. I looked through 2 dictionaries and an online dictionary to confirm my original understanding. Their definition isnt what Homers was, or the one you posted.
However, that being the case, in my little yellow book, there is a definition that is readily availably for us to use, as you stated. And I suggest we use that (as you also stated). In fact, I now suggest that EVERYONE use glossary definitions before consulting with the dictionary - why? Because dictionary definitions are revised over time, and apparantly, the definition Homer used has fallen off the dictionary I have (and no less then 2 others, since they pm'd me saying my definition was exactly what they had).
-Patrick
Thanks for the post, Patrick. All this adds to our understanding, and that isThe Big Deal.
All I can say is that I had great geometry classes in high school and am aRamblin' Wreck from you know where, so this whole concept of being 'vertical toany plane' is as natural as breathing to me. [It does get more complicated whenyou are learning to execute each of the Three Planes of Motion on oneInclined Plane, but that is for this next week or two!]
Still, if you shoot an arrow directly into a book, and then turn the bookhorizontal to the ground, the arrow is vertical to the book. It you tiltthe book at an angle, the arrow is still vertical to the book. If youposition the book vertical, the arrow is still vertical to the book.Once you understand that we are talking about vertical to the book, thenthe meaning is clear. We are not talking about vertical in relation to anythingelse, just the book!
In fact, until I saw Martee's pictures with the now infamous"horizontal" hinge pin perpendicular to the vertical plane, I couldnot fathom where the conflict in perception was. But when I did, it helped meimmensely to understand why ALMOST NOBODY I HAVE MET IN THE PAST 20 YEARS,INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THE GOLFING MACHINE REALLY UNDERSTANDS THE HINGEACTION CONCEPT. And yet, it is one of most important concepts in the Game.Again, with it, you learn the Scientific, Mechanical, and Feel basis tocontrol the Clubface for the rest or your life. How important is that?
As far as dictionary defintions go, remember folks, Homer never just stopped atthe first one. His position was that as long as ONE definition fit thecriteria he needed to define his concept, that was good enough. I rememberhim saying:
"If there were seven definitions, and if number seven worked, that wasgood enough for me!'
So, in your research -- and, make no mistake, it is research -- look at allthe definitions and then choose the one you feel fits best.
In this case, at least in my Webster (New World, 2nd College Edition), it isthe 2 (b) definition. Now Yoda is no spring whatever-he-is, and this one iscopyrighted 1970, so maybe things have changed. But I don't think so!Certainly, either the first or second definitions in www.Dictionary.com work.But for us, even if the definition has changed, it makes no difference. BecauseVertical to the Three Planes of Motion is what it is all about in TheGolfing Machine and The First Imperative. If you can't get this, you cannever get The Golfing Machine. Never in a million years. It's assimple as that.
Now, this really isn't difficult. If I install a hinge (with its pin vertical)into a book and then turn the book every whichaway, I haven't changed eitherthe pin or the action of the hinge. All I have changed is the plane ofmotion. And applied to G.O.L.F., this concept will allow you to reproduceeach of the Three Basic Planes of motion with your Clubface, while remaining onthe same Inclined Plane of Motion. And that...Junior Jedi..is exactly whatwe're going to educate your Flat Left Wrist to do in the coming days.
Meanwhile, please don't tell all those people living on the Equator of thisgreat round globe we call Earth -- who think they are verticalto a Horizontal Plane -- that they are really vertical to a verticalplane! Let's hear it for gravity!
Now, that's a small wrench of the concepts, isn't it!
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