Hey, everyone, Shawn here. Wisdom In Golf. And  why is it that a carpenter can just set up to a   doorframe and never come over the top when he  is got a hammer, something into the doorframe   Why is it that if I had a machete and I needed  to slice through a bamboo shoot, I would never   be over the top Why is it that a lumberjack  when cutting down a tree would never come over   the top Because he would be shaving bark into the  ground.

He would no longer be cutting down a tree.   Over the top is something that happens when you're  focused on the wrong thing. I e, you're trying to   hit a golf ball, which brings me to the golf  swing. Everyone thinks that if the golf swing   is too vertical, you're setting yourself up for  over the top. And that could not be farther from   the truth. And I'm gonna prove it to you in this  next video. You really don't wanna miss this one. So let's look at a baseball hitter.  I'm waiting for my pitch.

My bat   is ba basically sitting vertically because  it's the lightest point for me to start   from. And then when I'm committing  to the pitch, watch what happens.   So I just went from completely vertical to below  horizontal without even thinking about it. How   is that work It's all in the anatomy of how the  human machine slings objects. So if I was to take   a ball and I wanted to throw it toward the red  post over here, this is what it would look like.   So when I'm throwing in that direction,  the brain's gotta go get the ground.

It   uses the ground to remove my body out of  the way. And this also moves my elbow into   a leading position. Every instrument known to  humanity has been designed elbow first in mind.   So when I'm throwing the elbow comes  first. When I'm doing a tennis serve,   the elbow comes first. When  I'm hitting a baseball,   elbow comes first. That's part of the slinging  action of the human body. So when I'm waiting   for a pitch and the pitch comes, elbow  leads, as soon as the elbow goes first,   the bat sits right down. So when you look  at that in the golf swing, so if I was to   take a golf club and chuck it toward that  red post, this is what it would look like. So did you notice what happened there I am  throwing the club toward the red post. So you   notice at the top of my back swing, everything is  nice and vertical. My elbow needs the the room to   load. So then my brain goes to the ground, uses  the ground to get the body out of the way. The   body starts to turn, starts to pull the elbow.  The elbow starts to lead.

It sits the club down.   Whether you're doing a driver, a wedge, a  seven iron watch, I'm gonna do this in super   slow motion, Gather up, see how vertical that is.  I'm letting it go perfectly vertical. Don't worry   about the club not being on plane in the back  swing, because that's gonna change dramatically   when I start throwing the club in that  direction. So gather vertical, throw the club. Goodness gracious, I can't hit the ball  any better than that. That was flusher   than Canadian snow. Okay, so  let's do that again. Gather up,   throw another nice shot, another good  throw. Wasn't as nice as the first one,   but a really good miss.

So now I'm just  gonna give it a little bit more momentum.   Gather it up there, throw it out there. Another  one pure as January snow in Quebec City.   So you see, when you're on the proper task,  I'm throwing the club in the direction of my   target versus I'm gonna throw the club  toward the ball. Watch the difference   back swing, throw the club at the ball.  There it is. So you moving toward the ball,   instant over the top. Must be over the  top if that's the target. But if I go   Matt Wolf all the way up here, then I'm  gonna go to the target. Watch what happens. That's why Matt Wolffe creams the cover off  that golf ball and has incredible accuracy   for the kind of movement that occurs  in his golf swing. So we gather fully   and then we give it some momentum to throw  towards a target. So right now my brain is   on that red post and I'm throwing the club over  that red post. Here we go. Throw . Awesome.   Just a little block to the right, but  I absolutely pasted that right in the   center of my club face.

It felt so  good. Gather up, throw it out there   all day. So out of the shots that I hit, one was  slightly mishit, but it was still on target. Every   other, every other ball was flushing the center of  the face. And you can see in stop action how this,   it's impossible for me to come over the top  because as soon as that elbow leads, the club   falls in line behind that elbow and it's a one  way train track in the direction of the target. There's no other place for it to go. So if you  want, you know the club to be obligated to come   from the inside, all you gotta do is throw it  over there.

So have a look at all our throwing   videos. Go throwing the club, Sean Clement on  YouTube, checking all out. Make sure you're in   a safe place. And make sure you're using steel  shafted old clubs with nice slick grips so they   don't stick in your hands. And then find a nice  target to throw some clubs at and then try that in   the golf swing and have a look at another video  entitled Predict Solid Contact and Direction,   Sean Clement, so that you know how to put the  ball in the way of that. Throw all the best.
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