A reminder, just in case - a level wrist is actually partially uncocked. Some assume, incorrectly, that level is the condition of the wrist with the arm hanging at the side - a sort of neutral position. If you already know this, please disregard.
Try hitting some little right arm only chips. First with a frozen right hand ('frozen in it's Fix degree of bend!!! Not maximum bend possible..... it is a precision alignment). With and without a lagging takeaway ( where you establish the degree of bend during Startup rather than just Starting Up with it fixed).
Then try some chips with a rubbery right hand unbending through impact. As you unbend it more and more you wlll appraoch breaking the golfers flail the flat left wrist. You'll notice a loss of compression and most likely a higher ball flight with more spin with a drop in consistency too, the occasional fat shot.
The frozen right hand is the right sides version of the flat left wrist and all that that brings. That said you can un bend the right hand intentionally for specialty (short flop) shots around the green. Another form of intentional throwaway or an intentional loss of compression.
Question for you guys:
You know how Homer loved Hogans swing but detested flippy whippy rubber wrists......which used to perplex me as i used to think Hogan was kind of rubbery. Am I right in thinking that the explanation lies in Rythm the Flat Left Wrist, the Golfers Flail vs the farmers flail with it's flippy whippy connction??
Try hitting some little right arm only chips. First with a frozen right hand ('frozen in it's Fix degree of bend!!! Not maximum bend possible it's a precision alignment). With and without a lagging takeaway ( where you establish the degree of bend during Startup rather than just Starting Up with it fixed).
Then try some chips with a rubbery right hand unbending through impact. As you unbend it more and more you wlll appraoch breaking the golfers flail the flat left wrist. You'll notice a loss of compression and most likely a higher ball flight with more spin with a drop in consistency too.
The frozen right hand is the right sides version of the flat left wrist and all that that brings. That said you can un bend the right hand intentionally for specialty (short flop) shots around the green. Another form of intentional throwaway or an intentional loss of compression.
Question for you guys:
You know how Homer loved Hogans swing but detested flippy whippy rubber wrists......which used to perplex me as i used to think Hogan was kind of rubbery. Am I right in thinking that the explanation lies in Rythm the Flat Left Wrist, the Golfers Flail vs the farmers flail with it's flippy whippy connction??
Simply focusing on a frozen RW from start up to impact has provided some interesting results for me. Have always been an underplaner into impact and I'm theorizing that much of it is due to an uber flexible right wrist that would naturally bend back on itself even more at transition. Low ball hitter, hate the 3-wood, etc. When focusing more on maintaining a constant RW bend things got better in a hurry.
Simply focusing on a frozen RW from start up to impact has provided some interesting results for me. Have always been an underplaner into impact and I'm theorizing that much of it is due to an uber flexible right wrist that would naturally bend back on itself even more at transition. Low ball hitter, hate the 3-wood, etc. When focusing more on maintaining a constant RW bend things got better in a hurry.
The putter even gets better with that image.
CG
Thanks comet.
Ive heard you talking about this under plane thing before. ARe you by chance over turning , swiveling your left wrist in Startup? Nancy Lopez, Raymond Floyd style? Swiveling under plane? It begets the opposite action coming back into the ball , also bad. I used to do that many moons ago. I sort of took it outside but brought the head back inside with an over turning of the left wrist .....brutal stuff from years ago.
Tracing and using the Right Arm to take it back fixed it , got rid of the last remnants of it ..... finally and forever. The Right Elbow bending UP supplies the UP of the Clubhead, the pivot turning supplies the IN. They both contribute to the BACK. The three dimensions of IMpact and takeaway being BACK, IN and UP. The UP of the Right Elbow bending ensures the on plane motion .....without it you'd have Single Horizontal, a conical shaped motion to the primary lever as opposed to Double Horizontals on plane motion. Think the Machine from 1-L.
Its confusing I know but you could just plug your nose and go with it , the Right Arm Takeaway , with its Right Elbow Fanning and PIckup or Right Elbow Bending and see what happens......bet you see some on plane motion. Its a brilliant bit of HOmers thinking. The right arm is uniquely positioned to the lifting while the left side is not. The lifting does occur over top of the right elbow. And like motions we make when doing all sorts of everyday things the shoulders do not have to plane themselves to the target the Hands are going towards. YOu dont align your shoulder plane to the thing you are reaching for ....... a glass , your shoes etc. The shoulders provide some power, facilitate things for sure but the pivot and the hands (which is what the brain is directing) go their separate ways , directions in common movement and in the golf swing.
I dunno just sharing what has helped me....... profoundly. I used to provide some IN with the left hand and that was killing me. Gotta keep those flash lights pointing at the target line or you're off plane.
Hey have you ever goofed around with flash lights or lasers stuck in the butt end of your club? Its a revelation. Getting on plane has immediate. results. Immediate!!!!!!!
Simply focusing on a frozen RW from start up to impact has provided some interesting results for me. Have always been an underplaner into impact and I'm theorizing that much of it is due to an uber flexible right wrist that would naturally bend back on itself even more at transition. Low ball hitter, hate the 3-wood, etc. When focusing more on maintaining a constant RW bend things got better in a hurry.
The putter even gets better with that image.
CG
Comet,
Do you have a strong grip or arched wrist at top? Ball back, head forward, something.......can't think of any underplaners that hate 3 woods and even fewer that have low ball flight without one of those first mentioned.
how important is the frozen level right wrist? It seems to be very important to me.
When the correct Start Up and Backstroke motion is employed, there is no inclination to cock the Right Wrist. Hence, it remains Level.
As an analogy, a wrist in a cast is "frozen" in its condition, but it may nevertheless be unstressed (and not in a tensed, rigid state). This is the way it is in the Golf Stroke.
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