Hey Theodore! My arms are short as well! The best drill ever for release is the “important release update” video; none of my students fail this one after 3 tries; there is no way for the lead hand to stay on the trail hand if it does jot learn how to YIELD. Simply amazing drill!!

Thanks for the quick reply! I’ll give it another view.
I did a bunch of videoing and also found that my arm motion changes as I add swing weight (turning the club around to normal after swinging with the head in my hand). It was subtle, but I can see that with the club weight, I’m unconsciously holding my leading elbow to my side causing all sorts of bad counter-effects – extension at the ball, weird follow-through body motion etc. I need to reprogram myself to let the lead arm swing more freely.

What you need to find out is what is preventing you from delivering your task to the flight plan and short circuiting you. See “goldilocks series” and get that checked out fully and then see “stick your finish despite the ball” and see what happens to the ball when you stay on task and it will give you the pattern you need!

here are the non-negotiable items:
Here is the Pre shot routine’s non negotiable items: 
 
1-Best option for shot
2 rules: 1-Release into safe direction and 2-No strain required to execute your shot

2-Choose flight plan-what line do you want to start the ball and what line do you want to end? (include roll out) 

3-Choose intermediate point; can be straight on or slightly off line, as long as it’s easy to see and well into your peripheral vision (6 to 12 inches in front of ball only) 

4-Confirm alignment of momentum-get ready to see the blur of the path of the club and match it to the ball and intermediate point and prepare to make the ball a PRECISE INTERSECTION on the way through the IP into the flight plan! 

5-Confirm ball position matches the flight plan and the direction you want to start the ball.

6-Confirm distance to ball and see that when you let momentum ride through the blur through ball and IP that you don’t feel the need to reach out from being too far or hold on from being too close and you can let it ride

7-Confirm Grip club relation; see that you know it will curve the way you want to in the air once you allow the momentum to release you through the arc-blur into the flight plan through ball and IP 

8-Confirm levels with relaxed and engaged legs; legs are ready to heave the arms and club into the backswing that would match the direction of the flight plan; and feels like you are ready to allow that solid dose of momentum to ride through the arc-blur through the ball and IP into that flight plan

9-Ready? Where is that dose of momentum? Witness the shot that is being played out for you; you have done your homework and it’s time to get out of the way and let it happen with full abandon; the glue that holds EVERYTHING together is the staying with the direction of flight.

10-once you have confirmed that you stayed with letting momentum execute task through blur of club into flight plan it’t time to observe: 
 
11-scale of 1-5 how free was it and did you stay all the way through with direction? 
12-what is pattern of flight?
13-how is contact pattern
 
Solutions for these patterns that result from your shots:
 
Pulling and slicing pattern
-alignment reload
-blur of club and arc blur series
-goldilocks ball position
-important grip update
-goldilocks grip and club face 
 
Hooking and pushing pattern
-using the weight in swing-axe drill with Savy
-backswing levitation
-Battering ram and Shawn’s New Favourite
-goldilocks grip club
 
Thin and top and toe pattern
-feet together and back to feet apart
-kinetic chain facilitation and engagement
-Alignment reload
-arc blur and club blur
 
Fat and shank pattern
-target confirmation series
-stick finish despite ball series momentum
-kinetic chain facilitation
-goldilocks distance to ball
-football drill series 
 
Toe shots driver and fairway woods
-Diagonal stance series
-Distance to ball goldilocks 
 
Heel shots driver and fairway woods 
-blur of club
-arc blur series
-hammer throw driver
-goldilocks distance to ball
 
Shawn

I make great contact keeping it square but I do wonder if it could be hurting me in someway

Hey Brett! This is when understanding human anatomy is a huge plus; no stress! You are made to properly fold if you ALLOW the arms and club to fold on their own without holding off or manipulating to make it fold. Please see the “perpetual motion drill series” and when swinging from the follow through back into the backswing, let gravity and the G forces release you into the backswing.

Awesome Matt! Exactly! Like when you do the walking drill or the “kinetic chain facilitation and engagement series” where I am walking and sending grass divots into the bushes! There are 2 kinetic chains in the swing that are reunited by the transition.

Another lightbulb! I was more “up down up” without the initial down. But the beginning of the backswing from a static position is really just the end of the forward swing if you did perpetual motion drill. So the little down to heave the club up is really just sort of the jumper cable for the entire swing

This also makes my tempo feel inevitable. The initial pressure down w my feet creates a really smooth automatic transition into my downswing. Good stuff!

Hi David! Yes! See “tilt mile markers” and “head and hip swivel” for more in depth feel; these are there for this exact issue and for more application, practice this on uphill lies, but OUR WAY FOR UPHILL SHOTS, see “uphill shots” video; all these right here on premium!
let me know which one does the trick!

Hi Adam! I am not a fan of that device as it compensates for the inadequacies of the lack of strength in the grip-club relationship and the dual pendulum nature of the arc-club unit as it loads and unloads in the swing. Golfers who have weak to neutral grips and who don’t understand the dynamic aspect of impact need to manipulate the wrists to square the face, so they will bow the left wrist or cup the right wrist with this device to compensate…

When you are behind the ball, there will be a natural forward shaft lean as you don’t ever want to feel like you are manipulating the hands into any positions at address; you want to feel like the arm-club unit is hanging below the shoulders and already in the process of being in the follow through; see “braced tilt” video

Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate it.

Good stuff Paul! Let us know how you are doing please!

Music to my ears! 😀👍

Right on Patrick! There are 2 more phases here that will get you to where you want to go!
priority is the release of the anatomy of the arms, so see these and experience them:
-trail hand release
-lead hand release
-important release update
-release fine tuning
-snap release polish
THEN
-turbo charge lead hand release
-turbo charge trail hand release
-pumping up the swing
-pumping up the volume
Really getting out of the way in the backswing to gather the range of motion you need to use MOMENTUM to throw into that snap release is key so the “lead hand release backswing” is your video there and finally, you can’t be worried about impact or contact with the ball when delivering through so see “goldilocks series” and “target confirmation series” and “stick the finish despite the ball series”
Take your time, enjoy the AH HAs along the way, you are built for this!

keep me posted!
Shawn

Thank you for your advice! I have watched and tried and I see an improvement in feel, but not in measured speed yet. I have noticed that in my backswing, I feel much more snap than in my late downswing. So I tried backhand or putting my lead hand below my trail hand. Immediately I felt MUCH more snap in the downswing aswell. I have tried your very clever drill with just putting my lead hand softly on my trail hand to practice the yield of my lead hand, which helped the feel but still a bad snap. Is it time to start playing left handed or do you have other suggestions?

Best, Patrik

See “the throwing series” where we throw clubs of all lengths and you WILL feel a difference!

See “using the weight in your swing-axe drill with Savy” and hit some shots with the drill until you feel comfortable with it; then send me the clip for analysis.