Hey, everyone, Shawn here. Wisdom In Golf. And why is it that a carpenter can just set up to a
doorframe and never come over the top when he is got a hammer, something into the doorframe
Why is it that if I had a machete and I needed to slice through a bamboo shoot, I would never
be over the top Why is it that a lumberjack when cutting down a tree would never come over
the top Because he would be shaving bark into the ground. He would no longer be cutting down a tree.
Over the top is something that happens when you're focused on the wrong thing. I e, you're trying to
hit a golf ball, which brings me to the golf swing. Everyone thinks that if the golf swing
is too vertical, you're setting yourself up for over the top. And that could not be farther from
the truth. And I'm gonna prove it to you in this next video. You really don't wanna miss this one.
So let's look at a baseball hitter. I'm waiting for my pitch. My bat
is ba basically sitting vertically because it's the lightest point for me to start
from. And then when I'm committing to the pitch, watch what happens.
So I just went from completely vertical to below horizontal without even thinking about it. How
is that work It's all in the anatomy of how the human machine slings objects. So if I was to take
a ball and I wanted to throw it toward the red post over here, this is what it would look like.
So when I'm throwing in that direction, the brain's gotta go get the ground. It
uses the ground to remove my body out of the way. And this also moves my elbow into
a leading position. Every instrument known to humanity has been designed elbow first in mind.
So when I'm throwing the elbow comes first. When I'm doing a tennis serve,
the elbow comes first. When I'm hitting a baseball,
elbow comes first. That's part of the slinging action of the human body. So when I'm waiting
for a pitch and the pitch comes, elbow leads, as soon as the elbow goes first,
the bat sits right down. So when you look at that in the golf swing, so if I was to
take a golf club and chuck it toward that red post, this is what it would look like.
So did you notice what happened there I am throwing the club toward the red post. So you
notice at the top of my back swing, everything is nice and vertical. My elbow needs the the room to
load. So then my brain goes to the ground, uses the ground to get the body out of the way. The
body starts to turn, starts to pull the elbow. The elbow starts to lead. It sits the club down.
Whether you're doing a driver, a wedge, a seven iron watch, I'm gonna do this in super
slow motion, Gather up, see how vertical that is. I'm letting it go perfectly vertical. Don't worry
about the club not being on plane in the back swing, because that's gonna change dramatically
when I start throwing the club in that direction. So gather vertical, throw the club.
Goodness gracious, I can't hit the ball any better than that. That was flusher
than Canadian snow. Okay, so let's do that again. Gather up,
throw another nice shot, another good throw. Wasn't as nice as the first one,
but a really good miss. So now I'm just gonna give it a little bit more momentum.
Gather it up there, throw it out there. Another one pure as January snow in Quebec City.
So you see, when you're on the proper task, I'm throwing the club in the direction of my
target versus I'm gonna throw the club toward the ball. Watch the difference
back swing, throw the club at the ball. There it is. So you moving toward the ball,
instant over the top. Must be over the top if that's the target. But if I go
Matt Wolf all the way up here, then I'm gonna go to the target. Watch what happens.
That's why Matt Wolffe creams the cover off that golf ball and has incredible accuracy
for the kind of movement that occurs in his golf swing. So we gather fully
and then we give it some momentum to throw towards a target. So right now my brain is
on that red post and I'm throwing the club over that red post. Here we go. Throw . Awesome.
Just a little block to the right, but I absolutely pasted that right in the
center of my club face. It felt so good. Gather up, throw it out there
all day. So out of the shots that I hit, one was slightly mishit, but it was still on target. Every
other, every other ball was flushing the center of the face. And you can see in stop action how this,
it's impossible for me to come over the top because as soon as that elbow leads, the club
falls in line behind that elbow and it's a one way train track in the direction of the target.
There's no other place for it to go. So if you want, you know the club to be obligated to come
from the inside, all you gotta do is throw it over there. So have a look at all our throwing
videos. Go throwing the club, Sean Clement on YouTube, checking all out. Make sure you're in
a safe place. And make sure you're using steel shafted old clubs with nice slick grips so they
don't stick in your hands. And then find a nice target to throw some clubs at and then try that in
the golf swing and have a look at another video entitled Predict Solid Contact and Direction,
Sean Clement, so that you know how to put the ball in the way of that. Throw all the best.