Alignment golf

[HungryBear]

i've got a set of kzg blades & a set of titlest 695cb. I do like the feel of the blades & switch to them periodically, but they cost me half a club of distance & are less forgiving on poor shots. Perhaps when i have got a few of the ball striking principles from here on board it will be different. HTH

Do the blades make you concentrate better?

The Bear

[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 ?

[HungryBear]

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

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Don't know how that applies to your situation ?

My bad. Wrong word. Maybe should say intention rather than concentration.

Let me give my anecdotal example.

I have/had used a Burke "pga" putter (very like the "save-a shot" model)- it has a sweet spot about a silly millimeter wide. I have filed a mark to make the sweet spot easy to find.
I have changed to an inertial putter- broad sweet spot. Both putters same length, lie and grip. I often take out the Burke and practice stroke. When repeatable contact returns (on the sweet spot) I go back to the inertial.
Maybe CB's have made me sloppy and that sweet spot "intention" is something only to be regained with blades.

Just my concern???

HB

[tim chapman]

Maybe CB's have made me sloppy and that sweet spot "intention" is something only to be regained with blades.
HB

yes could be, i'm not (yet) a good enough ball striker to know but i can see how it might be the case