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Originally Posted by drbob ...whether you are rolling your wrists through impact by releasing lag, or "swatting", both are timing, right? |
Not really. They are a bit different. Rolling of the wrists is not so much a timing action as it is a cause-effect action from a couple of other elements. There is really no conscience attempt to make this rolling happen in it's self (unlike the swatting of the wrists where you can cause your wrists to break horizontally through the impact zone simply my thinking about it, and doing that one action).
The rolling happens because your right arm is extending downward...getting longer. The left arm is in essence getting shorter when it is at and after impact. This "causes" the arms to roll...right rolling over the left. Nothing you can do to help that, so just let it happen and don't fight it. It is a wonderful thing actually, because this will square a face from an open angle right before impact. AND it does it in a very very very (yes 3 verys) predictable and repeatable manner. This is why we want the shoulders rotating slightly ahead of the arms ... to propell the arms quite easily without any forceful arm push-pull action going on other then them staying in your intended plane and path (adjusting the plane and path of the arms are used to shape a shot on demad if you so desire).
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Originally Posted by drbob ...Or is the take home message of the cupped right hand more of a "up and down, never side to side", but you will still need to time certain aspects of squaring the clubhead before impact? |
Yes. And the timing is sequencing the big to little muscles in that order. Start with the biggest muscle, the legs, then the hips, torso, shoulders, arms and last hands. So lag in the wrists as Grahm showed in the pic is a prefect example of seeing where the arms are (almost back to setup) and the wrists being still fully "set". The wrists are last to release their full range of motion.
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Originally Posted by drbob Another question: How do you know/feel when you are loading your shaft? When does the flex in the club shaft start doing it's work? |
If you create ample clubhead speed, this will flex and load the shaft. There is nothing you need to feel that will let you know it is doing this correctly. The results of the ball flight and length will let you know.
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