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I thought I was throwing the club well. It was going down range and on target. I was happy started hitting the 7 iron 150 yards on target. Then I started practicing with an Orange Whip (actually the cheaper yellow version). I thought why not try throwing the ball end of that at the target. What a difference in release through where the ball would be. I took that feeling to the range and added 15-20 yards to the 7 iron. So I think I may have it. You are sort of whipping the club out to the target not just lobbing it at the target.
Very good!!!
Exactly!!!
Hi Shawn,
I really like how you articulate to use the feel of “rehinge” as the attachment point. I got this same idea when I saw Tiger’s pre-shot routine in the Master where he would swing his iron back and forth (without touching the ground) to feel where the release point (= rehinge) should be in order to hit a particular shot shape, cut/draw/high/low. Like you said, this gives me the deepest reference when it comes to “staying with my target”. Such routine would help me rehearse the feel and the sensation, and then I just need to execute it with the same feel of release. I saw you did a similar video on Tiger’s pre-shot routine and that was awesome as well!
I’m so ecstatic after seeing this video because you help me confirm my understanding. You are the best!
Warm Regards,
Tristan
Right on Tristan; very well articulated feel and focus strategy you now have!
Enjoy the new fruits of your discovery! 😀👍
Thanks, Shawn. You know a former junior golf coach of my daughter once told me that I’m not supposed to flick my wrist because I would lose accuracy. That coach advocates people to use big body muscles to initiate the swing. I was a bit confused because if I couldn’t use my wrist to feel the weight of the club head then my movements would become very robotic. When my movement is not dynamic, I couldn’t relate my swing to anything. Do we really have two schools of thoughts out there: one type of swing is more driven by the body, another one is more driven by arms? I also heard from another coach saying that people use more arms for the short irons/short game (relatively speaking), and use more body big muscles for the longer clubs. Is this true?
This is what happens to an industry when they don’t understand what is at the base of HOW A HUMAN MACHINE PERFORMS TASKS.
They are all pontificating theories that are based on ASSUMPTIONS as to how the body works; and they are all reacting to golfers performing the wrong action BECAUSE THOSE GOLFERS ARE FOCUSED ON THE WRONG THINGS TO START WITH.
You are already Pinocchio WITHOUT THE STRINGS. YOUR CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) and SELF PRESERVING SYSTEM, function at a whopping 40 million bits of information per second. THE CONSCIOUS MIND, you know, the one that says “place the elbow here” works at 40 bits per second.
SO, WHEN YOU THINK USE BIG MUSCLES, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE A MACHINE THAT NEEDS 40 MILLION BITS OF INFO PER SECOND TO SURVIVE WITH 40 BITS PER SECOND.
Now let’s say you need to throw a spear to catch a fish with that system; YOU WOULD DIE OF STARVATION.
Getting clearer now? And the worst part is that those teachers like Leadbetter use condescending words to make you fearful of missing out on their secrets; REST EASY TRISTAN, YOU ARE MISSING A THING!!
You know you have saved many of us from going through the rabbit holes again and again. I can’t think you enough 🙏🏼
LOL, tell it like it is. And while Faldo made Leadbetter famous, under him Nick was one of the shortest hitters in PGA history even though he is a big man. No real leverage.
Hi Shawn. I can stay focus on the target but my brain blacks out once I hinge my wrist. Since hinging the wrist changes the arm club relationship from what it was at address (club now being at a right angle with my arms); my brain can’t predict contact anymore. Actually, I loose track of were the club face is as soon as I hinge. I can cut grass and throw the club find because I don’t need to pick up an object along the way. From my brain perspective, the grass will get cut regardless of when that second pendulum kicks in (early or late) OR club face position. Any advise?
Ok, good; don’t worry about the club face at all;
When you whip the club through the grass, you see where it cuts right? You know where the club passes and see the direction of the blur.
So when the ball is there; whip throw it in the direction you want the ball to go and see how it flies; THEN adjust the face to the flight if need be.
Shawn
Thank you for the quick reply. So it all comes down to placing the ball to fit your own swing as no 2 human machines are the same. If it feels right to you then the ball trajectory should meet the picture.
What we would need to establish is if you have the same ability to whip the club with a bowed wrist at the top like Dustin or Graeme or Brooks. If doing this PREVENTS YOU from whipping the club, like it does with so many of my students, then we need to address that and get you to hinge. As you get better with that way of loading, and consequently get better whipping actions with it , you will not need to worry about it and it will come naturally when you focus on whipping to the target.
It will evolve!
Shawn
Glad to see you address this Shawn. I would like to see more video/discussion on it. The bowed wrist versus hinged wrist is something you touched on in one of your vids but i think it deserves more. I have recently been working on throwing/flinging/whipping the club using both methods and it’s very interesting. One gives me more speed, while the other gives me more accuracy. And then there’s the issue of how well each works in harmony with the right hand. Which is another layer to it.
This is something I have been working on. I find it important to make it on my practice swing. People too often cut their practice swing short.
One odd thing is I sometimes finish with my hands over my head instead of over the left shoulder.
Over the head after the re-hinge is fine; I do the helicopter all the time to dissipate the excess!
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s video dropping as a nice sequence to this one! Shawn
Very Nice