Horse Shoes & Lassos! #1 Most Popular Golf Teacher on You Tube Shawn Clement

[ElGolfeux]

Bonjour @Shawn! I thought I'ven seen all your videos, but found this one only now.

I think I just have one of those "revelation" moment! I've been studying golf (too much!) for the past 10 years, and I always tried to find a way to feel the clubhead's weight, without much success.

At 5:05, when you said then in the BS, the club must float, many lights when on ;) Being able to let the club float will allow me to use the compression move too!!

Thank you for that and all your other videos! Jon

[steckleinjr]

"pulling on shoulder socket" --i found interesting. too often my students (usually in their 60's) expend so much effort to take a bigger shoulder turn because they want more distance. and too often they injur their shoulders/lower back. the spine can only sustain so much. i understand the horseshoe analogy, but i fear having any senior golfer swing a club or horseshoe like that. clubhead speed can be "safely" generated by staying centered, making the club light, and utilizing the arms.

[clemshaw]

@steckleinjr Very important comment and misunderstanding about human anatomy; the turn table for the body is where the pelvis sits on top of the hips; please see a simple analogy in this video: "golf pro lesson garage door big power"; SHOULDERS DO NOT TURN!! Pelvis and rib cage turn as one massive unit on top of hips to get out of the way of the arm-club unit; it is this way with ALL SPORTS because we are dealing with A HUMAN SKELETAL SYSTEM. Thank you kindly for the comment; Shawn

[mjs0039]

Hi Shawn. I have posted a small comment in very short chip shot video about whether extension/compression sequence should be used in 20-30 yards chip shots. Would like your views because it seems it sometimes makes the impact fat.

[3forts]

First you twirled the small rope in a circle by moving your wrist up and down.

Then you twirled the large rope in a circle by moving your wrist and arm back and forth

To this motion you added your body, predominately the leg action, always moving in sync with your wrist and arms. The body, arms and wrists replaced the original wrist action. So the golf swing is simply the principle of the wrist action on a larger scale. That’s the feeling we should be looking for?

[weapons33]

thats a beautiful action shawnie....where do the wrists whip the ball close to contact.just after ball strike,,th.

[RedwoodGeorge]

Great video, Shawn... I really liked the brain / gravity computer analogy. As a first year player I'm still honing my swing but already my wedge play is dead on. It drives me nuts to hear instructors talk about 10-2, 9-3, 8-4 O'clock swings for distance control because it's so unnatural. I can't tell you how far my backswing is to hit the ball 35 yards but I intuitively know to swing it "just enough" and it goes where I want. (Someday I'll trust my full swing as much!)

[AMCC63]

Hi Shawn

The idea of the club being weightless at the top of the backswing like when swinging an axe has just improved my swing beyond measure, It feels so much more coordinated now. It is really amazing how simple analogies can improve a golf swing so much. Thanks for the amazing videos

Ashley

[stratigf]

eh, Shawn

I saw your video on Golf Central last night. I hope you win the contest.

Good Luck, GS

[clemshaw]

@stratigf Thanks GS!

Make sure you go to their website and find my video on the list and give it a thumbs up! I still need your votes out there! Shawn

[holdup1time]

@clemshaw oh yea Shawn I voted!!!! The least I could do for you after all the help you've given all of us looking to improve our golf game....you're ahead by about 200 votes over the other teachers!!! Hope that has some weight on their decision....it should! Keep it up bud....you have a gift and camera presence that cant be ignored...shame on them if they dont recognize that! Love the horseshoe analogy by the way...shift worker,,,couldnt sleep tonight...saw it and started swinging inside :)

[molsondrive1970]

Now when I hear "You got horseshoes.... ...." it'll mean something else! LOL.

[Michael10659]

I love the horseshoe analogy.  Might be one of your best. Thanks for all you do and praying you're the one TGC chooses. Their loss if not!

[mjs0039]

@Shawn, Even I have been told that the extension of legs and then compression is creating inconsistency in my shots in as much as one cannot be sure of returning to the exact original position.

[clemshaw]

@mjs0039 This is the greatest issue in teaching today; "Be careful or you might miss!!" Horse Hockey!! Your body is a marvel of engineering that is wired perfectly for timing itself with gravity and centrifugal force!! The word is TRUST not "be careful"

Be careful is for "be careful, there is a Lion prowling around!" or "watch out for that step!" LOL; Shawn

[mjs0039]

@clemshaw ..Greetings. Should I be doing the extension/compression sequence from day 1 or should I wait for my swing to improve and stabilize before I start this. Thanks and Thumbs up.

[clemshaw]

@mjs0039 Right away dude!! You are already wired to do this right now! Just swing the club in the backyard in perpetual motion and time your "centrifugal pump" with the freedom of the arm-club swing in both directions;

Shawn

[MRdavesender]

As usual your a genius Shawn.

[bboardma]

I get the idea of extending and compressing the legs, as one would on a swing, but wonder, besides just practicing, how to avoid over doing the compression leading to deep divots. For me it's very timing sensitive, making some days fat shot city. I'm looking for one of your physiological truths to use as a hook to help me regain the groove when I'm gouging mother earth. Thanks - These vids are powerful.

[clemshaw]

@bboardma Just like I replied for mjs0039; you are responding to the centrifugal force of the arm-club unit and taking that action to a target; just like the cowboy sends his lasso to rope the calf and not his leg. Keep the focus on twirling to the target!!

You can't hit it fat from there; see "golf pro lesson strike it pure" part 1 and 2

[tfdoke]

I like how you come up with so many analogies with other activites: fishing, skipping rocks, chopping wood, horseshoes, lassoing, etc...eventually something has to click for every type of person. Great video again! 

[itubeutude]

good explanation. I suspect many try to pull push.

[weapons33]

quality .. thank you// the pros at my club dont teach this kinda philosophy..you know the coordination and thinking of momentum..why? is it unique to you? best wishes ..paulie

[clemshaw]

@weapons33 It is called "manning up and doing your homework" ! LOL!

Thanks for the comment! Shawn

[jkpassage]

Shawn, please elaborate/explain for me. Throwing a horseshoe and swinging a golf club may not be truly analogous (to me). The horseshoe is being thrown on an online arc (straight back, straight through) with a straight right arm. My body would already be facing the target with a horseshoe. The golf club is being swung on an offline arc (tangential to the ground and target line) with a folded right arm in the back swing. To me, they are not the same body/arm motions. Help! Thanks, Jeff

[clemshaw]

@jkpassage First, you want to toss the shoe with your golf stance; this will also get you the right feel for the chipping; you could place a shoe in each hand and swing back and through with the same effect as the " golf pro lesson medicine ball drill" video; it is mainly to feel the heavy twirling action your body needs to feel to get out of the way in each direction to coordinate instinctively with the arm-club or arm-horse shoe unit. Shawn

[caloyjp]

Whoa! Hey there cowboy!

[mjs0039]

Hi Shawn..Great lesson....I as a beginner do have issues with giving up control to gravity in the back swing and down swing. Once I stop revisiting your videos, I lose it in a matter of days.Must come to Richmond Hill from India for some "swing" and "inner game" lessons but wonder how many days will do some good so that I can retain the whole thing for a much longer period.