Dear Pivot controlled Hands Player and friend, O.B.
Do not pivot at start-up. The Bend in your right elbow at Impact Fix allows your right forearm to lay on the plane. You have more bend than I because you use a Punch Elbow position. So you can only arrive at release on the elbow plane. A steeper Plane Angle would require a Pitched Elbow.
Your Right Forearm Pick-up, Start-up, is the exact upward angle of your Right Forearm at Impact Fix (using only your Right Deltoid Muscles). For you, I guess, from 7am to 2pm. Elbow Plane. Have someone stand in front of you while you assume Impact Fix. Tell them to superimpose a Clock-face over your right forearm. Ask them to stand to your right and tell you if you followed that angle on your backstroke. That’s the direction that your right shoulder moves your bent right arm to the top your swing. Do not bend or unbend your right arm any more or less until Release. Your Right Shoulder and Left arm (Check-rein) will control your Right elbow position throughout the entire stroke. And your Right Forearm will be ON-Plane at Release.
The MAGIC is that because your right arm is bent a certain amount, that the extensor action take-away can only move your hands at the precise angle required because the checkrein won't allow any other plane angle. COOL.
The Punch Elbow, is a location. The elbow goes straight to the ball from release to impact (because your body is rotating, you just and only need to thrust straight), but your hand traces an arc.
Regards, from a Hand Controlled Pivot Player,
Daryl
Daryl, thanks for this.
I must say that as an old frozen right elbow, shoulder turn takeaway guy, that I am quite fond of my bending right elbow and new found tracing ability. I value your learned opinion, truly , and will do some thinking on it, some experimentation.
To me pickup implies elbow bend. If Homer didnt really mean elbow bend when he said it, then his writing is even more obtuse than I suspected. Not that this would surprise me or anything, but man things are cryptic enough, already.
If I understand you correctly, with EA and a turning back to plane right shoulder it is possible, indeed preferable to maintain the degree of bend in the right elbow as established at fix. I can see how this would all work but the problem I have with this is that it would imply that the left arm would never come across the chest. If it did then to my thinking the right side of the triangle would shorten via elbow bending, no? Where's your #4 angle? How do you cock your left wrist, if not by right elbow bending? Active wrist cocking? Are you sure this isnt pivot to hands?
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