[Jeff]

Yoda - I agree about the lawnmower drill. You very quickly interrupted VJ Trolio when he talked about the lawnmower pull action in your DVD lesson - because you appropriately didn't want him to demonstrate a push action elbow positioning movement. You wanted him to demonstrate a right forearm fanning action.

Regarding my right palm position in the right hand clap action motion - that is not what one desires in a golf backswing action. I was simply demonstrating how the right elbow/forearm should fold/fan when one performs a right clap hand action - and that biomechanical action occurs naturally/automatically at the level of the right shoulder (as external rotation of the right humerus).

The next step in the learning process is the realization that when the right wrist bends back during the right clap hand action, that the right wrist should remain level - with no upcocking action at the level of the right wrist. That should allow the right palm to become parallel to the inclined plane (turned shoulder plane) at the top of the swing (and not facing away from the target) - as you demonstrated with the two raquets in your DVD lesson. I paid very careful attention to your DVD lesson instructional insights when I viewed the DVD - I was not completely asleep when I viewed, and reviewed, your excellent DVD lesson. I recognize a good lesson when I see one!

DRW - when practicing with a dowel stick, as per Yoda's DVD-instruction, one should look at the central end of the dowel stick to check its level alignment relative to the right forearm - to ensure that the right wrist remains level during the right clap hand action. However, one should also be checking that the end of the dowel stick that is nearest the ground always points at the base of the inclined plane - to ensure that the clubshaft is always on-plane (except when the dowel stick is parallel to the base of the inclined plane). In that sense, a practice-lesson with a dowel stick serves two useful functions. I can readily understand why Yoda likes his dowelsss!

Jeff.