[Martee]

hi martee, just read your article on the camera etc, please could you go into more detail with the down the line camera view, with seeing the hip movement swing or hit lateral movement ,are the hips parrell to the plane line etc closed open what do you see???????

Ah! A good and Favorite question...

This IMO is what I was looking for when I started down this path on analyzing a golf swing on video. Positions and Alignments. I had this idea that there was a set positions and alignments that would allow me to quickly Identify not just a faulty move in the golf stroke but the actual cause that lead to the faulty move. Often is the case it is easy to identify what appears to be a faulty move or alignment, but in reality it is really a symptom and the true fault lies elsewhere. I am rambling, sorry, back to the question at hand.

The four lines I have identified are reference lines to allow you to observe key parts of the golf stroke.

As we know in TGM a hitter can have a pre-set hip at address, this would in itself would make the hips closed to the target line, the stance could be open, closed or square. It is really a choice/variation that the golfer has adopted in their own golf stroke. Correct? Valid for hitters and even swingers could use it without creating a need for any compensations.

As for the rear line, one could expect that movement observe would be minimum, too much movement could be a loss of balance or a golfer sitting down with the weight on the heels. This tells me little as to the actual problem but does give an indication that there are others places to look to see why the golfer maybe falling away (my words for sitting down backwards with the weight/balance on the heels).

I realize this doesn't directly answer the question, but as reference lines they are a place to note what is happening during the golf stroke.

Note with a cross line motion at the beginning of the downstroke, you shouldn't see a gap and still see both hips as the golf stroke approaches hip level. Without the cross line motion this is not apparent.

Again, alot of the reference lines are markers to note motion, be it good motion or bad motion, BUT the real money maker is what is happening at Impact and working backwards IMO.

I hope this kind of answered your question, if not come back at me and wake me up....