I had only seen a shorter clip of that interview. Very interesting, this is something I am dealing with in my swing too, I think. That is about where the similarity between my golf and Tigers ends. Im getting just a little arched and slightly laid off at top. Its small but its there. Its an unwanted horizontal motion in the left wrist which disturbs the plane of the Left Hand Wrist Cock. For me, it makes left wrist cocking a little harder and promotes a sweep release.
Arched at impact is a nice bit of insurance against throwaway. But the Left Wrist cock and uncock is vertical only motion, like hammering, no horizontal motion. Hogan clearly stated in Five Lessons, that the left wrist begins to supinate near impact. Hogan, actually had a little Horizontal motion himself but the other way around, getting a little cupped at Top, a wide open clubface for hook prevention purposes.
Tigers clubface would be more closed at Top if not for his extremely weak left hand grip. Yoda could fix all this for Tiger over a coffee in the Grill Room, Im thinking.
Do you think Hanks parallel planes or right wrist cock and uncock theory could be a contributing factor for Tiger?
Arched at impact is a nice bit of insurance against throwaway. But the Left Wrist cock and uncock is vertical only motion, like hammering, no horizontal motion. Hogan clearly stated in Five Lessons, that the left wrist begins to supinate near impact. Hogan, actually had a little Horizontal motion himself but the other way around, getting a little cupped at Top, a wide open clubface for hook prevention purposes.
Uncocking the Left Wrist is a Vertical or On-Plane Motion. It is an On-Plane Motion for Swingers using Standard Wrist Action. Hogans Supination Illustration is simpley the On-Plane Uncocking and Swiveling on an Elbow Plane with a 10-2-A Grip and Strong #3 Accumulator (to match the earlier Release of the Elbow Plane). This combination will produce a Bowed Left Wrist when the Clubshaft is Forward Leaning. 10-2-B will produce a Flat Left Wrist when the Clubshaft is Forward Leaning.
Warning:Without what Looks like a Cupped Left Wrist at the Top of the Swing, The Clubhead will not uncock and cause the Swivel Automatically. It is the Uncocking Motion of the Cupped Looking Left Wrist, that moves from Cupped Looking to Flat during the Uncocking to Swivel around the Sweetspot Plane. The Swivel is a continuation of the Uncocking Motion (Automatic). Without a Cupped Looking Left Wrist at the Top of the Swing, no Swivel after Uncocking begins. The More Cup, The More Swivel. 10-2-A will continue Uncocking/Swivel to an Arched Left Wrist, and 10-2-B will Uncock/Swivel to a Flat Left Wrist (with a Forward leaing Clubshaft). The On-Plane Uncocking Cupped Left Wrist moves to Flat,,,that is the Swivel,,Uncock, then Swivel. Automatically, Immediately, Assuredly. You can't Swivel unless you Start the On-Plane Uncocking Process first.
That's the easy part............The Hard part is having a LEVEL Left Wrist at Impact...because if it's uncocked beyond level, then the Clubface is Closed at Ball Separation. DO NOT start uncocking until the Hands reach the Line of Sight to the Ball when using a Turned Shoulder Plane...otherwise you'll hook, draw, pull the ball into the woods....
Your Left Wrist continues to Uncock after impact and the Swiveling motion causes the Left Palm to Roll to the Plane, which allows the Left Elbow to Bend and meld into a Finish Swivel.
Like Homer Said: "You can Swing in your sleep". It's all Automatic. I'd like to have a word with him about that.
Gary makes good points but I see the following:
Tiger arches the wrist at impact - causing the low point to move.
Hogan is on the elbow plane on the downswing.
Tiger is on the TSP - it only appears to be on the elbow plane because he has such a significant head bob/drop.
Hogans right forearm is on plane at parallel on the downswing. Tiger's above the plane.
In essence Tiger has not mastered any of the 3 imperatives!! Can you imagine how good he would be if he did??
