Alright, WAX Nation – I’ve been thinking about the pivot exercise for a couple of days, because I made a rather bold statement that if one can’t learn a proper pivot from this exercise, perhaps golf wasn’t for one.

I immediately came up hard against that claim when I took my college aged kids and tried to prove that assertion with them – they literally brain-glitched when trying to follow along with me.

It wasn’t good.

“Gee,” I said to my wife, rather downcast, “it looks like I was wrong about that, I guess it’s much harder than I think personally, but then I’ve been studying the swing for twenty years, the pivot itself for twelve, and it’s my own exercise!”

I mean, I can do it in my sleep by now:

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However, she told me that they aren’t very athletically-focused to begin with (my kids have been much more interested in the arts than in sports participation, so they don’t have a base platform in sports at all, much less golf and the knowledge on how to move), and I began to rethink it.

So yesterday, I called my son out to the living room, the one with whom I watch Premier League Football and, instead of re-trying to the drill, I had him try the leg action in the video “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” pivot drill instead.

He was able to do it, awkwardly at first, then better when I instructed him to let the left heel come up (as it has to with the standard Classic and Late Hogan Golf Swing pivots), and he wasn’t too bad at it.

Now, that was in a couple of minutes, and for someone who hasn’t swung a golf club since he was 8 years old and came with me to the range a couple of times:

Watts Jr. – 2015

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That made me re-think what I had been on course to do with my next video, but since I’ve determined that the pivot action is the same with all three models, the differences caused by adjustments in the setup, I want to make a video on the pivot.

I will have to break my project down into two separate videos – the standard Classic Golf Swing and Late Hogan pivots are both still Classic Golf Swings with rotational hip action and a lifting heel from high to low – and the Post-Modern Golf Swing pivot, which is a shift-and-post action and requires its own video, trust me on that.

My upcoming video will teach the pivot action with a progression of two to three exercises that will allow one to learn the pivot action and, with a simple adjustment in the setup, to swing with either the traditional Classic Golf Swing action or the Late Hogan Pivot as set out in my last video project.

Believe it or not, these two pivot actions are the same, but from a different setup:

Classic Golf Swing

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Late Hogan Pivot

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The reason I was able to make both pivots without even realizing that they were different is because they’re the same action, and I had just made them from slightly different setups over the ball.

Once I figured out the difference, it became clear that they’re the same action.

I’m not leaving anyone who downloaded my last video behind, either – everyone who has purchased the video download will receive an email when I have a better idea of what I’ll be doing with the next video.

You will all have the option of getting the new video with a good discount (I have done a lot of work on the pivot since I made that last video, so there is new material) or if you wish to, purchase the download at regular price – the choice will be yours.

I’m at work right now on the progressive exercises and will keep everyone at speed on this new project, which I want out before July.

Since I’m already on it, I should be able to move quickly through this, and the only question is whether or not I’ll be fit enough to shoot new swings, rather than use archived material – the rehabbing continues and some days are better than others.

More to come.