There is a lot of talk about the role of the right forearm on TGM forearms, but what about the right elbow.
(1) It stays on (a) plane from start up to follow through (unlike the right shoulder or right forearm);
(2) It’s staying on plane is essential to having an onplane right forearm (during the part of the swing when it can be onplane)
(3) It can take a true straight line up (it’s) plane and back down again. That is straight up the angle of approach of the right forearm and back down again.
(4) Via 3 above, by not releasing the angle between the upper right arm and forearm immediately from the top, you insure a straight line delivery path of the hands (the elbow is travelling straight, and the right hand is not moving in relation to the elbow, so it is travelling parallel straight (like in the recent Yoda dowel video)).
(5) By starting up with the feel of the right elbow sliding up the angle of approach, you can set up a nice tempo as the right forearm (almost simultaneously) fans (in a gentle swinging motion) around the elbow.
Hit some 8 irons yesterday while concentrating on this right elbow takeaway feel, and straight line parallel delivery of the elbow and hands, plus keeping on driving downplane – dispersion was fantastic, and the motion just felt so simple and effortless. I also really got the sense of the pivot’s role being accommodation of the onplane motion – the pivot moved only as much as necessary, and got out of the way when it needed to.
I don’t know, perhaps I’ve just finally got the RFP takeaway correct. At any rate, at the moment I feel like if the right forearm is magic, the right elbow is David Copperfield!
Hybrid Mode
