The Heat,
"Full" Plane boards are great for a reference, ...but remember the Plane Angle Shifts(rotates up and down from its baseline). It's greatest use ...The Reference or Guide Line for all of our components...Why?...2-F Every component must comply....
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Annikan
Is this what you mean, that the club shifts to a steeper plane angle based upon the same plane line? Notice in the pic that the right elbow is still on the plane. I am having trouble reconciling this with the idea of down and then down and out vs. down along the plane.
It seems to me that the right elbow stays on plane, and the club and right forearm get back on plane by the extensor action putting them there. I am not sure how this squares with PP3 going straight back to the ball. I think I need some fog cleared here for sure.
This is why I wanted to build the plane board. To keep my right elbow on plane at the top, and to make sure I'm getting right back to the plane. But what should the first move from the top be? I guess what I'm really struggling with is the concept of keeping the right forearm on plane, and if it does go to steeper plane angle the concept of getting it back on the original plane.
Heat,
There is a major -- but common -- misconception surfacing here, and I will explain it using the first three photos you have have provided. [Photos Four and Five are out-of-sequence and should appear as Three and Four. Photo Three should be the final Photo Five.]
Regardless of the Plane Angle used, the Right Elbow -- and therefore the Right Forearm -- are On Plane only during the Release Interval. Almost immediately in Start Up, the Right Elbow (and with it, the Right Forearm) leaves the Plane. This is true even when the Stroke is on a Zero Shift Elbow Plane. It is the Hands and the Sweet Spot that adhere to the selected Plane, not the Right Elbow. In other words, though the Right Elbow's Impact Location is the reference point that establishes the initial Plane Angle, the Right Elbow does not adhere to it.
In the Backstroke demonstrated in the first three photos, a Plane Shift does indeed occur. The Club begins its journey (to the Top) on the Elbow Plane and then gradually Shifts to the Turned Shoulder Plane. This particular Plane Shift is catalogued as the Single Shift Variation (10-7-B).
So, the thought that "the Right Elbow is On Plane (with the Elbow Plane) throughout the Backstroke" is simply a flawed concept. The fact that the Right Elbow at The Top appears to be touching the original Elbow Plane is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the Hands and the Sweet Spot have arrived at the Top on the Turned Shoulder Plane. Alternatively, had they arrived at The Top on the Elbow Plane -- the Elbow Plane coupled with the Zero Shift Variation -- then the Elbow necessarily would be below that Plane. Again, whether or not the Right Elbow appears to be on -- or off -- the original Elbow Plane means nothing. In other words...
There is an Elbow Plane for the Hands and Sweet Spot, but there is no "Elbow Plane" for the Right Elbow.
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