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This drill video is checking the grip at last parallel.

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So one of the tricky things to figure out is how strong should your grip be?

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Think about it.

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I mean, we work off of a model that's based off of what would be ideal by mechanics,

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but not everybody uses what would be ideal by mechanics.

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So how should we decide what your grip strength should really be?

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Well, one of the ways that I've had some of the most success is if we check last parallel.

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So let's say I'm hitting it out in the weeds over here.

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If I was to take a full swing and I was to come down to this position right here.

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This is when the club is last parallel to the ground, and this is a great place to check

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and see if you need to make a grip change or not.

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Because with modern high speed video, it's pretty clear that you can see whether that left

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the wrist is cupped, flat or boat.

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And as a result, you can see where the club faces either straight up, open, clothes, whatever

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you want to call it.

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But what you can see is if you get into this position and that left wrist is pretty

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flat and your club face is straight up and down, then you probably even if you feel

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like you have a strong grip, you probably don't because it wouldn't be possible for you

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to have that left wrist boat in the toe straight up and down.

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I've had the number of times with people who are first learning how to do the motorcycle.

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They find out that they had to not only do the motorcycle, but they had to strengthen their

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grip just a little bit.

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The other thing can happen is if the club is pointed way down and you have that left

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wrist cup, then the motorcycle is probably not the best move for what you're doing currently

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with your grip or what you would need to do is slightly weaken your grip.

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This is definitely the less common of it too.

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What I typically see is a good wrist position, but a club face that is open because most

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people aren't aware of how to check the grip strength of their grip.

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So just a quick refresher from the grip video, if you take your normal grip and then you

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were to hold the left wrist so that it's flat and vertical like so, we want that club

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face to be somewhere 20 to 30 degrees compared to zero.

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So if we had zero right here, that angle to the club face should be 20 to 30 degrees

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for a neutral grip.

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Many, many times I will have players who straighten that arm and it looks just like that.

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And there's you basically can't have body rotation if you're going to have that grip unless

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you have just a massive bowing in the left wrist like something guys on tour do.

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So check the grip at last parallel or if I've told you or highlighting your video, this

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is what I meant when if we look at the last parallel your grip reveals that we might

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want to do some strengthening with it and this is a good strategy for how to determine

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when and why.