What appeared to be another catastrophe is not as bad as I feared – I came down with the nasty flu variant in our area last week (hence the lack of posting recently), which is bound to happen with two college-aged kids and one in high school picking up bugs on campus.
I have chronic bronchitis and a pre-asthmatic condition, so when I get the flu, it puts me right out and I’ve not been able to do much for a few days while I try to rest and recover.
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.
I can’t believe I found them, but I did indeed – not the published videos that I released in past years, but the raw, unedited video that I shot when I was creating those published videos for release.
This is massive – I have been lamenting how I was having a devil of a time watching and taking clips from the finished videos, but I went digging today through my boxes of assorted computer “stuff” (I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to certain things), on a hunch, and I found an old hard drive that contains most of my old raw video footage – I’ve just hooked it up to see what was on it, and I struck gold.
Here is something I just fell across today while taking a little jaunt through YouTube.
You will all know our friendly baseball-player-turned-golf-instructor-teaching-a-baseball-swing, by now, so he needs no introduction.
The clip that I came across is the analysis of Jack Nicklaus’ driver swing clip from the 1963 Masters, one I’ve shown you all before.
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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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?
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.
First, thanks to everyone who has purchased a download of the “MCS – The Short Game” video – I appreciate your supporting the blog!
I have mentioned several times that Ben Hogan’s pivot is what I consider the “Perfect Pivot” action and I can attest personally to this.
The highest ball speed I can personally say I achieved with a regular golf club (I have hit over 190 mph ball speed but with a long drive club and long drive swing action), was with two things related to Ben Hogan, actually!
It seems a contradiction to say, but both of the following are true:
If you wonder how they can both be true, here’s how it is – if you asked me, which of Jack’s or Hogan’s swings I would use if I had to replicate them exactly (or try to), I would pick Nicklaus, hands down.
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