[O.B.Left]

However where the problem begins is that the player’s perspective is not (visually) directly on the plane- your head is well above the angled plane looking down on it. That causes a condition or illusion whereby if you try to thrust towards the ball out on the plane line you can get you hands too far out from you, requiring you to un-cock your wrist, steepen the shaft plane and NOT have your hands moving on that single plane you had envisioned. It would un-cock your left wrist in a “reverse manner” i.e. hands moving up, not the club being pulled out – creating reduced power. In addition, the off-plane motion becomes a problem.

Nice to hear from you Mike . You've taken some time to compose this thread so I want to make the effort to understand you fully . I don't have an opinion to be frank , as I don't follow you. Nothing new in the world of Homer Kelley, eh?

Couple of questions for clarification :

-Are you saying the above will happen given an attempt to thrust along the eye line to the ball? The eye line to the ball being steeper than the plane angle.

-Dont understand how in your geometry the hands would be moving "up" and uncocking the left wrist which makes me think I've lost you somewhere.

Ive always imagined the Aiming Point Procedure as being , from Top a throwing like motion towards the aiming point (normally the ball but you can adjust fore and aft to fight the rate at which the various lengths of levers switch ends. Hey have you ever goofed with a MOI matched set of irons?) A throwing or spearing chucking like motion but the geometric equivalent to Tracing albeit with a very different set of intentions and probably physics too. Thats my take on it in short.

By the way , your logic makes me see a complication with Plane Shifts on the downswing (very common in the field) Which would have the straight line direction of Thrust travelling a single plane angle which is above the curved (from DTL) path of the hands would it not? Hmmm.

Regards
ob