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Jack Kuykendall’s E2E (Elbow-to-Elbow)
The Basic E2E drills consist of hitting 40 balls each practice session. The second drills ar...
The Basic E2E drills consist of hitting 40 balls each practice session. The second drills are hitting 4 balls with each club with a full shot, two partial shots and one open stance shot. You should perform the basic 40 ball drill a minimum of three times a week for the next two years. Neuroscience references state that this is the time frame for the motion to become automatic (move from short term memory to the outer cortex). The first 30 days will be as frustrating as anything you have ever done to change your mechanics. You have no brain patterns established to allow your body to perform the E2E mechanics. Every movement will be difficult to perform until a pattern is established in short term memory (the hippocampus). It takes about 30 days to establish useable patterns. Within 90 days, you will establish useable patterns in short term memory and will be striking the ball better. Around the six month time frame, you will start to believe that you have conquered golf mechanics. If you stop doing the drills, short term memory will dump the patterns and you will be starting over again. You must persist for two years.
Single-Axis Right Hand Grip:
The right hand grip is taken in the palm. Push the grip firmly into the thumb pad.
Wrap the fingers around the grip. The shaft and grip are in line with the bottom of the right forearm.
Stabilized-Wrist-On-Plane (SWOP) left hand grip:
Grip is taken inside the red lines.
Grip using the LPG Trainer.
Grip using the LPG Trainer & club.
Grip with fingers closed
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Start by taking the grip between the two fingers shown.
Move the index finger to the position shown.
Wrap the thumb around the grip. Back of hand is pronated on top of the grip.
Left hand pisiform bone. (pi'si-form)
The pisiform bone (red Both hands on the grip. Pisiform circle) is outside the grip. bone (green arrow)
One stroke method is proving to be the most effect for distance, accuracy and trajectory. I am calling it the E2E-SWOP-BASEBALL stroke. Distance is created by four methods: The left arm becomes a flail. The right arm is a fast pitch softball pitch. At waist high in the downstroke, there are two shortenings of a radius; left elbow moves back and right hand moves toward the target. The combination of the four produce unbelievable clubhead speed with the appearance of no effort. Accuracy: The SWOP grip allows the left wrist to remain stable and on a Single-Plane from address to impact. The back of the leading hand remains on plane from address to impact. At the top of the backstroke, it will look like a good baseball stance. Trajectory: Because the hands are higher in the backstroke, the clubhead is on a steeper descending path and produces a higher ball flight with greater backspin.
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E2E-SWOP-BASEBALL
Hands are inside the Start the backstroke Baseball Start the downstroke by moving left thigh and ahead by pulling the right position the right hand down on the same of the ball. Body is elbow backward. at the top arc as the backstroke. balanced with even Keep the left hand distribution of weight on plane on both feet. This ACTION is balanced by the REACTION of the body sitting into the knees and moving slightly to the left. There is NO lagging of the clubhead behind the hands. The hands are passive in E2E. Clubhead speed is produced by the physics principles of right arm thrust, left arm flail and shortening-of-the-radius by the right hand and left elbow.
The head is over the right knee. The hips and shoulders face the target line and both feet are FLAT on the ground
After impact, the left elbow continues to move around the body.
Left elbow even with the left side. Head still over right knee. Both feet still flat on the ground. The knees are in the same position as they were at the start of the downstroke.
Chase after the ball with the right arm. The hands move naturally up on plane. Keep the eyes focused in the impact zone. The body is a stabilizer. The arms produce the clubhead speed. 3
DRILL #1: Hit 10 balls off the Alignment/Practice mat with a wedge using the E2E trainer and MGNS. Swing at 20% clubhead speed. This drill is to train your elbows to move around your body. DRILL #2: Hit 10 balls off the Alignment/Practice mat with a wedge using the LPG and MGNS trainers You can obtain 90% of your distance with these two training aids. DRILL #3: Hit 10 balls off the Alignment/Practice mat with a wedge without training aids.
Arm Action – Body Reaction
Drill #4:
Hit 10 balls off the Alignment/Practice mat with a wedge sitting on a stool. This is an extremely important drill; it proves that clubhead speed comes from the arms and that the body is just a stabilizer. You should hit the ball within 5% of your standing up distance.
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Four-Ball Drills With Wedges
Full Shot
9 O’clock
45o Open Flop Shot
11 O’clock
Two-Ball Full Shot Drills With Remainder Of Clubs
Top
Downstroke
Impact
This is Jack Kuykendall’s chart at age 73. Basic Stance Full Shots Club 60 54 48 42 36 30 24 18 18+ Driver
Distance yards
75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 240
Partial Shots Club 60 54 48
Distance yards 9 O’clock 30 40 50
Distance yards 11 O’clock 50 65 80
Extension
45 Degree Open Stance Full Shots Club 60 54 48
Distance yards 60 80 100
You must know your club distances to have confidence to execute shots on the course.
