The Putting T-Bar®
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                                            The Incredible Benefits of the Putting T-Bar®

The three primary objectives of putting are Path Prediction, Putt Accuracy, and Speed Control. Simply put, read the putt, then roll it down the intended line at the proper speed. The three key elements of Putt Accuracy are Alignment, Setup, and Stroke Mechanics. The Putting T-Bar® is a dynamic teaching/training aid that will improve alignment, guide the body to a proper setup, and train the perfect synchronized motion. It completes the learning connection between instruction, visual demonstration, and experience with immediate feedback. 

The Five Benefits of The Putting T-Bar®:

1. Sets the putter face perpendicular to the shoulder line.
2. Guides your shoulder line to set up parallel to the putt start line.
3. Forces the shoulders, arms, hands, and putter to move in a rhythmic motion. Immediate resistance feedback is provided if there is poor rhythm.
4. Provides a visual guide for moving the shoulders on the stroke plane.
5. Ensures perfect practice.

Perfect Practice and Brain Mapping

The process of learning motion is often termed "muscle memory". Physiologically, the term "muscle memory" is misleading. A better term would be "motor memory", thus referring to the motor cortex of the brain that stores the memories of movement. Quite simply, the brain remembers the movement, not the muscle. Neuroscientists refer to this motion memory as brain mapping, the process of storing specific motion onto brain tissue. Biologically, the brain and nervous system form brain maps through the wiring together of nerves, a process referred to as long-term potentiation (LTP). LTP enables the brain and nervous system to learn and form the mapping memories.

First attempts at performing activities are often awkward and clumsy, but continued practice with good technique stimulates more LTP and the formation and strengthening of a new brain map becomes successful. Continued practice stimulates increasing LTP and improves the efficiency of the nerve circuitry making up the motion, thus requiring less consciousness and awareness to carry out the task. With perfect practice, the perfect motion will eventually be carried out by the nonconscious brain with little effort and thought. 

Another factor to bear in mind is that "brain maps" from former poor techniques remain in memory our entire lives. These old maps may rear their ugly head from time to inconvenient time. However, persistent practice of the desired motion, the new map, will become the working memory. The old map does not go away, it just gets weaker, and the new nerve circuitry can dominate. Continued perfect practice can ensure the new motion remains dominate.


Why is The Putting T-Bar® different from other putting aids?

There are many excellent training aids in the marketplace. However, most aids are tracing aids. They sit on the ground and provide a visual guide to wave the putter on a track or plane. These aids do not train the mechanics of the putting stroke; motion generated by the shoulders, arms, hands to move the putter. Video analysis systems are also excellent sources of information, but they only track the motion of the putter head, not the source of the motion. The Putting T-Bar® is the only putting aid that trains perfect, rhythmic motion, which builds dominate brain mapping and nerve circuitry.

            Practice does not make Perfect; Perfect Practice makes Perfect!