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As I Said Last Year About This MCS Golf Swing Pivot Action…

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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.

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The Classic, Transitional & Post-Modern Pivots – All The Same Concept

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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…

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Update On My Podcast With Josh Karp – He’s Moved To Golf Smarter!

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Originally posted October 31st 2025 – I am re-publishing this updated post on the podcast interview I did last Halloween last year and which should be airing sometime in July on the Golf Smarter podcast, which Josh Karp has taken over over following Fred Greene’s retirement. /update

I was contacted by journalist, writer and producer Josh Karp last year and he inquired if I’d like to participate in a golf podcast to discuss World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Weiskopf.

Josh is a writer who has written several books, one about golf called “Straight Down The Middle.”

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About Yesterday’s Post – Beware The Straw Man Fallacy

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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.

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Watch Yet Another “Slap Your Forehead” Moment About Ben Hogan’s Swing

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.

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Return Of The “Leading Foot Stomp” – Classic Golf Swing

If my Late Hogan or Transition Pivot and Post-Modern Swing people will bear with me for a few weeks, I am going to be focusing my posting primarily on the topic of the upcoming video on the first of the three pivot models in MCS – that is the Classic Golf Swing model.

I went back to look at my posting history from before the Frozen Shoulder injury, going past the point where I was branching off from the Classic Golf Swing model in search of the Dunaway-esqe Shift & Post action, and I found a nice post from December ’23.

It illustrates what I had figured out with regards to refining the Classic Golf Swing before I shifted gears to another model, and the principles are as relevant now as then.

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There Are Classic Golf Swings… And There Are Classic Golf Swings

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.

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Watch This Righteous Rant On Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons

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.

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Count Yogi – Great Showman But Don’t Take Lessons From Him

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.

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Count Yogi’s Actual Golf Swing Was Quirky But Mechanically-Correct

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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