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Connecting Shallow Wrists to Shaft Lean

When training the swing, we often breakdown the swing into phases to hone in the key details in each phase. But when getting further along in your journey you'll want to also work on unifying the movement of each phase. In this video, we discuss how the transition shallowing movements, if continued into the downswing become the wrist movements that help create shaft lean and solid contact.

Tags: Poor Contact, Iron, Impact, Transition, Concept, Intermediate

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Content video is connecting shallow wrists to shaft lean. So the

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purpose of this video is to help you unify the

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risk movements of the downswing into one of more of

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a single feel. Yes oftentimes.

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We have to train two different zones a

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lot of golfers get off in transition

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and then they have to recover or they can be in a good

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position at the end of transition, but then

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they feel like they have to release the club or throw

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the club where they lose it down at the bottom. So blending these

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feels of what helps shallow, the club in transition

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are the same movements if you continue them to help create shaft

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lean down at the bottom. So essentially to

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create some shaft lean if I

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just got set up here. I'm going to extend the

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trail risk and flex the lead wrist.

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Kind of like this that puts the club back here. And now

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if I brought the club a little bit more across kind

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of like this.

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Then if I was to rotate my body, you can see that I

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magically have a bunch of shaft lean. Well those

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same wrist movements of going this way

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are what I want to start have Happening Here In transition.

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So as I go up to the top of

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my swing my body is turned facing away from the target but

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still in a good centered position and the arms are in

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front of my Peck kind of like this. And now if I make

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those same wrist movements where my my

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shoulder is kind of dropping down to get into this delivery

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position or doing a little shoulder blade shallowing and the

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wrists are increasing that extension. I

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was just talking about well now as I

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turn down that's going to automatically create the

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shaft lean. The main thing I have to time is more the

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timing of when my body starts going

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into its bracing rather than feeling like I have

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to time a throw movement. So again the two places where

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you'll likely get off would be in transition kind

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of throwing right away from the top.

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Or straightening that right arm. We're going high with

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that right shoulder.

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Or you could be in an okay position here, but then

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have more of a feel like you had to throw it down there at

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the bottom which can often cause staying inflection

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and leaning backward and things that mess up your low point. So

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with some practice I can get this into a feel

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of just one fairly stable wrist

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movement where I'm gonna go up to the top. I'm gonna

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feel let's do a little Tai Chi version where I'm

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gonna feel really slow motion.

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Little throw there at the bottom. Not bad. Sometimes it's

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hard in these slower ones, but let's give it another

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try. So we're gonna go up we're gonna feel

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that was a little bit better there where the

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wrist movement

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is going to blend.

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All the way down. So this is often

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a concept or a kind of a feel that

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I'll give for golfers who tend to have a lot more of a

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wrist Flip or scoop down at the bottom.

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So we're gonna go up.

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All the way through I felt like

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I was still increasing the wrist as I

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was getting some older deviation and

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body turn down at the bottom, but I was still maintaining that wrist

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extension as the arm was extending some

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people call it the Flying Wedge, but it's

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ultimately the same

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movements in transition that help shallow

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the club or bring the club more behind we'll ultimately give

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you more shaft lean. So it's two different ways that you can look at it as you

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get more comfortable. We can start ramping up speed.

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Or we can start.

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Ramping up a longer swing. So I

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usually start with some.

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Tai Chi movement or slow motion swings just to get

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the overall feel

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Of a what the shaft lean

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or the shallowing is gonna feel like and then we'll try to blend it together.

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If you look at the video and you're struggling either in transition or impact.

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We have a bunch of release drills as well as transition drills to

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isolate the key pieces, but as you get better and

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work it more into your full move you want to work on progressing it

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to where it feels more and more like one fluid movement

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during the whole downswing.

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Kind of like that.

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