Left Wrist Positions

[O.B.Left]

I know where you're coming from and I agree that teachers fall into patterns.

Lynn told me, and I agree, and Homer said this in the book, that the Left Wrist can either Face the Angle of Approach or become perfectly Vertical at Impact (Sorry, I don't have time to look it up). Could that be the difference?? Could a Left Wrist Facing the Angle of Approach lead to a naturally occurring Bent Left/Flat Right Wrist at Follow through? And, one that's perfectly Vertical lead to keeping the Right Wrist Bent? I'll experiment over the weekend.

When I use: (all 3 Patterns include a Flat, Level and Vertical Left Wrist at Impact)

1. Bent Left at End with #2 PP Sensing Lag: Flat Left Wrist Finish Swivel. When I just want to enjoy the Play.
   
2. Flat Left at End with #2 PP Sensing Lag: Flat Left Wrist Finish Swivel. I don't use this very much. Very difficult.
   
3. Flat Left at End with 3# PP Sensing Lag: Flat Left Wrist Finish Swivel. My Favorite.

Ive highlighted a sentence above. Maybe its a typo , not sure but Lynn teaches Impact Hands at Follow Through. Flat Left / Bent Right . Not overly arched or anything else. Then bent left / flat right at Finish Swivel. Like a mirror image of the backswing . Two halves making a whole. An unbridled flail action , a release of the right hand bend if you will.

But again IMO "Flat" is not necessarily visually "flat" . And so there is often a little bend to the left wrist at Top even though its said to be Flat. This is also what he teaches IMO. Well I know for a fact . We discussed this point both in person and via email .

[innercityteacher]

You know that. You can demonstrate and teach it. Doesn't it seem logical now that you can manipulate Low-Point. Now there are two of us who know. It's up to us to teach the World. How could they ever learn this on their own??????

The bucket Daryl, is such a good image for the Right Forearm Angle of Approach that I know I will do it every range visit and before every round.

Having understood Low Point adjustment with the width of the stance, not a new idea but now clear to me, and the importance of Impact Fix, still mid-body, I can see why my bad days on the course should be in the high 70's not the high 80's,

You were nice enough to explain to me some time ago in another post the why of what Lynn showed me in person to wit:

http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=74431&highlight=shoulder+lag#post 74431


If you rotate your hips around to turn them, then your right shoulder will go very deep and too flat and throw everything off plane. Please refer to exercise #5 and 6. March in-place while you swing your arms and you will learn the KEY to swinging on the TSP and how the Pivot can be aligned to automatically move the right shoulder On-Plane/Down-Plane every time without any effort. Keep the balls of your feet on the ground and lift your heels as you march. Experiment by exaggerating the "march" for you to feel that the Hips and Shoulders move differently but are synchronized. Don't pull the arms down, let the pivot do that. Notice that your Hips move in an alternating pattern from front to back and back to front while your shoulders move kind of up and down.

Please notice that your hips turn, but you aren't rotating them. The bending and straightening knees allow the turn.

HK said that if you can't get the right shoulder back to the plane during the backstroke, then use a steeper plane. In other words, use a TSP. Normal people don't have a problem getting the shoulder back to the Turned Shoulder Plane because it isn't very Far Back. In fact, from the deep shoulder turn you've become accustomed too, it will feel barely back at all.



I am guilty of several mistakes in my golf swing including mistaking effort for technique. I do over-rotate, over-swing, over-compensate and so have to unlearn quite a bit. Lynn's instructions were sublime, so simple, I was dumbfounded.

This afternoon, I sort of "got" the Turned Shoulder Plane as a simple lagging back of about 3 or 4 inches of my right shoulder, almost a balancing out of Impact Fix and it felt almost like an Acquired Motion position. (Lynn would simply get me to move my heels! A very small move of hips and shoulders away from the line but powerful enough to send the club-head flying!) Very powerful. I kept the bucket level as I "slightly" pivoted (from the knee, then shoulder) and felt tremendous lag back and through and kept hammering the ball changing my low point and so my direction as fade, straight, or baby draw. And it was very easy to keep my head on the ball!

The stroke is just so counter-intuitive! To keep the left wrist flat and a Bent Right Wrist is just a small set of moves not the over-rotation of hips and shoulders I have been guilty of!

Thanks Daryl, Lynn, OB KEv, Jerry G and everyone!

ICT

[Daryl]

ya, typo, sorry about that.


Flat Left Wrist:
Any Wrist Condition of the Primary Lever that doesn't move the Clubhead out of its orbit.