This Has Been Mis-Taught For Years – The Real Way To Use Your Wrists In The Golf Swing

Excited to share this one with you and I just know that this can help so many. I’m a huge believer in making sure the golfers concepts are correct as i’ve worked with so many golfers who are actually trying to do the wrong after being given poor information, and in this video i cover one of those topics

I believe the hands and arms have been coached wrongly for a number of years and many golfers are seeing them as the cause of their bad shots or inconsistent golf, your hands, wrists and arms are your biggest tool when it comes to playing great golf, in this video I share with you how you should use them to your advantage.

If you are actively trying to take your wrists out of the golf swing or reduce how much you use them you are more than likely holding yourself back from playing your best golf, but not for much longer. I reveal the 3 ways that you need your wrists to work in order to create speed, power and accuracy.

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00:00 Introduction
00:35 What The Wrists Do
01:45 Perfect Wrist Set
05:12 Arm Rotation
07:45 Wrist Flexion / Extension

your hands and your arms are probably
your most powerful asset when it comes
to creating speed consistency accuracy
ball striking I’m sure you have heard
terms in the past like take the hands
out the shot or this golf is not
consistent because they’re handsy or use
the bigger muscles because it’s going to
be more consistent or you know having
stable wrists through the golf ball all
these terms that get thrown around
they’re actually just really false and
actually damaging to your game you can
see I’ve got something on my wrist this
is the motion device it’s coming through
my phone you’ll see that data on the
screen okay pretty good shot my hack
motion is measuring three different
movements it’s measuring wrist kind of
set this way it’s measuring wrist
extension and flexion and it’s also
measuring the rotation of my kind of
forearms which of those movements was I
using well this is my flexion extension
you can see the graph going down up down
up so throughout my golfing I was us
using that throughout what about if we
looked at my wrist set in the Go sing so
this is this movement well the graph
goes up and down and up so throughout my
golf sing I was using wrist set and what
about rotation which is sort of this
movement here was I using that through
the go swing well yes I was using that
through the back swing and through the
Dow sing so throughout my go swing I was
using all three of those movements and I
hit a pretty good shot if you want to
play golf to a decent level you have to
make make use of your hands and your
wrists do it correctly and you can make
the game a lot easier do it incorrectly
and it’s going to be a lot harder so
we’re now going to go through those
three movements I’m going to teach you
how to work on them and how you can
Implement them into your goaling to make
your game much better let’s start with
wrist set or wrist or whatever term
you want to use this is your source of
power massive if you want to hit the
ball further or maybe you’re not feeling
like you hit it as far as you want this
is really really important now we’ve got
this live through hack motion you can
see that as I put my hand in uh that
position there you can see that is zero
because my wrist is not set and I can
change it down to sort of 48 and I can
go back up to sort of plus three or plus
four so this is my reset what I’d love
you to do here is push the grip end down
so this is why I’ve got this T here I’m
going to push that down towards the
ground as I work the club head up
towards me and I’m going to try and do
that without really moving my forearms
too much so that would be sort of this
movement here and hopefully you can see
that the grip or that t is moving down
as the club head is moving up and as I
do that just have a look at those
numbers you can see I’m starting at sort
of minus 35 there and as I go back up
it’s sort of plus 10 so I’m changing
that by around about
45° now what I’d like you to do is
actually just go ahead and try and put a
little bit of speed a little bit of
force there so you’re going up and down
up and down up and down almost like
you’re trying to hammer something into
the ground the key part to all of this
I’m using basically the kind of heel pad
on my left hand to push this part of the
grip down as I work the club head up the
reason that’s important is because many
golfers when they come to set their
wrist are actually using if you look at
those numbers Min – 35 they are using
their elbows to lift the clubber so look
at that number now minus 36 it hasn’t
changed so we can easily take a setup
position here- 35 we can feel as if we
work the club head up into the air but
you can see it hasn’t really changed
it’s only minus 27 I feel like I’ve got
the club up vertical but I haven’t
really used my wrist it’s come from my
elbows so what we’re going to do second
little exercise and going to place a
golf
ball probably some whatever that is 2
feet back behind the ball that I’m
hitting and what I want you to do now is
start start this way get a feel for what
that’s like again I can see those
numbers changing and as I start to do
that add a little back sing
rotation and we should start to get the
T to pretty much Point down at the golf
ball and again you can see look at my
number there plus 22 where did I start
sort of Min – 33 – 34- 35 so I’m using
my wrists effectively by around about
well Fair bit there 50° so we start here
there’s my feeling te Down Club head up
use that into a back swing and suddenly
we’ve got this beautiful position and
because I push the te down and away it
