A Week to Remember

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Brian Manzella

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Another whirlwind week in the books. 8 cities in 5 days and a lot of meat on the bone. I learned an incredible amount, and got a lot of good work done.

Day 1 - Alarm rang at home in New Orleans at 4 am. Took the JetBlue to New York City (Manhattan) - Mike Jacobs picked me up at JFK and we parked the card a bit down Long Island and took the train to Penn Station and hoofed it to my favorite store in the world—B and H photo. If you are a gear head like me, this place has it all. I found the items I needed and we were off to shop and eat. We peak-hour trained it back to the car, and drove back to Mike's place at Rock Hill in Manorville.

Day 2 - 5am wake up on The Island and a couple hour drive to Easton, Pennsylvania to spend the better part of the day with Dr. Steven Nesbit at Lafayette College. I'm not going to give away everything we learned, but I will say this—a key find is in my new signature below. We left around 2pm and drove 200 miles to Washington, D.C. We then attended the Capitols vs. Islanders game at the Verizon Center, but couldn't pull the Islanders in. Rats.

Day 3 - 6am alarm and a drive through a driving rain to Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to Damon Lucas' Institute at Lake Presidential, to spend most if the day on the MAT-T 3D system to check a lot of our recent research. We confirmed a lot of things, and found out that a lot of folks are all wet. Mike drove me to BWI and I flew a couple of super bumpy flights to Shreveport, Louisiana.

Day 4 - Got up at 7, and spend the whole day teaching.

Day 5 - Early wake up followed by a lot of lessons and a couple of fun competitions. Drove 5 hours back to the Big Easy and slept in my own bed, in Lakeview, New Orleans.


I'm STILL tired.
 
And, talked with me as you were going to your hotel in Washington, DC - Icing on the cake! :eek:

See you in mid-May, God willing, once the docs say I can swing again after the neck surgery.
 
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SteveT

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@Brian ....

"All you have is your hand path, the force along that path, and torque about that path.

That's your means for creating the proper D-Plane with the proper speed, for the desired shot."


So, is Nesbit saying that it's not "swing planes", only "hand path"...??!!!!


Here is what Dr. Ralph Mann (biomechanics) wrote in his 1998 book, Swing Like a Pro, on page 17:

4. Swing Plane
The term "swing plane" is one of the most often used buzzwords in golf. It is visualized as a flat surface that the club swings on throughout the entire golf swing motion. In fact, there is no such plane in the golf swing. A proficient golf swing begins on one plane and continually shifts throughout the swing (fig. I-5). Our instructors use the term "swing path". This is done since a path can twist and turn as it moves, whereas a plane must follow a flat surface. The mere use of the term "swing plane" helps to create a mental picture of swing that is incorrect.

I recall saying, many years ago, on this forum that a golfer cannot perceive a "swing plane" while swinging the club, only sense a "hand path". Golf instructors may draw "plane" lines on a video to show students how they may be following an improper path, but this is only used for diagnostic purposes... not as a mental image while swinging. Of course, the Hoganites went bananas over this heresy...:eek:

Anybody who uses the term "swing plane" in their postings are not referring to the "Newtonian Hub" analysis of the golf swing involving forces, torques, energy. They are struggling to describe their golf swing in obsolete unscientific terminology. Everybody knows what they are trying to describe, but the solution must be "hand path"... because "swing plane" is a static boundary only.

However, "D-plane" is quite proper because it defines impact to ballistic ball flight. Swing plane - no... D-plane -yes ...:rolleyes:
 
I thought private planes were one of the perks of Top 100 status.:cool:

Really Looking forward to seeing how the latest info gets filtered down to the lesson tee.
 
B&H Photo is the Ginza of New York.

Every technical sense is established and stimulated.

It's Heaven for a Gadget Afficionado.

Not to be missed.
 
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