The reason A Hammer thrower moves his hands up and behind his head before his pivot starts ( a little different then the Power Rover Hammer drill) is to get momentum. With your Hammer swing, do you gather momentum of the clubhead before the back swing?
Look up the example of Momentum Transfer in the glossary of TGM book and you will find the connection for The Hammer Swing. I teach from the yellow book. The Hammer Swing is in it.
The magic of the right forearm is easy to learn when you know the correct muscles, bones and joints used to perform it.
It is not just bending the right elbow as some might think.
Bending + fanning = right forearm takeaway, right? So, what are the correct muscles, bones and joints used to perform it?
In addition to that question I would like to ask another to all. How many distinct ways are there to take the club back with? It seems to me that there are TWO. Shoulder turn takeaway (pivot controlled) and right forearm takeway (hand controlled.) The first needing more compensations than the latter? As I have posted before, I could not keep my head stationary and centered (i.e. stay in balance) with a shoulder turn takeway. I learned to do that by focusing on right forearm takeaway. When I was able to stay down and steady to the ball without "trying" to do so courtesy of the magic of the right forearm I was close to tears My desire to beat balls has diminished and proportionately my desire to play has increased. The essence of that grand little yellow book is that it makes you love playing the game all over again! See a straight line...trace that line with your bent and level right index finger and forearm...put a little something on it with a flat left wrist...go find it and do it again! Bad shots do not burrow into my brain like they used to...sure I get irritated if I cannot execute...but the good news that sustains me is that I know enough to realistically hit the reset button and make another sincere attempt...one shot at a time! I know it has nothing to do with the thead but who cares!
Look up the example of Momentum Transfer in the glossary of TGM book and you will find the connection for The Hammer Swing. I teach from the yellow book. The Hammer Swing is in it.
Law of the Flail with Maximum Trigger delay? How is your Hammer throw procedure different?
I just thought the Hammer throw reference with the power Driver with that drill just seemed out of place since a golfer does build momentum to the clubhead the same way.
Sounds like you are talking about the "trombone take-away", where you contract the deltoid while releasing the infraspinatus allowing the right arm to float away from the torso. This trombone action takes place immediately after the torso starts turning, thus transferring moment from the more massive torso into the distal less massive lever (right arm). The right arm then likewise will transfer momentum to the less massive distal segment (secondary lever assembly) via the magic right forearm.
The Magic of the Right Forearm action is in the right shoulder joint. The right elbow bending and straightening is a motion.
The TAKE-AWAY is the action by the right shoulder, but that is not the magic. I have a friend, David Orr who studies Kinesiology with a leading professor in a University in NC. He knows his stuff and can explain how the body moves and bends during a golf stroke. The information is fascinating but NONE of his students needs to know any of it to swing a golf club. Nobody is ever told that they move a certain bone with the wrong muscle. Kinesiology is crap to a golf stroke. Gobblygook. Homer stayed away from that stuff because tracing the plane Line (geometry) and loading and releasing power (physics) was what is real. Ever move your forearm with your thigh muscle? If I tell a 1 yr old kid to move his hand above his head, he ain’t thinking about what shoulder muscle he needs to move. He SIMPLY raises his hand. AND as Yoda taught us, the RFT is a simple clapping motion. Take a solemn oath. btw- Manzella hates the rft. Lynn Blake is the instructor that teaches it, re-introduced it to TGMdom. I'll stickk him him.
The magic of the Right Forearm is a tracing motion- a staying on the incline plane. It is the simultaneous and immediate movement of the Hands and clubhead- up and back (and In). Even though the incline plane is Flat, it controls the three dimensions of IMPACT when you are on it. Tracing its plane line achieves this. The Fanning (clap) of the forearm and folding of the elbow which raises the left arm and cocks the left wrist is the RFTake up. The lowering and straightening of the left arm and the left wrist uncocking is the down stroke. Together it is the Magic of the Right forearm. (7-3).
My desire to beat balls has diminished and proportionately my desire to play has increased. The essence of that grand little yellow book is that it makes you love playing the game all over again! See a straight line...trace that line with your bent and level right index finger and forearm...put a little something on it with a flat left wrist...go find it and do it again! Bad shots do not burrow into my brain like they used to...sure I get irritated if I cannot execute...but the good news that sustains me is that I know enough to realistically hit the reset button and make another sincere attempt...one shot at a time! I know it has nothing to do with the thead but who cares! 
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