Harnessing Power of the Golf Swing Preset Wrist Action with the Palmaris Longus and Brachioradialis Muscles/Tendons Technique, Your new Muscle Memory!
The biggest issue about sport of golf is that most of us are amateurs where sport of golf is our passion and not our profession and where we have limited time to work on the range and playing every day of the week on the golf course. But those of us that are amateurs have a huge advantage that we all have access to, the distance between our ears. The fact about golf like most sports, we DO NOT play golf with our conscious mind with swing thoughts but rather our subconscious mind with instincts and muscle memory.
The muscle memory we need to go from Tee box to the green to lower our scores and handicaps are natural instincts and muscle memory we already possess where there is nothing additional to develop. If you can throw a baseball and swing a baseball bat you have the basics needed to go from the Tee box to the green to hole more putts. The following are these techniques that are our natural instincts that we can use on the golf course and train ourselves in that area between our ears, our subconscious mind.
I have attached 7 videos taking the golfer from the Tee box to on the green to hole more putts that was aired on a local SPORTS ZONE Show. This is all FREE!
The Basics of the Golf Swing Preset Wrist Action from Tee to Green
Golf swing preset wrist action is to establish the golfer’s swing mechanics and muscle memory to hit more fairways and greens with consistency, control, Power, Acceleration, Consistency, and Speed (PACS). The golf swing preset wrist action helps the golfer to avoid downtime, limited practice time, and swing thoughts. If you are an amateur golfer, these are factors that we deal with in a sport that we enjoy with inconsistencies.
But, that doesn’t have to be the case, you can use two simple golf swing preset wrists action to create muscle memory with virtual practice where golf is actually played, between the ears, the subconscious mind. Even if you can hit 12-foot pitch shots in your garage, you can avoid the down-time and improve your golf game to a handicap of single-digit.
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I recently had a college baseball player come to me trying to improve his golf game after his college baseball career was over. He explained that his present golf game resembled more of a dumpster fire than a sport that he would like to enjoy playing. I explained to him like any sport; it is about knowing and understanding a few swing techniques to establish muscle memory. The techniques that I use involve low threshold muscles, the quicker responding muscles that he, a former baseball player, have used without realizing it.
Any person involved in the field of kinesiology will explain to athletes that if they want to maximize their performance and avoid injuries they must activating their low threshold muscles before their high threshold muscles are engaged. The low threshold muscles are in their wrists and forearms that are engaged before their high threshold muscles in the shoulders, torso, hips and the powerful glute and quad muscles are engaged. This is called the kinetic chain.
The Importance of Golf Swing Preset Wrists Action to establish Swing Mechanics
The two key muscles in the golf swing preset wrists action aren’t household names, but we depend on them for 90% of our normal daily activities. They are Palmaris Longus and Brachioradialis Muscle/Tendons that are what link the golf swing preset wrists action with those powerful core muscles in the shoulders, torso, glute, and quad muscles providing the POWER.
If You Road a Ten-Seep Bicycle You will Realize the Importance of Sprocket Mechanics to Create Power and Speed
The elbows and shoulders need to act like sprockets on a ten-speed bicycle by providing POWER in the takeaway where the small sprocket (the elbows) turns the larger sprocket (the shoulders). The golfer’s shoulders during the takeaway swing phase are turned by the elbows. These sprockets are switched at the top of the golfer’s swing sequence where the large sprocket (the shoulders) are now allow to turn the smaller sprocket (the elbows) to create the critical clubhead speed naturally and allow the forearms to transfer the power.
If the golfer set the golf swing preset wrists action correctly, the wrists are set into Cock & Lock Position that Ben Hogan talked about in his book, Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons. You are using your muscle memory initiated by the Palmaris Longus and Brachioradialis to develop the POWER and CLUBHEAD SPEED at impact without feeling you have to overpower your golf swing. The golfer has to allow the golf preset wrists action to be established and react naturally in the downswing at impact. Golfers are simply allowing their body to perform like a ten-speed bicycle in the golf swing, shown above.
The Golfer’s Subconscious Mind
The reason that I use the scenario of the ten-speed bicycle principle is the golfer needs to engage their subconscious mind when they are on the golf course where all these mechanics are rooted in as their natural instincts. If your golf swing is not instinctive you are not going to preform based on all those hours you put into your practice. The subconscious mind with override your hard work in a spit second.
