To help with visualization for slope, if your feet are about shoulder width apart is approximately 2 feet, assume 25 inches.1 % slope would be if one foot is 1/4 inch higher than the other. 2% = 1/2 inch, 3%=3/4 inch, 4%=1 inch, 5%=1.25 inches. You could build a platform with wood using those dimensions and practice feel at home.
I don't have anyone anywhere close to me that teaches AimPoint. I wanted to figure out the ins and outs about it I knew it couldn't have been that difficult that I couldn't learn from home and you proved it. thank you for this.
In addition, you can practice the sense of degrees of tilt at home, using the lumber and the level app off your smartphone. Take a 3’ x 3’ square chunk of plywood and either lay it flat or wedge it up under either side until you can get a feel for what 1, 2, 3, etc degrees feels like in your legs.
Well done!! Also shocked Sweeney hasn't sent his crooked lawyer after you!! I ran into the exact same obstacles you describe when attempting to obtain certification for the original AimPoint that utilized the green book. Couple of quick things ... Sweeney acquired a US Patent for Aim Point under very dubious circumstances; he did not originate the concept. Next, you refer to "degrees" of slope instead of slope percentages. Lastly, the faster the green or putt the closer to your eye (increases elbow bend) you move your extended arm / and thus increasing the break read. Finally, on a downhill putt you really want to think of feeding the ball onto a zero break line running through the hole from peak high point to low point. Just as water always seeks a low point, a golf ball will like wise try to roll directly down hill. A good rule of thumb is to always determine the zero break line as you approach every green if for no other reason than to frame a general world reference anchor.
Pour water into a hole on a sloped green until the water just starts to flow out of the hole. The water will flow downhill. The line that the water flows on is called the zero break line or fall line because a ball rolling up or down on that line would have zero break. That line also extends on the uphill side of the hole. Study Geoff Mangum if you ever want the greatest info on the science of putting.
@@TheNYgolfer I'm actually a Magnum Certified Instructor.... by accident. He's a funny guy knows a lot. I have used a few of his things for green reading but over time I've found AimPoint is slightly more precise because you're at the mercy of your eyes mores v AimPoint for establishing slope. Both methodologies can help anyone. It's worth a putting stroke or two over a round.
@@joneskendrick2084 I gave up on AimPoint, probably for the wrong reason. I watched too many videos of guys walking in a circle around a hole and claiming to "feel" the exact location when the transition occurs from uphill to downhill and vice versa, on slopes of 1 percent. I challenge them to do that blindfolded on an unknown spot on the green chosen by me, so their eyes cant' influence their decisions. I'm not that good and the only way I could come close is if I had a preconceived notion in my head of where the fall line is, based on visual observations. So I figure I might as well skip the foot shuffle thingy and stay with what my eyes tell me about the fall line and slope and use Geoff's basic formulas that I refine on the practice green before a round to compensate for the green speed on the course I'm about to play. That's how all the greats did it prior to AimPoint. Adam Scott has not done well with AimPoint. He misses more than a normal amount of short putts. Imo the ones that are great putters today that use Aimpoint, such as Cameron Smith, use it as more of a confirmation tool for what their eyes see as they approach the green and survey their surroundings, than vice versa. So it is an additional tool that can be used but that brings up the question, what do you do if your eyes and feet disagree? I would like your opinion on my comment since you have both AimPoint and Putting Zone credentials.
Thanks for the info, John Schlee did an instructional video years ago called “Maximum Golf”. On putting, he referenced Bobby Locke and his concept of finding the entry point for the ball as it goes in the hole. It goes very well with your reminder of “pro side vs. am side” and the necessity of having the ball enter from the high side! Great stuff!
Great job. As you said it is impossible to find instructions on how to do aim point without paying through your nose for it. So you get my subscribing, Thumbs up and comment.
Great video and brings it to the point. And I totally agree to what you said about other channels pretent to explain it, but they dont. Just talking about it with unimportant blabla. Therefor thanks for your explaination and the video.
