I had a huge epiphany while listening to music and practicing. A couple weeks ago while doing the perpetual motion drill with my driver I felt I was right in synch with the song. I stepped up to the ball and with the same song on I just rhythmically crushed it with no effort and a perfect follow through and finish. Then last week while putting, I was taking some practice stokes and again felt right in synch. I rolled so many great putts from all kinds of distances. For some reason trying to catch that beat relaxes my whole body, allowing me a fluid easy swing. My short game practice has totally changed. I’m seeing the putt roll in or chip land while taking some practice swing and I step up to the ball and with the same rythm I just do it. I feel much more creative, practicing chipping and putting has never been so much fun or so easy!
It’s all about balance and rythm through out the whole swing!
Thanks Shawn!
If you have read any of Tim Gallwey’s Inner Game books, then you know about Self 1 and Self 2, and how Self 1 will interfere with Self 2’s performance of the task. My interpretation of using these rhythm music tracks while swinging is that they keep Self 1 occupied so that Self 2 is freed to perform the task without interference.
In his books, Tim discusses the following formula:
Performance = Potential – Interference
By listening to the music tracks, we reduce or eliminate Self 1 interference so that our performance can approach our potential.
Yeah man! Right on Andy!
Many of Tim’s teachings hold true to this day!
Almost met him once, he was supposed to have come to one of my sessions in LA but could not make it;
Shawn
Hello Shawn,
Happy New Year and only vibes positive for 2019…
Thank’s for the quality of your teaching.
What is the process if you have to make a chip very small ( 1 meter flyng and two meters rolling in the green with a pitching wedge ?)
How to set the amount of momentum ?
Beause in the video i see that you have a follow through very importante, a follow throug almost completes.
(sorry gyuys for the english but i’m french)
Merci
No problem!
First you need a lob wedge; 58 or 60 degrees; then you open the face;
The other option you will find is on my “very short chip shot shawn clement” video on youtube which is an old video but a GREAT video.
Hi Shawn,
1) When you say you “aim” at the pin (for a draw) – do you mean to say the clubface is aimed at the pin at address? Or your feet are aligned at the pin at address (but clubface is now aimed left of the target)?
2) Where do you aim the clubface for a draw or a fade?
Really good video Shawn. It’s good to show your students what practices is all about around the green . I have Seen so many golf videos from brand X golf pros that show only the shots that go in the hole . Thanks for all you do for us happy new year .👍
Good stuff. I am a George Knudson fan. Now you. Very productive .Thank You. Anyway your stuff with Knudson ‘s ” The important thing is the motion with balance ” So Iam doing my motion (your technique ) to the target in balance . It’s a wonderment. The missing links were intermediate point, ball position ,fade, draw. Release to the target .My target is a certain place in the sky. I am a lead hand guy right handed golf left. Brought consistency to my ball striking . Now for the first time ever a decent drive. Half the time I would leave that hit and miss thing in the bag. Three wood baby. Shot high 70 s/ low 80 s most the time with the occasional 90 + lets go have a beer. Buddies say I always swing lazy like Freddie Coupels . Now lazy with a direction. The reason for my comment was trust your swing is trust the motion to me might be a way to say it to the other students. . Thanks Joe G
Hey Shawn, I currently use an interlock grip (with the left hand being my lead hand) but am considering a transition to the eight finger grip for a few reasons, primarily, I feel the release a little better in my right hand (much your examples of releasing a fishing line or shooting a hockey puck. When I release in my follow through with the interlock grip I find it harder to feel (and even question if it’s there). What are your thoughts/recommendations? What are other potential errors that could be occurring when applying an interlocking grip?
When used properly, the interlock is awesome; I went back to it after 40 years right handed; still overlap left handed for good…so you think! 😝
The body changes; I have played well with all grips really and the 8 finger is every bit as good as any other; you get to choose. Just stay with the guidelines I give you and any decision you make will be good. Sounds to me like you have made the right one with * finger though!
Shawn
I,m with Lynn. I can hit the ball great on one leg, but adding the other leg makes for weaker shots and more inconsistency. Do we have the feeling that Our weight is staying on the inside of the left foot?
I just answered Lynn, she slipped through the cracks!
Have a look at the answer below; plus look at the off season training videos with the ones that relate to walking and throwing;
Here is the focus sequence that needs to be internalised BTW, going into the book!
1-pick an “end target” or a place you want to have the ball end up
2-pick a flight plan that fits your ability to get the ball there; please INCLUDE THE HEIGHT OF THE SHOT or peak trajectory before it falls back down towards the end target.
3-find an intermediate point that will set you up into that picture-so that when you let the weight of the club release you to the target, you can predict that the ball position, the distance to the ball, the posture, and the grip-club face relationship will fit the flight when you let the club track itself into the direction you want to start the ball.
