Hey everyone, Shawn and Savannah at your service. And Sav you're looking amazing,
this beautiful September morning with, with your Jay Bird. That's awesome. So, you know,
you make me look good. I appreciate that. We're going to be showing you guys how to maximize
your lag shot product. So obviously the lag shot is a very flexible club.
We're using the drivers today and there are very, there are two very key elements that are gonna
really allow you to maximize your benefit with this product. It'll really help out your game.
It'll help out your understanding of drivers as well. Stay tuned.
Now right out of the gate. Notice the difference between a driver and a wedge is
a significant dif difference in distance, right Yeah. So the distance between you and the ball
changes as well as the distance between your hands and your body. So if you could hold that because
they'll do this morning. So if I swing back and through, without stopping here with a wedge
notice where the club wants to brush the grass, notice, this is where my hands
need to be. When I'm hitting a wedge, she noticed when I let my arms hang right there,
right in front of my legs is where it wants to be. Now, if I take and do that with a driver,
whoops, notice now the distance between myself and the ball is going to change.
Do you see where that club wants to pass Now notice where my hands are now.
So my hands can't be the same distance to my body with a wedge versus the driver. So
if any of you are still trying to, you know, have that one fist away from the legs with the driver,
you're going to have to seriously hang on to that club. There's no way that you could hit the ball
solid with any kind of consistency or straight, because as you hang on, it's just going to open
the face. Yeah. This leads us to how closed you should have that club face. Now, if we look at,
if you take the, the club face right here, SAB, I'm going to hold this and just twist the head.
Just yeah. Twist the, some more look at that. So you actually are able to take
the head. We were able to take this head here, look at how much torque there is in the shaft.
So to get this, you know, you're going to practice and hit shots with that. It's got a
very good head and a very good shot, but it's very torquey. So we're going to need to close the face.
Now, for many of you, when you close the face that much, you're thinking how in the world am
I going to be able to hit the ball like this Not about that. Here's your first exercise. See that
tee we have in the ground. So we're going to swing back and through without stopping, observe where
the blur of the club is passing and then bring that to the tee. And we're just going to allow
the club to Nick the T. So right now I've clipped the tee perfectly from this position.
So as I go to the top of my backswing, you can see that the club face is pointing right at the sky.
Like you sat, right So from there as I go towards the target and I'm whipping through the tip
of that tee, notice my club face from here, it looks pretty square. Yeah. And as I'm coming in,
because I've got this, all this weight at the end of the club, it torques open the shaft. As
you pick up speed, the club face opens up and this is where you really need to have that close face.
So what we do is we clip the tee. So let me see you go ahead and clip that tee or SAB. Okay
Okay.
Perfect. Stay right there.
So then you're going to keep your eyes on the T and you're going to focus on clipping the T again,
we're going to close the face significantly. There we go. Then let it swing through that Tee again.
Wow. That's really good. Now that was an awesome shot. Started out just a little left just between
the trees and the flags. And it drew back beautifully toward the flags. Notice how smooth
she was able to swing instinctively. You can't swing harshly with that, right Yeah. So it's like,
imagine a catapult and you've got this really strong base or really strong arm. And the arm
that sends the Boulder over the castle wall is made of rubber. Well, you're going to have a hard
time getting that Boulder to go. So we have to do it gingerly. And this is where you're going to get
your maximum benefits. So on a scale of one to 10, what would you say your effort level was
to maximum Right And however, it was full range of motion for you to benefit from that
because you had full range of motion and you went at it smoothly, you engaged that wonderful kinetic
chain and you loaded the jet, the shaft very gently. Yeah. So for all of you out there who
tend to really go after the ball aggressively, what's your basically doing is canceling that
kinetic chain and you're ruining the timing of the swing. Yeah. So if I get to the top of
the back swing and I go hard, the brain doesn't have time to grab the ground and deliver my club
towards the target. So when you're doing smoothly, like you just did. Let me see that one again.
Oh my Hmm. What a shot.
Yeah. I mean, you've been practicing with that thing.
Yeah. Well, cause it's been helping with me my long drive competitions, quick interruption,
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So one of the major benefits for you, right It's pretty funny when moose started playing,
it was to keep you company. This was four years ago, right. And then moose started getting
really good. And all of a sudden he's going to long dry competition. And because of COVID,
we had a lot of cancellations with a lot of the events and you said, well, I want to go and, and,
keep move company and his competitions. And I said, well if you're going to see move compete,
you got to compete. Right. And so the last drive you hit in Utah was how long, again
327 yards, 327yards.
