Do you have to have a 1 or 2 plane swing?

[ASUslacker]

Read the book, tried out both each for over 3 months and never felt comfortable with either one. I would hit alot of fat shots with the 1 plane and slice the hell out of the 2 plane.

So i went back to my home made swing and am hitting the ball much better. So is this normal or should I really try to fit myself with one of these swings?

Also when I get my video camera in the mail I'll post a video of my swing and you can critique it later.

[shankapotamus]

Well you have to have either a one plane or two plane swing, so your "homemade" swing is one or the other. I have a two plane.

[ASUslacker]

Maybe I should rephrase the question.
In the book he states that certain things (like grip, posture, width of stance, spine angle) will either help or hinder if you are a 1 or 2 plane swinger.

Take for example if you have a 1 plane swing but a narrow stance (I think this is a part of my swing), this will cause problems. But for me it is the oppisite. Just wondering if that is normal.

Like anyone have a super strong grip but uses a two plane setup?

[CG031]

I have no idea what I have. I just swing the golf club.

[timtim]

That book is completely wrong. What they call a "one plane swing" is actually a "one angle swing", or even a "many planes at the same angle swing".

The "one plane swing" described in that book starts with the club shaft at an angle defined by a line from the grip to the ball. Then as the club rotates back, they show the angle of the club remaining the same, but raising up onto a different plane, even though that new plane is at the same angle it started out on.

This has created a great deal of confusion for guys like me and Tiger Woods and Adam Scott, who really do get the club up onto one plane about half way back in the back swing, and then move the club up and down to the ball on that one plane.

I think the one plane swing described in that book should be called the corkscrew swing, or the helicopter swing, not the one plane swing. The modern golf swing of Tiger Woods and Adam Scott is the real one plane swing.

[iacas]

The "one plane swing" described in that book starts with the club shaft at an angle defined by a line from the grip to the ball. Then as the club rotates back, they show the angle of the club remaining the same, but raising up onto a different plane, even though that new plane is at the same angle it started out on.

I always understood the one plane to be "the plane of your shoulders." If your arms were on that line at the top, one plane. If they were above it (nobody's really ever below it), they were two-plane.

I have the book - but I can't say I really even read it. I think that what I said is what it says in there, though...? Am I wrong? My swing, by my definition, is closer to one plane than two. It'd be "flat" to a two-planer.

[McGolf-Doggie]

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I'd beware of those kind of generalizations I have shorter legs, longer torso and KJ Choi arms. I find a wide stance kind of inhibits my rotation (right now), but that's just me. I'm not a spring chicken either so that lack of flexibility and overindulgence in other static weight handling sports comes into it. Sure some of these things are gonna be different strokes for diffr'nt folks.