Hey everyone, Shawn Clement here, Wisdom in Golf. And we're gonna be talking about
when do you actually hinge the wrists in the swing
and when should they unhinge in the downswing. And so many of you are trying to do this manually
where you actually do this completely naturally if you've got the right focus. So I'm gonna show
you two very easy drills to get your awareness as to when gravity actually does it for you.
And then all you gotta do is plug that feel into your golf swing. Stay tuned.
So let's just reconfirm on how the wrists do hinge. If this was a fishing pole and
I was going fishing, notice it would hinge on what we call the anatomical snuff box.
So if I was to cast this fishing pole very far towards you, notice it would hinge
and then it would release towards you. Notice it would just like a tennis serve, I'd have to
dissipate the energy and it'll re hinge on the other side. So if this was a sword and
I was slashing a sword through a bamboo shoot, you notice there's my hinge release through the chute,
there's the re hinge, so that now I can release through that bamboo shoot on the other side so I
can be a really good guide in the jungle and be very productive with my slashing.
If you have your own household hammer, you got no room in the house to swing, grab a household
hammer, you understand that you're going to allow that hammer to hinge on that anatomical snuff box.
You're not going to hammer efficiently this way unless it's a small nail that you want to tap in.
This is where you gather your best energy. So if I'm gonna hammer a nail toward the target,
notice now how I'm hinging. There's my nail. And then beyond the nail, I can't hang onto it.
This built up energy here on my snuff box is going to release and reh hinge
on the other side. Now I can hammer that way, watch hammering that way. Release,
see how it folds and hinges out of the way. Hammer that way. Hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer. So you
can really see how gravity has a hold of my hammer and I'm allowing gravity to place me.
Well, that's exactly what you're gonna do in the golf swing. So you turn it upside down,
you give it a couple of sword slashes, and you notice that right hand is gonna be releasing.
That means that the lead hand has to get out of the way and yield. So when I hinge in the
backswing with that one, notice if I don't hinge the wrists, I got a force. If I don't hinge my
wrist when I'm fishing, well, I'm gonna have to shove like crazy. That's not an efficient
movement. I would never hammer nails this way. So there's a very distinct hinge on that anatomical
snuff box. That's a medical term. Look it up. Okay, so as I'm releasing, the lead arm is going
to release out of the way, the best way to feel that baseball. So you take your baseball bat and
you're waiting for the pitch notice, you're waiting with that lovely hinged position,
and you're gonna release the bat. So notice as I release the bat on the, on the other side,
there's impact, there's the ball coming off the bat and there's the release of that bat.
If I hang, this is a check swing. You can maybe let go. You'll see a lot of ball players do that
when they're a little off balance, but the the really, you know, technical hitters are going to
be very powerful without letting go of the bat. And there's a full release in there for you. And
that's exactly the feel in the release that we want to experience in the golf swing. So now when
does that hinge Cuz in baseball you're waiting for the pitch. It's already hinged back there.
So we go to our grass cutting device. You're gonna go check out grass whip training Sean
Clement on YouTube, on our premium channel, it's the same thing. Grass whip training.
And we have the two down the line and face on views of that. And you'll notice that there's,
you know, teeth on both sides. So if I'm gonna hold it out here,
just like a baseball bat, there's my release as I'm coming back, they're the hands coming back.
Then the, the shaft. And then notice how that trail alarm is extending. As it does,
it starts to square off the blade. So I'm actually sawing through as it's squaring up
and then release, then it folds. Now I'm coming through again. Notice my hands come through,
then the shaft, then the, the heel of the blade, then the toe of the blade. So it's release,
release, release. Can you see where gravity's grabbing a hold of it now So if I just swing
back and through and I just let it cut grass in both directions, here come the hands release
hinge. The hinging is extremely important because that's what's gonna levitate the arm club unit up
my ribcage and put me on plane so I can release and re hinge on the other side. You want to
know if you're on plane or not Simple, simple. Just cut grass in both directions. Let it cut.
So when you look at this in slow motion, you'll notice that the human anatomy is perfectly
conceived to release in both directions. Whether you're releasing a tennis racket or a sword or a
baseball bat, or a grass whipper, a golf club, it's all the same. And it's all the same in so
far as the efficiency and the self-preservation of the anatomy is concerned. So if you just swing
back and through without stopping and just pay attention to where gravity wants to place you,
I, if I hold on to my trail arm way too long, well that's gonna delay my hinge. So if I go
delay, I'm, you know, some of you're trying to go wide into the backswing,
you've been told that you're too narrow, you hinge too early and you're all bunched up.
If you're hinging too early, you're trying to hit a golf ball.
