Originally Posted by Delaware Golf (Post 75381)

Actually Tommy's GI interview describes the up and down motion of the right forearm perfectly as Homer describes it per section 7-3. I believe the drill you're talking about (the 10 step sequence drill), that first move, the one to two position is to show/demonstrate the right wrist (only) bends and the left wrist turns and cocks. However, during actual play, if you are going to use the right forearm takeaway, its a folding up of the right forearm from the address position....it's a very precise movement. Not surprised you were crushing the ball. :) It's a great feeling not to guess where the club is going in the backswing. It's "The Magic of the Right Forearm"...that it is....

DG

Originally Posted by Delaware Golf (Post 75382)

Yes, but the execution of the right forearm has to comply with the left wrist action 18-C-2 (single wrist action versus standard wrist action) per the action addressed in 7-19-2 (by resisting the Backstroke motion for Drive Loading). The number three power accumlator during a right forearm takeaway wants to rotate naturally, so the golfer needs to resist that natural rotation by resisting it with the right forearm (reference the first two paragraphs in 7-3). So with the hitting motion you have three things happening simultaneously....extensor action, bending of the right elbow and resisiting the natural rotation of the (left forearm and wrist) with the right arm. Takes a little bit of coordination and concentration. But once you grasp the movements and with some practice, the movement becomes as natural as swinging with the right forearm takeaway.

I recommend re-reading section 7-3 on a regular basis, much to learn in that section alone. The Golfing Machine is an excellent text to develop the habit of learning a subject by continual re-reading. During a 5 or 6 year stretch, I read the book on a daily basis.

As Tom Tomasello said to me on the driving range at Deer Track Resort in Myrtle Beach...."to get this game in your hip pocket you need to learn both hitting and swinging".


DG

Originally Posted by ChangeMySwing (Post 75385)

The sad part is that I spent 5 years doing it wrong. :golf: Oh well... Time to view my old 'Knowledge' vid to see what else I got wrong.

Originally Posted by spike (Post 75460)

If I am standing erect with a BRW centered to the middle of my body(no left hand connection) and in a punch elbow position (elbow stationary) then trace the plane line with the right forearm I see this move as a level and maybe a sense of a lateral motion with the right forearm, causing the wrist to move in an arc. Please correct me if I'm wrong but this to me is 'fanning'.

When I connect the left hand to right hand with a SSA grip type then set up to Impact Fix with EA and do the same right forearm tracing as above... means, to me, a (not the) RFT.

If I match that tracing with a pivot and EA, along with the clubhead momentum the right elbow will bend as an effect.

The sequence of clubhead motion would then be back, up and in... as opposed to the right forearm pick up creating more of an up, back and in movement of the clubhead.

I feel that no resistance to rotation is necessary when the right elbow placement is secure at address whether it is in punch, pitch or push. The natural amount of rotation, or lack of, takes place at the right time using any educated elbow postion.

Am I looking at this the wrong way?

Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by Delaware Golf (Post 75461)

Yes, I would read section 7-3 repeatly, I suggest three or four times. The motion of the right forearm is an up and down motion, a karate chop motion. The fanning motion is a result of having the left hand on the club...accumulator 3 motion. Read 6-B-3-0. This is a classic....seperate the Facts from the Illusions issue. See VIII.

DG

Originally Posted by spike (Post 75488)

I see no contridiction to 7-3, 6-B-3-0 or VIII in my description. The Flying Wedges set precisely when I do it this way.

I am not saying that the right forearm in not an up and down motion. What I am saying is that when the right forearm is moved in a 'level' manner the clubhead moves more so in a back, up and in direction. If I do this with the shaft resting on a bench it works perfectly....no illusion.

That being said, the only true "backward" movement of the clubhead would be found more in the lagging clubhead takeaway.

I totally agree that the right forearm is moving up and down and can be felt like a karate chop action or even that of a hammering action.

As I see it the combination of EA and RFT is fanning such as in the Basic Motion. The combination of EA, RFT and Pivot is fanning plus right elbow bend in the Acquired Motion. If continued further then it moves into Total Motion. The right elbow must bend due to the checkrein of the left arm connection.

The feeling or illusion of being level in the beginning of the movement keeps everything on plane as long as the elbow doesn't move out of its alignment like in a chip shot. And, as long as it doesn't out run the pivot in longer shots.