Optional Extensor Action
 

The Term Extensor Action is used 20 times from page 30 to page 192 and “is exclusively the steady effort to straighten the bent Right Arm.” It is structural reinforcement and provides excellent support for the Primary Lever and especially under the stresses Right Arm Thrust. But does the Swinger need anything more than what CF provides?

Extensor Action is limiting for the Swinger in Total Motion Swings because it stiffens the Wrists (“While this particular application of Power inhibits a “take-over” of the action by Centrifugal Force”) and is slightly cumbersome when stretching to End.

I’ve been toying with a different kind of Structure for about 18 months. It doesn’t have a name but I can explain the mechanics. It allows the wrists to remain free and allows one to easily reach End without swaying.

Directions:

1. Grip the Clubshaft normally.
2. Assume your Golf Posture.
3. Apply extension to the Left Arm. Don’t tighten the left arm muscles. Simply push the Left Hand with enough force to straighten it. The Left Arm will only extend very Slightly if any.
4. Using your Right Hand, Pull toward your Right Shoulder. As you pull with your Right Arm, notice that extending your Left Arm becomes easier as it only needs to brace against the right arm pull. Notice the increased structure of Arms and Club.
5. Use RFT and your right arm to pull the Club through the Backswing to End. Notice how easy your Left Arm remains straight.
6. Choose your Release Point where you will release the Right Arm during the Downswing. After a few trys, then at Swivel, use all of the Right Arm Thrust you can produce. The more Staight Line Deliver Path you have the better.

It is in operation from Standard Address to end of Follow-Through. In addition, this action promotes:

1. the full extension of the Left Arm at all times
2. the Take-Over of CF
3. Sequence Release by promoting the Pitch Elbow Stroke.
4. support for “passive” Clubhead Lag Pressure involving Wristcock.

Try it. Opinions welcome. :)

It may have been done a thousand times already, but I haven't known about it.

Mesa-Mensa Extensor LLC.
 

Is this an equal opposite deal? So, the left is resisting the upward pull of the right? Does that not introduce unwanted muscular tension in the left arm?

I may have missed the ferry on what you are float loading out there. The beauty of extensor action is the "extension without muscular tension in the left arm" Structure sans the rupture!

Set me straight! Sorry, I tend to be punny in the morning (large doses of caffeine doing their thang!)

Apply extension to the Left Arm. Don’t tighten the left arm muscles. Simply push the Left Hand with enough force to straighten it. The Left Arm will only extend very Slightly if any.

Yes, it is kind of an equal opposite thing. So is Extensor Action.

Absolutely - I left handed playing right handed - until I got my right arm extensor involved - I had no structure - and far less power.

I probably could have been clearer. For the Swinger, CF stiffens the Primary Lever for impact much more than Extensor Action can provide but for the Hitter, Extensor Action supplies all of the Primary Lever Stiffness they need including the extra structure required by Right Arm Thrust.

I’m not suggesting that Extensor Action isn’t invaluable for Hitters and Swingers. Honestly, I wouldn't swing a club without it. I have only toyed with the new idea and asked for opinions because I have found some merit to its effectiveness for the Swinger. I haven’t made any conclusions. I may be completely wrong. I may have missed some very important information or details. I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking. I’m in the Lab. This is where new ideas are explored. :)

If it isn't too much trouble, please just grab a club and make a couple of swings with it and let me know what you think.

"Extensor Action" is simply the maintenance of the integrity of the Flying Wedges, as assembled at address. It is neither optional in its application or variable as to which arm you feel the need to extend.

The right arm has to have its tendency to straighten controlled by the "check reign" effect applied by the left arm.

Aint' that the simple truth?

"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin)

Homer thought so too. The rest, is history.

True That!
 

When the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of change...then change is possible. Hugh Nose (no really I don't know who to attribute this to! Adler maybe? )

Extensor action is CRUCIAL everywhere but especially when precision is a premium i.e. around the 41/2 inch center of gravity we are all drawn to (some sooner than others. Go Sooners!) I become more structured the closer I get to the hole! EA is the indespensible precision tension without rigor mortis force! It is easy to demonstrate but I find some people think it an optional extra. The day Yoda does an article in Golf Digest about the flying wedges is the day Mike O's space ship breaks the atmosphere of muddled golf instruction! If only the aticle had been written when Okie was a mere sprout. You still would not have heard of me...but I would have smiled more!

I recall from the video where Yoda is striping one frozen rope drive after the other (all layered up with clothing and liquored up with unbridled enthusiasm) the last thing he says before start up is "extensor action" then "kablamo" Pardon my Grade A sycophance (not to confused with what bucket has) but I have seen them all (best in the world since say Seve) and your swing/hit is a thang of beauty, Mr Yoda. When the crucial alignments are preset then set it just looks "right" I have watched that particular video...100 times...easy!

Mike O (The Big O) please count this as a double post. I got youngins crawling all over the place. Momma bear is under the weather! How to apply a normal force in child rearing!

2-M-4 refers to an essentially inert Left Arm.

The left tricep is flexed the same whether you extend the left arm as per Daryl's alternate procedure or you pull it to extension with the right arm. So, either way, the Left Arm is essentially inert.

I beg your forgiveness. I did not mean to imply that Extensor Action is optional. I am merely asking, if perhaps, another way is feasible.:)