No, Ben was talking about not moving the club backwards after impact, not on the take away. The pivot will always drive the hands forward to the end. The arms cannot and should not ever head backwards.
Ben does not use the RFT, more of a shoulder take-away but either way, Ben says that the take-away is a lifting of the arms. If the arms do not lift the club to the top (we talked about this at lunch one time) the take-away is then a pivot controlled action. There is no possible way, Ben says, that the club can get to the top without a lifting action of the arms. The bending of the right elbow.
On the downswing, the arms may not move themselves but there is a pull on them. Is it the trained pivot? The shoulder pull? I think that is still an area to explore, which leads to this....
It took some time to figure out what Ben means when he says, “add nothing.” He does snap those hips into impact. But that is just it. He has trained his pivot to do exactly that so nothing more needs to be added. The hip action is trained to repeat not allowing an untrained wobble action to be included in the arm action. Trust those hips- hahaha
Between Ben and Ted Fort, even though I spent much of the workshop behind the camera, learning the hip action, slide and delayed, was the BIG thing I brought back. Brian taught be to carve a divot with an ‘Australian hitch hikers” move- like a knife cut and Lynn (re) established my swing plane and right forearm action.
