With regard to your statement,"... my right forearm is slightly below plane due to my adding a bit more #3 accumulator when I relax into adjusted address.", I have some questions.
1. Can you explain what you mean by your right forearm being "below plane?" To which plane are you referring? Does this mean that your right arm is below the shaft at address?
2. What does it mean to add more #3 acumulator? I just looked in the book, and don't understand Homer's explanation or what it is that you do.
3. Perhaps more importantly, I don't see how my right forearm could possibly be "on plane" (in line?) with the shaft at adjusted address. I just tried this with my sand wedge. At adjusted address,my hands and the the butt of the shaft are on my left thigh and the club face is behind my right foot. My right forearm is most definitely not on plane with the shaft; rather my forearm is at an angle of approximately 60 degrees to the shaft. How could I possibly get my right forearm in line with the shaft without destroying my flying wedges?
4. Am I simply incorrect as to what "on plane" means?
5. Am I correct that the "flying wedges" refer to the angle between the arms and the shaft?
Thank you very much.
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Here's my best effort at answering your questions:
1. Slightly below plane, meaning not exactly inline with the shaft, but instead the arm just slightly lower - I checked my mirror tonight and it's only very slightly below plane when at adjusted address.
2. I mis-spoke and meant to say #2, accumulator - which is the amount of cock in your left wrist. When I go to adjusted address I get a tad more than I have than when starting at impact fix. I think to be text-book, one would not allow this to happen and one would maintain the Level condition of the left wrist, even at adjusted address. As Yoda recently told me, TGM is a "high hands system", not a "low hands system".
3. Ideally your right forearm will be on-plane with the shaft both at address and at impact. Impact being the most important one. Check out the gallery and watch the video called "Right Forearm, Holies and Polies". Yoda gives the student (which happens to be me in the video) a lesson on how to get the right forearm on plane at address. You can see the on-plane position from behind and it doesn't matter how much your right wrist is bent. A front view you would see the wedges intact as you mention.
4. I hope the above clears up what "on plane" means when we are talking about the right forearm.
5. Do Forum search on Flying Wedges and you will find some great explanations. I think of it as maintaining a bent right wrist, flat left wrist throughout the downstroke, impact, and into follow through.
Again, go to the Forum Archives and search for some of these topics and you will find a load of information.
And then again, Homer personally really didn't care how you took it back, as long as from release through impact your alignments are dead-solid, perfect.
It helps to have the right forearm on plane at address, but it's not a requirement. There are many other things a swinger and hitter can do to make it easier to lessen all the extra movements prior to release.
The right forearm on plane at address is just one.
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