quote:Mathew: … so we can basically tear it apart.
I don’t get what you intend with that. Is the goal of this forum to learn from each other, share thoughts and have respectful discussions or is it about defending one owns point of view no matter what and to make the ones who think different look bad? If the latter is the case I have better things to do with my time. It took me over two hours to write my last posting and over one to write this. And no matter how different one thinks — I thought I made a little contribution to the knowledge base of this forum.
Still assuming that the former is the case, I respond to your posting:
A woman who never played golf in her life translated the book. (That is even more absurd than taking a woman as a model who never played golf in her life
Unfortunately I never got the translation to correct the mistakes. What I was trying to say was this: The shaft of the club should always be parallel to the plane it established during the address position. And I think this is exactly what I demonstrated, cdog.
I assumed that the address position is one in which the club has a reasonable lie. As I said I didn’t study the Golfing Machine enough to be able to judge it, thus I only ask questions: Why is this lady holding the club in a way that requires a bending of the lie of at least 10 degrees?
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As I wrote in the Leadbetter thread I think it isn’t worth starting a fight because of the difference of a parallel shaft and one that points towards the target line. But now here we go: I’ve taken Leadbetters picture of David Frost, in which he explains his plane theory. Blue is parallel, green points at the target line. What a difference.
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Now Leadbetters plane is something else. If you want to flatten it a lot during the transition or if you claim that every good player does it automatically, it makes sense. Nevertheless he has to take a look at his own swing, in which he does exactly the opposite: he steepens the shaft during the transition and that produces a really flat shaft coming into the ball with his hands coming way out.
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If you think that these drawings are faked or exaggerated take a look at the videos on his page: davidleadbetter.com
Now, Mathew please take the time and write a thoughtful answer. I know this takes more effort than just posting a picture and to get popcorn but in the end you always get out what you put in.
Respectfully
Oliver