Just curious, with the dropping of the right elbow towards the hip, does that create a plane shift?
No...
The wrists stay vertical to the plane line....
Checkout the video's of Jodie Mudd's swing (a former Tomasello student) on Brian Manzella's website....run the videos at slow motion speed....you will see his wrists are vertical to the plane line as he brings his arms to the release point...
I have been studying The Golfing Machine for the last 4 or 5 weeks. My progress has been nothing short of fantastic to the point that I am in awe of my own progress and afraid to tell other about it because it seems too good to be true. As the result of concentrating on lagging with focus on pp #1 & #3 as well as flying wedges, significant distance and accuracy have been added simultaneously. Your explanation of the golf swing has had a Homeric effect on my game.
I viewed the TT tapes with considerable interest. On the 2nd installment, I noticed that when I copied Tom's raising arm concept as the second part of the backswing and anchoring elbow as a distinctive move on the downswing, that my lagging specifically and whole swing general suffered its first setback in weeks. My analysis is that when I copied Tom's model, I removed focus on the right forearm staying on plane throughout the swing. Today I forgot about Tom's arm and elbow positions in the second tape and went back to focusing on lag and keeping right forearm on plane, and my new gold swing returned. Am I missing something?
In the Yoda model, the backswing is having the right forearm aided by PP3 stay on plane. From what I remember of the TT arms video he talked about starting the backswing by bending the right wrist backward and then when the shaft was pointing straight back to raise the right arm starting from a point where the elbow was touching the body. I don't remember any language talking about keeping the backswing on plane with the right forearm. More specifically the video showed the right elbow returning to the hip with the right forearm above the elbow. When I copied that position, I lost the ability to drive my lag down the China, and the lag I had worked so hard on, faded away. Perhaps I misinterpreted something. When I drive my lag as low as possible, I don't end up in TT's position. Does that make any sense?
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