[rwh]

Your right it does at release it supplies the outward force from the shoulder turn per 2-N-1 (as Tommy said it closes the door) but what started the downswing is the uncocking action of the right forearm not the lower body (See the end of 7-3). Also, reference the Lee Dietrick video, I believe it's the number #2 video. The right forearm supplies the up and down force to the swing....shoulder turn supplies the inward action on the backswing and outward force on the downswing...that's why you hear Mark Evershed talk about hitting down with the right arm on the downswing.

I'm trying to reconcile it all...Tomasello to Mark Evershed to Homer and TGM.

DG

Yes, TT demonstrates the Right Forearm Pickup and then just appears to reverse that action for the downswing from about 2:20 - 3:25.

The right forearm pickup is nothing more than bending the right arm; and the reverse procedure is nothing more than straigtening the right arm. Now, the right arm can unbend one of two ways -- passively, through the throw-out action of a swinging procedure or actively through use of the muscles. I contend this can only be done by the tricep muscle, as the right forearm has no musculature that can actively cause the right arm to straighten.

So when you say that the right forearm is in control, you appear to be saying that the right forearm is causing, activley powering both the pick up and straigtening of the right arm, and I don't think that is anatomically correct. I believe that is done by the bicep and tricep.