As I’m going over the tutorial for performing the now-standard pivot action for the MCS Golf Swing (Classic or Late Hogan, they’re the same from slightly different setups), I can’t help remarking upon how the model will change peoples’ view of the golf swing.
When I say that there is a so-much-simpler way to perform a pivot with complete lateral stability and effortless leverage, I am deadly serious, WAX Nation.
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.
I have never been able to figure out how people get fooled by listening to and watching someone say something that can easily be checked and debunked. I mean, how gullible are we as a species?
I am no different from anyone else – for years, I ignored Ben Hogan’s swing mechanics because he was the “Father of The Modern Golf Swing” and I wanted nothing to do with planted-heel swings that made you twist your lower back to get a shoulder turn.
I have seen this gentleman’s YouTube page here and here in the past couple of weeks, and I believe from clicking on one of them that he’s a former high-level golfer trying to get back into golf shape to qualify for the Champions Tour.
I don’t know anything about his swing philosophy so I can’t and won’t vouch for anything else on his channel, other than the rant he delivers about Ben Hogan’s “Five Lessons” book.
His rant essentially lays out why I keep insisting that you want to pivot like Hogan, but not try to swing like Ben Hogan.
Looking through some more Mike Austin and Mike Dunaway swing clips, I ran across two swings from Mike Austin sometime in the 80s (he suffered a stroke in 1989 which partially paralyzed him, so it was before that year), and you won’t believe what you’ll see when you look at his pivot action then.
I hadn’t seen these swings in over ten years, because although I continued to look at Mike Dunaway’s swing up until now, I would make mention of Austin after 2013 but didn’t really look back on his library of swings – until this spring.
There is a peculiar thing repeating itself with Mike Dunaway similar to Moe Norman when I looked into their particular swing models.
Moe Norman, you see, became famous for his superhuman accuracy long before he developed the short half-swing for which he is now remembered.
I have a driver swing shown down the line, again with the Late Hogan Pivot I was performing back in the summer of 2022, and it will look slightly different from this angle when I get new video, I’m predicting.
The differences will probably manifest, from the work I’ve been doing on this model, in a more vertical arm position in the setup and a flatter leading arm plane at the top of the back pivot.
I have a face-on view of one of my Late Hogan pivot swings from 2022, and I think I’m going to look a good deal different swinging in this model when I get back into things.
Incidentally, I still haven’t been to hit balls – I felt some soreness in the shoulder joint and surrounding muscles Friday morning, probably just over-did the rehabbing, and decided to err on the side of caution – I don’t want my first time out in a year to be the last time out for a year!
Between doing more rehab on the shoulder and the pivot action upon which I’ve been working, I may be trying a swing session on Friday.
I’ve been extra-careful in making sure the shoulder muscles are strong enough to withstand the forces generated by full swinging, and since I’m able to swing the Momentus Heavy Iron now with full swings, I believe it’s time to test out the Post-Modern Golf Swing model.
I was talking last week about the 3 pivot actions I’ve isolated, all of them related by having different hip and leg actions because of the subtle differences in setup and balance.
They all feature the “Leaning A” setup but it varies to produce the 3 different pivot types, but the variations are just the 3 major ones in a sequence of pivots from the traditional Classic Golf Swing (the first) to the 3rd, the “adjusted” Mike Dunaway type of pivot.
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