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Couldn't find any paddles but used a thin flat plastic covered menu the other day at the driving range restaurant.

I held the menu between both open hands right hand a bit lower. I turned the left hand and bent my right wrist maintaining a little pressure against the menu between the two hands. I continued to try and turn my hands from this position which started to rotate my forearms, bend my right elbow and move the menu cleanly up plane. I then found myself in a condition that looked like Lynn's backswing...not fully but much better than mine was. Unconsiously, my hip and shoulder just wanted to get out of the way during this somewhat static drill.

It feels very compact and when coupled with an early right hip and a kind of sitting motion in the takeaway it feels so very compact and that basically nothing can go wrong from there.

A sense of extensor action was there due to the opposing forces of the hands pushing together to keep the menu in place. I'm just wondering about this elimination of the right forearm pickup, as a component, as it didn't seem to be something I needed to do because it simply reacted to the hand/wrist motion.