hey everyone shawn and moo today and sav is playing in a tournament and um we want to show you guys that many of you have been told to stop the slice by doing something like this with your wrist right it's a palmer flexion or bowing of the wrist and for many of you it stopped the shots to the right but you got no power still and you're looking for that extra power well we'll show you a much better way to do things right here right now stay with us but before we continue we would just love for you to be part of the channel please subscribe to the channel and leave a comment or a question down below be more than happy to answer and please hit the bell so you don't miss any videos and also smash the like button to give us more views right on all right let's start with moo here and he's played a little bit of tennis yeah more of a football player than a tennis player but we all we all mess around with other sports you know it's a lot of fun play with your buddies yeah when i was young yeah that's it yeah so now if we were going to do a nice power backhand in tennis what would that look like here all right show us at impact what it would look like so you got a nice strong position here with the hand yeah right now if we were to take the tennis racket and and hold it neutral okay i think that's what they call the western grip at one point yeah and now if you wanted to do a top spin yeah you would have to do this that's right come through impact like that right yeah so for a big strong guy like you that wouldn't be too bad but if i pushed here do you feel like that risk kind of feels compromised yeah i feel tension right okay yeah whereas what they're doing now yeah there we go so look at the difference now notice how the it's like punching in that direction yeah that's right analogy yeah and notice where the racket is now doesn't that feel like you could not only stop the tennis ball nicely yeah but really send it back with a vengeance that's right i got a nice release through exactly yeah so that's where we're looking at now if you were playing baseball okay show me impact with baseball okay now i swing the other way though that's all right look yeah yeah sure that's the same powerful position would you ever play baseball like this no you'd get that the wrist ripped off yeah so there has been a lot of uh wrist injuries on tour a lot of wrist surgeries and the more you bow it the more you know compromised you are there's only a few select players that can really play that way dustin johnson brooks kepca um graeme mcdowell even brooks has had wrist surgery right i can't tell you if it was because of that yeah but this to me is a very compromised position and as a full-time teacher um it's much easier to do a stronger grip now if we look at the the best example is hammering right so if you were hammering a nail yeah on top of that yeah yes so notice you got your radius your ulna now they're stacked right it's a very very strong position for the arm so if you're doing a karate chop yeah versus a slap okay right yeah so now if you wanted to hammer this way okay yeah look at that yeah do you see what mood just did notice how we turned the hammer underneath now the radius and the ulna are in a position to compress nicely in that direction right so if you're going to put both hands on the hammer like if you're playing golf okay yeah we'll we'll do it back toward the camera go ahead and go straight down okay right put the other hand on all right exactly so notice both snuff boxes are on top yeah this would be considered a neutral grip okay there's two knuckles on this side right yeah that's right now if you were going hammering this way ah look what mood just did yeah so notice radius ulna on both arms ready to compress this way yeah what people tend to do is this is them hammering down they're going to do this to try and play golf with right so notice how this is really open and what happens when i'm coming through let's say thick rough dense rough and you got all this pressure up against the hand then you're getting you're getting a compromised lead arm and many of you are struggling through golfer's elbow because of that so if we put you in dynamic alignment with your anatomy then you're in a much stronger position in relation to the target look at bubba watson look at webb simpson look at paul azinger so many strong grippers out there on the pga tour way more than neutral grippers okay yeah so there's a secret to what's going on that's right yeah and so that's why with both you and sav and then you'll see i'm putting a nice little picture of savory next to us right now she's with us of course but you look at how strong that grip is of hers and it's you know we've had a lot of comments about that and they're they're thinking that that grip is a grip to snap hook and for a lot of players they think okay i'm gonna hook a lot with this grip but they're not in relation to the target they're in relation to the ball so if you got this grip and you go after the ball obviously you're going to close the face prematurely yeah and then you end up hooking the shot right so you'll notice while i'm i'm performing right here uh some shots on on our rap soto if i have a neutral grip like i just showed you with a square face and i'm swinging toward the target you'll notice my shot is going way off to the right because there's no way for me to square that up unless i really bow my wrist right dorsiflex my trail hand and and palm flex my front hand that re that's a it's a very um compromised position when you overdo it and then i'm gonna have to add some body language to that to you know make sure i don't lose my shot off to the right that's right so and then you'll notice if i overdo it if i close it too much so i've got a strong grip and i'm closing it too much you'll see how the shot goes off way lower and curves a lot to the left and then in between so what we're looking for is the ability to find the target that's right so when we're you know if you're playing tennis