This past week has been very productive with regards to the upcoming “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” video.

I’ve been working on how to better translate or connect the pivot drill for the back pivot to the actual back pivot motion.

The reason for this is that the initial move is so important to getting it right that if one doesn’t do it properly, the entire back pivot becomes just your standard rotary hip turn pivot.

As I’ve said before, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the traditional Classic Golf Swing pivot action – the greatest major winner ever, Jack Nicklaus, used this rotary hip action pivot, but he was also very athletic and as strong as a bull, especially his hips and legs.

All of my videos from 2015-2018 used this rotary hip turn action, and my last video that I released earlier in the year was the first one in which I introduced and talked about the other pivot that involves the pivot action that links the rotary with the Post-Modern hip and leg action of a swing model like Mike Dunaway’s.

This is why I call this type of back pivot a “no-turn” pivot

After some thought, I broke both the full back pivot drill into two segments, and did the same with the actual back pivot for the swing.

It will be a great training exercise that, after enough practice, will become one motion.  In fact, if one grasps the concept quickly, one will be able to seamlessly combine the two moves in a short time.

If you watch closely, you can actually see the two-part aspect of the back pivot here:

I would say that, when I’m swinging again, I will be making an even better back pivot than above, now that I have isolated the exact mechanics of the “no turn” pivot where I just happened to be swinging in this manner above without even realizing what I was doing.

I was just working on getting a more vertical arm position at address, and by doing that, I actually fell into the “no turn” pivot action.

You’ll all remember the heartbreak I encountered after nailing a perfectly struck range ball through a 250 yard green with a 5 iron, because I had hit a near-optimal setup with the arms nearly vertical and the “no-turn” pivot action, only to get home and see that my video was blurry:

Again, not a perfect execution of what I’d want to see now, but pretty darned close, because of the setup.

The setup makes or breaks the swing action, and it wasn’t far off here:

I didn’t even have the concept of rotary vs vertical swing in either of the swings above, but because I had nearly nailed the desired setup, and because I made the correct initial move into the back pivot, I got very good results.

The vertical swing maximizes the aid of gravity in the down swing, and you see the result in my 5 iron swing.  I had been landing my shots short of the 250 yard green, but when I nailed the setup and pivot, I got at least 10 more yards out of that swing without putting any extra effort into it.