It's in Brian's The Soft Draw Pattern Video. Highly recommended.
How to keep the hands from getting TOO FAR forward at impact.
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It's in Brian's The Soft Draw Pattern Video. Highly recommended.
I remember a Tom Tomasello video where he said you should try to unbend the right wrist in the down swing. He said as long as the pivot keeps going you won't be able to do it. Croker says the same. However, if the pivot stops, it is flip city. Brain had me doing this on pitch shots in my lesson. Felt like throwaway, but contact was pure and my tempo and rhythm were better.
Mike
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Jared Willerson
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Pivot Brake vs. Pivot Stall.
The effect of keeping the left wrist flat and right wrist bent results in a glorified bunt. The only force put on the ball is the speed of the pivot...and no one can pivot 120mph. Sadlowski said on his TPI show that it was all about his wrists.
The effect of keeping the left wrist flat and right wrist bent results in a glorified bunt. The only force put on the ball is the speed of the pivot...and no one can pivot 120mph. Sadlowski said on his TPI show that it was all about his wrists.
Longest guy in the world - bent right wrist at impact
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Greatest player in Tennis - forehand bent right wrist at impact
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I flirted with TT's method a few years back. Hit some GREAT shots but I shanked a bunch as well, enough to give up on it.
Jared Willerson
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Sadlowski himself talks about unbending the right wrist.
right wrist is flattening through impact.
Plus I wasn't talking about the bent right wrist...I was talking about an effort to keep it bent, which promotes too much shaft lean and overacceleration of the left arm and difficulty in achieving clubface control.
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I agree there's a difference in forcing it to stay bent using muscular force that creates tension and a possible blocking action.
The photos are a moment in time and can't show what happens through impact as a dynamic flowing motion. The bent wrist can go to a flatten condition through impact if you "let it".
It's like a pitcher throwing a baseball, is he trying to make and hold his throwing arm back like a bent pretzel or is he just trying to get rid of the ball as fast as he can or as fast as he wants?
If you take a still photo before release you'd swear it's the former, if you watch it live you'd swear it's the latter.
Look at the 12 sec. mark of the video, flattening right wrist "THROUGH IMPACT".
It takes time for it to start flattening, it's a dynamic motion ,continous action, not stop action.
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