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this video is discussing the dead hands release now I had a good question asked

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about don't a lot of tour pros describe like this feeling of dead hands through

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impact and they'll say well when it feels like I'm working on supination and

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unhinging like that feels like very active hands down through the bottom and

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I'll say yes the goal is to feel a little bit more dead hands through

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impact but the problem is you're coming from two different perspectives and two

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different baselines what I see on the internet is when when people describe a

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dead hands release they actively rotate their arms and it's pretty easy to see

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if you know what to look for in the forearms because what they'll usually say

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is okay I've got the club here and then I'm just gonna rotate my body and it's

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gonna be pointing at the target there and then I just extend my arms and it's

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gonna be pointing at the target and there's zero shaft rotation with

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measuring 3d I've never seen a swing that had zero shaft rotation and it

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wouldn't work very well if I were to see it and the reason is going to be

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because of shaft lean if you're going to have shaft lean that means you're

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hitting the ball before the club gets straight out in front of you so you can

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see if I were to take this and rotate it without I'll do literally dead hands

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I'll lock my hands in place and I just really rotated my body and you can see

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that the club face is pointing well up towards the sky so that means I would

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either have to grip it in an absurdly strong grip like this to have that

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dead hands approach or I'd have to have some shaft rotation and the problem

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with

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gripping it absurdly strong like this is it I can't extend my arms because they

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're

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going to rotate when I start to extend them and if so if I was to extend my

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arms you would see that the bottom of the swing would actually work more low

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to high the rotation of the forearms helps get that feeling of covering the

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ball with the right hand at this point I wouldn't be in position to fully cover

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the ball so what usually ends up happening is when I see other instructors on

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the

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internet describing the dead hands release they will go like this and then

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they'll just turn through with their body and they'll hit it straight now to

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hit that straight I rotated my forearms because otherwise you would see a

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finished position where right here I'll drop the club right here compared to my

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body or compared to my sternum left arms pointing to the sky and the right arm

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is pointing more at the camera so compared to my sternum my sternum is now

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here I would put them in the same position this would be truly dead hands

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but it doesn't get there it gets pointing out at the target if I was to

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bring that back to the target you could see that my hands have rotated like

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this

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during that phase what happens is good golfers especially golfers who were good

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as juniors usually come from a school where they've they've learned to create

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a lot of hand speed and they've been overly active with the rotation of the

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arms and so what they end up getting to do is they have a pattern where they're

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basically jumping and really kind of lagging and rotating those arms and then

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they're tired of hitting hooks and an instructor teaches them to stay down and

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rotate their body well if you you're overdoing the arms and you start

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rotating your body it feels like you've done less with your arms what I prefer

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is less trying to chase a feeling like chasing a feeling of doing dead hands

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and rather trace of relationship so if you get the certain movement so that the

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club is going through the right time and space it may feel like a very active

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release it may feel very different but if it produces the same results as

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someone who feels dead hands then you have your pattern to train and you're

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gonna have the same level of success so now I'll demonstrate a couple so first

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one I'll do is truly dead hands I'm gonna get it into this position I'm gonna

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lock my arms and hands in place compared to my sternum because I've kind of got

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the ability to do that and then I'm gonna make a good body rotation and you

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can see that that ball without having any rotation of my arms that ball

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launched

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30 degrees right and continued to fade over that way now we'll do the junior

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pattern which would be a little bit more of rotation and flip so I get it to

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that

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position and I'll do a little bit more of really active flipping and rotating

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and

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you can see that that over drew is a pull draw now what I'm gonna do is I'm

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going to balance that out by adding a little bit of body movement to a rotation

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arm extension one of the other ways that I think some people feel dead hands is

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if you're used to feeling more of a flip like this having your arms extend

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without the club passing your body will feel like your hands are doing almost

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nothing because really more of the releases happening from the shoulders and

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the elbows and the triceps so we'll try to balance one of those back in so we

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've

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got dead hands overly flip and then more normal where you could see if I

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brought

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those arms back to where they were that's a lot more rotated and closed that's

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kind of the release right in through there so if you're struggling with

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chasing a feeling of dead hands I'd rather you train the movements that

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create the light right looks and if it feels active fine if it feels like dead

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hands great but a lot of golfers fall into slumps chasing a specific feeling