Good day, everyone. Shawn Clement here. Wisdom in golf. Welcome to a wonderful addition,
where today we're going to be talking about Moe Norman's magic lead knee move.
He talked about how the downswing all happened through that lead knee. And this video
is going to give you amazing insight on well, how to do that without thinking about it,
that's really important and how it's going to prevent you from early extending how it's
going to allow you to get a beautiful transition from backswing to forward swing and how obviously
it's going to improve on your weight shifts. So you really don't want to miss this episode
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now to begin. and you'll see how we have Savannah and moon interject in here. We're going to
put them on split-screen and, and show you the left-handed version of what I'm doing. You know,
we're just mixing it up a little bit. And the first thing I want you guys to look at is a task.
That's going to activate your legs properly. One of my favorites is when you're playing horseshoes,
I'm going to use my four-pound hammer to do that. Now, when I am heaving, a four-pound hammer around
the backyard, notice how I'm going to be using my legs to do that. So as I'm sending it back,
notice how my, my right leg is bending. Actually, they're both bending to heave it back. And then
the brain goes back to the ground to heave it through. And you'll notice here mood doing this
with the kettlebell and watch as we're getting ready to heave it out towards a specific target.
The lead knee stays bent a lot longer as we're going out there. And now look at the comparison
when we're delivering. If I was too, okay, I'm going toward the target. Then I changed my mind.
Then I'm going to throw a toward the ground. Can you see where that changed So, towards the target
versus toward the ground, there's your early extension. If that ball becomes your target
Get well,
I am, let's say I'm throwing my club. So if you go to throwing the club, Sean climate, or throw the
clubs straight, Sean, Clemett, that's an important one. You want to be safe when you're throwing the
club. I want to throw my club in that direction. Let's look at what, what that is in slow motion.
Oh, my
Brian has to go get the ground, use the ground to get my body out of the way. So it's using
the lead leg here to get me all the way through. So notice the point where it starts to extend
is there. So when I'm throwing the club, see how that leg needed to go to the ground, use
the ground to get my body out of the way. And now I've got my action. That's releasing out towards
the target. Versus if I take that same club and I throw it at the ball. So there's the backswing
Ball.
And you'll notice you do have to get up because watch the distance between you and the ball
change depending on where you're throwing. So let's say I want it to throw to the
right side of that golf Academy sign right there. So I'm throwing in that direction.
See where my club is passing right here in the turf, throw it out there.
Now I
Bring that to the ball. Now I'm going to throw at the ball,
see where my club has passed. How do I get to the ball Well, I got to stand up as I stand up.
Now I have the ball. So for those of you standing up through the shot, well, your target is more
than likely the ball either by will or by default. But if I swing toward the target, target, target,
Collect
Release towards the target. If you look at this beautiful example here of Joaquin Neiman,
you'll see how his trail arm and even his lead arm is slightly bent through impact and its extension
full extension. Is there not there Well, what do you think has to happen with the legwork for that
this wonderful machine of yours that works at 40 million bits of information per second
is going to carry it has to carry this loaded arm unit through the golf ball.
So we're collecting the ball here and we're releasing the ball into that over there. Now
here's a wonderful example. Now you've heard obviously that you want to catch a ball first,
then ground look at this wonderful little video we have here
of a chip shot from Dustin Johnson in slow-mo and you can see how the club is coming down.
Cuts the, imagine the ball as the dandelion STEM cuts through the dandelion STEM and keeps
going and you see the ball or the grass come up only after the ball is gone. So I'm going to do
this right hand and watch how Savannah does this left-handed and observe where the club is actually
striking the grass. When I do my perpetual motion drill. So if I swing back and through
Target, target way from the target target.
So notice how the club would catch the ball. Then cut the dandelion stem, then cut the grass. Look
at the house. How long the club stays along the ground. We talk about that with Viktor. Hovland,
there's no way he could stay along the ground. And you know, when they say, well,
you want to really turn hard through the ball. I am not I'm of that opinion. You don't want to
force somebody to turn hard, threw the ball because they don't have a target associated
with that. You hear that all the time to go, okay, we heard the face and now we have a
nice close phase. Now we're going to turn hard through the ball. Well, how do you know when to
release How do you know what's going to transpire You've got to connect that with a flight plan,
fader draw, and you've got to connect your delivery into that flight plan.
And that's, what's going to determine how long that knee is going to stay bent
when it's going to extend. And that extension, of course, is what clears the hips. You see.
So half your knee is your femur. Your femur is your hip.
When I am going toward the target, notice how my body has, has to get out of the way.
You can test it out for yourself right here. Let's put a ball in your hand,
let it hang from the shoulder, and just toss it. Softball style toward the target. You'll notice
that your whole body has to get out of the way. Otherwise, the upper arm collides into
the rib cage and you'll get it in the forehead or it'll go backward. If I do that towards you
and nobody ever fails this, all I wanted to do is take this and send the ball your way.
Very rare. Will we be able to do something like this And if somebody starts that way,
eventually they'll start doing this. When they stop letting their golf swing, infect
their ability to toss a ball right now, when you combine that with what we talked
about last week in last week's video, about the first move into the downswing,
we need to, if you want to connect both, imagine you have a ball in both hands,
one for you, one for you. That's like a law long chip shot or a short pitch shot.
You'll see Steve Stricker and Jason Day chip that way. There was a wonderful, short game video with
Jason Day tiger woods, and a couple of other guys, you know, talking about short game like Rory,
and they all marveled that Jason day's ability around the greens
because of this nice natural ability to perform that task.
So when I'm tossing into the backswing with my left arm, notice how my hips clear the brain's got
to go get the ground with it, that leg, get it out of the way. Very much like snapping a punch for a
boxer. Notice I can't snap a punch without using my lower body. That's already built into your
machine. So toss it that way. If you look at the move again, when he's doing that kettlebell drill,
both arms are staying nice and extended, and you see how he's using his left leg to go into the
backswing. And then he's using his right leg to heave the kettlebell into the finish. So
this ability to use your legs is already given to you. You just use a heavier object,
like a hammer or a kettlebell, and then feel that in your legs while you're performing that,
and then put a golf club in your hands and then feel the same thing when you're throwing the club.
So pretend you're throwing the club in the direction of your target. And then I invite
you to look at how to put the ball in the way of your swing, Sean, Clemett golf WRX,
so that you know how to predict how to put the ball in the way of that.
Because if you're unsure, because you've never been down here before, and you've never used your
legs that way before, it's very strange. It'll put a lot of insecurities into your brain saying, Hey,
being this low, is that going to affect the way my, my contacts going to come off And
if you're in doubt about contact, you won't be able to perform this. So you've got to combine
this throwing action with a prediction and so go see predict solid contact and direction.
Sean Clemett will. You'll see me top a ball into my neighbor's yard, in our old house in Oshawa.
And the other one that we did for a golf WRX here at Royal Quebec,
how put the ball in the way of your swing, Sean climate. So those two are going to help you
stay with this particular task to let your natural abilities shine through and get your game and your
swing to that next level. Like Mo like Lee Trevino, like all the top guys, all the best