Hey everyone, Shawn Clement here. Wisdom in golf. And today we're going to be talking
about giving yourself the time to use the ground in your swing. It's called the timing
of the swing. So if your swing is improperly time, it's most likely because when you feel
that you're all arms, you know, that feel, you're trying to use manipulation to meet
the ball. And that invariably is going to put the kibosh on your kinetic chain. So I'm
going to show you today, give you a couple of really good solid tips on how to properly
engage that kinetic chain. Mostly the time to do it. You know, when somebody says, Hey,
you're swinging too fast. You'll understand why in this video.
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All right. So let's say you're playing slow pitch softball, and you're waiting for the
pitch that slow pitch is fun because you can really tee it up. The key though is to focus
on where you want to put the ball. So if I want to put that ball over the fence between
first and second base, I'm waiting to get that ball right about here. I'm not going
to wait until it comes down low over here, and I'm not going to, you know, go early when
it's all the way up there. If you don't know where you're going to put the softball, you'll
be that strikeout king or queen.
Okay. So choose where you want to send the ball. Wait for that pitch. You see it come
down and your zoo you're zooming in or zoning in on where you're going to unleash that sucker.
What I find incredible about, you know, MLB major league baseball is the ability of the
batter to read the pitch. And because he can read the pitch, he's giving himself the time
and the rhythm to really step into it and put some sinks, some teeth into that ball.
So how do we do this in the golf swing Advil Because if you're using your arms and hands
to try and hit the ball hard, you're doing yourself way more damage than good? The brain
senses that you're trying to manipulate this club to meet the ball. And when it senses,
you're trying to be careful or you're trying to use force. It will brace the body and prevent
it from moving.
That's not a good thing. So if you imagine a baseball pitcher trying to throw a hundred
mile an hour fastball, and he's got to throw a hundred of those over the course of the
game. Well, you're going to see him take a huge range of motion to be able to deliver
a powerful pitch with a lot of ease, same thing here. So I've got a little nine iron
here. It's typically a one 60 club for me, but this hole is 146 yards. So, it, allows
me to swing very smoothly. So I get set up, I'm going to feel the weight of my arms and
club. And I'm going to use that weight.
And he that up the hill. What does that mean Well, let's say I had a kettlebell and I wanted
to, you know, he, this kettlebell with one arm, like I was tossing a horseshoe. Well,
you'll notice if I take a 10-pound kettlebell and I try to force it with my arm. I'm going
to rip my shoulder apart. So instinctively out of pure self-preservation. You're going
to use your legs to heave that kettlebell out there. Now, if I put both hands on the
kettlebell and I want to put this thing into action, well, I'm going to have to heave it
into the backswing. Notice how I'm using my legs to heave that sucker up there. Watch
Bryce and Dee Shambo watch the first move he has in his swing. Now in the backswing,
he stands up. That's exactly what we were built to do.
I had a video on this 14 years ago on YouTube. This is what I've been teaching. And I've
been up against the establishment of being careful. Watch out, keep everything stable.
Don't change your levels, nip and tuck your swing to death. And then you realize you don't
have a swing anymore. And you're using a lot of force and effort and you're injuring yourself
because of it. We were actually designed to go up and down like pistons, beautifully we're
experts at it. So if I take this kettlebell and I'm going to heave it back, then I'm going
to heave it through. So notice I got the time to do two kinetic chains, two heaves, which
means I'm using my legs. I'm using ground forces, both in the backswing and then the
follow-through. So I, he and let it levitate. And I'm waiting for it. The scientific term
for that is none.
And then, and then, and then it's like Chevy chase. So it's heave hee hee hee hee hee.
There's a great way for you to get the feel of that. So then we're doing the same thing,
feel the weight of that arm club unit. And we're going to heave, let it levitate up the
rib cage and we're going to catch it with the squat because the brain has to go back
to the ground, to use the ground, to heave it back in that direction. They're just like
the kettlebell. So it's, he let it levitate go back to the ground. He even backs out into
the picture, he, he, and you'll notice that the up and down motion is always the same,
same levels because out of pure self-preservation, your machine would never go into a leg lock.
That's not very favorable. And it's, you know, it makes it very unstable.
If you fall down and break your leg a couple of hundred years ago when you were alone in
the Bush, that was, you were in big trouble. So what we're trying to do is he noticed how
there's still a little flex left in the legs, not for you to think about this is out of
pure self-preservation. And then when the brain goes back down to the ground to load
the ground, it'll never go here. Cause that's just not efficient. I wouldn't be able to
do that for a sustained amount of time. And it would become very labor-intensive for me.
So out of longevity, the brain is constantly seeking the path of least resistance. So you're
asking it to take this club and he that out, their brain's going to go, okay, no problem.
Here you go. And there it is. So that's why you see these beautiful squats on the PGA
Tour and the LPGA they're using the ground to their advantage. So here we go. Feel the
weight of the arm club unit.
He even up there, Ooh, I feel good right over the flagstick. And this is so absolutely gentle.
It feels like Mrs because my kinetic chain is engaging so nicely. That's a nice uphill
shot. I'm carrying those at 153 yards with a lot of ease with a little nine arm. So feel
the weight of the arm club unit. That's the direction that I'm going on. I'm going to
send it out to the right edge of that intermediate point. So it's he's. Does that ever feel awesome
right back on the centerline, that was one 60 Carrie, do you see that beautiful pause
at the top of the swing I didn't try to create that pause. It paused itself. That's me waiting
for the club to change directions for me. See, I'm using this so I could take this and
send it into the curtain here. He, even out there, he, he see, my brain knew exactly when
to let go of that club and I was using my legs to deliver that out there.
So there's a fantastic timing mechanism. Just like when you're a kid on a swing, you're
reacting to your weight and you know exactly when to pump that swing. So it up and you're
waiting and, and then that, then you're getting ready on the way down. And then as you're,
as you're coming through the bottom, you push off the swing set and it turbocharges you
back up the other side. If you want to see something really cool. Check out this. The
pronunciation's a little weird, but it's out in the Slovak countries. Key Eking. K I N
I K I N G Kai Iking. So it is, on, you know, standing up on a swing and doing loop the
loops on that sucker. It's so much fun. I'd love to try that. So feel the weight of the
arm club unit.
He let it levitate. He, even to the picture actually had time to, work that out verbally.
Here we go. He and he look at that man landed right on the line. Hope you enjoyed that.
Now notice I never miss-hit one. Didn't hit a thin. They were all flushed in the center
of the face. They all felt compressed up against that clubface and notice the change in levels.
Don't be afraid of that. You are built for it. You just need to be focused in the right
direction. So if you're going to go, he let it levitate, hit the ball. That's not going
to work very well, but if you go, he levitates throw the club out there. So look at all our
throwing the club, Sean Clemett videos, and you'll really see how you were built when
you're going that way. The brain knows when to load how much to maintain, how much to
clear the hips and when to unload. If you're going that way, if you're going that way,
it will unload early, early extension. Right there. You have it guys subscribe to the channel.
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