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Practice shaft lean with loose-grip half swings

To practice adding shaft lean, Craig Hanson recommends starting with half swings because it's a difficult move. Grip nice and loose in a three-knuckle grip, start in the address position, and come back to impact with more shaft lean than you started with.

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Try it

  1. Half swings at the start, just to get an idea of how that's working
  2. Grip it nice and loose, turn the hand into a three knuckle grip
  3. Starting in the address position, coming back to impact you're going to have more shaft lean than what you started at