Check out:

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/gallery...to=231&cat=512

This is the LBGLessons with Collin Neeman. I just finished watching it, covers this topic very well.

Differentiating Path and Line
 

At the Top, the Clubhead Lag (as sensed in the #3 Pressure Point, the right forefinger), is the "stone" you are going to throw, i.e., propel, toward Impact. That Throw is accomplished as a Straight Line Effort toward the Aiming Point (usually the Ball). This is the Delivery Path of the Hands (and Thrust).

As the Hands take their straight-line Path Down Plane toward the Ball, the #3 Pressure Point and Forearm seek to Trace the straight-line Base Line of the Inclined Plane. This is the Delivery Line of the Clubhead.

These are interdependent efforts, and you should practice them separately. Monitor one or the other but not both at the same time. Both are Imperative, but of the two, the Delivery Path rules.

Under the control of the subconscious Computer, they ultimately combine to produce with maximum precision the On Plane orbit of the Sweetspot through Release and Impact.

Deja Vu All Over Again!
 

Right on, Mike. This is a great link. Thanks!

Remember everybody: Double-click on the mini-screen for Full Screen (thanks Bambam!). :)

In the Brian Gay first clip on the ranging hitting his driver, near the end- you can see him driving his hands to aiming point in an extented practice motion before address. Been studying tonight- hahahah

Down Plane Pressure
 

You've hooked me, Mike! :)

The next video in the Collin Neeman Lesson Series talks of Lag Pressure -- the Pressure to be sustained in the Hands as they make their way Down Plane...

Down Plane...

DOWN PLANE to Full Extension.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/gallery....php?photo=230

It's easy to get hooked in the gallery. I love the new set-up.

Boss,

This here's from the 4th . . . It ain't exactly "tracing" . . . And this didn't make the cut. 6-E-2. He speaks to this too in the audio.

This Aiming Point procedure seems more easily acquired if introduced as a Feel. At the top of the Backstroke - even at the End (10-21-C) - mentally construct a line from the Hands to the Aiming Point. Let a careful Downstroke Pivot move the Hands precisely along this line - they will Feel as though they remain at the top of the stroke. Don't question that Feel - just sustain (monitor) it per 5-0, all ready for Release at the preselected Release Point (10-19, 10-24). Drive the Hands (Clubhead Feel 7-19) down the line (2-N) until both arms are straight - i.e., NO QUITTING. That procedure merely utilizes a long used method for drawing freehand straight lines between two points. Using the Clubshaft as the pencil is an effective equivalent.

Excellent thread - I think part of the general confusion in this area is that the 'illusions' run strong here.

Most important to keep in mind that you are always looking at both the hands (delivery paths) and clubhead (delivery lines) from ABOVE plane.

Add to that the general confusion in the discussion of 'plane' - that of the pressure points/CF (delivery paths) and that of the clubshaft/head (delivery lines). They are very closely related, but are not the same. When in doubt, monitor the hands.

Bucket - aiming point is a delivery path concept, and therefore is most closely related to 'the plane' of the pressure point #1 travel. Thanks for the quote from the 4th, it is unfortunate that it was removed from later versions.

I had the opportunity to hit some wedges on a lined football field one day, and a 2-5 yard push "looked" like a straight ball and a ball that went directly down the painted line "looked" like a pull. Hence my question.

Thank you for your explanation, that makes a lot of sense.

Another question....What happens on the golf course? Do we instinctively play the push becasue the push is the line our eyes follow, when we line up to the flag? All things being equal, How do we train our eyes to know they are looking down the right line?

Port Side Perfection
 

Most players instinctively align to the right of Target, but not because the eyes align for the Push. Instead, the faulty alignment is because the Computer aligns for the Pull. It KNOWS the Clubface will Impact the Ball Square (instead of the desired slightly Open) -- usually because of the Bent Left Wrist or Off Plane Right Shoulder or both -- and hence it will be Closed at Separation. To avoid the Pull, the Computer aims right.

A simple test of this phenomenon is to ask the player to Address the Ball as if he were Left-Handed. Invariably, the alignment to the Target will be perfect. So, the normal 'to the right' alignment is not a case of 'bad eyes' or 'aligning for Pushes.' Instead, it is the fact that the Computer has no conflicting information from the other side of the Ball. And until it learns that the Right Wrist will Bend through Impact or that the Left Shoulder will Turn Off Plane during the Start Down -- thus Closing the Clubface at Separation -- it will not compensate.

Hence, the Square Alignments.