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hi shawn, my top of the backswing is very flat while i see yours rather steep . is there a trick or exercise how i can get my backswing less flat? regards, ernst
Hi Ernst! This area has been the most misunderstood in the game and Jack Nicklaus almost got us on track but video and fear mongering about control set us in a different path for 35 years. See “using the weight in your swing-Axe drill with Savy and practice this drill and hit shots with it! Then see “backswing levitation” and the “kinetic chain facilitation series” as well as the “unstoppable momentum series” and “perpetual motion drill series”
i m at least 3 years member and i have seen all the clips you mention. I have no physical problems. today i have practiced with the drills and videos you have mentioned and i still have the same problem. So two things are possible 1. i just don t understand it or 2. there is information missing. As you say this is the most misunderstood aspect in the game. An opportunity for progress for many students.
Well, I think it’s time we do a 1-1 lesson together and see what is missing in your understanding; you can send me a face on and sown the line of a 7 iron swing in regular motion and we can then set up an appointment to get together with a skype or facetime or zoom call and if you are able to do it on a driving range or a backyard net that would be a bonus but not necessary.
Hi Shawn, greetings from Chile. I am left hand player who feels more the release with the lead arm (the right arm in my case). When I do the Sword drill you mentioned in the video, I can feel the shaft aligned with my forearm (with the Ulna bone of my right arm), that helps me to feel very easy the takeaway/backswing of the sword. So I try to emulate that feel (forearm aligned to the shaft) when I put the club in the correct manner. Is that feeling ok?. Then in the downswing, I feel my forearm comeback (rotate) to the initial position when I am throwing the shaft/club to the objective. Please let me know if I am in the right way.
Hi Jose; it seams like you are on the right track; the main thing you want to be aware of is when you throw the club in the direction you want to start the ball, that you feel the release past the ball and into that direction and when that occurs, the ball is flying the way you want it to.
Great vid Shawn. Winter stinks! I’m ready to play.
I hear you!😝
I learnt to play in the early ‘70s. Back then we turned our bodies around our locked trail knee and kept our head down and lead arm straight. I got to be not too bad tee to green back then. Not so great now in my stiffer ’60s. I know how much your method makes sense to me and I have managed to incorporate many aspects of it to my game to great effect. My biggest roadblock is the straightening of my legs in the backswing and “getting the ground” in the downswing. The footage of Bryson in his backswing is spot on. I have a great problem getting the ground at a constant level to strike the ball consistently well. I hit a lot of thin shots, interspersed with some fat wrist breakers. Do you have any suggestions for getting the ground with consistent ball striking? Cheers. Les
You bet Les! The feet together drill first; to be able to finish the backswing, BOTH legs must be allowed to come up as the pelvis and ribcage turn out of the way. Then to activate the legs in the downswing, focus on TASK, and feel a nice throw of the club in the direction you want to start the ball.
see “feet together drill” and “feet together back to feet apart” which is all about ground forces; then see “pumping up the swing volume” and “kinetic chain facilitation series”
Hi Shawn, Thanks for the video. When I practice this, especially feet apart, it reminds me a lot of the feeling of a tennis back hand with top spin that you rip cross court. It has the turn it has the legs for power… Is that right?
Yes sir!! Boom!!👍😀
Guess I should have learned a 2 hand forehand or started playing golf as a backhander! Thanks Shawn.