She gets the barrel behind her body. It's not free to drop into the merry-go-around or "out from". The hands come into the body instead of TTB (turning the barrel).
Keep asking questions, we all learn from questions.
Similar to the observation of one of TM's students ...
To me it seems like she should be "wrapping the barrel" to get more of a unwinding a spring or corkscrew motion referring to your merry go round analogy. So the hands should be kept away from the body as she swings?
The hands shouldn't collapse into the body. The hands should remain back and TTB immediately.
As already mentioned she over does the front shoulder coming down and in and hiding the hands. To much back arm action and pointing the barrel to far forward. There should be a shortening of the spring (front shoulder down and in toward the back hip) and hiding the hands (back shoulder away from front hip, lengthening action). There is a spring action, just not like your thinking.
Are you suggesting that there is a "spring" between the front-shoulder and rear-hip? If so, please explain how you exploit this "spring action".
There should be a shortening of the spring (front shoulder down and in toward the back hip) and hiding the hands (back shoulder away from front hip, lengthening action). There is a spring action, just not like your thinking.
And hiding the hands, lengthening. There is compressing the front shoulder to back hip AND lengthening the front hip to back shoulder.
Agreed. This is oblique contractions as I understand it. Reminds me of this.
https://youtu.be/H0VPkJSiO0c
Aka X stretch. Or X factor stretch.
The oblique muscles run diagonally.
https://twitter.com/peabodybaseball/status/1093995347846680576?s=21