[tim chapman]

Do the blades make you concentrate better?

The Bear

i'd say not. Sometimes they have made me nervous that i'm not going to get good contact, so that would probably cause me to tense up & make a poorer swing than i would have, that's not concentration obviously. - that's fear

i'm new to TGM but ref. concentration, it seems to me that the bonus is that the principles give one something good, correct & useful to concentrate on (how useful is that !?)... perhaps...

1) right forearm on plane take-away
2) feel load & lag in hands
3) deliver lag pressure to impact & beyond with flat left wrist

i would be trying to concentrate on the process & allow the results to be what they are

if i can get to doing that really consistently with the cb then i'd try again with the blades & see whether i get better feedback that is useful for fine tuning, but i'd be thinking that if i'm not yet making a good job of the swing there is probably not much point in fine tuning with blades.

Don't know how that applies to your situation ?