Category Archives: Leverage

Closest Swing To Optimal Pt II – Down The Line View

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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.

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It’s Over. I Am Done. No More Swing Research

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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.

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MCS Swinging – It’s About Quiet Motion & Not “Turning”

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.

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Mike Dunaway’s Power Came From The Legs (Impact)

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.

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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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Mike Dunaway – The Human Iron Byron

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…”

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Shorter Back Swing, Flatter Top Position Can = Increased Power

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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Nicklaus Setup w/Nicklaus Pivot Or Hogan Pivot? (Ball Speed)

Now, the thing to remember with all of my waxing poetic about Ben Hogan’s pivot actions, especially what I call the “Late Hogan Pivot,” which is the one he used in 1953 (when he won 3 of 3 majors played), you simply can not exclude Jack Nicklaus from the conversation on swinging.

This is because the optimal setup closely mirrors the exact same setup that Jack Nicklaus recommended in his book “Golf My Way.”

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Can You See The “Swing Point” or “Fulcrum?”

It is counter-intuitive to think, if you’re not used to the concept, that you swing from something other than your arms, but that is reality.

The arms are the only links to the club, of course, but they arms are swinging from the shoulders, and the mid-point of the shoulders is really the point around which the swing turns.

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Once Again, The Hogan Meme Rears Its Head With The Instruction To “Do The Opposite”

I have said that no one out there who mythologizes Ben Hogan actually follows what he did, nor have they any clue what he was actually doing in his swing.

Here is yet another example of such, where the fellow here (again, seems a decent fellow) uses Ben Hogan’s image in his video’s thumbnail, then proceeds to get it completely opposite of what Hogan’s swing mechanics entailed.

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