Question on right hand drill

[Belboz]

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Thanks Greg .. will continue to work on this .. I imagined it would be "different," as it is certainly a new feeling and approach here.

Wayne

[thebigman]

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http://www.freegolfinfo.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1228815

inside there will be a Video from some dude who reckons cocking the right wrist is the "biggest killer in golf", claimin there is only a bendin motion in the wrist. The elbow is what cocks. Its pretty interesting.

This accurate greg?

[GregJWillis]

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Tom Tomasello plays with the ideas there: "The left hand pronates only, and the right wrist bends back and releases." I contend that it is a type of swing that needs great timming to be successful.

My right wrist position is similar, but only in the setup where you start with it bent back. We start to part ways when he talks about taking the club back with the rolling of the left wrist. Not really rotating the shoulders at all until the club is almost pressed into the chest. This has the unfortunate affect of shortining the arc of the overall swing. Every pro you will see on the tour will rotate the shoulders first, then start to set the hands up. When he talkes about the cocking of the wrists (or lack there of), you actually do see him set the wrist in the video exactly the way I describe. It's just that the method that he describes is to not worry about it, but to worry mostly about the re-rolling of the club at impact...the famous Hogan 3 right hand comment. That swing is extreamly handy-timming and I wanted to remove the worry of timming that part from the swing. My method of letting the hands set and release in the vertical and let the hips and shoulders be the squaring of the face does just that in a nice, compact, simple and powerful solution.

I think this is a small point to offer, but what Tom is teaching is a method to swing the club. Just like I am, and several others that can and will directly contradict each other in on way or the other. Can all these methods work? Yes. What is the best method? The one that you like the best, works for your the best and the one you can repeat the best to get the best results.

Great find...I loved the video.

[toyotajon93]

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Hey greg, I've been working on my swing alot lately, I ordered one of those greg norman secrets off of ebay pretty cheap. Whats the best way to train with that training aid? Hitting full, half shots or just swinging without a ball. I still think I'm swatting because when my timing or tempo is off or if I get angry then I totally mess up. Thanks again

[GregJWillis]

Re: Question on right hand drill

Start 1/2 shots like the drill. Then move to full.

[pnearn]

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Less moving parts = better swing. That to me includes wrists and hands. Im learning more and more that if I've made a good backswing, am on plane and loaded up right, I can just turn back through without much conscious thought re, wrists cock, right hand etc and hit the ball great

An example of this is with short irons. I see so many players at the range with a 7i-PW who reach parallel at the top. If you turn the club by turning your shoulders and keeping your triangle intact you wont be be able to get close to parallel due to the steep plane of that club. If you do then youve seperated, or to keep this on topic, over used the hands/wrists etc

If you just turn back with the shoulders until you feel resistance and then swing back through as a body led motion, feeling like you swing around yourself more after impact, then its an easy game

I find when my arms, hands, wrists get into the backswing, I am thinking my transition/downswing/release is flawed when actually the problem was cast in the backswing

[jhaysmd]

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where can I buy the video on the right hand drill?

[GregJWillis]

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Its Here free

[Belboz]

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More or less accidentally, I have found that the right-hand drill is vastly easier to manage if I concentrate on swinging the handle of the club, and letting the shaft and clubhead follow when they will. This also permits much lighter grip pressure, since if there is no effort to keep the clubhead in line (or just behind) the hands, instead allowing it to trail simply because of arm speed, no muscular tension is required.

This sounds a bit to me what I imagine Eddie Merrins may emphasize; but I have never read his books or listened to him speak, etc., so this association is no more than speculation.

Anyway -- does this approach make -sense- here?

Thanks,

B.

[GregJWillis]

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I don't know either and will look at his books/videos. Thanks for the info.

And yes, the tension can be very light not needing to have to force anything through. The lighter the better keeps a fuller range of motion easier to control.

[bagfull]

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Hi Greg


Tried the right hand drill for the first time last night. Really felt good if I remembered to rotate fully. Getting into the impact position correctly but got to say not easy to do as it felt alien to my normal swing. Going to the range tonight to try again. Will practise without a ball for a while then see how it goes. One question is the RHD for all clubs as I found it hard to hold with the woods.

[GregJWillis]

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The longer clubs will always be harder to do any drills on. Which is why to start, use the 7i or 8i. Because the drill uses a shorter, easier swing, your hight with longer clubs will be very low and can be discuraging to some. So if this is your first attempts at it, just stick with the 7-8.

Great to hear you trying it.