Brian Manzella
Administrator
Brian Manzella and Mikestloc have teamed with the biomechanics department of a major university in their quest to show how-to and how NOT-to look at 2-D golf strokes in respect to plane, both of the club and the golfer.
The premise:
There are a number of teaching professionals in the world who think that the plane of the club during the swing STAYS parallel to the shaft plane (HANDS ONLY or ELBOW version, no difference noted) at all times during the swing.
There are others, like those schooled in The Golfing Machine, that believe the plane line stays the same and the palne steepens and flatens while the 'bottom' stays in the same place.
There are still others (like me) who think it may be neither (although I am much more in the Homer Kelley camp on this one, for sure).
What we now know for sure:!!!!!!
There is NO WAY to draw lines on a 2-d image and determine where the club is pointing on the ground UNLESS!!! the following is the case>>>>>>
1. The camera is PERFECTLY on the angle of the shaft at the EXACT moment of the picture.......really hard to do...almost pure luck and good for a couple of frames MAYBE, and MAYBE just one.
2. There is a grid on the ground (or something to substitute for one) where the golfer is standing AND.....AND....AND!!!...there is a another picture or frame of video that is taken at EXACTLY THE SAME time from a different angle, like one from the front view and one from the target view.
Then you can plot the exact 'spot' on the ground where the club is pointing.
FOR EXAMPLE: In this month's Golf Digest there is a picture of David Toms with a dotted line showing the 'angle' of the shaft at that point in his swing. It is said to "point" outside the ball.
This is almost surely NOT the case. It is much more likely that the shaft MAY BE POINTING to or almost to, the plane line or target line at that point, and the only way to know for sure is to have the same picture from the belly view and plot the EXACT spot.
(If you look at that picture, you can see that one of the last few dots IS on the target line, in FRONT of the ball, which may be where the club is ACTUALLY POINTING).
More importantly, all the teachers that draw lines on the screen are GUESSING at best and the Hank Haney school of 'the-shaft-is-always-on-a-plane-that-is-parallel
-to-the-original-shaft-plane-at-address' may have come up with this theory because they were trying to figure out a way----reverse enginneering at best----to make the lines make sence because they could plainly see that the other school of thoughts 'lines' weren't right (in 2-D) either!!!!
When in reality the TGM school of thought may be PERFECTLT correct.
We are doing some 3-D reseacrh soon to get to the bottom of this and we will 'spring it' on the golf world.
of course someone will probably read this a steal our idea...mark this date down boys and girls
!
The premise:
There are a number of teaching professionals in the world who think that the plane of the club during the swing STAYS parallel to the shaft plane (HANDS ONLY or ELBOW version, no difference noted) at all times during the swing.
There are others, like those schooled in The Golfing Machine, that believe the plane line stays the same and the palne steepens and flatens while the 'bottom' stays in the same place.
There are still others (like me) who think it may be neither (although I am much more in the Homer Kelley camp on this one, for sure).
What we now know for sure:!!!!!!
There is NO WAY to draw lines on a 2-d image and determine where the club is pointing on the ground UNLESS!!! the following is the case>>>>>>
1. The camera is PERFECTLY on the angle of the shaft at the EXACT moment of the picture.......really hard to do...almost pure luck and good for a couple of frames MAYBE, and MAYBE just one.
2. There is a grid on the ground (or something to substitute for one) where the golfer is standing AND.....AND....AND!!!...there is a another picture or frame of video that is taken at EXACTLY THE SAME time from a different angle, like one from the front view and one from the target view.
Then you can plot the exact 'spot' on the ground where the club is pointing.
FOR EXAMPLE: In this month's Golf Digest there is a picture of David Toms with a dotted line showing the 'angle' of the shaft at that point in his swing. It is said to "point" outside the ball.
This is almost surely NOT the case. It is much more likely that the shaft MAY BE POINTING to or almost to, the plane line or target line at that point, and the only way to know for sure is to have the same picture from the belly view and plot the EXACT spot.
(If you look at that picture, you can see that one of the last few dots IS on the target line, in FRONT of the ball, which may be where the club is ACTUALLY POINTING).
More importantly, all the teachers that draw lines on the screen are GUESSING at best and the Hank Haney school of 'the-shaft-is-always-on-a-plane-that-is-parallel
-to-the-original-shaft-plane-at-address' may have come up with this theory because they were trying to figure out a way----reverse enginneering at best----to make the lines make sence because they could plainly see that the other school of thoughts 'lines' weren't right (in 2-D) either!!!!
When in reality the TGM school of thought may be PERFECTLT correct.
We are doing some 3-D reseacrh soon to get to the bottom of this and we will 'spring it' on the golf world.
of course someone will probably read this a steal our idea...mark this date down boys and girls
!