Speaker 1: She's now in the three 30 category,
you came in top six. Yeah. There was about 20 gals at that event.
There was 14.
Okay. So you're, you're
Above the Bubble, above the bubble. Exactly. So, and for, and for your size, I mean, you get you
right. This little petite woman hitting long drive competitions. So you were mentioning that you just
put out a little video on Instagram talking about how you, you're a nice wiser. I talk, I talk about
people when I, when I have them look at your swing, I said, watch, it's just like a javelin
throw in track and field. You, you gather so wide in that backswing and you, you call it an inhale.
Yeah. So I'll, we'll leave my Instagram video at the end of the video. So stay tuned for that,
where I explain more in detail, the feeling of it. But for me,
everybody in long drive has like their own swing, which is really awesome. Mine is more of like a
slow long backswing letting the shaft load and then releasing it powerfully through the ball.
Yeah. So for me, it feels like a deep inhale
as my back swing and then a powerful exhale out towards the target.
don't try to breathe that way.
No, it's not a conscious thing, but like when you're practicing
and you're doing practice swings with the lag shot and stuff, it's like,
all right, right. So like, you can like simulate that in your practicing, but you want to like,
Peak breath is out here because you want to shoot out there. So you gather wide settle
and then you build it until it peaks out there in the direction of your target.
Yeah. And this is all like unconscious, you don't want to be consciously thinking
about your breath. This is something that you'll just do instinctively.
Yeah. It's a really nice image
Because you need to picture something. Right. But
while you're actually swinging, you don't want it to be like a conscious thought of like,
okay, I have to breathe in and breathe out. It'll just happen. Now.
Now one of the things that you can't do with this club is you can't force it.
That's my favorite thing about the club, because I can get
into an unconscious pattern of like putting too much effort into my swing and I'm like,
what's going on But then I can reset with this. And it'll like, slow me down.
Well, th that's something that is huge that you just touched on south because you know,
with so many of my students, we come in and I continuously have them monitor
their effort level when they're assertive players. And on a scale of one to 10, if 10 is
you're splitting a rib, what was the strain level And we have many that are way too close to 10
or beyond. Yeah. And like you said, you hit a couple of really good drives and then you think,
Oh, I'm going to give it a little bit. I
Want to get a little extra. And as soon as you give it that little extra,
the wheels fall off. It's simple. If you've got a nice sports car
with summer slicks and we put you on a cold wet track, and we say, Florida,
all you're going to do are donuts. So we do have our own red line. We have our own threshold.
Yeah. So efficiency in the golf swing comes with, we're going to the target with some,
with some momentum, but the enemy of that swing is effort or manipulation. So you can't stick
handler guide this thing and you can't force it. Yeah. So it really is a win-win. So there we go.
So Sam, we're going to have to put up with a tie. Typically you can actually hit this thing. We've
hit this thing about 275 yards out on the range. Yeah. But for demonstration purposes and keeping
things in play, this is exactly, it's not for distance. So you want full range of motion and
have a task that's really easy for you to do. I'm going to take the tip of this tee and I'm going
to get it to tumble in the direction. I'll want that ball to go. So I'm using momentum
to send the tip of that tea in the direction. I want that ball to go. So
really simple task. Yeah. And, you know, remember we're going to close the face and remember
we're going to pre deploy the arm club unit away from the ball. Something that Sam
does extremely well. Okay. So that was a lot of fun. See you next week.
Hi everyone. So I just got back from my long drive competition in Bountiful, Utah. It was amazing. I
had a PB, so I thought it would be fitting to do a video on the driver with the leg shot. So
the easiest way for me to describe that feeling in my swing that I get is to let
my swing breathe. And what I mean by that is gathering enough momentum and letting it set
at the top of the swing to then release towards the target. Now, just because I'm referring to
my long drag competition, does it mean that this can apply to everybody So stay tuned. When I said,
I like to let my swing breathe. Imagine this your back swing is a long, deep inhale and your through
swing. Is it powerful Exhale I love picturing my swing this way, because at address it brings
a sense of calm and composure and also feels like I can be super powerful through the swing.