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Getting outside going back is pretty common, especially for guys who learned how to rock the triangle , shoulder turn the two stiff arms back in Startup. I never fixed that, try as I might, until I started bending my Right Arm with Yoda. The RFT is Fanning and Bending. When does the Bending start I asked him once. "How about right away" was his reply.

To get a feel for this and to reinforce it I really, really like a piece of advice Lynn gives in his the Premium Brain Gay video. Basically Brian's pre shot waggle is a fanning of the right forearm done without any shoulder turning what so ever. The actual swing can have them both going at the same time but this waggle for me anyways , turns on the RFT and turns off my Shoulder Turn Takeaway with its left side push away tendency.

Practice this at home with your club up against but not quite touching some base board. That old frozen right elbow will take it immediately outside every time and you'll crash the club into the base board. Its frustrating but the fix is a bending right elbow and all that it can provide. Which is a lot. See the last paragraph in 7-3. Homer did refer it to as the Magic of the Right Forearm. But you'll need extensor action if you dont already have it to realize it all.

Some will say that the backswing doenst matter really, that its the downswing where the rubber meets the road etc etc. Which is true but only to a point. To employ the wrong muscles in Startup is to set a motion a chain of events that will effect Impact. Its harder to have a proper Inside Out Impact 2-J-2 without a proper Ouside-In Startup.

Actually the first paragraph in 2-J-2 is worth the price of the book or more. To not understand the geometry discussed there is to Steer the path of the clubhead "straight". Which will give you a divot that points to the left and a Bent Plane Line.

Have you goofed around with Single Wrist Action? Then you wont even need to think about Startup Swivel! It'll just happen on its own as the right side pulls the left along. Its weird but the left side centric Startup is turning and cocking where as a right side centric view, perception of things, has little if any turning. And so I just put my brain in my right side and let the left follow along and do whatever it needs to do on its own.........no thoughts about left side turning.