Hey everyone, Shawn and Mu today, and Sav is playing in a tournament. And, we want
to show you guys that many of you have been told to stop the slice by doing something
like this with your wrist, right Palmer, flection, or bowing of the wrist. And for many of you,
it stopped the shots to the right, but you got no power still. And you're looking for
that extra power. Well, we'll show you a much better way to do things right here. Right
now. Stay with us.
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to give us more views. Right on. All right. Let's start with Mo here. And he's played
a little bit of tennis. Yeah. More of a football player than a tennis player. We all mess around
with other sports. You know, it's a lot of fun play with your buddies, you
Know, when I was young. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. So now
If we're going to do a nice power backhand in tennis, what would that look like here
All right? Show us that impact what it would look like. So you got a nice strong position
here with the hand right now. If we were to take the tennis racket and hold it neutral.
Okay. That's what they call it. The Western grip at one point. Yeah. And now if you want
it to do a topspin yeah. You would have to do this
That's right. Come through the impact like that. Right.
So for a big strong guy like you, that wouldn't be too bad. But if I pushed here, do you feel
like that risk kind of feels compromised, feel tension, right now. Okay. Whereas what
they're doing now. Yeah. There we go. So look at the difference. Now notice how it's like
punching and that direction. that's a good Analogy. Yeah. And notice where the racket is now.
Doesn't that feel like you could not only stop the tennis ball nicely but really send
it back with a vengeance?
That's right. I got a nice release through exactly. So
That's where we're looking at now. If you were playing baseball. Okay. Show me impact
with baseball. Okay. Now I swing the other way though. That's all right. Look. Yeah.
Yeah. That's true. That's the same powerful position.
Would You ever play baseball like this? No, you'd get that. The wrist ripped off. So there
has been a lot of, risk injuries on tour, a lot of risk surgeries. And the more you
bow it, the more compromised you are. There are only a few select players that can really
play that way. Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Graham McDowell, even Brooks has had wrist
surgery. Right. I can't tell you if it was because of that. Yeah. But this to me is a
very compromised position. And as a full-time teacher, it's much easier to do a stronger
grip. Now, if we look at the best example is hammering, right. So if you were hammering
a nail on top of that. Yeah. Yes. So notice you've got your radius, you all know how they're
stacked, right It's a very, very strong position for the arm. So if you do a karate chop versus
a slap.
Okay. Right. Yeah. So now if you wanted to hammer this way. Okay. Yeah. Look at that.
Do you see what Mu's did? Notice how we turned the hammer underneath now the radius and the
owner are in a position to compress nicely in that direction. Right. So if you're going
to put both hands on the hammer, like if you're playing golf. Okay. Yeah. We'll do it back
toward the camera. Go ahead and go straight down. Okay. Right. Put the other hand on.
Alright. Exactly. So Mu notices both snuff boxes are on top. This would be considered
a neutral grip. Okay. Just two knuckles on this side right now, if you were going to
hammering this way, look what merges did. So notice radius all now on both arms ready
to compress this way. Yeah. What people tend to do is this is them hammering down.
They're going to do this to try and play golf with, right. So notice how this is really
open and what happens when I'm coming through, let's say thick, rough, dense, rough. And
you got all this pressure up against the hand. Then you, you're getting a compromised lead
arm. And many of you are struggling through the golfer's elbow because of that. So if
we put you in dynamic alignment with your anatomy, then you're in a much stronger position
in relation to the target. Look at Bubba Watson, look at Webb Simpson, look at Paul Azinger
so many strong grippers out there on the PGA tour, way more than neutral grippers. Okay.
So there's a secret to what's going on. That's right. Yeah. And so that's why with both you
and Sav and then you'll see, I'm putting a nice little picture of Sav right next to
us right now.
She's with us, of course. But you look at how strong that grip is of hers and it's,
it's, you know, we've had a lot of comments about that and they're thinking that that
grip is a grip to snap hook. And for a lot of players, they think, okay, I'm going to
hook a lot with this grip, but they're not in relation to the target there in relation
to the ball. So if you've got this grip and you go after the ball, obviously you're going
to close the face prematurely. Yeah. And then you end up hooking the shot. Right. So you'll
notice while I'm performing right here. some shots on the, on our Rapsodo. If I have a
neutral grip, like I just showed you with a square face and I'm swinging toward the
target, you'll notice my shot is gone way off to the right, because there's no way for
me to square that up unless I really bowl my wrist.
Right. Dorsey flexes my trail hand and Palm flexes my front hand that re that's a, it's
a very, compromised position when you overdo it. And then I'm going to have to add some
body language to that to make sure I don't lose my shot off to the right that's right.
So, and then you'll notice if I overdo it if I close it too much. So I've got a strong
grip and I'm closing it too much and you'll see how those shot goes off way lower and
curves a lot to the left and then in between. So what we're looking for is the ability to
find the target, right So when we're, you know, if you're playing tennis or if you're
playing baseball, here's your club there and move. Thank you.