or if you're playing baseball here's your club there mu thank you i'm closing the face so the way we're going to do this is we're going to close the face then take the grip this grip is nice and round for a reason so when i'm you know close the face then grip so if i continue closing notice how my grip never changes see that i can do a full 360 in my hands and notice my i'm still with my you know hammer that way arm position so now the deal is the target's over there so we're collecting the ball from where it is and we're releasing it into that picture if i am dynamically or sorry statically squared dynamically open look what happens so every instrument known to humanity has been designed handle first in mind if i had a machete in here and i was cutting through a bamboo shoot well i wouldn't do that notice how lead i get to the ground i'm using the ground to get the body out of the way the elbow leads then the hand then the blade then the tip of the blade and then the tip of the blade catches up to my hands over here so peak speed is out there and i'm doing the same thing with the golf club so imagine you've seen this go to my video entitled grass whip training and we show you how to close the grass whip there as well so we get through so we close the face and now we're swinging through so notice when the hands lead the club face is square if the hands don't lead the club face is closed so if i release at the ball down here and make the ball my target i get the hook but if i release at the target changes everything so let's look at i'm going to get an intermediate point here i'm going to hit a draw from the blue post back to the red post my intermediate point is right there going to red post set up to that play the ball of smidgen back in my stance and now i'm going to swing to the right of that intermediate point now for many of you who tend to slice the ball if i were to tell you to swing from in to out you'd think i'd had a screw loose because you know that shot's not coming back right yeah it's like self-sabotage it's going straight into the trees right so if your face is too open you'll swing out to the left you'll come over the top and make sure you don't lose it to the right so you're going to start it to the left so it can fade back to the center of the fairway but because my club face is closed enough that shot starts off just a hair right of the red flag and is drawn right back onto the red flag and that was absolutely compressed i don't know if you heard the sound of that but that was right in the center of the club face right there and the ball just rockets off the face when the face is closed enough it slides off the face if the face is too open so if you feel the the ball sliding off the face there's there's probably nothing wrong with your swing you're just starting with a club face that's way too open to begin with and there's only so much that you can do with this if you did it since you were this high and you've been playing golf your whole life and your body has adapted to that that's different like there's no way i'd go see dustin johnson right now and tell him to change his grip that would be crazy so what we do instead you know for most of everyone that's been listening you've been playing golf you know for a certain amount of time in your adult life and you already have a lot of things in the bank that you've already been doing very naturally like you wouldn't hammer nails like this would you look at the position that my hand is taking very solid there's my snuff box bang this is not a cupped wrist this is an anatomically functional wrist if i'm going fishing right move you fish don't yeah it was a fisherman yeah so you're loading on that snuff box and releasing the fishing rod out there if i release the fishing rod farther well there's your tennis serve notice that beautiful release so when you're doing a tennis serve it's here right on that snuff box and it's the same thing with baseball you would never see this in baseball i mean you'd get your wrist blown right off so there is that so when i'm coming through notice the position of that lead hand it is mega solid mega strong and that's what we're seeing in tennis in their hands okay so the first thing you want to do is you close the face take your normal grip then what we're going to do is we're going to get your wrist to properly set properly hinge so have a look at all our grip videos we have um the most important video on grip ever and then you're gonna see uh best video on grip ever right so it shows you how to put both hands together you got an umbrella there's a nice solid umbrella and then you've got that kitchen knife so you see knife the grip sean clement so we got a super nice grip with a nice set of the wrists so if we get a nice set of the wrists with a dynamically square face statically closed face then we're going to be able to whip that sucker out there toward the target never have to worry about where the ball is going to go so let's have a more ground hit that okay yeah it stayed straight uh yeah i hit left edge 232 whoa that's it wasn't carrying that yesterday no no it was like 2 15.
Wow 220 but i'm staying along the ground a lot better today lower longer yeah oh yeah that's 221 carry that had a lot of air on that one all right so how about them apples huh 221 carry yeah the other one was a little more of a got a little a little bit of a flyer we're a little bit in rough right here yeah so uh but that's that's how you do it that's how strong you stay with your anatomy so if your anatomy is lined up properly you're gonna hit very powerful very effortlessly powerful shots the last thing you want to do is strain the the muscles in your forearm or the tendons in the forearm for that matter because that leads to really nagging stuff like tennis elbow or golf elbow and and it's really not going to help your performance as far as power is concerned unless of course you're dustin johnson in which we apologize for this video all the best see you next week you