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I have mentioned several times that Ben Hogan’s pivot is what I consider the “Perfect Pivot” action and I can attest personally to this.
The highest ball speed I can personally say I achieved with a regular golf club (I have hit over 190 mph ball speed but with a long drive club and long drive swing action), was with two things related to Ben Hogan, actually!
The first was the club I was using, which was an old 2005 Ben Hogan “Big Ben C-S3” driver with an Aldila NV-H 70-SÂ shaft – and I was hitting such an old driver because I had just broken my favorite TaylorMade Rocketballz driver and hadn’t yet replaced it.
The second was Hogan’s actual pivot action, which I figured out studying his swing years ago and which I added to my MCS Golf Swing modeling.
You can compare the two pivots (mine and Hogan’s) below the actual video, but here is the swing (June 16, 2017), after I had already been hitting balls for some time before deciding to get out the Swing Speed Radar.
DJ – 187 MPH Ball Speed @ 47 Years Old
The SSR or Swing Speed Radar uses Doppler radar to measure ball speeds, and people use them for measuring the speed of everything from golf balls to baseballs to pucks.
I wouldn’t use this device for measuring club speed however, because of the way the club face is closing into impact, and the toe of the club will measure a higher speed than the actual center of the face, so you can get inaccurate speeds (I used to get high 130s to 140s mph club speed, which I knew was not accurate).
For balls however, radar is radar (Trackman uses Dopper radar to track ball speed, so there you go).
As for the pivots, you can compare Hogan’s to mine:
Everything is there, from the full hip turn and low leading heel lift on the back pivot to the sliding foot release on the finish.
Ironically, the day I did this was shortly after I’d finished shooting for the “E = MCS” swing video, and you can see a nearly identical swing from the actual shoot a couple of weeks prior:
In between those two days, I caved in the face of that TaylorMade Rocketballz you see me swinging above.
My favorite club of all time, with my (also broken) KZG PFT 300 coming close second.
This is the pivot I’ll be showing you to perform in the upcoming MCS Golf Swing video, and I think I have a more simpler and easier to learn method for implementing this pivot than the original “E = MCS” video.
WAX Golf 
I’ve been using a rypstick to speed train and have noticed one of their drills involves a more aggressive backswing pivot and initiating the downswing pivot just before the top of the backswing (resulting in a more symmetric backswing:downswing tempo ratio, closer to 2:1) – presumably to utilize a elastic stored energy in your lead arm lat muscle and trailing leg instead of losing it? what do you think about this?
That’s a modern thing, Kaushal – because they twist the lower back, the idea is that you create more torque by starting the downswing before fully coiled.
A very good way to end up in traction, or like Tiger Woods. I have only one spine, so I avoid doing these types of things.
makes sense – it sounds like since they’re missing the full leverage of proper weight transfer this is yet another compensation trick