.......if i get my right wrist level--meaining being able to
place a ruler down my forearm over the top of my outer thumb
without alot of space visable in the edge of the ruler....
OK
..but, as soon as i bend the wrist back to an impact fix
position, it anatomically is not level any longer.........
In order to get close to visually level bent, I have to
use actually use strain, and doing that it will become
cocked much easier in the backswing, as things will want to revers themselves, unless forced to do so otherwise, which puts unwanted tension in the grip/swing
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The right wrist should bend only (back towards the right forearm in the plane of the right forearm flying wedge). In what you describe, that bending only should have no effect at all on the 'level' of the wrist. If it does, chances are your right hand grip is too much in the fingers, or you are actually 'uncocked' and not level.
Keep in mind that 'level' is very nearly 'uncocked' and that the important area to focus on is impact fix alignments. The bending/arching motion of the right wrist you describe shouldn't put any stress on the wrist joints (a sign that you are not level, but probably uncocked).
Everything comes back to impact alignments, and your bodies ability to 'support' the forces of impact via the alignments of the flying wedges.
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.......if i get my right wrist level--meaining being able to place a ruler down my forearm over the top of my outer thumb without alot of space visable in the edge of the ruler....
per 4-B-1 "The Wrist is LEVEL when the wrist-bone and the edge of the hand (to the first knuckle of the first finger) form a straight line."
So the ruler should go from the wrist to the first knuckle of your first finger, not the thumb.
A Level and Bent Right Wrist may seem like a Cocked Right Wrist sometimes because of the viewing angle.
I have two photos here that have identical Wrist Alignments, i.e. a Level and Bent Right Wrist. Due to the camera angle the bottom photo seems to be Cocked, but it isn't.
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Last edited by tongzilla : 04-04-2006 at 12:40 PM.
4-B-0 GENERAL The Perpendicular Wrist Conditions and Motions are LEVEL (-1), COCKED (-2) and UNCOCKED (-3). These three terms are always used in reference to the “Thumb Edge” of the hand only.
INSERT PHOTOS 4-B-1, 4-B-2, AND 4-B-3
4-B-1 LEVEL The Wrist is LEVEL when the wrist-bone and the edge of the hand (to the first knuckle of the first finger) form a straight line.
4-B-2 COCKED The Wrist is COCKED when the edge of the hand forms as sharp an angle as possible with the wrist bone. The Wrist is Cocked at any point beyond LEVEL toward maximum cocked condition.
4-B-3 UNCOCKED The Wrist is UNCOCKED when the edge of the hand forms as wide an angle as possible with the wrist bone. The Wrist is UNCOCKED at any point from LEVEL to maximum UNCOCKED condition. The wrist is UNCOCKED at any time it is moving away from an COCKED condition. It moves per 4-D-0 and 2-P.
Which is it ?
always used in reference to the “Thumb Edge” of the hand only.
or...
to the first knuckle of the first finger) form a straight line
that is confusing...hadn't noticed that before. The way I interpret it is "Thumb Edge" vs. "Pinky Edge", not necessarily using the edge of the thumb as the indicator for level/cocked/uncocked.
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