Chris this is one of your best videos, seriously. The explanation of how the wrist has to release (and not so much focus on releasing the club) was a great different approach to this.
This is such an important concept that very few people talk about. My best friend/coach/pro identified the release as the starting point to fix everything else. He has me doing the exact same drills but the feeling he wants me to get is my wrists touching each other on the follow through. This is fixed many things with my swing and giving me a positive thought through impact.
Chris, you're the FIRST instructor - online or in person - who has clearly explained why I'm always 20 yards short of all the guys in my group. There is so much attention and importance being given to "holding lag" that I no longer know how to release the club! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
There is a channel world class golf has discussed this exact same concept or a while. It’s incredible info I’m surprised to see more mainstream instructors aren’t showing this.
Chris, you truly stand out as one of the best instructors online. There are countless instructors out there, but something about the way you explain things just clicks. It’s like you’re speaking directly to us, making everything so easy to follow. I was analyzing my swing and noticed I was casting a bit and struggling to avoid the chicken wing. That’s when I found one of your videos on how to compress the ball. As I continued reviewing my swing, I realized my chest wasn’t pointing at the target during the release-and just as I had that thought, you addressed it in your video. It was like you were reading my mind! Your ability to connect with your audience and address exactly what we're thinking is incredible. Chris, your passion for teaching and the community shines through in everything you do. Thank you for your dedication and for sharing your knowledge so generously. Wishing you continued success in your career. Cheers from Florida!
This video is a game changer, seriously… I’ve never felt so rewarded and enlightened of what’s wrong with my golf swing. Thanks so much dude, phenomenal video!!
Best golf teaching video on the internet and Chris Ryan explains everything brilliantly- it has been a game changer for me 65 years old and my distance and accuracy has improved dramatically thanks Chris Ryan
Your instruction is just excellent- you have been describing me from start to finish- 🤷 - how I wish I lived closer to the Belfry to get some 1 2 1 instruction
This. This. This. I focused on keeping my wrists flat and not “flipping” so much that I stopped releasing at all and lost all power. Started releasing the club through impact and found my swing and started striping the ball. 👏 bravo
I've watched so many videos all aspects of the golf swing, but this was by far the best on the release. This is exactly what my game needed. Thank you!!!
I think this is what I needed to see, I've seen videos about holding the wrist angle and I was twisting my body as fast as possible to generate speed and wondering my my 5 iron was only going 150Y. Absolute killer for driver aswell
Really nice visual explanation! Is there any downside to supinating the left wrist through impact? That is, letting the left wrist stay flat (while rolling it over) and maintaining the bend in the right wrist as it rolls with the left. I do this, and still get the fold in the left arm. This also seems to help my compression. Thanks.
This video is fantastic. I’ve always gone out of my way and try not to release the club too early, causing the dreaded chicken wing. Feel like the best feedback is watching the down the line shot and seeing the club head come around before my left arm.
I was literally searching how to rehinge my wrist after impact this morning. Since my first set of real golf lesson commented let my wrist hinge quicker after impact. This video is probably what will fix me. Thanks Chris
I spent the past five years trying to hold off and my index skyrocketed. I started working on this last week and, no word of a lie, went from hitting my driver 190 to several in a row while playing .. over 250. I hit my little 5 wood 232. And best of all… it’s all straight, without the nasty slice.
This was a very VERY good video Chris!! I have one question though. If you want to manipulate delivered loft at impact - let's say you want to hit a low punchy shot - would you do it by trying to hold your wrist angles? (and loose speed). When I try to do this I feel like my follow through gets very stiff, short and awkward. So I wonder if there is another way to take loft of other than what you refer to as wrong in this video? My understanding is that you should let the weight and momentum of the club release the club and that your wrists should be rather relaxed because of it. But how can you manipulate loft with relaxed wrists?
The process of having a bowed left wrist at impact to a cupped left wrist after impact is a thing I will never get right. I am struggling with it for years. Most of the time I block my shots as I am focussing on having a bowed left wrist at impact which forces me to hold that position into the finish. I really don't know what to do to let the club travel on the arc after impact. It feels my club leaves the arc to the right. Maybe my left hand needs to travel more down and more left after impact instead of more up and more to the target to get into the right finish position. Keep up the good content!
