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Wow Shawn, this series, especially the catapult analogy, has been eye opening for me! I watched a video of my swing from this past summer filmed down the line, and despite making decent contact and a good divot, my trail foot was lifting wayyyyyyyyy before i hit the ball. This to me is an indication, and even confirmation, that I am defaulting to the ball more often than not and losing a TON of leverage and speed because I am losing the anchor of my swing!
Is the catapult the best drill to ingrain the feel of being anchored to the ground and to keep the trail foot on the ground until after impact? A huge light-bulb just went off when I was watching your trail foot. It does not lift until well after impact and I could now see the leverage and “pop” you create from this anchor. Just a wow moment for me right now! Is it spring yet?! Thank you Shawn for your amazing instruction as always!
Hey Dario! Good stuff!
Feet together, uphill shots, ball below feet, fairway bunker practice-all great for this!
Of you are indoors, feet together training is your best bet. Always catapult without strain to a specific target and fade or draw! If you hit 7 irons 150, then feet together 100 is the feel. The key is feeling the arms get pulled through by the kinetic chain and not push of shove with arms OR RIGHT SIDE!
Have fun!
Awesome! Thank you Shawn. Another light bulb! I actually noticed that fairway bunkers are some of my best shots of the day. All makes sense to me now, the stable platform of locking into the sand keeps me anchored and I was doing this without even thinking! Fantastic stuff!
Hi Shawn;
After many years trying different teachers, corrections, etc.. With your teaching and your tips, during the last three months I obtained an incredible advance in my impacts, distances, accuracy and flights, with my wedges, irons and hybrids.
With the wood 3 I gained confidence that is a lot, because was my worst club in the bag and now, I known that I can hit a fade o draw with this. But with the wood 3 and the driver I can’t feel as with my irons and hybrids the catapult effect/feeling, promoting this the use of the force and ending in poor strokes, and losing the focus of the task.
Could you give me any tip or any specific video to improve the catapult effect/feeling with the wood and driver?
Thanks in advance
Toni
Hi Tony!
Driver and woods are longer clubs and will require more outward pull away from the body; are you giving yourself enough space at address? Hands should be farther away from your thighs for sure with the woods!
Thanks for your quick reply Shawn!! I will verify this.
Congrats on the new gig Shawn. Thanks for the great video (#10). Put it to the test today with my new driver. Whoohoo! Hitting some great drives. The Long Irons are a different story but I’ll keep working on that. Thanks again.
Awesome Lynn!!
Hi Shawn
Brilliant series , the catapult has helped me no end . I find the practice swing over my ball is absolutely fantastic was struggling with the draw and that has fixed it . Any chance of some “lefty” videos the series with your daughter and videos with Matt are great for me as a “lefty” . And I know you can play both , very little lefty instruction out there ! We have to switch everything about to suit
Congratulations on the expansion by the way .
Steve
Right on Steve, and thank you very kindly;
We are going to be doing a ton of lefty stuff this year and a ton of French videos as well for those who want to learn some! 😝😀
Hey Shawn! Great series here. I am new to the game and absolutely love your approach! It is spot on! I am glad that I have not developed any habits that I were so committed to when I found you on Youtube. I have been watching many of your videos and I have a question about when you are hitting your fade shots. It appears that your left foot (when striking righty) is slightly open and a little behind your right foot. Is this correct or just a camera angle thing?
Please keep the “common sense”, simplistic golf approach coming.
Definitely the camera angle; we are aligning ourselves “parallel to the direction we want to start the ball, which is left of target since we don’t want to start the ball on target and fade away from it, we want to start the ball left of target and fade the ball to it. Make sense?
Thanks for the quick reply. So for my own learning – you do the same on the draw – align your feet parallel to the line you want the ball to take – which is just to the right of your reference point. So what makes the ball fade or draw is actually the ball position (front of center for fade and just back of center for draw and the slightly more closed club face) and the direction you release your hands – just want to make sure this has sunk in 🙂
Thanks again!
Close yes! All good except for alignment for draw; you line up with where you want the ball to end for draw; and when you play the ball back of centre, it will naturally move the ball to the right of where you wan the ball to end.