right hand drill

[Scragger63]

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Apart from my now mandatory "swing easy" swing thought, the only other thing I do is to try to remember to get to a good full finish on all full shots...

No thoughts of anything else...'

Other than mongrels behind hitting up it seems....!!!!

Cheers

[GregJWillis]

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...But what next after impact? You mentioned about swatting. I don't quite get it. Are you advacating swatting? or let the clubface square all through the swing?

I do not advocate the breaking of the wrists on the horizontal plane (left and right), but up and down is essential (vertical hinging).

How about the mini rotation after impact, power move as what AJ Bonar would call it?

I like AJ's power move. He uses rotation coupled with extension of the leading wrist. This is basically the same thing I am trying to get you to do by only hinging the wrists up and down. I just don't like to mention wrist/arm rotation. The main reason I don't is because I like to emphesize full body rotation (the wall/impact drill) and that 98% of the time causes the arms and wrists to rotate without you having to think/force them. Any time a little action is focused on, that is all you do...just that one little action, and everything else takes a backseat. Focusing on bigger moves allows the little ones to fall into sync and just happen in a subconscience and relaxed state.

If after a lesson I see the full body rotation, good spine angle, wrists hinging only up and down AND STILL the ball pushes, then I will begin to mention tension as a cause...this 75% of the time will fix it (it then frees up the arms to rotate naturally) but there are those that just have body physics that need the actual focus placed on that move, and that kicks the rotation into place.

So absolutly, this power move CAN be applied with my swing system.

[Neil18]

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I do not advocate the breaking of the wrists on the horizontal plane (left and right), but up and down is essential (vertical hinging).


I like AJ's power move. He uses rotation coupled with extension of the leading wrist. This is basically the same thing I am trying to get you to do by only hinging the wrists up and down. I just don't like to mention wrist/arm rotation. The main reason I don't is because I like to emphesize full body rotation (the wall/impact drill) and that 98% of the time causes the arms and wrists to rotate without you having to think/force them. Any time a little action is focused on, that is all you do...just that one little action, and everything else takes a backseat. Focusing on bigger moves allows the little ones to fall into sync and just happen in a subconscience and relaxed state.

If after a lesson I see the full body rotation, good spine angle, wrists hinging only up and down AND STILL the ball pushes, then I will begin to mention tension as a cause...this 75% of the time will fix it (it then frees up the arms to rotate naturally) but there are those that just have body physics that need the actual focus placed on that move, and that kicks the rotation into place.

So absolutly, this power move CAN be applied with my swing system.

Your way sounds better to me Greg. Just can't be reading things that will essentially be getting the majority of people to lose even more lag early, and flip instead of turn.

[joeyg565]

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I like AJ's power move. He uses rotation coupled with extension of the leading wrist. This is basically the same thing I am trying to get you to do by only hinging the wrists up and down. I just don't like to mention wrist/arm rotation. The main reason I don't is because I like to emphesize full body rotation (the wall/impact drill) and that 98% of the time causes the arms and wrists to rotate without you having to think/force them. Any time a little action is focused on, that is all you do...just that one little action, and everything else takes a backseat. Focusing on bigger moves allows the little ones to fall into sync and just happen in a subconscience and relaxed state.

If after a lesson I see the full body rotation, good spine angle, wrists hinging only up and down AND STILL the ball pushes, then I will begin to mention tension as a cause...this 75% of the time will fix it (it then frees up the arms to rotate naturally) but there are those that just have body physics that need the actual focus placed on that move, and that kicks the rotation into place.

So absolutly, this power move CAN be applied with my swing system.

Greg W. thank you for clarifying my queries. It make sense now. Your using the big muscle to swing by rotating the whole body and everthing follows it (shoulder, arm and hand). No wonder why the body is facing the target at impact.

I would like to thank Lowpost, Brian, Neil and others for their insight and comments.

I'll go to the driving range and practice the right hand drill, impact drill and the power move. I hope It will improve my iron shots.

Joeyg565

[sonnytris]

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Greg & fellow golfers
I understood your RHD but DID NOT KNOW HOW TO incorporate it with Lynn Blakes(Yoda) and Brian Manzallan(The Golf Machine guys) method of turning my forearms on my BS and this will add a lot more power . So as long as i move my wrist up and down in between i can fan or turn my forearms on the Back swing?
Again Greg let me thank people like yurself and Brian Mazella who make golf such a simpler game than most pros do
Again Thanks Mate
Sonny in South Texas

[GregJWillis]

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Sonnytris,

Yes, you can fan/rotate your forearms in the BS. (It will look like a "Toe-up" position of the club parallel to the target line).

[arigatou]

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I found that yes, I encountered problem is the attempt to coordinate the release and fully extending his right elbow before TP released off the wrist, because the two hinge attache the same appendage.

[ubizmo]

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Wow, I haven't been on this site in ages. But I came back to say something about Greg Willis's Right Hand Drill. The idea of the drill, of course, is to prevent "swatting" by holding the "lag", which is what the drill practices. I always found this drill very valuable, and in fact I use it on the course for punch shots. By holding the lag, we get proper downward impact on the sweet spot of the club face.

But....like many others, I had difficulty keeping the drill feeling going in my full swing. Sometimes it would work; other times it would just go away.

This week, I made an interesting discovery. It may not help anybody else but it has helped me a lot.

Instead of focusing on holding the lag with the right hand, I tried focusing on doing so with the left hand. This shift in focus entails (for me) a slow takeaway, so that I don't accidentally let the angle straighten out, and a slight increase in firmness of left hand grip at the top/transition, for the same reason. The feeling is that my left hand is "locking" that lag angle. I'm not thinking about my right hand at all.

Anyway, this made an astonishing difference. I'm still a hack recreational golfer but this adjustment has improved my ball striking a lot. That clean quiet "click" where you feel almost no resistance through impact is the norm, and only occasionally to I backslide to that jarring and loud "clack" of a swatted ball struck by a blade that's already on its way up.

Maybe it's just me, but I thought I'd share it. It was exciting enough to get me to come back to this site!

[greghutton]

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Thanks for the info Todd and I am sure GJW will be pleased. It's also great to have you back!