You’ll all recall from a couple of weeks back that, when I realized that I had to make the difficult decision to delay the release of the upcoming “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” video, it was because of discoveries about the pivot drills while I was going through and making notes.
It was probably inevitable that I would arrive at this junction, since I haven’t stopped thinking about golf swing mechanics from the time I began to study and analyze golf swings.
I know I said I’d be posting more frequently, and the delay in getting back to things has been caused by my working on the pivot using the pivot drills I came up with last spring and refined over the summer into autumn.
Just because I have delayed the “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” video while I work on related things doesn’t mean I stopped working on the video – I am still hard at it!
This short clip of Seve Ballesteros hitting a drive at the Masters, and I had to grab it to show you all how it used to be done, and how it should still be done!
Now, Seve was a self-taught golfer who learned how to swing hitting stones on the beach when he was a lad growing up in Spain, and he was known for his brilliant ball-striking and remarkable short game.
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much in the past week – it is not only the video work, but end of summer stuff (three kids in high school and college) has taken up a good deal of time.
That said, I’m in the final edits stage and getting in as much work as I can with the hectic back to school activities and spending time with family before everyone scatters in September.
If this guy gives lessons or sells a “system,” anyone coming down with a back or leading knee injury should sue his pants off, because he is committing the most blatant fraud I have yet to see regarding Ben Hogan and the golf swing that I have recently seen.
It’s absolutely unbelievable what people will say and do and attach “Ben Hogan” to whatever idiocy they are submitting, and I can’t have this pass through my Instagram feed without comment.
You read that correctly – IF people listen and pay attention to how the progressive pivot drills work and how they illustrate exactly how the body is built to move with regards to a golf swing, they can prove that the optimal Classic Golf Swing motion is the way to swing.
They would also destroy the Modern Golf Swing nonsense forever – until the next time people decide to reinvent the wheel and proceed to forget how the body is built to move.
The most complicated part of a simple golf swing motion would likely be the transition into the down swing, and I would hazard this guess because of our inclination to “hit” from the top of the back pivot.
One of the things that really excited me about the pivot drills I’ve implemented for the upcoming video “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” was that I believe I’ve found a simple explanation and demonstration of this transition.
I said a while back that I had completed my swing research (which is only as long as something doesn’t come up which I want to investigate, but I’ve checked virtually everything that can be, in my estimation), so the fun I’ve been having lately has to do with the pivot drills for the upcoming video “MCs – The Power Of The Pivot.”
There are some revelations that have served to simplify the swing even to myself, which was a pleasant surprise since I thought the MCS pivot action was a simple as it could get. Continue reading
A great deal of the time I spend thinking about the golf swing hasn’t got anything to do with the mechanics – I isolated the mechanics a good while back – it has to do with how to convey the golf swing concepts involved in swinging with mechanical correctness.
I have spent a lot of time doing pivot drills in the past, along with actual swinging, and the reason I believe I’ve come up with something that will illuminate everyone’s minds with the simplicity of a proper pivot is because I don’t practice the pivot anymore.
One thing I’m always hearing when it comes to golf and golfers is that one needs to be very flexible to make a proper pivot.
That’s all bunk – sure, there are long drivers and professional golfers who have a good deal more flexibility than the average person, but making a pivot to swing a golf club doesn’t require that.
