[ChrisNZ]

As in top arc and straight line...

This is pretty cursorily covered in the yellow book, but is obviously pretty important for drag loaders at least, as its where the loading procedure is set up.
The hands have to retrace the arc before tracing the straight line delivery path, but how is this done (hands, shoulder turn, shoulder slide etc)?

What got me thinking about this was Gregg McHatton's blobman program (which shows an idealised swing with tracing of some components). The interesting thing for me was the way the right shoulder worked away from the target, basically all the way up to release point. This makes sense when you think of the shoulders rotating around the spine, but with comments about driving the right shoulder towards the plane line (and the associated setinng up of pressure point #4), I'd never really considered that this might be towards the plane line but (initially at least) away from the target.

Thoughts?

Chris