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Here is something a little weird to consider in regard to the plane of the left wrist cock and the RFT or Pickup.

Without a club , assume your address position. The plane of the palm of your right wrist is kinda sorta at 90 degrees to the shoulders right. Now swing to Top. Here too the right palm while under and supporting Hogans sheet of glass its is still at about 90 degrees to the shoulders which have now rotated. Its a little confusing but I hope you follow me. So if this is their relationship at address and at top then why would one want to rotate the palm of the right hand into a more parallel to the shoulders relationship going back? You'd have to undo some if not all of it by Top.


Also if you go to top and then, keeping your right arm/shoulder relationship in tact bring your shoulders back to address you'll see the right hand is about right shoulder high and over your right leg. This reveals the extent and direction of right arm motion needed to get to Top (when combined with a pivot for a full shot only).

So for a full shot, a Major Basic Stroke anyways, the right arm takeaway motion when viewed in isolation is a little fanning and then a Right Forearm Pickup via right elbow bending, UP to right shoulder high, TOP. Although with some momentum you can actually regard the last bit of its travel to Top as just gliding as opposed to lifting. This fanning and bending when sequenced will be like an "L" but when blended will be more of a diagonal move of the right hand from its address to right shoulder high (when the pivot is zeroed out). The Pickup portion of it is a clear right elbow bend which when combined with a pivot will cock the left wrist as well. This is the plane of the left wrist cock. Its more like pure vertical hammering than you think. But its a right handed hammering that cocks the left wrist UP. Weird or what? Going down you have options, but thats another story.