Backswing arm height

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At what point do you feel up with your arms on the backswing to avoing having the club too far behind you. Is it a feeling of turning and swinging up. Do you turn halfway and then feel as if the right arm takes it up a little???

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The incline swing plane is three dimensional. Ride that incline and you will be automatically set.

Are you using a right forearm TA? If so, the "ride" is Up, Out and In simultaneously, right up the plane. Right hand pulling the left arm up the plane. Shoulders react naturally to the hands going up.

Are you using a shoulder TA? The left shoulder pushes the hands and club Out, the turning shoulders brings the club IN and the hands lift the club up. Depending on the club the incline plane is either on the flat side or steep. It can be somewhere between Chad Campbell and Scott Hoch. Ideally the hands stop when the shoulders stop- or so some say. I use a RFT and like to feel like I'm pulling pp#3 out of the ball like a bungee cord and snap it back into impact.

I know this didn't gave you a straight answer but Brian has an article on the shoulder TA in his instruction forum and another that explains taking the club back no further then a wall against your butt. This would bring the Up factor in play soon. I'm sure you have read them.
 
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God damn I had this all written up then my browser went back for some reason...

Anyway...good post 6bee...

And he's right- there ARE options and it depends on what way you decide works best for you and suits you.

Um...you should try to have all three dimensions FAIRLY equally, not going to the extreme with any one of them- back, up, and in.

So, you need some extensor action...you need to keep the "string" (left arm) taught.

But at the same time, don't pull on that string so hard that it would break, or that you will pull yourself off to the right....if you know what I mean lol. You want to have extensor action but you also want to have rotation around a fairly stationary head. This will give you enough UP in your swing.

Then you need to make sure it goes up on A plane. Straight up the turned shoulder with RFP (like David Toms), or the STT single/double shift swing (like Vijay- who is a double shifter BTW- if he came down the turned shoulder plane instead of shifting to the elbow plane on the downswing he would be a single shifter). Look here for pictures with plane lines drawn on them: http://www.manzellagolfforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1905&whichpage=1

Like 6bee mentioned, there's a few ways to do it. That's what TGM is all about, right? Options and classifying...

I LOVE that "taking the club back no further then a wall against your butt" thing BTW. Great image Brian...hadn't heard it b4.
 
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