[O.B.Left]

Got it OB, thanks for your comprehensive reply. With the arms at a distance, would you agree that as the left wrist cocks, there is a slight corresponding anti clockwise rotation of the right forearm?

Hmm. I want to say no but without the benefit of knowing your Alignments I cant say whether this a feel you associate with correct Plane and Face compliance going back or not. For instance, I used to roll my wrists under the plane, Nancy Lopez style. The correction felt like a reverse roll to me but it wasnt really. Does the right forearm rotate anti clockwise due to something the right elbow is doing, flying out or something? What type of #3 pressure point are you loading , the first joint in the index finger or the Knuckle? Hmm? Does the left forearm rotate too? If no and its just a right forearm rotation then maybe you need to research RFT, fanning and bending, the Right Arm Pickup, the Indian chiefs "how" like move of Alignment Golf. Are you lawnmower cord pulling with a flying right elbow?

To answer this question for yourself take a look at you Startup and Backswing. If one end the of the club or the other points at the Plane Line you are Plane Line Compliant, ClubSHAFT. I like to slide the butt end of grip out 6 inches or so see where its pointing better. If your Left Wrist is Perpendicular to one of the Three Basic Planes (Horizontal, Vertical or Angled as in the Inclined Plane) in Startup you are executing a Hinge Action and controlling the ClubFACE.

Typically a Reverse Roll is associated with Vertical Hinging an intentional manipulation of the clubface to reduce compression and increase loft as in a Flop Shot say. That it why I wanted to say NO at first glance. But what may feel like something to you may in fact be something else in terms of Alignments and so you must look, LOOK, LOOK at you club shaft and club face to answer the question yourself. Something we should all do while practicing or warming up, every day.

Get these two functions of the golf club, Clubshaft and Clubface Aligned correctly and you need only add Clubhead control to have total control over the entire golf club and therefore the ball as well. Sounds easy eh?

PS Sometimes whats at issue is the Vertical only Plane of the Left Wrist cock, The Left Arm Flying Wedge. You must maintain this Plane of Motion in your Left Hand Wrist Cock. To see what this is, is to see what condition your Left Wrist will be in when fully cocked. It is seldom literally flat. Its referred as "flat" or "geometrically flat" but it isnt truly flat for most grip types anyways. With just your left hand on the club, you LAFW in line, cock the club up vertically in front of you, like a hammering motion. See how a "neutral " left hand grip will show some additional bend at Top. Neutral still being slightly turned over on to top of the shaft. Let your left arm dangle at your side without a club in it to see how it rests at approx a 45 degree angle to the Plane Line. Neutral is not the back of the left hand facing the target! That is weak. And probably another of golfs "seems as ifs" or false logics. Why is are the hands aligned at angles like that? Hand to mouth takes takes precedence over Hand to Target in an evolutionary sense! Maybe millions of years from now things will evolve to a more golf centric alignment, in the mean time lets just turn the Hands a bit. Each grip type will have a different look at Top when you isolate the plane of the left wrist cock like this. This is what it must look like when you Look , Look , Look at it during a practice stroke or startdown waggle. To NOT achieve this correct left hand condition at Top is to have introduced some Horizontal left wrist motion into what should have been a purely Vertical Plane of Motion as in your hammer drill.

The LAFW , the RFFW one operates on a vertical plane (the plane of the left wrist cock) the other on a horizontal plane (the plane of the Right Hand Bend). They are aligned at 90 degrees to each other. One running through the Top and Bottom of the shaft , one through the For and Aft of the shaft. Each with its own associated pressure points. One plane thrusted by the swinger the other by the Hitter, normally, classically. Now we're getting into the real meat of Homers revelation. But to get there , to use it, you have to comply with the Alignments or suffer from the complications and the compensations they require. Its the uncompensated swing that we should seek not a set of positions, or maneuvers that typically have no accompanying consideration for the proper Alignments.

Im rambling again sorry, I just started some holidays and am really fired up to play some golf down in Florida. Let me at it. I feel like Tiger about to enter a Perkins or something, pre Thanksgiving 2009.