How Your Wrists REALLY Work (It's not what you think) - Unlocks AMAZING Golf Shots
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Your wrists could well hold the key to playing better golf, your hands, if used correctly, can create any curve, any height and almost any shot, so it would make sense to make the most of that giving you more control over your golf ball
In this video I discuss the only two movements that your wrists have and how you should be using these two movements through the swing to control the ball flight.
If greats of the game like Tiger Woods say they hit most of their shots through their hands, we should probably listen and explore just what they can do, and you will be surprised and how much control you get by using them correctly.
The drills and exercises in this video are really simple, easy to follow and can be done by everyone, I hope it helps
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00:00 Introduction
00:44 What The Wrists Do
01:14 Backswing Wrist Action
04:22 Downswing Wrist Action
09:34 A Must Do Practice Routine 
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What a great step by step explanation of the wrist. For me, the light went on at 3:12 seconds into the video when you showed wrist position at impact. I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen this discussed and shown. Thanks so very much.
This is mindblowing. As someone who's always pulled down as hard as I physically can, it baffles me how a simple wrist flick can give you the same distance
Took this to the range tonight and it has made a massive positive difference on my quality of strike. I’ve always struggled getting good compression, hitting irons too thin. But this clicked with me and results were great. Looking forwards to taking it to the course. Thanks Chris
Golf lessons are expensive and time consuming so most of us depend on the internet teaching videos and this video is about the very best you can find to control and adapt your swing. Well done Chris. I have really struggled over time with the follow thru and how the wrists should be used and now I have something to work on.
So glad I found this video. I’m absolutely lost when it comes to managing my wrists. The pointing the thumbs back to the ground at impact…the ultimate lightbulb moment for me. Thanks, Chris!
One thing that worked for me. When I was getting lessons my coach told me as I was coming back the first half of the back swing to turn my wrist and make it feel like I’m trying to turn the back of my left hand towards the ground as much as possible. Really helped me get the feeling of flexing my wrist. It didn’t fix everything by any means lol but absolutely helped me with contact like a complete 180.
That’s actually my swing thought at the moment too, I tend to roll the face a little open so I’m working with that feel at the moment, definitely helps
@@ChrisRyanGolf it deff helped me to understand how my wrist were supposed to bend. I’m not exaggerating when I say 90% of the time I was hitting 4-5 inches behind the ball and after that I was consistently hitting 150-160 which for an after casual golfer is about the norm. But where it really got me is the two times I really was able to get good shaft lean, 120mph ball speed and 180 with a damn 7 iron not bad when your used to it going 20 yards and having to dig your club out of the ground.
Totally agree, @102swanky; way too difficult to do it in the downswing
Can you elaborate on this feel? Does this help keep a neutral club face at the top of the swing if you start it early in the downswing?
Thank you for this comment!!! I was having issues flaring the club open early in my backswing, but saw this comment (and video) last night- after day 1 of our Member-Member event…. I had 3 birdies today and we came from four back to win by two. This is the perfect takeaway thought for me….!
Chris just finished this video and im blown away at the level of detail and everything said in this video. Vital information right here.
This is a great video with a step by step breakdown of the wrist mechanics. It’s a light bulb moment for me, can’t wait to put it to practice. Thanks heaps, Chris.
Really great video Chris. I really appreciated that you took the time to dispel the idea that you want to maintain risk cock and/or hold off release in the downswing. That's an issue I had, and I know it's very common among amateurs, even good ones. The problem is that you *can* hit some very decent wedge and short iron shots with the "hold the wrist cock in downswing" thought, especially if you're coming from a super flippy swing previously. But with the longer irons, and especially the woods, that swing cue simply doesn't work - it's impossible to hit those high, soft shots you talked about. And that's partly why the wrists are so confusing - bad techniques can actually produce some good results, but only for part of the bag. The wrist progression you described, on the other hand, works well with every club - the only adjustments are to set up. Thanks again.
Well explained. great video.
Thanks Chris.
A great topic that is rarely show in detail like this. Thank you, us amateurs struggle with this stuff in the golf swing.
Chris, another excellent video - i learned a lot on this one. If possible, could you please provide detail on how the right wrist and arm work leading up, at and through impact - and the coordination of the turn/tilt and arm path to make this happen. I love how you "release" (45 degree/hands furthest from body, etc.) past the ball. I can never get that, probably because I'm so focused on the ball, but you make it look so easy/effortless. I don't have the confidence/technique/patience to make that happen. Thanks much, joe.
Love this Chris! Great advice & drills as always!!!
Thank you Chris!