Great video! I don't think I could ever effectively use the aimpoint finger technique. I'm more of a plumbob using my putter. But I learned some key points from your video. The first few feet after you hit the golf ball it will roll straight especially if your hitting uphill or a long putt. Also to add a little more degree to a down hill putt due to the slow speed. Lastly and what I think was the most important was from mark 17:26 of the video...the putter total swing distance may help some people but you just have to practice square contact and have a feel for distance/speed as if you where throwing and object. Thanks for the video.
13:01 you probably missed that because of the wind. The guy who cam up with aim point said in an interview that if the wind is 20 mph in the direction of the break it can at least double the read
You are right... been searching everywhere for better understandings of this method and you nailed it! I think you give just enough information and direction that with a little practice anyone can make this method their own. Very appreciated and keep up the videos!
Great explanation. Simple and effective. Now getting closer to the hole on 20' plus putts and holing closer putts because I can understand what I'm doing thanks to you.
I might suggest a slight variation on longer puts that has worked better and faster for me. Take a reading every 10 feet from the hole. Don't read at the ball. Add the total. Still rare to get higher than 4*. If it is greater than a 4* your probably looking to let it drift to the hole anyway.
Just having the thought of assigning an amount of slope - and using the finger width to define 1% per finger - makes putting much more mindful, and helped me tremendously during my debut trying it. It's really a question of ratio's when determining uphill, downhill etc, multiply/divide as necessary. My thought process took me to total putt time, as in how long will the ball be rolling for. This can be percentage'ised for uphill/downhill/specific green speed. For example, a 1% uphill put becomes 0.8%, whilst the identical downhill put becomes 1.2% Doing so made me commit to the shot and eradicated the lack of concentration i usually suffer wirth. Great video, cheers.
I watched this then went to our 18 hole putting course and was better even without a husky digital level. I just assigned numbers to foot feel and went with it.
I took Aimpoint lessons several years ago spent over $300 was very disappointed. It was a one on one lesson but, it felt as if the instructor was always trying to sell me something more. Im just old school so expected written information to take away from the class to refer back to I got nothing. He would give me a refresher anytime ($150). This is the basics to what you learn. It's up to the student to get out and practice the theory. Great video.
Excellent présentation BT. Might I suggest describing the “distance” toward the right or left from the cup while Aimpointing with your fingers rather than “space” as you describe it. Distance is linear and easy to grasp. I was initially confused trying to understand your “space” concept terminology even while viewing your image inserts. It’s just semantics of course but could help newbies like myself. I’ll give it a try, thanks for sharing!!!
I am supposing that you place the level by the ball and by the cup to determine the difference in slope between these locations? And that would be the 1.5* or 2* measurements that you transfer to your fingers.?
Excellent explanations!! Also thanks for the tip to use the slope meter to “calibrate” the feel of the slope using our feet, extremely useful! Wonderful video!! LOL on the “pretzel” finger twist for a half degree!! Very innovative!!
This video looks very real I am looking forward to try this on the course this weekend! I really hope they don't take this video down so more people can see it!
Outstanding communicator and natural teacher. That is a gift for which I say thank you very much for flexing your unique skill. I have learned more in 15 minutes on this than I have possibly on any other golf instructional video and I watch a lot of them! Thank you Sir!
Well. Good information. I use that system and it is extremely valuable. My only question is how can you teach people to put a 1.68 diameter ball in a 4.25 diameter hole if you can’t get your body inside the view of your camera? You should re-record and do it right!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge via the video. I'm a little confused about the level. Is it to be used so that I can equate an actual (mathematical) green's slope # with personal feel, so that I can judge slope intuitively? Maybe you could explain that further in detail for us?
Yes... set the level anywhere on the green to get the slope value so you know what 1*, 2* ect feels like with your feet. Hope that helps. BTW, great video Big Toilet !!
Correct, It is a wonderful system, but AimPoint was just too proprietary. Give me the money. There were a couple of videos out there. One on Video was very good. But AimPoint pulled in there copyright infringement and they disappeared. BT is right and presented the foundation. He mentioned the Stimpmeter. I would add this with Aimpoint the faster the green (stimp) the greater the break. That's why you want to practice putts before you play. This gives you a feel for the green speed that day. Also remember as it heats up the speed may change later in the round. BT gave you a great explanation and saved your $300 plus. Go practice the feel for the slope and start dropping some putts.