Dang cyber furlough I came to this shindig a bit late! I did not read every post in this thread but I think it highlights perhaps the most misunderstood topic in TGM...the flat left wrist. If you take your impact fix alignment then cock the left wrist straight up it is seldom visually flat, depending on grip type. I believe that is why Homer said to practice the wrist and hand motions with both an open hand AND a closed fist. I think a lot of people get a little shut (open face) at the top then collapse the left wrist in an attempt to square it usually sending it left. For me the key in accomplishing the #1 alignment was the magic of the right forearm...right forearm fanning in particular. One of my favorite Yoda drills is using the badminton raquets, the challenge is to get the face of the raquet flat to the inclined plane. Most (including yours truly) never rotate the right forearm enough. I believe this is one of the numbers for the tumbler that will unlock your golfing potential. GP knows what he is talking about. Uncocking a shut left wrist will hit the mother of all push-slices...until it quacks left! Try hammering a nail with an arched (shut) left wrist! Without an aligned left wrist there can be very little DOWN AND OUT going on
Uncocking the Left Wrist is a Vertical or On-Plane Motion. It is an On-Plane Motion for Swingers using Standard Wrist Action. Hogans Supination Illustration is simpley the On-Plane Uncocking and Swiveling on an Elbow Plane with a 10-2-A Grip and Strong #3 Accumulator (to match the earlier Release of the Elbow Plane). This combination will produce a Bowed Left Wrist when the Clubshaft is Forward Leaning. 10-2-B will produce a Flat Left Wrist when the Clubshaft is Forward Leaning.
Warning:Without what Looks like a Cupped Left Wrist at the Top of the Swing, The Clubhead will not uncock and cause the Swivel Automatically. It is the Uncocking Motion of the Cupped Looking Left Wrist, that moves from Cupped Looking to Flat during the Uncocking to Swivel around the Sweetspot Plane. The Swivel is a continuation of the Uncocking Motion (Automatic). Without a Cupped Looking Left Wrist at the Top of the Swing, no Swivel after Uncocking begins. The More Cup, The More Swivel. 10-2-A will continue Uncocking/Swivel to an Arched Left Wrist, and 10-2-B will Uncock/Swivel to a Flat Left Wrist (with a Forward leaing Clubshaft). The On-Plane Uncocking Cupped Left Wrist moves to Flat,,,that is the Swivel,,Uncock, then Swivel. Automatically, Immediately, Assuredly. You can't Swivel unless you Start the On-Plane Uncocking Process first.
That's the easy part............The Hard part is having a LEVEL Left Wrist at Impact...because if it's uncocked beyond level, then the Clubface is Closed at Ball Separation. DO NOT start uncocking until the Hands reach the Line of Sight to the Ball when using a Turned Shoulder Plane...otherwise you'll hook, draw, pull the ball into the woods....
Your Left Wrist continues to Uncock after impact and the Swiveling motion causes the Left Palm to Roll to the Plane, which allows the Left Elbow to Bend and meld into a Finish Swivel.
Like Homer Said: "You can Swing in your sleep". It's all Automatic. I'd like to have a word with him about that.
Look harder at the Illustration.
The Analysis. I won't go there.
Daryl, anybody, everybody. Especially people who have built plane boards.
I've been away for a bit and just read this great post. I play my best with a slight cup and my worst with an arch at TOP. The arch inhibits my left wrist cock, promotes a sweep release and sends the ball to the right which leads to a subconscious over swivel through impact as a compensation, ouch. When I get it cupped golf seems easy again but dang its harder than it sounds to correct. I can train with flash lights etc to fix it but Im wondering if at the root of my problem lies a theoretical issue?
So please help me out. Where am I going wrong here?
The plane of the left wrist cock and uncock is the plane of the Left Arm Flying Wedge. A pure vertical hammering like motion when the left arm and club is extended out in front of you. In the actual golf swing this is an on plane motion, the club cocking up and down the inclined plane when the club is about half way back or down, say. The Left Arm Throw for Swingers or Right Arm Throw for Hitters in Release. The Left arm is not on plane but above it at Address, Top, Impact.
