Magic of the Right Forearm

[Daryl]

Magic of the Right Forearm: Conclusions

I think that this is my 1,000th attempt at getting this right. But, I have more time if needed.

The Right Arm Flying Wedge

6-B-3-0-1 THE FLYING WEDGES The Clubhead may appear to move in an arc around and outside the Hands when related to the Left Arm – the very basic Left Arm Flying Wedge. But when related to the Right Forearm, it appears to move “On Plane” with the Right Forearm, at its normal rigid angle (Bent Right Wrist) – the Right Forearm Flying Wedge. So – except in Sections 1 and 3 (Chapter the entire Left Arm, the Clubshaft and the back of the Left Hand are ALWAYS positioned against the same flat plane – the Right Forearm and the Clubshaft are, in like manner, positioned on the plane of the Right Wrist Bend AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LEFT ARM PLANE. That is the precision assembly and alignment of the Power Package structure and is mandatory during the entire motion. Hitting or Swinging. Study 4-D-1 regarding “Grip” and “Flat Left Wrist”. Also see 7-3. Then, ideally, the Left Wrist is always Flat and the Right Wrist is always Level (4-A-1, 4-B-1).

Forearm Tracing with the Right Forearm Flying Wedge:

On a Table Top, configure the Right Forearm Flying Wedge. Both the Right Forearm and Right Elbow and Clubshaft are in-line (Alignment) and resting on the same Plane.



Exercise #1
While keeping your Right Elbow Stationary, move the Right Forearm Left and Right while keeping the Right Forearm and Right Elbow and Clubshaft rested on the Table Top. With this Alignment, your Right Forearm traces the Straight Baseline of the Horizontal Plane, as do your Clubshaft and Clubhead.

Exercise #2
If you bend at the Elbow (keeping your Elbow on the Table Top) thus raising your Hand and Golf club above the Table-top (without disturbing the alignment of the Right Forearm Wedge) and move the Right Forearm Left and Right you will also trace a Straight Line if you don’t change the Bend at your Right Elbow while moving the Right Forearm Left and Right. You are now tracing the Base Line of an Inclined Plane Flatter than the Horizontal Plane in Exercise #1.

Exercise #3
Keeping your Elbow rested on the Table Top. While moving your Right Hand and Clubshaft Left and Right as in exercise #1 or #2, simultaneously Bend and Unbend the Right Elbow; then, your Forearm will trace one Plane-Line and Your Clubshaft and Clubhead will trace another. Parallel-but-Different. This is why the Golf Stroke needs the “Magic of the Right Forearm”. It needs ELBOW ACTION (Controlling the Location of the Right Elbow) so that the Elbow and Right Forearm and Clubshaft and Clubhead are aligned and follow the same Path so that they Trace the same Plane Line.

Magic of the Right Forearm:

“Furthermore, in compliance with 6-B-3-0-1, Bending and Straightening the Right Elbow will RAISE AND LOWER the Left Arm and/or COCK AND UNCOCK the Left Wrist without Bending, Flattening or Cocking the Right Wrist. Practice this first at Impact Fix. So, the Right Elbow Action either powers and/or controls all three elements of Three Dimensional Impact (6-C-0) per 1-L-9. All this you will come to know as the MAGIC OF THE RIGHT FOREARM.”

Extensor Action: The Magic of the Right Forearm and Extensor Action have an inextricable link.

Pulling the Left Arm straight uses a Force, which does not lift the Arms. EXTENSOR ACTION force is the Right Triceps Muscle pulling the Left Arm Straight. Without a Left Arm, there is no Extensor Force. Extensor Force promotes a straight left arm for Consistent Swing Radius and prevents the Left Arm from Bending the Right Arm. While the Right Deltoid Muscle lifts the Arms, the Left Arm as “Checkrein” prevents the increase in Extensor Force from Straightening the Right Elbow.

