Hey Frank! Yes, make sure you see “predict contact” and the “goldie locks series” with the “distance to ball video at the forefront. Once you have predicted that the ball is “in the way” of your throw, and that your grip and club face relation is closed enough, then you will be able to STAY WITH THE THROW in the direction of the intermediate point into the flight plan. See also “blur of club” and “arc blur unstoppable momentum series”

Right on Nancy! Our instincts are so spot on! Keep me posted to your progress!

DEFINITELY STOP DOING THAT! Your perception of the backswing is definitely off:

1-feel like you are using 1/10 effort to get 7/10 velocity towards the target on the way out
2-peak speed is way past the ball to the target-feel like if this was your full time job, you can whip the grass clippings out there and do this all day and get up the next day and do it again.
3-keep your attention on the target side of the ball and use 2 extra clubs to send grass clippings with momentum; if you overdo the backswing, you will not be able to use the weight of the ACU to perform the task.
4-See “arc blur unstoppable momentum series” and “perpetual motion drill series”
let me know how you do!

Thanks Shawn for recommending some of those videos. I also watched a bunch of other ones and I don’t remember which one it was but it was one where you said that the arms should be “in front of my body” in the backswing. I was swinging the club more around my body and really stretching out my left lat muscle. It has made a huge difference! I don’t feel any strain in my backswing.

I also like that you recommend allowing the hips and legs to turn into the backswing. I was actually told in previous lessons by another instructor to “keep my knees facing forward” through my backswing to keep a “stable base”. I would try swinging making my legs feel like tree trunks (not moving). This always felt wrong to me but I kept trying to do this thinking it was the right way. It feels to natural to allow my whole body to turn.
I’m so happy to have joined this premium channel and look forward to playing injury free.

Right on Nancy! Our instincts are so good; nice to now be allowed to listen to them! 😀👍

There you go! Lightbulb! 👍😀

Great question!
For those older students with limited mobility, the diagonal stance on all shots is a great option! If you don’t have any issues with mobility, you get to choose! They are both great!!😀👍

Hey Neal! Sorry but that Zen Golf guy does not get it at all! You can see how he has no idea about the human kinetic chain and how it engages with tasks and not through freaking body part positioning.

You are close to feeling it; so I want you to review or Start with the “throw the club” video and then see “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” AND THEN SEE “turbo charge lead hand release” and “turbo charge trail hand release” and the “snap release polish” then do it with the “feet together drill” and feel how the legs turbo charge the snap of the release and finally see “feet together back to feet apart”
The final product will be “kinetic chain facilitation series” (#6 is my favourite and will yield huge dividends when mastered.

There is the sequence of events you need at the order you need to see and experience!

Ok thanks. Kintetic chain #6 is a chipping video. Is that the right one? Also in one of your videos the mention to watch one part in slow motion but you can’t watch any videos on this site in slow motion the option is not there.

It’s the one where we are using an iron and sending divots while walking into the trees; could be # 4 my mistake! Some have stop action but mot all when it comes to slow motion; we have a slow motion series where I do most tasks and most shots from 4 different angles in slow motion called the slow motion series.

Is there any chance that you could embed the playback speed control into your videos so we can play them back at slow speed if we need to? https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012275447-Playback-speed-controls

Big chance! We pay Vimeo a lot of money so if this is now possible on their players (I have been looking for this for a long time) I will get right to it! Thank you so much for sending this Neal! Thank you for having our backs!! 🫶🫶🫶

Hey Frank! You bet! See the “Henryk Stenson Drill add on” video; super video! Also see the “2 tee drill perpetual motion drill series” and “contact mile markers” and “battering ram drill” just to name a few; let me know how you do!

Hi Thilo! The key is that you are happy with the distance and direction of your shots and you are able to deliver through the ball; so perhaps your grip perception is stronger than you think! Many players are fine with a more neutral grip and can get nicely through the ball; there are no set rules in stone here, just deliveries to target that are easy to perform. So congratulations on finding your recipe! Shawn

You bet!
1-you need to see and reconfirm the “alignment reload” video first
2-blur of club video to know what the club is doing down there on practice swings
3-arc blur unstoppable momentum series
4-draw fine tuning
enjoy!

Ah!!! In alignment reload I see that the ball is aligned a bit to the right side of the alignment marker. If my observation is correct, I need to pick an alignment mark that is to the left of the ball for a draw. Is this correct?

Almost! Straight on is better; then keep the arc-blur to the right of it; sometimes it can be the camera angle!

