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.
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.
You all know that I can’t bear to wear golf on television, haven’t been able to since roughly the time I began to refine the MCS Golf Swing model a year from its creation, which would make that around 2015.
After that summer, I began to watch less and less televised golf until I pretty much stopped watching altogether (aside from the odd major weekend when interesting characters were at play, such as this year’s Masters), because of the awful technique displayed by the world’s best players.
As I said, I don’t have time to fully rehab and get back to peak swinging shape for a video, so I was waiting before swinging into production to see if I could do so – that didn’t happen as I wasn’t able to actually get out until a week ago.
Fortunately, I have seen enough from my comeback swinging to know that I have video in my archive that essentially looks like how I’d be swinging today were I in peak form – I had been planning on this video in the autumn of 2022, but I got sidetracked with other investigations and spent the next couple of years looking into various things swing-wise.
Another one of these, “when you know, you know” situations I was blogging about last week, when I determined that the three pivots I’ve talked about are essentially the same action but from different setups.
I woke up this morning having done some great work with the progressive pivot exercises to teach the pivot, and I realized that I had come to the end of the road with my golf swing research.
What I gleaned from having my kids try the Classic Golf Swing pivot is that there is too much motion when people try to pivot.
Whether it’s lateral motion of the head, upper torso or the hips, it’s too much motion, because a mechanically-correct pivot action using the hips and legs should be quiet.
We already know that Mike Dunaway was a powerful individual, as he had played football before an injury led him to turn to golf. So, he was always going to be a long hitter given he had sound technique.
The answer to the mystery of his prodigious length however lies in that technique, the swing model he used.
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.
So great to be back swinging again, if only just practice swings at home with the Momentus Heavy Iron that I am using right now indoors.
I am not going to say I’ve cracked the Mike Dunaway model until I have actually swung and hit balls with it, but from what I am doing now, I believe I have.
It is a beautiful thing – I actually said to myself on the last swing before sitting down at the computer, “the man was a human Iron Byron with this swing…”
This is my latest line of inquiry.
It may seem counterintuitive, but that is actually true – a shorter back swing with a flatter top position CAN mean increased power translating into club head impact speed because of simple physics.
We tend to think that a longer back swing with the club going past parallel is the best way to increase club speed, but that isn’t always what happens.
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