I am exactly like you. While I enjoyed the video. I am confuse by drill 1 cup left wrist but when I get connected left arm the left wrist is flat and clubface is over rolled and shut. Its not cupped.
Really eye opening video this, Chris! Thank you! I myself struggling with the backswing. From takeaway to top of back swing. Never know what's the correct "position" or if I'm "over" swinging. Would love a video on that!
Excellent instruction Chris! Do you advocate actively using hand and arm muscles to perform this movement thru the ball, or are you using “dead hands” with a focus on body turn? Thanks!
Mind blown,. Chris! I'm always trying to keep my left arm straight thru impact to correct that chicken wing. Just doesn't work. Thank you,, thank you, THANK YOU!
This is awesome!!! Struggling with my wrist set and release right now so great timing. And from one of the best coaches on RUclips! I have my favorite lesson RUclips videos saved under my notes section in my phone and this video just made that list! Thanks Chris!
Ha I really needed to give my mind and body a break from golf I thought. But I can't seem to stick to a break past a day or 2. Luckily it's been raining for the past 4 days here and getting the break I needed. One or two videos like this slipped in here and there.
@@ChrisRyanGolf wow thanks for the reply! Any particular part of the backswing that you can recommend to set your wrist? Before or after first parallel? My wrists like to have a mind of their own at times (former baseball player) and mostly on the takeaway at the top of my backswing.
Hello Chris, just to be sure, I'm using the "hanger" training aid ( recommended by you). So , if I'm getting this wright, at impact the hanger should touch your left arm but after impact on the release it is gonna touch your right arm?
I think I am able to understand why certain things are happening to my golf game and swing. Tell me if I am right. I tend to hit right. Now I am trying to keep the club head facing down and my left arm straight, but I do think I am trying to maintain the triangle to the point where I am keeping that left arm straight and naturally since I cannot maintain that, no one can, it chicken wings behind me. So that problem is caused by me trying to maintain the forward swing for too long. Also I think I'm hitting to the right because I am trying so hard to push the club in front of me that I get that one position you talked about. That position looks as if you are also not releasing. Put these two together and you get a swing that's always to the right. so my problem is that I am taking my instruction to the extreme and my instructor never really warned me about this. I'm trying too hard to maintain a form that is not natural for the body to maintain, but I do it anyways because I think it is right. What I think I need to do is keep my backswing but really focus on what I am doing with my left arm and try to remember to bend it. Trying to keep both elbows towards my body. I will definitely do the drills, but I have a feeling I am putting too much into this swing to compress and not noticing that THAT is what is hurting me. I need to let the body naturally turn and my elbows curve.
This is a fantastic video! Do you agree that in order to do this correctly there has to be a deceleration of the left hand at the ball to allow the club to accelerate past the hands as you describe?
I love this! the hold method all of these guys are doing causes me to hit it fat and take filthy nasty divots. when I release like this video I have way more control of my low point with irons and woods.
Chris, Do you you use this release technique(extending your left wrist and flattening your right wrist in the follow through) for both a draw and a fade? If so, is the swing path in the follow through different for a fade and a draw, that is more vertical for a fade and flatter for a draw?
Yes this would be the same for both, there would be subtle changes in how the wrists move, but the same pattern would be present. Path would be different which could be created at set up or through swing
To be clear Chris, at the moment of impact, is the trail wrist (right in your case) bent or flat because the left wrist is extending? If the latter doesn’t low point occur before the ball is struck.
Hey David, at impact the trail wrist would be bent, lead wrist pretty flat but they key think is those aren’t holding though the shot but releasing, so a snapshot just a few feet later would show something very different
Notwithstanding, all the pros have their hands leading the club face. You still want to produce that effect without losing speed and distance, but more importantly, control and placement.
I've been playing (again after over 40 years of not even hitting a ball )6 months ago and don't recognise any of those positions. How do golfers get the swing that wrong? When I swing through the ball my trailing hand rotates over my lead hand through impact. My problem is that as I'm about 40 odd years older than when I last swung a club. I can't turn twist and flex like I could when I was a teenager. I've been working on keeping my lead arm straighter on take away Bending over the ball instead of sitting and knee diving and bending the trail arm closer to my body in the backswing. on the range with trackman I hit driver 210-220yrd carry and 235yrds total with a ball speed 128-135mph. And Straight or slight fade if I want to or force a draw but can over do it and hook or just hit straight left. My swing speed is somewhere in the 90s. I would like to get that to over 100mph If I could hit Driver 240yrds consistently and straightish I'd be over the moon. I think my problem is timing I know I need to be rotating and weight shifting before starting my downswing. I think I must be releasing too early otherwise my swing speed would be higher and I'd be hitting it further. FYI when I was 12 I could carry 3 iron 200 yards I can't do that now!
