Post by imperfectgolfer on Mar 4, 2024 15:37:50 GMT -5
Watch this video featuring Milo Lines who is teaching a golfer, who uses a weak lead hand grip.
In this teaching lesson, Milo is teaching a golfer who already was a good ball striker, and who played at college level.
Milo noted that the student-golfer had a weak lead hand grip and he decided to not alter the golfer's lead hand grip towards a strong lead hand grip pattern. Instead, he instructed him to bow his lead wrist in the early downswing and to perform a more active body rotation into impact, and through impact into his early followthrough.
Here are "before" and "after" capture images.
In this teaching lesson, Milo is teaching a golfer who already was a good ball striker, and who played at college level.
Milo noted that the student-golfer had a weak lead hand grip and he decided to not alter the golfer's lead hand grip towards a strong lead hand grip pattern. Instead, he instructed him to bow his lead wrist in the early downswing and to perform a more active body rotation into impact, and through impact into his early followthrough.
Here are "before" and "after" capture images.
Before swing - Note that he had a slightly cupped lead wrist at impact and he was flipping his clubshaft through impact. Note that his trail wrist has straightened.
After swing - Note that he has a bowed lead wrist at impact with forward shaft lean. That is a very desirable impact alignment because it decreases the dynamic loft of the clubface, and it is also an excellent anti-flipping clubface alignment. Note that his trail wrist is still extended. I think that the combination of a bowed lead wrist and an extended trail wrist at impact also has the potential advantage that it potentially allows the hand couple torque to be negative at impact, which helps to stabilise the lead wrist through the ball striking action.
The other thing that I like about Milo's golf instructional teaching of an active pelvic/chest rotation through impact is that it is very conducive to a DH-hand release action.
Here is this student-golfer's DH-hand release action through impact.
Image 1 is at P7, image 2 is at P7.15, and image 3 is at P7.5.
Note that he maintains a bowed lead wrist to P7.5 and he never allows the clubshaft to bypass his lead arm (from an angular rotational perspective) and note that he keeps his clubface square to the clubhead path. Note that he maintains an extended trail wrist all the way to P7.5 and that is biomechanically possible because he does not "run-out-of-trail arm" - which is only possible because he has a very open chest alignment that allows him to get his trail shoulder socket very far downplane by P7.5.
Now, here is an interesting aspect of this student-golfer's pre-impact/late downswing "after" golf swing action. The student-golfer thinks that he is squaring the clubface by P7 by rotating his chest more actively in his "after" swing, while he thinks that he previously squared his clubface by P7 by using a more active "hand action" in his "before" swing.
So, the pertinent question becomes - is he performing less lead forearm supination between P5.5 => P7 in his "after" swing compared to his "before" swing?
The answer, counterintuitively/surprisingly, is that he has to use more lead forearm supination between P5.5 in his "after" swing - compared to his "before" swing.
Here is the proof.
Capture images of his downswing action.
Image 1 is at P2, image 2 is at P5.7, image 3 is at P6, and image 4 is at impact.
Note that he uses a weak lead hand grip and the back of his flat wrist/lead hand is parallel to the ball-target line at P2. Note that his clubface is closed ~10 degrees relative to the back of his lead hand at P2.
Note that he has a more bowed lead wrist at P5.7 because he followed Milo's advice to bow his lead wrist in his transition and well before P6. Note that his clubface is not really more closed relative to his clubhead path at P5.7 than it was at P2. Why - considering the fact that there is a widely held "belief" that bowing the lead wrist between P4 => P6 closes the clubface relative to the clubhead path? The answer is to look at his lead lower forearm's alignment at P5.7 - I have drawn a red line over his lead lower forearm's radial bone that shows that his lead forearm is more rotated clockwise at P5.7 compared to P2. Note also that his clubshaft is angled slightly inside at P5.7 due to his bowed lead wrist angulation and that his trail wrist is more extended in order to biomechanically accommodate his bowed lead wrist alignment.
Note that his lead lower forearm's radial bone (red line) has rotated counterclockwise between P5.7 => P6 as a result of him starting to perform an early lead forearm supinatory action. Note that his clubface is tilted very slightly more groundwards at P6 compared to P2 - but the amount is very small so it is wrong to believe that he has already squared his clubface relative to his clubhead path by P6. He will still need to perform a lot of lead forearm supination between P6 => P7 in order to square his clubface relative to his clubhead path by impact.
Here are capture images of his PA#3 release action.
Image 1 is at P6.3, image 2 is at ~P7 and image 3 is at P7.2.
Note that you cannot see his lead lower forearm's radial bone at P6.3 because it is still roughly parallel to the ball-target line.
I have drawn a red line over his lead lower forearm's radial bone at impact - note that it has rotated ~60 - 70 degrees counterclockwise between P6.3 => P7. That is a very large amount and more than expected for a golfer who uses a weak lead hand grip. Why does he need more, and not less, lead forearm supination between P5.5 => P7 in order to get a square clubface by impact? The answer is that he comes into impact with a lot of forward shaft lean due to his bowed lead wrist alignment at impact and that the consequent clubshaft angulation phenomenon has a clubface-opening effect, which he needs to overcome by supinating his lead forearm slightly more than usual for a golfer who uses a weak lead hand grip with no lead wrist bowing (see his "before" image as a comparison).
Finally, the very pertinent question becomes - does he have to slow down his pelvis/torso rotation to allow him to perform a slightly greater amount of lead forearm supination during his P5.5 => P7 time period as a result of bowing his lead wrist before P6 and maintaining a bowed lead wrist into impact? The answer is negative. It is a fallacy to believe that if a golfer needs to use more lead forearm supination between P5.5 => P7 as a result of adopting a weak lead hand grip combined with an active lead wrist bowing maneuver (as recommended by Milo and many other golf instructors) that one cannot perform a very active pelvis/chest rotation between P5.5 => P7.5+. In fact, as I have previously explained, I think that it is very advantageous to use an active pelvis/chest rotation pivot motion as taught my Milo and the "extra" amount of lead forearm supination happening between P5.5 => P7 will happen naturally/automatically without any need for conscious thoughts.
Jeff.