So, there’s nothing that has changed in the MCS Golf Swing model theory in years except my changing of the foot angles in the setup – that is, the degree of flaring of each foot.
Even that change is something that I’ve done because it’s optimal, not because the original setup was wrong – you can have a setup that is mechanically-sound but not optimal, and I’ve always been after the Holy Grail of optimal.
This is just the latest post that you can file away in the “Why I Had To Delay The Video” folder and it’s not going to be the last.
In going over things, I discovered that I could prove – if I hadn’t already thoroughly done so using their own words and video clips – with the pivot drills how they weren’t doing what they said they were doing, and couldn’t have.
I may also have solved a personal mystery (for me) on why Mike Austin created a golf swing model with a shifting head on the back pivot.
You’ll all recall from a couple of weeks back that, when I realized that I had to make the difficult decision to delay the release of the upcoming “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” video, it was because of discoveries about the pivot drills while I was going through and making notes.
It was probably inevitable that I would arrive at this junction, since I haven’t stopped thinking about golf swing mechanics from the time I began to study and analyze golf swings.
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.
I know I said I’d be posting more frequently, and the delay in getting back to things has been caused by my working on the pivot using the pivot drills I came up with last spring and refined over the summer into autumn.
Just because I have delayed the “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” video while I work on related things doesn’t mean I stopped working on the video – I am still hard at it!
My apologies for the time it’s taking to finish this video project, “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” – here is the thing that’s causing the delays, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I devised the pivot drills last summer when I thought that there might be an easier way to show and teach the optimal pivot action, but something happened along the way.
This short clip of Seve Ballesteros hitting a drive at the Masters, and I had to grab it to show you all how it used to be done, and how it should still be done!
Now, Seve was a self-taught golfer who learned how to swing hitting stones on the beach when he was a lad growing up in Spain, and he was known for his brilliant ball-striking and remarkable short game.
As I’m working through the “MCS – Power Of The Pivot” video for release this month, I am at a point in the swing where I explain how the natural motion of a mechanically-sound golf swing doesn’t require one to “swing left” or to try to pull the club to the inside.
It’s very simple, but the Modern Golf Swing people don’t seem to realize that – they think that Ben Hogan’s “swing left” move was some magical move, when all it was designed to do was let him fade the ball rather than hook it like he was wont to do.
I’m editing video and have reached the part where the pivot drill shows how to properly transition from the top to the down swing – do you remember my post on how all of the Modern Golf Swing players are trying to replicate the Hogan/Trevino down swing “bump” but can’t?
Well, you’ll have it with the pivot drills I’ve devised to get you swinging with ease – in fact, while watching the down swing “bump” transition in my pivot drills – even while I was shooting that part, as a matter of fact, all I could see in my head was the difference between doing it properly and utterly failing.
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.