Together these actions allow the Right Elbow to Move in Three-Dimensions Simultaneously during the Stroke (Start-up, Backstroke, Downstroke, Release, and Impact and until both arms become straight) and the Right Shoulder to Locate the Swing Plane during the Backstroke.

Wrist Action, Right Elbow location and On-Plane Right Forearm at Start-up determines the geometry of the Right Elbow Path, which includes the alignment of the Right Elbow at any given location (pointing behind you or downward). Extensor Action moves the Right Elbow along that path at ALL times. Therefore, though Elbow Action controls all three elements of the Three Dimensional Impact (6-C-0) per 1-L-9 except Address and Finish, Extensor Action gives control of Elbow Action and location to the Hands.

Muscles engaged to initiate the Take-Away and to Power the Backstroke are the same as those used if you bend at the waist, straighten the Right Arm, and use Side Deltoid Muscles to raise your Right Hand to the approximate top of the Backstroke. Both Hitting and Swinging Procedures employ the Deltoid Side Muscles almost exclusively. Initiating and Powering the Backstroke in this manor will force the Right Triceps to participate and increase their Force as the Left Arm crosses the chest.

Extensor Action relies on the Straight left Arm and Deltoid muscles of the Right Shoulder to create and meter the amount of Extensor force needed to fix the Right Elbow degree of bend. Those with Strong Right Triceps Muscles and a supple Left Arm will feel a lower Force than those with Weak muscles and a less flexible Left Arm.

Extensor Action will allow the Right Shoulder to move back to the Swing Plane but reaching the Swing Plane at the Precise Location Up-or-Down has other contributing factors. Engaging the Trapezoid or Latissimus dorsi muscles to raise or lower the right shoulder can change the right shoulders location on that plane. This will change its alignment with the Elbow and #3 Pressure Point. Extensor Action can locate a Rotated Shoulder Plane only with precise waist bend. The Rotated Shoulder Plane otherwise is not a Hands Controlled Pivot Procedure or a plane normally attained in an Alignment Golf Procedure.

Extensor action with a lesser amount of fixed right elbow bend will cause your right shoulder to raise as you take-away your hands on that same steeper plane. Using a greater amount of fixed Right Elbow Bend at the start of the backswing will cause your Right Shoulder to remain lower and your Swing Plane to be Flatter.

1)Hitting Procedure:

1. This is a Start-up Procedure for Hitting and creates Single Wrist Action.
2. Bending and Straightening the Right Elbow will RAISE AND LOWER the Left Arm and COCK AND UNCOCK the Left Wrist without Bending, Flattening or Cocking the Right Wrist.
3. Using Extensor Action Takeaway: (the Side muscles of the Right Deltoid muscles)
   1. The Right Elbow will Bend, which will move the Left Arm with its Flat Left Wrist without Turning the Wrists.
   2. The Right Elbow will Bend the correct amount for Release at the end of the Take-Away. If you pull the Right Elbow backwards with Back muscles, your Right Elbow is pulled off-plane and to make matters worse, the Left Wrist will Cock at Start-up .
   3. The Right Elbow will move away from your side when the proper amount of Elbow Bend is acquired.
   4. The Left Wrist will Cock when the Hands near the Top of the Backswing.
   5. Hitters need to have the Hands at Impact location at Start-up or at least forward pressed for Extensor Action Continuity.
4. The Right Elbow Action both powers and controls all three elements of Three Dimensional Start-Up.
5. Hitters Fan the Left Arm.
6. Hitters use Extensor Action Take-Away to acquire these Alignments and Actions.