I'm closing the face. So the way we're going to do this is we're going to close the face.
Then take the grip. This grip is nice and round for a reason. So when I'm, you know,
close the face, then grip. So if I continue closing, notice how my grip never changes.
See that I can do a full 360 in my hands and notice my I'm still with my, you know, hammer
that way arm position. So now the deal is the targets over there. So we're collecting
the ball from where it is, and we're releasing it into that picture. If I am dynamically
or sorry, statically squared, dynamically open, look what happens. So every instrument
known to humanity has been designed to handle. First in mind, if I had a machete in here
and I was cutting through a bamboo shoot, well, I wouldn't do that. Notice how lead
I get to the ground.
I'm using the ground to get the body out of the way the elbow leads. Then the hand, then
the blade, then the tip of the blade. And then the tip of the blade catches up to my
hands over here. So peak speed is out there and I'm doing the same thing with the golf
clubs. So imagine you've seen this go to my, video, entitled grass whip training, and we
show you how to close the grass whip there as well. So we get through, so we closed the
face and now we're swinging through. So notice when the hands lead, the clubface is square.
If the hands don't lead, the club faces closed. So if I release at the ball down here and
to make the ball, my target, I get the hook. But if I release the target changes everything.
So let's look at it, I'm going to get an intermediate point here. I'm going to hit a draw from the
blue post back to the red post.
My intermediate point is right. They're going to the red post set up to that, play the ball
of smidgen back in my stance. And now I'm going to swing to the right of that intermediate
point. Now, for many of you who tend to slice the ball, if I were to tell you to swing from,
in to out, you'd think I'd had a screw loose because you know that shot's not coming back,
right It's like, self-sabotage, it's going straight into the trees, right So if your
face is too open, you'll swing out to the left. You'll come over the top and make sure
you don't lose it to the rights you're going to start it to the left. So it can fade back
to the center of the fairway. But because my clubface is closed enough, that shot starts
off just a hair right of the red flag and has drawn right back onto the red flag.
And that was absolutely compressed. I don't know if you heard the sound of that, but that
was right in the center of the clubface right there. And the ball just rockets off the face.
When the face is closed enough, it slides off the face. If the face is too open. So
if you feel the ball sliding off the face doesn't, there's probably nothing wrong with
your swing. You're just starting with a clubface that's way too open, to begin with. And there's
only so much that you can do with this. If you did it since you were this high and you've
been playing golf your whole life and your body has adapted to that, that's different.
Like there's no way I'd go see Dustin Johnson right now and tell him to change his grip.
That would be crazy. So what we do instead, you know, for most of everyone that's been
listening, you've been playing golf, you know, for a certain amount of time in your adult
life. And you already have a lot of things in the bank that you've already been doing
very naturally.
Like you wouldn't hammer nails like this. Would you look at the position that my hand
is taking very solid There's my snuffbox bang? This is not a cupped wrist. This is an anatomically
functional wrist. If I'm going fishing, right. Mu you fish. It was a fisherman. Yeah. So
you're loading on that snuff box and releasing the fishing rod out there. If I released the
fishing rod farther, well, there's your tennis serve. Notice that beautiful release. So when
you're doing a tennis serve, it's here right on that. Snuffbox and it's the same thing
with baseball. You would never see this in baseball. I mean, you'd get your wrist blown
right off. So there is that. So when I'm coming through, notice the position of that lead
hand, it is mega solid, mega strong, and that's what we're seeing in tennis in their backhands.
Okay. So the first thing you want to do is close the face, take your normal grip.
Then what we're going to do is we're going to get your wrist to properly set properly
hinge. So have a look at all our grip videos. We have the most important video on grip ever.
And then you're going to see the best video on grip error, right So it shows you how to
put both hands together. You got an umbrella, there's a nice solid umbrella. And then you've
got that kitchen knife. So you see the knife, the grip, Sean Clement. So we got a super
nice grip with a nice set of the wrists. So if we get a nice set of the wrists with a
dynamically square face, statically closed face, then we're going to be able to whip
that sucker out there toward the target and never have to worry about where the ball is
going to go. So let's have a more ground Yeah. It stayed straight. I hit left at 2
32. Well, it wasn't carrying that yesterday. No, no. It was like 215. Wow. Two 20 by I'm
staying along the ground a lot better today. Lower longer. Yeah. Oh yeah. I was 221 carry
that had a lot of air on that one.
All right. Yeah. So how about them Apples Huh? 221. Yeah. The other one was a little
more of a, got a little, a little bit of a flyer we're a little bit in rough right here.
Yeah. So, but that's, that's how you do it. That's how strong you stay with your anatomy.
So if your anatomy is lined up properly, you're going to hit very powerfully, very effortlessly
powerful shots. The last thing you want to do is strain the muscles in your forearm or
the tendons in the forearm that matter because that leads to really nagging stuff like tennis
elbow or golf elbow. And, and it's really not going to help your performance as far
as power is concerned. Unless of course, you're Dustin Johnson in which we apologize for this
video, all the best. See you next week.