Really good video, but I think you have made a basic, but substantial, error. Aim point works on PERCENT, not degrees. So, you have to set your digital level to percent readings and not degree readings. This should also make quite a difference in the amount of fingers you use to calculate break.
Thank you so much for this video!! This will help me a ton!! Do you recommend any of the training aids that AIM Point sells? Such as,,,,,AimPoint Exrpess PLG, Calibration Strips or Aim Chart Metric?
It's not degrees of slope, it's percent of slope. Degrees of slope and percent are two different things. I use a clinometer app. And it play shows the difference between degrees and percent of slope. The system is based on percent of slope. 2% as opposed to 2 degrees.
In Aimpoint slope is not measured in degrees but in percentages. That’s why you need a Husky level because it measures in percentages as well as degrees. Also you say a downhill putt is a fast putt, which is incorrect. A downhill putt is a slow putt, an uphill putt is a quick putt.
This happened to me also. I wanted be certified to be able to teach it and coach my university team in Quebec. Coudn’t because a guy is certified and got the whole Quebec. I was so pissed.
For double breaking putts do you always subtract the break closest to the ball from the break closest to the hole? So if a putt is going 3 degrees right to left then 2 degrees left to right do you play 1 degree right to left?
Thanks, BT. Great lesson. Just one thing though ... the sweet spot of a putter is not necessarily where the manufacturer marks it. It’s easily found by tapping the ball against the putter face and seeing how it reacts.
Sorry I could be just miss understanding but at 10:00 BT is talking about his read for his 4 foot putt. He says that it's 1.5 degrees.He moves his finger to the center of the hole which would take away 0.5 degrees from the read. Then he mentions that his aimpoint would be left edge. But if left edge were true, wouldn't that be a 0.5 degree effective read, and not a 1.5? I could be overthinking it but want to be sure I'm doing it right for the
I’m confused on when you are talking about reading the break on a short putt and you say that you cover the “bottom” of the cup with the finger. To me, there would be either the left side, right side, front, and back sides of the cup that you would orient the finger tip or the side of the finger to. Could you explain again please and thanks so much!
Of course speeds vary, and thusly how you use your “human stimp reader” will also. Pulling back on your arm is a part of the practice. Once you start, just use it in regards to downhillers at your home course
@@bigtoiletgolf5025 I don't understand how pulling the fingers back helps with downhill puts. Do still have to account for the hill in my stroke? Meaning less speed vs a flat put? Or do I bend the arm and hit the same speed? Every time I do this it just flies past the hole.
@@jerrycanjesse The closer you move your hand is to your eyes, the thicker your fingers are relative to your target. This means more break because on a downhill putt, the ball breaks faster
You aim your fingers to the middle of the hole, far side or nearest side to the break? What about if you are on grainy greens, you add or subtract %slope by feel or by calculations? Really nice vid btw! Thanks for explaining it with such ease!
I would say from the middle to the side that the ball is coming from, would no sense in using middle to left side looking for an aim point if the ball is breaking right to left right, anyway that makes sense to me LOL
For distance control, how about the pacing system? Practice for your stroke, taking 1 inch back equals 2 paces the balls rolls forward. Adjust your formula for uphill and down hill. Not an exact science but gives you a system to follow rather than guessing and replying on feels.
@@johannepiper6836 it’s something....if it works for you then that’s all you can hope for. I see that as quite difficult to judge your stroke 1 inch at a time though.
Thanks for sharing, it’s great to understand what aim pointers are trying to do on the greens. But my personal opinion is that there are so many factors on a green plus multiple breaks with multiple up and downslopes it will be difficult to work. I also don’t see the best putters in the world using this technique. 🤔🤔
My guess is that they have green reading books to tell them slope and I think after doing it a while you can probably estimate aimpoint without your fingers much like you can develop feel of slope with your feet.
Yes, percentage of slope is correct. You practice with a digital level until you can master it without it! Husky 10 inch digital level is highly recommended
You forgot the calibration step, i.e. when you set the length of your arm-finger measurement based on the speed of the green. The length of the arm is important because it changes the relative width of your fingers. Adjusting the length of your arm, randomly based on a really short shot, a long shot, a downhill or uphill is too arbitrary until you calibrate.
