Category Archives: Classic Golf Swing

It’s About Controlling The Body, Not The Club

A great deal of the time I spend thinking about the golf swing hasn’t got anything to do with the mechanics – I isolated the mechanics a good while back – it has to do with how to convey the golf swing concepts involved in swinging with mechanical correctness.

I have spent a lot of time doing pivot drills in the past, along with actual swinging, and the reason I believe I’ve come up with something that will illuminate everyone’s minds with the simplicity of a proper pivot is because I don’t practice the pivot anymore.

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Setup, Balance & Pivot – The Three Keys To Swinging

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Those are the three keys to good swinging when it comes to any sport, to be honest. You are taught a setup and a swinging technique in cricket and baseball and it should be the same for golf.

In any other sport, in fact, you have standardized technique. Take any sport and, if virtually every place where training takes place, you’ll find the same mechanics being taught.

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It’s Not About Being “Flexible,” It’s About A Proper Pivot

Coming In August – “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” – What The Progressive Drills Will Do For You

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I’ve been working on the progressive pivot exercises that are designed to teach the mechanically-correct pivot action, but I’ve been fiddling with them for the past weeks to try to get all of the concepts I feel are crucial for an optimal golf swing.

I have actually laughed out loud at times while doing them, because I keep thinking about Tai-Chi when I start doing the down swing pivot exercises.

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Quiet Power – Where The Work Is Done

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The secret to quiet power is in the proper implementation of the kinetic chain sequence – the leverage is created when you have successfully performed your back pivot and begin the down swing phase.

One thing you’ve never seen me do on a swing, no matter how hard I go after it, is jump around or have my leading foot flying about through the impact phase.

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The Fixed Fulcrum (C7) & The Iron Byron

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It’s amazing that the idea of the fixed fulcrum has gone away with the Modern Golf Swing, which is a large part of the reason that people struggle to gain consistency in their ball-striking.

I’ve made the analogy of sitting in a chair and throwing darts at a board, compared to trying to achieve the same consistency throwing darts at a board while someone pushes and pulls the chair sideways.

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The Stillness Of MCS Technique – The Swing Bottom

The No-Turn Down Swing – Driver

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I want to make a point right off the bat that I’m not trying to manipulate the club here the way you see the Modern Golf Swing instructors telling their students to “hold off” the release through impact.

This is why pro golfers with plenty of athleticism don’t have any power – when you “hold off” the release, you have already slowed the natural momentum and speed of the club at the bottom, and so you have lost natural speed and therefor power.

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The No-Turn Down Swing (7i DTL

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I have talked about the no-turn down swing for a while, but let’s take a look at it from the down the line perspective.

When I say that there is no turn in the down swing until momentum of the arms and club pull you around, I mean precisely that.

I have paused the down swing in the slo-mo just past impact, a fraction of a second before my right arm reaches full extension, and you can see that at that point, my shoulders are still pretty square to the target line.

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