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Hi Shawn,
I appreciate your teaching style! I have learned a lot in a short amount of time. I have 1 very large problem though. No matter the task, I can’t stop defaulting to the ball. Help!!!
Go to “throwing the club” then “predict contact” then “goldie locks series” videos on premium;
This will help tune out the short circuits preventing you from staying with the shot; then finally, see “target focus confirmation” series
Is Squeeze through the Door Frame the same as Cutting the Dandy Line Stem the same, but just a different way of viewing it? Thanks Bill.
Correct! When you do the door frame drill in slow motion and look at the sole of the club when the face is against the ball, you will see that the leading edge still has not cut the stem yet; so cutting the stem means ball first contact! Hence the wisdom…😎
I took it to the Range today and did very well using Compressing the Ball against the Door Frame. Got 10 extra yards and pretty Straight. If I keep this up by the end of the Summer I’ll be on Tour (ha,ha) Thanks much. Bill.
Bill the carpenter; there he is!! 😀👍
Shawn when peeling the carrot (I understand that you are directing the momentum forward towards your target), are you also consciously applying pressure down on your clubs to ensure that you cut the peel or is this just taken care of by gravity and the weight of the arm club unit with the help of your set up prediction height at address?
Oh man, I love these questions; very well thought out and digested!
You are going to use the weight of the arm-club unit to collect a peel and release it in the direction you want to start the ball;
I absolutely love where we stand right now; our winter sessions with my new crop of students from the Royal Quebec have seen incredibly fast and lasting results; everyone is so happy and stoked!!
Keep going; let’s take this deeper!
Shawn
Shawn have you ever had a student visualize cutting through the grass on the front side of the ball? I was having trouble as I was consistently hitting the big green ball before the small white one even though I was focusing on cutting the grass, peeling the carrot or squeezing through the door frame just behind the ball. For some reason shifting my focus on sending a peel of grass from just in front of the ball took the ball out of the back of my mind while thinking throwing the club to the target. By focusing on the sliver of grass in front of the ball it made me achieve flush contact much more consistently. Any thoughts on why that might be?
Also, have you ever had somebody achieve a better result with lag and release by thinking throw the hands at the target? This picture seemed to help me get the result easier for some reason. I was beginning to think I was defective until I modified my focus just a bit on the tasks. Just wondering if you find others that don’t get it right away and maybe have to modify the tasks to meet their individual mental picture. I sure enjoy watching your work. Many thanks for putting it on the shelf so folks like me can reach it!
Dave P
Hi Dave! Yes and yes!!
The thing is, when looking at the sliver behind the ball is simply a place to park the eyes; if you paek them in front of the ball or on the side and even some do fine with eyes on the ball; the key is to see what you are describing; the sliver of grass from the ball forward; like in the “golf is as easy as peeling carrots shawn clement” video on the regular channel; see where I place that strip…it is exactly where you describe it to be.
Now, what I am focused on, is the prediction that if I throw my club (you can throw your hands too! :)) in the direction I want the ball to start, is that carrot peel going to get thrown there too? Yes? Then you are now staying with the task of throwing the hands that way.
Great comment and question!
Hi Shawn,
I can also attest to what Dave experienced in his post above. I recently started to park my eyes in front of the ball this season and I find it so much easier to stay with my task of cutting grass. It really gets my focus off the ball and I have just been getting flush, in the screws contact with irons. My misses are also a lot better (a little bit of thin contact when distracted by the ball vs god awful chunk). I haven’t tried different eye placement with hybrids, woods and driver, yet but for irons, this has been money for me! Just another amazing discovery thanks to target focus! One step further down the rabbit hole for me! 🙂 God I love this game!
Nice!!! Way to go Dario!
Shawn
First time viewer. I already can see some of my mistakes, and, how to correct them. That’s the important thing. I can’t say I understand your terms, such as peeling the carrot. You showed us how to cut the grass which I’m going to begin to implement. Also I do not fully understand the sledge hammer, I’ll keep viewing and perhaps it will come. I like your videos and feel I’ll learn a lot about golf. I’m 91 years old, and have just got back into golf after 30 years.
You will see all these videos in earlier episodes; take your time; you will see them all eventually!
Shawn