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Great video. I was using this one too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJCrEooDs2s (THE FULL BODY WAGGLE TO START THE GOLF SWING). But .. The longer I’m over the ball, the more I struggle to stay on task and keep those “position” thoughts out of my head. How do we balance the time to do the waggle with the longer time over that ball? Keeping my ADHD in check 🙂
Hey Paul! Good question! This is practice in the routine; Sergio had to redo his whole routine at one point; the best one is
1-flight plan
2-intermediate point
3-set up matches picture; how do you know? Well, the prediction process is based on you letting momentum pass you by and into the direction of flight; so once you confirm that your ball position, your distance to ball, your grip club relationship and your ball first contact are in order, the question is:
4-WHERE IS MY MOMENTUM?
see “momentum already there before you start the swing” series as the final act of each routine!
A+ for the Momentum Series.. I’ve found that practicing my pre-shot routine in solitude is worlds apart from an actual game—where there are more distractions and human obstacles on the tee box.. ☹
One follow-up, when practicing, I am focusing more on mechanics and balance, not 100% on target because I have to fix things like not swaying in the backswing, see NAIL THE CRITICAL FIRST 2 FEET OF YOUR BACKSWING, working my way through the clubs. Then, when playing, focus on my task and target, forging the mechanics, and wait for it to just come together on its own?? Will this ever happen.. does this approach make sense? It is just taking way too long for me.. ☹
Thanks again for your time!!!
Hey Paul! You mean foregoing the mechanics; yes! Staying with the target is another way to ensure that the proper mechanics will eventually come! Such as “match backswing to ball direction” and “blur of club” and “arc-blur unstoppable momentum series” where we constantly come back to hey, there is a flight plan that needs to be stayed with; then there is an intermediate point that is required to help us set up to that flight plan and then the set up matches us LETTING MOMENTUM DELIVER OUR TASK INTO THAT FLIGHT PLAN. When we stay with that, we are making the equivalent of that dart throw; and when you focus on throwing a dart to the bull’s eye an hour a day for 2 weeks, you get 15% better at the bull’s eye and closer to the bull’s eye for the rest of the misses. SAME APPLIES TO THE GOLF SWING; best way to ruin this is to start “making sure” and overdo the mechanics.
The videos of task, matching backswing to ball direction, super slow-super-wide super relaxed etc are for understanding and feel relating to the task when momentum is being used front and centre; you can apply these to the practice swing-then you deliver the momentum to the picture when the ball is there and throw the dart.
Great stuff.. Thanks!! By the way, have you noticed more online instructors adopting your concepts and methods? I wouldn’t say they’re stealing, but they should definitely give you some credit.
Yes, that is a great thing! Means there will be less suffering and more people staying in the game! I have seen many of them use my stuff; and yes, it definitely would be nice of them to give me a nudge once in a while for sure! 😝😀👍
Hello Shawn, thank you very much for all of the time you put in and all of the information that you share, it’s greatly appreciated! I noticed in a few of your videos you mention tension level and velocity level (for example, a tension level of 3 and a velocity level of 7). Would you say that the tension level is related to the arms/shoulders and the velocity level is created by the legs using the ground?
Thank you,
Gary
Hi Gary! Actually no but good question! It is always task related when I “declare” things like this. If you take the sword drill in the “lead hand release” and “trail hand release” videos, 2 of my favourites, and your job was to slash through bamboos or sugar cane for 8 hours a day, you would use the weight of the Machete to do your work and would feel a nice slashing or whipping action but you would need to do it with very low effort to last the day. Make more sense now? And yes, your CNS would definitely activate the legs to perform this task.
Got it now! Thank you very much!
Hi Shawn,
for my winter training i bought the phi golf stick. Because i got no room with enough space for real clubs. There i get some interesting data, and also some confusing data. Especially when it comes to angle of attack. The range is from -3 to +3 degrees on the irons. Sometimes when the feeling is really through the ball with the throw of the club or even with spraying paint (a fantistic aha moment) it says angle of attack is +. When it feels, that i released at the ball the angle of attack is -. Have you ever tried this gadget and is the data trustworthy?
It is really satisfiyng seeing savanah, mu and you having so much fun and developing the game.
best regard Christoph
Hi Christoph; this would be a perfect tool to perform the “throwing the club” drill; so when you set up, pretend you are throwing the club through the screen and then see what the data shows. What is the general focus when using this tool for you when you are just about to “hit the shot”?
Hi Shawn,
my main focus is to throw the club into the rehinge.
Just make sure you have a direction to throw and that the re-hinge happens well past the ball; send me a video clip face on when you do this and I will be able to see right away what is happening!