Yes. Fanning and bending like a hand clap. The RFT is a great and consistent way of taking the club away. I used to push things away with my shoulders and left arm, rocking the triangle. It caused all sorts of problems for me. RFT pulls the rest along in a reliable , consistent and perfectly aligned manner. The right arm pulls the left , the left arm pulls the left shoulder the perfect amount. Remember the distinction between upper and lower body as in the McDonald drills however. The right hip goes back and the right arm goes up.
With extensor action, a frozen right wrist and a cleared right hip the RFT alone seems to accomplish most everything for me on the backswing. Maybe Id add hinge action to the list here and alignments, flashlights etc.
The only thing Id add about your photos is that with your left arm off the club and therefor no check rein action you are obviously not employing extensor action here. Need to turn that extensor action on when both arms are attached for the full benefit of the RFT: Extension, the right elbow cocking the left wrist etc.
Its gets so simple, so easy to repeat. Like you are just taking that frozen right wrist to top.
IF you stood inside Homer's plastic plane board would the right forearm lay on the plane as it goes up and and down?
MB
Id love to stand in a plane board and observe things like this. Homer said something to the affect that we would all be surprised by our findings.
Id say that now that I am hitting I seem to feel or perceive my RFFW being on plane longer. Maybe this is angled hinging, I dunno. For sure the RFFW feels more intact throughout now. To answer your question more directly Id say that it is on plane through impact or after the release swivel.
At the Top, your right palm is facing outward, as if you were a traffic cop saying "Stop!" As a golfer, do you think this is the proper alignment of the palm to the Inclined Plane? How will this affect your Left Wrist? How will your Clubface and Clubshaft be aligned should the palm actually achieve this alignment?
Precisely boss . .. a ROLLED right forearm at Top = clubshaft shoots across the line.
Jeff - I agree the clap position is a great way to learn the RFT, but only if combined with learning the startup swivel, hence why there are 2 EdZ drills!
The level right wrist being a huge part of understanding how the swivel and the clap blend.
Yoda - would agree that besides the turn\swivel, the clap move does show how the right arm moves?
Jeff - the other big key in my view, at least for a swingers RFT is that the elbows stay the same distance apart and point down. This helps ensure the turn is on plane during RFT, and that the loading action on PP#3 is rotated "on line". (wheel rim)
For hitter's, the key is the paddle wheel (wheel track) feel of your photos.
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As I stated in another post, I am writing a review paper for my personal website and that composite photograph of capture images from a swing video is used to demonstrate only the first learning action - learning to execute a right clap hand motion, which only trains a golfer to understand how the right forearm and right elbow should move in the backswing (and not the right wrist). The second learning action re: the right upper limb requires learning how to bend the right wrist without allowing the right wrist to upcock - while performing the right clap hand action. That allows the right palm (and clubshaft) to remain on-plane during the backswing.
I am demonstrating that point here.
Stuart Appleby is doing a better job of demonstrating that action here.
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