[Mathew]

Matthew,
Seemed a little lonely over here- and I was worried you might start answering or arguing with yourself

Good digging- some nice observations!

A little difficult to follow- might be helpful to clarify your perspective and also clarify it's relevancy- I get the feeling it's a area your looking into and still looking for final conclusions or discovery which is great!!!- keep digging.

Question:
If I understand the one section clearly enough- I see your perspective that in regards to a sequenced release- you would need some left wrist bend in order to have the shaft stay on plane IF you were dealing only with the uncocking of the left wrist and the roll of the left forearm. But since the uncocking of the left wrist would put the shaft below plane- wouldn't and isn't the offsetting factor the corresponding outward force of the "body turn" and/or "right arm thrust"- see 2-N-1.

That said- your post really takes that concept that I brought up a while back regarding that the left wrist is not on plane- and takes it further by analyzing and isolating how the sequence release can happen and still stay on plane- so very helpful!! in flushing out some ideas.

I'm thinking you're essentially in the 2-N-1 section-

"Hey, gotta go- Homer's back and looks like we'll be kicking this around for a few hours!"

Thanks for participating in my lil thread here Mike O ....

I consider this as my incubator thread where I keep posting my thoughts at a particular time so I can keep track of them, so unfortunately this thread does have a lot of randomness to it.

re the question - the two circles of the wristcock and acc no.3 need to be working together whist the left arm is above plane, so the only solution if you desire a sequenced release is introducing the third circle (wristbend) to the negative degree of the left arm angle into the plane (triangle shape - don't tell me I might be able to use that SOHCAHTOA trig stuff from school after all...lol) to align the circle of the uncocking of the left wrist to be on plane otherwise the other two circles have to work co-ordinately . The hinge assembly however depicted in 1-L is what can place the left hand anywhere on the plane as it makes its circular motion in 'its' sphere regardless of how it is driven. Provided the left shoulder is above plane as the left arm makes it motion from the sphere created by the hinge assembly this what must happen because the left arm is going through at an angle.....

On another observation I just thought of, this will mean that when the wristbend has to go back to 'flat' it will work co-ordinately when it works with the wristroll to go back to vertical if to stay onplane.