elongates my lead arm it means I’m not
going to get narrow or cramped means I’m
going to get nice width I’m going to get
that t pointing down there’s my wrists
in their set position then what I can do
on the way through is I can undo that
that is where you get so much of your
power from when you take your wrists
from a set position and you uncock them
down through patch you have to do
because the ball’s down on the ground
it’s a massive source of power but I
want you to just focus on the back swing
move and actually getting some energy
stored up in those wrists before you
come to unload it in the
ding next up we’re going to talk about
the lead arm and about this
movement so you can see that ball went
pretty straight not very far but pretty
straight look at that purple line that’s
measuring my
rotation of my lead arm so it starts
here in the back swing it rotates
through around about
90° and then from the top of the back
swing down through impact it rotates
back to where it started and then
through and the ball went pretty
straight why is that such an important
move well the risks are creating the
power in your gol swing okay this is
just my wrists but where is that sort of
Club head being directed it’s being
directed down into the ground it’s not
really where I want my energy and my
direction of Swing to be I want my swing
to be out towards the target so watch
what happens when I change my lead arm
rotation this would be me creating some
sort of wrist set but if I rotate my
lead arm away from the
target guess what that sets the shape of
the Swing so having some lead arm
rotation like this allows me to direct
the power from my wrists towards the
target so here’s the Le I mean you kind
of saw me do it there but I’m just going
to tee another Ball Up Club up tee down
exercise two rotate that forearm through
90° that sets the shape and the plane of
my swing okay I’m going to turn it a
little bit putting my hands outside of
my trail thigh and I want to think about
the logo on my glove here okay the
tailor made logo it’s going to go from
here back to the Target and then
actually slightly behind me so we go
wrist
rotate the forearm that sets the angle
put it outside my
leg and then we go through there was my
forearm rotating it went pretty straight
a little bit right but I’m sure you’ll
let me off and you can see that we got
that sort of graph moving as we wanted
there rotates back rotates through so
what you’re starting to do there is
you’re starting to create speed and
power through your wrists and you’re
using your forearm rotation to control
the direction of that power
power’s no good if it’s all over the
place if it’s way left or way right and
you might have experienced that you
might have tried to increase power and
lost Direction well if you can make sure
this lead wrist is rotating like this
then it’s going to help for your
direction so this movement now this ties
everything together if you get this
wrong those first two that we’ve
discussed are going to be incredibly
hard let’s add our first two movements
in now when I start to move that number
to a positive number by like 37 38 well
even 40 look at the club face that is
pointing way up to the sky which at this
point of my goling is very very open I
mean it’s rare to see anybody in this
position but what it means is because
that club face is open I have to work
incredibly hard from there to get the
club face squared up now can I do it yes
if I’m prepared to go to the drive Range
four times a week and hit thousands
thousands of balls and equally it’s not
great if we go the opposite way if we
sort of put that to a massively negative
number and you can see how the club face
points down towards the ground because
my wrist is Arch this is more likely to
go left doesn’t necessarily mean it will
and again I’m just going to have to work
so much harder so we want that club face
in a neutral position to enable us to do
those first two exercises correctly so
here’s little exercise I want you to do
I’m going to use this little pointer so
I want you to take your setup to a golf
ball you’re going to make a back swing
and when you get down towards the
delivery position
I want you to have the idea or the
feeling that that pointer is slightly
down towards the ground not a huge
amount notice how that number now is
minus 10 that minus means that my wrist
is
slightly flexed or arched or bowed that
is perfect that is exactly what we want
because it means that the club face
under control and you’ve got left this
movement which is speed so this is
another speed generator but it’s also
another factor in
Direction work
up down there’s the pointer number is
pretty good minus three okay back up
work it down minus 7 Up work it down
minus 7 and you can see how just with
that
pointer I can get those numbers pretty
consistent because I’ve got a reference
point okay without the club face without
the pointer I’m just kind of guessing in
space so this is really good way for you
to train exactly what you need and if I
stop here look at what I’ve got in place
my leadist is slightly Flex which is
perfect means a club face under control
my forearm is rotated by 90° which means
my plane is good and I’ve got some wrist
set from here everything is lined up I
can play gol from there I can hit solid
shots that are straight with consistency
that have got power and speed and
efficience and strike all those things
so many of you will be not using your
wrists well enough having the club face
open rotating your arms incorrectly and
all of those movements give you erratic
shots they lost cause you to lose power
it makes it more difficult to be
consistent so much more
difficult well it was pretty straight so
important that we use the hands they are
your biggest tool