Well, we’re finally here, WAX Nation – the new “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video is now available for download!
I was able to cut and slash the instructional material to within a half hour’s length – it is very short but very concise, with everything you need laid out in basic instructional form. It is, in essence, whatever I would have presented in another era, but without all of the extraneous side-bars and repetition.
The video from Golf Digest is called The Science Behind Gordon Sargent’s Insane Swing Speed, but I’ll just call it what it is – A Recipe For Disaster.
I’ve already (long ago) pointed out that any real science that looks at the X Factor notion of Jim McLean infamy concludes that it is physically unsound and puts golfers at a higher risk of back injury, but why quibble?
I will be taking a little time to restore my mental faculties after having struggled with this last video, but I will take advantage of my first post-video blog post to share something about which I’m proud.
I used to suspect, beginning years back, that really great swingers never divulged their secrets to their golf swings, especially one Ben Hogan.
I also promised myself that when I made a swing video, I would never hold back on something that I knew with regards to how I swung myself, or what I saw in another swinger’s mechanics.
I have come to suspect that the main reason people struggle to learn anything from golf swing instructional videos is simply that they are too long.
I have been watching more videos, mine included, on the swing, and there is just too much talking and digression – I’m being brutally critical here, and I’m not saying that they aren’t any good, just that they are too long.
Taking a break from the video-editing – Golf Digest just gave me an excellent article to use to point out how Modern Golf Swing instruction is just… pretty much useless.
Instead of giving some really good advice (in my opinion), they are compounding the problem by not really explaining what causes a slice.
It is not, as they state, the simple matter of one’s club face being open at impact – in fact, club path has a good deal more to do with slicing that the simple open face.
I’ve been working on the video to get it out this month (don’t jinx me now, fates), and am tentatively pleased to inform that I may be swinging again this spring or early summer.
I have talked about this mysterious left shoulder ailment that appeared sometime last year, where I went to make some swings after not having swung in days, and felt this pain or severe soreness in my left shoulder joint and in the muscles in my upper arm.
Update: I’ve edited this after mistakenly attributing Dr. Lafontaine’s statements to Michael Bamberger. Fixed.
File this under “Are you kidding me?”
Michael Bamberger has apparently caught on to the fact that the Modern Golf Swing is bad for one’s back. I’m shocked – shocked that there’s gambling going on in here…
I’m happy that someone is finally taking notice. I mean, it’s only been 7 years since I posted on the shocking discovery based on scientific analysis.
How critical is it?
Let me tell you all how critical it is – I essentially completed my swing research could have perfected my own golf swing research in 2015-16 if only I had taken the care to look at and correct my own grip.
I wasn’t aware of this development until The Welshman sent me a message about it yesterday, but my response to him was, “it was only a matter of time, the way he twists his lower back…”
That development was a long-expected one for me, because even while Rory McIlroy has at times embraced the notion of not nailing his leading foot down on the back pivot, he has always insisted on twisting his lower back like a pretzel, and that was never going to end well, unfortunately.
“How difficult should it be to learn (or to explain) a proper golf swing?”
I am refraining from giving constant updates with regards to the video project because things keep evolving in the process.
I think I’ve nailed a part of something (and because I have OCD, I keep re-visiting things), only to have a better way (I believe) to explain or show something, and revising begins anew.
In days past, I just put my head down and went through it all, and I invariably ended up hating all of my videos because I thought they could have been better.
This article may just be another thinly-veiled Golf Digest article promoting something (usually lessons, this one with a teaching pro and simulator session), but the visual chart it includes is one people may find useful.
The reason I suspect an ulterior motive is because, in the article, the writer Alex Myers purports to be on a one-year mission of daily training, practice and playing, but somehow didn’t already know what causes a hook?
Says he: Continue reading
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