Hitter's Backswing
 

Assuming I get to the right forearm on plane set-up. To do this, I'm bending my right elbow down and out just a hair - if I don't do the out - it ends up tucked...

The big question:
How do I use the right forearm and elbow to power the backswing? Do they push rearward/rightward (away form the target). After reading most of the posts especially Ted's wedge analysis - It seems they are pulling backward - straight up toward my back.

I'm a little confused, and this is resulting in a backswing that is way under turned shoulder plane - my left arm is under or below my shoulders. I'm caught in the bad trap of "extension back resulting in no extension on the follow-through." I have a great AI who is working on this with me - I'm just looking for some more descriptions of the same thing, so I can get it through my thick skull. Teach me, I want to learn.

The Right Forearm Takeaway
 

Here's a simple little drill that will help your Right Forearm Takeaway immensely:

1. Without a club, assume your address position, and grasp your left wrist with your right right thumb and forefinger.

2. Stretch the Left Arm a bit.

3. Now use your right arm to take your left to the Top. Keep all motion parallel to the Plane Line (the Target Line in this case), and Feel your Right Hip and Shoulder clear to the rear to accomodate that movement.

That's it.

Do the drill several times a day until you get a sense of how the Arms operate to get the Club 'up' on the Backstroke independent of the Body Turn.

Eyes wide shut . . .
 

AND . . . do it with your eyes closed too. Take it up there and stop with your eyes shut. Soak up where your hands are in space.

This drill rocks - thank you yoda and bucket:D

More On the Right Forearm Takeaway Drill
 

I've edited Step #3 in my post above to include more detail on the motion of the Arms to the Top and of the Pivot Action necessary to accomodate it. This is an important drill, and I know that for many, the additional detail is important. Once trained, the 'On Line' Arm and Body motion becomes instinctive. The operative words?

"Once trained..."