I have a problem with driver speed too slow ,I feel I fire arms but cannot get club head speed past 94 mph, on trackman I'm getting 1.49 smash and spin at 2200 so efficient is at max but I'm not getting club speed but I feel I'm firing I used to be year ago 5mph more and before my 12 year break somewhere between 105 and 110 help
.. yes the power source is not the wrists however. If you pull down hard (ala Justin Rose) from transition you build club head momentum and speed, that’s the acceleration sorted. Then to maintain your momentum and speed through impact you need to release like Chris is saying. The correct release facilitates the maintaining of speed but I don’t think the wrists actually generate the speed. It’s a subtle point but the words used in teaching golf instruction are vital. Choosing the right words is a skill in itself
I think the wrists are like a well oiled hinge that allow the bodies momentum to be transferred to the club head. What Chris has done here is basically to say don’t impede that. Most golf videos and golf instruction I see show the left wrist bowed well after impact. I am always thinking to myself that this doesn’t make sense. What they’re trying to do, I think, is to exaggerate the bowed left wrist to keep people from cupping to left wrist too early.
I find the terminology confusing. What is arched? Do you mean when left wrist is bent forward and if so the cupped will mean bent back in the follow through with the butt of club pointing down. Is that right?
Hey, not east to explain my terminology in text form but I’ll have a go. Your wrist has two types of movement, if you open up your lead hand you can move your fingers to point more down to the ground or up to the sky, this would be wrist set. Then you can pull your fingers back toward your lead shoulder creating a cup in the worst or move then the other way to arch the wrist, this would be a different movement and this is generally known as worst hinge, but that terminology can vary. Essentially those are the two movements that we all use in our swing Not sure if that helped but hopefully so Chris
Hi Chris You are right about terminology. Different folks have different definitions and views. Some say the wrists have THREE movements not two.. Let's start with the left wrist only and start with left hand fingers pointing straight ahead perpendicular to the target line ( it gets complicated because the right wrist has just the opposite movements) being the Start Position for this demo. Here is my understanding of this murky area. ONE-The bending back of the left wrist towards the front of the lead left forearm so the fingers point target wards is generally known as "cupping" the left/lead wrist. Many also call this (the "cupping" ) "extending" or " extension" of the the lead left wrist. The bending forward of the lead left wrist towards the back of the lead forearm so the fingers point away from the target is generally known as "bowing" the lead wrist. Many also call this bowing a "flexion" of the lead wrist. TWO- Starting from the start position, the vertical upward bending of the lead wrist so finger point to the sky is generally called a "cocking" of the lead wrist. I think you call it "arching" the lead wrist but am not sure and is why I posed the question but the upward bending vertically of the lead wrist so the fingers point upward strikes me as an "arching" the left wrist. Downward bending of wrist is known as "un-cocking" the wrist with the fingers pointing downward. THREE- The turning or twisting of the lead wrist to the right is known as a clockwise movement of the wrist so the palm of the lead hand faces the ground. The opposite turning or twisting of the lead wrist is the "counterclockwise movement " where the palm of the lead hand faces the sky. This is my understanding of the three movements of the wrists that are incorporated together to one degree or another in a golf swing.. Harold
Good on you sir I’m so tired of internet teachers saying to hold right hand under after impact It’s the latest thing to churn up lessons and when these teachers take a full swing their hands are rolling right after impact Funny
That’s a fair point if you think that, I’ve just watched it back and after 90 seconds I’ve explained who this video may be suited to, I think that’s pretty important, then showed some visual examples so that the golfer now also has some correct visual concepts, in my experience that’s also pretty important, out of interest why did you think those points were irrelevant to you?
@@ChrisRyanGolf It's likely more of a reflection on me but I felt the start could have been more concise. Tell me what we're here for, make it clear to get started. Put the pro examples throughout the lesson to reinforce. Just a preference really.
Chris this is one of your best videos, seriously. The explanation of how the wrist has to release (and not so much focus on releasing the club) was a great different approach to this.
