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[joeparr]

Mike at what point does the shaft pass the back of the lead hand?

[Michael Jacobs]

Mike at what point does the shaft pass the back of the lead hand?

Joe,
Great question!
As always it will depend on the player, in a well timed release it will happen just like Luke Donald's picture below. Also I put up a quick office explanation below:

[Mad Hatter]

Check out this video of Albert Pujols from the Home Run Derby in 2007, this might help some folks looking at it from another sport.

[joeparr]

This is what I dont understand, At impact is the left hand flat or bent? Is there a picture close up were the left wrist is bent or am I not understanding this ulner stuff? Mike explain it for me in detail(not up on this science stuff). Is the shaft in front of hands or behind at impact?

[Michael Jacobs]

This is what I dont understand, At impact is the left hand flat or bent? Is there a picture close up were the left wrist is bent or am I not understanding this ulner stuff? Mike explain it for me in detail(not up on this science stuff). Is the shaft in front of hands or behind at impact?

Joe,

Assuming the player has some decent strength, the left wrist will be able to keep up with the straightening right wrist. So a flat left wrist in and around the impact area is 'JUST A PASS THROUGH POINT' don't try and lock it flat on the through swing.

Hope that helps

{On a side note, there are some times where it is advantageous to feel like it stays "flat" on the backswing}

[Phana24JG]

Joe,
Great question!
As always it will depend on the player, in a well timed release it will happen just like Luke Donald's picture below. Also I put up a quick office explanation below:

Mike, please correct me if I am wrong, but until your explanation of the proper release, would not many have considered this a "well-timed flip?"

[joeparr]

Got it,now to complete what I`m looking for when the ball is hit is the shaft behind the ball or in front of ball? Now after the ball is hit and when the left wrist passes tru the ball does the left wrist bend straight back? And one last question, before the left hand hits the ball were are the left hand knuckles, facing the ground or to the target. Thanks mike for putting up whith my questions for I really want to understand this....

[Michael Jacobs]

Mike, please correct me if I am wrong, but until your explanation of the proper release, would not many have considered this a "well-timed flip?"

Phana,

Great question, some instructors might still say that. Even in my former days of TGM instruction I wouldn't have considered it a flip as the left wrist indicates, maybe we would have called it a non "HEAVY HIT." Technology has cleary disproved the TGM heavy hit concept. As for the "Release" concepts, they are very new to the industry. It was not until 2008 that the Resultant Path was discovered by Frederick Tuxen. The club face zoom in shows the real key to compression which is 'spin loft'

I zoomed in the picture to also show you the wrist conditions and club face. Obviously this a freeze frame of a moment in time post impact, but we can clearly see the left wrist is keeping up with the flattening of the right wrist. The stronger the player the more they are going to be able to 'keep up with it'

How have you been Phana? Snow up there?

[Michael Jacobs]

Got it,now to complete what I`m looking for when the ball is hit is the shaft behind the ball or in front of ball? Now after the ball is hit and when the left wrist passes tru the ball does the left wrist bend straight back? And one last question, before the left hand hits the ball were are the left hand knuckles, facing the ground or to the target. Thanks mike for putting up whith my questions for I really want to understand this....

Joe great question -- need everyone to really understand this so here is another office clip answer {i like those better then long typed posts}

[joeparr]

Thanks mike got it. I now have something to work on this winter. Oh just the last question. Were are the knuckles of the RIGHT hand JUST before the ball is hit? No video is needed for that one.