Tag Archives: Jack Nicklaus

Great Ben Hogan Face-On Look (The “Leaning A” Setup)

The main reason I didn’t choose Ben Hogan’s swing for the MCS model is that he was a feel swinger who practiced endlessly, and so his setup would vary almost day to day – he would get the feel of how he was swinging on a particular day and go with it.

That’s not going to breed consistency – Hogan could do so because he hit balls every day, every single day, when he wasn’t actually playing.  Most of us can’t do that, and even if we could, we can simply avoid having to by building a consistent and repeatable setup over the ball.

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I Made This Nicklaus-Hogan-Dunaway Gif. Nine Years Ago…

Earlier today, I posted about how I view the optimal swing to consist of the Jack Nicklaus setup with Ben Hogan’s pivot, and I mentioned Mike Dunaway as well.

I couldn’t remember exactly what I had named this gif., so I had to go searching for it month by month in my media archives, remembering that I had made it when I was producing the “MCS – Drop The Hammer” video in early 2017.

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Nicklaus Setup w/Nicklaus Pivot Or Hogan Pivot? (Ball Speed)

Now, the thing to remember with all of my waxing poetic about Ben Hogan’s pivot actions, especially what I call the “Late Hogan Pivot,” which is the one he used in 1953 (when he won 3 of 3 majors played), you simply can not exclude Jack Nicklaus from the conversation on swinging.

This is because the optimal setup closely mirrors the exact same setup that Jack Nicklaus recommended in his book “Golf My Way.”

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My Frozen Shoulder Syndrome – Both A Curse & A Blessing…

Let me be frank – it has been extremely difficult, bordering on depressing this past 12 months.

I have been athletically active virtually my entire life since the age of around 7, and when this Frozen Shoulder Syndrome struck me out of the blue last March, I thought little of it at first.

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I Solved The Hogan Pivot Mystery With The Pivot Drill

I am working diligently on my shoulder rehabbing, because I am behind you – those of you who have downloaded the “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video are ahead of me.

Ahead in what?

In creating that perfect combination of a Jack Nicklaus-type grip with the MCS setup and Ben Hogan’s last silky pivot action that mesmerized the world when he won 3 majors in 1953.

Let’s go over the history of this evolution in the MCS Golf Swing.

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I Kept My Promise – The Hogan Pivot

I will be taking a little time to restore my mental faculties after having struggled with this last video, but I will take advantage of my first post-video blog post to share something about which I’m proud.

I used to suspect, beginning years back, that really great swingers never divulged their secrets to their golf swings, especially one Ben Hogan.

I also promised myself that when I made a swing video, I would never hold back on something that I knew with regards to how I swung myself, or what I saw in another swinger’s mechanics.

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The Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing Video – Now Available!

Well, we’re finally here, WAX Nation – the new “Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video is now available for download!

I was able to cut and slash the instructional material to within a half hour’s length – it is very short but very concise, with everything you need laid out in basic instructional form.  It is, in essence, whatever I would have presented in another era, but without all of the extraneous side-bars and repetition.

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Things Are Looking Better With The Video – Simplification

“How difficult should it be to learn (or to explain) a proper golf swing?”

I am refraining from giving constant updates with regards to the video project because things keep evolving in the process.

I think I’ve nailed a part of something (and because I have OCD, I keep re-visiting things), only to have a better way (I believe) to explain or show something, and revising begins anew.

In days past, I just put my head down and went through it all, and I invariably ended up hating all of my videos because I thought they could have been better.

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Re: Jack Nicklaus vs Tiger Woods – These Two Things Have Always Irritated Me

I have already posted my opinion on the G.O.A.T. debate, and I say that the stats put that argument to rest, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

If you are fresh to the blog and haven’t already seen the discussion, I will happily link proof to you of a couple of things I’ve already highlighted.

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Re-Started The Video – I Wasn’t Satisfied (Here’s Why)

I took a look at what I had completed with the new video, after I recovered from my flu and things settled down with the holidays, and I just wasn’t happy – I am simply a bit of a perfectionist at the worst of times.

What I found was that much of the explanation portion of the previous videos wasn’t what I want to say NOW about the golf swing, and searching through endless previous footage of the tutorials was ending with my having to “make do” with things that I thought or felt I would explain differently were I to actually shoot a new video.

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