Weekly Golf Tip #1 Swivel
 

Here is a "Weekly (TGM) Golf Tip". Insights, secrets, whatever. :)

Weekly GOLF TIP - Impact Swivel:
For Swingers, using the Sequenced Release, when your Right Wrist is fully bent, it may be advantageous to have a slight Arch in your Left Wrist. Adjust your Grip accordingly. I found that this aids in producing/manufacturing/Faking the Impact Swivel. It helps.


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Next Weeks TGM TIP: "A Pictorial Narrative of the Horizontal Hinge". You don't want to miss it.

"Impact Swivel"? Where is that in the book?

Why would you want your Right Wrist to be "fully bent"? Isnt it ideally an Impact Fix degree of bend?

And to have an arched left wrist at Fix would require the thumb to be on top of the shaft wouldnt it? Isnt the arch grip dependent?

You talking max right wrist bend and max left wrist arch? Why? You could have max right wrist bend and no arch with a 10-2-D. Is there an impact geometry reason?

Maybe you've been looking at those Hogan photos again...........ok , ya they're pretty sweet, but........

The Left Wrist needs to change from "Turned On-Plane" during the Downstroke to "Vertical" for Horizontal Hinging for the Impact Interval. This is called a Swivel. There are 3 Swivels for a Swinger. "Start-up Swivel", "Pre-Impact Swivel" and "Finish Swivel". Each of these Swivels moves the Left Wrist from Vertical to On-Plane or On-Plane back to Vertical.


Bold by Daryl, to point out the place in the Book describing the Pre-Impact Swivel.


Fully Bent Right Wrist = Fully Flat Left Wrist. With the Ball played in one location while using the Turned shoulder plane, the Right Wrist will be fully Bent for all clubs, Hitting or Swinging.

I think that Uncocking and Rolling is the easier part. I think the Trouble is with the Swivel. My Tip will help get through the Swivel.

K. Im being a bit of an ass I know. Some swingers do feel the whole thing is one big swivel........

But......... Homer was always very clear that Impact is best not executed as a Swivel but as a Hinge Action. Leaving you with a Release Swivel and a Finish Swivel and HInge Action of one sort or the other in the middle. Thats in the book!

Fully bent right wrist for all shots? Got a quote for that one?

Swiveling through Impact is fairly easy to spot. The Back of the Left Hand travels from On-Plane before impact to back onto the Plane immediately after Impact. (AKA. Ben Doyle Hinge.)

The "Release Swivel" is the "Pre-Impact Swivel". I'm merely emphasizing that the Swivel occurs after Uncocking and Rolling. Many Golfers do it before, that's true, but the proper place is Pre-Impact.


I can quote you a number of places where it say's a Flat Left Wrist. I guess he just assumed we would know. :laughing9

Huh?

The Bear

Background Info:

A. During Release, for the Swinger, the Back of the Left Hand and Palm of the Right Hand travel as though they were on an angle (Plane) "Wheel Rim". The Left Wrist must Swivel from this On-Plane Alignment to Vertical Flat Left Wrist for Impact. The Motion is named "Swivel" because it's a Wrist/Forearm Rotation whereas "Closing the Clubface" is a "Roll" imparted by Pivot Rotation and Driving the Right Forearm into Impact Alignment.

B. For Swingers using Horizontal Hinging and Sequenced Release, The Left Wrist Remains Vertical until the end of Follow-through when both arms become straight.

C. At the Start of the Finish, the Swinger and Hitter should Rotate their Left Wrist to the Plane. This is the "Finish Swivel".

Main Point:

If the Swinger skips step-B, and goes directly to C, then he has Swiveled Through Impact. His Swivel was continuous from A to C through Impact.

The Tell:

When you see a Player "Over Swivel" his Finish Swivel, he has "Swiveled his Swivel". :confused1 He Swiveled through Impact and continued swiveling until both arms were straight, and then he Swiveled again for the Follow-through.

The Solution:

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p...sh-Swivel.html

You can make a perfect Sequenced Release (Uncock and Roll) but without the Release Swivel, the Ball will fade to the Right because the Hands are still Turned to Plane. We must Un-turn them (Swivel) without Over-swiveling through Impact.