How the heck does the club shaft cock up and down the inclined plane while maintaining the LAFW when the left arm itself is not on the inclined plane?
How the heck does the club shaft cock up and down the inclined plane while maintaining the LAFW when the left arm itself is not on the inclined plane?
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Posted by Lynn a few years back...
The palm of the Left Hand does not lie in the plane of the Left Arm when the Left Wrist is Flat (upper Left Arm in line with the back of the Left Hand). Because of the heel of the Hand, it is sloped away from it (counterclockwise) and appears 'more vertical' at the Top (and In Line with the Plane of the Turned Right Shoulder). Thus, the Wrist can Cock on Plane without the Left Arm being On Plane.
Maybe what you are considering the Vertical Wristcock Motion of a Flat Left Wrist is really the Vertical Wristcock of an Arched Left Wrist (which puts the palm in line with the lower part of the Left Forearm and therefore not On Plane with the Right Shoulder).
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Daryl, anybody, everybody. Especially people who have built plane boards.
I've been away for a bit and just read this great post. I play my best with a slight cup and my worst with an arch at TOP. The arch inhibits my left wrist cock, promotes a sweep release and sends the ball to the right which leads to a subconscious over swivel through impact as a compensation, ouch. When I get it cupped golf seems easy again but dang its harder than it sounds to correct. I can train with flash lights etc to fix it but Im wondering if at the root of my problem lies a theoretical issue?
So please help me out. Where am I going wrong here?
The plane of the left wrist cock and uncock is the plane of the Left Arm Flying Wedge. A pure vertical hammering like motion when the left arm and club is extended out in front of you. In the actual golf swing this is an on plane motion, the club cocking up and down the inclined plane when the club is about half way back or down, say.
No. Only for a Hitter is Cocking and Uncocking a Vertical Plane Hammer motion and Only because his Wrist is Vertical. (Hitters can take full advantage and Swing on the Turned shoulder plane with a Vertical Wrist(see below). For a Swinger, the Left Wrist is Slightly Bent so that Cocking and Uncocking the Left Wrist is On-Plane when using the Elbow Plane while the Left Arm is Not On-Plane. That's one reason why Swingers Load the Secondary Lever at the Top of the Swing and Hitters Load the Primary Lever. NOTE: The Slightly Bent Left Wrist Loads the Swivel Action of the #3 Accumulator to give an AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE RELEASE on the Elbow Plane. Because the Left Wrist is Slightly Bent, it will snap Flat during Uncocking which Forces the Roll to continue through Impact so that you don't need to think about it much. Use the Same Amount of Wrist Bend at Standard Address which has Less Bend for a Driver than a Wedge when the Address Procedure uses the Inherent Lean Angle built into the Club. It's not much Bend. This Way, from Address To Release, the Left Wrist Bend stays the Same but is different for each club. Easy. Easy still with a Torso Take-Away.
However, don't confuse a Bent Left Wrist because of the Elbow Plane with a Bent Left Wrist on a Turned Shoulder Plane. The First is still Standard Wrist Action and the Second is Double Wrist Action.
Concerning a Turned Shoulder Plane. It is my opinion, that a Bent Left Wrist Release is very different than a Flat Left Wrist Release. I've posted elsewhere about this. I don't think that the Bent Left Wrist provides the same transfer and added Power that Rolling with a Flat Left Wrist provides (Double Wrist Action). I consider the Release with a Bent Left Wrist to be a Simultaneous Release (Double Wrist Action) compared to a Flat Left Wrist which offers a Full and True Sequenced Release. I think that the Flat Left Wrist Roll is a superior procedure because of its inherent mechanical advantage.
