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This concept video is connecting trail risk extension to trail risk ulnar

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deviation.

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So many golfers complain about having a scoopy or a flip, um,

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down to the bottom, basically not knowing what the trail arm should do.

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There's a couple different kind of common schools of thought.

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Some people are taught, uh,

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to basically hold onto this angle forever as you come through. Um,

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and others are taught, no, don't hold onto that angle.

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You wanna have more of this kind of free release flexing the wrist. Um,

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so in this video I'm gonna try to clarify what's going on with the trail risk

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down during the impact zone from about parallel to parallel. Um,

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essentially what we want to have happen is we're going to try and keep

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some extension in the wrist, but as we go into ulnar deviation,

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that is going to pull us out of the, um, extension of the wrist.

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But it's not that we're actively flexing to lose that extension of the wrist,

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it's just the ulnar deviation. The way that the joints work are,

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is going to pull you out of that extension.

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That is the way that you can have people describe having kind of a feeling of

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holding the wrist back and kind of covering it. But if I did that,

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the club would be way up here.

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So the only way I could keep that extension of the wrist feeling and get

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down to the golf ball would be then ulnar deviation.

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Now you'll see I went from having the wrist that much to, as I ulnar deviated,

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I got it into the slightly, uh, extended but ulnar deviated position. Um,

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interestingly, the, um,

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when you have a slight bit of extension and ulnar deviation,

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that's one of the most precise positions for the wrist.

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That's where we do a lot of our fine motor things like using, uh,

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tools or drawing and things like that.

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So it gets us into this really good anatomical position for

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precision and, and feeling where that club face would be.

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So oftentimes when I have golfers work on this,

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we'll do it in two different stages. First,

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we're just gonna feel like we keep the extension of the wrist.

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This would be more of like a classic kind of flying wedge drill.

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And oftentimes you'll have kind of this artificially held on, um,

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follow through position,

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but it gives you a feeling of holding the wrist through the imp uh,

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hitting area and using a little bit more of the body pivot. Next,

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we're gonna feel like we hold onto that wrist,

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but now we're going to ulnar deviate. And you'll see as we do that, um,

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that's going to tend to encourage, um,

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getting a little bit more hands up from the down the line video and it's gonna

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allow us to get into this,

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shake the hands with the target line finished position. Um,

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where here if it, it feels like I'm,

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I've got tension kind of in two different ways,

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a little bit of tension from trying to hold that extension,

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but then tension and going into that ulnar deviation.

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And that tension creates a lot of feeling of stability or consistency

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of the club face, um, down through impact.

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And it helps us get shaft lean without getting too diggy.

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If you keep the extension and you kind of, um, don't do the ulnar deviation,

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it will tend to hit more poles and it will tend to come, uh,

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kind of over the top at the bottom, uh, which,

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which causes a lot of really abrasive ground contact, um,

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and a lot of club face, uh, control issues. So let's do that one more time.

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We're gonna bring it back to about waist height.

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We're gonna feel like we increase that extension of the wrist and then from

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there we're gonna feel like we hold onto that extension of the wrist,

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kinda that stop sign feel. But at the same time,

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we're going to ulnar deviate and you'll see I get to this follow through

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position where it's just barely extended,

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but fully ulnar deviated. Um,

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that will really help clean up a lot of the looks of either the

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scoop down through here or the quick passing of the handle.

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When you see the, the club on the way through, kind of going like that,

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that's usually a lack of ulnar deviation,

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but it's hard to have ulnar deviation if you don't also have that extension.

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So there's a good little recap of how to combo the two most common wrist

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release drills, uh, that we have in the release section.