Flat left wrist

[12 piece bucket]

Let me try to be clearer.

There are Three Imperatives. Their identities are separate and independent of each other, but they are also, to some extent, related in many ways.

You asked if I agree with you that if one has a Flat Left Wrist, then everything else would fall into place. I disagree and I told you why I thought Clubhead Lag Pressure fits the bill better (post #9).

The Flat Left Wrist by itself does not give maximum compression.

Why are there so many golfers out there who it hit crap even with a dead Flat Left Wrist at Impact (with a 10-2-B grip)?

Faking it means you are forcing it to be Flat by using your wrist muscles to hold it Flat through Impact.

How do you think Hogan went from a slightly cupped or Bent Left Wrist at the Top to a Flat or maybe even slightly Arched Left Wrist at Impact? Is it because of what he tried to do with his wrists? No! Because of Clubhead Lag Pressure!

Here’s a common example of what happens in many people’s swing. They’re at the Top, On Plane with a Flat Left Wrist, ready to go psycho on the ball. They start over-accelerating, loose all their Lag and Drag, their Left Wrist Bends and Right Wrist Flattens. Suddenly they are Off Plane Tracing a Bent Plane Line. Now they must compensate by Steering. All Three Imperatives goes down the drain.

Teaching a golfer to have a Flat Left Wrist per se at Impact is easy. But at the expense of lousy rhythm, no Lag and Drag, Steering, etc. It’s a big price to pay. Teaching a golfer to have real Clubhead Lag Pressure is much harder and more elusive. After all, Clubhead Lag is the Secret of Golf!

Tong . . . I'm liking the machismo my friend. Vibrating Sensicores and FAKING IT? Did you score this weekend? For the record I didn't . . . I'm on the quarterly plan.

I am smelling much of what you are a cookin' in this post. The Flat Left Wrist is the Numero Uno Alignment a big holla to that. BUT as you said over-acceleration is the menace stalker of lag and drag as much as Mike O is a human head collector.

In a full bore motion if your thrust stops (pivot for the slinger and right forearm for the puncher) your Left Wrist is gonna pay the price by . . . bending . . . UNLESS as you point out you FAKE IT!!!

I have FAKED IT. I think people need to get in tune with LAG PRESSURE. Like you say and not ACCUMULATOR LAG. I used to think you had to just drag a soooooper cocked Left Wrist down down down Trigger-d-laid and a navel seeking right elbow. Didn't get'er done. The Accumulators HAVE TO RELEASE . . . but as LGM has told us Clubhead LAG has NO RELEASE POINT.

But how . . . how is the best way to find if you are FAKING IT? How would YOU stop the STALKER of LAG?

If you ain't got LAG PRESSURE and you still got a FLAT LEFT WRIST . . . It probably hurts. As far as the Bent Right Wrist . . . Mr. K in his wisdom did say "unstressed."