Category Archives: Address Procedure

Mike Austin’s “Leaning A” – See It For Yourself

Those of you who are still here from the Mike Austin/Dunaway era of the blog (2009-13) may remember that, when I built the MCS Golf Swing model and had it essentially finished around 2015, I said that it was simply the Mike Austin swing model but with a stable head on the back pivot.

Here is the proof of that statement, because I am now doing what I didn’t have the technical insight to do 15 years ago – you’ll all recall that my blog began as the documentation of my search for the perfect golf swing (let’s say optimal now), and I was still learning even as we all discussed golf swing mechanics.

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I Don’t Want ANYONE’S Golf Swing – The Thing About Models

I deal with my title statement about other peoples’ swings, here is the thing about models.

From my experience in other sports like hockey, baseball, track & field, basketball etc., I know (outside of the golf world, apparently not so much inside it) that there is such a thing as kinesiology.

There is also a reason I am so harsh on the Modern Golf Swing and its proponents – they violate the principal tenets of kinesiology.

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Great Ben Hogan Face-On Look (The “Leaning A” Setup)

The main reason I didn’t choose Ben Hogan’s swing for the MCS model is that he was a feel swinger who practiced endlessly, and so his setup would vary almost day to day – he would get the feel of how he was swinging on a particular day and go with it.

That’s not going to breed consistency – Hogan could do so because he hit balls every day, every single day, when he wasn’t actually playing.  Most of us can’t do that, and even if we could, we can simply avoid having to by building a consistent and repeatable setup over the ball.

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Adding A Segment On The “Nicklaus” Grip (MCS Video)

Part of the reason this project is taking so long to complete is that I am still looking at things while I’m putting all of the components together.

I have in the past couple of days spent a good deal of time looking at the grip instruction in my previous videos, and finding them OK for showing the “standard neutral grip” that I have always advocated, but there’s something else I want to offer.

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Ben Hogan’s Setup Face-On – Perfect Illustration Of Why NOT To SWING Like Hogan.

I’ve already highlighted in previous posts how people claiming to emulate Ben Hogan’s swing are so far from the goal, they’re not even in the stadium, first and foremost being the way Hogan set himself up to the ball with his various clubs.

We know that Hogan placed the ball on the exact same line from Driver to wedge, and that he adjusted his stance to angle himself from closed with the feet to wide open with the wedge, something that no one you have seen every does.

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Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Tom Weiskopf Were All Wrong – Ask This YouTube “Pro”

I’m likely going to have to start paying royalties to Ben Affleck for this picture, because every time I try to even enjoy watching something on YouTube, something invariably comes across my feed to make me react the same way.

This one is a beauty – you literally have to discount just about every great player in professional golf history to be this wrong about something, but hey, it’s the internet, so you know what’s going to happen.

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“There’s No Fixed Fulcrum In The Golf Swing…”

I nearly deleted my YouTube account when I read that comment regarding the golf swing this week.

Now, let me preface the following observations by stating that I don’t care what this golfer or that golfer does, because we are talking about optimal with regards to mechanics here.

So, how do I make a statement that refutes this statement that there is no fixed fulcrum in the golf swing?

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The Beauty Of The Neutral Setup – No Shifting Required

If you don’t notice much posting in the next couple of weeks, that’s just because I’m working on the upcoming MCS – The New Perfect Pivot golf swing video.

I’m calling it The New Perfect Pivot because I had already released a video titled “MCS – The Perfect Pivot” video back in 2016, but in that video, I was showcasing the still-great pivot action that Ben Hogan was using before his near-fatal wreck.

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My Hogan Pivot Action – Rear View

I have taken a swing of mine with the driver viewed from the rear aspect to illustrate my point about Ben Hogan’s later pivot being powerful even with a very low heel leading heel lift.

Because of the particular mechanical action of the hips and legs, you don’t get the high heel lift of, say Jack Nicklaus, but there is still a full hip turn and loads of leverage in the down swing action.

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Hogan’s Pivot Action – 5i Diagonal View (Power & Leverage)

I have a 5 iron swing from when I shot the “E = MCS” video back in 2017, and you can see how deceptive the Hogan pivot action is with the low heel lift – but the fully turned hips provide all of the leverage power here.

I know that if I can successfully transfer the knowledge of how to perform this pivot, it will be a game-changer, even for the WAX Nation citizens of old – there is a Classic Golf Swing pivot, and then there is the Classic Golf Swing pivot, which is Ben Hogan’s.

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