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Hi Shawn !
Great video which reminded me that last year you gave me the advice to close the face in order to promote a «hand first movement».
I had a try today in the practice and some fairways and it went nice (about 160-165 meters with an 8 iron – measured with a telemeter).
I had also sometimes some powerful pull shots or some hooked ones.
It seems to me that it is very important to keep the upper body behind the ball in order to have the proper ball flight. If you go back and forth with the head (in the target direction) as I sometimes do, the face remains close at impact.
In other terms, what could be the cause of a pull or a hooked shot ?
Thanks,
Pierre
Hi Pierre!
See the “through the ball” videos on premium as well as “pre-motor cortex series” and “target confirmation series” which are SO CRUCIAL to the proper delivery of the shots!
Love this video and will try it out on Monday. But to be honest, I am still little bit confused 😉
How many knuckles should I see on my lead hand should I see?
Don’t go there! Your eyes are not in the usual place compared to “traditional instruction”
Stay with the task at hand and feel what you need to be able to deliver the task; see “top 3 tasks” and “task trumps everything” videos
best video ever played for many years with inconsistancy bur the hammer analogy took the scales from my eyes and revolutioned my speed and accuracy. followed you for a few years bur did not get it completely until this video many thanks.,
So happy about that; thank you for the comment! 😀👍
Hi Shawn!
It’s been awhile since I’ve used your stuff and I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of conventional instruction. My game improved but I’m constantly thinking about positions and technique. What videos would you recommend for practice to begin tapping back into a more natural swing and continue improving my golf? Thanks!
best video ever played for many years with inconsistancy bur the hammer analogy took the scales from my eyes and reevolutioned mt speed and accuracy. followed you for a few years bur did not get it completel until this video many thanks.,
Great video. I’m wondering about the task of both hands in relation to the “anatomically aligned” position of lower arm and hands. You emphasize their task as in throwing the club to the target (taking the ball with it on the way).
Couldn’t it also be seen and done a little differently, and I think many pros do it that way, that the tasks of both arm-hand units are somewhat different?
Left arm&hand (for a right handed person) swing the club to the target.
Right arm&hand emphasize the pendulum momentum of the club, throwing the club to the floor (mental picture somewhat in front of the ball)? Like in the task of throwing a stone or a ball in a straight line right at the floor, right at the ball?
It’s how good players produce high speed?
It’s what makes the swing such a difficult movement, because both sides have to accomplish somewhat different tasks?
If the tasks are somewhat different, their targets are different (left arm swinging motion for throwing to target, right arm casting motion of club at the ball or somewhat in front of it) the alignments of the anatomies must be somewhat different too? Means the left hand as you described here. But the right hand maybe a little modified for a throwing at a target at the bottom?
Baseball, Tennis and Hammering do not have the requirement of the left-right dissociation in the same way. It is what makes the golf swing a challenging task IMO.
How do you see it?
Don’t see it the same way at all; Where did you get this info?
You cannot own 2 brains and be in 2 different places at once; that was scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Arm anatomy is same for both right hand left and baseball, hockey, lacrosse, Jai Alai, tennis all have the same human dynamics, just a different tool. I understand it is shocking when you see and hear something that has gone against a prior belief; it happens to me all the time and is what makes us human! 😝😀👍
People who play musical instruments do have often high independence of left and right arm/hands. To the point where the left hand/arm can do a different task altogether. Maybe I didn’t describe my point well. Of course it can be argued – as you do – that both sides should have the same task for the golf swing. But it’s possible to have different movement patterns in both sides, and I was wondering if that couldn’t be helpful. It certainly doesn’t simplify he movement though.
…I use your mental pictures of cutting the stem under the ball and throwing the club to the target for the left arm/hand/grip. The hand travels on a circular path around the body on the swing plane and releases to the cutting stem/throwing club motion. For the right arm I modify it and the mental picture is spearfishing. Throwing a spear on a straight trajectory at the “fish” a bit in front of the ball. The club end with the grip is the tip of the spear. That way the right arm modifies the club angles during downswing quite naturally and creates more lag, but without holding back anything. I believe that is how the good players are swinging the club, it’s the only progressive motion of the right arm that results in the proximity of the right elbow close to the right hip during downswing, which is necessary for in-to-out path and high club head speed. (All for a right handed person) Or what am I getting wrong here?
You have a good observation with the mechanics; yes!
The latest studies on human motor skill learning and the understanding that what you described is a natural movement pattern dictated by human anatomy under the laws of self preservation, Can also be applied to a baseball swing, a Jai Alai swing, a lacrosse swing, and even a hockey wrist shot. The hands cannot work independently because they are merged as one cohesive unit to create leverage and support during the swing. The key is to choose a nice task that supports this pattern naturally without thinking and then let the brain connect the dots on each shot; this is where you will find flow.
You are the master, I’m the student, as far as a golf is concerned. Your mental pictures and methodology are golden for me. But I can’t understand, based on my experience, you postulating that the hands can’t work independently while united in the grip on the golf club. That’s not what’s happening with my hands. They are sitting at different points, right next to each other but offset to each other, on the lever that is the shaft. Like two people paddling in a kayak. They depend on each other and are connected by the boat, but the effects of their paddling movements are different, relative to their position to the center of the moving mass.
Doesn’t both, the way we control clubface and club position in the 3D plane, depend on the difference how left and right hand work on handling the shaft?
Having said that, I’m not saying it is the goal to emphasize the differences in the swinging motion. To the contrary, but just the necessary amount at the right time and place, to create a flowing swing hitting the ball with precision and speed.
I believe if I ignore the difference between the two hands, I will never get more precise.
Yes, on your last post, you are talking about the opposite movements of the hands creating leverage on the handle; all of that is fine and is the flavour that the swing presents to your conscious mind in fleeting glimpses to tell the brain, hey, I like what’s going on or hey, that does not feel very good. What I don’t want happening is you thinking you need to monitor this action because the flight plan, the lie, the situation in the match, all contribute to the way you will be moving through that ball and into the picture. The hands are part of a kinetic chain of events produced in the central nervous system and what starts it is actually just before you swing in the pre-motor cortex. Have a look at “pre-motor cortex series” in premium. You have the feel and the understanding, for sure. I am just going with what I know and the feedback I get everyday from students from the last 35 years of full time teaching and also playing from both sides of the ball; which btw, the feel on my lefty swing vs righty swing are very different, but have the same purpose.