Struggling with getting your golf swing to flow smoothly through the ball? This video covers the key techniques for achieving a proper release and preventing common mistakes. Learn how to correctly roll your forearms and avoid casting the club, which often leads to wrist breakdowns and a lack of momentum. Focus on maintaining a flat lead wrist and a natural flow rather than forcing positions. Slow practice speeds will help you master these mechanics before adding speed. Follow these three essential tips to enhance your swing and improve your accuracy on the course.
What's Covered: Troubleshooting video covering forearm rotation, proper release mechanics, and how to prevent casting and wrist breakdown.
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Alright. I wanna shoot a little bonus content for you talking about this, this kind of X release or getting the forearms to release and cross over each other. I know this is something that a lot of people struggle with, getting that momentum out to the club, letting it fly out of their hands and just kind of all the momentum just kind of sling through the ball and their forearms roll over each other.
Well, one of the things that's, that's hurting that is if I feel like I'm starting to throw it back in here. That's gonna override all this. So if I start to feel like I throw back here, I kind of cast the club out by the time I get here, there's nothing really to kind of roll the forearms and this lead wrist kind of bows back up like that.
So it'll kind of go like this, and then you'll find the, the lead arm wants to go like that. It feels really tough to cross 'em over. That's more of this way and that way. So what's called flexion and extension, what I'm talking about is more pronation and supination, which would be basically me, uh, rolling the forearms over each other and even from the upper arm, kinda letting it go closed and open.
Closed and open. Whereas the wrong way would be forwards and backwards. Me, like kind of pushing the club through. So if I start to cast from the top, a lot of times I'm pushing that club with my right forearm or my right hand. I'm pushing that club out, going into what's called flexion of the wrist. I push that out and then when I get down in here, this wrist kind of breaks down and I get like this chicken wing kind of look to it.
The opposite of that would be, I'm not pushing the club across my body like this. I'm letting the forearms go to here. Release and roll on over like that. So another way to think about this is just take the forearms like this arm straight and just keep the club perpendicular ground. Just let it flow on over, just like that.
That's not exactly what's going on. There's no momentum here. And when I release the club in a golf swing, it's doing that same thing. All I'm doing is letting the wrist throw the club out. So I'll do kinda show that, right? I'm rolling the forearms over each other and in the golf swing it's gonna be throwing it out and rolling them.
Now the key to that, in my opinion, is what this lead wrist is doing. I'm gonna take my left-handed club here for a second because I notice when I do this left-handed the same as everybody else, if I try to hit a golf ball to the camera and get that roll released, I end up getting something like this, where this right wrist or this lead wrist be your left wrist for your right-handed players gets really kind of cupped and breaks down like that.
So when I started to do this, I find myself when I'm left-handed, 'cause I'm just not trained, trying to push that club through there with that backhand or for a right-handed player to be pushed that club through there and that lead wrist just kind of cups up like this. So if I do this left-handed again, I'll try to do that release and I find like this happening to where that wrist really gets bent back in a weird position.
Now in reality, what you wanna do is let that get some lag shift on through. And when you roll the forearms, keep this lead wrist pretty flat like that and let the face turn on over, right? So part of it is I'm not letting the club turn over. I'm pushing it through and you see the face is not pointing down to the ground.
This is really cupped if I go ahead and let the face point all the way down to the ground, this is nice and flat. So I've got ahead and go to go ahead and let those forearms roll over and get that wrist flat and that face pointing down to the ground. Keep an eye on that. When you're doing this, lemme show you a couple of them right-handed here again.
This is the biggest question or the biggest, uh, thing that people get wrong when they're doing this type of release. So if I do it wrong, I'm pushing, pushing, pushing the the club through this wrist cups, and you'll notice that the face, even if I try to roll the forearms over each other, it's not to the ground.
It's straight up and down. If I do this type of release, I go to the inside, I release it all the way, and now my wrist is flat, my lead wrist is flat. That faces all the way down to the ground. It's much easier to draw the ball when you're letting it go that way. Right now, this is flat. That's down to the ground.
That's the first big question I get. The second two that I get, people may get wrong when they're doing this, is when they're doing this, they're trying to go o overdue. How short it is. So what I'm talking about doing is I'm saying, go from here, kind of this pausing. When the club shafts parallel to the ground and then you go through to here, which is kind of pausing, like just past parallel, I realize when you add a little flow to this, you may end up coming back to here.
That's okay. I don't wanna make a full swing. This position is this one that I move through, so it's okay to come back to here, get a little momentum in the club, then let it release, have a little momentum in the club there, but I want that to be a nice flow to it. I don't wanna feel like I'm hitting these positions, like going like this, pausing, coming over here and pausing lots of pauses.
That's okay in the first little bit when you're just trying to get the feel of what's going on. But I want to have this, have a flow, a nice rhythm to it. I don't wanna feel like I'm manipulating this with the hands at all. If I let these forearms roll over each other, I let that club face just go open and closed.
I let this club face roll all the way down to the ground. I can do that with a little bit of flow here. It's no harder to do this soft than it is kind of muscling it and kind of contorting it around. I should be able to go nice and smooth and easy, not very far back, not very far through. Get a flow to it and let that happen.
If you have a tough time getting the flow to it. Stay here and work on this for a little bit and let that momentum happen rather than trying to feel like I'm muscling it through with my arms. Lastly, which ties really into that. The third thing, slow is accurate. Accurate is fast. What I mean by that is if I try to go too fast, notice the speed at which I'm hitting a shot there, I'm gonna go ahead on my radar, hit one at the speed.
I was just showing those little demos at, so here's my demos, then I'm just gonna walk into the ball. Hit that ball. That ball carried. Rolled out 33 yards. We're talking very slow when we're getting these feels right. This is not a hard shot, so if you do this with a driver and I make the practice swings the speeds at which I'm doing these, and I hit a shot, I'll try to hit this one a little bit better as I'm doing it.
That ball went 67 yards as it rolled out, only carried 40 yards. My club head speed didn't read. Probably 30, 40 miles an hour. I'm going slow enough to which there's a speed to where I can feel what's going on. If I go super slow here, again, trying to get a flow into it, I'm not going slow and hitting positions like this and just going back and forth and trying to hit those positions.
I'm going slow in feeling myself, move through those positions and get a flow to the club head if I get this down at this speed. Slow is accurate, meaning that I can do this accurately. If I go slow enough, if I struggle at that speed, I'll go even slower, right? I'm feeling that clubhead sling out and roll over.
Anyone can do this move at this speed. We just have to go slow enough to get the rhythm and the timing of it. Once I can get the feeling of what I'm doing, it's very easy to speed it up and get the same motions. So those are my three big ones there. I want to. Roll the club, get the face down to the ground lead wrist flat.
When I finish my kind of X move. That's number one. Number two, I'm filling a flow with it. I'm not having to pause right at this position. I'm gonna go a little further back and a little further through. It's all about filling the flow and then number three, go as slow as you need to to get this right. I would rather see somebody go this speed at first.
And really have to have time to think about how would I move this club smoothly and get it to roll over and get this piece right at that speed? I know in a week there'll be, there'll be way farther ahead than somebody saying, I'm gonna get this move right, and I'm gonna try to crank a hundred, a hundred mile an hour full rip at it on day one.
You'll get more out of this course if you just feel what you're trying to do with the club and hit these drills at this speed. Then you add speed to it, then you will trying to get it right, right away and go full speed right away. The slower you go, the more accurate you'll go, and you'll pick up speed even faster as we go on further down the course.
So hopefully that helps. Remember those three things that you're doing in the release, I know it's gonna go a long way to help you improve really fast. I'll see you soon.
