The release & carpal tunnel

[Jwat]

Hey Mike,

Had a question about the CP release and how it applies to my carpal tunnel. I am 30yrs old and am an ex Div1 baseball player turned sit at a computer all day pro. Anyways, I have always had a hard time getting any sort of hinge or whatever the term maybe now. I know it isn't importmant with the new 1.68 findings, but i have zero angle. I do have mild carpal tunnel syndrom which is bad for someone my age. Has alot to do with all of the throwing and sliding I have done in my lifetime.

So with the new release which I am having great success with, on video looks like a cast even though it isn't. On the DS at hip level, my club head is halfway between the ground and my hands. Without writing a novel, would you incorporate anything into a swing like that? I am releasing the hands (closing the gap) pretty much at trasistion. I know its right and it feels good, but my ballflight has always and is even more now too high. I am still hitting it 300+ with the driver and the irons are always decent distance, but ballflight is almost uncontrollably high.

Should this be something to work on, or wait till the relase is second nature before working on another issue? Possibly a clubfitting problem?

Thanks for your time,

Jerad

[Michael Jacobs]

Hey Mike,

Had a question about the CP release and how it applies to my carpal tunnel. I am 30yrs old and am an ex Div1 baseball player turned sit at a computer all day pro. Anyways, I have always had a hard time getting any sort of hinge or whatever the term maybe now. I know it isn't importmant with the new 1.68 findings, but i have zero angle. I do have mild carpal tunnel syndrom which is bad for someone my age. Has alot to do with all of the throwing and sliding I have done in my lifetime.

So with the new release which I am having great success with, on video looks like a cast even though it isn't. On the DS at hip level, my club head is halfway between the ground and my hands. Without writing a novel, would you incorporate anything into a swing like that? I am releasing the hands (closing the gap) pretty much at trasistion. I know its right and it feels good, but my ballflight has always and is even more now too high. I am still hitting it 300+ with the driver and the irons are always decent distance, but ballflight is almost uncontrollably high.

Should this be something to work on, or wait till the relase is second nature before working on another issue? Possibly a clubfitting problem?

Thanks for your time,

Jerad

Jerad,

Great set of questions...

So the ball is flying too high??? Have you measured the height on a Flightscope or other 3D tracking device???

Sounds like you create a tremendous about of speed and you have increased the dynamic loft of the club at impact. It is very hard to say without seeing it, do you have any videos you can upload??

WHen you say the downing is at hip level, you are referring to your hands?? If the hands are lined up with your right leg its not a bad thing to have that club in the position that you have described. SO the big question is where are your hands at that point, in line with the right leg or back behind it?

The torque required to 'line the club up' if over zealous can end up ruining the timing of the strike.

[Jwat]

Jerad,

Great set of questions...

So the ball is flying too high??? Have you measured the height on a Flightscope or other 3D tracking device???

I believe it is flying too high especially for where I live off of the Gulf of Mexico where we have a consistant 15-20mph wind. I haven't been on Trackman in over a year so I can't back that up with true data. But I did get fit for some Edel wedges last month and the fitter was watching me hit my other clubs and said that the ball definitley was really climbing up my face. He fit me for some KBS C-tapers in my wedges and said that is probably the shaft I need instead of the PX 6.5.

Sounds like you create a tremendous about of speed and you have increased the dynamic loft of the club at impact. It is very hard to say without seeing it, do you have any videos you can upload??

This is one of my most recent swings. The shot had very good results and was one of my better looking swings on video. Sorry it is from the iphone though. The video is formatted with quicktime so if you can't tell from youtube I can email the video for slow motion.

WHen you say the downing is at hip level, you are referring to your hands?? If the hands are lined up with your right leg its not a bad thing to have that club in the position that you have described. SO the big question is where are your hands at that point, in line with the right leg or back behind it?

Yes I am referring to my hands and I think they are pretty lined up with my right leg. I am a natural underplaner and on trackman generally am 3-4deg inside-out

When you first released these new videos, I was shooting even par most days and then all the sudden kind of lost it for a couple of weeks. Then yesterday after warming up to play the last couple of balls I remembered to release the hands like I was casting a fishing pole behind me and automatically started striping it again. Before I was probably tugging the club like I always revert back to doing. I do have really fast hands from baseball and think all these years my hands were just way too far in front of the clubhead.

No one has ever taught me to get the clubhead catching up with the hands. And by no one I mean, top instructors for Harmon, Haney, and a couple of others. So I truly appreciate the information you guys have released. I haven't necessarily gotten as much distance gained as alot of the other golfers on BManz's forum but I have tamed alot of the misses right and left. So for that, thank you very much!

Jerad

[Michael Jacobs]

I believe it is flying too high especially for where I live off of the Gulf of Mexico where we have a consistant 15-20mph wind. I haven't been on Trackman in over a year so I can't back that up with true data. But I did get fit for some Edel wedges last month and the fitter was watching me hit my other clubs and said that the ball definitley was really climbing up my face. He fit me for some KBS C-tapers in my wedges and said that is probably the shaft I need instead of the PX 6.5.



This is one of my most recent swings. The shot had very good results and was one of my better looking swings on video. Sorry it is from the iphone though. The video is formatted with quicktime so if you can't tell from youtube I can email the video for slow motion.





Yes I am referring to my hands and I think they are pretty lined up with my right leg. I am a natural underplaner and on trackman generally am 3-4deg inside-out

When you first released these new videos, I was shooting even par most days and then all the sudden kind of lost it for a couple of weeks. Then yesterday after warming up to play the last couple of balls I remembered to release the hands like I was casting a fishing pole behind me and automatically started striping it again. Before I was probably tugging the club like I always revert back to doing. I do have really fast hands from baseball and think all these years my hands were just way too far in front of the clubhead.

No one has ever taught me to get the clubhead catching up with the hands. And by no one I mean, top instructors for Harmon, Haney, and a couple of others. So I truly appreciate the information you guys have released. I haven't necessarily gotten as much distance gained as alot of the other golfers on BManz's forum but I have tamed alot of the misses right and left. So for that, thank you very much!

Jerad

Jerad,

Happy to hear you are enjoying the instruction...

Watched the swing on youtube... can you tell me more about your left hand grip??? Perhaps an iPhone set of pictures of just the left hand grip from all views {especially the view of where it is positioned in the left hand}

If you send those, I can help you some more