Golf Swing Demo – Jeff Ritter – One Plane Swing
Golf Swing Demonsration. 6 Iron down target. Here Jeff is employing many of the principles of what has become known as the One Plane Swing. Visit Jeff’s site www.jeffrittergolf.com
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Even in this vid, your R arm is contorting in a clearly contrived way in order to make your L arm match your shoulder plane. etc. I’m not trying to be an ass, but there are too many unnatural conditions required to make it work. Not that you can just stand up and swing any old way, but motion has to obey certain rules. If it’s just an evolutionary step towards a more rotational motion then great, but wrapping people up in that shoulder/L arm knot is just as bad swinging it over our heads. IMO
maybe not. But it fucking works for me thanks jeff your videos have been very helpful to me can’t thank you enough.
Not allowed to have a critical discussion about it, no? If something is put out there as truth then it deserves to be analyzed and questioned, or even disagreed with. It’s how growth takes place. If it’s true it’ll stand up to prodding. It’s not personal, it’s about the concept. Debate helps everyone. And as perfect a version of this concept as Jeff’s swing is(and his swing has some great parts to it!) his left arm still doesn’t align with the shoulder plane- it’s a few degrees more upright.
There is no spinal tilt in the one plane swing. Get a copy of Jim Hardy’s Plane Truth for Golfers Masterclass, and you will find out that the spine is always centered, never leaning away or toward the target. Now if you are talking about the primary spine angle, thats not a tilt but bending forward from the hips to keep your back straight. Also his right arm follows a natural path going up, its perfectly set, compare it to Ben Hogan and you will see the similarity.
Hey Homer, I enjoyed your comments. Its great reading dogmatic 20 handicappers who think they have a clue.
I don’t think you get it. Go read Jim Hardy or just listen to Jeff.
You mean knowledgeable Pros who know they have a clue…. enjoy this and the next fad du jour…. good luck to you…
semantics…. this whole theory is so unnatural and your description shows that clearly
Ok seriously you need to get out of your laboratory and play some golf. I dont understand how you can come up with all these strange theories, I bet your like a 30 pretending to know it all handicap player and you have no idea how the body functions. The greatest ball striker of all times Ben Hogan had this swing and now Tiger is assimilating to it, so once you get to Hogan’s stats of 14 fairways and 18 greens in regulation per round we will talk again.
Pro? Thats cute…
Calm down, boys….no need to get excited.
only read hardy’s stuff if you want to hit it shorter and crooked
Well, if cute is what you’re after out here on the old interweb then so be it….. us golfers will stick with the dirt…… good luck with whatever it is you do or whatever it is you’re looking for…
peace
my lab is the golf course during tournament play…. and strange theories?! Really?! How do you suppose a spine should form and maintain a vertical axis when the hands that the shoulders are holding are offset from each other as they are at set up and during the golf swing…. the strange theories are all your own, my friend…. again, good luck with this and the next fad….. I hear stone wash jeans are cool again…..
one plane works great for the right handed golfer who is right side dominant.
for the right handed golfer who happens to be left side dominant it is a never ending confliction between brain and body…and the loser is the score card
It Seems to me that Jim Hardy explains the one plane swing from a right handed motion but Jeff Ritter seems to articulate the same motions from in a left hand dominant manner. I might be wrong. Check it out.
own hardy’s books, have watched every ritter video several times over…
i don’t believe either one articulates to the left side player, i don’t believe it’s possible, the 2 swing styles naturally conflict each other…
i have tried this one plane swing, used it for the entire 08 golf season. it has its strengths, but in the end it is not a natural motion for anyone who uses the left side (RH).
i agree with Karlipbaum…
Hardy talks about the right elbow working back and up. Ritter talks about the left arm working across the chest with the right arm responding by folding back and up. Hardy talks about throwing the club across the chest on the down swing. Ritter talks about the “slap release” coming from the left arm and elbow working back and up. I think it should also be noted that Ben Hogan, the classic one planer, was in fact left handed.
i have both hardy’s books, have watched all of ritters videos countless times…
not sure what your getting at but it matters not. my swing is much improved and my index is under a 2 again since going back to my natural left side dominant swing. hitting it farther and with a repeatable ballflight, minus all the practicing…
hit a few, chip a few, putt a few and go play.
never said this stuff was crap, it’s just not for me…
have fun playing golf.
The one plane swing is similar to Ben Hogan’s swing. Read his five fundamentals, and they are similar to the one plane swing taught now. Old info translated by Hardy. The one difference I see clearly is the stance, Hogan was more upright than Jeff’s swing. The same still applies, the club stays under or at the shoulders as they rotate, not above the shoulders in the two plane swing. Hogan had it right five fundamentals, the rest is just minor details.
trevor and adam scott has the best one plane swing out there on the tour
Is this anyone who articulates the mechanics of the golf swing better than Jeff…I don’t think so. Your instructional videos are the best on the web!
Talking about Golf grips, When you pick up a golf club your hands are the only part of your body that touch the club. For many years the hands (grip) have often been referred to as the steering wheel of the golf swing. I don’t believe this could be more true. Gripping the golf club correctly makes playing this game a much better experience. w w w (dot) golferbreak80 (dot) c0m
not true