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This video is discussing the David Duvall flexion release.

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So I had a question from one of the students about, you know, should we try

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this because it's

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obviously different than what I teach. And in the clip he talks about how this

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is a feeling,

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it's not something that you will see on video. And if you do it, it won't show

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up that way.

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It's just a feeling, but basically flexing the wrist like so as fast as he can

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as soon as he

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starts his downswing. Now what you'll see is we'll break down, you know, I can

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never argue the argument

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that you should feel this but it won't look that way. I think my job is to tell

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you what actually

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happens and to give you ways to experience it and then you can tell me what it

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feels like.

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Well, if I have my arms bent 90 degrees and I flex my wrist like this, that

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doesn't move the

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path at all. All that does is open the face. So if I got up to the top of the

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swing and I did

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that movement, this is pretty much what it would look like. Or when they talk

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about doing it more

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down near the release to square the club face, what you'll see is you cannot

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have shaft lean and

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release the club purely by changing the path. You have to have a bit of shaft

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rotation

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in order to have a square club face and get the low point out in front of the

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golf ball,

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especially with the trail wrist being the furthest point away. When it passes

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neutral,

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when it passes zero, that's the furthest the club can be away from you. Unless

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you did something

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crazy goofy like straightening those arms while keeping the wrist in a position

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,

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which would be almost impossible to do with any amount of speed. So if I flexed

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like this,

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it would be more releasing around the right shoulder, which would be behind the

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golf ball.

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And if I turned enough so that that right shoulder was in front of the golf

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ball,

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and I truly did it in a kind of release style like this, the club face would be

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wide open

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and I would hit lots of poor shots. So why would a golfer say that this is a

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good feeling to have?

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Now, what I think happens is that's their way of feeling more of the wipe and

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more of covering

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the ball with this right hand is actually in order to really feel like you flex

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that wrist,

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you wouldn't actually do it like this, right? You wouldn't actually go into

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internal rotation

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if you were going to try to flex it. If you're going to try to flex that wrist,

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you would keep this arm in a little bit of internal rotation longer in order to

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have a stronger

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connection through the shoulder for you to push on. So I think what ends up

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happening is when he

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tries to do this, he gets better arm connection. And when they describe not

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having any roll,

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or not having any wrist roll like this, they're actually talking about not

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having any shoulder

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roll. So what I see is the golfer is when they start trying to do this movement

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,

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do a better job of controlling that shoulder and keeping the arm in external

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rotation. So if you

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find that feeling like flexing the wrist gets you in a better shoulder

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alignment and you make more

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solid contact, that's great. You can confirm if you are actually flexing the

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wrist, you would hit

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more fat and thin shots and you would hit more shots off to the right and you

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would hit more

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pulls. If you're not doing that, then it's probably you're not actually flexing

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the wrist

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prior to impact and there's some other benefit that is happening from trying

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this movement. So

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what I would recommend is I go more direct on what would actually produce that

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better,

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more stable release pattern, which is having the arm more or the hands more in

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front of your body,

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which will come more from that shoulder alignment and less from that wrist

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movement. But if trying

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to get the wrist movement gets you in good shoulder position, like I think it

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does for David Duval,

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then by all means be my guest. So if you see a video and you're not quite sure

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how it relates

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to the system, please send it to me, ask a question. I'm happy to film these

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videos to help clarify

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and get you on the right page because one of the most challenging things with

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golf is making sure

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that you're understanding what you're working on and that you're constantly

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moving forward.

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And sometimes other instructors are going to give you great ideas. My goal is

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to help you

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understand why that great idea works so that if it stops working, you can try a

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complimentary movement.