Your most effective method for a FLAT LEFT WRIST

[pm4610]

so pretend there is a box in front of the club and the shaft lines up against the side of the box so that's it's a 90 degree angle to the ground?

 

[holenone]

Free Rein

What about the "basketball dribble up the wall"???

Now that is a Brian-ism!

(oh-OH, it's not in the book...)

Homer Kelley felt strongly that his job was "to establish the principle of a factor as a guide line for isolation and classification of additional detail, the extent of which seems a staggering continuum." [Preface to the first three editions.]

To that end, he deliberately put only a handful of drills in 'the book.' He wanted instructors to have a "free hand" in communicating TGM principles and procedures to students, and he encouraged them to do so.

He always delighted in learning of new ways his instructors used to get the job done.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

Go buy a 2 Tac - Tic wrist trainers - put 1 on the left and 1 on the right

Right wrist would click bent on the backswing (assuming you start from standard address)

left wrist would click as it flatens on the backstroke

and then no clicks from then on in

Agree with everything except the end, you will begin to hurt your shoulder if you try and complete an entire swing with a flat left wrist. You can let it "tic or tac" after the finish swivel.

 

[Michael Jacobs]

You can certainly let it tick at the end and finish with a bent left wrist, as a matter of fact that would be a "classy" standard swinging procedure. However, you will in no way hurt you shoulder mainting a flat left wrist, many do it effectively --- Myself, my good friend Rick Nielsen (gsem) ----- there is no strain or tension in a swinging motion

As a matter of fact, spent an hour with Rick on the range - we helped each other out and then went and played a few holes and I have never seen anyone strike a ball with more precision than he had --- and I have played with 4 or 5 tour players in the past

When teaching educating the wrist to my students I usually have them finish at 2/3 swivel with their left wrist still flat --- paying full attention to the tac tic ----- I have them monitor this through the #3 pressure point

As for myself, I finish with a flat left wrist --- my wrist will just not bend

 

[Brian Manzella]

Which means...

Homer Kelley felt strongly that his job was "to establish the principle of a factor as a guide line for isolation and classification of additional detail, the extent of which seems a staggering continuum." [Preface to the first three editions.]

To that end, he deliberately put only a handful of drills in 'the book.' He wanted instructors to have a "free hand" in communicating TGM principles and procedures to students, and he encouraged them to do so.

He always delighted in learning of new ways his instructors used to get the job done.

I totally agree.

Homer never got to see someone like me teach.

I think he would have liked it—a lot.

 

[holenone]

Second the Motion

Homer never got to see someone like me teach.

I think he would have liked it—a lot.

Me, too!

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

You can certainly let it tick at the end and finish with a bent left wrist, as a matter of fact that would be a "classy" standard swinging procedure. However, you will in no way hurt you shoulder mainting a flat left wrist, many do it effectively --- Myself, my good friend Rick Nielsen (gsem) ----- there is no strain or tension in a swinging motion

As a matter of fact, spent an hour with Rick on the range - we helped each other out and then went and played a few holes and I have never seen anyone strike a ball with more precision than he had --- and I have played with 4 or 5 tour players in the past

When teaching educating the wrist to my students I usually have them finish at 2/3 swivel with their left wrist still flat --- paying full attention to the tac tic ----- I have them monitor this through the #3 pressure point

As for myself, I finish with a flat left wrist --- my wrist will just not bend

Maybe it's just a matter of what we each define at "flat." Because i know if i put on a tac-tic that thing isn't ticking in the finish but i would have what i think is a bent left wrist.

 

[self-mastery]

I take my sexy 10-2-d grip and bang my practice clubs against the stomp of an old tree. Failure to reach impact with a flat left wrist end in a broken left wrist.

 

[Perfect Impact]

Doesn't the escape term "geometrically flat" cover the underlying principle?

 

[Brian Manzella]

Hmmmm.....

Me, too!

Please explain.

 

[shootin4par]

Please explain.

brian, he was giving you a compliment, saying he thinks homer would have liked to watch you teach

 

[Brian Manzella]

Thanks.

brian, he was giving you a compliment, saying he thinks homer would have liked to watch you teach

Thanks for the "translation," shootin.

I kinda wanted to hear it from the horses mouth, though.

 

[pm4610]

I kinda wanted to hear it from the horses mouth, though.

Me, too.

 

[mrodock]

A post by Brian in another thread

Here's is A way---or two.

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Place a ball in a divot.

Hit it.

Repeat using the same divot.

Repeat until divot needs serious repair.

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Also:

Try hitting little pitches witha VERY VERY VERY weak grip, and try to hook them as well.

When you can, strengthen your grip slightly and repeat until you have an orthodox grip.
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Brian Manzella is a PGA Teaching Professional and Authorized Doctor of Golf Stroke Engineering (Instructor) of The Golfing Machine who teaches in New Orleans, Louisiana and Louisville, Kentucky.
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