Malaska Golf // Smash Bag Drill: Use Your Instincts to Simplify Hand & Wrist Movement in Your Swing
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- It's funny how instructors teach players unnatural movements in the name of "golf." Trust your instincts. This simple drill with a stick and a smash bag can help give you a better understanding for how your hands and wrists work through the ball.
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You want to talk giving back to the game, what a blessing this man is
Out flippin standing as usual Mike. Your suggestions for feels and concepts, as well as your rational approach are a tremendous help. Thank you.
Mike - no words are enough to thank you for making golf fun and natural. I was doing wrist rotation for years and got frustrated. Golf is fun again!
Wow! This might be the greatest golf tip I have ever had! Thank you, Mike!
I am 68 years young. I have tried the Single Plane, Stack & Tilt, Mike Austin swing and the A' Swing to name a few. They all have some helpful elements but I did not find the consistency I needed. Mike Malaska's L to L swing and how the hands work revolutionized my game. I used to shoot in the 90's. Now I am between a 12-15 handi-cap. The ball is rocketing off my club straight down the middle. Average drive 240-260. Hit a couple of 300 yrd. bombs! BTW, the chipping video where you tilt your left shoulder down and hover the club over ground has eliminated fat and sculled shots. Thanks MM! I am finally playing golf, not just playing at it!
You da man Mike! I’ve made tremendous improvement in consistency in the week since I found your channel.
MIKE- I play golf one handed with my left hand only. This is the best articulation of how i play great golf . Thank you
Another gem from the best internet golf coach! So much of mental game.
Hi Mike your videos through lockdown have transformed my game and I’m hitting the ball better than ever. Handicap on the way down and I’ve recommended your channel to so many people. I can’t thank you enough. More relaxed, less shoulder and back issues. Pleas keep them coming.
Our golf courses just open again fr a 3 months c19 lockdown...after a long break... initially attempt back at the range n course felt weird as the tempo and rhythm was all haywire... topping... duffting... hooking...flipping, you name it... I really felt like a beginner although I usually make sub 80.. but due to the great master Mr Malaska's many videos which has gave me a good understanding since the first lock down in March 2020... I manage to get back to my usually game pretty quickly... thank you again Malaska for all the great swing toughts and super logic explanation. ( especially on the downswing where the club head should be infront of me rather than falling backwards and the pivot points... ohhhh that move is so critical)
Just so good a lesson👏👏we all get lost now and again with this crazy game 😁
Best one yet, for me. I knew there's a natural motion in there somewhere! This is the first video that allowed me to make the connection. Thanks Mike. 👍👏
Merci Monsieur Malaska! My game is getting better and better since I watch your videos !!
Unbelievable. An ah ha moment for me. Help me understand the wrist work trough impact and release. Thanks a lot Mr.Malaska.
Thanks Mike for sharing with us your long experience of golf teaching. MERCI from Belgium
You are right on. I believe we need to keep the mind out of the swing and allow our body-mind connection.
Brilliant videos. I was close to calling time on golf due to a snap hook with the driver, after watching a few of Mike's videos I cured the snap hook and was striping drives down the middle of the range.
Excellent video. Thanks for posting it. As an extension of this drill, I have also been hitting balls using the driver with only my left arm. There is pretty much only the natural way to do that too. Then my drives using both arms are getting more solid and going farther and farther.
I love it Mike ,, can't make it any simpler, I think.iam correct saying this because it happens to me everytime I swing ,if you come into impact at the ball with your grip proper and on the right plane,arc, your hands do that automatically without doing anything to them ,, iam never thinking about that part of swing because it's happens Naturally!! Thanks Mike I love uncomplicated Teaching!!
nice job Mike
That was explained just right and with the proper item, we’ll done
Lol, Mike. It is simple. Just like I learned from myself when I was 5. Now that I've unlearned the other crap my game is better than it's been in years. Thanks in part to your channel and member site which every golfer should join but.... Only if they want to get better 😁
Mike, thank You so much for all these great videos! They are really amazing. Maybe one day You could do one on the basics of bunker play. Thank You very much!
Spot on as usual Mike.
Pure Gold!!! Thanks Mike!
This reminds me of the old Rug Beater drill... excellent drill. Give yourself a task.. give up control of the clubface. Oily wrist as sam snead said..
Nice explanation, and it is something I can understand and grasp when doing up to half swing… then thing become more fuzzy hope to see other great video like this simplifying and made easier to understand where to be across the entire swing :-)
Great explanation and demo!
I have been playing with my "Elbows" its amazing, also the setup using the elbows is so easy.
Well explained Mike
Thanks! I struggle with my left hand grip. This video clicked for me.