Wow this is quality information & detail! Thank you🙏
Great Chris thank you
Awesome video and teaching thank you
Well done Chris 👏 😊
Thank you Coach!
Thank you
Great video. It seems to me that the wrist should be cupped at address and bowed at impact--but this is one of those freeze-frame moments where it seems that the experts disagree. I think you have set the record straight. Also, it seems the wrist straight at the top of the backswing helps flatten the plane for the downswing (and bring the club into the slot). I like how you explained that controlling your wrists helps develop skill.
Great video tips
This dovetails nicely with another youtube golf video I watched the other day. I definitely have not been keeping my left wrist flat. However, you omit HOW to keep it flat. The other youtuber showed hinging both hands before even starting the backswing. Like making it a two step process. Hinge, check your wrist flatness, then rotate up. What I've tried to do in one step is turn my left hand like unscrewing a screw (CCW) as I do my backswing. I do a few of these and check my wrist at the top. Once it's ingrained in my mind, at least for a few moments, I execute the full swing. I will say keeping that wrist as flat as possible takes a lot of thought out of what to do with the arms and I can just swing down and thru the ball. So far I've only done this into a net but it already feels better. So again, what's the proper way and point in the backswing to flatten the left wrist? thank you
Hi Chris - thanks again for another great video. Is there anything you would do differently for the driver?
Very useful
Nicklaus and T. Watson setup with hands forward of the ball. Snead too and called this the "holster" for the hands that mimics the impact position.
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Thanks so much 🙌
Great
I certainly struggle with dragging my hands thru the ball and have trouble releasing my lead wrist. I like the frisbee analogy - is it fair to say that the lead hand needs to feel as if it's "stopping" at impact in order to allow the clubhead to pass?
Question: At contact, is the wrist set the same as at set up or less? It seems like if you let all the wrist set go, you dump the club into the ground before contact or have to early extend to prevent that.
Dear Sir From Brazil for ChrisRyanGolf. I have difficulties with the English language. Forgive the text. Your videos always help in my practice. A great, objective, didactic and simple presentation. Congratulations. Roberto
Thank you! I’d still love to see a video with more details on acceleration and deceleration of the hand speed. I know the hands reach the max speed at the right hip, but shouldn’t we be telling ourselves to accelerate the hands past the left hip and then slow them down? There’s a difference in perception and reaction time, and where we tell ourselves to make certain motions. Do you have a spot Chris where you tell yourself to accelerate the hands to and then to slow them down?
Ok I can certainly look to shoot something like that over the coming weeks, appreciate the suggestion and probably a good topic to cover 🙏🏻
@@ChrisRyanGolf That would be great! Thank you
Wrists go side to side ir up and down, in golf I thought the rolled, but thinkig about it , it is the arms that roll the wrists. My problem solved( I hope). Thanks for your super lesson
Hi Chris, Its okay saying all this with a (hit down and take a divot) iron in your hand, but for a (hit up) Driver????
9:20 just to mention on top of that, you also have to have the wrists loose to allow this to happen. You can't force it or you lock up the arms and you lose not only distance, but accuracy.
Great video, and sometimes I forget about this part of the game. The idea of moving the right wrist to flexion in the downswing gets the face square to slightly closed and this would aid the body and your brain to turn through impact with some shaft lean, correct?
100%, get the face under control and lots of good things will start to happen from there
Excellent video, it is all in the hands and wrist. I only wish you had gotten to that point way earlier in the video. Age old advise: strengthen the wrist!!!!. Pros generate speed from just before impact and through impact WITH THE WRIST!. Amateurs try to generate speed from the top of the backswing with body/arm movement. Yes, you are operating a lever. The shoulder down to the wrist produces about 20 MPH. The wrist provide the additional 70 mph for a 90 MPH swing. Use the body to drop the club into the slot, the wrist to provide speed through impact. "Collect the ball" with the club face.
Ok I like this video. What does a person with a strong grip/ cupped at the top do on the downswing? Everything on RUclips says bow on the downswing. Is that what you’re supposed to do?
Does this same thing work for a driver swing? Can you do a version of this for driver? I struggle with clubface control with driver way more than my irons.
Yes exactly the same movements, timings would be fractionally different but same moves 🫡
How does this compare with driver swing?
Have you any preference between a long or short left thumb. A long thumb means that you can achieve more wrist hinge . Is this desirable ?
I think to would be individual, I see both sides, the golfer who is too ‘locked’ and doesn’t create enough, but then I can see some who over use the wrists so not particular preference other than just what would be best for thr individual
Very many thanks for your thoughts 👍
Next time I'll hook it into the trees, I'm gonna call it skill and probably feel better! Thanx, doc!)
