[golf2much]

You guys are killing me slowly! The combination of me not understanding what your saying and you guys throwing in stuff that isn't clear - it's a tough road- but I've been on this road before so although frustrated I'm still able to hold the composure together.

I could be wrong but I'm hoping you guys can work on being a little better and careful about defining your terms and ideas. One way to do that is to write in addition to the answer those answers or ideas that are wrong- the one's that are easy to mis-interpret and then clarify and compare those with the correct answer. Also, definitions are especially helpful. OK I'll get off my soap box now- just ignore me when relevant.

Don't get me wrong- appreciate the help already- I'm just saying you guys are capable of better- and I'm pushing you to do it.No problem, except that as an engineer, I can see the angles and planes, and understand their action, however, my TGM vocabulary is severely lacking, so my apologies. I just try to explain what I see

Golf2much- I don't think/agree that at the top the #3 accumulator and the sweetspot plane are on the same plane. Sure could be but that would be the isolated exception and not the norm. What I meant was that the club's sweetspot and the #3 accumulator would be in the same plane at the top (for a swinger with a roll in the backswing)

I'll start on this particular topic and let you add to or finish it.

Differences at impact fix between the #3 accumulator plane and the Sweetspot plane. First - I'd like you to clarify what you mean by the sweetspot plane in this post, because you could be referring to the sweetspot plane as that inclined plane that the sweetspot travels through as the clubhead travels during the stroke.Yes. If I take an impact position still of myself, and draw a line from the ball and through the right forearm, and then animate the action, this is the plane the sweet spot of the club travels from the top Or you could be referring to a different sweetspot plane- the one that is slightly different than the #3 accumulator- I'll call it the #3 accumulator sweetspot plane as opposed to the #3 accumulator shaft plane. I'll try to clarify. On the same still as above, if I draw a line from the ball to the #3Acc, (butt end of the club) of the club at the top, and annimate the action, the #3acc tracks this plane until just before impact when the #3acc drops slightly below the sweetspot plane defined previously. If you draw a reference line from the ball to the #3acc one frame past impact, the 3frames pre impact and 1 frame post impact plane lines are separated by 6* (with the apex at the ball) This has to happen to some degree or another or the sweetspot of the club would miss the ball and you would have heel/hozel impacts.

Let's look at that one for a moment.

AThe #3 accumulator shaft plane at impact fix with a sandwedge would form a plane that includes these three points- the left shoulder, the #3 pressure point/grip end of the shaft, and the end of the clubshaft near the clubhead/hosel. For clarification sake - if you isolated that #3 accumulator shaft plane - then the three sides of that plane would be 1) the left arm 2) the clubshaft, 3) from the clubshaft near the hosel to the left shoulder. All of those would line up or be on the plane of the #3 accumulator.Remember, we were talking about the Right Arn

The #3 accumulator sweetspot plane at impact fix with the sandwedge would have a couple of differences due to the fact that the sweetspot is 1) further back from the leading edge than the shaft i.e. roughly or crudely half way between the leading edge and rear or top of the clubface - also 2) further away from the hosel i.e. roughly or crudely half way between the hosel and the toe of the clubface.

So that creates two separate differences of the #3 accumulator shaft plane and the "#3 accumulator sweetspot plane". They are as follows: #1) Looking down target- that is from behind the player with the ball between you and the target- the angle of the sweetspot plane at impact fix will be less steep than the shaft angle. Because both use the same point- i.e. #3 pressure point, or end of the grip as one end of that side of the plane but one uses the sweet spot and the other uses the shaft plane as the other point that makes up the "side of the plane".Yes, that is exactly what I am describing

#2) Same thing- from a different perspective- when looking down from above- as if you are hovering over the player in a helicopter- at impact fix with the sandwedge- the #3 accumulator formed on one side by the line between the sweetspot and the #3 pressure point or end of the grip will be leaning more towards the target than the #3 accumulator shaft plane- because the sweetspot is further back of the hosel/end of the shaft. So if that line from the sweet spot and the #3 pressure point or end of the grip were extending up to the left shoulder it would not go through the left shoulder like the #3 shaft accumulator does- the #3 sweetspot accumulator would actually point slightly ahead of the left shoulder. Bringing a little more precision to that relationship to clarify the concept- let's say that the distance from the sweetspot on the clubface to the #3 pressure point is the same distance from the #3 pressure point to the left shoulder- let's just say they were both 3 feet. Now let's say that the sweepspot is 3/4 of an inch back of the shaft- then assuming the shaft was point right at the left shoulder socket at impact fix- as viewed vertically from the helicopter- then the #3 sweetspot accumulator would point 3/4 of an inch ahead of that shoulder socket. Yes, that seems pretty much right.

I'll stop rambling for now- I guess I was trying to clarify the concepts of sweetspot plane that you were referring to and the #3 accumulator plane that you were referring to. I didn't address why they are different and not the same at the top yet,I think they are in the case of a swinger that rolls his clubface to the #3acc plane before starting down but let me know which sweetspot plane you were talking about and any other feedback on this limited and maybe somewhat off topic issue.

Thanks,
Mike o

Great post, sorry for the less than clear explanations.

G2M