Thanks so much 🙏🏻
One of the most useful golf instructional videos ever. Cleared up some confusion for me.
This is such an important concept that very few people talk about. My best friend/coach/pro identified the release as the starting point to fix everything else. He has me doing the exact same drills but the feeling he wants me to get is my wrists touching each other on the follow through. This is fixed many things with my swing and giving me a positive thought through impact.
Chris, you're the FIRST instructor - online or in person - who has clearly explained why I'm always 20 yards short of all the guys in my group. There is so much attention and importance being given to "holding lag" that I no longer know how to release the club! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
There is a channel world class golf has discussed this exact same concept or a while. It’s incredible info I’m surprised to see more mainstream instructors aren’t showing this.
Chris, you truly stand out as one of the best instructors online. There are countless instructors out there, but something about the way you explain things just clicks. It’s like you’re speaking directly to us, making everything so easy to follow.
I was analyzing my swing and noticed I was casting a bit and struggling to avoid the chicken wing. That’s when I found one of your videos on how to compress the ball. As I continued reviewing my swing, I realized my chest wasn’t pointing at the target during the release-and just as I had that thought, you addressed it in your video. It was like you were reading my mind!
Your ability to connect with your audience and address exactly what we're thinking is incredible. Chris, your passion for teaching and the community shines through in everything you do. Thank you for your dedication and for sharing your knowledge so generously. Wishing you continued success in your career.
Cheers from Florida!
This video is a game changer, seriously… I’ve never felt so rewarded and enlightened of what’s wrong with my golf swing. Thanks so much dude, phenomenal video!!
Best golf teaching video on the internet and Chris Ryan explains everything brilliantly- it has been a game changer for me 65 years old and my distance and accuracy has improved dramatically thanks Chris Ryan
Finally, someone explained the release. I swear the golf community hides the simplest tips to keep the golf instruction world thriving.
Thanks Matt
Good point. 99.99% of all online golf instruction focuses on the backswing but never the follow-through.
Thanks Chris. This is one of the best explanations of release I have seen. I’m looking forward to trying this at the range.
Thanks William glad it was helpful 🙏🏻
Your instruction is just excellent- you have been describing me from start to finish- 🤷 - how I wish I lived closer to the Belfry to get some 1 2 1 instruction
That tip that you're doing it right, but too early, is so much more useful and motivating than the many coaches who just say you're doing it wrong
This. This. This.
I focused on keeping my wrists flat and not “flipping” so much that I stopped releasing at all and lost all power.
Started releasing the club through impact and found my swing and started striping the ball.
👏 bravo
Great video Chris. I've never seen anyone explain the release in quite this way before. Definitely answers some questions that I had.
The only RUclips golf instruction you’ll ever need can be found on Chris Ryan’s channel.
🤜🏼🤛🏼
Thanks 🙌
I've watched so many videos all aspects of the golf swing, but this was by far the best on the release. This is exactly what my game needed. Thank you!!!
Thanks Gary
I think this is what I needed to see, I've seen videos about holding the wrist angle and I was twisting my body as fast as possible to generate speed and wondering my my 5 iron was only going 150Y. Absolute killer for driver aswell
Great video! Tried this at the range and instant results! Extra 20 yards without trying!!
Really nice visual explanation! Is there any downside to supinating the left wrist through impact? That is, letting the left wrist stay flat (while rolling it over) and maintaining the bend in the right wrist as it rolls with the left. I do this, and still get the fold in the left arm. This also seems to help my compression. Thanks.
So make a scooping motion with the right hand under the left but do it after impact while turning the chest through
Great video, wish I had seen this sooner! The explanation for the fold of the elbow towards the end of the video finally made the release clear to me
This video is fantastic. I’ve always gone out of my way and try not to release the club too early, causing the dreaded chicken wing. Feel like the best feedback is watching the down the line shot and seeing the club head come around before my left arm.
I was literally searching how to rehinge my wrist after impact this morning. Since my first set of real golf lesson commented let my wrist hinge quicker after impact. This video is probably what will fix me. Thanks Chris
Thanks and I really hope it does, thanks for watching
This is definitely an informative video that everyone should watch. Great work
I spent the past five years trying to hold off and my index skyrocketed. I started working on this last week and, no word of a lie, went from hitting my driver 190 to several in a row while playing .. over 250. I hit my little 5 wood 232. And best of all… it’s all straight, without the nasty slice.