2)Swinging Procedure:

1. This is a Start-up Procedure for Swinging and creates Standard Wrist Action.
2. Bending and Straightening the Right Elbow will COCK AND UNCOCK the Left Wrist without Bending, Flattening, or Cocking the Right Wrist.
3. Using Extensor Action Take-Away: (the Side muscles of the Right Deltoid muscles)
   1. Flattening the Left Wrist and Fanning the Right Forearm with a Stationary Right Elbow Turns the Wrists to Plane automatically.
   2. The Elbow moves when the Left Arm begins to Raise.
   3. The location and Bend of the Right Elbow at the moment the Elbow begins to rise is the exact location your Right Elbow needs to return for Release.
   4. Swingers need to have the Hands at the Center below the Head at Startup for Extensor Action Continuity.
   5. The Left Wrist will Cock automatically while moving from Top to End at the completion of Total Motion Stroke.
4. The Right Elbow controls all three elements of the Three Dimensional Start-Up.
5. Extensor Action Fans the Right Forearm.
6. Swingers use Extensor Action Take-Away to acquire these Alignments and Actions.

Conclusion:

When using Extensor Action with the Magic of the Right Forearm and the Right Forearm Flying Wedge, your Right Forearm and Elbow Action are controlled by the Hands. As a check, have someone stand in front of you while you assume Impact Fix. Tell them to superimpose a Clock-face over your right forearm. Then, ask them to stand behind you (down the line) and tell you if your Right Elbow and Hands followed that angle on your backstroke.
It is MAGIC of the Right Forearm because extensor action and force combined with the Left Arm Checkrein can only return the Right Elbow and Forearm with its fixed degree of bend on the precise angle that the Right Forearm will and needs to become at release and Impact.

Some Geometry Alignments of the Right Forearm and Wrist:

1.Bending the Right Elbow Turns (Turned on Plane) the Clubface and Fattens the Plane.
2.Turning Your Wrists without adjusting your Right Elbow location destroys the Right Forearm Wedge.
3.Rolling the Right Forearm at the Top of the Backstroke Cocks the Right Wrist.
4.Simply Cocking the Right Wrist Flattens the Plane Angle.
5.Hitters should have the Right Shoulder keep lowering at Release to keep the Right Forearm Thrusting on Plane.
6.Swingers need the Right Shoulder to carry the Right Forearm to Release and The #4 Accumulator Blast-Off to move the Right Forearm and Right Elbow simultaneously into Impact and Through the Impact Interval to be a Left Arm Swinger. Otherwise, it is a Right Arm Swing with a bending Left Wrist.

[EdZ]

Excellent summary. Well worth folks taking the time to read closely.

Especially useful to understand:

ideally, the Left Wrist is always Flat and the Right Wrist is always Level (4-A-1, 4-B-1).

Understanding wrist positions (chapter 5) and the flying wedges alignments are the road to understanding the beauty of TGM. The level right wrist, and the magic right forearm.

[Yoda]

Magic of the Right Forearm: Conclusions

I think that this is my 1,000th attempt at getting this right. But, I have more time if needed.

Now, that's a spicy meatball!

[DOCW3]

Since the left is bent at Adjusted Address, does this suggest that ideally, an early move in Start Up would be to flatten it? Gives me a better understanding of the 12-3-0 checklist Section 4/5-- step 16 "Start Up--L/R Wrist Conditions." Of course, there is the option of starting at Fix. Would an early flattening of the left wrist be an indicator that the right elbow is moving correctly?

Excellent summary. Well worth folks taking the time to read closely.

Especially useful to understand:

ideally, the Left Wrist is always Flat and the Right Wrist is always Level (4-A-1, 4-B-1).

Understanding wrist positions (chapter 5) and the flying wedges alignments are the road to understanding the beauty of TGM. The level right wrist, and the magic right forearm.

[EdZ]

Since the left is bent at Adjusted Address, does this suggest that ideally, an early move in Start Up would be to flatten it? Gives me a better understanding of the 12-3-0 checklist Section 4/5-- step 16 "Start Up--L/R Wrist Conditions." Of course, there is the option of starting at Fix. Would an early flattening of the left wrist be an indicator that the right elbow is moving correctly?

A qualified "maybe". If the other components, specifically the hip action/motion and plane line tracing, are correct, then you are more likely on track, however it is entirely possible to have the wrists move properly, but be off your plane line tracing.

