Stack & Tilt: How Not To Tilt

In previous posts I've talked about how to visualize and make the "tilt" move in the Stack & Tilt (S&T) swing. Tilting will be somewhat confusing if you've read and followed the Laws (Leverage, Arc and Width Swing) of Golf since, in the LAWs version of the golf swing, tilting is a "power leak". Both ideas can't be right so what's going on?

In the first three images above (from left to right) are examples on "tilting" taken from the LAWs book. The fourth image is from "Six Steps to Stack & Tilt". If you study these images carefully, the problem in the first three is not the "tilt" but rather the position of the elbows at the top of the backswing. The "power leak" comes not from the tilt but from the flying right elbow and the broken left elbow. And, for each of these body types, there's no physiological reason why the left elbow can't be kept close to the body and the right arm straightened as in the fourth image on the right.

Tilting properly allows the right elbow to stay close to the body, the left arm to remain straight and the backswing to stay on a single plane. The LAWs book has misdiagnosed the problem as tilting rather than breaking the elbows and moving out of the Safety Zone on the backswing. Admittedly, the first three swings look horrible, but actually it would be less effort for these players to get to S&T than it would for them to find their correct LAWs swing.