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Is the RFT mostly horizontal or flat in nature?

I learned a level handle, yesterday, and a full hip pivot. My back shoulder and elbow are thrown back into my side and the hands, arms, and shoulder feel to slide up plane while a space is created between elbow and hip.

Reversing the pocket sends everything down plane and left. How does RFT increase speed or power?

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 IN 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.