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09-11-2011 03:45 PM |
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Originally Posted by MizunoJoe
(Post 86776)
Thanks Kevin. But here's the problem. In the video, Jeff is rotating the sweetspot around the shaft until it finally lies on the plane board with the shaft. At that point, the sweetspot hasn't shifted planes, but rather its plane gets deformed, making it 3 dimensional. But here's the bigger problem: The job of pp#3 is to feel the sweetspot and if any part of the shaft between pp#3 and the sweetspot touches anything, you will sense that contact point, rather than the sweetspot. The shaft must only touch AIR.
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This is especially true with shorter shots......The putting arcs , inclined planes even a string line training aids are good but not quite right. A putter where the sweetspot plane lines up with the shaft would have more relevance I suppose with a string line.....itd only be off half a shaft width. The running of the clubhead along a guide could lead to a different motion or feel as you say. You could weight the putter heads heal to run along the arc say, something you dont do when making a normal stroke.
The string line which hits the shaft higher up will have more relevance than a device where the putter head rubs the arc or inclined plane. The thing about the arc devices is that you're covering the arc of approach rather than Tracing which is less than ideal to my mind.
I use them all to retrain my putting path and hinge action when its outa whack, but only for so long. They can tell you where youre off track quickly but you cant stay in those devices for too long......you gotta swing the sweetspot plane like you say, without running the club along something.
Homer thought we should all climb inside a plane board. That we'd all be very surprised by what we encountered, by where the plane is throughout the shot. They're very useful to my mind but somewhat compromised and/or simplified. No plane changes for instance but far better than the alternative .... |
