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Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, and Canadian PGA Class A Teaching Professional, shows you how to truly understand and execute weight shift with the help of a few anatomical analogies!
http://www.wisdomingolf.com
Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, and Canadian PGA Class A Teaching Professional, shows you how to truly understand and execute weight shift with the help of a few anatomical analogies!
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Hi Shawn, Love the videos. I am having a real problem with the driver, even though I am hitting my irons & woods very well. I think I rocking backwards and putting most my weight on the right foot (right handed).As I follow through I am literally falling backwards with a very pronounced chicken wing.I am sure my tempo is an issue, as I swing quite fast. It is at the point were I just cannot take my driver out of the bag on the course.Keep up the good work,you have many followers in the Uk
Tks for all these important advices..sorry I lived in Bogota, Colombia…I need a grate teacher like yourself..best regards
should the hips not be separate from the body? You look like they are all moving together
@eddiebutt1 Hey Eddie; OK man, I have seen what you have "favourited" in the golf swing with the x-factor swing coaches and if you only knew how the spine was actually made and why it was made this way and how the human body was wired from over 2 million years of evolution, you would completely change your tune; you are a gravity based machine that responds to weight; arm and club swings and body responds and gets out of the way; it was wired to do this AUTOMATICALLY out of self preservation!
Tried copying your swing tonight hit some great shots with lots of distance I always felt my arms got behind me in the backswing, I see you keep your arms out in front while turning the body and when I got my body out of the way it worked really well it felt totally different, should I also feel that the left arm brings the club down while my body gets out of the way to prevent coming over the top? thanks for your advice you truly are a great teacher.
@eddiebutt1 Thanks Eddie; the best video for this is called "arms and body timing; shawn clement" as well as "stop crashing; shawn clement"; the body is a gravity expert and when it feels the weight of the arms swinging freely from the shoulder sockets, it knows instinctively how to get out of the way; try the drill in that video and you will understand what I mean; Shawn
does this work in other sports as well such as throwing a baseball, boxing, or soccer? Its been months for me to find the answer in weight shifting. This video seems to be the most insightful tutorials on weight shift ever!
@joetheazl Thank you very much; boy do I have a great video for you to watch called "Ridiculously Easy Golf; shawn Clement" part 1 and 2; it will blow your mind to hear that you are already wired to shift your weight without ever having to think about it; our internal package of wiring that we come to this planet with is over 2 million years old and we must not ever go against it! Shawn
Shawn,
Done quite a bit of research using force plates and I must say you are spot on – the weight moves due to the swinging of the arms and not due to an intentional shifting of the weight. I did find that close to the top of the backswing the weight tended to favor the back foot 80/20 and at impact it favored the front foot 80/20. Thanks for the insight.
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I have a problem with my hips sliding forward towards the target. This is causing a slight block right on most shots. I have no idea what is causing this. Its very much a reaction to something im doing in the swing. Because its not a concious move I am having trouble stopping it. The push started after the hands fall down the plane lesson. Maybe this lesson will help. Maybe im shifting too much on the backswing and the hip slide forward is the reaction to that?
Im so close now. Please help.
Remember I have a terrific forum now for these situations! Very easy fix with some awareness to your low point in the swing; see my hammer videos (Hammer through, Farm Hammer, Sledge Hammer) and establish a nice door frame with something like in my "Braced Tilt part 2 video where I use a 2×4 between the legs; see also "Anchor your swing"
Wonderful explanation!
hi shawn im still learning but ive been taught to keep the bottom half of the body quiet in the backswing so i can create torgue surely if your bottom half rotates the same as the top half in the backswing this is a severe powerloss.
Every sport is a bit different. Weight shift in baseball hitting is called "dropping and popping", drop the front ankle and anchor it and pop the back ankle up to drive the hips through the ball. Boxing is a lot of shoulder pulling along with "squashing" the bug. You need to pull your lead hand shoulder back to rotate your power hands shoulder through the target. I'm a baseball coach and boxed for 10 years. Try it out, look up Josh Hamilton's swing on youtube, he does the drop and pop very well.
solid suction
Hi does it mean we start downswing with arms. I am bit confused. I am more comfortable with hips turning .
To arul and golfrules; both will be answered by these video titles: "Arms and body timing shawn clement" part 1 and 2 as well as my very latest "timing fine tuning shawn clement" there is a specific relationship between the swing of the arms and the turn of the body and when you feel this, you cannot be off plane and you cannot mess up the body turn. Shawn
Absolutely no help whatsoever. We wanna know how to get off the right side, you make it sound likes it's subconsciously done. That may be the case after you've done it for years but how do you start to train yourself to do it ?
Shawn i thought you were supposed to rotate your upper body whilst keeping your lower body stable. If you turn your upper and lower body together on the backswing how can you create sufficient coil? Cheers Ed.
Your explanation and demo were MORE than insightful!. I've had golf lessons over the years but the instruction I got didn't help improve my swing. None of the instructors addressed weight shift, certainly not like you've just done here. No wonder I frequently hit fat shots, never broke 100, and stopped playing altogether. I swayed instead of rotated. Think I'll give playing golf another go. Thank You!!
An old coach in vegas said…move your belt buckle to the right. Take away is done
Great video that explains weight shift in golf…or pressure shift maybe is the right way to call it.
4:18 thru 4:29 ish ✔
I understand the weight shift and it makes sense, but I am 77 years old and have had two back surgeries so I cannot turn that much in my back swing. What would you recommend for golfers in my condition? I really have a hard time getting off my back foot (leg)
Oldie but goodie!