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The swing is not taught by anyone but. the instructor in the video. The swing. is. not. promoted. commercially. by me at all, which is why it has no. following or promotion by other. swing instructors. Cheers JH

Hi John, My grip. is. traditionally. considered. a neutral. type grip configuation, the ball position. is. whatever. a player uses. normally in their general swing. The relativety of the swing. is simply that of the. 'Process' of the swing, motion as such, that being. whatever. transpires. in the actual. swing dynamics.. essentially the. biomechanical. process of the hands/arms. etc. during the swing. Cheers JH

My. grip. is. very much a neutral grip. Cheers JH

Hi Chuck, 7 iron carry. with.new. golf balls, 143-145 yrds. ...Driver 240-245 yrds.. I can stretch those numbers a. bit when I need too. but. I have to be cognisant. of. my body..which will be 82. years old soon . cheers JH

Thanks for the swing endorsement, I personaly think. the swing. is mechanically. better. for. creating. clean. club to ball contact because of the rearward ball positioning and. the requirement for the. shoulders to be closed at impact. because. of the ball positioning. Glad the swing. has. worked for you. Cheers JH

@@1atomicgolf yes exactly. here's how i try to explain it to my friends: the most challenging part of golf for the human anatomy is maintaining an in-to-out trajectory on the down swing. it goes against all of our human intuition because the object is in front of us like we're chopping wood overhand. in channel lock, you've moved the object to the left side of our vision and stance, which enables the mind to adopt the intuitive motion of chopping down a tree, which supports the golf swing. namely, we keep our hips and shoulders closed, thus forcing the in-to-out trajectory till impact. we're going underneath our shrouded/closed left shoulder, as opposed to timing the shoulders to be perfectly square at impact. one thing you have to get right though is the pivot. if your pelvis slides to the trail side then anything can happen. the way i have to imagine it is that my lead knee, trail hip, and spine, are twisting together clockwise into a rope. then, after the transition pulls the hands back to their starting position, you can uncoil the rope through the shot. meanwhile, the shrouded lead shoulder is like a gate that you're holding up for the entire swing so the rope can coil and uncoil underneath it.

Whats the point of promoting a players swing processes/capabilities .. if the player hasnt got some background 'Stories' of his swing's capability etc.. what would incline anyone to try the swing if it hasnt got some testimonial of capability. Every 'Story Book.. has 'Stories' in them..why would you read any Story Book that didnt have 'Stories' in it.. pretty pointless I would think. I once did a survey of 100 Golfers over a month, I asked them if they had ever heard of Count Yogi.. 98 said they hadn't....I think that survey said all that needs to be said relative to 'Yogi Stories'. Cheers JH

Hi Ryan, I will be back on the practice tee again, hopefully within a couple of weeks... thanks for enquiring. Cheers JH

I think the rotation aspect of the Golf Swing should be a resultant of the torque motion of the arm swing, that being the clubhead momentum radially creates the body rotation follow on in the backswing. I certainly think of my hands/arms/clubhead moving motion as my main intention, and my body rotation just becomes a resultant of that process. Again I think Freddy Couples exhibits the most effect of the hands/arms/clubhead being put into motion deliberately and his body rotation just 'following' that initiation of body componentry sequencing. For me personally I dont think of 'Body Rotation' at all.. its all hands/arms/clubhead initiation for me. Cheers JH

I think Freddy Coup[les has the mechanics ingredients of the Fold and Hammer mechanics, if you watch him he seems to be 'picking the club Up' in his backswing.. its not the traditional 'extension type backswing. To me he looks like he is very much Folding his hands/wrists/arms in the backswing. . Cheers JH

I think the Quintesential 'Fold and Hammer' exponent back in the day was .. Harry Vardon.. Harry totoally collapsed his lead arm and folded his arms at the elbows. Harry was renowned for his driving accuracy and power in his era,there arent a lot of pictures of Harry in stop frame going back in his swing and at the top of his swing to see how much he just picked the club up in his backswing and completely bent his left elbow at the top of the swing. This video shows Harry towards the end of it, its not perfectly front on but you can see how much he bent his left arm at the elbow which is the indicator of a 'Lifting and Folding' action . ua-cam.com/video/ivo0n49U3aI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CinePost Cheers JH

Hi John, My Channel isnt shutdown, I have just taken a long break for some family reasons, I hope to be back on the practice tee in the near future. Mr X as well has taken a break from Golf as well. ...hopefully he will get back to Golf in the near future as well. Good to hear from you, hope your Golf game is still working well for you. Cheers Mate.