You May have a Flat Left Wrist at the Top of the Swing. Just Prepare to Roll. It has its advantages. It's Highly Recommended. You get to use the Turned Shoulder Plane. On the Turned Shoulder Planes, during the Backstroke and Downstroke to Release, the Club, with a Flat Left Wrist, is On-Plane on the Inclined Plane even when the Left Arm is NOT. Interesting. The Back of the Bent Right Wrist actually lays on the Plane with the Clubshaft Up and Down the Plane while the Back of the Left Wrist is Flat and in-line with the Left Arm. It uses the Right Forearm Flying Wedge (Which rides perpendicular to the Inclined Plane) to travel the Plane from Top to Bottom of the Swing. Then Swingers, Roll (Swivel) the Right Arm Flying Wedge into Impact During Release. And Besides, any procedure for a Sequence Release produces a Vertical Left Wrist for the Hinge Action. Its Hinge action that should take control through the Impact interval to Both Arms Straight. Anytime you bend the Left Wrist you need to Swivel to the Hinge and you do risk swiveling through Impact more than with a Flat Left Wrist. But Swiveling to the Hinge with a Bent Left Wrist does Prevent Clubhead Throwaway when it produces a Slightly Arched Wrist at Ball Separation.
You can also use a NON-AUTOMATIC RELEASE. At anytime during the Downswing, before Release, simply Arch your Left Wrist Slightly. Then, you're already Rolled going into Release. It doesn't move the Club Off Plane because Arching the Wrist Slightly is only a Rotation around the Shaft (Tom Lehman). This is really the Way for Swingers to go on Short Shot Procedures (VJ Trolio) because it doesn't need much thinking and you don't need as long a swing as the Full Sequence.
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The Left Arm Throw for Swingers or Right Arm Throw for Hitters in Release. The Left arm is not on plane but above it at Address, Top, Impact.
True, but at Release, a swinger uses a Wrist Throw to Uncock the Left Wrist. A Hand or Right Arm Throw is from the Top of the Swing to Launch the Power Package Down-Plane.
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How the heck does the club shaft cock up and down the inclined plane while maintaining the LAFW when the left arm itself is not on the inclined plane?
Turned Shoulder Plane, Extensor Action and the Magic of the Right Forearm. Welcome to TGM. Using these procedures, you will always have a Flat Left Wrist and you will always swing on the Turned Shoulder Plane and your Clubshaft will ride on the Face of the Inclined Plane and you will always Cock and Uncock On-Plane. Thus, you will be blessed with many years of golf, low scores and a wife that understands. You will truly be among the few.
The Question you should ask is "Does the Left Arm and Clubshaft with a Flat Left Wrist need to be in-line Longitudinally to be in-line"? (no) or "Can the Left Arm Wedge be Turned to the Plane"? (yes). So, if the Clubshaft and Left Arm with a Flat Left Wrist form a 90 degree angle, it can be turned to the Plane (Rotated around the Arm) so that the Shaft is on the Inclined Plane but not the left Arm? Yes, on the Turned Shoulder Plane.
If you know Extensor Action but especially the the Magic of the Right Forearm when combined Forces the Hands onto the Turned Shoulder Plane, this would all be clear to you.
BTW. It took me TEN YEARS to understand this. Get a Club, grip it with a bent left wrist. Put the shaft on-plane. Flatten the Left Wrist. Is the Shaft Still on Plane?
That's the easy part............The Hard part is having a LEVEL Left Wrist at Impact...because if it's uncocked beyond level, then the Clubface is Closed at Ball Separation. DO NOT start uncocking until the Hands reach the Line of Sight to the Ball when using a Turned Shoulder Plane...otherwise you'll hook, draw, pull the ball into the woods....
Using these procedures, you will always have a Flat Left Wrist and you will always swing on the Turned Shoulder Plane and your Clubshaft will ride on the Face of the Inclined Plane and you will always Cock and Uncock On-Plane. Thus, you will be blessed with many years of golf, low scores and a wife that understands. You will truly be among the few.
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