Bob Toski

Golf Instructors — July 27, 2013 · 48 Comments

Bob Toski

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http://www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, #1 MOST POPULAR INSTRUCTOR-TEACHER ON YOU TUBE and Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, CLASS A…
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  1. I thank you so much Shawn…I remenber a sent you a mail asking you this concer because the more i focused my eyes on the ball,the worse were my shots…i appreciate the explanation…Many golf teachers say..”You must focus your eyes on the ball” but after seeing your videos,there`s no more confusion about this concept…
    Greetings!

  2. I thank you so much Shawn…I remenber a sent you a mail asking you this concer because the more i focused my eyes on the ball,the worse were my shots…i appreciate the explanation…Many golf teachers say..”You must focus your eyes on the ball” but after seeing your videos,there`s no more confusion about this concept…
    Greetings!

  3. I thank you so much Shawn…I remember a sent you a mail asking you this concer because the more i focused my eyes on the ball,the worse were my shots…i appreciate the explanation…Many golf teachers say..”You must focus your eyes on the ball” but after seeing your videos,there`s no more confusion about this concept…Greetings!

  4. I guess we will have to work on something! 🙂
    Thank you for the suggestion! Shawn

  5. Hi Shawn, l have bought your earlier DVD, and thinking of buying the new one. Are there any redundancies in both? Or should i buy just the additional dics? Please advise, thanks!

  6. Of course you want to buy the new ones!! Some of the stuff has been revisited, revised and polished and then you have the stuff we have developed in the last 3 years that will get you into more instinct and much less thinking and more analogies and training with the driver, slopes, sequence drills and more great stuff on putting and short game and punch shots into the wind etc…all in dual camera, broadcast quality cameras with pro editing…big upgrade!

  7. Shawn, If I was going to buy a set of your DVDs, should I get the older set or the newer set? If you say get both that is OK too. I am a technique guy so if the first set is breaking down the various shots I want that for sure, Let me know, thanks. I keep shaving strokes off my game due to your unique style of instruction!!

  8. Shawn,
    u da man. Thanks for all of your youtube stuff. I’m a broke golfer, and you sir represent the spirit of help. The first time I completely let go and swung at the target I knocked it stiff. Aside, you are about the only instruction poster that I enjoy listening to, very entertaining you are. So, I’m surfing last week and discover Sevam. Have you seen this guy? Amazing. Could you comment on that? Thanks and more thanks for all of your help.

  9. Continued from my last post/question, in particular, Sevam’s right foot clockwise rotation, screwing into the ground. I’ve felt this before and feel like its definately a stable feeling, pre-set of the “first part of the swing ala Hogans description, but I feel a bit out of sort with the pre-setting into the left side that I’ve been feeling after watching your instruction (with great benifit I should say) Anyway, Sevum is way entertaining and intriguing in his own way. Thanks

  10. Sorry I did not get back to you earlier; the new set is what you want as it replaces the old set plus another 45% more important info to bridge you into the next level of golfer who will be through the ball and to a target; the new dvds re-explain in more detail the first series and add into the sequence the new stuff we got better at teaching in the last 3 years; quite the update! Thanks for the question! Shawn

  11. He has some nice nuggets there; explains well what Hogan and Norman felt but does not convey the anatomy and the focus these guys had to produce those swings which produced the shots; still a lot of positions…but good to help get the mind ripe for the right information! 🙂 Shawn

  12. Awsome tips sir! Shot a 75 today after practicing this tip- I’m a tennis pro so really understood the imagery!

  13. Hi Shawn, my name is Lewis………29 yrs old…..played a little as a kid but not much then I stopped playing until 2 months ago I got back into it bigtime. started out shooting 110, 105 103 then I started watching all your videos religiously aswell as playing twice and going to the range twice a week. Today I shot my best score 82 was 91 previous to today and I wanted to thank you soooooooo much for helping me to improve my game. I love the way you teach and manage to absorb evrythjing you say

  14. Thank you for the great comment Lewis! Keep up the great work! I bet you left a few things on the table too in that game; fun huh? Shawn

  15. …..Shawn, it should have been 75,…. I missed 3 birdie putts under ten feet and 4 close(ish) range par putts. I was so happy at the end of the round that I didnt even think about them misses until I got home, but to be shooting in the 70’s after 2 months would be quite an achievement. I’m actually dreading my next round now thou as I believe its going to be very hard to match that score but I will keep watching the videos and practising and maybe I will.

  19. Wow, I just found your videos on youtube last night and it made a huge difference in my game today. I’m new to golf so I decided to apply your lesson on focus: imagining the feeling of the swing through the ball to accomplish my task rather than swinging at the ball. Boy did that really open up my mind and let me concentrate on my stroke in a new way. I felt like I had time and focus to feel the whole swing rather than point focusing on where I wanted to make a divot. Thanks!

