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.
It’s a common occurrence with my scoliosis, so I wasn’t surprised when I once again hurt my back yesterday morning.
I had stood up and turned only slightly to my right, to put the TV remote down behind me, and felt a familiar tweak in my left sacroiliac joint muscles, followed by the eye-watering pain that accompanies this.
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.
Alright, WAX Nation – I’ve been thinking about the pivot exercise for a couple of days, because I made a rather bold statement that if one can’t learn a proper pivot from this exercise, perhaps golf wasn’t for one.
I immediately came up hard against that claim when I took my college aged kids and tried to prove that assertion with them – they literally brain-glitched when trying to follow along with me.
I am waiting to see if I have recovered enough from my Frozen Shoulder to shoot new video to include in my June video project, but the good news is that I really don’t have to.
I have swings in my archive where I performed the pivot action exactly the way I would today, with the exception that I was swinging left-dominant at the time (which I alone can probably spot apart from a neutral swing action since it’s my own swing action), and I had a stronger grip than I would use today, but the pivot is the pivot.
I don’t know quite how to say this, WAX Nation, so I’ll just get on with it.
While I’m still in the model stage and waiting to be be swing-fit for the proof, but it’s kind of that situation, “when you know, you know.”
On how I know, in a bit.
First…
The most common thing I see when I watch a golf “guru” trying to sell their particular argument or swing mechanics is the Strawman Fallacy.
I see it time and time again, and this is something you can watch for, to amuse yourself, if you happen to watch someone attacking something as “wrong,” and how their way is better or the correct one.
As the title states, there are Classic Golf Swings and there are Classic Golf Swings, when you are talking about models and technical acuity.
As you all know, I only ever really talk about swing mechanics here on the blog, with occasional side topics, but mostly swing mechanics.
Count Yogi, like his counterpart Mike Austin in the same era, was a great showman, no doubt – but anyone taking lessons from him wouldn’t have been able to learn a proper golf swing from him – especially the way he did it.
In this video I am going to link (the YouTube page doesn’t allow embedding), you can see the showman doing his thing, but there is something fundamentally wrong with how he claimed to teach the golf swing.
I’ve had the Count Yogi DVD since I was sent the Mike Austin and Mike Dunaway videos many years back by a now-departed WAX Nation citizen who knew MA, but I’ve never really discussed his golf swing because it was, well, very peculiar.
Wouldn’t you know that, the minute I decided to take another look at Count Yogi, I immediately noticed that he has a Dunaway-style pivot, the Shift & Post action.
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