[Mike O]

Hi Mike O. You have a handle on Paddlewheel. The visual rotation of the Paddle Wheel gives me problems. Does the wheel
go clockwise or counterclockwise. Seems to me that swinging
with horizontal hinging would use a clockwise rotation with the
left hand rotating clockwise through impact, but with hitting
and angular hinging, the wheel would have to be rotating counter
clockwise to produce the layback. Please help me to get the
visual concept. Thanks, Donn

Donn,
Paddlewheel just means something moving in a certain plane- around an axis. Horizontal hinging is just like the motion of a door- think of a revolving door.

Consider the right forearm on plane moving to impact- and it's also rotating around a center (circle) so you could call that - right forearm paddlewheel motion.

So you could use the term Paddlewheel motion- for alot of things in the golf swing- any period of motion, regarding anything- that A) is moving in the same-consistent plane of motion and B) that is moving through angular motion - would fit the term. For example, the paddlewheel motion of the on-plane clubshaft, etc.