I received an email a while back from someone interested in the MCS Golf Swing, and the question they asked me was, did I have a “system” available that they could sign up for to learn it.
My first thought was, “why on earth would I have a ‘system’ for learning the golf swing?”
I mean, I’ve had private member sections in the past, where people could join, but it wasn’t to actually learn the MCS Golf Swing – everything one needs to learn it is in any one of my videos.
The private members’ section was for those who wanted it to get extra postings and insights on the swing as I continued to study mechanics, because I hadn’t yet reached the end of my research.
Let me be blunt – there is no “system” required to learn the golf swing. I hosted a few clinics in Arizona years ago with DKondo rounding up golfers interested in learning a mechanically-sound golf swing, and those ran one day.
I would give a brief lecture on the importance of learning a mechanically-sound motion for the sake of maximizing performance and avoiding injury, and I would demonstrate the swing mechanics.
Regrettably, it was probably more complicated than it would be today, because I have worked for years to simplify the explanations and learning process, but it still only took a half-hour to 45 minute talk, and then everyone would break up and I would walk the line, spending some time with each person.
It certainly doesn’t take more than a day to learn the setup, pivot action and swing. It’s not rocket science. I’ve played basketball, hockey and competed in track, and those are far more complicated things to learn.
Baseball is another thing you should be able to learn in one day. How to swing, how to throw, how to field. The rest of the time is spent practicing what you have learned, in order to perfect the motions.
The short game – if you want to break golf down into two parts, there’s the full swing and the short game, and the short game shouldn’t take more than a day to learn how to chip, pitch, putt and hit bunker shots, if you already know how to swing.
Here’s one thing that helps people learning the swing – repeated views of the same teaching material, or if one is reading a book on the golf swing mechanics, repeated readings.
If you can’t retain everything in one go – which is hardly expected of anyone, and which is why I encourage people to watch any my videos multiple times to ingrain the principles – then you watch or read the material over until you’ve got it.
Anyone purporting to have a “system” or “package” that costs several hundreds or even thousands of dollars, all done alone at home without an actual person standing over you, is just scamming you.
There is no possible way that the golf swing is so complicated that it’s like teaching someone to pass the bar exam for law, or a securities course for trading in the stock market.
If I were to personally teach the golf swing now, there would be the pivot drills I’ve developed this spring and summer (and it took me some time after getting the idea to whittle them down to the ultimate in simplicity), and it would all be done in a one hour lesson.
The pivot drills have replaced anything technical that I could possibly say about the pivot and swing actions, because they involve motion – once you’re doing the drills, there’s nothing to explain, because you can feel what you’re doing, and repetition ingrains that feeling.
I would record them performing the drills with my instructions, and then it would be up to them to go home and watch the video and work on those drills until they had no problem swinging everything from the wedge to the driver.
Sure, some people would want more than one session, but there wouldn’t be anything new in the first, second or fourth session – it would be the drills, let’s work on those, and hit some balls.
The end.
The best swingers in the world back in the Classic Golf Swing days literally taught themselves or got pointers working as caddies in a club, and some may have actually had formal instruction, but I can guarantee you that kids learned the swing pretty quickly and all they needed from their instructors was refinement and guidance.
In this day and age, in contrast to past teachers who taught concepts and “feels,” there shouldn’t be anything complicated in it. We have video now, launch monitors and everything else technology has created for golf.
Instead of getting easier, it’s become more complicated, requiring lesson after lesson and more money, and there is the scam.
When I first began to make videos, I was caught in the complication trap myself.
Even then, there was only one year (2013) where I had a “series” of videos for the golf swing, and there were only two – the first for the setup formula, the second for the actual swing motion, and a third optional video for how to go after it with a long drive swing.
That was my first year teaching a model I developed myself, as well.
Any other time, I might make more than one video in a season, when I would come up with various concepts on conveying what I knew about the swing, but any one of those videos would have taught you everything you need to know from the setup to the swing.
I’m not saying you can become a skilled golfer after one day or by watching a video or reading a book – nothing takes one day to master or perfect, even when you have the material.
What I’m saying is that it shouldn’t take more than one video, eBook or personal lesson to learn the basics of the setup, pivot and swing mechanics. After that, it’s up to the individual to decide how much work they will put into moving up in skill level.
Suffice to say, I am very, very excited to get this upcoming video finished – you will have the entire swing sequence down simply from performing the drills, and then it’s only a matter of doing it with a club in your hands and practicing the drills until you have them down pat.
It will be ready next week!
That’s about it.
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