Dart,

1) How exactly do you perform the frozen right wrist backswing?

• at what stage of the backswing does the left wrist cock?
• at what stage of the backswing does the right wrist bend?

3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of this procedure?

4) Would you recommend it?

Royshh,

You set it where you want it at impact and that is where it stays.

The left wrist cocks synchronously with the right elbow bend and the right wrist is frozen.

The advantage is in the simplicity which the body computer is sooo grateful for and rewards you with improved coordination and the feeling that this is too easy. The one I love.

I recommend it at least as your basic or “go to” motion. If you have not been introduced, despite it’s name it is warm and user friendly.

So it’s frozen bent right wrist. :)

I used this swing thought for a while and it really helped me hit some good balls. I just took impact fix, then held the same amount of wrist bend throughout. Poifect!

So it’s frozen bent right wrist. :)

Numbers,

Well – it is really worth while doing lots of work in this area for it is the equivalent to Flat Left Wist.

If you have time add an active right elbow and as an after thought add fore arm on plane, then you can take bets on your club championship.

Even if you fail this year, think of the odds you can get next year.

Here’s one I made earlier!!!!!!!

There is a good swing and if he stored it longer the finish would look more full.

But it’s windy over here Dart!!!

Hi Paul

It’s so true. And that’s one of the first things that you told me a few weeks ago- the on plane right forearm and the various right elbow possies. Not having bent and frozen right wrist (the right wrist doesn’t cock!) took some time to get into my coconut as one of my many faults was losing the bend too early. And you commented that once you lose it (not storing it), then you will never recover it.
My odds for the club champs next March are improving each day. :) Many thanks.

Numbers
Frozen bent wrist, can also happen when you live in melbourne that dam cold here, say hi to Dart for me
bio

But it’s windy over here Dart!!!

Ignore me. That was a great piece of golf swing construction. A model for anyone.

Bio, I know what you mean. It’s been kinda cold and wet in Sydney during the past few days as well. :)

For the sake of simplicity you can set the angle for the bent right wrist at Impact Fix. Hitters can make their backswing from there if they wished to. Swingers then ‘see’ the angle at Impact Fix before going back to an Adjusted Address and then reset the angle and freeze it there in the initial take away motion where the FLW is also established (which has to bend the right wrist back by definition).

Would it be worthwhile to practice hitting pitch shots with only the right arm, in a frozen, bent right wrist condition? Should it feel like a throwing motion? Also, when hitting , should I actively use my right elbow, and feel like I am striking the ball with it, or is that an exaggeration?

I find that I can take the right forearm (I’ll pretend I am a righty) past level with one hand and flush the ball. I am only able to because I now know the correct position of the frozen flat wrist at impact. So yes, I think it will help show you, as it certainly has helped me.

Dart,
I’ve really been focusing on the “foream roll” which seems to give me the Flat Left Wrist (actually Right Wrist because I am left handed)....and now this discussion has added another possibility…also what do you mean by “active right elbow”....Presume that is active left elbow in my case….where does that fit ??

Mr Consistency,
It seems like your a Fox Hills lad….and your also left handed, like me, any chance of a game with you ..up there..you seemed to have a real focus on TGM like most on this forum and would be great to meet you…

Dart,
I’ve really been focusing on the “foream roll” which seems to give me the Flat Left Wrist (actually Right Wrist because I am left handed)....and now this discussion has added another possibility…also what do you mean by “active right elbow”….Presume that is active left elbow in my case….where does that fit ??

Mr Consistency,
It seems like your a Fox Hills lad….and your also left handed, like me, any chance of a game with you ..up there..you seemed to have a real focus on TGM like most on this forum and would be great to meet you…

That would be a productive coupling.

Active trailing elbow means that it moves from a right angle someplace before impact to a straight line after impact. What we don’t want is for it to get straight before impact or stay bent.

If you can manage that with the trailing forearm pointing at the line a metre or two before and after, with a feel for the clubhead resistance alive in your body – you have arrived. Simply stay there for a year or two ‘till you get great.

got what you mean, thanks

Dart,
I’ve really been focusing on the “foream roll” which seems to give me the Flat Left Wrist (actually Right Wrist because I am left handed)....and now this discussion has added another possibility…also what do you mean by “active right elbow”….Presume that is active left elbow in my case….where does that fit ??

Mr Consistency,
It seems like your a Fox Hills lad….and your also left handed, like me, any chance of a game with you ..up there..you seemed to have a real focus on TGM like most on this forum and would be great to meet you…

Would be my honor. Might see you at Cumberland next week too. :-)

Active trailing elbow means that it moves from a right angle someplace before impact to a straight line after impact. What we don’t want is for it to get straight before impact or stay bent.

Did I read that correctly, that the right elbow is at a 90 degree angle until just before impact? Based on slo-motion video of pro swings, I always assumed the right arm was almost straight before impact. Misleading camera angles I suppose. I obviously have been forever struggling with throwaway.

Never is the right arm straight in a great players impact position. They are still going though the ball not at it.

Active trailing elbow means that it moves from a right angle someplace before impact to a straight line after impact. What we don’t want is for it to get straight before impact or stay bent.

Did I read that correctly, that the right elbow is at a 90 degree angle until just before impact? Based on slo-motion video of pro swings, I always assumed the right arm was almost straight before impact. Misleading camera angles I suppose. I obviously have been forever struggling with throwaway.

Not exactly. It’s at roughly 90 degrees at the top, trying to stretch out but held from doing so by the checkrein of the left arm. See Keep That Left Arm Straight in the Golf School articles, discussing Extensor Action.
From there it’s always trying to straighten until it’s finally straight at follow-through roughly two feet past impact. At impact it hasn’t fully straightened yet, there’s still some extensor action thrust in there.
The right arm cannot begin to straighten in the downswing until the hands leave the left shoulder. (typo alert: right shoulder)
Dart’s statement is from 90 degrees at the top, straightening until both arms straight in follow-through, fluidly.
Not 90 degrees just before impact.

Apologies for making you translate righty to lefty.

Loren

Did you definitely mean left shoulder, or did you really intend to write right shoulder (and made a typo)?

Jeff.

Heh. Durned right, sharp eyes. Typo. Right shoulder.
Thanks.

The ‘stoke’ was faster than the eyes – in joke.