Takeaway Wrist Errors with HackMotion

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The most common takeaway problems can be boiled down to using your arms too

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much and your

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body not enough.

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In my 3D experience, what I would typically see is most pros would have a

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takeaway where

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you wouldn't see a lot of change in the wrist motion, but if you end the

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takeaway was dominated

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by the hips and the core and the trunk bringing the club back to about this

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height here and

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then the arms would kind of ride that momentum of the back swing.

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So I always say we call it a back swing, not a back lift because I'm supposed

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to swing

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the club and get some of the momentum of the club helping my arms set the club

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at the

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top of the swing.

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And take away wise, the two most common arm driven movements we're going to see

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are too

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much flexion of the wrist and too much extension of the wrist.

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Typically too much flexion of the wrist is associated with more bringing the

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club around

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by kind of pulling with my shoulders and a good proxy for that is my wrist is

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going

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to go into flexion almost right away.

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It's going to move kind of like this.

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So feeling like my wrist stays more neutral or pretty much the same as my body

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turns back

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I'm probably going to feel a lot more activity and movement in my rib cage and

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I might feel

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more like the arms stay in front of my body instead of pulling behind my body.

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Now the other alternative would be getting too much extension of the wrist and

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this one

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is often associated more with a golfer who tends to kind of really roll the

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shoulders

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and kind of flatten the club or bring it back with the arm motion kind of like

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this.

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And that's often accompanied with a little bit of a squat movement or flexing

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the knees.

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That is frequently setting up to be able to really pull down in transition.

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But what the first domino that kind of sets off that cascade is lifting the

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club and extending

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the wrist.

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Clubface usually gets into a really open position and it but it one of the

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easiest ways to kind

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of check for it is by paying attention to that wrist position.

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So we have a couple drills in this section but they basically can all be boiled

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down to

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trying to get the body to move with the instead of just the arms and the wrist.

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So a very common just catch all drill that I'll give people, I'll do two

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different versions.

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One, I'm just going to place my right hand on my left wrist kind of like this

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and I'm

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going to do a one armed takeaway where I'm going to feel like that left wrist

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doesn't

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change and then I'm going to put my hand in the position.

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Now I might feel that my body is turned more.

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I might feel that the arms are in a different position but this will give me a

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reference

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that I can go back to when I'm practicing.

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Second one would be if I was to hold a stick on the bottom of the grip so that

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it's up

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against the grip kind of like this and it's up against my side.

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That's a key connection.

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I want to make sure that I'm feeling it connected to my body.

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And now I'm going to try to keep the club up against my side and I'm going to

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turn my

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rib cage until this is pointing away from the target kind of down the target

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line kind

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of more like this.

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So it has a turn and a tilt that helps create some of the lift but if I was to

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extend the

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wrist or flex the wrist I can feel what's happening here with the stick that's

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up against

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my side.

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So those are two easy ways to work on your nine to threes or work on your

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takeaway pattern

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where you're doing less with the wrist and more with your body.