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This video is oversetting the wrist.

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So I've had a couple cases recently of golfers who were trying to kind of understand what

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the wrist should do at the top of the swing.

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And basically what they were trying to do was they were trying to hinge them as much as

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possible.

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Now, this has been talked about a lot in golf because when we look from this face on view,

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you're going to tend to see this narrowing or this angle here.

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And so a lot of golf instructors have talked about hinging the wrist kind of like hinging

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a hammer.

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Now the problem about is when we look at 3D, that's not exactly the case.

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And I'm going to go into exactly why during this video.

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So if you were to maximally hinger wrist, then this left wrist is going to drift towards

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extension like so.

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The reason for that, you can check the video on combined movements of the forearms, but to

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understand that if we were to hinge like so, you'll see that my wrist can extend pretty

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easily.

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If we hinge and then try to flex, feels very uncomfortable and actually pulls my body out

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of that hinge or radial deviation.

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So when you go up to the top of the swing, if I'm facing this way, if you hinge as much as

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you can, you can see that that would tend to put the club face in a certain position.

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If I then try to flex it, which is the motorcycle movement, you'll see that that

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tends to pull me slightly out of that hinge.

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So what's more important is at the top of the swing feeling like the right wrist is going

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to cup or extend, as they've talked about kind of holding a tray or holding, you know,

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as if you were to grab the shower curtain, basically getting this wrist facing up like so.

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What we see on 3D is that in the top of the swing, the right wrist is going to be extended

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for a right hand a golfer, almost 60 degrees, 50 degrees, somewhere in that range, which

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is near maximum for a lot of golfers.

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The left wrist is only going to flex 5 to 10 degrees.

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So what ends up happening is as I make this movement, because the right wrist is going

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to be cupping and the left wrist is going to be hinging, they're going to basically get

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into a comfortable position up at the top of the swing, as if I was in this loaded position

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getting ready to throw.

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Now if I was to maximally hinge this as much as possible, then I would physically have

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no slack to increase it on the way down.

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So what we want to do is we want to make sure that we get some hinge in the left wrist and

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the fair amount of extension in the right wrist, but not quite go to maximum, because if

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you go all the way to maximum, you can't increase it in the transition.

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And the more important thing, if I face this way, the more important thing is during transition

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to get that motorcycle going and to have that wrist set.

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Now one of the other questions that I tend to get is is it okay to start that motorcycle

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movement to end the backswing?

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And absolutely, there's a number of golfers, prominent golfers, who tend to, as they set,

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already start flexing that lead wrist.

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And in doing so, that pre gets the club face already starting close, then you don't

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have to think about it during transition.

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But if you're focused on hinging the wrist as much as you can, it's going to make it harder

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for you to do that motorcycle move.

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So yes, we want to hinge the wrist, but we want to have more of a focus on the cupping of

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the right wrist and the position of the wrist this way, rather than trying to maximize

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them in this hinge motion.

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Hopefully that helps clarify what the wrist are going to do during the setting phase.

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If you focus on it, it'll allow you to be a little bit more aggressive with what your body

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does during the downswing.