Correct right forearm wedge

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DDL

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I am starting to really get it. First working on the pivot from the ground up. Now correcting a deceptively faulty right forearm flying wedge.

For the past 2 days indoors, I worked on not cocking my right wrist. That's correct, the right wrist had been cocking all this time, but had gone unnoticed because the right wrist was cocking only perhaps 1/8th of an inch or less. The culprit was probably the left wrist cock dragging my poor old right wrist along.

With the right wrist only bending back, there is a lot less tension in my right wrist. I mistakenly interpreted that tense feeling as lag. Some wise guy said something simple, yet profound about an unstressed right wrist. Now I get it.

My takeaway procedure feels a bit awkward, but feels on plane at the same time . My right elbow which is now a bit farther from my side, also goes a bit upward first before I do the right forearm pickup. Wider, but still onplane I think.

Results are excellent. I hit both my driver and irons great today. Best ever I think. I noticed a freakishly wonderful thing. The correct right forearm flying wedge, without a wrist cock, has radar built in that homes in on the plane line like a cruise missile. Pladar. That ever so slight right wrist cock acts as chaff to pladar. All this time, my right wrist was trying to snap away from a cocked condition, but it always snapped to an uncocked condition. My right forearm and hands were always too high, way off target. I wonder if HK had observations on the biology of the right forearm flying wedge, not only the physics and mechanics. I wasn't aiming my wedge at anything in particular. It had a mind of its own. I may be possessed.
 

Jim Kobylinski

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best thing for you to do now is practice tracing a straight plane line with some lasers and doing so while a mirror is behind you.

Why?

because you can setup with an on-plane forearm without worrying if you are or aren't (mirror will tell you.) Also you can make sure your left wrist is flat and your right wrist is bent at the top of your swing. Lastly you can make sure the face is at the same angle as your forearm.

Practice your setup, right forearm alignment, tracing the plane line, and FLW/BRW in your house a few days a week and before you know it will become an unconscious act to perform rather than some conscious act to do :)
 

DDL

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I already know my right wrist is bent back and my left wrist is flat at the top and impact. The point is the extrememly disruptive, hard to detect right wrist cock. Boy do I feel dumb. Literally staring me in the face all these months. Lasers and flashlights wouldn't correct it. In fact, those 'magic' lights actually reinforced that fault. Believe me, I've used a pen flashlight, and traced to my hearts content. Worthless. Using a mirror has its limitations. Very useful for correcting a faulty hip slide. Never got it to help me get on plane. I noticed I lost 30 lbs and need a haircut.

Just the different feel of no right wrist cock seems to correct the onplane path automatically. Feels like my right wrist is floating onplane. Maybe this HK was a genius after all. Or I could be getting really really lucky.
 
DDL,

I'm with you on this one. It's all too easy to say, "I'll BEND my right wrist, not cock it" but I keep having to remind myself, "I'll bend my right wrist AND NOT COCK IT". It's amazing how much damage just a little cocking can do to the whole RFFW, especially (as you mentioned) the path and position of the right elbow. It gives me something (well, one more thing) to work on this winter.

Good post, and good luck.
 
What does RFFW mean? Is there a TGM glossary available on the internet?

DDL, how do you manage to keep your right wrist uncocked?

After reading your post earlier, I tried positioning my right wrist in the manner that you describe. The only way that I am able to do so is by, first, placing my right hand in its address position, rotating clockwise, then fanning upward to the top of my swing. I'm not sure if this is the correct procedure, I started toying with this site and its methods last week. Maybe I need instruction?
 

DDL

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quote:Originally posted by self-mastery


DDL, how do you manage to keep your right wrist uncocked?

After reading your post earlier, I tried positioning my right wrist in the manner that you describe. The only way that I am able to do so is by, first, placing my right hand in its address position, rotating clockwise, then fanning upward to the top of my swing. I'm not sure if this is the correct procedure, I started toying with this site and its methods last week. Maybe I need instruction?

Lack of judicious monitoring of the takeaway and startup swivel caused my right wrist to cock. Unmonitored increase in the left wrist cock also contributed. My solution is a more gradual , less abrupt swivel and fan at startup and takeaway, and less left wrist cock as the top of the BS approaches. I could possibly be executing a quasi standard wrist action. As HK would say, LOOK LOOK LOOK. Also know the differences in feel. I've had months and months of experience on what a right wrist cock feels like .A right wrist cock feels tense, which I had originally attributed to forearm rotation. In my case, a correct right forearm flying wedge feels like the right wrist is unstressed and floating.


Fanning is that motion your right forearm performs when clapping your hands. Right elbow stays in place and forearm swings to the right rotates . On the Chuck Evans site, someone posted a clip of AI Tomasello demonstrating the fanning motion. Fan first, then lift. Visuals will explain it a lot better than words. Much easier to do without a club than when gripping one. My solution above is more like a fan with a slightly lifting elbow.
 

Jim Kobylinski

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Remember.....the folding of the right arm on the backswing is what COCKS the LEFT wrist.

As long as you BEND the right and not "try" to under/over cock your left wrist the right wrist cocking shouldn't ever happen.

Usually the problem with the right wrist cock is that a person doesn't know what a proper bend in the wrist should be.

Just let the left wrist cock "happen," don't fight it.
 

Brian Manzella

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Fanning....pardon my french....is WAY, way, WAY overrated.

NICKLAUS.....Jack Nicklaus.....

The BEST player of ALL-TIME>and when he was young The best ball-striker

...didn't fan...did not....

BUT! He stressed it and walloped it!
 
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