Eliminate the milk crate but definitely do the 12-5 Motions daily to build and maintain a geometrically sound Golf Stroke. The reason you're having trouble going all the way Down Plane is because you are Bending your Left Wrist and Flattening your Right Wrist through Impact. This is Steering (3-F-7-A) abetted by Quitting (3-F-7-B). Both of which are probably due to the mistaken conception -- conscious or subconscious -- that you should be swinging 'toward the Target' instead of On Plane -- Down and Out -- through Impact Point and Low Point.

From the Top, Drive that #3 Pressure Point in a Straight Line toward the Ball (or the alternate Aiming Point, if applicable). Don't be afraid to do this. Hit the Ball with your #3 Pressure Point! And, for Hitters, make that Hit with your Active Right Elbow. Per 1-L #9, the Club will still move in a Circle! Think of this Straight Line Motion as a Bungee Jump with your #3 Pressure Point. Don't 'bail out' at the Ball -- just keep driving it Down and allow the science of 1-L to 'save you!'

Sure, its scary. But what a ride! And what a rush! Not to mention...

What a shot!

You are exactly right, Robot Buddy R2DU. I am not surprised at your analysis, but I must confess, I am pleased. Year for very-young-year, you are the best in the U.S., if not the world!

For Swingers, Pulling and Sensing is about as far as it can go with this #3 Pressure Point business. So, if you are one of the many closet "I don't feel the #3!" TGM afficienados, don't feel guilty! That said, I have a private tape of Ben Hogan in his later years describing and demonstrating to friends precisely the Swinger's #3 Pressure Point 'On Plane and at right angles to the Clubshaft' (1-L #11) Feel through the Ball. Given that it was the last thing Ben demonstated prior to his "That's it!," I am personally inclined to believe that his demo of the #3 was -- with all due respect to Life Magazine and their publication of a much more complicated and controversial action -- his long-awaited 'Secret.' For TGMers, of course, it's not such a Big Deal, because that same Secret was revealed 45 years ago by Homer Kelley in 6-C-2-0/A/B/C/D/E (6th Edition).

Bottom line for Swingers: You just 'Crank the Gyroscope' at Start Down and then let it go. You must sustain the Motion through Impact, of course -- to offset Deceleration Forces (the Ball hits the Clubface just as hard as the Clubface hits the Ball!) -- but for the most part, you simply crank it up and let it go.

In other words, all the Swinger can -- or should -- do is to SENSE the #3 Pressure Point guiding (aiming) the #3 in its straight-line Path to the Ball (10-24-E) and directing the On Plane Centrifugal Power (1-L #11). The Swinger cannot -- and must not -- Feel the Thrusting, Driving Motion of the Hitter! In fact, any attempt to 'override' Centrifugal Force is counterproductive for two reasons:

First, it destroys the Centrifugal Horizontal Hinging Rhythm (6-B-3-0); and

Second, it is directly opposed by the Centrifugal Force (that simply does not want to go that fast) and therefore results in a net loss of Force delivered to the Ball.

So, let's continue to call it Bungee Jumping...

But without the Urgency!

The 'jumping off point' it the Top of the Straight Line Delivery Path of 10-23-A. The 'bottom' could be considered the Release Interval Arc at the bottom of that Line. This is also the bottom Pulley Wheel Encounter of the Endless Belt Effect (2-K #6). However, the most practical 'real time' bottom is the Feel of being fully stretched out and Down Plane in the Both Arms Straight Position of the Follow-Through (8-11).

As for sensing the elusive #3 Lag Pressure Point Feel, you must introduce it in the very short Strokes. In other words, you will find it in the Basic and Aquired Motions of 12-5-1-#15 and 12-5-2-#11. Per my above post Swingers and the #3 Pressure Point Bungee Jump, Hitters will find the #3 Pressure Point easier to feel because of its active Thrust against the lagging inertia of Centrifugal Force.