mandrin
New
The concept of plane(s) is essential in TGM. It actually started with Ben Hogan’s plane of glass and it has since then been mentioned in many books and articles. It is indeed very attractive to use one or more planes as it reduces complex 3D to a much simpler 2D environment. I remember once reading that Tiger Woods did not resort to ideas such as planes. Now with Haney as teacher that likely is not true anymore.
Concepts have two sides to them. One very useful as it facilitates communication and makes learning/teaching golf much easier. But concepts tend, especially when very useful and well known, also to limit interest in other possible ideas and concepts. In TGM there are many planes associated with almost every body part and the original simplicity of Hogan’s plane is definitely lost.
The modern compact rotary swing is quite nicely depicted with a very simple 3D model. Basically one main vertical axis and two moving horizontal axes, one through the shoulders and one through the wrists. There is no reference to any planes yet the model is very simple and very useful to learn/teach a simple compact rotary swing which is powered very much from the core.
It is interesting that Mark Evershed in “The Golf Solution” uses very much the notion of planes but his concept of “constantly correct clubface plane” fits very nicely into the simple 3D model.
TGM as taught by Yoda and Brian is a fascinating illustration of two different attitudes relative to the almost hypnotic attraction exerted by very powerful concepts once they are clearly defined and established.
Yoda sees TGM as the alpha and omega of golf, once and for all, nothing else to be discovered, all is fine as is. Brian ultimately primes his own hard learned knowledge/experience and seems to be open to other ideas as long as they work.
The danger, as is clearly to be observed throughout history, once the initial ideas are established, is that a great deal of energy is wasted determining the purity of followers instead of remaining open for new ideas.
Concepts have two sides to them. One very useful as it facilitates communication and makes learning/teaching golf much easier. But concepts tend, especially when very useful and well known, also to limit interest in other possible ideas and concepts. In TGM there are many planes associated with almost every body part and the original simplicity of Hogan’s plane is definitely lost.
The modern compact rotary swing is quite nicely depicted with a very simple 3D model. Basically one main vertical axis and two moving horizontal axes, one through the shoulders and one through the wrists. There is no reference to any planes yet the model is very simple and very useful to learn/teach a simple compact rotary swing which is powered very much from the core.
It is interesting that Mark Evershed in “The Golf Solution” uses very much the notion of planes but his concept of “constantly correct clubface plane” fits very nicely into the simple 3D model.
TGM as taught by Yoda and Brian is a fascinating illustration of two different attitudes relative to the almost hypnotic attraction exerted by very powerful concepts once they are clearly defined and established.
Yoda sees TGM as the alpha and omega of golf, once and for all, nothing else to be discovered, all is fine as is. Brian ultimately primes his own hard learned knowledge/experience and seems to be open to other ideas as long as they work.
The danger, as is clearly to be observed throughout history, once the initial ideas are established, is that a great deal of energy is wasted determining the purity of followers instead of remaining open for new ideas.
It always, back in those days, amazed me how people would say stuff like, "...a good boxer will always beat a karate guy." Now look what's happening.