[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Originally Posted by drewitgolf Where to begin? Where to begin? Accelerating Radially and Longitudinally..... Which one? Making a horizontal wrist (grip) motion by trying to flatten the right wrist through impact..... Doesn't Mr. Kelley state (4-D-1) Hitters, especially, must learn to straighten the Right Arm without flattening the Right Wrist? Where to begin? Where to begin? Make your points, Drew. They are good ones. Let the dialogues begin!

It would be wise to replay the videos of Tomasello....he doesn't promote trying to flatten the right wrist through impact....what he tells you is this....even with your driving right forearm, if you "ALLOW" your left hip to keep clearing you won't be able to flatten the right wrist through impact.

A short quote from Tomasello's Golf Illustrated interview....

"Yes. The delayed hit is merely keeping the right wrist bent through impact".

DG

This should be in the Chapter Three / Hands thread, but I will follow the line of this one.

All I can say, DG, is that Monday I tried the exact motion he demonstrates...and I mean I sincerely tried -- even though I'm the original 'do or do not' guy -- but when I did the Flattening Right Wrist motion he demonstrated -- Hip Clearing and all -- the shots were far inferior to my normal Bent Right Wrist shots.

I personally find any hint of Right Wrist flattening -- particularly when demonstrated by an authorirty and accompanied by the words "Hit it! Hit it! and "Fire that Right Hand Out" and "Try to Unbend the Right Wrist...Undo it! Undo it!" -- to be an affront to my entire TGM being. Nothing against Tommy personally...that's just how ingrained the Bent Right Wrist training is with me.

Uncock the Right Elbow -- fine. Uncock the Left Wrist -- fine. Hit that Ball with a Bent Right Wrist and Pressure Points #1 and #3 in the Right Hand -- fine. But do not ever demo to a student a Flattening Right Wrist -- a geometrically-disastrous Horizontal Motion of the Wrist -- and say "Hit it! Hit it! Undo the Bend as you go through the golf ball. You won't be able to do it." I have news:

They are able to do it. In fact, they are already doing it, and it's why they are there!