Swiveling is difficult to perform while the Body Pivots and the Clubhead is traveling at 120 MPH. However, if we can "Break" or "Stop" the Swivel when the Left Wrist is Vertical, then we can Hinge through the Impact Interval.

"Roll" in the Sequenced Release is Planned and does not occur haphazardly. However it can be Automatic. Swivel cannot be Automatic. It is a conscious manipulation that needs to be done correctly to prevent Swiveling Through Impact.

My recommendation is to use 10-2-B grip but allow for a little Arch in the Left Wrist when the Right Wrist is Fully Bent for Impact (Hogan). This will provide two Benefits. First, The Back of the Left Hand will be forced into Vertical for Impact (By the Roll procedure) and Second, the Slight Arch in the Left Wrist will prevent Throwaway by Stopping, Blocking, or "putting the breaks on" Rotation of the Left Wrist past Vertical through-out the Impact and Follow-through Intervals.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p...sh-Swivel.html


This is my favorite movie of all time.......even better than Slapshot or Brian's Song. There is a lot to consider in this one. And Daryl is so right the Swivel is a major "secret", if you will, a pathway to improved contact via the flat, rolling left wrist. Homer did after all place unusual emphasis upon it in 12-3-0!

Of the Swivels it is the Finish Swivel that is often the missing ingredient. As Yoda so emphatically states, the adoption of " overtaking with a flat rolling left wrist will immediately take you to the next level". "This is where the Golfing Machine Lives".


-12-3-0 Section 6 - The Top pt 21. DELIVERY LINE ROLL PREP. There is only one word that is so emphatically presented in the entire 12-3-0 checklist and that word is "ROLL". You'll note that it is preceded by pt 21." Delivery Line Uncocking Prep." Which Homer presents with out any unusual emphasis. You'll also notice that is listed as part of Section 6-TOP! Yes , this is to say that you should be preparing to ROLL along the Delivery Line whilst at Top! The actual execution of the roll is listed much later. "On Line Release Swivel" is not listed until pt 38. "Finish Swivel" not listed until pt 41.

Why does Homer put such special emphasis on the intent to "Roll", at Top?. What does he mean by "Delivery Line"? What does he mean by "Prep"? Here are a couple of thoughts , please add to them. Treat it as a Wiki. This is the heart and soul of the book maybe.

-In regard to the word "Prep": In his masterpiece premium video with Brian Gay, Lynn states that golfers spend all of their time thinking about things that occur prior to Impact and for the most part have no idea what is suppose to happen after impact. No concept of Both ARms Straight, or more importantly the Release Swivel. Since the ball is gone why does it matter anyways? "Because you must prepare" says Lynn. To me meaning that if you are not preparing for overtaking to happen with a Flat Rolling Left Wrist then your are most likely preparing for it to happen with a chicken wing and and a bending left wrist. The ball will feel this shoddy preparation as it manifests itself in Release and Impact.

-"Rolling" is not consistent with a notion of keeping the clubface square to the hole though impact , Steering. "Delivery Line" is not consistent with a notion of the clubhead traveling a straight line towards the target also a form of Steering. Which gets us back to 2-C-0 again and the geometry of impact. It isnt a taking of the back of the ball towards the target with a square clubface!


Only with that intent to Roll in mind from Top will you break your habit of executing Finish Swivel with a chicken wing and a bending left wrist. To have this intent you must see the illusion, the false logic of Steering for what it is and commit instead to ROLL the Flat Left Wrist along the Delivery Line.

Put your Tally on and try it out in slow motion for a real eye opener! Try one Rolling try one Steering. See what happens to the left wrist , the chicken wing.

An arched left wrist destroy's the left arm wedge. There are some patterns for which the arch can work nicely, but for a pure swinger's pattern, with a sequenced release, there is no need to arch, it opens the clubface.

It does add some clubhead control 'insurance', and can be used effectively, as long as you understand it is a compensation for a non seqenced release (a fine line for a snap release a.k.a. Hogan)

In Hogan's case, and Mickey Wright's - a squeeze and curling under of the last 2 or 3 fingers, with the straightening right arm and bent right wrist preventing over swivel. (the straightening right arm is a 'regulator' of the swivel, allowing the pivot to produce the pure horizontal hinge)

What is the 10-2-B grip?