video!
Down the line and face on please; with both!
Remember that contact and direction is a centering problem!! See “contact and direction shawn clement” on youtube and see the “bolted and centred” video on premium!
Shawn
Aha! The ‘glutes and quads’ part at the end with the driver is money in the bank! From another video you always asked if the trail foot should be down or up at impact (down) but i could never figure out how until this video – if you bypass the ‘glutes and quads’ part of the chain and just rotate your hips open from the top – there is no way to keep your trail foot down at impact…. ah!!!
Hey Shawn. Nice video. I am a right handed golfer and only right handed. I do not fling a Frisbee with my left hand. Should I feel that my left is controlling the swing towards the target or pushing from my right? Thanks Peter
Hi Peter! You would be throwing the frisbee with your right hand like a forehand in tennis; of hammering a nail into a door frame with the right hand or skipping a stone on water. When you place both hands on the club, you are now getting ready to throw the club with both sides in the direction you want to start the ball.
Fred Couples just said on Feherty that when he played his best, he always hit into a complete picture of the shot. It was like your words in his voice. Couples was never mechanical at all. Another confirmation of your system in prime time. And it not only applies to beginners but also at the elite level.
Speaking of kinetic chain, I was swinging the speed stick and noticed something. If I swing it using a backward slash motion I can make it click at a much higher level than my regular swing. This was true no matter how much force I put into my normal swing. The backward slash seems to foster a slightly different orientation of my body on the backswing. That is not a coincidence is it?
That was a good show wasn’t it? I have recorded that and will be watching the rest of it hopefully this week; a couple of others had mentioned it and it is music to my ears for sure!
As for the Speed stick, many of my students who were used to swinging AT THE BALL get a better snap release into the backswing because they are not programmed to HIT AT anything; so everything is left alone and the release happens beautifully! This is why the PMD (perpetual motion drill) is sooo good because it shows you how one side releases properly and then all you need to do is mirror this towards the target!
True that on the PMD and sorry for the confusion. I was actually picturing a ‘backward slash of the sword’ through the hitting zone on the down swing. Meaning that the left elbow points to the target and leads the ACU through the ball area. This also forces the right arm to default to the ‘football delivery position’. That post impact thought created much more club head speed and a ‘click’ that occurred past the ball. Seemingly desirable results. I found all this out accidentally.
The next step is to translate this to a swing with an actual club. My analytical side is finding it hard to believe (trust) that the club face will square on time. I hope I am not headed to shank city trying to get more speed. Thoughts? Stick with it?
This sounds very good; and what you will find is that it is very difficult if not impossible to shank from there as the extension will occur past the point of impact instead of AT the point of impact. Don’t you feel a nicer clearing of the body to make room for the loaded ACU?
What will be left to do is apply a nice full prediction process to this action you are discovering and about to polish; when the brain says hey, if I feel this in that direction, the ball will do what I want it to do in the air! And then the good stuff happens…😎😀
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