Malaska Golf // Fix Your Grip. Fix Your Flip. With Ashley Huizing, PGA

Alright go ahead and set up now let's talk about

grip

for a minute

your

grip

you're ready to go yeah go to this hand turn it over open

your

hand okay we're in trouble the club is too much in the Palm. of your hand, now I know everyone talks about diagonally across your hand, but this is where your grip should go first, if you let your arm relax you'll see how this joint line where your wrist is , yeah, okay, that's how your wrist relates to your elbow relates to your shoulder, so when force is applied to this arm, it's going to want to go right here, so if you start here, which is where you start, any force goes into that arm, you're going to want to do this, which will open up the face, yeah, okay, so a neutral left hand grip for you would be this, first of all, the back of the club goes to the right in that second knuckle, then your fingers close, then your hand bends down and over the club like this, that's neutral, okay, now you're there.

I'm going to say oh, that's right, I've never felt like this is really strong, yeah, okay, it's not strong, it's neutral in the way your hand works, it's neutral in the way your wrist works, so that hand goes like this and you see how much more there is in your fingers. yeah, this hand, if you were to fall to the ground, it's coming towards you, the ground is coming towards you, what exactly is that hand going to do to force the wrist into alignment very quickly? The difference is that now the strength does not come this way, where is it? it comes, it comes back through that axis, so the wrist goes right on the back of the thumb, it fits there and that wrist is that face that's pointing directly at the target or directly back towards that force coming into the club, okay? ?

I want you to set up with that grip and you're going to go, oh my God, no, okay, do me a favor, okay, all I want you to do is get the club back, just take it back and hit the ball, I don't care where it is. . It's okay, it doesn't matter oh my God, why didn't he bend over? Why didn't he bend down? because that's exactly how my hands are set up to be square exactly, so this is what we did and here's another thing about how this joint works, you played softball, right, yeah, grab your softball bat, forget it of

golf

for a minute, this is a softball bat, so hold it up, can you remember how I don't know, it's been a while, so here's the ball, take the bat and you're going to put it on the ball, come on and hit the ball, okay, you see where your left hand is, yeah, would you even think about hitting a softball or a baseball with your wrist like this?

Not at all, why not, well, because you would. You don't really lose power, so why are you hitting a

golf

ball that way now? It's because we were all taught that yeah, okay, so if you went back to softball, here's the ball, you'll see how your wrist lines up, okay now if you took your thumb, you put your thumb there and I turned this face. right there and you put your thumb like this, then you put this hand to the side and we take you there, that's where your golf grip should be fine because now this hand this is strong this is a strong position for this wrist this is weak now we they made everyone tilt their left wrist yes, but hardly anyone does that anymore everyone hits the ball like that so that's where their left wrist is when the ball goes in, now your left wrist because your grip was so weak, you take the club towards back as soon as the force hits your arm this would happen so there is your right hand yeah now from here what has to happen?

You have to twist the face, you have no choice or hit it straight right now, if all of a sudden we put your hand here and you come back and now your right hand gets in this position coming down, look at the club face, okay, now everyone. What you have to do is push with your right arm until it straightens and then your wrists disengage, now there is no movement. The interesting thing is the first ball you hit and I anticipated you were going to hit the first one because usually as soon as I move someone's. grab so far on the first move you make as soon as you feel pressure in your hands your hands do what they used to do yeah well now you duck it so it takes you a couple the first one went straight to the middle okay ?

Now what you have to understand is that the grip I just gave you is one neutral in relation to how your joints are aligned and two physiologically when you hit something. This is a stronger position than that right now. I have people. Do you play tennis. Do you play tennis. Yeah, okay, he had a forehand, when you switch to a backhand, you change your grip, yeah, and you hit a backhand with your wrist like this. Would you even think of bending your wrist to hit a backhand? No, that is a compromised joint. Look at the whole arc.

As far as my left wrist goes, I tore this wrist tendon early in my career, as soon as I moved my grip from here and went there and started doing this boom, all of a sudden I hit a ball and broke this can . I had tendonitis. This hand is fine, but look at this wrist, we're all dealing with a compromised wrist joint. Okay, if I turn my wrist like this, all of a sudden you can bump it into something and voila, let's see it doesn't hurt. There are many. power in this yes this you're going to do it hurts yes okay don't do it okay so let's see if I can do this on my own here you go perfect that's really good it feels strange just not trying so hard with my wrists And to not see something that I've learned from doing this for all these years, joints fill certain roles and certain positions that they are in, they are either really strong or they are weak and if they are at their strongest.

Period, so other joints and other things don't have to try to compensate for it. Most people who play golf now there are some who have too strong a grip and the face shoots up too much. I agree, but so do most people. weak in the grip where the face opens and then they have to rotate the face to the right, we don't want to have to do that, it's not necessary, that's one way to play, but you had all that grip more when you change direction. Not only are your shaft and arms shallow, but the face opens up.

Okay, now what a lot of people would do with you is they would say, Well, okay, do this so they make you take your own grip sooner than you had before, so here you go. which is starting to become popular, people pick up the club and they know their grips, people, players or teachers, they know that their grips are weak and when the club comes down they want them to do this and bend their left wrist well What does that do? It's compensating for the fact that your right hand wants to go in this direction and wants to have the palm of destiny facing up.

If the club sinks and your hand goes like this, look at some point what you're going to have to do.

flip

flip

okay, so as soon as you moved your grip now your right hand can work like this, you can leverage here and throw, so now you start to feel this action, you feel like yeah, now there is no spin and when you hit the ball, hits her in this position here instead of leaning over. on your left wrist, right, which is a weak position, which is another reason why your right hand starts trying to help, okay, go ahead, I'll show you another thing you can do, once you grab it, let's get to work on your right hand just a little bit, okay, that felt easy, it's going to get easier and easier because okay, it's fun to have a run and a lot of trouble grabbing, I don't think we did a good job.

I work as an industry understanding how you put your hands on the stick how the joints actually work well and how they handle forces and how your brain reacts if a joint is compromised, what your body is supposed to do is say: we have a problem here abort the mission or we're going to damage this joint and then the compensation starts to appear and they're not really compensations, they're really saviors because if they didn't suddenly appear the joint that you're compromising could end up hurting good so your body is doing what it's designed to do. to do oh we have a problem here we are going to have an injury okay let's do something to support that area so it doesn't get hurt and now you have something that shows up in your swing and someone says well you are turning it over I am going well well you have than to correct well one more this won't take you long the grip stays where I put it the spin will start to disappear why because now If you change what your offset was before everything goes down yeah okay make sure you subscribe to my channel for regular updates and tips, thanks for watching.