It is absolutely unbelievable to me what I was seeing on YouTube before I took that week off blogging just to keep my sanity, and I’ve wondered before if we’re all just living in a really stupid simulation.
“Let’s just take all thought, reason and intelligence out of the golf swing world and see what happens…”
There is something to be said about having a background in diverse athletic pursuits – I played everything from footy (soccer) to baseball to hockey to basketball to competing in track & field, all between the ages of 7 to 23 before swinging a golf club for the first time at age 25.
During that time, I obviously acquired something of an instinct for self-preservation, shall we say, or avoiding injury through proper technique and the drilling of such.
I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post that John Daly used this left arm swing drill before playing every round when he was on Tour.
He wasn’t the type to warm up hitting dozens of balls with different clubs – he would get the feel of his swing for the day hitting a few wedges swinging left-arm only, and then head for the 1st tee.
I’ve written quite a bit recently about the ills of the new “Turn & Swipe” memes that have been appearing in golf swing videos, and here is the problem when you compare that nonsense to the proper mechanical action of the Classic Golf Swing.
Below, I’ve created some gifs to show the difference and, in essence, how easy it is to generate leverage and also use gravity when swinging with the pivot action of the Classic Golf Swing, using only my left arm.
Saturday musings – quite a mouthful, but all I’ve done in the title is use the titles of previous MCS Golf Swing videos post-2014.
The themes contained within the titles are still relevant, I might add – in fact, ever more so, and I’ll explain.
Update: I will be listing any online swing instructors that people alert me to at the bottom of the posting /update
I took some time off blogging, as you’ve obviously noticed, and it wasn’t just that I’ve been spending summer time with the family during the school break.
I also just got so sick and tired of going through golf content online that I can no longer do it for the purposes of pointing out nonsense and garbage swing mechanics.
As I’ve said, I never really looked very hard at Tiger Woods’ golf swing other than to look for things to tell others not to do, but the more I look at the younger Tiger Woods, the more tragic his story becomes.
It’s because he was likely taught a Ben Hogan swing model, but a Modern Golf Swing version of it, which made it not Ben Hogan’s swing because of the one thing that made Hogan the great swinger that he was.
Yes, the entire Modern Golf Swing world would follow him, it unfortunately seems.
I didn’t even go looking for this – I was watching all of this ridiculous modern swing instruction that tells everyone that it’s not proper mechanics to shift one’s hips on the down swing, and it eventually fell from the sky as these things do.
I’ve got a wild one here, folks. Fasten seatbelts.
This account has over 1 million followers and the clip I just watched has over 20K likes, and I don’t know what’s going on out there.
Here’s something that is so obvious that I feel silly even saying it – nearly 100% of people who play golf possess two working legs, and this is for those people – why would you swing on one leg when you have two of them?
Golfer are now being taught that you can’t turn in a golf swing, that you have to harpoon because turning will somehow mess up what you’re doing.
Of course, if you’re swinging or being taught to swing in the Modern Golf Swing style of swinging over the leading foot, then turning is the least of your problems.
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