One of my fav videos you have done!
Can’t wait to go to the range and try this! Such great explanation! Best content on RUclips!
Thanks 🙌
This was a very VERY good video Chris!!
I have one question though. If you want to manipulate delivered loft at impact - let's say you want to hit a low punchy shot - would you do it by trying to hold your wrist angles? (and loose speed). When I try to do this I feel like my follow through gets very stiff, short and awkward. So I wonder if there is another way to take loft of other than what you refer to as wrong in this video? My understanding is that you should let the weight and momentum of the club release the club and that your wrists should be rather relaxed because of it. But how can you manipulate loft with relaxed wrists?
Fabulous explanation! Now get my hips a similar drill?
Wow!!! Immediately subscribed to your channel. Best explanation I’ve seen and can’t wait to practice this! Thank you, Chris!👏
Thanks James appreciate it 🙏🏻
The process of having a bowed left wrist at impact to a cupped left wrist after impact is a thing I will never get right. I am struggling with it for years. Most of the time I block my shots as I am focussing on having a bowed left wrist at impact which forces me to hold that position into the finish. I really don't know what to do to let the club travel on the arc after impact. It feels my club leaves the arc to the right. Maybe my left hand needs to travel more down and more left after impact instead of more up and more to the target to get into the right finish position. Keep up the good content!
I am exactly like you. While I enjoyed the video. I am confuse by drill 1 cup left wrist but when I get connected left arm the left wrist is flat and clubface is over rolled and shut. Its not cupped.
Really eye opening video this, Chris! Thank you!
I myself struggling with the backswing. From takeaway to top of back swing. Never know what's the correct "position" or if I'm "over" swinging. Would love a video on that!
Excellent instructional post. The puzzle just got a lot smaller 😮
Excellent instruction Chris! Do you advocate actively using hand and arm muscles to perform this movement thru the ball, or are you using “dead hands” with a focus on body turn? Thanks!
YES! Like everyone else here, this is not well explained by anyone else, and why so much speed is missing. FINALLY.
Thanks Robert 🙏🏻
Finally someone explained how to get lead elbow in the right position with a drill-thanks for being that some one
Thanks John
Mind blown,. Chris! I'm always trying to keep my left arm straight thru impact to correct that chicken wing. Just doesn't work. Thank you,, thank you, THANK YOU!
This is awesome!!! Struggling with my wrist set and release right now so great timing. And from one of the best coaches on RUclips! I have my favorite lesson RUclips videos saved under my notes section in my phone and this video just made that list! Thanks Chris!
Ha I really needed to give my mind and body a break from golf I thought. But I can't seem to stick to a break past a day or 2. Luckily it's been raining for the past 4 days here and getting the break I needed. One or two videos like this slipped in here and there.
Love that Derek, thanks and drop me a message if you have any questions 🙏🏻
@@ChrisRyanGolf wow thanks for the reply! Any particular part of the backswing that you can recommend to set your wrist? Before or after first parallel? My wrists like to have a mind of their own at times (former baseball player) and mostly on the takeaway at the top of my backswing.
Hello Chris, just to be sure, I'm using the "hanger" training aid ( recommended by you). So , if I'm getting this wright, at impact the hanger should touch your left arm but after impact on the release it is gonna touch your right arm?
Excellent clearly demonstrated lesson, very helpful
Tried the Drill immediately. Thank you.
Hope it helps Mark
Well done Chris 👏 😊
Thanks Roy
Omg thank you. This was exactly what I needed.
This is the Holy Grail, end of chapter.
Chris, would focusing on pushing hip back with lead leg also improve clubhead speed?
Yes absolutely, the timing must be right but yes definitely a speed boost move
excellent teaching.
So this is a traditional release not a body release right?
I think I am able to understand why certain things are happening to my golf game and swing. Tell me if I am right.