Predictions video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQF5GjxzFs
4-set up done? Prediction of shot done? It is now OUT of YOUR CONTROL, just give control to gravity and let the weight of the ACU release itself in the direction you want to start the ball. Look for the feel of that low effort and nice whipping velocity that unleashes that ball into that flight with freedom and abandon!
5-DID YOU LET IT? DID you stay with the feel of that release to that direction? Or did you get distracted by “making sure” of a position or something else making noise around you?
If you stayed with it: how was the direction? how was the contact? How was the balance? How was the strain level?
If you did not stay with it, something short circuited you and you were trying to do something else; what was that you were trying? What were your concerns?
6-The most important stat in golf is how many times (there are average 36 full swings on the golf course) were you able to stay with your shot all the way to the finish? Can You CONFIRM WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT YOU felt the release of the club in the direction you wanted to start the ball?
Hi Shawn, I have this HUGE problem of hitting my hybrids with this massive draw. It’s a “see you on the next hole” kind of draw. It has reached a point where my hands are too far forward of the ball (ball in center of stance) so that I can square the clubface at address. What do you think is happening? I have little issues with my single length irons other than the occassional slice or not so good contact – but in general – I can live with my irons. Thanks!
You will see this often as the hybrids are way too draw biased for starters AND they have a bowed face that makes the club face look a lot more open than it actually is and I find many students over close the hybrid because of this;
So open it up until you get your nice draw back or get another TOUR PREFERRED hybrid and get properly fit for it.
I’m new here and I’m new to golf (8 months in) at the young old age of 55 years. Sometimes things you already know still have to be verbalized. I went out to the winter range here today with only one thing from here: the grip. Like so many newbys, I’m a slicer, except that I’m a great slicer. I can carry it 245 yards and still it lands on the fairway next door 50 or 60 yards offline. Today, with your grip videos, my nastiest slice was 25 yards off. I can live with that … for now. Thanks a ton mate!
Hey Shawn…great video. Question..I use my 56 for everything around the green except when I’m making a shot over a bunker onto a close pin. I’ve had very good results with the 56 when I continue to practice my shots . Am I being stubborn by refusing to try a 9 or 8 iron for these shots? I seem to get too much juice on them when I try it in practice so I always go back to the good old 56.
I don’t think so; depends on the size and speed and firmness of the greens!
There is a club in Toronto called York Downs that has greens that are pretty good size that I always use my 60 degree on because of how firm and fast the chips land; never saw that anywhere else…
Sean i am a new member and got back into golf few years ago and nothing was working until I went to a more rotational (square to square) type swing. Then I had a bad fall and hurt my hip and while I can still stay around 10 handicap my hip hurts and really hard to play 2 days in a row. I am also 63 years old so looking for a swing that is body friendly.
Your swing looks so effortless i am hoping I can get there but transition from rotational to gravity while conceptually makes sense, really feels foreign to me. I have reviewed lots of videos and noticed that most videos where giving a lesson you really focus on the task of releasing to target and you seem to get the student to better contact yet most of their swings don’t look anything like your easy motion swing.
If I am going to go thru the struggle of swing change then I truly need to make it a body / hip friendly swing. Should I try to mimic your swing with the up and down movement….or is there multiple ways to achieve a powerful but body friendly swing? Do you have suggestions for as seniors? I haven’t found any videos specific for we seniors on the site.
Very nice post!
All videos on this site are completely senior friendly! Most my students are between 40 and 80.
Also, everything here applies to the human machine! See “Cameron Champ age 12 shawn clement” on youtube and that is the swing all kids should have!! The perfect model.
Now, as for your hip, here is what we need to do: PERFORM A TASK SUCH AS “PEEL THE CARROT” which is to send the carrot peel to the direction you want to start the ball with ease and a nice velocity and listen to your system and perform it with your body. Your brain is an amazing problem solver and will take the steps it needs to survive and thrive with what you have.
See my “top 3 tasks” video on premium and see “Golf is as easy as peeling carrots shawn clement” on the regular channel
Shawn— I had a break through thanks to you and the back ground instruction I have done over the past 5 years when I began to play golf at age 50. The immedite cause of this massive improvement is that, without saying it in any of your videos?, you really teach students how to drop into the slot. Its a scary, new feeling to keep my arms close together, make a full, real back turn, and bravely bend my right elbow to 90 degrees. I can even pause here at the top almost indefinately like your baseball player at the plate waiting for a pitch. But, when I make a small weight shift and rotate while, at the same time unweighting my arms and leading with a pointed right elbow and connected left armpit, I feel the weight of the sword falling into the directly into ball, which actually releases the wrists, and the finish is perfect with a natural rehinge. Golf Tips Magazine, in the current print issue (January/February) has one teaching blurb: “Full Back, ‘Free Fall” and Through. Key Feel— “Trap Door” Triggered by the Hips. But, I would not have understood this with your teaching of the using the weight of the sword and we are gravity geniuses.. Thank you.! Paul B.
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