Hey everyone, Shawn, Clement here. Wisdom in golf. The sun is back out. The birds are chirping.
Summer's finally getting here. And, we had a beautiful lesson last week on pulling shots left.
Why I know many of you don't have that problem. You're blocking them out to the right.
So this video here about pushing way, right. Or blocking straight right.
Is going to be really key for you. And you don't want to miss this show
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videos in the future, hit that notification bell. All right. See you in a bit. So you've set up,
you're gone. There's my alignment. I'm lined up parallel to my target. Like the book says,
but every time I send my swing in the direction, I feel like I want to go
it off. It blocks off to the right all too often.
Okay. So let's examine first and foremost. Why you're blocking out to the right now,
if you've never done a station like this and you tend to hit the shots to the right,
that's the first thing we want to do, because if many of your playing partners have been telling
you that you tend to line up too far, right When you're playing golf, then that's definitely an
issue. And I want to explain to you that your vision as a human being is binocular
eyes in front of the face. So all of the instruments, the way we drive a car,
the way we pilot a plane, all the instruments are right there in front of us. We're not going to be,
you know, doing anything to the side. Everything is very, very at our fingertips facing forward.
So when you're playing golf, you're being asked to go this way.
And this is where things get really messed up because your eyes are badly positioned
than they're giving the brain the wrong information. So the first thing you need
to do is pick an intermediate point. So notice that divot in front of my ball, that divot is
moving in the direction of that red flag. So if I line up like this, and so many of you,
you have an intermediate point, you got alignment rods, and you're still lining up to the right.
So what I want you to do, here's a fantastic acid test for your alignment because the ball socket
system of your shoulders and hips are parallel to each other. So you don't walk around like quasi
Modo. The hips are under the pelvis. The pelvis and rib cage are connected through the spine.
Spine has Fossette joints to like Lego blocks to keep it nice and solid for a solid structure.
And you notice how your pelvis and rib cage moved together in all activities, they don't
move separately because they're connected intricately through the spine. So that means
the ball sockets of the shoulders are parallel to the ball socket. So the hips, as soon as you
bring your hands together in front of you, this will tend to swing parallel to your ball socket
system. And your feet are the foundation of that. So if you put your feet down this way, your hips
are going to the right. If you put your feet down this way, the hips are going to the left. Simple,
okay. So if your eyes are giving you the wrong information, you say, yeah, this is, this is,
this feels really good. Typically many of you are going to be lined up that way. So what you want to
do is do a little practice, swing back and through in front of you and observe the blur of the club
and see if the blur of the club is parallel to your feet, right
So first and foremost, you want the blur to be parallel to your feet. Then you want to see
that it's parallel to this ball and intermediate points. I'm going to have to come around this way.
So the blur matches my feet and is parallel to my ball. You know, the parallel to my alignment, rods
or parallel to my ball and intermediate point because I'm intersecting both. So now I've got
proper alignment. This is the perfect acid test for you to be on the golf course with you get an
intermediate point, no more than a foot in front of the ball, always from behind. You always pick
it from back here, where you have binocular vision. And then when you get beside the ball,
now you're looking for blur above that, in that direction.
So notice how everything is parallel. Now on our premium channel, you're going to check out the arc
blur, unstoppable momentum series and the blur of club video, very full, you know,
it's a full series that expands big time in that direction. So now when I get here,
everything feels great. Now I can just allow that momentum to follow that arc in that direction.
So you do a practice swing above the ball and you say, wow, that's going in
that direction. I lower it to the grass. And I'm just going to stay with that direction.
There you go. Right over that red flag. Really cool. Isn't that everything is
flowing in that direction. Now, if you get there and you're lined up properly
and the ball is still shooting off to the right, well, the next step is making sure
your club face is closed enough because if the face is dynamically open, you're thinking, Hey,
I got a neutral grip. Like the book says my hands are facing each other and my club face is square.
Well, what many of you don't understand And you'll see this on the PGA tour PGA tour, they have
very strong grips. The vast majority have a very strong grip. Those who have neutral grips have got
very beefy forearms where they can bold the wrist to square up the face. You notice when I bow my
wrist, that squares up the face, but that's not something that you need to do during the swing,
because when you're playing baseball, you wouldn't, you wouldn't bow the wrist.
