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  1. Todd Dugan

    Vertical Swing Plane

    Hey, B. Manz! My memory is foggy on this, but I remember a few years back, a rep from TrackMan talking about a scenario where the radar could report the club delivery, I believe it was the VSP, inaccurately, if the clubhead plane approaching impact was well rightward or leftward, horizontally...
  2. Todd Dugan

    A golfing machine.........

    No, not that one...................but imagine a constructed machine to swing a club...........a rod that swings in-plane about a central, fixed hub...........and a club around a hinge between the two with a "stop" preventing more than a right angle hinge. Now, as the "upper" lever is swung...
  3. Todd Dugan

    Release description

    Not sure there's a better one than this...................."Throw the clubhead off the shaft at the left foot."
  4. Todd Dugan

    Bent left arm at impact

    People have pointed to the bent left arm at impact of Goosen and Westwood, as if they are somehow in on some release secret, even though they are only 2 of thousands of pros who do that. Well, here's another.......George Knudson. BUT, they ALL keep the right arm straightening PAST impact. I had...
  5. Todd Dugan

    weight and string release

    An old training concept for feeling an efficient swing is to swing a small weight on the end of a string/rope. If you can get enough swinging force going, the string will become straight and swing in-plane. When you do this, bending the wrists will NOT cause the weight to swing around the hands...
  6. Todd Dugan

    LPGA vs. PGA releases

    Here's a pic of a couple of LPGA players, Paula Creamer and Beatriz Reacari, in the impact zone, which shows that they line-up the shaft vertical before the left arm becomes vertical. You probably can't find one male player ranked in the Top 100 in the world who does this. Yet, its fairly common...
  7. Todd Dugan

    Low Point and the line-up

    OK, so you want to release that shaft with your hands as fast as you can throught impact. Great. Let's do it. And so, as the scientists have pointed out, the low point of the clubhead arc will be pretty much occur when the shaft becomes vertical, perpendicular to the Plane Line..............a...
  8. Todd Dugan

    Flipping: Where do we stand?

    A question(s) for Brian, please...............What are your current thoughts on "flipping"? What is it? Is it bad? Why? And what are your "go to" teaching techniques to "fix" it? (I have seen the "Flipper" video).
  9. Todd Dugan

    Wide & shallow

    So I hit down...... a LOT. And I'm trying to figure out exactly WHY. So I determine, with video, that the low point of my hand arc is in-line with my left armpit. But with respect to human biomechanics, I determine that, with the hands connected, the lowest point of the hand swing must be...
  10. Todd Dugan

    Tiger's putting

    Sean Foley has to stop teaching Tiger how to putt................right now. Tiger is the greatest putter in the history of the game. He made EVERYTHING for 13 years. The only thing you teach Tiger with putting is to get back to doing EXACTLY what he used to do. Messing around with the most...
  11. Todd Dugan

    Video from today's practice

    Of note..........I have started, when the turf is good, to snap a chalk line on the ground to super-impose the target line. You can see it. A realization today was that, when the camera is positioned on the impact plane, looking parallel to the target line, the chalk/target line on the ground...
  12. Todd Dugan

    Compression Board

    I know that a lot of people love the Tour Striker as a training aid for the ideal Attack Angle and Dynamic Loft. But if you haven't seen it, I got to tell you that this Compression Board works really well for this, also. Sure, you could build one yourself. And I've been using a raw piece of...
  13. Todd Dugan

    Protractor

    Since our "little orange friend" measures collision conditions in degrees, it is most useful to be able to "see" and have a good feel for degrees. I had been using the standard school-issue 6" plastic protractor, but it is really too small to see well. So I had a bigger one printed and laminated...
  14. Todd Dugan

    Toe Line

    Is the straight line along the toes the best reference for the horizontal alignment of the golfer? It has been pointed out in the past that the "heel line" is a more "accurate" representation of the alignment of the stance, since when the left foot is angled out, the toe line becomes slightly...
  15. Todd Dugan

    Vertical Clubface

    When seeking to produce a 0* Clubface to Path during impact, I have begun setting the clubface so that if I lift it up right between my eyes, the scoring lines are vertical to the ground. So if I set-up with my stance line parallel to my intended Plane Line, then the clubface is closed to the...
  16. Todd Dugan

    Bubba Watson..........

    will win The Masters.
  17. Todd Dugan

    TrackMan session at Cool Clubs

    Cool Clubs in Scottsdale, AZ. Amazing facility. The guys there are nice enough to let me hit some balls when the bays are not in use. Brought my Casio FH100. Mostly wanted to confirm my way of viewing Horizontal Swing Plane with video and V1against TrackMan measurements. TrackMan, Casio, and...
  18. Todd Dugan

    FS: Casio EX-FH20

    I'm selling one of my Casio high-speed cameras. Near new condition. I'll throw in a soft carrying case and AA battery charger. $300 shipped. Here's a demo of the 210 frames per second setting. PM if interested.
  19. Todd Dugan

    "The Maestro"

    I'm ripping some sweet vids off of old VHS tapes. Nicely trimmed and edited for your viewing pleasure. Was anybody better?
  20. Todd Dugan

    Have a shot of Jack......

    on me! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZamn6hmH0c
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