[MizunoJoe]

Just for clarification - let me describe the exact analogy to the problem I was describing in my initial post where the hands don't go where you want them to go - give the brain's perspective i.e. above plane viewpoint.

To clarify - the essential element is how to control where your hands move.

If you have a gun target say 8 feet away (roughly the same distance from your eyes to the ball in the golf swing) at eye height. Let's assume you pull your gun from the holster at your side and the ideal technique is to bring your gun on a plane that goes directly from your holster to the target (that's the on-plane golf motion). So you start to thrust towards that gun target while at all times keeping you eye on the target (the ball in golf), finally the gun is in line with your view of the target. This may give you the sense/feeling that you took it on the correct line however if we draw a line from your holster to where your gun is at the end of your 3 foot arm - the actual angle it took was not from the holster to the target 8 feet away. If we wanted to use that procedure and have the hand with the gun move on a line from the holster to the gun target 8 feet away, you would need to pick a alternative target below the gun target that would coincide with the distance of three feet out - that would put you on that proper line. So is the aiming point concept still usable Whip? Sure - but it takes a simple geometry calculation to verify it's location in order to achieve the actual ideal movement.

This over-complication indicates a faulty interpretation of the Aiming Point and how it's used.

Firstly, the Aiming Point is either the ball or a small distance before or aft of it ON THE PLANE LINE. This is because of the statement on pg 83: "-2. move the Ball forward or aft of the established Aiming Point...", which is in the context of compensation for different length clubs. When the ball is moved forward or back, it always remains on the Plane Line. This means that the Aiming Point was never meant as a means to direct the hands to any point off the Plane Line. It is a direct substitute for the ball.

Secondly, the pressure felt at PP#3 is the direct substitute for the lagging sweetspot, which is used to hit the direct substitute for the ball, the Aiming Point. HK is very clear on how to use Aiming Point on p83: "At the top of the Backstroke--even at the End(10-21-C)--mentally construct a line from the #3 Pressure Point to the Aiming Point. Let a careful Downstroke direct the pressure precisely along this line. Hitting or Swinging, direct the #3 Pressure Point strongly downward..." You do not manipulate the hand path to visually continue toward the Aiming Point down that mentally constructed straight line, but direct it with the pivot or right triceps from the top, in the direction indicated by that straight line, as if the pressure in PP#3 were free to move directly down that line, and then let the hands go wherever the thrust force takes them, mindful of tracing the Plane Line with PP#3. The later the release of #2, the straighter the hand path will be.