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I've been looking over all our V1 and JC video swings this winter and it looks like the two biggest differences between Brian's swing and other professionals is the right forearm on plane and his hips seem to be much less open at impact.

Both alignments are pure TGM.

Per 2-F, holding the Right Forearm On Plane at Address (9-2-1 #2) facilitates an On Plane Right Forearm at Impact (9-2-10 #2). See the photos in Post #102 here: http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showt...t=2383&page=11. And enjoy #91, too (my computer system gives me an enlarged click-on slide show of all 17 images; hope yours does, too). Pivot Action will cause the Right Elbow to be more bent at Impact, but the Feel (of Address and Impact) will remain the same.

As you have noted, Brian's Hips are "comparatively squared away" through Impact. This prevents the Body's Rotation from pulling the Hands 'under Plane' (and Off Line) during the Release Interval. This is the Standard Impact Fix condition of the Body (10-8-A / Editions 1-6). Sadly and ignorantly, the owner/editor of Edition 7 posthumously eliminated author Homer Kelley's longstanding language and reference to this most important characteristic.

In my own tinkering, the forearm on plane makes clubshaft control so much easier, but it seems harder to cock the left wrist with the forearm on plane.

In Start Up and Backstroke, the Right Elbow bends and leaves its On Plane alignment at Address. As the Right Elbow moves Off Plane, so does the Right Forearm. Then, as the Body turns and the Right Elbow bends and lifts the Left Arm (7-3), the Left Wrist Turns On Plane and Cocks.

Properly understood and executed, there is no conflict.