Post by jonnygrouville on Apr 2, 2011 0:24:24 GMT -5
Has taken me a while to get round to it, but I have finally read 'The Stack and Tilt Swing'. 
Overall, I like a number of its premises, but knew this before I started. I have to say that a few things struck me as odd about the book in general.
It gets off on a funny note with the forward from Bob Rotella. This is weird isn't it? From what I know of his work, he is not a huge fan of the golf swing! I thought he said that, if you were going to the range, you should pretty much just practice with a club to get the ball into play and then move on to the wedges. He does give Plummer and Bennett credit for more 'big picture' coaching beyond swing mechanics, but still sits oddly in a book pretty much exclusively about swing mechanics.
Secondly, I found some of their 'historical' photos slightly confusing. I can see what they are getting at, but still a bit odd. For example, they have a page of photos of people with inside hand-paths. I think this is one of the good points of the book, but am not sure a page of photos like this is necessarily the best way to demonstrate it. Yes, they all have deep hands, but the shafts are all different and some would go on to lift from there. It might be a 'common trait among great ball strikers', but a lot of golfers that do this end up in awful backswing positions and could not hit a cow's arse with a banjo.
This might be due to a more fundamental misunderstanding as I also had one aspect of the whole stack and tilt 'model' completely wrong. I thought it was exactly that - a model that needed to be followed 100%, components mutually exclusive to that sort of swing. In fact, they nearly state the opposite, that they will use components of their swing to address faults at impact. Given enough time, they might end up having someone swinging totally stack and tilt, but it did not read as much 'use it or lose it' as I expected (and I'll probably drop Jeff 'You're The' Mann a note about it because he seemed to have a more black and white view on the model / system).
This is only from my first read through. I will give it another go some time. It seems to me that just using some components could work, but could ruin you!
Overall, I like a number of its premises, but knew this before I started. I have to say that a few things struck me as odd about the book in general.
It gets off on a funny note with the forward from Bob Rotella. This is weird isn't it? From what I know of his work, he is not a huge fan of the golf swing! I thought he said that, if you were going to the range, you should pretty much just practice with a club to get the ball into play and then move on to the wedges. He does give Plummer and Bennett credit for more 'big picture' coaching beyond swing mechanics, but still sits oddly in a book pretty much exclusively about swing mechanics.
Secondly, I found some of their 'historical' photos slightly confusing. I can see what they are getting at, but still a bit odd. For example, they have a page of photos of people with inside hand-paths. I think this is one of the good points of the book, but am not sure a page of photos like this is necessarily the best way to demonstrate it. Yes, they all have deep hands, but the shafts are all different and some would go on to lift from there. It might be a 'common trait among great ball strikers', but a lot of golfers that do this end up in awful backswing positions and could not hit a cow's arse with a banjo.
This might be due to a more fundamental misunderstanding as I also had one aspect of the whole stack and tilt 'model' completely wrong. I thought it was exactly that - a model that needed to be followed 100%, components mutually exclusive to that sort of swing. In fact, they nearly state the opposite, that they will use components of their swing to address faults at impact. Given enough time, they might end up having someone swinging totally stack and tilt, but it did not read as much 'use it or lose it' as I expected (and I'll probably drop Jeff 'You're The' Mann a note about it because he seemed to have a more black and white view on the model / system).
This is only from my first read through. I will give it another go some time. It seems to me that just using some components could work, but could ruin you!