My question is how can you tell how much pressure is on the high side. 1.5 degrees of slope in approximately 17 inches (approximate width of your stance+-) equals about 0.037' or less than 1/2". (SIN of 1.5 degrees(0.0262) times 1.42 feet equals 0.037 feet) In other words, your right foot is less than 1/2" higher than your left. While I'll admit you might be able to feel a little pressure difference, I'm not sure our brains are capable of accurately discerning such small differences and then converting that to slope percentage. And that's only in one spot along the ball path. Interesting video though. Maybe that's why people where I play are now spending about 4 times longer on the green to miss that 15 footer. Start at ball, straddle, walk up a quarter of the way, straddle, walk up........and on and on. Edit: I just checked the pressure on my legs in my office which is my converted garage. You certainly can feel the pressure difference in that small slope. I'm going to do some experimenting with it. Thanks BT!
There's no doubt you can feel the difference. When I was working on getting fit for clubs I could feel the difference in 1 gram of weight. My fitter was perplexed when I told him which club was heavier. Now that wasn't swing weight that was physical overall weight of the club on a general scale.
To help with visualization for slope, if your feet are about shoulder width apart is approximately 2 feet, assume 25 inches.1 % slope would be if one foot is 1/4 inch higher than the other. 2% = 1/2 inch, 3%=3/4 inch, 4%=1 inch, 5%=1.25 inches. You could build a platform with wood using those dimensions and practice feel at home.
That was just what I needed to visualize the slope, Thank you Mr. Ryan!
game changer omgggggg
I don't have anyone anywhere close to me that teaches AimPoint. I wanted to figure out the ins and outs about it I knew it couldn't have been that difficult that I couldn't learn from home and you proved it. thank you for this.
In addition, you can practice the sense of degrees of tilt at home, using the lumber and the level app off your smartphone. Take a 3’ x 3’ square chunk of plywood and either lay it flat or wedge it up under either side until you can get a feel for what 1, 2, 3, etc degrees feels like in your legs.
Well done!! Also shocked Sweeney hasn't sent his crooked lawyer after you!! I ran into the exact same obstacles you describe when attempting to obtain certification for the original AimPoint that utilized the green book. Couple of quick things ... Sweeney acquired a US Patent for Aim Point under very dubious circumstances; he did not originate the concept. Next, you refer to "degrees" of slope instead of slope percentages. Lastly, the faster the green or putt the closer to your eye (increases elbow bend) you move your extended arm / and thus increasing the break read. Finally, on a downhill putt you really want to think of feeding the ball onto a zero break line running through the hole from peak high point to low point. Just as water always seeks a low point, a golf ball will like wise try to roll directly down hill. A good rule of thumb is to always determine the zero break line as you approach every green if for no other reason than to frame a general world reference anchor.
I followed most of this but could you give a little more explanation on zero break line Thanks
Pour water into a hole on a sloped green until the water just starts to flow out of the hole. The water will flow downhill. The line that the water flows on is called the zero break line or fall line because a ball rolling up or down on that line would have zero break. That line also extends on the uphill side of the hole. Study Geoff Mangum if you ever want the greatest info on the science of putting.
@@TheNYgolfer I'm actually a Magnum Certified Instructor.... by accident. He's a funny guy knows a lot. I have used a few of his things for green reading but over time I've found AimPoint is slightly more precise because you're at the mercy of your eyes mores v AimPoint for establishing slope. Both methodologies can help anyone. It's worth a putting stroke or two over a round.
@@joneskendrick2084 I gave up on AimPoint, probably for the wrong reason. I watched too many videos of guys walking in a circle around a hole and claiming to "feel" the exact location when the transition occurs from uphill to downhill and vice versa, on slopes of 1 percent.
I challenge them to do that blindfolded on an unknown spot on the green chosen by me, so their eyes cant' influence their decisions.
I'm not that good and the only way I could come close is if I had a preconceived notion in my head of where the fall line is, based on visual observations. So I figure I might as well skip the foot shuffle thingy and stay with what my eyes tell me about the fall line and slope and use Geoff's basic formulas that I refine on the practice green before a round to compensate for the green speed on the course I'm about to play.
