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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!!!
Hi Shawn, what things can I do to 100% confirm that my takeaway and top of backswing are truly going in the direction I want to send the ball without having the trained eye of a golf pro? Are there things that I can place on the mat/grass that are mile mark checkers to know I’m actually staying in the direction I want to send the ball? As you’ve seen with countless students, what we feel or even see does not always match what is reality.
Yes, you bet! See the “blur of club” and all the “arc blur” videos first; then when you come back to this video and 1-confirm takeaway matches direction or ARC TOWARDS THE SIDE OF INTERMEDIATE POINT YOU WANT TO SEND THE BALL, and then go to the top of the backswing and stop and FEEL YOU CAN STILL WHIP THROUGH THE ARC-BLUR IN THE SAME DIRECTION. Confirm this by doing practice swings ABOVE THE BALL and see that the blur is traveling through the ball and into the side of the IP you want it to start on. Now you have a blue print. And you are THROWING THE CLUB EASILY AND POWERFULLY THAT WAY.
Excellent video. I have watched many videos. What is the easiest swing thought to take to the course. Invariably I have a hundred different things I think about.
Hey Gregg! You always play with a task or a collection of tasks that you match up with different situations! Example: Door frame or Battering ram would be for into the wind shots and sending dandelion stems into the air would be for high shots downwind. You would be delivering with the feel that you need to deliver like in the “pre-motor cortex series” which is mucho money!!
I noticed when I practiced yesterday that when I was making solid contact my ball flight was lower then what I expected. The area I practice at allows me only to use my wedges. I got more distance but my ball flight was lower
Not a problem! When the time comes when you get back outside or into a higher area like a dome, then you can have fun with higher throws! See “matching task to golf shots” for high and low shots as well as “club speed” video which is a really cool throwing video and I highly recommend it if you can get into a space to do throws like that! Be safe! 😀👍
Excellent concept. This is a very important basic that I never gave much thought to, until now.
This is what is great about it: THERE IS NO GREY AREA; it either matches the direction you want to start the ball, or not. Stay wide in that direction and you will naturally get on plane; no thinking.
Shawn, You mentioned you used heavier shafts in your fairway woods to help with momentum.
It seems that heavier shafts and clubs in general best fit your model to allow gravity to do the work with unstoppable momentum. Correct? Or am I missing something? Manufacturers seem to make clubs lighter for older players. Help me understand why? Easier to manipulate? Something else?
Charley Martin
Hi Charley, sorry I missed this one! Manufacturers are making lighter to allow the golfer to whip the club easier. But if too light and too flexible, then you lose that tracking ability. A good balance between dynamic weight and strength of the individual.