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This concept video is discussing plane versus tension

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at the top of the swing.

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So I had a good question come in, um, about the kind

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of the plane of the arm at the top of the swing.

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So, uh, there's, you know, there was a, a system

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by Jim Hardy that looked at kind of one plane, two plane,

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which was essentially if you had the angle

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of your shoulders, uh, from the down the line camera angle,

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is it better to have the arm kind of in line or above?

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Um, and essentially there were a couple different, uh,

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patterns and depending on where you were at the top

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of the swing, you had

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to adopt certain pieces of this pattern.

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Um, and basically he was asking which one kind

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of fits the stock tour swing model.

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Um, and I would say that, uh,

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the stock tour swing model looks at the swing differently.

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The stock tour swing model is going

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to look at more tension in the body as one

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of the goals at the top of the swing.

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Uh, typically when when you don't have tension,

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then you have slack

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and that slack has been described as more, uh,

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requiring more timing.

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Um, it can feel like the club gets lost or stuck

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or like there's wobbles.

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Like it just doesn't feel like, um,

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everything is working as one unit.

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It feels like there's too much timing involved.

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So one of the goals is to create tension at the top

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of the swing, given people's different anatomy when they

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create tension, they could create tension in a similar way

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and it could look differently or they could look the same

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and not have tension in the same way.

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So the, the tension

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and the connection is a little bit more of the goal.

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Um, so during the backswing, we're trying

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to load up this line of tension all the way from the foot

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through the leg up through the, through core, um, up

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to the shoulder girdle

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and all the way through the arms into the club.

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So we have this kind of unified feeling of tension.

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So I thought we'd do a quick little exercise

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to help you feel tension, um, in a

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and to understand a little bit better kind of the,

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the connections of how, how you,

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what you do at different parts

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of your body will affect the tension at the place

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that you're looking to improve.

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So we're gonna do a quick little exercise

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where we're gonna feel tension on the shoulder, kind

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of the inside of the armpit.

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So you're gonna bring your arm out to your side

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and you're going to externally rotate

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or kind of turn your palm up like this.

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And then you're gonna bring your arm back

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and until you feel tension kind

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of across the front of the shoulder.

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Now with that tension, we're gonna extend the wrist.

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You'll feel a little bit more tension.

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We're going to slightly, uh, deap the shoulder, kind

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of push the shoulder away.

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We're gonna lengthen the spine by picking up your rib cage,

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but not by arching your back.

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You'll feel the tension increase.

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And then we're gonna turn our head

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and our chest a little bit away from the shoulder like this.

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So now you probably feel a pretty good amount of stretch

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or tension through the front side of your shoulder.

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And if you maintained that as you turned your arm

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and your body would move as one unit.

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Now if you felt the tension in your shoulder,

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you could maintain that and you could

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soften a couple different parts.

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So there I soften the arm and the wrist,

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and then I soften kind of the lower back and core,

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but my shoulder still has tension, so it's gonna move more

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as one unit as opposed to if I have my arm kind of here,

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then you'll see as I go to turn the arm

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and the body are almost working as two independent units.

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So part of when we get up to the top of the swing

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where this angle is, is just gonna change

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where the tension is in the left

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shoulder and in the right shoulder.

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And depending on where you have that tension,

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it will support doing different body movements.

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Um, so in general, I would say most players are going

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to have some amount of lift and angle.

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Like if I'm all the way down

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here, I lack some of the tension.

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And if I'm way up here, um, I have,

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I have more tension kind of in the, like,

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the vertical component of the shoulder

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as opposed to the horizontal.

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So somewhere around here, there's kind of a point

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where I feel like the whole shoulder is engaged

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and supported, and that's kind of how I teach, um, trying

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to find your optimal angle at the top of the swing

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for the students that I work with in person.

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Um, it's a little harder to experiment with on your own, uh,

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but hopefully this concept kind of helps you, um,

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understand the general principle.

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Uh, you could look identical to another golfer,

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but if you don't have the same tension that they have,

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you're not gonna have the same level of, uh,

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connection and repeatability.

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And so ultimately it's not gonna work out.

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I would tend to focus more on feeling the connection at the

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top of the swing rather than getting the arm

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and the club in the perfect position down to the degree.

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Okay, so as a quick little, the, the more that I have kind

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of tension up vertically, that's going to tend

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to support a little bit more early extension, um, to,

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for lack of a better term, um,

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or it's going to require, it's hard to get

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that vertical tension all the way out to the arm.

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So I'm gonna tend to have a little bit more

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of a shallowing movement in, uh, transition,

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and that's part of where

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that extra early extension will tend to come in.

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So if it's much more vertical up there,

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you can still hit it pretty well,

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but you will have a little bit more of a feeling of slack.

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Now if it's too flat, this can encourage,

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I've run outta room in my shoulder

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and this can encourage a little bit more of an upper body,

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uh, dominant transition.

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Um, so I,

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and I've limited the distance that I can move the club

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so it potentially loses out on a little bit

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of speed if I was say below the shoulder.

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So somewhere kind of in that range is going to give me

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a feeling of tension through the shoulders that I can then

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use with the rotation of my core to kind

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of slingshot the club down at the bottom.

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Kind of more like that. So both of them can work.

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You just have to understand how one piece is going

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to affect the others.