  22. Thanks very much! Really appreciate you taking the time to comment! All the best! Shawn

  23. no offence (actually spelled “offense”) I bet you shoot 25+ par with your ballerina swing. This man has helped me learn to shoot in the low 80’s/ high 70’s in just 1 year of golf. Oh yeah, both lefty and righty. Take your comments somewhere else. His way lets me hit 290-300 yrds lefty bombs.

  28. So you are rotating onto plane with your upper arms and forearms and not the wrist?

  29. No. I am putting my hands where I want them to go and then everything else follows.
    Chain reaction.
    As Moe Norman once told me, play with your smart muscles not your dumb muscles.

  30. Bob Toski , George Knudson, Ben Hogan! My greatest influences in premiere ball-striking! Why have we wandered so far far from the Pioneers trail to perfection? Like everything eventually, the wheel will turn!!!!!!

  32. 3 percent force or 3 percent “speed”; they’re not the same?
    The weight-shift inputs a large force that starts the club back. This force, acting against the resistance of the ground, occurs over a short distance. Speed is then gathered on the downswing through the “accumulators” and unloaded at the ball when the club is “released”.
    Try hitting a driver while standing on ice. You can make a swing, but you will lose more than 3 percent, because you cannot accelerate the club as hard.

  33. (cont) ….. When all is said and done, the club is being applied to the ball through a system of levers, the first of which is a weight shift, the second a shoulder turn, the third an arm-swing, and the fourth, the un-hinging of the grip. Some of these levers are in motion together, although a “late hit” seeks to unload these lever in sequence. IMO

  36. Not to nitpick, but Ernest Jones — one of Toski’s and Flick’s biggest sources — was insistent that we don’t have “levers” in the swing (because a lever has one end going one way, and the other going back the other way), or in other words, that we should look for a swinging rather than levering motion. There really is a qualitative difference.

  37. Also, I really do like the gist of what you’re doing here, but if you think Toski pretty much knows what you’re talking about, how do you feel about what he and others along his line (Flick et al.) say about “release”? I think I understand the distinction you’re making, I just wonder whether it’s useful, or rather, whether there’s any need to create a sort of mini-controversy over the mere use of the term.

  38. I agree with you. If I only had 5 to 10 minutes to explain release, I would stay away from it. It needs a full and correct explanation. Simply sayiny it is something the hands do is not goos enough.
    Cheers
    Mark

  39. He is welcome to his opinion. The simple test is. if it works for you,keep doing it.
    Room for lots of opinion in this game.

  40. If I read you right, I think you’re trying to get the average player out of that “release” thought in the sense that so many of them think of release — the flipping of the club side-to-side, which on the downswing means throwing it ahead. To somebody who thinks of release that way, maybe being told “don’t release, do this other thing instead” is really helpful, in the same way I used to tell my students who were going through a big swing change… (ct’d)

  41. (part 2:)

    …to think of what they were doing as “not a swing,” or else their brains would tend to keep steering them toward the old action. I’m also reminded of Faldo (and Leadbetter) talking about “resisting the release all the way” and other versions of that, an action that Faldo said led to dramatically improved consistency and effortless, explosive contact. Now, of _course_ he was “releasing,” but in a different way. If you read what he and Lead said about all that, … (ct’d)

  42. (part 3:)

    …it adds up to the kind of “lag pressure” so often discussed now.

    Anyhow, I totally agree that “simply saying it is something the hands do is not good enough.” Absolutely true. No less a teacher than Harvey Penick himself was adamant on that point — he de-emphasized the hands (he didn’t say they didn’t work, but only that they aren’t as important as people think, and they aren’t sole actors), and he insisted that it was the forearms crossing that was the heart of the release.

  43. I actually think the notion of levering works somewhat against the idea of lag pressure, if you think about it. For slack to be out of the motion and pressure to stay forward, you can’t have the back end of a lever moving backward in relation to a still point.

    Anyhow…just a thought.

  44. You are reading me right. I think a big problem with teaching this game is that we are seldom given the time frame needed to get the points across.

  45. It is not hard really to see why golfers are having so much trouble, so much conflicting information. To many half truths, to much partial information.

  46. In this, i suggest that you hit on the biggest problem. Golf is rocket science & not Kindergarten, it deserves a time frame to learn(be taught) worthy of its difficulty anything less does it an injustist.

  47. Again. It could came down to you the instructor not being given the time frame to give a complete thought (piece of information). I can see how half a thought can lead to a wrong picture in the students mind. Humans work towards the pictures we see in our heads,if we see the wrong pictures we will react wrong,words trigger pictures,we the instructors need to be sure that the words we use draw the correct pictures in the students mind.

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