Post by imperfectgolfer on Dec 14, 2011 19:59:02 GMT -5
Check out BM's latest video.
www.brianmanzella.com/golfing-discussions/16525-two-drills-again.html
He talks about the pinata (? I think that's how it is spelled) drill in the second half of his video. It demonstrates his thinking of how to perform a release action - which is similar to his Charlie Brown video. He states that the right wrist would straighten after impact when he released the club. Why would it happen? I believe that it happens because he is essentially throwing the clubhead at the ball and trying to maximize the speed of release of the clubhead so that it releases freely through impact. That type of release action predisposes to left wrist flip-bending after impact.
The BM-pattern of performing a release action will maximize clubhead speed, but at the expense of clubface control because a square clubface at impact will depend on perfect timing of the horizontal wrist motion. I believe in the opposite approach - I believe in eliminating all horizontal wrist motion from the clubface squaring action. I believe that one should square the clubface via an arm motion.
Consider how Roger Federer squares his racquet face when performing a backhanded tennis shot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2zmsPIMXI
Here are capture images from one of his back-handed tennis stroke actions.
Image 1 shows Roger Federer prepared to start his back-handed tennis stroke action. Note that he has pre-swivelled the racquet grip in his right hand so that the racquet face is 90 degree angled relative to the back of his FLW/back of his right forearm. That is equivalent to a golfer adopting a very strong grip (4-knuckle grip) and that grip choice will allow Roger Federer to perform an arm stroke motion without having to roll his right forearm clockwise during the stroke motion (without having to perform the golfer's equivalent of releasing PA#3) in order to square the racquet face at impact.
Images 2, 3 and 4 show he swings his right arm across the front of his body. His back-handed tennis swing action is an arm stroke action, and there is no independent motion at wrist level. Image 5 shows how he maintains a FLW well beyond impact and he never allows his right wrist to flip-bend so that the racquet face bypasses the back of his FLW/right arm. That's a very reliable biomechanical technique to ensure that one has maintained a square clubface through the immediate impact zone - if one simply ensures that the back of the FLW faces the target during its entire travel-time through the immediate impact zone. Any supplementary/additional right wrist horizontal hinging motion (superimposed on the arm stroke motion) would make it more difficult for him to consistently ensure that he has a square clubface at impact, and he obviously avoids that situation *if possible. In other words, he gives up a small amount of potential power to avoid any loss of accuracy due to impaired racquet face control.
(* under the stress of reaching for a ball where he doesn't have time to prepare for the performance of an efficient back-handed tennis stroke action, he may use a flicking/flipping motion of his right wrist. However, he then wouldn't expect the tennis ball to consistently go straight towards his desired target because he would naturally realize that he wouldn't be able to guarantee that his racquet face is square to his target at the exact moment of ball impact - if he rapidly flicked his right wrist through impact)
I think that the same principle applies to a full golf swing. It is a stroke action using an intact LAFW/FLW and there should be no horizontal wrist flicking/flipping motion involved. This type of release action will promote accuracy due to improved clubface control with little loss of swing power.
Here is Jamie Sadlowski's release action - when driving 350-400 yards.
Note that his clubhead has not passed his left arm, and he has maintained an intact LAFW, in image 2 and it is already at the P7.2 position.
Jeff.
www.brianmanzella.com/golfing-discussions/16525-two-drills-again.html
He talks about the pinata (? I think that's how it is spelled) drill in the second half of his video. It demonstrates his thinking of how to perform a release action - which is similar to his Charlie Brown video. He states that the right wrist would straighten after impact when he released the club. Why would it happen? I believe that it happens because he is essentially throwing the clubhead at the ball and trying to maximize the speed of release of the clubhead so that it releases freely through impact. That type of release action predisposes to left wrist flip-bending after impact.
The BM-pattern of performing a release action will maximize clubhead speed, but at the expense of clubface control because a square clubface at impact will depend on perfect timing of the horizontal wrist motion. I believe in the opposite approach - I believe in eliminating all horizontal wrist motion from the clubface squaring action. I believe that one should square the clubface via an arm motion.
Consider how Roger Federer squares his racquet face when performing a backhanded tennis shot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2zmsPIMXI
Here are capture images from one of his back-handed tennis stroke actions.
Image 1 shows Roger Federer prepared to start his back-handed tennis stroke action. Note that he has pre-swivelled the racquet grip in his right hand so that the racquet face is 90 degree angled relative to the back of his FLW/back of his right forearm. That is equivalent to a golfer adopting a very strong grip (4-knuckle grip) and that grip choice will allow Roger Federer to perform an arm stroke motion without having to roll his right forearm clockwise during the stroke motion (without having to perform the golfer's equivalent of releasing PA#3) in order to square the racquet face at impact.
Images 2, 3 and 4 show he swings his right arm across the front of his body. His back-handed tennis swing action is an arm stroke action, and there is no independent motion at wrist level. Image 5 shows how he maintains a FLW well beyond impact and he never allows his right wrist to flip-bend so that the racquet face bypasses the back of his FLW/right arm. That's a very reliable biomechanical technique to ensure that one has maintained a square clubface through the immediate impact zone - if one simply ensures that the back of the FLW faces the target during its entire travel-time through the immediate impact zone. Any supplementary/additional right wrist horizontal hinging motion (superimposed on the arm stroke motion) would make it more difficult for him to consistently ensure that he has a square clubface at impact, and he obviously avoids that situation *if possible. In other words, he gives up a small amount of potential power to avoid any loss of accuracy due to impaired racquet face control.
(* under the stress of reaching for a ball where he doesn't have time to prepare for the performance of an efficient back-handed tennis stroke action, he may use a flicking/flipping motion of his right wrist. However, he then wouldn't expect the tennis ball to consistently go straight towards his desired target because he would naturally realize that he wouldn't be able to guarantee that his racquet face is square to his target at the exact moment of ball impact - if he rapidly flicked his right wrist through impact)
I think that the same principle applies to a full golf swing. It is a stroke action using an intact LAFW/FLW and there should be no horizontal wrist flicking/flipping motion involved. This type of release action will promote accuracy due to improved clubface control with little loss of swing power.
Here is Jamie Sadlowski's release action - when driving 350-400 yards.
Note that his clubhead has not passed his left arm, and he has maintained an intact LAFW, in image 2 and it is already at the P7.2 position.
Jeff.