wedding ring up

[TheHeat]

heel,

I think it is just an image to get the club "twistaway" happening. If you go to the top of your backswing with an imaginary club, then make sure the palm of your right hand is facing the wall behind you, you will see the ultimate twistaway. Your left wrist should be very arched. If you were to dribble the ball through impact, your right wrist would remain bent, thus your left wrist would remain arched, or at the least flat. If I am describing it wrong, I'm sure someone will jump in and correct it. Brian actually had me put a golf ball between my right index finger and the shaft, and had me take practice backswings while keeping the golfball and index finger between the shaft and my body. I don't know if Brian has a catalog of these kinds of things in his head or makes them up on the spot, but he has the cure for what ails your swing. My illness was a wide open clubface, and these images/drills cured me. The funny thing is that I just didn't get it during the lesson, but swinging indoors at home all these things he had said kept coming back to me and finally sinking in. These images combined with the wedding ring up really made the difference for me.

quote:Originally posted by c21heel

TheHeat,

I'm having trouble visualising dribbling the ball against a wall behind you and through impact. Could you please elaborate a little more?

Thanks,
C21heel

 

[wanole]

I am confused. For your right hand palm to face the wall behind you on the top of your backswing, wouldn't your wrists be all bent to hell. I can see pointing the sky, but not the wall behind you.

 

[TheHeat]

wanole,

Yes it is very uncomfortable, but it is just an opposite extreme to the wide open clubface that I had before. Feeling the extreme and then scaling back to the normal is sometimes necessary if the student is as slow on the uptake as I was that day.

 

[c21heel]

TheHeat,

I had a lesson with Brian a couple weeks ago myself. We worked on the twistaway as well and it has done wonders for my game. He didn't use the basketball analogy though. I had the same problem--Wide open clubface.

Thanks,
C21heel

 

[birdie_man]

quote:Originally posted by EdZ
However this assumes that you already have clubHEAD control, which the stronger left hand grip simplifies, more margin for error with the clubHEAD generally means 'less' margin for error with the clubFACE, or at the least, there is a clear relationship between them and they must be BALANCED, and any compensations understood

I don't get this part EdZ.

Sounds interesting...could you explain?

Strong grip simplifies Clubhead Control???