The Gorilla Grip
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Here’s a golf instruction myth about the grip that can’t die soon enough. The myth states that you should grip the golf club based on however your hands naturally hang when standing normally. In this video, I''ll show you how standing in correct anatomic posture will get steer you into the correct grip on the golf club.
- Standing in correct posture will have the palms face the side of the thighs
- Do not allow the shoulders to roll forward when you are gripping the club
- Unlock power in your golf swing by gripping the club the correct way
One of the things that's really common in golf instruction these days is you should grip the club based on how your arms naturally hang in a dress.
And that is a dramatic fallacy in golf instruction.
It's It's one of these golf myths that couldn't possibly go away fast enough in my opinion.
Because everybody's arms, when in neutral joint alignment, hang the exact same way.
So Chris, let's demonstrate.
A lot of times we hear, you know, golf, golf instructors and well -known golf instructors who are in golf magazines and so on, say that, you know.
If you have your arms kind of hang like this and like, kind of like, we call it the gorilla grip.
If your arms kind of hang like this.
And your palms naturally face your thighs at a dress, we should have a really strong grip.
So show what that would look like.
So this is the gorilla grip.
It looks kind of like a monkey, so he looks like this, whether he's doing this or not, so it doesn't really help, but but you can see.
In order for his palms to face his thighs, what he's got to do is actually protract his shoulder blades and let his arms internally rotate.
Well guess what nobody stands like this normally you weren't born like this trust me.
So that's how you get into that position, that causes all kinds of issues.
Because now his left shoulders left arms dramatically internally rotated.
Now, if he sets up with this really strong grip, it's going to create a numerous compensations in his golf swing.
And now his right arm obviously is not going to work on the club like this, it's not going to work, so let's try and take that grip and see if we can put it into practice.
So take your gorilla grips you have a super strong grip and your right hand is going to come way over now it's going to be like this so that would be that'd be how you'd grip the club and now we got all kinds of stuff we're putting our wrists in a position where they're going to be really active going back and have all kinds of issues so the truth is that everybody's arms in neutral joint alignment actually set up the exact same way so what that looks like so stand straight up for me just neutral posture you know you can kind of think military posture we want to be relaxed so you're just going to shrug your shoulder straight up to your ears and pull them straight down and roll them forward a little bit and then pull them back just a little bit so this is just neutral posture if we look go ahead and turn down the line so they can see down the line here so he's just in neutral posture right now guess where his palms are facing they're facing the side of his thighs right so nobody's arms naturally sit like this at a dress what happens is as he goes into a setup posture so go ahead and hinge forward the only way you can get in that position is to let your shoulder blades now fall out of neutral joint alignment and let your shoulders protract and the arms internally rotate and that puts you at risk for injury with this left shoulder so go ahead and stand up again so what happens when that arm gets into that position one of the most common injuries that our medical panel operates on the orthopedic surgeons is lead shoulder impingement and what happens is that arm gets rotated forward and then you take it and swing it across your body and you pinch this little subacromial space where a lot of nerves pass through there and that's actually the number one golf swing related injury and it starts at setup like so many other swing faults do so to get into a proper setup all you have to do is just get a neutral joint alignment shrug your shoulders straight up pull them straight down pull your shoulders back a little bit and then as you hinge forward you'll notice that gravity is trying to pull your arms forward so you're going to keep these muscles in your back just slightly activated to keep your arms from naturally wanting to roll forward because that's what they want to do and that's how you get in that bad posture position is letting gravity take over you need to fight it by pulling these shoulder blades back just a little bit and now notice that your palms face each other perfectly naturally and that's how everybody is designed to be set up at a dress so because of that everybody's grip can be the same and that's going to protect your joints the subacromial space nerve damage all these things from injury so if you've got a gorilla grip or if your instructor tells you you know you should just take the grip however your arms actually hang at a dress run away take your money and go find a certified RST instructor
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