Homer Kelley On How To Practice The Flat Left Wrist
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View Poll Results: Is there something we can do -- in practice -- to help keep the Left Wrist Flat?
1. "Take a 'short' grip on a club. Run the shaft up your left forearm and swing back and through until you've learned to keep the club steady and the wrist flat."
2. "You bend your wrist because you 'throw' the club past the hands. You must learn to eliminate any horizontal wrist motion. Practice short chip shots using only vertical and rotational motions."
3. "You can only practice keeping the wrist flat using a non-automatic release. Get a crystal clear picture of your wrist being flat when your hands get over the left toe, and make it your primary swing thought. Don't worry about the 'how'."
4. "You can't keep your left wrist flat unless you have rhythm. And the best way to learn rhythm is to practice short chip shots using each of the three hinge actions."
I think it just takes a lot of practice doing the right thing - looking - using an impact bag, pillow case stuffed with rags, etc.
YODA HAS SOME DRILLS ON THIS SITE USING AN IMPACT BAG WITH DOWELS.
I have been practicing 3 months now daily with at least 100 shots on LW, trying to keep the left wrist flat. It's getting better . . . but I'm not prepared to say "mission accomplished." When I transfer the game to full shots is when I fear I have a breakdown.
Many here recommend the "tac-tic" as a means to let you know if your left wrist has bent. It makes a little noise when it bends. I alternate with the "wrist firm" which won't let the left wrist bend, to give you the feel of the firm left wrist. I also alternate with neither on the wrist.
per 2-G HINGE MOTION - Roll” is actually imparted by the turning torso and/or the orbiting Arms per 2-K#4 and 2-K#5 as described in 10-18. Practice these motions first with open Hands cause of the Flat Left Wrist, must always travel at the same RPM as the Arms and reproduce the Hinging inherent in the selected Lag Loading procedure (10-19) per 4-D, 9-2 and 9-3, regardless of Clubhead Extension velocity. See 2-P and 7-18.
For a Practice drill, Educate the Left Hand (5-0) to reproduce – with Zero Pivot – the three Hinge Actions, distinct and separate, while swinging continuously back and forth. First without a Club, then with a short Club, then with both Hands. Then, with increasing Pivot motion using the Right Forearm per 7-19. Learning only one Action isn’t so helpful because you won’t know their differences
HOWEVER . . .
In 4-D-1 THE FLAT LEFT WRIST he says "Take a very “short” Grip and practice swinging back and forth with the top of the Clubshaft against the inside the Left Forearm until you can hold the Wrist steady with a normal Grip. So – there must be the Flat Left Wrist." That's #1.
How To Practice The Flat Left Wrist: Homer's Own Answer!
And the answer is #5!
"Look at it. Just watch the damn thing. I don't know of any other way...because your hands will lie to you."
Congratulations to the 18 members (29 percent of the 61 who participated) who got it right!
Actually, all five answers should be incorporated into your program for learning this #1 Alignment in G.O.L.F. I recommend starting with Answer #1 (the Short Grip -- this one is in 4-D-1) and monitoring the action per #5. As soon as you can do this, move on to #4 and refine the motion to include your ability to execute each of the three Hinge Actions while keeping the Wrist Flat.
In his own teaching, Homer Kelley reached the point where he refused to go any further until the student could demonstrate that he could maintain a Flat Left Wrist through Impact. Why? Because, "Unless they can do that, everything else just adds to the confustion. Nothing works."
Rhythm of different hinge actions
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