[innercityteacher]

By zeroing out the pivot, you control your backswing with RFT? A "slight" backswing would allow you simply drive your shoulders and arm according to whatever your desired hinges? On a full-blooded drive, do you carry your shoulder all the way back?
Smooth strike right? Do you simply roll the back shoulder and hit your aimpoint with your wedges (based on which hinge/ball shape)? As long as you know your aimpoint, timing almost doesn't matter?
If I imagine pushing my back/right foot against a wall, the back shoulder rotates and right arm thrusts, like Tommy Armour's driving the back leg!

Lastly,Jeff, how many different types of cuisines can one find in Center City Toronto? Is the Senator Steakhouse still operating?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Pat

Not sure what you mean by flat?

With your pivot zeroed and right arm alone out in front of you its a combo of horizontal arm motion (fanning) and vertical lifting via the (bending) the right elbow. The horizontal and vertical , the fanning and bending blend together they do not happen sequentially.

Another way of seeing it is: without a club go to Top, Right Shoulder High with the Right Hand only. Now keeping your Right Hands relationship to the Shoulder in tact, return your shoulders to their address position. Your right hand is now somewhere over your right knee or there abouts. You have now isolated the true movement required of the Right Arm in the Backswing. Not as big a motion as you would first imagine.

A good deal of the Back of Back, Up and In, Three Dimensional Takeaway, is provided by the turning Pivot. You can also now see the Fanning and Bending required by the right arm in isolation. Its a horizontal and a vertical which when blended can become a diagonal, assuming you start the Pick Up , Right Elbow bending in Startup.

As a side bar, Yoda showed me the two middle fingers of the right hand, the ones that snug up the #1 pp , which tugs the left arm, Extensor Action.......these two fingers are now the main actors in my Right Forearm Takeaway. They can take care of EA and the RFT, fanning, bending.