Cupped wrist

Hi everyone,
What does it mean to cup your right wrist during a swing? Thanks.

Hi Ahmad,

The cupped right wrist?

Imagine a waiter carrying a tray of drinks above his head in his right hand, the wrist would have to be cupped or the tray would fall.

Try the same position with a club in your hand.


Hope this helps


Ian.

Ian, thanks. I'll try that to see if it works.

See GregJWillis's right hand drill for his explanation:
http://mysite.verizon.net/gregjwillis/LESSON1.htm

gord962,

I'll try that out tommorrow. I've put the website into my favourites list so that I can refer to it from time to time.

I should have asked this earlier. Understanding that Greg's lesson is meant to be a drill, and drills are usually exaggerated, just how much of the cupped right wrist should we be doing in the real game? I've been experiencing a bit of pain in my right wrist lately, and I'm not sure if it's a sure sign that I've been swatting, or have I been cupping my wrist way too much (if there's such a thing as too much?)

Thanks!

Where's the pain, and what sort of pain?

If the muscles in your forearm, on the same side as your palm, feel strained, then you might be swatting, since those are the flexors that make the swatting movement. If it feels more like a pain in tendons and ligaments around the wrist, then you might be letting the inertia of the club cup the wrist back too much at the top of the backswing. I've had both of these!

Hi Todd,

The pain is at the wrist, and yep it's definitely tendon/ligament and not muscle. It only hurts when I cup my wrist, or when I try to press hard on that particular point. So I could have been overcupping my wrist all this while? And I always thought it only be a matter of too little and never too much