That's how all the greats did it prior to AimPoint.
Adam Scott has not done well with AimPoint. He misses more than a normal amount of short putts.
Imo the ones that are great putters today that use Aimpoint, such as Cameron Smith, use it as more of a confirmation tool for what their eyes see as they approach the green and survey their surroundings, than vice versa. So it is an additional tool that can be used but that brings up the question, what do you do if your eyes and feet disagree?
I would like your opinion on my comment since you have both AimPoint and Putting Zone credentials.
Thanks for the info, John Schlee did an instructional video years ago called “Maximum Golf”. On putting, he referenced Bobby Locke and his concept of finding the entry point for the ball as it goes in the hole. It goes very well with your reminder of “pro side vs. am side” and the necessity of having the ball enter from the high side! Great stuff!
Great job. As you said it is impossible to find instructions on how to do aim point without paying through your nose for it. So you get my subscribing, Thumbs up and comment.
Great vid simple makes sense. Was very interested in this process. Thanks to you I now have a basic understanding on what to practice.
Great video and brings it to the point. And I totally agree to what you said about other channels pretent to explain it, but they dont. Just talking about it with unimportant blabla. Therefor thanks for your explaination and the video.
One of the best explanation of Aimpoint that I seen, the key word here is practice. Thank you for posting.
You got it!
Thank you for being honest and truthful 🙏🏽 God bless
This is the business..I appreciate you explaining..I totally agree with your opening few lines 👍 Takes a lot of work but like what you've done this 👊👊
Great video! I don't think I could ever effectively use the aimpoint finger technique. I'm more of a plumbob using my putter. But I learned some key points from your video. The first few feet after you hit the golf ball it will roll straight especially if your hitting uphill or a long putt. Also to add a little more degree to a down hill putt due to the slow speed. Lastly and what I think was the most important was from mark 17:26 of the video...the putter total swing distance may help some people but you just have to practice square contact and have a feel for distance/speed as if you where throwing and object. Thanks for the video.
Excellent Instructions. Thank you
13:01 you probably missed that because of the wind. The guy who cam up with aim point said in an interview that if the wind is 20 mph in the direction of the break it can at least double the read
Thank you for this video. Giving this a try and definitely like being more intentional with my putts
You are right... been searching everywhere for better understandings of this method and you nailed it! I think you give just enough information and direction that with a little practice anyone can make this method their own. Very appreciated and keep up the videos!
It’s NOT as complicated as some would lead you to believe!
Its simple and it works, who knew ! Thanks amigo.
This video is great! Really breaks it down
Thank you for sharing this I have learnt so much from one video
Hey thanks! That was great! I just ordered a digital level.
Thank you for explaining aim point saved me days of looking for information that is hard to find keep up the awesome work 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
You can NEVER find on the internet what was explained CORRECTLY here! Use it and win!
Happy I found this great video. Thanks BT
Great explanation. Simple and effective. Now getting closer to the hole on 20' plus putts and holing closer putts because I can understand what I'm doing thanks to you.
I appreciate your comment! Very very much…..
I might suggest a slight variation on longer puts that has worked better and faster for me. Take a reading every 10 feet from the hole. Don't read at the ball. Add the total. Still rare to get higher than 4*. If it is greater than a 4* your probably looking to let it drift to the hole anyway.
Great video! Thank you for sharing.. have always wanted to know how to do this but have never had the time to take a lesson
Just having the thought of assigning an amount of slope - and using the finger width to define 1% per finger - makes putting much more mindful, and helped me tremendously during my debut trying it. It's really a question of ratio's when determining uphill, downhill etc, multiply/divide as necessary.
My thought process took me to total putt time, as in how long will the ball be rolling for. This can be percentage'ised for uphill/downhill/specific green speed.
For example, a 1% uphill put becomes 0.8%, whilst the identical downhill put becomes 1.2%
Doing so made me commit to the shot and eradicated the lack of concentration i usually suffer wirth.
Great video, cheers.
Fantastic video thank you for sharing 👍👍
I watched this then went to our 18 hole putting course and was better even without a husky digital level. I just assigned numbers to foot feel and went with it.
