THE SECRET OF THE LEFT WRIST
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- Malaska Golf Member has a great question for Mike, and it is about how your left wrist works in the swing. There are many swing concepts out there, and some aren’t even close to what you should be doing.
Mike came from baseball to golf and used his baseball swing to hit a golf ball. Mike demonstrates how he swings and hits a baseball with his golf club. You can see what the left wrist does when he swings on the follow-through. You don’t twist your wrists at contact in baseball or other sports.
Mike equated hitting a golf ball to a low outside pitch. Mike demonstrates this. When he hits the ball, his left wrist is fairly flat, and on the follow-through, Mike’s wrist worked the same way it did in the baseball swing.
Mike rapidly got good with his golf swing and game at a young age. The coach at the time took a video of Mike’s swing and said his clubface was shut and that he had a flippy release. The coach said they had to get rid of that. He changed Mike’s grip and introduced a new swing concept: when you hit the ball, you rotate your left forearm and turn your wrists over with your left palm up.
Mike says that from then on and the rest of his career, he was never as good as he was in his late teens. Mike was winning everything back then, and it was really easy.
The ironic thing is that Mike, at age 69, is back to playing the way he did then and is now a more consistent ball striker than in his professional career. Mike attributes that to understanding how the hands work and controlling the clubface.
Mike says that your left wrist goes back and hits the ball, and then the club straightens your arms, and they fold up on the follow-through. You can see what the wrists are doing. Again, the wrists aren’t twisting over at impact.
Mike stresses the concept of hand action and release. Understanding this can either make your game easy or impossible to play.
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Always Simple and Concise! Great video!
Mike, I'm sure that this video has been an "eye opener" for a lot of golfers! Well Done!!!
Low and outside pitch. That’s a such a great feel to have when practicing golf. Thanks!
I really appreciate you slowing the swing down so we can good look at the actions of the wrists. Not many UA-cam instructors do that.
Wise words of wisdom and experience
Outstanding lesson video
Mr Malaska, thank you so much for posting your videos. I stumbled onto your videos last week prior to my first game of the season which was Sunday Apr 21st. You made so much sense with respect to the grip and the position of the left and right wrist. I have struggled with keeping the ball in the fairway and hitting greens for a number of years because i swung the club and turned the wrists the way you did with your old swing. Your new swing which I have tried over the past 3 days has been absolutely amazing for my game. I am hitting fairways and I am hitting greens in regulation (except for the odd shot which is caused by lack of concentration). Thank you so much - I have subscribed to your channel and I look forward to new postings. Cheers.
Excellent explanation!
Perfect Mike thanks.
Great explanation Mike. I see this action when I watch Freddy Couples swing.
Thanks Mike !
This is a very good video, and the most important part is what the wrists should not do. It is still taught by some teachers on UA-cam to turn the left wrist down to the ground, palm up, to close the club face. That is one way to close the club face at impact, but it is not the best way, and it leads to a multitude of problems. It is part and parcel of the wrong school of thought, back, blocked, and flipped golf swing strategy. That involves a thrust of the left hip, a slide, at the target and a crunch of the right lower back, stay back, which blocks the right side from going through with power, and requires a left wrist turn down to the ground to close the club face. Mike knows how to close the club face another way, the best way, the way that gives the golfer the the best golfing experience.
I missed this my whole golfing life. Thanks Mike
Thank You
Good on hand instruction. Not just talking.
LOVE IT!!!
I have just been doing this for a month or so and my ball striking has improved immensely. Way easier to get the club head square at impact and way less "timing" issues. Great observation!!! Too bad you didn't stick to your guns when you were younger. You coulda be a contender ...or a major champion!!!!
I pitched in baseball but was also a good hitter. Understanding what spin does to a ball in making it curve(fade, draw, stay in the air, etc) helped me in golf more than anything. This is why pitchers seem to be good at golf IMHO.
Hit a fade... Oh the ball is spinning too much that way...hmmm, how do I correct that with my swing.... 🤔😉
I played baseball in high school and was pretty good, that was 40 something years ago. I have always struggled with golf. I always thought there was a problem when people told me I was to handsy. Wish I learned this stuff 30 years ago
Ty
That is exactly what I was told. It threw me off for years!
Brilliant ❤
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I ask this, possibly out of ignorance, but I will anyway. What difference does it make, AFTER you hit the ball, what you do with your left wrist? By the time you release ( or roll) your wrist, the ball is long gone from the club face.
How do you combine this move with the Malaska move?
This is Wisdom (in golf)
Mike Is it the same hand action with a driver ... I'm guessing it is ? Franco
Id like a comparison of the the 2 best online instructors. Malaskas teaching of wrists is completely different from mike benders
I've done both. The difference is Bender requires you to "train the hands" which took me months of range practice to get the timing right. I took Malaskas stronger grip to the range yesterday and within 10 swings was throwing darts. I felt like i could swing the driver as hard as I wanted and it would be playable. Now I have to "unlearn" the compensations I was making before just to get the clubface square before so I don't over hook it.
Bender is sort of contradicting himself when he says to release the club when really what he teaches is to hold off or block intentionally. It takes a lot of talent to time that up right and turn your wrist down at the right time. When you don't, you block into the woods.
@@weldonwillifordrealtor thx for feedback. I’ve tried both. And malaska way just seems easier and more effortless
Words of wisdom indeed; but can you go a bit more in depth? Really appreciate the view from in front and as a visual learner would love to see you spend 10-20 minutes explaining the hand path(s) with views from in front, behind, face-on and if possible overhead. Thanks Mike.
Great, but doesnt explain what happens with each kind of wrist movement..i guess he hints it will be looked at later, but then i have to find it.
Hard to "see" the significance of that move that you demonstrate when it is occurring so long after the ball has left the clubface. I don't doubt that the "feel" for getting there is hugely relevant. Defining/describing the timing of that combo of the wrists flexing/extending and the forearms supinating/pronating will surely drive me nuts. Throw in some radial/ulnar deviation around that time and it *really* gets fun. Currently having "some" success with the simple "toe up" to "toe up" "feel" for this pronation/supination "thought/feel". Very happy to see that you've gotten it back.
After years of being backswing focused I have now worked on the after impact position (a teaching pro once told me "the backswing does not exist"). I'm amazed at how much it has improved my takeaway and backswing in general.
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About time that golf teachers started offering the COMPLETE alternative swing style system of Bryson DeChambeau. Most normal humans just can’t or have the time to master the traditional lower hand multi plane traditional system. Many older golfers are better off sacrificing some distance for more accuracy to enjoy and compete.
You asked for a comment so here it is
Thanks for the input
Whoever told you to rotate your left wrist that much should have been run from after the first comment. The left wrist shouldn't be rotated any more than vertical to the ground or 90 degrees. Over rotation is just as bad as throwaway. 🙄
if I try something new and it doesn't work I stop and try something different. you were on tour and stuck with it way too long.
Worst thing coaches have ever done in any sport is try to modify someone’s God given talents into their own and turn a winner into crap.
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Mike is a real nice guy and I have seen him go as far as even doing a video after a question I commented on in comments about hinge and hold. He also gives free videos here instead of making everyone join his teaching site. With over 100k subs, he may read comments but not have time to answer. Take the FREE videos and enjoy them.
Join his member site and you'll get what you're looking for.
@@maxwired2235 I did and didn’t get shit. But thanks for the reply.
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