@@1atomicgolf Family always first JH. Smooth swinging Mr. X should come back. Sure he will. Stay well and hope to see you soon. I might be moving down under depending on this up coming election in the States. 😜

Hi Greg, "intention' I think is the mother of 'Reflex' .. that being I think you have to apply significant intention in a swing process at one time in order for the action to become sufficiently ingrained to make it a Reflex action . I can tell you I have never been able to ingrain a specific action without significant repetitive intentional processing of the specific action I want to achieve in my golf swing. If the brain doesnt have an embedded specific thought process it simply will not repeat that process consitently and automatically, bodily gross motor movement for any process of body movement is a learned repetive input process. You just have to give the brain a program , before it can learn a program and apply it..least thats what I have always had to do, and when talking with some of the great players over the years they have supported that requirement. Cheers JH

Hi Greg, You will get that 'feeling' of extra time requirement for the actual Twirling process.. when you are doing it correctly. The process does take time to correctly apply it, and when you do get that rolling up effect of the twirling process because of the time it takes you invariably will feel that the rolled up package you have created has nothing else to do but just 'Unroll' in the downswing.. which will feel like you are just ..'letting it go' in the downswing. The reality is the process just has to 'unroll' itself from the rolledup/twirled.. position you have created in the backswing.. but generally once you have twirled the clubhead correctly in the backswing the 'untwirling' will just happen automatically in the downswing. Cheers JH

Hi George, It has been a while , however I really hope to be back on the practice tee soon, hopefully within the next 2 weeks, life unfortunately throws up things at times that take all you time and consideration for other people, I have been going through one of those times. Cheers JH

The basic rearwards ball positioning at address/impact of Channel Lock promotes a more into out attack path at impact which which from a swing geometry aspect shallows out the attack plane of the swing at impact, hence the impact will be a lot more level than steepish which will preclude deepish divots. As well the rearwards ball position ...which promotes closed shoulders at impact.. will eliminate hitting up on the ball and potential topped shots etc.. Cheers JH

Hi George , Glad the swing is working OK for you.. Lower the ball flight.. If I want to hit a Lower ball flight shot.. I exaggerate my direction attack into the ball at impact. That being I just try to exaggerate my path attack direction into the ball at impact .. that being I keep my shoulders closed coming into .. and at impact.. the feeling is I am trying to hit the ball out to the right of the target ( right handed Golfer of Course) ... by doing that the attack angle of the club into impact is shallower and the spin of the shot is reduced accordingly. Now by firing the clubhead out across the targetline at impact you need to have the clubface closed up at impact so as to put drawspin on the ball.. clearly you need the shot to draw back to the target because the ball will be starting out to the right because of the attack path of the clubface at impact. The other thing I do for a lower ball flight is just move the ball back at address.. which makes it easier to produce an in to out path attack at impact .. if the ball is to far forward at address/impact you will have trouble keeping your shoulders closed at impact. Actually your high ball flight could actually be that you are just generally playing the ball to far forward at address/impact.. if I want to hit a High shot normally I just move the ball further forward at addres .. that ensures I will have more of an up hit on the ball at impact and more loft on the clubface. Just try moving the ball back in your stance first and try that.. as well concentrate on keeping your lead shoulder closed at impact and see what that does to your ball flight.. but bremember closed shoulders at impact will get the ball ' starting' to the right initially.. so you need to get the clubface closed up a bit at address to compensate for that.. because the shot will be a draw shot with that clubface closure and path attack at impact.. and draw shots generally are just lower ball flight shots. Cheers JH

Hi George, Actually I hit around the same distance with 'All' the swings I advocate.. and really the 'best' distance is the distance you can get that incorperates 'straight' ball flight.....and to that end I think the Simple repeatable Golf Swing is the best all round swing because of its simplicity of repeatability. cheers JH

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Hi George, If you ball flight is a 'Slice' type flight.. that means the clubhead/face is tracking 'out to in' at impact..and the clubface is 'open' at impact. In order to hit a draw shape ball flight the clubhead/face must be tracking 'in to out' at impact with a slightly 'closed' clubface. In order to get the clubface tracking 'in to out' at impact the lead shoulder needs to be slightly closed at impact... which it cant be if its not high at impact. To get that to happen you need to get the lead shoulder moving upwards at impact.. and be slightly closed as well. With your slice type ball flight you are probably having your lead shoulder to flat and moving down and left at impact.. maybe not down much as such.. but certainly not 'upwards' and closed as it needs to be to get the cluheadhead/face tracking in to out at impact. Just try to get the lead shoulder moving 'upwards' coming into impact and keep it closed as well. ..just get in front of a mirror and facing down the line and watch the point of your lead shoulder in the downswing.. do what you have to do to get the point of the lead shoulder going 'upwards' coming into impact.. its virtually impossible to gewt the clubhead tracking 'out to in' at impact with a high lead shoulder. A good drill to achieve a high lead shoulder and it being closed at impact.. is just to think of firing the clubhead out to the right of the targetline at impact ( right handed golfer).. just exaggerate firing the clubhead across and out to the right at impact... you cant do that with a flat shoulder plane and low lead shoulder at impact. Try that stuff.. it will get the cluhead tracking in to out at impact.. which is what you need to eliminate the 'across the line out to in' impact position. which causes the cutshot ball flight.. pull/slice type shot. Cheers JH

@@1atomicgolf you, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you so much.

