By: Charles W. Boatright
Wrist Action in the Golf Swing- Mini Golf Swing- What Charlie Rymer called ‘That Wrist Thing‘ that is performed in the Golfer’s Strike ZONE
David Duval was interview by Charlie Rymer, with Golf Channel, where David Duval demonstrated a series of golf shots involving preset technique wrist action in the golf swing. Charlie Rymer was so impressed with David Duval’s wrist action in the golf swing that Charlie referred to this wrist action as That Wrist Thing. The golf swing sequence of presetting the wrist action in the golf swing sets up 90 percent of the golfer’s swing sequence within the Strike Zone.
This is the Mini Golf Swing that I’m referring to, or the golf swing inside of the golf swing. This Mini Golf Swing is established with two (2) natural and simple muscle maneuvers. This Mini Golf Swing was also what Ken Duke, a PGA member and fellow Arkansian, was demonstrating during an interview with Lisa Cronwell, another Arkansian, that was very effective even for older golfers, like myself, over the age of 60. You can still maintain Power and Clubhead Speed over the age 60. As you will see below, I’m still hitting 300- yards drives with this Mini Golf Swing Technique.
This Mini Golf Swing consist of the Sync/Preset maneuvers that is described and illustrated in The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique. This also syncs the elbows with the shoulders, a technique that Arnold Palmer was instructing President Eisenhower to perform before a PRO-AM that they were about to play in for charity Arnold Palmer gave the president before a Pro-Am.
The Mini Golf Swing- Breaking Down the Sync/Preset Elements
The Sync Element
The main objective for a right-handed golfer, in this case, is to use their right wrist to Sync, or what is called Palmerflex maneuver, or CAMMING. Some would describe the CAMMING Maneuver as a hinge action, like a pitcher is using preparing to throw a baseball.
The Preset Element
The left wrist is Presets, what is called Pronation maneuver, or CAMMING-OVER. This action is like preparing to swing a tennis racket back with your left wrist to hit a low serve on your right side. Both these maneuvers allow the golfer to sync the right elbow with the shoulders to gain a tremendous mechanical advantage, as shown below in Figure No. 1, and above in the featured image. This allows the wrists, forearms, and arms to synchronize with the shoulders, upper, and lower body. If there is one theme that a professional golfer emphasis the most, it is synchronization of the elbows and arms with the upper and lower body. The Mini Golf Swing in The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique accomplishes this synchronization.
The Advantages of Using The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique
The Advantages of Using The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique is that it allows the Golfer to be just as confident and being as Proactive like a Baseball Player standing in the batter’s box. How many times have you seen a baseball player standing in the batter’s box have as many issues as the golfer seems to have standing on the tee box? The answer is NEVER! So why not use that same confidence that a baseball batter exhibits standing in the batter’s box to use on the tee box?
What the golfer wants to accomplish Syncing/Presetting the wrist action in the Mini Golf Swing is to go from being Passive where the only thing the golfer is doing is thinking to being Proactive by using the Mini Golf Swing using the small low threshold muscles, that are the golfer finesse muscles. It is difficult to initiate the golf swing from a stationary position not knowing what muscles to start with. Even baseball batters get into their rhythm by swinging back and forth out of the strike zone before taking the bat up to the top when the pitcher is in their delivering.
To get the golfer out of Passive thinking mode standing on the Tee box and into a Proactive mode, where the golfer is using the Mini Golf Swing Technique, featured below. I’m shown my wrists in the Preset Lock Position after I Synced and Preset my wrist action in the Mini Golf Swing. I’m using a pair of kickboxing gloves to help me demonstrate the CAM and CAM-OVER Technique on how my wrists are actually synced up with each other. Look, in Figure No. 2 below, at how the top of the wristbands that are stacked at the Address Position; than are synced in the Lock Position.
My wrists in the Lock Position, in Figure No. 2 above, illustrate the Sync/Preset Maneuvers in the Mini Golf Swing Technique. This allows me to be Proactive, like a baseball batter standing in the batter’s box. Ninety percent (90%) of my entire golf swing sequence has been completed with the Sync/Preset Lock maneuvers, shown above. The only thing that I have to do from the Sync/Preset Lock Position is just to take the handle of the golf club up to the top of my golf swing just like a baseball batter would do, shown in Figure No. 3 and Figure No. 4, below.
The advantage of the miniature golf swing, Sync/Preset maneuver, is that it allows the golfer to set 90 percent (90%) of their entire golf swing with their finesse muscles. These are the golfer’s highly skilled muscles (the Brachio-Radialis and Palmaris Longus) that have been a part of the golfer’s motor skills since childhood. That means the miniature golf swing Technique is using muscle memory that has already been developed and using them to front load the golf swing inside the Strike Zone.
STOP, DROP, and ROLL Natural Golf Swing Sequence
When the golfer get to the top of their swing, like in Figure No. 4, they just have to STOP, DROP, and ROLL, like the FIRE DRILL. Dropping their forearms, not wrists, down and through the Strike Zone. This was a technique that Tom Watson was describing in the March 2003 issue of Golf Digest on page No. 48. The wrists and elbows are already in the proper position to just drop back down through the Strike Zone. The golfer doesn’t have to press forward with their right elbow toward the left elbow with the Sync/Preset maneuver. The golfer just has to drop their forearms as illustrated in Figure No. 4, below.
