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It seems like in the actual swing that the trail elbow never gets too much past the trail hip, and the trail arm does not straighten until after impact. Is this an accurate observation?
A straight lead arm alone should be maintaining the correct distance to ball, I assume?
Yes, but the “shawn’s favourite drill takes it deeper; and yes, trail arm extends well past ball and not at it.
When you are throwing the football and hitting the fade, it appears as if your open in your stance; not employing the diagonal stance. Is that correct?
Yes, correct! Diagonal stance is an option especially for those who want to draw the woods and driver and have more limited mobility in getting enough momentum to gather in the backswing.
Wow! I love the analogy to the underhand football. I am struggling with the head of the club coming from the outside of my intended direction, which sucks the “whipping” action and makes it very hard to see any blur of the club to the right side of my intermediate target. With this drill, my downswing feels completely on plane without thinking about “shallowing” from the top.
When the snow clears, I can’t wait to tie this drill to throwing the club! It really really takes my mind off the ball as a target. A real gem.
So glad you are enjoying this series; one of my favourite finds and I teach it regularly with a ton of success!
Hi Shawn,
I would like to include the left elbow and shoulder girdle into the mental image and feel of this drill. Single handedly the slash is easy for me, with both hands on the club it is not.
Imagine you draw a downward triangle, sharp angle at your hands, up along the outside of the elbows and the outside of the shoulders, connecting at the base just behind your back.
Are you rotating this triangle ‘out of the way’ and up, then, bringing it down as a unit ( including shouldergirdle, fixed distance between the elbows), now tilted, through the space in front of your body in the plane that allows you to release the hammer correctly unto the nail into the door frame ?
I have the feeling that my left arm/elbow hinders my right elbow to get in front of me.
Why is that so ? Does the left arm or shoulder release/ exorotate/ open to early and pull the right arm out of position ?
How can I keep the two in harmony ?
Regards
Eckhart
What is important to consider is that your body parts are not defective; you would want to combine this drill with “lead hand release” (my favourite) and then “trail hand release” is along the lines of the football series, and then see “release fine tuning” and “snap release polish” (another favourite of mine). Stay with the tasks in these videos and feel how the brain evolves to accomplish the tasks. Enjoy!
Shawn,
thank you very much for your prompt reply. I know my question was not really task oriented.
In your video ‘release fine tuning’ around 3:30 you push a medicine ball. At the moment you push that ball, the right elbow seems straight and the hands seem not to be leading. That is the position that I end up with at impact. I am not sure if that is correct ?
Regards
Eckahrt
Don’t look for the positions, look for the purpose of the drill or analogy; the snap release polish with both hands on the club will be telling for you.
Hi Shawn, when I do the football drill part two on the range, I tend to hit balls fat. Is it that my body is not moving fast enough? Thanks for your input.
Hi Mateo! Good stuff! It just means that you are not providing enough “unstoppable momentum” and being a bit to mechanical about it. Give it more HEFT and FLOW and keep at it! 👍😀