Explain Bent Plane line

[bcoak]

Could someone provide an explanation/example/definition of a bent plane line. Thansk.

 

[Jared Willerson]

This would be helpful to me as well. Thanks

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

It's a straight plane line that eventually moves off plane. So it becomes a "bent line" instead of a "straight line."

So instead of tracing a straight plane line that looked like this (from the golfer's view:

I (if going in/in)
/ (if going in/out)
\ (if going out/in)

Somewhere in that line the clubshaft moves off the line and becomes "bent" or as one example something like this:

\
I

So you were going in/in but went too much left and bent the line to the left.

Hope that helps

 

[Jared Willerson]

Thanks Jimmy

 

[birdie_man]

I guess for that last example you gave it would commonly be a slicer (flipper)...?

 

[The Return of NAT]

You can have straight plane lines that cross in to out or out to in when relating to the TL(rotating the base line is different than bending the baseline)...a bent plane line is whenever the hands trace another direction than the orginal intention...in to in was a great choice.....

 

[bcoak]

This post by Brian is what got me thinking about the meaning:

Brian posted:
"Wanole,

You are on your way.

You had a BENT PLANE LINE.

Let me define: You started to swing down one line—then you wound up on another.

If you are swinging DOWN the "Turned Shoulder Plane" TOWARD THE BALL, you need to swing UP the "Turned Shoulder Plane" THROUGH the BALL and TO the finish.

If your shoulders roundhouse late—sounds like it too me—you need to keep the left shoulder up FEELING and MOVEMENT L-O-N-G-E-R.[/B]"

So, a bent plane line would be swinging down the TSP and up the ???

 

[matt]

So, a bent plane line would be swinging down the TSP and up the ???

...and up the TSP. The problems come when you change the baseline of the plane.

For example, let's say a player starts their downstroke perfectly on-plane. The butt-end of the club is pointing at the plane line. Now, at some point during the downstroke, they start pointing that butt-end somewhere other than at the plane line. Maybe a little inside of it or a little outside of it.

Imagine a laser on the butt-end of the club. It will, in an on-plane stroke, inscribe a perfectly straight line right on top of the plane line. If you bend the plane line, it'll inscribe an angle at some point. Maybe you get most of the way to the ball and then your laser line veers left or right. Now your ideal "perfectly straight line" is no longer straight. It may curve, it may change at an acute angle, anything. If you deviate from tracing the straight base line of the plane (the Plane Line) you've bent the Plane Line.

Maybe I'll make a drawing...

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

This post by Brian is what got me thinking about the meaning:


So, a bent plane line would be swinging down the TSP and up the ???

Maybe you swung through the elbow plane on the downswing.