I don’t know quite how to say this, WAX Nation, so I’ll just get on with it.

While I’m still in the model stage and waiting to be be swing-fit for the proof, but it’s kind of that situation, “when you know, you know.”

On how I know, in a bit.

First…

When I said I had come up with a pivot exercise/drill that shows one how to properly pivot with the Classic Golf Swing model, I had no idea what I had really done.

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Now, I do – I devised a ridiculously simple pivot exercise that teaches the optimal pivot action for all three swing types about which I’ve been talking.

On a hunch, I tried it with the other two models, because I already had a theory that these three pivot types are actually part of the same family.

All three of them:

• The Classic Golf Swing Pivot
• The Transitional or Late Hogan Pivot
• The Post-Modern or Dunaway Pivot

They only vary in how one sets up to the ball, but once in that setup, the pivot drill works for all three of them.

The Classic is on one end of the spectrum, the Post-Modern is at the other end, and the Transitional of course falls between them.

That’s the first test.

The second test will come with the actual swinging, but again, when you know…

So, how do I know without having hit even one ball in over a year?

Because motion is motion, and I have always held the assertion, once I’d learned enough about the swing through research and swinging, that there is an optimal motion for the golf swing, just as there is for walking, running, throwing, jumping… any mechanical action has within it the simplest sequence possible, and that is what we call optimal.

When you can’t remove any more parts without breaking the model, you know you’re there.

Let me break it down:

• With the golf swing, we know that the power in a mechanically-sound swing comes come the natural motion of the hips and legs.
• We know that consistency and accuracy suffer with unnecessary motion, especially lateral motion, and if you doubt this, try throwing darts at a board while sitting on a chair that someone is pushing back and forth, then try it with the chair motionless.
• We know that if you can build a stance and pivot that works for every club, with only the ball position changing, you can’t really get any simpler a model.

So, how do you further simplify a golf swing that gives you free hip motion, a stable head laterally and vertically, and which works with every club and allows you to shape shots with a simple change of club face angle?

The answer is, you can’t, because what I’ve just described is the very essence of this machine in human form:

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If I can swing a golf club in the same motion as my pivot exercise, trust me – there is nothing left to remove.

You can swing a golf club any which way you wish, but I’m a modeler and researcher, and my mission has always been to find that elusive optimal action, and that’s what I care about.

I actually have to make myself swing now at home, where before I would obsessively practice my pivot and swing – since I devised the exercise, I have to remind myself to make a few swings a day with my weighted club, both for rehabbing and, well, to swing.

I get in my stance, do a few drill exercises and then I swing my club with all three model motions.

It’s that simple, really.

I wouldn’t be saying this if I weren’t 99.9% sure of what I’m saying, but I will report back after I’ve had a swing session – hopefully the shoulder holds up and I’ll know pretty quickly if I’m correct.

Pretty sure I am, after twenty years of swing research.

More to come.