The Thinking Approach
 

Just a heads up...
Careful with that one Chief. Putting the shaft more under the heel of your left hand is making an adjustment for more accumulator #3 (roll power) and effects clubface control. It has little effect on the #2 accumulator (velocity power) or wristcock which is clubhead control.
Increasing the #3 angle will require that you begin the roll sooner and widen the angle of approach.

I know it seems intuitive that wristcock is somehow increased by putting the shaft lower in the grip, but through impact you are transferring all of the wristcock momentum into clubface roll and the #3 angle you are proposing has consequences. :)

. good stuff man!

Also..

10-6-a...The Elbow Plane allows maximum #3 Accumulator requiring earlier Release per 6-N-0.

and since the elbow plane intersect the belt buckle.. the grip is stronger than usual in order for a level left wrist.. and a Sweep release... also facilitating a more behind the shaft Pressure point preparation....

and the Pressure point feeling more "under the shaft " for swinging..

Correct?

Nuke,

Yes - Widening the Angle of Approach is accomplished by shallowing the plane.

Back to topic - My personal opinion about "frozen" is that once the right wrist is in position, it stays quiet. I think some players can handle a loosey goosie right wrist because they have enough pivot coordination and lag feel to bring it through impact bent and level.

For uncoordinated dorks like me, I need to feel the right wrist very stationary. Just one less thing to worry about.

I am with you there. I don't have the talent or the coordination to be able to handle a loosey goosie right wrist in my swing.
Alex

Woody,

I guess that is my point. You don't see or feel it because you don't realise that the wrist, in the condition I described, is "cocked".

You might also benefit, I know I did, from slackening off on your right hand grip.
Try keeping your right thumb off the club and your index finger just resting against the back of the grip rather than curled around it. You will still experience the support of PP#1 & PP#3 on the club shaft without your right hand overriding your left hand's club face control.

Shortening your back swing will also help you to guard against adding to the wrist cock as you move from the top of your swing to the end.

Cut the back swing off at the top - i.e hands at around the height of your right shoulder.

[Bagger] I think you are correct and I'm actually relieved because my left hand grip is one connection to the club that I feel very good about. I don't think my answer lies there. The shaft does lie somewhere between my palm and under the heel of my left hand and from my interpretation of what little Homer says on this in TGM this is where it should be most of the time, at least in a normal full swing. Still I am looking, looking, looking at how I can keep my right wrist level throughout a full swing and am studying your advice and others on this thread: great stuff here. I have much to learn and experiment with. I believe in the magic of the right forearm and my right wedge / wrist is wobbly at best. Developing...

[Burner] maybe I'm misunderstanding your description. I can make a fist while keeping my left wrist level and my wrist doesn't cock. In fact that's more of an uncocking motion to me or the fist is just pointed down. To cock from level I need to curl / squeeze my fingers toward my palm and it cocks up. Is this what you mean? I think one must be able to see the wrist in a cocked position. If I don't see my wrist cocked then it's not cocked because I know the difference between level, cocked, and uncocked. I'm not trying to be argumentative but you've completely lost me.

When I start out with a level left wrist and then make a really tight fist the left wrist cocks up. If I make a loose fist, the left wrist doesn't cock. Make a fist like you are trying to squeeze water out of a crow bar, that should do the trick. Unless you are Leslie Nielsen this would not describe the recommended grip pressure in a golf swing!

Matt

Wood..

I got a funny feeling either your Std GRIP is too weak. or the club is too upright for you or you started Uncocked instead of Level to start with... thats why you are having wierd problem or maybe your left hand grip is aligned wrongly.. too much in the fingers , too loose left finger..to experience the wrong thing.

With the correct grip , flying wedge and correct RFT.. the pressure point 1 2( left thumb and last 3 finger) should load when first bending the right wrist and flattening the left wrist.. IF it doesn't your grip is wrong.. after loading 1 2 .. bend your right elbow up and down... and try to point that left thump towards you when you bend your elbow

Hi Woody,

In a word, "Yup".

Its just the same as laying your forearm on a table with an open palm - back of the hand facing left and palm facing right; fingers pointing directly away from you.

Make that fist and cock that wrist.:)