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Ever wonder how some of the PGA pros on TV drive it so far without much effort? Here's how. youtu.be/o8tIvY080Hg
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Most golfers are missing the key move that creates effortless power! youtu.be/Y8dqFBf1Eo0
Once you’ve seen Jamie Sadlowski swing over 150 mph at 5’10 and 170 lbs. you realize that strength and size isn’t everything.
You can build a powerful and repeatable golf swing starting with a simple fluid motion even a child can do! youtu.be/ld2aadHBVL0
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Most golfers are making a simple backswing mistake that costs them distance and accuracy. Try this instead! youtu.be/f1kB6D1jghY
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You don't need a perfect swing to hit long straight drives and play great golf! youtu.be/BiljZHT_d2o
When you stop trying to muscle your driver and start improving your sequence instead, your power will skyrocket! youtu.be/XWvpKZbObos
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This is a ludicrous statement. Suspend him off the ground and see if he could even hit it past the pitcher.
A pure squeeze applied symmetrically around the grip (fingers/palm compressing from all sides toward the shaft's center) is a set of forces whose net effect is zero linear force and zero torque, because the individual push components are directed toward a common center and cancel each other out geometrically. It's real force, but it's radially balanced — nothing is left over to accelerate or rotate the club.
Wrist "release" / rotation during the swing actually involves a couple of distinct motions that often get lumped together as "wrist action," but are mechanically different:
Ulnar/radial deviation (the wrist hinging side-to-side, "cocking" and "releasing") — driven by:
Flexor carpi ulnaris / extensor carpi ulnaris (ulnar deviation)
Flexor carpi radialis / extensor carpi radialis (radial deviation)
Forearm pronation/supination (the rotation that turns the clubface over through impact, or rotates the bat) — this is actually not a wrist muscle at all, but a forearm muscle:
Pronator teres and pronator quadratus (pronation)
Supinator and biceps brachii (supination)
This rotation happens at the radioulnar joint (between radius and ulna), not the wrist joint itself.
Squeeze muscles (grip closure):
Flexor digitorum superficialis/profundus (finger flexors)
Flexor pollicis longus (thumb)
Lumbricals/interossei (fine finger control)
These act on the fingers, closing them around the grip — largely independent of wrist joint motion itself
Weight training → speed gains: the mechanism is plausible because well-designed resistance training (especially rotational, explosive, or ballistic-style, per the studies) increases the force/power-generating capacity of the muscle groups that actually apply torque through the kinetic chain — hips, torso, lats, whatever's driving rotation at each joint in sequence. More force capacity at those points, applied through the existing (or improved) technique/sequencing, can translate into more torque, hence more angular velocity, hence more clubhead/bat speed.
The club only accelerates via torque (rotational force), and pure squeeze — being radially symmetric — contributes essentially none of that. Any push/pull component only matters insofar as it's applied off-center relative to some rotation axis, which is what turns a "force" into a "torque" in the first place.