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Original E2E
Hands just inside the left thigh and ahead of the ball. Body is balanced with even distribution of the weight on both feet.
Start the backstroke by pulling the right elbow backward. Keep the left hand on plane.
The start of the downstroke is moving the right hand down on plane. This ACTION is balanced by the REACTION of the body sitting into the knees and moving slightly to the left. Observe that there is no lagging of the clubhead behind the hands. The hands are passive in E2E. Clubhead speed is produced by the physics principle of shortening-of-the-radius.
TOP: Right elbow is behind the body. Right shoulder is in line with right hip. Left shoulder has rotated another 45 degrees to in line with the ball. Back of Left hand is still on plane.
When the hands continue down-on-plane to impact, there are two shortenings of the radius. One is when the hand changes direction from the previous photo position moving toward impact. The second change is when the left elbow moves around the body. This double shortening of the radius produces maximum clubhead speed. Staying on plane with the hands creates optimum accuracy.
After impact, chase after the ball with the right arm. Let the hands rotate naturally to the position shown. Keep the eyes focused in the impact zone.
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Hit Four Balls: One Ball Each From Each Position:
Full Stroke All clubs
9 O’clock All Wedges
11 O’clock All Wedges
45 Degrees Open All Wedges
Scoring in golf takes place from 100 yards and in shots. You must know the distances and have extreme confidence in producing partial shots. When you complete the chart distances, your scores will be optimized.
Wall Sponge Trainer:
Using the E2E Trainer, take the SWOP left hand grip with separated fingers or with the index finger wrapped around the grip. Pull the right elbow back and rotate the shoulders until the sponge touches the wall. Pull the left elbow around the body. Do this drill for 20 repetitions every day.
Alignment Practice Mat: I have many students who hit the ball as-good-as or better than I do on the range. When we do a playing lesson, they play very poorly. The majority of the time, the reason is alignment. The majority of golfers line to the right and pull their arms back across the body. This is a vision problem that can only be corrected with a training aid that allows your vision to continually observe correct alignment. Again, a training aid is needed to assure correct alignment. The brain has to build patterns for correct visual alignment. Watch tour players warm up before a tournament. They practice alignment and tempo. Correct alignment is a continuous training of the brain’s visual patterns.
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October 2013 Addendum: The SWOP left hand grip is more exciting and effective than I could have ever imagined. It allows the hands and forearms to act together so effectively that many of my Single-Axis techniques are optimized. The following are the first three that I have discovered since the discovery of SWOP in May. Three Effective Elbow-to-Elbow Stabilized-Wrist-On-Plane (E2E-SWOP) Techniques TECH-1: Basic E2E-SWOP The first technique is the basic on plane flat elbow to elbow with the SWOP left hand grip.
The right elbow moves behind the back, the left elbow moves around the body. Looking down the target line, there is no up in the backstroke.
The left hand moves back on a flat plane and down on a flat plane. There is NO forearm rotation.
TECH-2: (E2E-SWOP-BASEBALL) (Elbow-to-Elbow) (Stabilized-Wrist-On-Plane) (Baseball) March 2014 UPDATE: The E2E-SWOP-BASEBALL has proven to be optimum.
The back of the left hand moves up on plane until the hands reach shoulder height. A major key is to get the right elbow as far behind the back as possible.
The clubhead shaft and left forearm remain on plane pointing more upward than the basic technique. Ball flight will be higher and distance will be greater than the basic technique.
The hands rotate clockwise as much as possible during the backstroke. The butt of the grip MUST remain on the palm side of the pisiform wrist bone.
Move the left hand back on plane to waist high and then move the left hand above the right shoulder with the back of the left hand facing your right ear.
With the LPG technique, start the downstroke by simultaneously sitting into your knees and moving the hands backward and downward to waist high in the down stroke. Rotate the hands back to square as they go through impact. Major forearm rotation and timing is necessary to square the clubface with the LPG technique.
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IMPACT with All Three Techniques
This is OPTIMUM for impact: Feet flat on the ground Head over right knee Left elbow back Knees, hips, shoulders square to the target line Hands return to address position
Chase after the ball with the right hand. The head remains over the right knee with the eyes focused in the hitting zone.
Right forearm and shaft in line. Body is set into the knees.
Keep the feet flat on the ground. The left elbow moves away from the body
