[Jeff]

Jeff,

Since the right wrist is hyperextended in the backswing, why wouldn't the muscles involved in the downswing be the flexors?

Also, you stated earlier that the ulnar deviation is passive. Would that not negate the use of the muscles that do this (ul. dev.), or are you describing active/passive from the standpoint of intent, rather than an actual physical standpoint?

Bigwill

According to TGM teaching, the right wrist should be bent (dorsiflexed) during the backswing, and should remain bent during the entire downswing. Therefore, the right forearm flexor muscles do not have to contract isotonically in order to palmar flex the right wrist during the downswing. However, I think that they maintain a considerable amount of isometric tone so that the driven right forearm can apply steady pressure behind the clubshaft through the impact zone.

I personally think that the forearm muscles causing ulnar deviation are not isotonically active in a swinger's swing, and in that sense they are passive. I believe that the right wrist goes into ulnar deviation passively during the post-impact phase of the swing. However, Pistol claimed that Hogan actively forced his right wrist into ulnar deviation during the downswing, and I only produced that photograph to demonstrate which muscles would be isotonically involved if that fact could be proven to be true.

Jeff.