Cocking the wrists?

[Keeks]

What is cocking the wrists? I've never head an explaination that made sense to me

[GregJWillis]

http://mysite.verizon.net/gregjwillis/LESSON1.htm

[Keeks]

I've read it and re-read it. But somehow, I don't thing I'm interpeting the instrutons properably. I've been trying to keep my right wrist straight trhow the swing recently and it working better for me. My shots are now going straighter.

But in another thread I mentioned that I'm losing distance off the tees with My irons. And they also tend to fade away. I was told i mightent be releasing properbly in my swing. How do I know whenb to release (uncock?) ?

[jscerbo]

Cocking the wrist can be a very misleading term.

The proper term and more easily undertood term is hinging the wrists.

This will happen naturally. When the club reaches waist high the club will hinge upward, this is caused by natural momentum. It happens naturally without thought.

If this is still confusing, do this for me make your righthand into a fist for me. do you see the angle that is created by your right hand and wrist, this cocking the wrist or hinging, which ever term you prefer.

LEt me know if this helps

Jordan Scerbo
Teaching Professional

[GregJWillis]

To address the cocking of the wrists in another way (there are so many)...

Shaking hands with someone is not done by moving your wrist side to side, it is done by moving your arm and/or wrist (how ever you Daddy tought you) up and down. The cocking of the wrists in the swing is this motion of just the wrists up and down. They never move side to side. If they did, this would cause the opening and closing of the club face through impact which will create great inconsistancies in timming and loss in power.

The clubface is squared to the ball by roatating the hips through to their maximum position (flexability dependent) and your shoulders rotating through to their respective maximum. The hands will not need to try to close the face at all. If you do this right, you will be able to let them simply release "down" to the ball in either a) Aggressive manner for high irons, or b) smooth extension for the woods going lower.