I’ve written quite a bit recently about the ills of the new “Turn & Swipe” memes that have been appearing in golf swing videos, and here is the problem when you compare that nonsense to the proper mechanical action of the Classic Golf Swing.
Below, I’ve created some gifs to show the difference and, in essence, how easy it is to generate leverage and also use gravity when swinging with the pivot action of the Classic Golf Swing, using only my left arm.
Here below is something I filmed back in 2015, no word of a lie.
Turn & Swipe
… would be a perfect illustration of how people are being taught to try to turn and push or pull the club toward the target – I would get an “A” on this, modern-style, correct?
See the tendency to want to get over the leading leg with the upper body, and you see that with the Modern Golf Swingers:
There’s absolutely no leverage nor any power or speed here without performing some serious acrobatics and leg-snapping, as we know.
Now, take a look at the easy leverage created when you pivot properly and use the hips and legs to swing the club back down through the bottom:
You’ll also notice how gravity does the rest of the work when I allow my left wrist to simply relax and release to let the mass of the club drop and swing through, combined with the leveraging of the hip action.
I’m not pulling nor pushing the club through impact, simply swinging it to the bottom and letting physics do the work.
What you get is this:
Leverage & The Gravity Drop
Notice how I’m not even turning my shoulders through the impact – in a real swing, the shoulders turn naturally when pulled by the hips, and since I’m stopping my hips at impact up above, the shoulder stop – but how much more speed and power are there compared to the “Turn & Swipe?”
Here I am a couple of weeks after shooting that left drill, sending drives into orbit at age 45:
There’s no comparison – one way of swinging is the proper way to do it.
The other way is not only not right; it’s not even wrong:
The phrase is generally attributed to the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who was known for his colorful objections to incorrect or careless thinking.[1][2]
Rudolf Peierls documents an instance in which “a friend showed Pauli the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value but on which he wanted Pauli’s views. Pauli remarked sadly, ‘It is not even wrong’.”[3][4] This may also be quoted as “That is not only not right; it is not even wrong”, or in Pauli’s native German, “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!“
WAX Golf 
I once came across this great advice re gravity – “the feeling you have as a roller coaster car is cresting the top of the track and, just before you start the descent” You get that floating feeling, only for 1 second or less, but this avoids rushing transition which will destroy tempo. You don’t want to snatch the clubhead from the top in a desperate attempt to get back to the ball. The ball isn’t going anywhere LOL
I remember working as a farmhand in my mid-teens, and how we’d toss the hay bales onto the wagon.
It’s counterintuitive to think that you have to use gravity to do it – but that’s how you did it.
Swing the bale away from the wagon, then use the gravity and momentum as it dropped, and you just kept it going back up and let it go up and onto the wagon.
Trying to actually muscle bales of hay is a good way to get a hernia 🤣
“Trying to actually muscle bales of hay is a good way to get a hernia “
Doing physical labour while you’re young really does teach you proper golf mechanics looking back on it. I worked as a landscaper for an estate every summer whilst in my late teens and had to throw stuff into a bag or into a pile with a shovel for sometimes 2 and a half hours. Arms were like popeye at the time haha
I had the perfect childhood for fitness- immersed in sports (played footy at age 7 to start), the old man was a builder who used me as a labourer until my teens… I was always physically active and loved it.
No better feeling. 9-5 stationary jobs are a killer physically.The overuse of cars too will be looked at as one of the worst things to happen physically to inhabitants of civilisation by future historians. The one good thing that can be said about the Covid pandemic is that it made Hybrid-work more common so you can atleast be somewhat phsyical at home.
Fell into the mumbleshed for a good 2 weeks for some reason (I’ve been only 4 over on a par 71 course consistently) until last thursday. Something wrong happened to me after stress in life, and I coincidentally was doing the swipe and turn….
“Notice how I’m not even turning my shoulders through the impact – in a real swing, the shoulders turn naturally when pulled by the hips, and since I’m stopping my hips at impact up above, the shoulder stop – but how much more speed and power are there compared to the “Turn & Swipe?” Just bearing that in mind will go halfway fixing your golf game instantly.
Once one realizes that the pivot and weight transfer do the bulk of the work, swinging a golf club becomes effortless. 👍🏼
This is why Mike Dunaway (and yourself) need to be more well know. It is literally just a one piece swing thought,despite the fact you may go on 3 planes.