Hate to break the news to you golfers, like my former baseball player found out, we don’t play golf with our conscious mind with swing thoughts, but with our subconscious mind, with our natural instincts and muscle memory. Swing thoughts will only cause confusion on the golf course, the golfer can’t afford confusion. The golfer has to develop their confidence in their golf swing preset wrists action technique.
Thinking is a conscious function while focusing on muscle memory is a subconscious function. If you want to develop a consistent golf game focus on images like your muscle memory.
Our subconscious mind function best using images and colors instead of swing thoughts. If you ever practice your golf swing on the practice range or in your backyard to only get to the course where you don’t perform in the same manner, you just experienced a subconscious moment. The reason is again; we don’t play golf with our conscious mind; but our subconscious mind. One more huge advantage of training our subconscious mind to develop our natural instincts is that the subconscious mind never sleeps where it trying to improve everyday even at night while you’re sleeping.
The Golf Swing Preset Wrists Action Mechanics of Sync and Preset
It is one thing to develop swing mechanics the golfer want to develop to make their golf shot, but it is an entirely different thing to develop proper muscles memory. The golfer needs to engage their subconscious mind to make consistent golf shots with power, acceleration, control, with clubhead speed at impact. The muscles the golfer need to develop, feel, and to engage ONLY consist of two muscles/tendons we used everyday that I have previously mentioned, the- Palmaris Longus and Brachioradialis Muscles/tendons.
To link into your subconscious mind, the golfer needs just to use two of their five natural senses, visual and feel. Golfers just need to visualize and feel their Palmaris Longus and Brachioradialis engage for their golf swing preset wrists action to set their wrists into the Cock & Lock Position. This type of muscle memory access their biggest advantage the golfer has on the golf course, the golfer’s subconscious mind. Visualization and feeling are essential for the golfer to use to get into their ZONE!
The golfer doesn’t get into their ZONE by thinking, but by focusing on images and their muscle memory in action.
The Golfer’s Best Sports Psychology is to BE THE BALL!
The best Sports Psychology the golfer could apply on the golf course to get into their ZONE was a quote in the movie Caddyshack where Ty Webb (played by Chevy Chase) told Danny Nooman (played by Michael O’Keefe) stated–
I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe (the golfer’s subconscious mind) that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking (just visualize and feel), let things happen, and be the ball.
Even Sir Isaac Newton realized the natural forces in nature- For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, golf is no different. In other words, if the golfer establishes the correct golf swing preset wrists action in the takeaway, the natural and opposite response by the body is the equal and opposite reaction. Golfers, let me give you some assurance- your reaction at impact will happen naturally.
The Golfer’s Visualization to Feel the Force in the Universe
The golfer needs only to focus on two muscle for their golf swing preset wrists action to create their muscle memory, the Palmaris Longus and the Brachioradialis Muscles/tendons. The Palmaris Longus is visible as indicated on the medial side of my left wrist, shown below:
While the Palmaris Longus Muscle/Tendon can be seen on most people, Brachioradialis is located at the wrist joint above the middle knuckle on a nodule identified as the Radial Styloid Process.
The only thing more important than the muscle memory is the key pivot points for the Palmaris Longus and the Brachioradialis Muscles/tendons to pivot about. This pivot nodules are visible called the Ulna Styloid Process, noted above.
For the right-handed golfer, the golfer wants to hinge (or Palmar Flexion), shown above, using the Palmaris Longus muscle to hinge their left wrist back toward the right elbow to perform the Sync element. Just a split second later after the Sync element is performed the golfer wants to Preset (or Supinate) their right wrist using the Brachioradialis muscle. These two maneuvers place the wrists into the Cock & Lock Position, that Ben Hogan described, shown below:
I realize that I denote the Palmaris Longus and the Brachioradialis Muscles/tendons on the opposite wrists than how these two muscles are used in presetting the wrists into the Cock & Lock Position. But it was the only view showing these two muscles/tendons.
From the Cock & Lock Position, the golfer has completed 80% of their entire golf swing with the Sync and Preset Technique. Then the handle of the club is taken to the top of the swing using the Rule of Thumbs.
The Rule of Thumbs plays an important role in hitting more fairways and greens consistently. The golfer’s left thumb represents the handle of the club and the correct orientation of the swing plane to take the handle of the club up in quarter, half, three-quarter swings, or a full swings positions.
A coaching point- Most slices are done based on two factors- OPEN clubface at impact; and secondly- Too steep of a swing plane. This is why the driver is the most difficult club to hit in the bag. The left thumb for a right-handed golfer will help correct this slice issue.
