Category Archives: Address Procedure

As I Said Last Year About This MCS Golf Swing Pivot Action…

I am waiting to see if I have recovered enough from my Frozen Shoulder to shoot new video to include in my June video project, but the good news is that I really don’t have to.

I have swings in my archive where I performed the pivot action exactly the way I would today, with the exception that I was swinging left-dominant at the time (which I alone can probably spot apart from a neutral swing action since it’s my own swing action), and I had a stronger grip than I would use today, but the pivot is the pivot.

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The Classic, Transitional & Post-Modern Pivots – All The Same Concept

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…

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There Are Classic Golf Swings… And There Are Classic Golf Swings

As the title states, there are Classic Golf Swings and there are Classic Golf Swings, when you are talking about models and technical acuity.

As you all know, I only ever really talk about swing mechanics here on the blog, with occasional side topics, but mostly swing mechanics.

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Count Yogi – Great Showman But Don’t Take Lessons From Him

Count Yogi, like his counterpart Mike Austin in the same era, was a great showman, no doubt – but anyone taking lessons from him wouldn’t have been able to learn a proper golf swing from him – especially the way he did it.

In this video I am going to link (the YouTube page doesn’t allow embedding), you can see the showman doing his thing, but there is something fundamentally wrong with how he claimed to teach the golf swing.

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My Former Late Hogan Pivot Pt II – DTL View

I have a driver swing shown down the line, again with the Late Hogan Pivot I was performing back in the summer of 2022, and it will look slightly different from this angle when I get new video, I’m predicting.

The differences will probably manifest, from the work I’ve been doing on this model, in a more vertical arm position in the setup and a flatter leading arm plane at the top of the back pivot.

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My Former Late Hogan Pivot (2022) What Will Change?

I have a face-on view of one of my Late Hogan pivot swings from 2022, and I think I’m going to look a good deal different swinging in this model when I get back into things.

Incidentally, I still haven’t been to hit balls – I felt some soreness in the shoulder joint and surrounding muscles Friday morning, probably just over-did the rehabbing, and decided to err on the side of caution – I don’t want my first time out in a year to be the last time out for a year!

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Why I Left The Mike Austin School Of Swing (The Model)

Those of you who were around between 2009-13 will remember that I left the Mike Austin school of golf swing around early 2013 after deciding that my golf swing wasn’t working the way I wanted it to, and that I had grown disenchanted with the notion that Austin was infallible and had the “perfect” golf swing model.

I like to question things, always have, and I have never accepted “you’re not allowed to question this” as a valid answer to a question.

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With The Proper Setup & Pivot, All “Tips” And “Drills” Become Obsolete

Sunday thoughts.

One thing that has struck me, since I began to unravel the mystery of the pivot action and since I have figured out the optimal grip (Classic neutral), has been how unnecessary and literally obsolete “tips” and “drills” have become.

This is, I suppose, because proper technique eliminates the need for little special things that you find all over YouTube and in magazines.

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