[Mike O]

It's obviously key to an orthodox TGM stroke that the right wrist remain level throughout. Help me clear some fog... once I've bent my right wrist, is cocking it the same as rotating my right forearm anticlockwise (from my point of view - that is inwards)?

Thanks!

Chris

Chris,

Cocking the right wrist with forearm pronation is not the same as forearm pronation without cocking the right wrist, although very close in nature- merely by definition they are not the same. However, you're correct in that both movements create very similar ending locations.

Now looking at the mechanics of what you describe- not during the golf swing but with your right forearm resting on the table.
Cocking is on the plane of the hand alignment. So with an arched right wrist - cocking the right wrist produces little to no movement in the forearm for the first few degrees of wristcock and then produces supination of the forearm in the later stages of wristcock. With the wrist flat produces no movement in the first portion of the wristcock but produces pronation in the later stages of the wristcock. And finally what your noticing is that with the right wrist bent cocking produces no movement in the forearm for the first few degrees and then produces pronation of the forearm during the rest of the motion.