Lever

I found a new lever yesterday. Or I should say I allowed myself to find it again.

I have been playing around with wide-narrow-wide with loose arms for the last couple of weeks and working on timing. I've gone away from pulling the chain for now but every once in a while try to mix it in. I've made some progress and also working on the constant struggle of turning my shoulders through and not lifting up. I've also been going back to the idea of flipping my wrists which I had gotten away from for the last few years in trying to get a body swing. Well I went back and looked at Hogan and Sergio and they definitely flip their wrists, the only difference is that it's way after impact. But they also have their right elbow bent at impact. So I set about letting myself flipping my wrists and getting back to that forearm over forearm feeling. In order to do that I had to abandon the wide-narrow-wide for now because I have a hard time keeping my left arm straight which is for me a big part of the forearm over forearm flip. Here is the before video.

The big difference this time compared to last time was that I combined it with a supinated left wrist. This had the effect of creating a whipping lever but with a closed clubface. So it allowed me to not have to time it as much with the flip and just turn my body into it and then let the wrists flip afterwards. This also had the nice effect of having my left arm on follow through not chicken winging. So my swing looked so much nicer. Here is the after video.

One swing thought is really keeping the left arm straight but keeping the wrists loose. This is hard. Another thing that seems to increase my power is to really try to keep the elbows together like how Ben Hogan says to imagine your forearms bound together with rope.