The Golf Grip and Being Out of the Box
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Another video to disspell some of the common swing myths. This one deals with the old adage that you should grip the club based on how your arms naturally hang.
- Poor posture will cause your arms to hang incorrectly from your shoulders. From here, you will to have to make compensations in order to properly grip the club.
- Pull your shoulder blades back, down and in to get yourself "in the box," your palms will face each other and your grip will come on naturally.
One of the most frustrating things for a golf instructor is to go through and read golf magazines and watch golf commercials, and hear instructors talk on TV.
And telling students to do things that are actually potentially going to get them hurt.
So one of the most common ones that I hear, and I still see it in the golf magazines each week or each month, is talking about.
How your arms naturally hang at a dress dictates how you should grip the club.
This is some of the worst instructional advice on the planet and couldn't die fast enough.
So how many of you have heard that if your arms naturally face your thighs, if your palms naturally face your thighs, when you're standing here like a gorilla, that you should grip the club with a really strong grip? Let's just do that for a second.
Let's just see what would happen.
I'm gonna put myself in a position where my palms face my thighs.
Got a really strong grip.
Now somehow my right hand still facing here but I got to get it on the club like this.
Now I've got to add from here about a hundred and thirty degrees of rotation in that arm from my shoulder joint to get myself to grip the club.
Not only does this look uncomfortable but it's potentially harmful to your swing.
Your joints are completely out of neutral.
You're rotating that arm a ton and best of all nobody's arms naturally hang that way.
I I hate to break it to you.
If you think that your arms have always faced your your thighs at a dress or when you're standing here.
And that's why you've had a strong grip.
It's because you have bad posture.
It's that simple.
From down the line you can see that my shoulders roll forward.
My shoulder blades are protracted here and now that's the the way my palms can face my thighs.
I'm in just terrible posture.
If I pull my shoulder blades back watch what happens.
Now where are my palms facing? When my shoulder blades are back down and in or in the box as we call it, guess what? My palms face each other.
This is neutral joint alignment for every human being on the planet.
Nobody's palms naturally hang this way unless you have really terrible posture.
Get in the box pull your shoulder blades back and now as my palms face each other, guess what? My right hand naturally comes over to the club.
So instead of being here and having to rotate my arm, get in the box, my grip comes on perfectly naturally.
So the next time you see this piece of golf advice, you know better.
You don't want your shoulder blades protracted.
That's just bad posture.
Get in the box.
Palms will face each other completely naturally.
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