The thumbs are another visualization and feel for the how golf swing preset wrists action is to establish the golfer’s swing mechanics and muscle memory to hit more fairways and greens with consistency.
The right thumb indicated how the clubface will impact the golf ball at impact; whether that be a strong, neutral, or weak grip by the placement of the right thumb on the handle of the club by the right-handed golfer. For the left-handed golfer, the wrists and thumbs are swapped.
If you noticed, I keep the focus of the golfer attention on their wrists action and their thumbs. The reason is that it allows the golfer to keep their focus on the handle of the club instead on the end of the shaft. Eddie Merrins even used this coaching technique to coach golf to his students. Eddie Merrins stated- Swing the handle and not the club. Any baseball or softball player could understand the natural feel for swinging the handle rather that the club, or the clubhead.
The golfer’s focusing on the Strike Zone like in baseball, a 16-inch x 16-inch x 16-inch zone, allows them to use a very important coaching technique called Apperception. Apperception is where an athlete can take well established skills and instincts from one sport (like baseball) to another sport (like golf).
The Strike Zone is where the entire golf swing preset wrists action and impact with the golf ball takes place. This help to eliminate the golfer’s distractions on the golf course and allow them to focus and enter their strike zone and connect with their subconscious mind. There is nothing more powerful than the subconscious mind; so why not take advantage of this huge potential we have on the golf course.
My personal preference is to impact the golf ball at the 3:30 Position, if 9:00 Position is pointing toward the target area. If I place my right thumb (I am right-handed) on the club in a strong grip position it allows me to hit draws where I can better control my golf shots with power. I demonstrated this in the third video below where I am hit five golf shots to an orange bucket to compensate for the wind from my back-left. In the third video I explained this in my last Tee shot, because the wind speed increased.
The Video Series of my Golf Mini Camp
On May of 2015 right before I retired as a Grid Engineer with Entergy Mississippi Transmission Lines, the sports director of WJTV-12 here in Jackson, Mississippi contact me about doing a video series covering the Golfer’s Sync-Preset Strike Zone Technique after seeing me play in a charity fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House that I entered each year.
We scheduled the three-part video series for Saturday, June 6th, 2015, at the Germantown football practice field because of a unique request by the camera crew. During our per-production meeting, the camera crew wanted to use just one camera setup to video the complete golf shot that I was going to make. To accommodate their request, I used some special practice balls that I have to hit five Tee shots to within 15-foot of an orange bucket placed 295-feet at the south end-zone goal line.
The practice balls that I was using travel one-third the distance of an actual golf ball, so I am fitting in feet instead of yards. So if I hit a Tee shot that traveled 295-feet, that would represent a ~295- yard Tee shot. These special golf balls that I use to coach with are great for the back yard that don’t cause property damage or injuries.
So, using my special practice balls, I hit six- 295-feet Tee shot that would represent a 295-yard tee shot, from the north end-zone to the south end-zone at the Germantown football practice field here in Madison, Mississippi. This allowed the camera crew to use one setup to capture the complete Tee shot where they could used their zoom to catch the impact area around the orange bucket.
To add a little more intrigue to what I call the Home Depot Orange Bucket Challenge, I was going to hit five Tee shots to within 15-foot of the orange bucket using just one take.
In our per-production meeting, I was going to have the camera crew videotape my Introduction followed by my Walk-Through and my demonstration videos where I could explain the philosophy behind the Golfer’s Sync-Preset Strike Zone. The forth video, below, was a promo for the SPORT ZONE Show where I hit all five Tee shots to within 15-foot of the orange bucket.
Below are my Introduction, Walk-Though, and my Demonstration videos including the promo produce by the WJTV-12 department. What was nice about the promo, the production team highlighted where the shots were landing:
These three Videotaped Series are below with a promo that WJTV-12 did for their Sport Zone Show:
Introduction
Walk-Through
Demonstration
WJTV-12 SPORTS ZONE Promo
Additional Golf Videos I provided that were aired was to Help Golfers’ Short Game Around and on the Green
The most critical golf shot is the approach shot to limit the distance of the putt to within 15-feet.
I also gave the production team these three (3) other videos covering my putting and short game series that I had produced earlier to provide a complete Tee-to-Green Series for their viewers.
Rap-Type Pitch Shot from 2 – 5 Feet onto the Green
The Bunt-Type Pitch Shot 5- 25 Feet onto the Green
The Tick-N-Cock Putt Technique
The above videos of my Golfer’s Sync-Preset Strike Zone is contained in my Book by the same name detailing the Golf swing preset wrist action Technique:
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