Right Forearm Pick Up?
 

Could someone please help me with the right forearm pick up. When do you start to pick it up?

Should you fan the right forearm and then pick it up?

I would like to understand this some more!

Nathan

Have you watched the David Orr video about the right forearm takeaway? It will help you to better understand what is really happening.
In my own experience, The fanning starts first, while tracing the plane line. The up back and in parts naturally happens due to extensor action and the check rein of the left arm. It's just a fanning and cocking of the right elbow.

The Tomasello videos in the Gallery section are an excellent place to learn the RFT.

The Right Forearm Take- Away, Homer called it the Right Forearm Pick Up and freaked out the golfing world. It is the only Hands Controlled Take-Away. You are setting up at address for a certain point through the ball and the RFT allows for this on the Down Stroke.

The RFT goes Back Up and In, as Homer says, “Up and Back, Simultaneously and Immediately.” Back Up and In is the Incline Plane. Some say it can be a Fanning motion or a one hand clapping motion, as long as it is on the Incline Plane- Back, Up and In. This motion will, of course, fold the right elbow, raise the left arm and cock the left wrist. The 7-3 Magic.

Snap the left wrist flat with Extensor Action and you got the makings of great stroke.

My right arm moves to low and around my body. My left arm moves across my chest to much and my shaft gets below the plane. For the last few months my miss has been a pull.

Yesterday I flet like I just picked my right forearm straight up and I actually started some balls out to the right. I don't get it.

So is just picking the right forearm straight up, NOT the right forearm pickup?

Is this the same move as moving the right elbow back up and in, like Hardy is teaching? I don't think this is what you mean, I would just like to understand better.

No- NOT like Hardy. Forget position golf. The RFT is about the Hands fanning up and back on the Incline Plane. The hardest thing about teaching the RFT is that is so simple. Pick the Hands up the inclined plane.

Watch the video I made for David Orr. Although he is explaining the motion with Bio-Mechanics terminology- it is the Right FOREARM, moved by the Hands, which turns the right shoulder to the Top of the Stroke. Forget about Elbow Position. The Load and Left Wrist Action will set that ALIGNMENT. Allow the Hands to travel on the Incline Plane and they will move Back and Up naturally.

6bmike,

Very cool. RFT makes sense now. More of a reaction to the hands and extensor action than a pulling feeling?

RFT was really simple concept when Yoda explained it to me.
Basically put your left arm out in front of you (standing upright) and then with you right hand hold your left wrist (making sure you have your left wrist in FLV alignments) and the lift up your left arm with your right arm. That is the right forearm pickup really.
Now repeat the same motion but in a golf like posture. Pretty easy right?
Alex

This is the exact same way that Yoda explained it to me...just like in the Tomasello video. Amazing how a lesson with the little green genius makes things so simple!

E.