Aiming Point

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I'm not sure I understand how to use the aiming point concept (6-E-2) in a full swing. Do you take your eyes off the ball and look only at the aiming point or is it just the "intention" to direct the #3 pressure point at the aiming point? Is the aiming point usually the bottom of the divot or can it be further forward (or back)?
 
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Slowhand said:
I'm not sure I understand how to use the aiming point concept (6-E-2) in a full swing. Do you take your eyes off the ball and look only at the aiming point or is it just the "intention" to direct the #3 pressure point at the aiming point? Is the aiming point usually the bottom of the divot or can it be further forward (or back)?
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I don't ever take my eyes off the ball.

Aiming point is established from Impact Fix. As Ben Doyle would say, your eyes are on the ball but your mind's eye is in your hands.

Aiming point helps with the 'ball - turf' concept. Learn to take a divot just in front of the ball and you are doing something that all Tour pros do and perhaps only 5% of golfers (around the world) do.

Brian has numerous drills dealing with these ideas and the one where you take a divot and then try to take another divot at the front edge of your last divot is really helpful. Do that 3-4 times (eventually you can't move that divot any more forward, and you have to start over). This will improve your aim and it is here, with this drill that you can see the amount of precision that's involved with the swing.
 
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Jared Willerson

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I don't think you can have maximum trigger delay without some concept of aiming point, there are a bunch of ways to do it, but the concept has to be there to get mtd.
 
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Brian Manzella

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Aiming Point CONCEPT.

Remember...it is a concept...

So, Consciously or Sub-Consciously, the FORCE from the HANDS has to go somewhere, & that somewhere is the Aiming Point.
 
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Erik_K said:
I don't ever take my eyes off the ball.

Aiming point is established from Impact Fix. As Ben Doyle would say, your eyes are on the ball but your mind's eye is in your hands.

Aiming point helps with the 'ball - turf' concept. Learn to take a divot just in front of the ball and you are doing something that all Tour pros do and perhaps only 5% of golfers (around the world) do.

Brian has numerous drills dealing with these ideas and the one where you take a divot and then try to take another divot at the front edge of your last divot is really helpful. Do that 3-4 times (eventually you can't move that divot any more forward, and you have to start over). This will improve your aim and it is here, with this drill that you can see the amount of precision that's involved with the swing.
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Thanks Erik and Brian. I'm trying to add axis tilt after 35 years of "tripod" swinging. Moving my head behind center has changed the angles and timing of my swing. When my head is now three inches right of where it used to be, I tend to bottom out three inches behind the ball. My hunch is that using a new aiming point will help. I've also been using Brian's "shake the sugar off the arms" thought with success. Any additional advice would be appreciated.
 
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