[Thom]

Originally Posted by birdie_man

Ah good stuff. So add anymore bend to the right wrist and you arch the left (which "should" stay flat ideally I guess eh)... ...and you have something like the Manzella Twistaway eh. I think I now fully see the merit in "pull your left thumb up the turned shoulder plane."

----------so arching the left wrist at the top means it shuts the face down big time and thus a cause of my hooks----------correct?

No - but if you return that arched left wrist to the ball, it'll probably go flatter and to the right.