Hi Shawn, can you explain your foot tap weight shift / rhythm move to start your swing please ? I know you used to kick the knee in and I see a video where you explained the change once but can’t remember where it is .
Thanks
Dave

The fade and draw are easy to understand now by just moving around the center of the driver head from a neutral stance/position. I saw the driver head blur go to right for the draw and left for the fade positioning. Cant get these confused any more with this basic process of positioning.

First many blessings to you and the family this Christmas. So what happens when you back off and the distance actually backs off. For instance, taking 40 yards off my 5 iron. It should go 130. I made sure I used a full turn and most of the time (70%) was on task, see the blur of the club. I consistently hit it 140-150. Sometimes I’d hit 160/165. The only thing I can say for certain is it was much much more straight. I even had someone on the range complement me on how smooth and easy my swing was!….but I did not get any real feeling of compression out of it. I’ve done this now a couple times. Any ideas on where my kinetic chain went?

Joined recently Absolutely love your wonderful teaching. My question: how do you elevate your swing so at the top, you are basically pointed at the target. You even slow your swing down almost to a halt before the release. How do you do that? My nemesis is a very flat swing and whatever I do, I can’t seem to get the club to the top in upright fashion. {I will be sending you a video soon.} I am tall 6’3″ and it feels like I am not using my height and reach to fullest advantage.

Hey Shawn! I understand the concepts in this video and some of your others regarding how you want to feel that the backswing position you’re in at different points of the takeaway should always “feel” like you are able to throw the club in the direction of the target from those positions, especially at the top.

However, your video on your regular YouTube channel, “Free Wheeling Vertical Backswing to Shallow” seems contradictory to me, when you show how no matter how steep you bring the backswing, if you are focused on throwing your club, it should naturally shallow out.

I find for myself, I tend to takeaway too vertical and so my downswing, even when throwing the club, will be super steep (sometimes 65-70 degree swing planes for a 7-iron, and I’m only 5’6″) and probably causing my seemingly random misses.

Can you help clear up how a “free wheeling” vertical takeaway coincides with the idea of how the takeaway positions should always feel like you can throw towards your target, since to me a vertical takeaway doesn’t feel that way?

Hope that made sense!!!

Just wanted to make sure I am understanding this correctly at 8:52 in video you show the “hinge” and in addition to hinge on the wrist snuff boxes there is a bit of counterclockwise rotation as well in arms? I tried searching hinge and went with Arm motion Fine Tuning which I suspect verify’s what I am thinking, along with keeping right bicep free to to move below left pec. Hope i am correct because it really make me feel my arms are more connected to one another. Thanks

Being an inexperienced player, and having just discovered you guys, I wanted to obviously start correctly. Already in one week I have noticed a huge difference in contact and direction with difference varying on how often I get it close to right. So many thanks for that.
When you turn the grip to Sav’s grip position should the club face be back to square? In an older video of yours it looked like you had student really closing the club face in final address to draw the ball whereas I thought you just changed the ball position and swing right of your marker. Could have been a mistake on my part.
Regards Steve

Meant to say distance varying(oops)

As usual, you are spot on! Your buddies encourage you to hit that great big tee shot and you end up with a great big mess of a shot. Why – going for the MAX yardage instead of the smooth swing with less yardage in mind! This series is a very helpful reminder of how to bring your strain level under control during your round.
Happy New Year to all of you at Wisdom in Golf!

You always said effortless focused swing ‘out there’ through the intermediate point, ‘Out of the way….out of the way’. My VERY delicate focus means that this swing flavour is paramount to produce a nice attack angle/loft combo that produces nice ball compression across all the clubs. Biggest struggle is with fairway woods. Too steep and “helping”swing but correcting the irons helps with the correct sensation maintaining the kinetic swing.
Best wishes for you Shawn for 2023. Might get up to QC and touch base. Cheers.

Love the routine but only you and Mu started behind the ball. I get lazy in practice at times and feel I can make adjustments without the rewind…. When it is my shot I need the #1 event to be …stand behind the ball and use my binocular vision to confirm my intermediate point that matches the shot direction and shape. WIG rules!! thanks..

Thank you for this series Shawn,all parts of the body in harmony … if you feel that your swing is good and you felt a real pleasure .thank you for all Shawn.happy new year .jj

Hi Shawn,

I’m a new member and love the content.

I’ve been watching your videos on YouTube and on here.

I have a question on pre setting the closed club face or maybe not a question but problem.

I have a strong grip and hip tilt ,I pre set the club face as closed but I’m still getting a fade or sometime a slice . I’d love to see a baby draw.

The first time I tried this tilt and strong grip (right foot slightly back) normal club face prior to watching your channel, I was hitting bombs at the driving range , but haven’t been able to recreate it. I’m getting weak slices or power fades.

When I pre set the club face as closed by a bigger degree it seems to cause it to slice more …. If I close it as a experiment even more I get a duff hook shot 20 yards to the left.

Presetting the club faces makes sense to me, but can’t seem to get it to work the way you describe.

Any ideas or videos I should look at ? Also how do I upload the monthly swing analysis video?

Thanks
Michael

It’d be great to see you play with different trajectories with your wedge, hitting both draws and fades at different heights.

Thanks for another great video.

Shawn, I’ve noticed you’ve switched to parking your eyes in front of the ball and sending the grass clippings from there as your task. Can you elaborate on what you’ve found the difference is from switching where you park your eyes to complete your sending grass clippings task? What advantage or difference do you personally find changes with the quality of your ball strike with where you park your eyes? How far in front of the ball are you looking? Does that distance change slightly from club to club? What type of typical “miss” do you notice looking in front vs behind the ball? Lots of questions I’m curious about as I’m still trying to find what task works best for me.

Thanks!
Dave