[12 piece bucket]

When one talks of blasting the left arm off the chest with the downswing pivot action thereby releasing power accumulator #4, doesn't the left arm have to move both downwards (towards the left foot) and outwards (towards the ball-target line), and isn't the direction of left arm movement determined by the movement of the conjoined hand unit, which is itself directionally moved by the right forearm/PP#3 which traces the straight plane line and also moves towards the aiming point?

Jeff.

Jeff . . . I'd agree with you. The left arm is blasted kinda toward the left foot as well as out to the ball. Homer preferred a hand controlled pivot (procedure) for sure. BUT there's only so much the hands can do to overcome a faulty start down. If the pivot doesn't move precisely with the plane requirements, the hands get drug OVER or UNDER the plane and have to fight hard to recover . . . no matter how much "mind in the hands" or "monitoring #3" or "tracing" you do. You can only trace as good as your pivot allows you to trace.