I have continued to work on the swing model and am currently just doing speed work with the swing aid to prepare for my next swing session.

One thing I’ve noticed is that, since I came up with the stance and mechanical action for my re-made swing, I would likely swing exactly the same way whether I was making a smooth swing on the course or trying to pound the cover off the ball.

It’s all about leverage, and the only difference between that easy swing and the “smash it” swing would be in how aggressively I would use the hips and legs on the back pivot and down swing.

In fact, all I do to warm up for my speed work is to make easy, slower full swings to get the blood flowing, then simply slip on a golf glove and get after it.

Sometimes, I don’t even warm up, instead seeing if I have the stance and mechanics ingrained enough to make a satisfying cut on the first attempt – I wouldn’t advise this, because swinging cold can certainly raise the risk of injury, muscle-wise.

However, I’ve brought my swing to a place where the only places I feel how hard I’m swinging is in the hands and the right (trailing) arm and shoulder – the hands get tired gripping the stick hard enough to not have it fly out of my hold on it, and the arm and shoulder from the kinetic force of the swing action.

I have an old picture of myself swinging an iron and while I can’t show my actual swing at the moment until I get it on video, I’m pretty sure that I would look similar today at the top:

As you can see, there’s a big leg action here, some would say quite a bit of leg action for an iron swing, but you see the club is at parallel which means a regular length back swing but tremendous stored energy in that position with the leading leg where it is.

From there, a simple “step into it” move with the weight shift, a move I used to call the “Left (or Leading) Foot Stomp,” and you can gear the power up and down with control of how aggressive that step into the down swing you make it.

I would use this swing action tomorrow to play a round of golf – what I’m currently doing is exploring the extreme limit of leverage and speed/power production using this model because of course, the faster you can get your max speed, the faster your easy swing will be with much less effort.

When you see swingers having a particular swing for a regular swing but then they swing differently for a hard swing, then you know that they are not swinging with maximum efficiency because even a “hard” swing should look more of less like an easy one, just faster.

The minute one finds themselves jumping out of their shoes or looking very busy (rocking, shifting during the actual swing), then they should know that their regular swing needs work.

It shouldn’t be too much longer before I resume regular swing work actually hitting balls, and I can’t wait to see how that new Trackman launch monitor that Tracer Golf installed in my favorite session room works out.

More to come!