The secret that people search for but never find is that right arm/elbow bending should never be used inadvertently to raise the club for standard stroke patterns. Once the amount of right elbow bend needed to match your chosen swing plane is determined at impact fix, returning to Adjusted Address will bend your right elbow to within an inch of Release Elbow Bend.
“Magic of the Right Forearm” theorizes that you only need one more inch of bend to fully cock the left wrist. So, HK found a perfect way to discover the amount of bend needed at Release. Furthermore, if you maintain that angle of bend from Backstroke through Release then you can return the Right Forearm to precisely the same plane angle. If you Bend more, then you’ll need to unbend the Elbow to return to your pre-established Plane Angle at Release. If you bend the right arm to raise the club, then throw the Golfing Machine book in the garbage. Raise the Club to the Top of your Swing with your Right Deltoid Muscles (Extensor Action). The amount of Right arm bend determines your swing plane angle. Extensor Action maintains that Plane Angle throught the stroke. Duh.
7-3 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 with out 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 RIGH FOREARM.
I have to admit my below average intellect. For so many years I thought that you were supposed to bend your right arm to in order to raise your left arm. I’m an idiot. I never realized that Homer was simply stating that a straighter right arm has a steeper plane angle (the arm is higher at the top of the backstroke) and a more bent right arm has a shallower plane (the arm is lower at the top of the backstroke) and all of this is made possible because of Extensor Action raises the arms without changing the Bend. And very important to know he is saying that if you bend your right arm to raise the Club, then you will bend, flatten or cock your right wrist.
Why didn't he just say it that way and save me 20 years of frustration.............................
What a journey!
Yoda, that's why I played so well in Vegas. By keeping my head stationary, I had extension and didn't bend my right elbow further. Hmm? Maybe now that I understand extensor action I can move my head again...NO!
The BOOK has just been unlocked for me. Everything is clear, no more confusion. Without extensor action you will forever have Pivot Controlled Hands and swing on the Elbow Plane. You don't cause extensor action by pushing with right triceps muscles, extensor action is caused by the left arm check-reign when you raise the club to the top of your stroke with your right deltoid muscle, that way, your right triceps will tighten (push) automatically. THAT'S why Extensor action isn't listed under address in the mechanics checklist; because it doesn't exist until you engage right deltoid muscle. You have to artificially create extensor force for short shot power package structure. Thats why it says RHYTHM next to extensor action in the checklist, because extensor action holds the left arm against the chest (deltoid) so you won't pull down with your arms. Its a below plane force that counteracts the #4 accumulator which is an above plane force; thereby giving the #3 pressure point serious control to TRACE the PLANE LINE and travel ON-PLANE.
EXTENSOR ACTION is not FORCING the Left Arm straight..It's keeping the Left Arm from Bending the Right Arm so that the hands will stay the same distance from the left shoulder at all times without increasing or decreasing right elbow bend. Therefore, Extensor Action controls the Right Elbows Location at ALL times except Address and Finish.
Ive spent 25 years with this book. I want my diploma!
Wait!! The Journey begins anew!
I think it's called "The Magic of the Right Forearm" because once that paragraph is understood, the book "magically" becomes clear.
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