[davel]

The point you made in this posting was what I though of this morning. If the end of the dowel represents the shaft everyone is practicing a shank. If the end of the dowel represent the club head the dowel is correct.

Now for myself the dowels are good for explaining and demonstrating concepts. Using them constantly as a training tool for myself I find very boring to the point I get diminished returns . I can get a real golf club and attach lasers and track a plane line map and feel I am doing something more golflike and achieve my golf of training my hands and the plane to make the lasers track the plane line.

Dave

Dowels represent the invisible - the sweet spot plane - where the pp3 in your hands is the same as the normal pp3 but the tip of the dowel represents the sweetpot ( the centre of gravity of the clubhead) - it is a visual representaion of a line of force...at least that is the way i see it - please correct if wrong!

It is confusing because it looks like a shaft but rather than have an imaginary clubhead at the end of the dowel , one should have an imaginary hosel on the undersurface- then you have no problem understanding that the hosel rotates around the sweet spot and not the other way round.