If one is to "cross-line" hit with a preset right hip, does it make sense to set up with your right elbow more bent to preset the right forearm on the shaft plane, allowing the right elbow to ride up the shaft plane on the backswing, keeping the right forearm perpendicular to the primary lever throughout the stroke? Or is the backswing not that critical? [Yoda Bold]
The Position of the On Plane Right Forearm and its Angle of Approach willdetermine the amount of Right Elbow Bend. These Alignments are established in ImpactFix and are the product of the Right Wrist Bend, Ball Location and PlaneAngle (6-C-2-A).
In Start Up (8-4), the Magical Right Forearm and Elbow (7-3) execute themandatory Three Dimensional Backstroke (2-F). Here the Forearm willFan per 12-5-1-#17. But don't overdo this with some kind of exaggeratedmotion. This is the identical motion the Forearm and Elbow make when you clapyour hands. Any attempt to artificially "allow the Right Elbow to ride upthe Shaft Plane" will interrupt the necessary Fanning.
Also, attempting such a move smacks of Position Golf, that Natural BornEnemy of Alignment Golf. That's because it pulls your attention awayfrom the Hands and their assigned task of executing the correct On PlaneGeometry during the Start Up.
The Right Forearm -- more correctly, the entire Right Forearm Flying Wedge --will continue to maintain its "perpendicular relationship with thePrimary Lever" -- more correctly, the Left Arm Flying Wedge. Thatright-angled relationship will be on the Plane of the Left Wristcock Motion(6-B-3-0-1). This alignment will be maintained no matter what the Left WristAlignment to the Face of the Plane, i.e., Turned, Rolled or Vertical.
Finally, remember that in the Cross Line Hit Procedure, while the RightForearm Traces -- points at -- the Closed Plane Line, the Clubheadvisually Covers it (2-J-3). This is unlike the On Line Procedure(Hitting or Swinging) wherein the Sweetspot continues to point at the Line evenas its Up, Back and In journey on the Inclined Plane takes it inside it.
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