Wow this is really cool stuff….. why was this not taught 50 years ago when I started this…game
This is one beautiful piece of instruction...
Thanks,
William
100% agree with you Mike. I’m new to the game. However, why do you need the left thumb on the shaft. I play better with it around the shaft. Do you hit something with your thumb on the stick? Cannot find an answer. Very keen to find out why.
Brilliant!
K.I.S.S. Thanks Mike, great advice and drill!
great advice!
Awesome!!!
Henry Cotton would be proud of you Mike
A success story: For what it’s worth, I am about two weeks into my conversion to the Malaska method and tho I keep doing the smash bag drills and other suggested drills, but I have struggled with trying to stop rolling my wrists to and thru impact - until a couple days ago. Found a simple fix that works for for me. Instead of “coiling” my right index finger around the grip I extend it diagonally down the shaft. After tipping the shaft at start of downswing it’s now unnatural to roll my wrists and instead I automatically get the hands working the way Mike calls for. Wow! Contact is now SO crisp! And I “feel” my index finger behind the shaft versus around the shaft. Any thoughts on whether this will eventually cause other problems?
I already changed my grip thanks to other videos from Mike but this one is for me the most straight forward on the why, what, how 😊
But, now with such a strong left hand, I have the impression that I have way too much of forward shaft lean… I know it is difficult without any picture or video, but I think I was quite too symmetric, in my grip, ball position maybe too much in the middle and not really feeling any tilted spine: so I could obtain a “normal” shaft lean by combining a ball closer to my front foot, half of my pectoral I would say and with a bit more of tilted spine, but I am a bit scared to compensate flaws with new ones :/
Any advises?
Damn Mike. That's a great explanation.
Extremely simple
The back of the left hand, what angle is it at when compared to the target line when contact is made? Back of left hand meaning where the golf glove velcro's together. Almost looks like its at a 90 degree angle to the target line when hitting the impact bag. Surely i am mistaken
As my P.G.A. golf pro boss, 1935 British Ryder Cup player Ted (E.W.) Jarman told me, "it's the wris's what doos it".
KISS( Keep It Simple Stupid) Thanx Mike as you often said Its “Not Rocket Science”. To often I overthink what I am trying to do which leads to a whole array of swing thoughts instead of just letting it happen naturally.
My main point of confusion is in the follow through. Mike says not to rotate your forearms, but when I let my left arm hang naturally and grip the club, I have a strong grip that requires forearm rotation in the follow through in order to fully release the club. Otherwise it feels like I’m going to hyper-extend my left wrist and hurt myself. Even in this video it looks like Mike rotates his left forearm in the follow through, so I’m confused on his whole “don’t rotate your forearms” instruction. Holding off the rotation until the follow though seems like a solution, but that also adds too much timing and seems hard to do at full speed. Any clarification is welcome.
Just let the clubhead rotate naturally through the impact zone. If you have minimal tension in your arms and hands, the clubhead will rotate counterclockwise naturally, as it is designed to do. Now just sync up your body rotation with the clubhead release and you’re off to the races!!!
The left arm rotation happens after impact not coming into the ball and it’s the whole arm not just the hand. Traditional teaching says close the face coming into the ball 👍🏻
@@BOBPERIO2 It seems that I have the same problem that Saad describes. My problem though I think comes from playing with a weaker grip and trying to release the club through impact which results in a pulled shot to the left. The same thing that Mike describes in this video.
Great Video, but you never talked about a loose wrist , which you must have. I and many other golfers are too tight in the wrist to let the club release.
There is only one question I can't fully answer to myself. How does the hand & wrist movement in this video combine with the L to L movement. I would really appreciate someone giving me an explanation to that question.
Mike, you are making the game too easy. Taking all the mystery out of it. You keep this up and everyone will be on tour and nobody will be around to fight fires, fix my teeth or take out the garbage.
Let's cut to the chase here. Just tell me how to win the U S Open, and Master's. Is this it? If not, please show me in the next vid. I'm getting old so I don't have time to screw around.
Collin Morikawa watched this video Wednesday night .
My neighbors are going to think I’ve lost my mind, even more so than usual.
Your hedges are going to get trimmed
The modern age ruined the game.. thx for keeping it simple.
As I see it you turn over your right arm over the left and supernate the left hand. Thats not the way you use to teach. Am I wrong?
Instinct either helps me hit great drives or iron shots , but the next day it feels like someone stole swing , and not the one the kids play on .
Ben Hogan said that the swing is unatural..and when Ben speaks
Hogan said a lot of things that have been proven to be incorrect with trackman and the like. He also often said he felt like he was doing things that he was not actually doing in his swing.