Vertical Swing Plane

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goley

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Brian/Kev

What should the VSP be for a driver? Im assuming that it should be somewhere around 45 degrees in order to get a 1for1 for (up to in/ down to out). What happens when your VSP with the driver is closer to 30 degrees? and what does this mean as far as the swing goes. I have a few question to follow this one depending upon your answers.

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Brian Manzella

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The "Swipe" and the "Good Number"

We call it the swipe.

It is the hard low and left SWIPE at the ball by the golfer because of dozens of reasons.

Good players can do it as well and get all the other impact alignments in good order and hit a serviceable shot of their desire.

Put it this way.

VSP is VERY important, and the Manzella Academy has been hard at work, researching the effects of high and low VSPs, and how to change them in golfers.

I am starting ti have a lot of success getting golfers closer to a standard lie angle VSP.
 
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B, I know it's my own damn fault, but I'm still confused about VSP. If you've answered this at nauseum, sorry, but point me at the thread.

Questions:

1. If TM is not measuring shaft angle at impact, what is it measuring. Sweet spot? How do you measure a speck?

2. See question 1.

;)
MC
 
mjstrong

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cmartingolf said:
1. If TM is not measuring shaft angle at impact, what is it measuring. Sweet spot? How do you measure a speck?

MC
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It's "measuring" the angle, as viewed from behind, that the sweetspot travels on into the ball.

HOW it measures this, is a good question. It probably finds the clubhead and follows the bulk of it as it travels into the ball. I'm sure that the VSP of the hosel, for example, would be an almost identical angle anyways, on any given shot.

That's my interpretation/guess...not that you asked me. ;)
 
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RVArya

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There are three different trajectories that the club head can take to arrive at impact in plane

1. If the club head (sweet spot) stays on the plane line during the entire downswing then VSP is close to its dynamic lie angle.

2. The club head moves down first (below plane line) and then out to get in plane, then VSP will be lower than lie angle.

3. The club head moves out first (above plane) and then down to get in plane then VSP will be higher.

The ratio of Down vs Out in the downswing just before impact will be the major determinant the VSP. Straight line delivery vs Curvilinear delivery of club path (Thanks to MJ)
 
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