IMPORTANT to AVOID– Make sure that you take the handle of the golf swing up to the TOP and DROP back down through the Strike Zone using your forearms NOT your wrist or hands. The reason for using your forearm to DROP down through the Strike Zone is it allows the wrists to react naturally without be hindered. If you use the Miniature Golf Swing Technique properly, I can guarantee you that your wrists with provide the Power, acceleration, and Clubhead Speed you want in your golf swing sequence.
The Two Key Muscles of the Sync/Preset Miniature Golf Swing
The key to the Miniature Golf Singe Sync/Preset Technique is how two key muscles, in Figure No. 5, are used (Brachio-Radialis and the Palmaris Longus) to preset the wrists in the Strike Zone. Both of these muscles not only Sync/Preset your wrists into the Lock Position, the Sync/Preset Technique provides the turbocharger to the golfer’s swing mechanics, like the whip action in how Indiana Jones used his bullwhip.
What is nice about these two muscles/tendons is that the golfer can see both of them. The Palmaris Longus Tendon, or what I refer to as the Palmer’s Tendon can be seen below in Figure No. 5 in the right wrist. And the Brachio-Radialis Muscle/Tendon termination point can be detected at a nodule on the left wrist, located just above the golfer’s thumb. This is used to Preset the golfer’s wrist, shown in Figure No. 6.
SYNC (CAM)– For the right-handed golfer, they wants to hinge (Palmar Flex) their wrist with the left Hypothenar back toward their right elbow. This hinge action in this particular orientation will naturally establish the following element called Pronation of the left wrist. This is shown in the wrists in upper right hand corner of the figure above.
PRESET (CAM-OVER)– As the golfer is hinging their right wrist back toward their right elbow, the golfer wants to Pronate, as shown in Figure No. 6 where the left thumb is horizontal with the ground into the Lock Position. These two simple elements or maneuvers that establishes 90 percent of the golfer’s swing. The only thing left to perform is to take the handle of the golf club to the top of the swing along the swing plane.
The Objective of The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique, the Miniature Golf Swing
The entire objective of The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique, the Miniature Golf Swing, is to get the golfer to have more of a baseball batter’s mentally of standing in the batter’s box with confidence, as apposed to the golf standing on the Tee box with nerves.
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The Advantage of the ESPY Golf Swing Sequence
The advantage of the ESPY Golf Swing sequence is the Sync/Preset maneuver initiates the golf swing from the address point, this allows the golfer to be more proactive, like what is used in the baseball-type swing. For the right-handed golfer, the Sync element allows the golfer to sync their elbow with the their right side during the Syn/Preset into the Lock position.
The advantage of the Sync/Preset maneuver is it allows the golfer to develop majority of their golf swing mechanics on the front end. When the golfer get to the top of their swing, they just have to STOP, DROP, and ROLL, like the FIRE DRILL. The wrists and elbows are already in the proper position to drop back with toward their right side. The golfer doesn’t have to press forward with their right elbow toward the left elbow with the Sync/Preset maneuver.
The key to the Sync/Preset elements are the golfer’s Hypothenars, shown below is the pivotal component in the Sync/Preset. The Sync/Preset element sets the turbocharger in the golfer’s left forearm, the Palmaris Longus Tendon, or what I refer to as the Palmer’s Tendon. This tendon is shown below. Most golfers can actually see this tendon on the medial (inside) part of their lower forearm. This is a raised area just above their wrist area.
This Palmer Tendon is set with what Ken Duke called his hinge element, that is actually called the Palmar-Flex (Sync element). This is set my the right-handed golfer hinging their left Hypothenar toward their right elbow. This hinge element also naturally sets the Preset element, or Pronation. The full process for the ESPY Golf Swing is featured below in a step-by-step procedure:
SYNC (CAM)– For the right-handed golfer, they wants to hinge (Palmar Flex) their wrist with the left Hypothenar back toward their right elbow. This hinge action in this particular orientation will naturally establish the following element called Pronation of the left wrist. This is shown in the wrists in upper right hand corner of the figure above.
PRESET (CAM-OVER)– As the golfer is hinging their left Hypothenar toward their right elbow, their left wrist will naturally start to rotate, or Pronate, as shown in the middle part of the figure above with the wrists shown in the Lock Position. These two simple elements or maneuvers that establishes 80 percent of the golfer’s swing. The only thing left to perform is to take the handle of the golf club to the top of the swing along the swing plane.
Even Justin Thomas, a professional golfer, during his pre-shot routine presets his wrists and locks it into place and actually looks back to ensure that he has properly set his wrists, or what I call SYNC/PRESET or CAM/CAM-OVER.
CHECKPOINT– After the SYNC/PRESET maneuver, the golfer’s left pinky knuckle should be pointing in the general direction of their right big toe and a small nodule, RSP, just above their left thumb (called the left Radial Styloid Process) should be point in the general direction of their right shoulder. The RSP is located where the red dot is on the left kickboxing glove.
The DROP– The golfer wants to create a mental image of the left Hypothenar dropping down toward the ball and leveling out to break the imaginary pane of glass in just front of the ball about 6 inches.
This Elbow Sync Technique was what Arnold Palmer gave to President
The golfer after the Sync/Preset maneuver of the wrists action in the golf swing wants to see their wrist in the Lock Position. The key checkpoints before taking the club handle to the top are: the left pinky knuckle and left RSP (Radial Styloid Process) are set in particular orientations. This syncs the right elbow with the golfer’s right side using the Hypothenar Muscle.
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