Over Hinging The Wrists

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This video is over setting the wrist.

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So I've had a couple cases recently of golfers who were trying to kind of

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understand what

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the wrist should do at the top of the swing.

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And basically what they were trying to do was they were trying to hinge them as

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much

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as possible.

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Now, this has been talked about a lot in golf because when we look from this

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face on view,

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you're going to tend to see this narrowing or this angle here.

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And so a lot of golf instructors have talked about hinging the wrist kind of

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like hinging

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a hammer.

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Now the problem with that is when we look at 3D, that's not exactly the case.

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And I'm going to go into exactly why during this video.

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So if you were to maximally hinge a wrist, then this left wrist is going to

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drift towards

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extension like so.

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The reason for that, you can check the video on combined movements of the fore

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arms.

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But to understand that if we were to hinge like so, you'll see that my wrist

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can extend

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pretty easily.

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If we hinge and then try to flex, it feels very uncomfortable and actually

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pulls my body

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out of that hinge or radial deviation.

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So when you go up to the top of the swing, if I'm facing this way, if you hinge

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as much

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as you can, you can see that that would tend to put the club face in a certain

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position.

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If I then tried to flex it, which is the motorcycle movement, you'll see that

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that tends to pull

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me slightly out of that hinge.

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So what's more important is at the top of the swing feeling like the right

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wrist is going

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to cup or extend as they've talked about kind of holding a tray or holding, you

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know, as

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if you were to grab the shower curtain, basically getting this wrist facing up

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like so.

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What we see on 3D is that in the at the top of the swing, the right wrist is

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going to

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be extended for a right hand golfer, almost 60 degrees, 50 degrees somewhere in

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that range,

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which is near maximum for a lot of golfers.

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The left wrist is only going to flex 5 to 10 degrees.

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So what ends up happening is as I make this movement, because the right wrist

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is going

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to be cupping and the left wrist is going to be hinging, they're going to

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basically get

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into a comfortable position up at the top of the swing as if I was in this

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loaded position

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getting ready to throw.

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Now if I was to maximally hinge this as much as possible, then I would

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physically have

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no slack to increase it on the way down.

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So what we want to do is we want to make sure that we get some hinge in the

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left wrist and

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a fair amount of extension in the right wrist, but not quite go to maximum,

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because if you

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go all the way to maximum, you can't increase it in the transition.

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And the more important thing, if I face this way, the more important thing is

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during transition

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to get that motorcycle going and to have that wrist set.

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Now one of the other questions that I tend to get is, is it okay to start that

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motorcycle

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movement to end the backswing?

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And absolutely.

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There's a number of golfers, prominent golfers, who tend to as they set already

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start flexing

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that lead wrist.

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And in doing so, that pre gets the club face already starting close, then you

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don't have

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to think about it during transition.

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But if you're focused on hinging the wrist as much as you can, it's going to

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make it

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harder for you to do that motorcycle move.

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So yes, we want to hinge the wrist, but we want to have more of a focus on the

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cupping

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of the right wrist and the position of the wrist this way, rather than trying

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to maximize

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them in this hinge motion.

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So hopefully that helps clarify what the wrists are going to do during the

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setting phase.

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If you focus on it, it'll allow you to be a little bit more aggressive with

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what your

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body does during the downswing.