Palm Up Palm Down. Let Your Forearms and Wrists Rotate in Your Swing

Maria Palozola of St. Louis Golf Lessons explains how your wrists and forearms should react and rotate to your pivot and centrifugal force in your golf swing. www.stlouisgolflessons.com

[@SafetySecondswithJames]

Dr. Dee Dee Owens taught me this 30 years ago, game changer!

[@4117117075]

Absolutely 💖 your videos I watch them darn near every day, your a great teacher of this silly game we all luv... it’s simple and it works 💪🏻👍🇺🇸

[@craigscott3133]

Heading out the practice now. This is foremost in my mind. Thanks!!

[@southpawjohnny5969]

Good demonstration 👍

[@TeddyCavachon]

Try gripping the club in the air with shaft vertical with elbows down and bent 90°. When lowered the forearms will counter-rotate and create a solid arm triangle and solid grip on the club without any muscular contraction. Starting out that way puts both forearms in the center of their range of rotation when gripping the club which results in the forearms rotating more symmetrically and predictably in takeaway and finish than when club is rested on the ground then gripped. Mechanically the golf swing operates like a Trebuchet. The “big picture” goal is to get the mass of the lead arm pinned up across the chest in the takeaway and start of the downswing so it will be able to fly down and towards the target in the downswing when the hip turn brings the lagging shoulders and lead arm back parallel to the target line. It is the mass of the lead arm acceleration down off the chest at that point which creates the force dragging the the hands and club head mass forward. The club head mass then whips around the hands lead arm primary lever around like the projectile in the sling of the Trebuchet. It’s similar to a three stage rocket in which firing the hips to drag the shoulders and pinned lead arm is the first stage, the mass of the lead arm accelerating down and forward off the chest the second and the whipping of the club down around the hands the second. The timing is controlled via side bending of the spine in the downswing and the release of the trail foot. Keeping the back foot grounded restricts the hip turn to 45° open which creates the “hitting the wall feeling”. It is that momentary abrupt slowing of hips and shoulders which causes the lead arm and club head masses to react by accelerating off the chest and around the hands very much like how and unbelted occupant in a car crash flies off the seat. Keep the trail foot down until feeling the lead arm accelerating off the chest then lift it slowly to keep the hips, shoulders and hands moving around the feet. Study Sam Snead’s swing for an example of how back foot should be lifted to trigger and control the kinetic sequence. 🏌🏻‍♀️😊

[@BOOGiNS]

Keep your top wrist facing your target thru impact unless you want to hook it.

[@stevenmurata4392]

My friend showed me this crazy bunker shot, where you close (not open) the club face 45°. I've tried it & seems to work better for me. Do you have any comment on this technique? Thanks. (Hope you don't think I've lost it.)

[@st.louisgolflessons5484]

Hey yeah sometimes we will close the face and even try to contact the tor to dig it out of a buried lie. When you make contact with a toe the face will spin open anyway. That may be what he was trying to show you.

[@zachadams4044]

Annnddd that’s how you hit a great snap-hook

[@BeefyPreacher]

Not at all. Lead arm supination is necessary. That’s probably why you’re no good.

[@chartreusecircle1546]

@@BeefyPreacher lmaoooo

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MILFria 😊

[@usa4x4trucks]

…and there it is. Really??? You have to go there??? Show some respect.

[@chartreusecircle1546]

@@usa4x4trucks I am.