I’ve had several inquiries about both the MCS Golf Swing video (which I’m currently working to complete for November) as well as the availability of any MCS video on the short game.
I had removed all of my videos because I felt they were dated, but I have just re-watched the MCS Short Game video that I released in 2016 and, to be honest, there isn’t anything I’d change about the short game from then.
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’m finally nearly there, WAX Nation.
I completed the rough video, complete edition, on the weekend, and am now in the final editing phase, where I run it through, seeing if I can spot any mistakes or omissions, and I’ve actually and brutally made even more cuts in the final edit to make everything as clear, concise and short as possible, with no bloviating.
I’m finishing up the video project, but a little behind on time – when I said I’d be finished this week (by the weekend), I completely forgot that it was Easter weekend coming up, and of course that meant visits and family stuff.
I got a great deal of the way to the finish line by Thursday, but yesterday and today have been occupied by other matters.
Tomorrow, more of the same, but I’m trying to get some work done at night when things have calmed down a bit.
I am posting this now at 7:50 PM EST so no one thinks I’m pulling your legs.
I have been working on the video all day, and can say that it will be available this week. It’s day to day, but barring absolute disaster, it will be this week.
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.
We’re finally getting somewhere here, WAX Nation!
I’ve cobbled together a little preview clip for the upcoming “The Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video that will be out later this month.
As I mentioned earlier when I re-started the project from scratch, I had decided to dispense with trying to patch together previous videos to create a new one and to use the clips that I found useful, but also to simply voice over the new parts that I would have had to re-shoot – and that would have taken us into spring or summer of this year.
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.
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