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
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!
Great question!
The series you want to pay attention to is the “Off Season training series” which is a series of 20 sessions;
It takes you through various TASKS, while enjoying a session at the range and brings you to feel the sensations you need to feel to acquire a nice skill!
The end result is “I am going that way with this feel and I predict that the ball will end up flying the way I want to when I do perform that task!”
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!
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?
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?
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???
When the brain takes control, and no longer lets the arms and club track, then that clearing action of the body gets cancelled and it becomes a “manipulated manoeuvre “ that makes it look like there is restriction…
In his rehearsal swings, there was no such obstruction…:)
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.
I went to an indoor simulator to try and get my transition to mimic what happens at the apex of a swinging pendulum. Good results! The ‘clanky’ hit mostly went away and I started getting compression. However, I noticed sometimes that my focus shifted from the ball/target image to my hands over my head (trying to make a good transition occur). Oops. Direction and contact suffered when that happened. Correct me if I am wrong, but transition needs to become ‘second nature’. Hopefully, you could squeeze in a drill to cover that in the next segment of the ‘Backswing’ series. Looking forward to it.
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
From what you saw at your class in Melbourne, FL. , I am thinking about a more player Iron maybe I200 or iBlade reason why is to have more workability that you don’t get from oversize iron heads plus I always preferred a thinner top line. What do you think?
I agree! Only if you hit the, well though; I blades are my first choice, however, just ordered my daughter’s i-200s and they are MONEY!! She is so excited!
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
Here is my question to you: what is the task? Collecting the ball from where it is and delivering it to where you want it to go with the flight plan chosen. Best way to do this is to cut grass in that direction with a solid velocity and low effort. When I personnaly grip down, I feel a loss of feel in my momentum and for me, this is more disruptive to my swing than the lie.
Thanks Shawn. I’d always felt that choking down gave me “greater control” of the club face. I’m learning it actually enabled me to “manipulate” the club face and, rather, I’m better off allowing gravity and momentum to complete the task.
Bob
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