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Improve Your Trail Wrist for Better Ball Contact

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel the correct wrist extension to support your arm movement
  • Develop a better understanding of how body speed impacts your swing
  • Practice maintaining contact in your trail wrist for improved shot accuracy

In this drill, you'll learn how to properly support your trail wrist to enhance your release and improve your ball striking. This technique will help you maintain better control and consistency in your shots.

Video Transcript
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This release drill is supported trail wrist.

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So when you're bridging from doing the single arm releases to actually putting

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the hands

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back together on the club, I like to use these supported drills.

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The lead wrist is a very popular one where basically you take the trail hand

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and put

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it just on the outside of the lead wrist.

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Well I like to do the opposite as well.

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So I'm going to take my normal grip and then I'm going to support the trail

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wrist and I'm

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going to take my finger so that they're going to basically be up against the

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wrist when

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it's got a little bit of extension in it.

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So they're kind of off it here and now I'm feeling that contact.

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So I'm feeling that contact just like so and then I'm going to keep that

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contact as my

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arm extends.

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I'm learning to get that white movement, arm extension, timing and direction,

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really feeling

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that trail arm kind of extending through the shot as opposed to going more from

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the wrist

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and feeling that shoulder kind of release.

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So it just kind of sits up against that trail wrist and then I'm going to make

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my single

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arm releases just like I would do with the trail arm or if the lead arm was not

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supporting

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the trail arm.

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So from down the line it'll end up looking kind of sort of like that.

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If I did that towards the camera you'll see that when I get into that finished

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position

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I'm still keeping a little bit of contact.

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On these short shots the club shouldn't really whip past the hands.

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It's more of a body speed and the bracing that causes that to happen.

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So when I'm doing these short shots I should still be able to keep a little bit

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of extension

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in the wrist.

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We'll look from base on real quick so I'm going to make that back swing so that

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it's

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just up against the fingertips and then it's going to basically stay there as I

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extend

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that wrist.

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So we'll show one more from down the line.

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Get into that good kind of grip.

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Get into that good trail wrist supported and then keep it there all the way

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into that

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follow through even though my arms extend.

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So if you're struggling with taking the feeling of just your trail wrist only

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into a 9-3,

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this is a good way to kind of bridge it.

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You can do that movement and then put the lead hand in place and now I have a

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body position

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and club position that I can kind of register in my brain.

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And then I can try to get back there doing the same movement with two hands.

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So that sequence again would be supported, feel where that is.

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And then both hands on, kind of get back to where that supported would go.

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Once I have a good feeling of what it's like to get the club to brush the

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ground with

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the ball in the way, then I can start doing some bigger swings, either chest

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height or

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even work up to full swings to kind of feel that same release movement but a

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good way to

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start bridging it from just the single arm contact drills is with the supported

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wrist.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Your Trail Wrist for Better Ball Contact

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel the correct wrist extension to support your arm movement
  • Develop a better understanding of how body speed impacts your swing
  • Practice maintaining contact in your trail wrist for improved shot accuracy

In this drill, you'll learn how to properly support your trail wrist to enhance your release and improve your ball striking. This technique will help you maintain better control and consistency in your shots.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760
This release drill is supported trail wrist.

2
00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:09.280
So when you're bridging from doing the single arm releases to actually putting

3
00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:09.680
the hands

4
00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:14.120
back together on the club, I like to use these supported drills.

5
00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:19.180
The lead wrist is a very popular one where basically you take the trail hand

6
00:00:19.180 --> 00:00:19.760
and put

7
00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.780
it just on the outside of the lead wrist.

8
00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:26.280
Well I like to do the opposite as well.

9
00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:32.010
So I'm going to take my normal grip and then I'm going to support the trail

10
00:00:32.010 --> 00:00:32.800
wrist and I'm

11
00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:37.080
going to take my finger so that they're going to basically be up against the

12
00:00:37.080 --> 00:00:37.680
wrist when

13
00:00:37.680 --> 00:00:40.240
it's got a little bit of extension in it.

14
00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:45.360
So they're kind of off it here and now I'm feeling that contact.

15
00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:49.640
So I'm feeling that contact just like so and then I'm going to keep that

16
00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:51.840
contact as my

17
00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:52.840
arm extends.

18
00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.180
I'm learning to get that white movement, arm extension, timing and direction,

19
00:00:57.180 --> 00:00:58.040
really feeling

20
00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:03.090
that trail arm kind of extending through the shot as opposed to going more from

21
00:01:03.090 --> 00:01:03.840
the wrist

22
00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:07.080
and feeling that shoulder kind of release.

23
00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:13.320
So it just kind of sits up against that trail wrist and then I'm going to make

24
00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:14.240
my single

25
00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:19.350
arm releases just like I would do with the trail arm or if the lead arm was not

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00:01:19.350 --> 00:01:20.240
supporting

27
00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:21.560
the trail arm.

28
00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:28.040
So from down the line it'll end up looking kind of sort of like that.

29
00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:33.340
If I did that towards the camera you'll see that when I get into that finished

30
00:01:33.340 --> 00:01:34.080
position

31
00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:36.680
I'm still keeping a little bit of contact.

32
00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:41.680
On these short shots the club shouldn't really whip past the hands.

33
00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.680
It's more of a body speed and the bracing that causes that to happen.

34
00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:50.720
So when I'm doing these short shots I should still be able to keep a little bit

35
00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:51.520
of extension

36
00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:52.520
in the wrist.

37
00:01:52.520 --> 00:01:56.800
We'll look from base on real quick so I'm going to make that back swing so that

38
00:01:56.800 --> 00:01:57.080
it's

39
00:01:57.080 --> 00:02:03.610
just up against the fingertips and then it's going to basically stay there as I

40
00:02:03.610 --> 00:02:04.320
extend

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00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:05.320
that wrist.

42
00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:08.960
So we'll show one more from down the line.

43
00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.800
Get into that good kind of grip.

44
00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:18.140
Get into that good trail wrist supported and then keep it there all the way

45
00:02:18.140 --> 00:02:18.960
into that

46
00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.680
follow through even though my arms extend.

47
00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:29.420
So if you're struggling with taking the feeling of just your trail wrist only

48
00:02:29.420 --> 00:02:31.320
into a 9-3,

49
00:02:31.320 --> 00:02:33.720
this is a good way to kind of bridge it.

50
00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:40.460
You can do that movement and then put the lead hand in place and now I have a

51
00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:41.920
body position

52
00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:46.080
and club position that I can kind of register in my brain.

53
00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:52.920
And then I can try to get back there doing the same movement with two hands.

54
00:02:52.920 --> 00:03:00.280
So that sequence again would be supported, feel where that is.

55
00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:08.240
And then both hands on, kind of get back to where that supported would go.

56
00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.240
Once I have a good feeling of what it's like to get the club to brush the

57
00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:11.920
ground with

58
00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:15.680
the ball in the way, then I can start doing some bigger swings, either chest

59
00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:16.240
height or

60
00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:20.520
even work up to full swings to kind of feel that same release movement but a

61
00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:21.000
good way to

62
00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.110
start bridging it from just the single arm contact drills is with the supported

63
00:03:26.110 --> 00:03:26.800
wrist.
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