With single wrist action the right forearm wedge (which from address is resting on the (let’s say turned shoulder) plane) will remain on plane as the club is moved up to the position where it is parallel to the plane line – a sort of windscreen wiper motion of the whole right arm flying wedge. The right elbow will be ‘up the plane’ from the right hand.
With standard wrist action the club and right hand will stay on plane as the club is taken back but the right elbow will immediately begin working inside the plane, so that at the point where the club is parallel to the plane line the right forearm [wedge] will also be parallel to the ground.
With so many swingers out there, it would seem standard wrist action would be pretty common, but the description I've given of it, where the clubshaft and right forearm are parallel to the ground at the same time is something you just don't see in actual golf strokes. The one possible exception to this, which makes me wonder more, may be (it's hard to tell because of the quality though) the Homer Kelley swing in the gallery.
The only way the shaft is angled in relation to the right forearm flying wedge is via the bent right wrist, so the only way the shaft can be further up the plane when the right forearm is parallel to the ground is if the bend points up the plane. Right?
The only solutions I can see to this (but I'm happy to be proven wrong!) are:
1. The turn to plane in the start up swivel is tiny - that is somewhat less than even a 45 degree turn. By this the swivel would still see the right wrist bend pointing somewhat up plane, but the effect would be less than with single wrist action. The right elbow would still work insde the plane somewhat as the swivel was executed.
2. The backstroke swivel of standard wrist action occurs, or at least is completed, after the club and right forearm have passed through the parallel-to-the-ground positions.
3. (Least likely I think) almost everyone uses single wrist action!
First, the right forearm and clubshaft are not parallel to the plane line at the same time. See photos 8-5 and 9-2-5 #2.
Second, the Start Up Swivel doesn't add any more angle between the left forearm and clubshaft than the amount of #3 Accumulator Angle that was present at address (by virtue of the heel of the left hand being placed on top of the clubshaft).
Third, the Right Wrist Bend doesn't create an "up" (vertical) angle between the right forearm and clubshaft, unless you are "double-cocking" your right wrist. The bending of the Right Wrist is a horizontal only motion. The increase in angle of the clubshaft in relation to the Right Forearm is caused primarily by the cocking of the left wrist in the Backstroke. Lag, Drag and Inertia tend to increase that angle on the Downstroke.
Hi RWH, Thanks for your reply.
Prior to dinner for me but I'm getting real hungry!
I agree the right forearm and clubshaft are not parallel to the plane line at the same time, I was suggesting they may be parallel to the ground at the same time.
Not sure about your second point (how it relates?)
By right wrist bend creating a vertical angle I don't mean double wirst cocking, I mean that the as the right forearm fans (on plane)the club head leads the right wrist up plane. With single wrist action this is possible because the wrist does not turn. I'm just wondering whether once the wrist has turned (standard wrist action) the clubhead can lead the right forearm up plane (at least as much), because the bend is now oriented differently to the plane.
The Right Forearm and clubshaft aren't parallel to the ground at the same time in the backstroke. Look at photo 8-5.
Sorry, I should have looked more closely at this post. Your right, and that was where my trouble started - it seemed to me with a start-up swivel they should be parallel. Now I'm wondering if the swivel is just tiny (like not even an eighth of a turn).
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