The First Part of the Swing (6)

THE LEGS. When the hips enter the swing, as they are turned they pull the left leg in. the left knee breaks in to the right, the left foot rolls in to the right on the inside part of the sole, and what weight there is on the left leg rides on the inside ball of the foot. Let me caution you against lifting the left heel too high off the ground on the backswing. If the heel stays on the ground –fine. If it comes up an inch off the ground-fine, too higher than that, though –it will only lead to faulty balance and other undesirable complications.

The body and the legs move the feet. Let them move the feet. As regards the left heel, how much the left knee breaks in on the backswing determines how much the heel comes up. I never worry about the left heel. Whether it comes off the ground a half inch or q quarter of an inch or remains on the ground as a result of my body and leg action on the backswing-this is of no importance at all. I pay no attention to it.

腿 胯部转，左腿也跟着转，左膝盖向右侧屈，左脚向右即向鞋底的内侧方向倾，能感觉到左腿的重量落在左脚大拇趾下面圆圆的骨头上。在上杆时，特别要注意不要把左脚后跟提离地面太高。如果左脚后跟不离地，或者离地一英寸，都是可以的，但如果高于这个尺度，就会影响平衡和导致其他一些你所不希望的后果。

身体和腿带动了脚的动作，左膝盖向右屈决定了左脚后跟的离地程度，左脚后跟的离地，这是自然发生的，我从来不担心我的脚后跟是离地半英寸或四分之一英寸或是不离地，这个无关紧要，也不必关注。

There is one other aspect of this first part of the swing that we should take up at this time: the plane. Over the period I’ve been in golf, oceans of words have been devoted to the arc of the swing but only the merest trickle to the plane. This is unfortunate, for in the dynamics of the golf swing the plane is extremely important,

far more important than the arc.

What precisely is this plane? To begin with, there are two planes in the golf swing, the plane of the backswing and the plane of the downswing. As the drawings will delineate, the plane of the backswing - which is all we will concern ourselves with in this chapter - is most simply described as an angle of inclination running from the ball to the shoulders. The pitch of the angle is determined by two factors: the height of the individual’s shoulders and the distance he stands from the ball at address.

还有一个内容必须在这一节学习：挥杆平面。在我从事这一行期间，关于挥杆弧度的论述远远多于挥杆平面的提及，这实在不幸，动态挥杆中的平面的重要性远胜于挥杆弧度。

平面到底是什么？有两种，上杆平面和下杆平面，在这一章中要论及的上杆平面可以简单地表述为从球到肩膀的倾斜角度，可参看书页中的素描。倾斜角度的大小由球手肩膀的高度和他离球的距离决定。