Thanks for opening Aimpoint up!
I took Aimpoint lessons several years ago spent over $300 was very disappointed. It was a one on one lesson but, it felt as if the instructor was always trying to sell me something more. Im just old school so expected written information to take away from the class to refer back to I got nothing. He would give me a refresher anytime ($150). This is the basics to what you learn. It's up to the student to get out and practice the theory. Great video.
I dislike Aimpoint instructors. They’ve really made it into a scam
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for excellent lesson.
great, simple and digestible video..thanks...now a Subscriber
Cheers mate great explanation
Thank you so much, u are the man!!
BT, you the man. Thanks for this. I'm a caddie at Pelican Hill and will be trying this out for the remainder of this year.
No no....YOU DA MAN!
@@bigtoiletgolf5025 thank you , you saved me some money .
Excellent présentation BT. Might I suggest describing the “distance” toward the right or left from the cup while Aimpointing with your fingers rather than “space” as you describe it. Distance is linear and easy to grasp. I was initially confused trying to understand your “space” concept terminology even while viewing your image inserts. It’s just semantics of course but could help newbies like myself. I’ll give it a try, thanks for sharing!!!
thank you this is exactly the video I needed! just saved me about 300$
Very useful, thanks!
You are the man! Thank you
Absolutely!
Great Video, thanks.
I am supposing that you place the level by the ball and by the cup to determine the difference in slope between these locations? And that would be the 1.5* or 2* measurements that you transfer to your fingers.?
Great video and simple explanation of Aimpoint! Especially the double break!!! Thank you!!! 🥰🥰🥰❤️
Not how you read a double break using Aimpoint.
Excellent explanations!! Also thanks for the tip to use the slope meter to “calibrate” the feel of the slope using our feet, extremely useful! Wonderful video!! LOL on the “pretzel” finger twist for a half degree!! Very innovative!!
Hey! I try! I want all golfers to get this understanding. Thanks
This was so good.
This video looks very real I am looking forward to try this on the course this weekend! I really hope they don't take this video down so more people can see it!
Video still up! It’s the only quality video done on Aimpoint
This is THEE video to explain simply how it’s done. Nobody will take this down!
Great stuff. Thank you.
You got it!!
2 minutes in, but your the man! Ty
No, you’re the man!
Please correct me if I am wrong about degrees vs slope. But I took a class and we were told to use percent.
On the double breaking putt, which half of the hole did you cover with your finger? It wasn’t mentioned.
Outstanding communicator and natural teacher. That is a gift for which I say thank you very much for flexing your unique skill. I have learned more in 15 minutes on this than I have possibly on any other golf instructional video and I watch a lot of them! Thank you Sir!
You are too kind! Although I’ve heard that before. I like to explain things like I want them to be explained to me.
Billy billy billy billy....oh billy billy billy billy billy barooooo......
So if I understand this. For a left to right break you use your left hand to measure? And a right to left is your right hand???
On the short 4ft putt you used one finger in the center of the hole..! Is this correct as you stated it was a 1.5 degree slope? Thanks
Are you lining up with the center of the cup or the edge?
On your digital level, do you put it on the degree setting or the slope % setting? There are different modes on the level.
Well. Good information. I use that system and it is extremely valuable. My only question is how can you teach people to put a 1.68 diameter ball in a 4.25 diameter hole if you can’t get your body inside the view of your camera? You should re-record and do it right!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge via the video. I'm a little confused about the level. Is it to be used so that I can equate an actual (mathematical) green's slope # with personal feel, so that I can judge slope intuitively? Maybe you could explain that further in detail for us?
Yes... set the level anywhere on the green to get the slope value so you know what 1*, 2* ect feels like with your feet. Hope that helps. BTW, great video Big Toilet !!
Could one not use green slope book instead of the feet and apply same finger technique?
Some interesting info. You tells to buy a level but not how or where to place it to use it?
Correct, It is a wonderful system, but AimPoint was just too proprietary. Give me the money. There were a couple of videos out there. One on Video was very good. But AimPoint pulled in there copyright infringement and they disappeared. BT is right and presented the foundation. He mentioned the Stimpmeter. I would add this with Aimpoint the faster the green (stimp) the greater the break. That's why you want to practice putts before you play. This gives you a feel for the green speed that day. Also remember as it heats up the speed may change later in the round. BT gave you a great explanation and saved your $300 plus. Go practice the feel for the slope and start dropping some putts.