I tend to hit right. Now I am trying to keep the club head facing down and my left arm straight, but I do think I am trying to maintain the triangle to the point where I am keeping that left arm straight and naturally since I cannot maintain that, no one can, it chicken wings behind me. So that problem is caused by me trying to maintain the forward swing for too long. Also I think I'm hitting to the right because I am trying so hard to push the club in front of me that I get that one position you talked about. That position looks as if you are also not releasing. Put these two together and you get a swing that's always to the right.
so my problem is that I am taking my instruction to the extreme and my instructor never really warned me about this. I'm trying too hard to maintain a form that is not natural for the body to maintain, but I do it anyways because I think it is right. What I think I need to do is keep my backswing but really focus on what I am doing with my left arm and try to remember to bend it. Trying to keep both elbows towards my body. I will definitely do the drills, but I have a feeling I am putting too much into this swing to compress and not noticing that THAT is what is hurting me. I need to let the body naturally turn and my elbows curve.
This is a fantastic video! Do you agree that in order to do this correctly there has to be a deceleration of the left hand at the ball to allow the club to accelerate past the hands as you describe?
100%, the hands should start slowing down quite a bit before impact to get that release as you mention 🙏🏻
Superb explanation, I hope I can do it. Cheers
Thanks Peter
I love this! the hold method all of these guys are doing causes me to hit it fat and take filthy nasty divots. when I release like this video I have way more control of my low point with irons and woods.
fantastic drills
Absolutely one of your best videos. Wish u taught here in the states .
Thanks, and so do I a lot of the time 😁
Can you talk about how to do this with a strong grip, as a strong grip will have cupping
Great drill tips
Hi Chris, Is this the exact same release mechanism fo the driver and woods / long irons ?
Chris,
Do you you use this release technique(extending your left wrist and flattening your right wrist in the follow through) for both a draw and a fade? If so, is the swing path in the follow through different for a fade and a draw, that is more vertical for a fade and flatter for a draw?
Yes this would be the same for both, there would be subtle changes in how the wrists move, but the same pattern would be present.
Path would be different which could be created at set up or through swing
This is an awesome lesson!!!!
To be clear Chris, at the moment of impact, is the trail wrist (right in your case) bent or flat because the left wrist is extending? If the latter doesn’t low point occur before the ball is struck.
Hey David, at impact the trail wrist would be bent, lead wrist pretty flat but they key think is those aren’t holding though the shot but releasing, so a snapshot just a few feet later would show something very different
Brilliant thank you
We do not want to know what’s wrong only the positive is interesting thank you
I don't usually comment on youtube videos but I think that this one is absolutely GREAT Chris. Thank you.
Thanks so much and really appreciate the comment 🙏🏻
Super video ! Keep up the good work
Thanks 🙏🏻
Does this also work with the fairway wood (e.g. wood 5)?
Notwithstanding, all the pros have their hands leading the club face. You still want to produce that effect without losing speed and distance, but more importantly, control and placement.
I've been playing (again after over 40 years of not even hitting a ball )6 months ago and don't recognise any of those positions. How do golfers get the swing that wrong?
When I swing through the ball my trailing hand rotates over my lead hand through impact.
My problem is that as I'm about 40 odd years older than when I last swung a club. I can't turn twist and flex like I could when I was a teenager.
I've been working on keeping my lead arm straighter on take away Bending over the ball instead of sitting and knee diving and bending the trail arm closer to my body in the backswing. on the range with trackman I hit driver 210-220yrd carry and 235yrds total with a ball speed 128-135mph. And Straight or slight fade if I want to or force a draw but can over do it and hook or just hit straight left.
My swing speed is somewhere in the 90s. I would like to get that to over 100mph
If I could hit Driver 240yrds consistently and straightish I'd be over the moon.
I think my problem is timing I know I need to be rotating and weight shifting before starting my downswing. I think I must be releasing too early otherwise my swing speed would be higher and I'd be hitting it further.
FYI when I was 12 I could carry 3 iron 200 yards I can't do that now!
Maybe arched means cocked which is not the same as bent forward?
Where have you been!! Thank you
Hi Chris would you use these drills for all irons including the long irons ?
Yes absolutely 🙏🏻
Very useful 👌
I have a problem with driver speed too slow ,I feel I fire arms but cannot get club head speed past 94 mph, on trackman I'm getting 1.49 smash and spin at 2200 so efficient is at max but I'm not getting club speed but I feel I'm firing I used to be year ago 5mph more and before my 12 year break somewhere between 105 and 110 help
When I bow my left wrist I just get powerful hooks?