Nice lightbulb comment!👍🫶😀

Hey Jon! See “fade fine tuning” and grip part 2 please! Some of my students do very well with the same grip as Matt Fitzpatrick; weak right and strong left; it all depends on your own anatomy and how the shoulders come forward on your body. So do some goldie locks with your grip’s strength; on each individual hand like in the goldie locks series-grip club relationship” video

Hey Mark! Yes, I know what you mean! My content is very elaborate and complete and far from the body part hornet’s nests but I still have to bridge the gap that was created by the golf teaching industry; no fault of theirs as we all do our best. (I think 😝)

so it would be great for you to either write right here what your tendencies are and I will point you to a nice list of videos that will pertain to that and get you evolving in the right direction; no rush as this is really the last place you will need to be as we all evolve towards great golf together! Glad to see a couple video clips as well; just email me at [email protected] and add what you have been doing and why. Looking forward to your response! Shawn

Hey Shawn!!
A sticking point with me, and I just had a lesson with my coach yesterday (2/24), is that I’m still stuck on my back foot too long. When I practice my swing, no ball, my intended task is to be mostly up and off my back foot at impact, on the toe. While I “feel” this does happens the camera shows NONE of it occurs. Feel versus Real. 😛
Seth (Seth Dichard, Hudson NH), my coach, gave me a step drill to perform and also suggested seeking out your help and/or videos you may have to assist with this?

I’m integrating the throwing of the club, which is terrific… I need some help moving forward more than I presently am. I’ll get some swing video to you as soon as I can obtain them from Seth.
All the best!
Mark

Hey Mark! Ok, there is stuck on the back foot because you are trying to lift or hit the ball as your target instead of delivering a task to the target. And then there is having the right foot down as an anchor for the head staying back as you stay with the direction you want to start the ball’s flight on like John Rahm and Tony Finau and Cameron Young and many other players. Have you seen how long John Rahm’s right foot stays down well past impact? This was also the late great Moe Norman’s signature move. The video for this is called “bolted and centred”

Now if you are in the first camp, which is when you look down you see a ball and you are trying to hit the ball or trying to move body parts into positions, then you want to see “top 3 tasks”, “slow motion task”, “task update”, “task 2.0” and one of my favourite series is “kinetic chain engagement facilitation series” which is a 2.0 version of the “walking drill” and don’t forget the “throw the club” and the “throwing series” which is a right of passage for any golfer and if you have a nice safe netted area to practice this, you will be amazed at how awesome your swing looks on video when you perform this drill well.

Hey Shawn!
Email sent with my swing video, front and down the line.
Thanks!

The purpose of the swing caddy is to feel that use of the G-forces in the swing and how the legs eventually start pushing off the ground to deliver more pull to the arm-club unit away from the shoulder sockets and towards the direction you want to start the ball; it has been and is still a great ally in achieving a certain feel in the swing that is anti-manipulation and anti strain from the arms because you need to have some good ground reaction forces to get it to click. See “turbo charge the lead hand and trail hand release” videos as well as the “pumping up the swing” and “pumping up the volume” videos.

Hey Frank! See first and foremost “blur of club” and the “arc blur unstoppable momentum series” and see also “how to match backswing to ball direction”

good stuff! I can feel you are getting closer and this is where goldie locks comes into play and is based on the “make the tee summersault over the intermediate point” with a momentum based lasso. This will be the crowning glory on the driver in a few short weeks of premium with the series we just started last week; You can get a nice taste of it with “snap release polish” video, then the “already always momentum sending the grass clippings pitch” video from this week and the “throwing series” driver video as well as the diagonal stance series driver fade and draw” videos.

When calmly doing a PMD drill with the driver with full “out of the way-out of the way” in BOTH DIRECTIONS, feel where the tee needs to be to get collected and released over the IP. Then practice just sending tee tips that way without the ball and get that accuracy down to where the tip is always clipping the centre of the bottom of the club face on the first groove. Then when you have done that a couple dozen times, place the ball on that tee and REALIZE it cannot prevent you from performing that task and that it will just slow the release down a millisecond or 2. Then feel that your PMD is going calmly, and that the shape of the arc is moving nicely through the tee tip making it tumble that way and allow that to happen and then see how you do! Enjoy!!🫶👍😀

Thank you so much for the fine tuning suggestions. I am so pleased with the improvements your methods have enabled me to experience. Just need a little more polish to help navigate our tight layouts.

You bet! And I forgot one that I use on tight courses; “driver for accuracy” which is a slightly different set up but one that will yield very quick and lasting results!

Read “driver for accuracy” early this morning before my weekly round of golf. Amazing difference in accuracy off the tee today. I will continue to work on these adjustments and certainly will read the other lessons you have suggested. My Wisdom In Golf membership has helped me to be able to enjoy the game. Thank you for being available to ensure we are getting the maximum benefits from your lessons.

Right on! This is why I get up in the morning! To get you to play this game to your fullest potential and spread the word! This game is too precious to squander!

Perfect! Yes! Please carry on; that is spot on! 🫶😀👍

along the path i want club head to travel with great results this will be my new favorite along with football drill

Corrected that typo