Tightrope:
I disagree. With the EZ swings you can learn a lot. Your learn how the wind affects the ball, the relative powers, different shots for different situations. Hard to do if you miss the ding all the time - you have no idea how much the error affected the shot. The motorics of getting a ding is secondary to how you read the and plan the shot.
In a round about way thats true but your game will elevate once you figure out how to make missing the ding work for you not against you. Its humanly impossible to hit the ding everytime so when your setting up your shot leave room for error on either side of the ding.
But even more so read those instructions and people s posts on how to hit the ball. I probably hit the ding 65% of the time but I leave myself room for error I sometimes (especially when putting) miss the ding on the left or right just a little to compensate for wind and or line of putt depending on which way the grain or wind goes.
This probably sounds like a foreign language to you right now but practice alot and you will see what I am talking about or do your homework in this forum by reading what some of the top players do.
Good luck and remember ...Grip it n rip it!