Really good video, but I think you have made a basic, but substantial, error. Aim point works on PERCENT, not degrees. So, you have to set your digital level to percent readings and not degree readings. This should also make quite a difference in the amount of fingers you use to calculate break.
Thks for share ,good method.
Apply it and win!
Nice lid!!!
Thank you so much for this video!! This will help me a ton!! Do you recommend any of the training aids that AIM Point sells? Such as,,,,,AimPoint Exrpess PLG, Calibration Strips or Aim Chart Metric?
You need NOTHING more than what is explained here. Other stuff is just money grabs
Get the AimPoint video - it does a better job of the basics.
Awesome find! Thank you, toilet man. Smart phone with digital level app would work too.
I don’t find anything as good as the Husky digital level.....The Toilet abides....
I don’t believe the smart phone digital app is as accurate as the 10 inch Husky digital level. The Toilet abides.... lol
It's not degrees of slope, it's percent of slope. Degrees of slope and percent are two different things. I use a clinometer app. And it play shows the difference between degrees and percent of slope. The system is based on percent of slope. 2% as opposed to 2 degrees.
I was about to comment on it. It's % not degrees
In Aimpoint slope is not measured in degrees but in percentages. That’s why you need a Husky level because it measures in percentages as well as degrees. Also you say a downhill putt is a fast putt, which is incorrect. A downhill putt is a slow putt, an uphill putt is a quick putt.
The downhill putt you have to hit softer so it has more time to break.
@@thebigtoilet8500 it'll break harder than a normal put
This happened to me also. I wanted be certified to be able to teach it and coach my university team in Quebec. Coudn’t because a guy is certified and got the whole Quebec. I was so pissed.
What’s wrong with these people right?
Crazy eh? This is why I needed to do this. FOR US!
For double breaking putts do you always subtract the break closest to the ball from the break closest to the hole? So if a putt is going 3 degrees right to left then 2 degrees left to right do you play 1 degree right to left?
Yes, unless the high point is as the ball…..then no
Thanks, BT. Great lesson.
Just one thing though ... the sweet spot of a putter is not necessarily where the manufacturer marks it.
It’s easily found by tapping the ball against the putter face and seeing how it reacts.
with a tee
Correct!
Sorry I could be just miss understanding but at 10:00 BT is talking about his read for his 4 foot putt. He says that it's 1.5 degrees.He moves his finger to the center of the hole which would take away 0.5 degrees from the read. Then he mentions that his aimpoint would be left edge. But if left edge were true, wouldn't that be a 0.5 degree effective read, and not a 1.5? I could be overthinking it but want to be sure I'm doing it right for the
For putts longer than ~6 ft, fingers are lined up from the center of the hole. For shorter putts fingers align from the edge, not the center.
thanks for your content.. I don't understand the use of the fingers
How do you determine the degrees of slop using your feet? Toe vs. Ball of foot vs. Arch of foot vs. Heel of foot??
You can feel one foot higher that the other. It’s amazing how sensitive you can become to 0.5 degrees!
Are you right eye dominant??
You definitely need to do a update video
I’m confused on when you are talking about reading the break on a short putt and you say that you cover the “bottom” of the cup with the finger. To me, there would be either the left side, right side, front, and back sides of the cup that you would orient the finger tip or the side of the finger to. Could you explain again please and thanks so much!
Did you ever figure that out Bryan? Please share if you can. Thanks!
How about speed green if it 10~12 should I pull my hand back more? or use the same length?
Of course speeds vary, and thusly how you use your “human stimp reader” will also. Pulling back on your arm is a part of the practice. Once you start, just use it in regards to downhillers at your home course
@@bigtoiletgolf5025 I don't understand how pulling the fingers back helps with downhill puts. Do still have to account for the hill in my stroke? Meaning less speed vs a flat put? Or do I bend the arm and hit the same speed? Every time I do this it just flies past the hole.
