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Old 10-11-2006, 04:14 PM
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Re: Rolling the wrists

Many thanks for your responses. However, instructions regarding the subject couldn't be much more confusing for me. The basic thing I got out of it is that you don't roll the wrists, you just swing correctly and the wrists roll. An over simplification I know, but I just didn't follow a lot of what some of you were saying.

When I took lessons the instructor actually grabbed my wrists as they were extended out in front me, asked me to relax, and rolled them. He wanted to emphasize the wrists, locked together, rolling as one. I was actually successful at conciously rolling them in that lesson to square the club face. Since though, it has been difficult to do. Many of your instructions seem to lead to rolling the wrists, forearms, at follow through but that doesn't seem to help bringing the club back to square which I thought was the purpose in the first place. What got me thinking about this again was the video that came with the "Inside Approach" gadget that I bought. An instructor was going over fundementals of the swing and said as a matter of course that rolling wrists was a basic thing to do when coming from the inside with the swing (or something like that) to square the club face. My search continues for a clear, simple explanation.

Ha, look at this link. Another instructor talking about rolling the wrists.

http://golfzone.sportsradio1300.com/tips5.html

And another link: http://www.golfhelp.com/golf-tips/Power_Positions.html

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