.. yes the power source is not the wrists however. If you pull down hard (ala Justin Rose) from transition you build club head momentum and speed, that’s the acceleration sorted. Then to maintain your momentum and speed through impact you need to release like Chris is saying. The correct release facilitates the maintaining of speed but I don’t think the wrists actually generate the speed. It’s a subtle point but the words used in teaching golf instruction are vital. Choosing the right words is a skill in itself
I think the wrists are like a well oiled hinge that allow the bodies momentum to be transferred to the club head. What Chris has done here is basically to say don’t impede that. Most golf videos and golf instruction I see show the left wrist bowed well after impact. I am always thinking to myself that this doesn’t make sense. What they’re trying to do, I think, is to exaggerate the bowed left wrist to keep people from cupping to left wrist too early.
I snap hook when I try this release style, any tips on what I’m doing wrong?
Chances are your body rotation stalls, your arms take over, and it becomes "flippy". The result is usually low and left.
I find the terminology confusing. What is arched? Do you mean when left wrist is bent forward and if so the cupped will mean bent back in the follow through with the butt of club pointing down. Is that right?
Hey, not east to explain my terminology in text form but I’ll have a go. Your wrist has two types of movement, if you open up your lead hand you can move your fingers to point more down to the ground or up to the sky, this would be wrist set. Then you can pull your fingers back toward your lead shoulder creating a cup in the worst or move then the other way to arch the wrist, this would be a different movement and this is generally known as worst hinge, but that terminology can vary. Essentially those are the two movements that we all use in our swing
Not sure if that helped but hopefully so
Chris
Hi Chris
You are right about terminology. Different folks have different definitions and views. Some say the wrists have THREE movements not two.. Let's start with the left wrist only and start with left hand fingers pointing straight ahead perpendicular to the target line ( it gets complicated because the right wrist has just the opposite movements) being the Start Position for this demo. Here is my understanding of this murky area.
ONE-The bending back of the left wrist towards the front of the lead left forearm so the fingers point target wards is generally known as "cupping" the left/lead wrist. Many also call this (the "cupping" ) "extending" or " extension" of the the lead left wrist.
The bending forward of the lead left wrist towards the back of the lead forearm so the fingers point away from the target is generally known as "bowing" the lead wrist. Many also call this bowing a "flexion" of the lead wrist.
TWO- Starting from the start position, the vertical upward bending of the lead wrist so finger point to the sky is generally called a "cocking" of the lead wrist. I think you call it "arching" the lead wrist but am not sure and is why I posed the question but the upward bending vertically of the lead wrist so the fingers point upward strikes me as an "arching" the left wrist.
Downward bending of wrist is known as "un-cocking" the wrist with the fingers pointing downward.
THREE- The turning or twisting of the lead wrist to the right is known as a clockwise movement of the wrist so the palm of the lead hand faces the ground.
The opposite turning or twisting of the lead wrist is the "counterclockwise movement " where the palm of the lead hand faces the sky.
This is my understanding of the three movements of the wrists that are incorporated together to one degree or another in a golf swing..
Harold
So is the HackMotion still relevant Chris, or should I throw it in the trash now?
Probably the best bit of kit out there for wrists so please don’t throw that away 🤣
Shows tho exactly wha the wrists do do really useful
Nice
That reminds of my videos that i’ve been doing for 4 years….
Hey Craig, (assume it’s Craig, apologies if not) happy to connect over email or phone if you wanted to discuss this?
Didn’t know u could patent golf drills and mechanics 😂
Good on you sir
I’m so tired of internet teachers saying to hold right hand under after impact
It’s the latest thing to churn up lessons and when these teachers take a full swing their hands are rolling right after impact Funny
I've tried this before and I hit it fat. I keep my right wrist and rotate the forearms
Like it
Blame the Tommy Fleetwood visuals for a pandemic of 'hold releases'.
SIYT
Great video but taking nearly 3 minutes to get started is just too much.
That’s a fair point if you think that, I’ve just watched it back and after 90 seconds I’ve explained who this video may be suited to, I think that’s pretty important, then showed some visual examples so that the golfer now also has some correct visual concepts, in my experience that’s also pretty important, out of interest why did you think those points were irrelevant to you?
@@ChrisRyanGolf It's likely more of a reflection on me but I felt the start could have been more concise. Tell me what we're here for, make it clear to get started. Put the pro examples throughout the lesson to reinforce. Just a preference really.
I really connect with your explanations
Thanks Ron 🙏🏻