[Mike O]

Bagger,
Before I get started, thanks for the question! Also, I see most of my information as expanding, elaborating or filling in holes that existing in my mind in the Golfing Machine. I don't really see it so much as a completely different approach.

First, let me be a little picky and precise with regards to your post and my original post.

1) Bagger Quote: “Any training aid that falls into the category of secondary awareness and learning the feel of the proper procedure would be effective.”

I mentally I differentiate Procedure from your Movement, and I also differentiate both Procedure and Movement from Feel. So you wouldn't learn "the feel of the proper procedure" because feel is not a procedure in my book- it's a tool you use to integrate your movement until your movement is automatic.

2) Bagger Quote: “How do you suggest golfers use training aids to change their procedure?”

I would suggest that golfer's use their training aids to change their movement, through the change in feel that the training aid provides, of course they need to understand that the feel is going to change overtime, and they must understand how to do that.

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I'm not really a fan of training aids myself, not that they can't be very helpful. The point is that you need to change your movement to get better, which you can do on your own if you understand what your movement problem is and how to fix it. In the proper context, certainly training aids can help you improve a certain aspect of your movement.

Why are training aids popular?
For those that think they provide the proper and one procedure for the golf movement- and think that a procedure is a certain feel- and that the training aid will give them that feel. That certainly explains some of the thinking behind some of the purchases of training aids- not all but some.
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I know that my "thesis" is original, but for those that are interested (if any), I would certainly like more questions, disagreements, etc if they have them to flush out issues or problems.

I am going to post in the "Lab" a couple of more posts on "Integration" and "Feel: What is it and how do you use it." Which tie into my first post and this discussion- again for those that are interested.

Thanks Bagger.
Mike O.