[Mathew]

Matthew I have to disagree and Lynn should concur since I have LB on the MMOC video explaining it. The right forearm pickup (LB's term) is simply the right arm picking up the club. No need for any help or intervention from the left arm. You can easily pick the club up with the right forearm and put it perfectly on the turned shoulder plane (or any other plane).

You can use the left arm, shoulder or both hands to get to the turned shoulder plane by why complicate it?

What I described was the right forearm takeaway of the golfing machine.

If that is what Lynn teaches or your interpretation of what lynn teaches would not change my thoughts on this. An appeal to popular thinking doesn't make something correct. However from what I know of Lynn's teachings, I don't think there is a conflict anyhow - best to let lynn answer that for himself.

The alternative to the right forearm takeaway is what Homer Kelley said is a 'shoulder turn takeaway' whereby the shoulder motion displaces the power package with an offplane rotation without the right forearm moving independantly in 3D. The offplane rotation then induces and the clubhead on an orbit inside of the plane line.

Any 3 dimensional startup made on onplane is done by the right forearm moving also in 3 dimensions - thats why it is manditory because without it - the precision is lost. For example - If you were doing the 'PGA tour style' putting stroke - thats still a right forearm takeaway even if the displacement of the power package is being done with the dual agent (shoulder motion).

The right forearm always traces the plane line with pp3 regardless if it is itself onplane or offplane whether it is 'held' in with relation to the power package like the example above, or is actively or passively used. However any correct startup requires the right forearm to move with a relationship to the inclined plane... that is the right forearm takeaway of the golfing machine.