And then if you hinge too late, then you start getting pushed out of position. So I
really don't recommend that you are the person consciously thinking about when you're going
to hinge those wrists. That's a disaster and a sabotage in the making. None of your business,
you're already Pinocchio without the strings and you're a gravity
flipping genius. So we're just gonna let gravity place us. Release, release, release
from the follow through release into the backswing. You'll feel the right
hand release under the left hand for a right-handed player, right about here at
four o'clock if if six o'clock is the bottom of the clock and 12 o'clock is over your head,
we're looking at eight o'clock on this side,
four o'clock on this side. So notice, release and re hinge so that it, you're able to slow down
the swing without hurting yourself. So release hinge, release, hinge, release, release, release,
release, release, release,
release, release, release, release, release, release, release, release,
release.
Look at how powerful that is. Little seven iron right here.
I've got the, the green, the flag set up at 190 yards. And look at the burst of speed there,
196 yards. And we're looking at ball speeds in excess of 130 miles an hour with a seven iron.
So the speed that you get out of the hinge of these wrists is uncanny. So there are two enemies
to your golf swing. One is control. Don't try to control when or where the wrists are gonna hinge.
You. Let gravity hinge them wherever they want to be hinged
and you don't want to force them to unhinge. You'll notice that when we do the sword slash the
beginning of the slash the beginning of the cut would be here, end of the cut released where the
tip of the sword catches up to my hands out here. That's where you're going to feel the peak speed
of the swing. There's 30 yards difference between at the ball and through the ball
there. So I want to feel like I'm already back and through without stopping. I'm already in my follow
through. You'll see the long drivers. Notice how they, they do all that stuff. Well it's,
they're just trying to feel like they're already in that perpetual motion swing so that they can
Get themselves some momentum. So I just want to feel like I'm in my follow through backswing snap.
So without the hinge of those wrists, I can't get that snap, get in. Oh man, how cool is that So
when you let gravity place the club, wherever it wants to be placed, you get accuracy and power.
Now stay with me. I got one more drill to show you and for many of you, it's gonna be an absolute
Savior to your swing technique, okay So stay with me, me.
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I was telling you about is the super slow, super relaxed, super wide backswing. Okay, check it out.
I always have an intermediate point to help me find my direction. So when you're doing back
and through without stopping, you'll observe down there, don't let your eyes move. Just observe the
blur that passes over the ball. And you'll notice the blur forms a natural arc shape.
So I'm just gonna let this arc follow through over that intermediate point.
That's how I set myself up to the target. So if I'm gonna do a super slow, super relaxed,
super wide backswing in that direction, it's gonna look like this super slow, super slow.
Yes, that's going that way. No, that's going way left. No, that's going way right,
that's going right edge, keep going. Super relaxed. So notice at this point here,
if I don't let that lower body immediately follow, here's what happens. My rib cage is tight. I
already have so much tension built up in my rib cage, I'm actually getting a a muscle cramp versus
very relaxed. See how the lower body's gotta follow
And then right here is the critical point of the right arm trail, arm folding. If I stay straight,
oh my rib cage getting tight again. I'm getting a kink over here, I'm getting thrown back
toward the target. I'm doing a little reverse pivot. So the trail arm is gonna have to fold
super slow, super relaxed up right there. And now when the trail arm folds, the wrists hinge right
there. And then from there, wow, this feels so relaxed. I can just let momentum release through
and you're going, wow, that was crazy good.
I hit that well in excess of 180 yards. Look at that. 180 yards, 195 total, right Probably,
you know, the greens are soft. Be 180 5 couple of hops. So you can see without the wrist hinge,
Ugh,
Really difficult, very tight. How am I gonna whip from here There's no way. And now if I
keep going, ugh, I'm getting outta position. And you're not aware of that because you're
trying to do something with your wrists over here and you're not aware that you're getting
completely unplugged from your golf shot. So that way, super slow, super relaxed that way.
Man, that was so flush. And you see the energy that I have is so bountiful. Not
190 yard carry seven iron, okay And that's 57 years old. I'm in my 58th year. So
I feel the weight of my arm club unit. I see the direction I want to go in, I go super relaxed.
And even then, , look at that, still on the green.
You gotta love it. You know when the guys on tour let go of the club and they go, that was terrible.
And then, hey, I'm only 25 feet to the right of my target right there. So I hope you enjoyed that
as much as I did. That was so much fun to perform. It's so easy. And when you really allow gravity to
place you and you're just along for the ride and you're just feeling where gravity wants to place
you, things get really simple. Very easy as long as you've got a nice direction that you're going
to release into. For those of you who are on our premium channel and you're struggling to keep the
ball in, play it, it's kind of leaking to the right on you. You want to check the, you know,
important grip update to make sure that face is closed enough and that you've got the feel of
that release. So look at all the release videos, the lead hand release, the trail hand release,
the release, fine tuning the snap release polish, and then the turbo charging of the lead hand and
trail hand release so that you, you know, cuz once you feel how these, the how gravity releases your
club, you can now tune in with the legs and have incredibly responsive ground forces that are gonna
turbocharge this phenomena. Okay It all goes super well together. So stay with us. See you next week.