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The Stirl is motorcycle timing. So we're going to talk about the motorcycle or that

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flexion of the lead wrist and where most people have trouble with it. So there's two

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different things that could be happening. Either the timing of the movement is incorrect

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or the amount of movement is incorrect. Those are the two frequently that I'll see when

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we're working on getting this movement. So just as a refresher, this motorcycle is basically

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going to be a flattening of this lead wrist. So I start in a neutral grip which has about

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25 degrees of extension. If I were to then motorcycle, you can see that that closes down the

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club face, which allows for this body return or sorry body rotation and some shaft

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lean so that I'm still have the club face point in the general direction of the target.

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So the timing of when most players do this is before you get to waist height kind of about

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like so. Now if you wait until waist height to try to do it, you're virtually assured that

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you're going to have to stand up to help square the club face. But if you have that

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motorcycle movement initiated before you get to the end of your transition, you're going

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to have a good chance of being able to stay down and keep that chest going into side

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bend and rotation and all these other good things to help control the flat spot and ultimately

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help with consistency. I've had a number of questions on here. While I focus on it during

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transition because that's the most powerful way to do it and that's what the majority of

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to our players do. There are a number of them who do it to end the backswing. So after you've

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gone into your takeaway movement and you're setting the club, guys like Justin Johnson, David

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Tom's, there's probably a handful of others but there's the two that come to mind. They will

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do it more to end the backswing as opposed to start the downswing. Now as we focus on here,

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there's no real backswing downswing. It's all kind of a blend of transition, right? As I'm going back,

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my lower body starts before my upper body before my arms and my hand. So if you want to feel like

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this is ending the backswing as opposed to starting the downswing, we may actually be talking about

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kind of the same timing. So as long as it's happening before I get to here, that's going to take

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care of the timing piece. So the timing of when it happens is typically going to be after the

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takeaway and before I reach delivery position. The other common thing that I'll see is golfers will

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start the motorcycle and then bail on it during the release. For most of you, you're going to be

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able to feel like you motorcycle pretty much until you get into this follow-through position.

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Now even if I'm trying to motorcycle, what will tend to happen is because of that extension of that

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right side, this left side pulling and this right side kind of pushing through,

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we're allowing that arm to lengthen. It's going to tend to pull me out of that motorcycle movement.

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But what tends to happen is golfers will do this motorcycle movement and then they'll

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bail on it right about here when it should actually be reaching more of its faster speed. So

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for the timing of it, you want to feel like I started and then I continue, continue, continue, continue,

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almost until after I've made contact with the golf ball. That's going to help create a lot more of

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this lag and that's going to help allow for the body movements to do all the really good things

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to help with consistency. This side bend, this axis, tilt, irritation, all those good things.

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Ultimately, this is lag of the lead wrist. So we often think about creating lag in this shoulder

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and in this wrist, but the more that I motorcycle, that is actually lag in the lead wrist.

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So you're going to initiate it somewhere either working on ending the backswing or starting the

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downswing, but it's going to initiate by the time I get to, by the time I get to waist height

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and you're going to continue that feeling of motorcycleing all the way through to that follow-through

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position. Those two keys will tend to help you get the face close to the path in this way.

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So if you find that you're hitting slices or you're hitting blocks way out to the right,

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there's a good chance that you either didn't do the motorcycle early enough or you didn't do it

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for long enough. Focus on those two key movements until you're having a nice, consistent draw

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or pull draws and then you know that the face is not the issue and you can work on the path.