[YodasLuke]

Well I will try again...

Statement #1 - "Except during Impact, the Clubshaft can travel on, or to-and from, either Plane because Club Shaft rotation must be around the Sweet Spot -- not vice versa. (2-F) can easily be demonstrated.

Hold a golf club in front of you with the toe up, gripping the tip of the grip in one hand and center of the club head in the other, rotating it will show that the club shaft is moving while both ends remain in place.

Statement #2 - "All the action of the Golf Club takes place on a flat, inflexible, Inclined Plane which extends well beyond the circumference of the stroke -- in every direction. The full length of the Clubshaft remains unwaveringly on the face of the this Inclined Plane -- Waggle to Follow-through.(2-F)".

How do you demonstrate that the shaft remains flat against the Inclined Plane while it is rotating around the Sweet Spot and maintain a straight Plane Line?



D-1 is an attempt to show the Shaft Rotating around the Sweet Spot, note the club shaft travel between Plane Lines causes the shaft to move off the flat surface of the Inclined Plane

D-2 is an attempt to show the club shaft remaining flat to the Inclined Plane, note the Sweet Spot Travel shifts plane lines.

Granted these are flat diagrams, but taking into account the 'in' and 'upward' motion does not change what is shown.

Anyone?????????

A side question... Why does 'Clubshaft' and 'Club Shaft' appear in the text in those variations? I know the the use of capitalization, etc has significance, does combining them have any significance? (note actually 'clubshaft' is not a recognized word in the dictionary)

Martee,
I have to say that your drawings both have some truths. As Yoda pointed out, there are some visuals that you must see. You need to take your first statement and cherish it. And, you need to take your second statement and wipe it from your mind. You cannot reconcile the statements. To answer the question that follows statement #2, you can’t. There will be some clarification in the 7th edition in 2-F. You need to assume that the sweetspot plane is always the plane, and, as you said, is “the key”.

Let's begin with the first drawing:
If you were to remove the blue line, and another big “if” you were to have eyes in your #3 pressure point, the drawing perfectly illustrates the rotation of the hosel around the sweetspot. The only way that this diagram will work is to have your eyes on the sweetspot plane. This is not typically our visual perspective, as our eyes are above plane, giving us “visual equivalents” (2-J-3).

The second drawing:
This perspective is more the visual perspective that we see being apparently inscribed on a horizontal plane, or the visual equivalent of the sketch 1-L (like a plane board). I would make the “sweetspot travel” the arc of approach, going from impact to low point, then back up and in. Also, I would not demonstrate the sweetspot rotating around the hosel. But in this sketch the sweetspot should not switch planes. The sweetspot is always on it’s plane, but does travel in a visual arc. Again, take the fixation with the shaft and throw it away and use the sweetspot. It just so happens that the hosel and sweetspot are often on plane together (“except during Impact”).

It's a good thing this is in the lab.