Glad the tip worked for you. Cheers JH

Hi Bruce, I just try to stay centered as I am at address right throughout the backswing and downswing, I dont do anything radical with my weight distribution... I just try to be balanced and cetered during the entire swing. Cheers JH

Hi Steven, Glad that tip worked for you, I hope to be back on the practice tee in the near future. Cheers JH

Hi Michael, Martins swing process is still in development with Martin.. hopefully it will be a finished process soon and that finished iteration of the swing can be discussed in more depth at that time by Martin and myself. cheers JH

No question the greens back in the day were not as good as they are today.. however I personally found that using Low's putting mechanics.. and a narrow sole blade type putter .. the ball roll on todays quality greens was superior to that which I can get with any other putting mechanics currently promoted by putting gurus... I guess the way to judge any type of swing or putting technique as to its superiority over something else.. is to just try it for yourself .. you don't lose any shots on the practice green when trying something out to see if its better than what you currently are using. cheers JH

Hi Karen, Hopefully, this video view aspect will give you insight for the the Channel Lock swing you are requiring.ua-cam.com/video/VHPmRWm-jnE/v-deo.html Cheers JH

Hi Steve, You just have to move the ball forward in your stance with shots from the rough..CL creates a very shallow attack plane into the ball at impact because of the trail foot ball positioning.. and as result the clubface gets at ground level early in the move to impact.. which because grass in the rough is longer than fairway height grass the clubface will pick up that longer grass before impact. You just have to make that adjustment with the CL swing for shots out of the rough... even though the ball is further up in the stance at impact when you move the ball up.. so long as you concentrate on keeping the lead shoulder closed at impact the ball will still start a bit right of the targetline as it does with the normal CL swing. Shots from the rough just require a steeper attack angle into the ball at impact to eliminate catching grass before impact....with CL its no different.. we just have to steepen the attack angle at impact.. and because a shot from the rough is not a std shot.. we normally with any type of swing should be steepening the attack angle for impact. Cheers JH

Hi Pat, I had the good fortune to play a few Pro Ams with Peter Thompson.. and that high lead shoulder was so obvious when you saw him in the flesh setting up to hit shots. what a player Peter was. and what a gentleman. Cheers JH

Hi Pat, You having been a good player.. and clearly having a good swing process yourself..its good to hear you endorse CL as an alternative swing process . Cheers JH PS Knudsen did have a very pronounced inside takeaway.. Moe Norman told me that was something he wanted to do in his own swing but just couldn't do it. Cheers JH

Hi Chuck, I will pass your comment on to Martin and get him to address your query... when I get his reply I will post it as a reply to your post. Cheers JH

Hi Craig, Good to hear from you.. I'm OK.. I have just had a lot of family commitments over the last 6 months which has taken up all my spare time. I really hope to be back on the practice tee hopefully by end of next week. I want to get back on the practice tee because I have a lot of new stuff to talk about. Cheers mate.

@@1atomicgolf So glad your okay and I'm really glad to hear you will be doing video's again. It will be great to get your awesome wisdom again. Can't wait to see what you have been working on I'm sure it will be great. Thanks for responding and cheers to you also.

This swing was developed quite a few years ago.. the swing really has nothing in it that is in the Martin Ayers swing process. To explain the differences between Martin's swing and the Davinci code swing really needs a video to really show the differences.. I might do a video when I get back on the practice tee again. I haven't switched to the Martin Ayes swing.. I just had Martin give people a rundown on his swing process.. which is what my channel is really about.. .. anything new I'm always interested in it. Cheers JH

@@1atomicgolf Did you find Martin's swing more difficult to master?

Martins swing is certainly more difficult to assimilate to because its simply so different from any type of traditional golf swing mechanics teachings etc. the swing is definitely for the committed swing enthusiast ... but if you put the effort into learning the critical nuances of the swing you will achieve a level of ball striking quality you probably have never experienced before... you only have to see Martins quality of strike and ball flight to know the swing has something that's worth exploring. Cheers JH

Count Yogi could certainly hit effortless 300 yard drives.. he actually hit lots of drives over 350 yards.. Freddy probably has the most effortless swing ever in World Golf.. he still hits the ball miles today on the senior tour. .. his swing doesn't look any different today .. and he is is 64 years old. Cheers JH