Hi Chris great video. Just a question if I can. Your slightly cupped lead wrist at address also shows a pretty much vertical shaft at address where others suggest a shaft lean at address causing a flat lead wrist? 😫 HELP! 😂 thank you Chris 👍🏌️♂️
Yes if I were coaching me I’d like to see a little more shaft lean to flatten the wrist a touch. Probably can’t ever lean it enough so that the wrist mimics impact, but a little means there is less to do in the backswing for sure
@@ChrisRyanGolf thanks Chris, really appreciate the response 👍🏌️♂️✊
Chris. You would do the youtube golf community a major service if you collaborated with the other prominent and at some younger RUclips Golfers i.e. Grant, Good Good, Rick etc.
There are many formats you could collab on more Tips/game improvement, that opens up a new stream of content.
Absolutely, could not agree more and some plans in place to do just that 🙏🏻
@@ChrisRyanGolf cant wait to see it man. Keep bringing the fresh content!
Sigh. I have reverted to wrist locking downswing from a few prominent youtube lessons. Not only did I fail to create distance, but both my elbow was hurting now. Always try to go against the golf swing odds but fail miserably. How about right wrist ?
Chris
With all due respect I think many forget the other hand. You can’t flatten the left wrist unless you bend the right wrist and the right elbow. More people should focus on the right wrist and elbow. The left wrist will flatten automatically.
Thinking thumbs down at impact literally changed everything for me. Why have I never heard this before? Lol
Why wouldn’t we start the swing from an impact position?
Also rotate
High Level Notes:
1. Wrist slightly cupped at setup
2. Wrist flat at back down backswing
3. Wrist slightly bowed as it goes down
4. Wrist go from bowed to cupped during downswing to create power (similar to throw frisbee)
5. Wrist finishes cupped
Did one of your errant shots hit that tree behind you?
My wrists can also rotate.
More than likely that your forearms can rotate along with your shoulders, but the wrists don’t have that movement on their own
If you need to flatten the wrists in the backswing for eventual impact....why do we start with them cupped?
Respectfully I appreciate the coaching however the idea of somehow being conscious of pushing thumbs to the ground is overly complicated when this action happens automatically via gravity at the proper time. W hand action it makes it extremely difficult to time. Just my observation. Success always! Dr D
Only thing they can do? Back and forth, up and down? You are disregarding rotation, are you suggesting that is only a forearm characteristic?
Yea that rotation is not a wrist movement, it comes from either the forearm or the shoulder. It is a movement that we have and use but in terms of the wrist they only have two movements
Way overly technical for the regular public player. There is a much simple, easier technique.
What is the other technique?
@@ChrisRyanGolf The basics: Hinge. Front arm straight...back elbow tucked...rotate around where that positioning takes your swing...and hang on to the hinge as long as possible. A little practice will determine what the best arc is for you-personally... because we are all different. This will take you to the ball effectively in a consistent and repeatable fashion.
You are one of my favorite RUclips instructors, but I respectfully feel that you have missed the mark here. We all have two wrists, and most of us are right handed. Yet, the majority of this video focused on the left wrist. In my opinion, this video would have been so much better if you had discussed the equivalent right wrist actions throughout the swing. For example, you could have stated that “skilled golfers bow the left wrist in the downswing *and* bend the right wrist back at the same time. It’s the same motion, use whichever thought works best for you.” I have seen the same emphasis on the left hand and wrist for decades in magazines and now in videos, and it mystifies me greatly Please don’t perpetuate this literally one-sided view of the swing. Thank you very much.
Hey, appreciate your comments and feedback, actually a reason why I filmed like this. I have already filmed a video due to be uploaded in the next two weeks solely focusing on the right arm and wrist, i ran a poll on RUclips to see what lesson people wanted and ‘wrists’ got voted top. As I had already filmed the other video scheduled for a few weeks I chose to focus on the lead wrist in this video. I completely get your point so hopefully that video landing in a week or two will resonate more
@@ChrisRyanGolf Thanks Chris.
this guy is full of contradictions. Everytime I listen to him, I feel like he tries to undo what other instructors are saying.
Not really though. Most emphasize the bowed wrist because most of us slice. So it's overemphasizing to correct the issue but he's right in that you need to flatten out as that creates more consistent straight shots. If you stay bowed too long it'll result in pushes.
Maybe the other instructors are giving incorrect instruction.
Only two things the wrist can do??? Really !!! Can do this and this…. And everything in between 😂