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www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre in Toronto, and one of the top 25 teachers as rated by Score Golf Magazine, shows you how to complete your backswing in balance to get the most out of your shots;
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Thanks for the great tip. I’ve tried the S&T and it was a slight improvement, but I was slightly less consistent. This helps a lot! Thanks.
Shawn, you are the Man! Thank you for recomending this video, this is exactly what I was doing wrong in my back swing. After watching this I saw right away that my right leg (I am a lefty) was bending forward causing that clear view between my legs. Making this turn corretly along with the logo on the upswing tip, I was in the fairway alot more today. My ball is still moving from right to left a little too much but this was only the first time out after watching this one. Thx Mike
Hey Andre; there is no such thing as turning too much; you would be loosing your balance and or spine angle; see my “Golf Pro Lesson Learn your golf machine” and “Golf pro lesson tilted spiral” part 1, 2 and 3! Shawn
Very rarely!
I spend my days teaching and demonstrating shots is a very important part of the job… and hate wasting time! LOL Thanks for the comment! Shawn
just wanted to say that your videos have helped me tremendously. however, i think i have taken too much of a good thing and hindered my swing.
i am turning my hips too much !!! it’s really messed up my timing. kudos to you for being able to explain things in a simple matter.
I really appreciate your video’s. Watched a bunch of them tately, and today when I was with my instructor for a first lesson a lot of what you were talking about kind of hit me.
Just out of random curiosity. Do you ever talk for 7 minutes. Take your shot at the end, and duff it. Then have to re-do your whole video?
Hey Brad!
Have a look at my “golf Pro lesson Learn Your Golf Machine” and the human body will tell you everything! Then See “Golf Pro lesson be a solid ball striker” and then very important see “Golf Pro Lesson Tilted Spiral” part 1, 2 and 3…Shawn
Hi Shawn. I’m a decent player, a few strokes better than scratch. I make a great shoulder turn with almost no hip or leg turn. I never thought this could be a bad thing ’til watching this vid. I stuggle with my hips coming forward in the downswing and thus I get extremely steep. Could making a better(bigger) hip turn going back help with this problem?
Great question! VERY IMPORTANT!
See the ” golf pro lesson perpetual motion drill” and “Golf Pro Lesson Timing and Tempo update” videos; FEEL HOW THE ARMS TRACK THEIR OWN ARC AND PLANE IN THE BACKSWING AS YOU LET THEM FALL FROM THE FOLLOW THROUGH; then when you get back to your set up; imagine you are in the finish and you are on the way back into the backswing and feel the same tracking feeling in the arms and let them find their own way! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO POSITION THEM IN ANY WAY! Shawn
Yes! I love Bubba Watson’s backswing; all natural and no preservatives! All Bubba needs to work on is his brace into the downswing like in the “Golf Pro Lesson Downswing Weightshift” and “Golf Pro Lesson 2008 golf swing review part 2″ Shawn
Hi Shawn, you Rock… quick question, Im having trouble with the backswing. When one tosses the hands should they toss them out to keep the arms away from the body (I seem to slice a bit when I do this), toss the hands inside and up, promoting really coming down on the ball, or do you just toss them straight back?
Hi Shawn, Just bought your dvd, cant wait. In regards to this video if you check out Bubba Watson i think he has almost exactly the movement you are talking about. I think. Anyways great video again.
Matt
Brian Gay works with Lynn Blake, one of the best TGM guys out there. But no, he’s not a S&T guy. A lot of similar components, but a lot of different ones as well.
But what a ball striker! Some of the best impact conditions around.
Hey Thanks for taking the time to write; BTW, is Brian Gay with you guys? Shawn
that fade video you did,helped me alot.
it seems i can only hit a left to right fade…i have to
literally shift my whole position sideways, and aim at things that would be wrong…trees,water,etc etc..
but it fades back nice and safe and lands about
where i expect it to…its weird not looking at the target when striking. my tee off is more confident now. thanks!
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Um, please read my posts below in reverse order, it comes out backwards. Sorry, it’s a bit long. Also, I want to make clear that I think your videos are great, and a good help for a lot of golfers, so none of that takes away what you’re doing. I think your swing pattern is a great way to swing for a lot of players.
I would never say that everyone should switch to one way of swinging, and as such I think it’s just as wrong to take a valid method of swinging and call it out as wrong.
Then repeat that feel in order to duplicate that position. It’s just another way to create a feel organic to that person, rather than telling them 10 different feels to get them in the position or motion you want. It’s nothing new and what Homer Kelly talks about. Let the mechanics produce feel and the feel reproduce mechanics.
And really that’s all the ARMS do. The wrists are separate from the arms and they do say they hinge. They have a whole section on the DVDs about the flying wedges and talk about hinging the wrists and bending the elbow in a synchronized fashion to make sure you stay on the correct path. As far as video, positions and feel, they all go together and you have a different way of teaching and that’s great. But moving someone to a position and asking them how that feels.
Well if you want to see You Tube video, search Nick Clearwater, he works with Andy and Mike and has some great intro videos. I’ll agree with the grip stuff, their explanation of it is very good and should’ve gone more in depth. As for the arm pits, those pressure points are very important in order to keep the hands on the circle (path) they want to take advantage of angular momentum. You can lift the arms off, but then you have to give time to reconnect those points on the downswing.
When they say the arms don’t do anything but stay connected to the arm pits; come on man!! They hinge their wrists like everybody else and this is such a big part of finishing the backswing to allow for that effortless swing! I like to use analogies to get the student to the feel and then reinforce the feel; not put the club here and there and video every session; Hogan never had video and yet we marvel at his swing still to this day! Let’s see them support the average guy with some You Tube
when they say that we don’t teach grip because “you have all kinds of different grips out there” in their seminars and dvds I find this very very hard to swallow; also, where is the support on you tube for their dvds? Your going to tell me that they put everything in the dvd? I remember Andy talking to a student about changing the grip and it was actually well said; I have 15 minutes on grip in the dvd and 5 different videos on you tube for the grip and the response is very positive;
Also, what’s wrong with teaching in patches or components? That’s how most teachers teach, especially on tour. You can’t overhaul a whole swing at one time. How would you approach it?
Congrats on doing one thing better than most critics, getting more information. Since the video came out before your visit with them, you can understand why the information in this video is incorrect regarding their pivot.
I’d be interested in knowing what things in particular you think goes against what the human body does (I assume you mean biomechanics stuff).
Dude; no misconceptions there; I have their dvds and have spent a whole day with both Mike and Andy and have 3 extra hours of footage; gave a couple of lessons with Andy on the range up here in Toronto when they came by for the Canadian Open; granted this video came out before their visit but I will not teach anything in their repertoire except for their point of tangency theory; too many things go against the grain of what the human body does and they teach it all in patches or components…
Wow, you have a lot of misconceptions about the pivot in the S&T swing. I can understand it from the GD article though. But S&T is all about maintaining a stable head and keeping the integrity of the circle. For your type of swing pattern, of course a lot of it wouldn’t work, you have a much more rotary deal going on.
Also Tiger has a lot of head dip because of the way he uses vertical forces in his swing. Similar to Sadlowski, but not as exaggerated.