When you're with a baseball bat, you would get your wrist ripped off. You wouldn't bow the wrist
either when you're playing tennis, there's a lot of force coming on that tennis racket
and that baseball bat that this is not going to appreciate. The force is a little less evident
with the golf club and you can get away with it, especially if you're a dominant trail hand player.
If everything's great and you're hitting a nice draw, then we've already done it with alignment.
But if your alignment's good and you're still blocking it out to the right,
then we got a problem. So if we look at our grasp here, here's our wisdom in golf, grass whip. I got
a much larger surface for you to understand. I'm going to close this sucker 45 degrees with
my neutral grip and just going to close it. Then I'm going to put it into my baseball acid test.
So I'm waiting for the pitch. The pitch comes and off I go. So notice the hands come through first.
Then the handle of the bat, then the meat of the bat. And then whoa, look at that.
That's not closed. I started here, but because my hands come through first,
the heel of the instruments come in in first. This is why you see the men, the majority of
the players on tour with a strong, to a very strong grip. I got a list of over a hundred of
them. And in that top 100, you got at least 70 of them. Okay So the vast majority of you guys are
going to appreciate having a much stronger grip as well. All right. So now that we have a dynamically
square club, now, when you swing in the direction of the target, the ball will go that way as well.
So neutral square in the baseball swing, you're going to strike out, closed 45
we're in business. We can go to the target. So understand that every instrument known to humanity
has been designed handle first in mind, whether you're going fishing, see elbow, hand fishing pole
tip a fishing pole, lure sword, cutting through bamboo shoots, elbow hand, beginning of blade,
and the blade release peak speed is out there. You would never go tip of blade beforehand. Not, not a
good thing. So we got an intermediate point. We're parallel to that. Start with very closed, send the
swing in that direction. See how the ball flies. If you feel that peak speed and the peak speed of
the swing is out here as I just demonstrated. So if you feel that when you made that swing,
you're moving that ball out in the direction that you want to start it.
And you felt that peak speed was out there and the ball starts straight and curves to the left.
Then your club face is a little too closed, but if it starts a little right
and fades a little bit more, and then you feel the need to correct that there is a big problem.
So if I'm over here and I've got this ball behind this alignment rod and I play,
let's say I'm playing a drama to play the ball of hair back to center. So my club face is to open,
see where I am. So I have to do this, the square it up. Now, as I'm doing this, did you notice
how my head's moving forward So now that my head is moving out in front, the ball position
is way too far back in my stance. You really going to get a light bulb moment right now
So if I only had one arm and I was cutting grass with one arm, notice where the center of that is
my shoulder. Notice where the club is cutting grass right there under my shoulder. So I bring
both arms together in my grip, the center of the machine right now here is between my,
it's sternal notch between my clavicles. So now the face is too open.
I gotta help it centers. Now here, ball is way back at center. I just blocked it to the right.
So if your grip club relationship isn't closed enough and your head's moving
forward and you're getting out in front of the ball, you're going to block it all day. And now
worse than that, because the ball is further back in your stance,
you got to hurry up and hit the ball before you miss it. Many of you are saying, yeah, yeah.
I rushed my swing too much. I'm using too much effort. Well, yeah, you have to hurry
up because you're now out of position. You don't want to ever put yourself in that predicament.
So if this was a doorframe and I'm hammering a nail into a doorframe, my head would never
move forward. There's my hammer. Boom. So if I'm cutting a tree down with an ax, I would
never do this with my head. Now I'm shaving bark into the ground. So now I'm staying behind it
and I've got a nice close face or a nice strong grip or a little bit of both. And
now it feels like, oh yeah, look at that. Now I can swing in that direction. I'm going that way.
I'm going that way. I don't feel the need to get in front of it, the square, the face. So now I
can maintain my position and stay with my target all the way to the finish key information. Isn't
it. So a make sure your alignment's proper B make sure your grip club relationship is closed enough
and you will now start to hit some straight shots. See you next week.