Release Fine Tuning
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Hi Shawn, Please excuse my English (hopefully, you’ll understand what I’m trying to ask here). Just wondering if you could do a super slow motion video of a full swing (for both iron & driver) from the front angle (where the back side of the camera points straight to the target). So we can see your lead & trail hand release action in a real swing, I’m especially interested to see how they move during the downswing, and from release to finish.
Note: I see that you showed that action a little bit around @5:25 on this clip, but not really in a full swing. Or if you already have what I’m asking for on another clip, please let me know.
Thank you for your passion in this sport!!!
Thank you for the comment and noted! 👍👍
How in the world would a good Canadian boy not know the call for a delay of game penalty????
Haha! Only watched hockey until 1986! Then just got too busy teaching 12 hours a day and kinda forgot! 😝
Other than putting, is there any other shot/swing in golf in which this release doesn’t happen? Eg sand shots, chip shots. Or should I be feeling this release in some degree in all shots?
Any shot where you have activated and loaded the second pendulum; chips and putts are a no because there is no release and bunker shots are full swing fades and get a full release; it’s just that the face is much more open to activate the sole’s grind and bounce for spraying sand!
Shawn,
I really feel the distinct release of the club past the hands toward the target for pitch shots and “low power” full swings. However when I go past maybe 65-70% and club speed goes up the feel becomes much more vague. Is this something that is expected or is it an indication that I am starting to manipulate in order to add more oomph to the swing?
Great videos Shawn, and my game is improving nicely since finding you.
I feel my major deficiency has always been flipping. For years, I have been trying to correct this by concentrating on Forward Shaft Lean and Bowed Lead Wrist videos, instruction, etc. and guess what? I still flip my lead hand. The trail hand rarely feels activated. (BTW, I play like your daughter, swing left, but right hand dominant). I started throwing clubs as you suggest and I believe I still flip on the release when I let go. I think I am also flipping while doing perpetual motion drills too? I watched this video and my question is…
Do I need to learn to roll the lead wrist under and trail wrist over, however, do it without “manipulation?” In other words, I may have to try and manipulate the wrists rather than just “feel the weight of the club?” Hopefully you understand my quandary? I just started these drills using weighted objects , but again seems like aimed activation. I willing to keep at it, love the game, but want to make sure I am on the right path.
Ok, yes; you need to LEARN HOW TO YIELD WITH THE LEAD SIDE.
Top spin back hand ping pong release is the best one; and THAT GRIP AND CLUB FACE NEEDS TO BE BIG TIME STRONG ENOUGH TOO!!
If you feel the need to use the hands to square the club, then the club face-grip relationship is way too open;
See my “dominant lead hand shawn clement” and “how to use the lead side shawn clement” videos on youtube; also see the “Backhand series golf wrx” I did with Andrew Tursky from Golf WRX
Shawn
Omy gosh….yesssssss…i needed this bad.. i was noticing i felt restricted on my left side..wich would cause my body to come out of position..wich made me block right… lol..not no more..thanks gr8 vid
Right on Raptor Man! Work it dude!!😀😎👍
Shawn
Extremely helpful as always Shawn!
Am i correct in imaging that not releasing properly is a significant clubhead speed inhibitor?
If so, by how much can that be?
Thanks
Regards
Ian
8 yards minimum!
Just had a great session with a good player; once he used the weight of the sword to release himin the direction of flight; went from 145 8 irons to 155-160 8 irons!
Shawn— I had a break through thanks to you and the back ground instruction I have done over the past 5 years when I began to play golf at age 50. The immedite cause of this massive improvement is that, without saying it in any of your videos?, you really teach students how to drop into the slot. Its a scary, new feeling to keep my arms close together, make a full, real back turn, and bravely bend my right elbow to 90 degrees. I can even pause here at the top almost indefinately like your baseball player at the plate waiting for a pitch. But, when I make a small weight shift and rotate while, at the same time unweighting my arms and leading with a pointed right elbow and connected left armpit, I feel the weight of the sword falling into the directly into ball, which actually releases the wrists, and the finish is perfect with a natural rehinge. Golf Tips Magazine, in the current print issue (January/February) has one teaching blurb: “Full Back, ‘Free Fall” and Through. Key Feel— “Trap Door” Triggered by the Hips. But, I would not have understood this with your teaching of the using the weight of the sword and we are gravity geniuses.. Thank you.! Paul B.
Thank you for the great feedback Paul! Much appreciated;
Will check out Golf Mag!
Shawn
I have always struggled with whether “I” am making this release, which brings in start point, timing, and all the noise, or is the club releasing itself? And if it is releasing itself what am I focusing on for this to happen – the task?
Been on the videos for about three weeks, practicing what are some significant changes. Still can’t play a consistent round
Great stuff – thanks
One of my favourite tasks is cutting rows of grass while walking; you start with letting the club cut grass in both directions and feeling the weight of the club release you PAST THE BOTTOM in each direction and feel that snap and re-hinge in both directions.
Then when you see the blur of the club head passing in front of you, or where you are cutting the grass, then you can know how far to step forward to cut the next row.
Cut some rows for a few minutes and feel how quickly the brain gets the system flowing…if you try to take control of the club then the system gets sabotaged.
Thanks Shawn
Very tough letting go! My conscious mind wants something to do. Also, when I watch you demonstrate this, your hands/handle come much further across your body still loaded – it seems like to your front leg, before the head start to drop and the release starts – I am sure I start to the ball much earlier than this, in fear of topping/hitting it thin, or not getting the club face closed. Probably why my misses are always sweeping draws, that start online, and just keep going left.
Thanks for the quick response – work to do today!
Make sure you see our “predict contact video” on premium for the concerns of contact and direction; Shawn
Thanks Shawn, I was just getting ready to load that. After 60-65 balls at the range, of trying to make the release happen, I finally let go. My focus on the downswing was just getting the ground, and “leading” the trailing elbow under. Rotation and release just began happening
So now, predict contact, task, range and the course. Glad it’s a Friday
Thanks a lot
I have heard through others instructors that having loose wrist helps a lot with release and creating more clubhead speed . Is this your task based focus on their body part focus ?
Understanding how to let anatomy work is #1 key; then understanding how staying with the task will make it work way better and more efficiently is the cherry on the Sunday; then it is about execution and feeling it in action so that you know what to predict when the chips are down.
Shawn
The task would be to let the club release your hands ?
Yes; if that is the task, which is often mine, I allow myself to stay with this task by predicting that when I do feel that task that the dandelion stem is in the way or the doorframe will get squeezed through; you saw the Prediction videos?
Yes my prediction for contact has improved and consistency has gone up now that I have fined tuned my image of contact . Was a incredible milestone .
Hi Shawn, I have been letting the “weight of the hammer” release me, as noted in your lessons on “trail hand release” and “lead hand release”. How does the active emphatic release taught in this video come in? Is this an alternate approach?
Not really; different approaches to the same release; some resonate better depending on the individual;
Shawn
Yes, the same release with the driver; make sure your distnce to ball is far enough too! Many golfers do not stand far enough from the ball with the driver to allow the “ball on a string” to fully deploy to get this full release!
Did you see the driver videos as well as the “distance to ball” videos?
Hi! I am very pleased in your demonstrations all the time.
Here is a short question. I have some difficulty in driver swing, though. Is this release method(a quick turning of left hand) appliable onto driver swing, too?