This Has Been Mis-Taught For Years - The Real Way To Use Your Wrists In The Golf Swing

Excited to share this one with you and I just know that this can help so many. I'm a huge believer in making sure the golfers concepts are correct as i've worked with so many golfers who are actually trying to do the wrong after being given poor information, and in this video i cover one of those topics
I believe the hands and arms have been coached wrongly for a number of years and many golfers are seeing them as the cause of their bad shots or inconsistent golf, your hands, wrists and arms are your biggest tool when it comes to playing great golf, in this video I share with you how you should use them to your advantage.
If you are actively trying to take your wrists out of the golf swing or reduce how much you use them you are more than likely holding yourself back from playing your best golf, but not for much longer. I reveal the 3 ways that you need your wrists to work in order to create speed, power and accuracy.
As always id love to hear your thoughts so drop down into the comments and ask any questions you have
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00:00 Introduction
00:35 What The Wrists Do
01:45 Perfect Wrist Set
05:12 Arm Rotation
07:45 Wrist Flexion / Extension

[@joelbrooks814]

Excellent tutorial on how the Hack Motion device works and how it relates to the classic golf swing. Many Thanks!

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Thanks Joel 🙌

[@johnschwartz1536]

Excellent job Chris in explaining the proper movement of the hands, wrists, and arms in the swing! These movements are what I have been working on for a while now. I am seeing progress, but in changing one's swing, the process definitely is not "instant pudding!" Well Done Chris! Keep Up The Good Work!

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Thanks John, and yep swing changes are hard, but as long as you are on the right path they are worth it

[@lenardtan7169]

Great Advice tips

[@mikeb2377]

I must admit that I'm a bit of a sucker for all this smartphone technology, but I do sometimes long for the good old days when we used to watch the ball to see if it was a good shot or not.

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Tech is most definitely helping, I personally use both, I still observe ball flight and learn from that, but having the insights that something like HackMotion provides is priceless

[@johnmalonson4395]

great video Chris. Have you also tried out the deWiz aid that analyzes a variety of swing parameters? If so, any thoughts?

[@arthurford829]

Excellent tuition!

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Thanks 🙌

[@royclose946]

Well done Chris 👏 😊

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Thanks Roy 🙌

[@antiochiaadtaurum3786]

Excellent vid Chris

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Thanks 🙌

[@willb5556]

Thanks again for your brillant advice. One observation I would be glad you to comment upon: I think that while rotating the left underarm the right hand should still be lower to the ground a little bit until after impact. Do you agree?

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

The trail hand is lower on the grip, so yes will always be lower to the ground at impact and just after

[@johnhewlett2720]

Chris is some of the rotation also internal left shoulder controlling the forearm rotation taking the club too far inside on the takeaway?

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

The lead shoulder does internally rotate in the backswing as well yes, but if either are over done then the club can be too far behind you

[@harryhall3469]

Great insight. It seems you missed wrist set in the takeaway as it’s not dead vertical.
In the takeaways you need to take your wrist from your extension position & start the process of flattening the left wrist and extending the trail wrist. When you do the hammer the tee drill you’re maintaining 30+ degrees of extension (that’s going to massively open the face)
Just feel like you needed to add in that in the backswing wrist set is a blend of vertical & horizontal movements. That there means they blend to more of a 45 degrees angle.
That gives you the blend of wrist set & clubface control.
Great video though. Had a lesson on this with the hack motion and this is what I discussed in my lesson. Is ams aren’t great with the takeaway so thought it was important to say

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

Thanks for watching, the wrists and how they move could easily be a 2 hour video, I just wanted to try and keep it simple and explain the 3 movements, through the swing they all change, blend etc as you say
Tricky to cover all aspects without getting too deep and losing the viewer, but appreciate your comments

[@harryhall3469]

@@ChrisRyanGolf makes sense. Thank you for the reply Chris

[@davehoehl8442]

Does the left wrist work like a back handed shot in table tennis?

[@ChrisRyanGolf]

It may do…. But I’m afraid I’m not sure how the wrist should move when playing table tennis

[@tedblaikie1580]

As an Engineer who specialised in dynamics (kinetics when applied to golf) I can tell you the wrists do not store or produce significant power in the golf swing. They allow power (energy) to be transferred from the big energy producing muscles in the body to the club-head.
The way the wrists work determines how efficient this transfer mechanism and is, therefore as you correctly assert, critical to the amount of club-head speed produced.

[@justinstephenson9360]

Obviously most of the power has to come from how fast the grip end of the club rotates around the body which must be a function of the big muscles but surely the unhinging of the wrists moving from flexion to extension at the bottom of the swing adds a reasonable amount of speed?
With your background maybe you can answer a question which has always bothered me about golf kinetics. We always talk about club head speed at the bottom of the swing but we never talk about the club head acceleration at the point of impact. Why is the acceleration never considered important?

[@tedblaikie1580]

@@justinstephenson9360
The important parameter at impact is the club head velocity as this determines the momentum and kinetic energy that is available to be transferred to the ball and other things being equal how far it will go.
Measurements of tour swings show the club head velocity is increasing right up to impact (the club head is still accelerating).
An analysis technique called reverse dynamics indicates that after the start of the release some of the club head momentum/energy is used to unhinge the wrists. This means the wrists are acting to slow down the club head. In this phase the wrists act like rusty hinges - the more rust the more they slow down the club head. This is probably why top pros with oily wrists report that they feel their wrists do nothing through impact (difference between feel and real).
However, there is a second mechanism that is available to transfer energy/momentum to the club head during the release. This utilizes the hand path tangential component of the large centrifugal force acting along the club shaft during this phase. This mechanism more than makes up for the lost energy/momentum unhinging the wrists. This means the club head velocity increases (accelerates) right up to impact. Hope you find this as interesting as I do.

[@stephenross6944]

You need to be enstien to work this out

[@kship151]

I've tried hinging my wrists like this and I tend to shank it to the right for a righty golfer. It should be more of a flex in the right wrist like holding a serving tray