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| The Backswing Magic Move |
By John Passolt
The way the right hand should move from the wrist in the early backward break—straight back toward the outside of the forearm, with no turning or rolling.
Fortunately, there is a cure for all this, a cure that is almost miraculous.
What is the magic secret?
The magic move that puts you on the right track immediately is simply this:
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Start the golf backswing with an early backward wrist break. Of course this sounds too simple to be true.
But it is true — and unless your swing is now everything that you want it to be, you will find out how and why this magic move is made.
The wrist break itself is simple enough, actually, though if you have been breaking in the conventional way you may need a little time to convince yourself of what is to be done and to make yourself do it.
Since the backward break is one of the key points in our system, let's be absolutely certain you understand what it is.
First, hold your right hand in front of you, fingers to-gether and extended, thumb up and the palm squarely facing the left.
From that position bend the hand to the right, trying to make the fingers, come back toward the outside of the wrist.
You can't get them anywhere near the wrist, of course, but a person with supple wrists can bend the hand back until hand and wrist form a right angle.
This motion of the hand, straight back, is the backward wrist break.
The standard wrist break is quite different.
Hold your hand again as you held it before.
Now, instead of bending it backward, bend it up, so that the thumb comes toward you.
That is the orthodox, accepted wrist break. Forget it.
You will get it eventually, but you don't want it now.
You will remember that the grip we stipulated was one which, at address, showed only two knuckles of the left hand and one of the right hand.
You will also recall that the right hand was put on the golf club so that the left thumb lay right down the middle of the right palm. This brought the heel of the right hand against the big knuckle at the base of the left thumb.
The Thumb Press
Yes, your thumbs play an important role in performing your golf backswing. Indeed, thumbs are essential for the entire golf swing!
To make the backward wrist break we merely push the heel of the right hand down against the big knuckle of the left thumb.
This is a downward pressure of the heel on the thumb.
When it is done, without moving the hands other wise, the right hand breaks backward at the wrist and the left hand breaks forward or inward, the back of the left hand going under and facing, in a general way, toward the ground.
How the backward break is made, with the heel of the right hand pressing down on the knuckle of the left thumb.
The back of the left hand begins to turn down and under.
. To be certain you are making the break correctly there is a perfect check point at this stage.
If you look at your hands you will see, if the break is right, one knuckle of your left hand and the first two knuckles of the right.
The left hand will be broken in, at an angle with the wrist.
Here is what you should see when you make the backward break perfectly — only one knuckle of the left hand but two knuckles of the right.
If the break is completed here, without letting the hands move away from their address position, the club will have been brought back and up until it is almost parallel with the ground.
How near it approaches the parallel depends on how supple your wrists happen to be.
Following our description of how the break is made, try it ten times.
If you don't soon get the feel of it, try it twenty or fifty times. But do it until you get the feel, checking yourself each time with the left-hand and right-hand knuckles and the angle of the face of the club.
This is a key move — the foundation of the golf swing — and you must do it right, get the feel of doing it right, and do it so much that it becomes automatic.
It is easy to practice, requiring very little room, and can be worked on indoors or out, winter as well as summer. Get it, and get it right.
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Posted on May 23, 2010 22:43pm by admin
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