4th Accumulator/Flying Wedge Question...

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If a given golfer made one change in his swing...more aggressively releasing the 4th accumulator coming down ...could that or would that allow the golfer to have more flying wedge at impact...retain more wedge post impact ....both or neither?
 
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Kevin Shields

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tallathlete said:
If a given golfer made one change in his swing...more aggressively releasing the 4th accumulator coming down ...could that or would that allow the golfer to have more flying wedge at impact...retain more wedge post impact ....both or neither?
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Why would you want to retain the right wrist bend after impact? Spectacular power drain.
 
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Kevin Shields said:
Why would you want to retain the right wrist bend after impact? Spectacular power drain.
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I think its just about impossible to maintain the same amount of wrist bend from the position just prior to impact, at impact, and the position after impact........but do you think trying to keep the bend to impact is going to be good to protect against flipping the club? I guess I just see the masses of the golfers out there who lose it starting mid down swing because they have no clue that wrist is supposed to have bend a considerable ways through the golf swing to impact.
 
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Yeah, but i think they would be far better off learning to increase the bend in transition and then get rid of it rather than hold it to impact.
 
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Faldo says at address there is "small" amount of right wrist bend, and in the backswing you max the right wrist bend and in the downswing release it back to the address position. After that he did not specify.
 
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Kevin Shields

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Faldo questions? Im the man

He said to retain it into the follow through....but he never did seeing how its not possible without the help of a divot and its not desirable anyway. The thought, though, along with some feel drills, could help some people for sure.
 
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Kevin Shields said:
He said to retain it into the follow through....but he never did seeing how its not possible without the help of a divot and its not desirable anyway. The thought, though, along with some feel drills, could help some people for sure.
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Kevin, are you saying there must be resistance from the ground to help the flying wedge remain intact deeply post impact?
 
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Kevin Shields

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Absolutely. Try it full speed off a high tee. You'll break your hand trying. All those "Bennet/flying wedge drills" you see are pivot are pounding the ground. Without that, no flying wedge holding.
 
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Kevin Shields said:
Absolutely. Try it full speed off a high tee. You'll break your hand trying. All those "Bennet/flying wedge drills" you see are pivot are pounding the ground. Without that, no flying wedge holding.
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Gotcha. I suppose the club has far too much dynamic weight to hold back the right wrist without resistance from the ground....
 
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Jared Willerson

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Holding the wedge is a great way to hit it short. Keeping the right wrist bent through impact and trying to keep it bent further really slowed my progress as a golfer. It produced a pivot driven dive at the ball and I still suffer from the effects of trying to do that for so long.
 
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