Shawn,
My approach to an uphill shot is to play the ball in the “normal” position away from me, and then choke up on the club. Looks like your approach is to keep the same grip on the club, but to play the ball farther away from the body. Can you comment please?
Thanks.
Bob

Hi Shawn,

I’m newly retired and now have the time to immerse myself into your teaching wisdom. I have always been a student of the game. As you have suggested, I have purchased “Attention and Motor Skill Learning” and “The Anatomy of Greatness.” Can you point me to your videos that outline how you evolve from “technique/position” learning to automatic/target learning. We all need some technique work. But how do we go back and forth through different modes of motor skill learning? By the way, swinging anatomically, has enormously reduced pains in my shoulders and hips!! Thank you for that!

Please advise….Thanks in advance!

Dan

Hi Shawn & Dr. Jeremy,

I enjoyed this lesson very much because I struggle with the same thought processes of Dr. Jeremy. What helped me was the simple instruction: “don’t let the left arm hit the rib cage going back, and the right arm is not going to hit the rib cage coming through.” And “let the weight of the arm/club unit to perform the task.”

This has been added to my Favorites. I’m looking forward to the next sessions with the irons!

Dan

So it seems when he sh……ked the ball , he was taking manual control of the club rather than using perpetual motion? Does this same motion cause the sh…k with a full swing as well?

Very good and thanks Shawn!

Dan

So it seems when he sh……ked the ball , he was taking manual control of the club rather than using perpetual motion? Does this same motion cause the sh…k with a full swing as well?

Thanks

Don

Great video, you see & understand so much from a short delicate chipping movement. Wonder is a few swings with the GForce Swing Trainer Wedge would not help him feel the way the club/arm unit and momentum do the work.

Starting with peck movement is great for me. Letting my arm unit fall controls my speed.
I also keep my eyes focused on the back of the ball. I feel this focus keep me on direction.
I saw this contine focus on the back of the ball in one of your other videos. When the ball doesn’t go where I expect it to go, I know I lost this focus.
Thanks
George

Shawn are you seeing a contact focus that restricts the Dr.’s head and shoulder rotational freedom forcing a cutoff follow through resulting in the head chasing the club head instead of rotating around the sternal notch???

Wonderful video! Must compliment you both for a excellent presentation. Adjusting the Doctors takeaway made all the difference then everything looked rhythmical.

I was just about to send you an inquiry about finding the right transition. Then you posted this video. I have always suspected that my ‘grabby’ transition was causing all sorts of issues. Especially at impact. All the positions looked good, I had decent club head speed and sometimes hit decent shots BUT impact just did not feel right. (for both full shots and short shots) Impact was quite often ‘clanky’. Of course I would occasionally take an easy swing hitting the ball a country mile and not truly understand what was going on. You mentioned in this video “starting a mini kinetic chain” and then showed the image of a club swing from your fingertips just falling back and forth. This created an ‘Aha’ moment. When I let a club swing from my fingertips, my brain could see and feel the natural transition created by gravity. You have to actually do this to get it. I think am getting closer. 🙂 Looking forward to the next video.

Great lesson! Well worth the cost of admission, as always. Thanks Shawn!

Shawn,
I’d like your opinion of putting while looking at the hole. It seems that if I trust my line and let
momentum and gravity take over control of the stroke- then putting while looking at the hole is just
the ticket! Have you tried this method? Any views on this method?
Thanks.
Bob

I just watched and oldie but goodie of yours from 2007 Chicken Wing across the line, the club you use with the dowel extended to help with chipping you use it to show the arms in front and it going down the target line. I have a similar device that attaches to my clubs point is after our class in Melbourne, FL. I was having trouble with the back swing being across the line and wrist hinge, this video and the one with the WRX Backswing wrist hinge early or late really helped put this in a better perspective.

Shawn,
My approach to an uphill shot is to play the ball in the “normal” position away from me, and then choke up on the club. Looks like your approach is to keep the same grip on the club, but to play the ball farther away from the body. Can you comment please?
Thanks.
Bob