[jerry1967]

Flattening the Left Wrist and Fanning the Right Forearm with a Stationary Right Elbow Turns the Wrists to Plane automatically.
The Elbow moves when the Left Arm begins to Raise.
The location and Bend of the Right Elbow at the moment the Elbow begins to rise is the exact location your Right Elbow needs to return for Release

(Could you go into more detail about these statements).I don't understand the stationary right elbow.Also when you say "Extensor action fans the Right Forearm" is this automatic?





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[Daryl]

Flattening the Left Wrist and Fanning the Right Forearm with a Stationary Right Elbow Turns the Wrists to Plane automatically.
The Elbow moves when the Left Arm begins to Raise.
The location and Bend of the Right Elbow at the moment the Elbow begins to rise is the exact location your Right Elbow needs to return for Release

(Could you go into more detail about these statements).I don't understand the stationary right elbow.Also when you say "Extensor action fans the Right Forearm" is this automatic?
.)

Easy.

Stand upright and let your right arm hang at your side. Bend your right elbow until your right forearm is 90 degrees, or horizontal to the ground. Using your right shoulder muscle ONLY, move your hand to the right without moving your elbow. This is a Horizontal motion from left to right. Do not lift up your hand. This in an across plane motion. Do not move your shoulders.

We’re getting closer.

Now do the same thing with your right elbow in front of your right Hip. (Because only hitters ever have their right elbow at their side and you don’t want that).

We’re almost done.

Bend at the Waist. Now, with your right elbow in front of your right hip and your right forearm On-Plane (Close), move your right hand to the left so that it's in-front of your belt buckle (center of your stance). As you fan your forearm, your hand moves across to the right and passes by your elbow, it can go another 6 inches farther right before it stops. This is an across plane motion. Do not move your shoulders.


Almost done, and this is the cool part

Put your hand back in front of your belt buckle and this time, Fan really-really-hard and fast. Notice that after your right hand can go no further than 6 inches to the right of your elbow that your elbow begins to lift away from your side. When that happens, just keep using your shoulder muscle (ONLY) to raise your right arm to the top of the swing. Keep going in the same direction. Feel the continuity in the total motion. Go to the top of the swing by moving your right elbow farther away and up from your side. Don’t bend your elbow. (your elbow is less than 90 degrees bent, maybe 75 degrees) Do not move your shoulders.


Last thing, but this part makes everything else clear.

As you’re fanning your right forearm, (you have now learned to fan and lift using ONLY the right deltoid muscle) TURN your hand. Spin your hand to the right and bend your right wrist as it passes in front of your hip (keep your right wrist LEVEL). Put your thumb out as if you were hitch-hiking. Fan-spin-Hitch-hike in one smooth motion with your right arm up to the top of the backstroke without ever bending your right arm more than when you started. Do not move your shoulders.


Automatic Turn to Plane

With two hands on the club, and using only your deltoid muscle, your hands will turn to the plane as they pass in front of your right hip with a stationary right elbow. This is because your right hand is above your left hand. As your left arm creates a drag on your right forearm fanning, it will fall behind and thus turn your hands to plane.

Geometry:

When using a Golf Club when practicing this, at the end of the Fan:

1. Your Hands have Fanned Across the Plane
2. Your Hands have Turned to Plane
3. Your Left Wrist is Flat and your Right Wrist is Bent
4. Both Wrists have remained Level (not cocked)
5. The Clubshaft is not yet parallel to the ground and parallel to the base-line of the inclined plane.
6. Your shoulders will now begin to Turn
7. Continue lifting your arms with your right shoulder Deltoid Muscle
8. Feel the Extensor Force begin to increase

Did I say that Extensor Action fans the Forearm? Hmm? the Right Deltoid muscle fans the forearm and raises the arms.

[jerry1967]

Thank you for the explanation.