Question....impact fix right wrist bend

[Mathew]

Referencing a thought that occured during a posting ....

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quote:Mathew, the clubshaft and right forearm should be on the turned shoulder plane at address?

In the ideal application of zero shift .... I believe so...

The inclined plane of 1-L in human equivalent is the turned shoulder plane ... The clubface can open or close on this plane (swivels and hinge actions) but the clubshaft never leaves it....

The clubshaft rests on the plane at address and as the right forearm is always an angled extension of the clubshaft. This angle is formed by the impact fix degree of bend and the wrist is vertical to the plane ... so therefore the clubshaft and the forearm should point directly where your right shoulder should go.....

When the clubshaft travels up the inclined plane the position of the forearm changes and the relationship to bend in the right forearm and clubshaft (forming the right flying wedge)changes and means the elbow will travel up the elbow plane yet the clubshaft still never leaves the turned shoulder plane. The butt end of the club will point to somewhere along the base line....

Does this mean the ammount of impact fix bend, which I just realised is an issue im unsure about is also predestined by the angle between the clubshaft traveling up the inclined plane (turned shoulder plane) and the elbow traveling up its respective plane (elbow plane)....

How do you determine precisely the ammount of impact fix bend to achieve this ?

 

[EdZ]

Think of it this way Mathew - if you are generating a force, you want that force to be on plane, and ideally on a single plane. Shifts are not efficient. If you are generating on plane force using power sources that are NOT on that same plane, at the worst you want those power sources to move on PARALLEL planes, or for their force vectors to combine in a resulting on/parallel force vector.

Of course the human body, and the clubs design, doesn't let the 'ideal' happen.

In the swing, the right elbow is the big key. It travels up and down its plane, and should not shift. The amount of impact fix bend isn't determined so much by the elbow/forearm plane, but by the elbows POSITION.

If you move it to the right, into a more 'flying' position, you would have more impact fix bend, and if you moved it left into a position with the elbows very close together, you wouldn't have 'support' for impact because you wouldn't be providing 90 degree support of the force of impact.

In both cases, you'd be off the ideal 'approach' - you wouldn't be able to support the on plane swinging force efficiently.

All that is to say you must look at the right elbow in 3 dimesions, not just as 'on plane' but also from '90 degrees' on plane.

If you do both, then yes the ideal position is predetermined, relative to club length/ball position/hand position at impact fix.