I unfortunately missed the window on a possible shot at competing in the Masters (Senior) class at the upcoming World Long Drive Championship in Oklahoma next month, due to the delays with the “E = MCS” video.
The weather wreaked havoc on my shooting schedule and delayed release nearly a month, and that month, if I had been able to complete the video in late June, would have given me the time to work out on the swing and gauge whether it would be feasible to give it a whirl.
This is “deja-vu all over again,” as Yogi Berra would have said.
Those of you who have the “Kinesiology Of The MCS Golf Swing” video (Part 1 of the MCS Trilogy Series) will probably not be that surprised to know that, in the Peace River swing video, Mike Dunaway used a mechanically-correct version of the planted-heel swing I demonstrated in “Kinesiology.”
Originally posted September 17, 2015 – Re-Posted as this goes great with yesterday’s posting
The main problem people have with golf swings is that they don’t realize that kinesiology is more than just the study of human motion.
If you look at the actual definition of kinesiology, say from the wikipedia version of the word, you’ll see that kinesiology actually involves much more than the basic (mechanical) motion.
Originally Posted August 4, 2015 – Re-posted because you need this swing bottom to “drop the hammer.”
The name of the game with the golf swing is consistency. It doesn’t matter how far you can hit a ball, nor even how accurately you can hit a ball, if you can’t do it consistency.
In golf, you score when you put the ball where you want it for the next shot, more or less – and when you don’t put that ball where you want it, bad things are likely to happen – or at least things will happen that aren’t optimal.
Originally posted December 21, 2015. Re-posting in time for Tiger Woods’ announced return… so he says…
Thanks to Jerry “Big Toilet” Crowell for alerting me to this article on the modern swing mechanics.
*An Archived Posting From December 06, 2015
I was looking for a good swing clip of Tony Finau today for whatever reason – I wasn’t going to profile his swing or anything, although he’s a prodigiously long hitter.
I was just looking to see what he pivot action looks like, and it’s not bad, but the one thing I learned about anything today while looking at Finau’s “Golf Digest” analysis was – and this is embarrassing to have to point out, I assure you – the swing gurus to the PGA Tour players don’t understand the release action of a proper golf swing…
I have blogged on this topic before, but I cannot stress enough the importance of having optimal impact conditions when trying to drive the ball longer.
Improving impact will get you more distance, and faster, than trying to increase club impact speed.
I’ve held Jack Nicklaus up as the greatest golfer of all time, and for more than just that he won 18 majors.
He won 18 to Tiger Woods’ 14, and throw in 19 runner-up finishes to Phil Mickelson’s 11 to date.
The most majors ever, won over a span of 25 years (a quarter century!), compared to Woods’ 11 years of major winning, the most runner-up finishes, and the 3rd most total wins on Tour.
It’s a difficult concept to grasp if you’re not accustomed to swinging in a mechanically-correct fashion, and it’s why most people who go to an instructor (especially one who subscribes to the “modern golf” school) don’t ever get much better from a certain point.
And that concept is that most “swing flaws” that you will see, hear about or address personally are a result, and not a cause.
You’ll notice that many people who talk about the golf swing don’t even have a standard set-up or address formula for making a swing.
It’s almost as if they’re saying, “Stand any old way, and then we’ll deal with the swing flaws as they come up…”
