It’s amazing that the idea of the fixed fulcrum has gone away with the Modern Golf Swing, which is a large part of the reason that people struggle to gain consistency in their ball-striking.
I’ve made the analogy of sitting in a chair and throwing darts at a board, compared to trying to achieve the same consistency throwing darts at a board while someone pushes and pulls the chair sideways.
You all know that I can’t bear to wear golf on television, haven’t been able to since roughly the time I began to refine the MCS Golf Swing model a year from its creation, which would make that around 2015.
After that summer, I began to watch less and less televised golf until I pretty much stopped watching altogether (aside from the odd major weekend when interesting characters were at play, such as this year’s Masters), because of the awful technique displayed by the world’s best players.
I want to make a point right off the bat that I’m not trying to manipulate the club here the way you see the Modern Golf Swing instructors telling their students to “hold off” the release through impact.
This is why pro golfers with plenty of athleticism don’t have any power – when you “hold off” the release, you have already slowed the natural momentum and speed of the club at the bottom, and so you have lost natural speed and therefor power.
I have talked about the no-turn down swing for a while, but let’s take a look at it from the down the line perspective.
When I say that there is no turn in the down swing until momentum of the arms and club pull you around, I mean precisely that.
I have paused the down swing in the slo-mo just past impact, a fraction of a second before my right arm reaches full extension, and you can see that at that point, my shoulders are still pretty square to the target line.
I haven’t done this before – here are 4 clubs (9i, 7i, 5i and Driver) in succession, in real time, with face-on and down the line views, so you can see and contrast the one swing with different clubs.
With the MCS Golf Swing, just as Jack Nicklaus instructed with his “Golf My Way” many years back, you have basically the same setup and swing for all clubs.
I have been holding off the swing part of the upcoming video since I completed the pivot exercise phase because I want to showcase exactly how the model and pivot work with the proper setup.
I went looking through my archives and found a day in October 2022 where my setup was nearly exactly what I would say is optimal face-on, and exactly how I would want to see it down the line, and today I’ll show the face-on.
I finally felt good enough with the shoulder to head over to my neighborhood simulator (Tracer Golf) to test things out, and I am pleased to have survived a half-hour swing session swinging pain-free.
I still feel tenderness in the shoulder when I move it or try to swing, but after I have it warmed up with some tension band work, I can swing without pain, or much of it.
It may just be a natural progression or evolution of concepts, but I’ve spent a great deal of time over the years talking about the setup with the “Leaning A” stance and the proper ball position.
I have even said that the setup is most of the golf swing – get that right and you’re 90% of the way there, correct?
It’s not a major one, but I can’t ignore that my foot setup has changed from the one I had when I developed the MCS Classic Golf Swing model.
It isn’t one that would be a make-or-break situation in the model, but it is one that I feel makes the model optimal as opposed to very close to it.
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.
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