@@jerrycanjesse The closer you move your hand is to your eyes, the thicker your fingers are relative to your target. This means more break because on a downhill putt, the ball breaks faster
You aim your fingers to the middle of the hole, far side or nearest side to the break?
What about if you are on grainy greens, you add or subtract %slope by feel or by calculations?
Really nice vid btw! Thanks for explaining it with such ease!
I would say from the middle to the side that the ball is coming from, would no sense in using middle to left side looking for an aim point if the ball is breaking right to left right, anyway that makes sense to me LOL
11:14 take both masurements, toes point to the hole then toes perpendicular to hole.
Great catch!
Ps: percent slope, not degrees
Isnt it percentage of slope not degrees of slope?
Fantastic video 👍
Think you've got it wrong about arm bend. The typical read is not a straight arm unless you have very very slow greens.
Love the part about trying to teach/learn speed control.
It’s not possible!! Coaches need to stop saying they can teach speed!!
For distance control, how about the pacing system? Practice for your stroke, taking 1 inch back equals 2 paces the balls rolls forward.
Adjust your formula for uphill and down hill. Not an exact science but gives you a system to follow rather than guessing and replying on feels.
@@johannepiper6836 it’s something....if it works for you then that’s all you can hope for. I see that as quite difficult to judge your stroke 1 inch at a time though.
Great video, only thing I noticed was you stood on the high side of the break for the long putt and I believe they teach you to stand on the low side.
Just straddle the line to the hole…..
Thanks, Big Toilet!
Thanks for helping piece together the details. Aimpoint's website and resources are so bad. They really have failed to capitalize on a great concept.
Thanks for sharing, it’s great to understand what aim pointers are trying to do on the greens. But my personal opinion is that there are so many factors on a green plus multiple breaks with multiple up and downslopes it will be difficult to work. I also don’t see the best putters in the world using this technique. 🤔🤔
My guess is that they have green reading books to tell them slope and I think after doing it a while you can probably estimate aimpoint without your fingers much like you can develop feel of slope with your feet.
60% of the time it works, every time!
A wider deeper camera would help your viewers
I don’t think it matters what system you use, if you don’t get the speed right, you won’t make anything.😊
I think Aimpoint actually uses 1% slope per finger, not 1 degree per finger. Which makes a big difference the larger slope you get.
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I just confirmed that Aimpoint does indeed use (% slope), not (degrees slope).
Degrees won't work
This is video is probably the reason you should go get a lesson from someone who actually knows and teaches it 😅
to bad the cup is NOT visible
Voodoo. It’s all voodoo.
I thought aimpoint uses percent slope.
Yes, percentage of slope is correct. You practice with a digital level until you can master it without it! Husky 10 inch digital level is highly recommended
You forgot the calibration step, i.e. when you set the length of your arm-finger measurement based on the speed of the green. The length of the arm is important because it changes the relative width of your fingers. Adjusting the length of your arm, randomly based on a really short shot, a long shot, a downhill or uphill is too arbitrary until you calibrate.
My question is how can you tell how much pressure is on the high side. 1.5 degrees of slope in approximately 17 inches (approximate width of your stance+-) equals about 0.037' or less than 1/2". (SIN of 1.5 degrees(0.0262) times 1.42 feet equals 0.037 feet) In other words, your right foot is less than 1/2" higher than your left. While I'll admit you might be able to feel a little pressure difference, I'm not sure our brains are capable of accurately discerning such small differences and then converting that to slope percentage. And that's only in one spot along the ball path. Interesting video though. Maybe that's why people where I play are now spending about 4 times longer on the green to miss that 15 footer. Start at ball, straddle, walk up a quarter of the way, straddle, walk up........and on and on.
Edit: I just checked the pressure on my legs in my office which is my converted garage. You certainly can feel the pressure difference in that small slope. I'm going to do some experimenting with it. Thanks BT!
There's no doubt you can feel the difference. When I was working on getting fit for clubs I could feel the difference in 1 gram of weight. My fitter was perplexed when I told him which club was heavier. Now that wasn't swing weight that was physical overall weight of the club on a general scale.
All long putts are straight putts...not making this up
At what feet is it not straight anymore?
@@JayTakeProfits try what i said and write back genius