[golfbulldog]

The point you made in this posting was what I though of this morning. If the end of the dowel represents the shaft everyone is practicing a shank. If the end of the dowel represent the club head the dowel is correct.

Now for myself the dowels are good for explaining and demonstrating concepts. Using them constantly as a training tool for myself I find very boring to the point I get diminished returns . I can get a real golf club and attach lasers and track a plane line map and feel I am doing something more golflike and achieve my golf of training my hands and the plane to make the lasers track the plane line.

Dave

Hi Dave - i know what you mean with lasers but they so rarely trace the sweetspot plane- they usually just give an extension of the shaft plane.

The sweetspot plane is the "living and breathing" plane in golf... the shaft is a convenient simplification ( and hence not as accurate)

I have one of those DIY laser devices which project a straight line onto any surface... put it on the grong and you have your plane line going on to infinity... works well indoors ( outdoors only at dusk/night) but you can trace this line with your dowel or your pp3 with club in hand ... ( some may get worried about reflections from chrome clubhead but in reality you will do know harm!)