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.
Another one of these, “when you know, you know” situations I was blogging about last week, when I determined that the three pivots I’ve talked about are essentially the same action but from different setups.
I woke up this morning having done some great work with the progressive pivot exercises to teach the pivot, and I realized that I had come to the end of the road with my golf swing research.
It’s a common occurrence with my scoliosis, so I wasn’t surprised when I once again hurt my back yesterday morning.
I had stood up and turned only slightly to my right, to put the TV remote down behind me, and felt a familiar tweak in my left sacroiliac joint muscles, followed by the eye-watering pain that accompanies this.
What I gleaned from having my kids try the Classic Golf Swing pivot is that there is too much motion when people try to pivot.
Whether it’s lateral motion of the head, upper torso or the hips, it’s too much motion, because a mechanically-correct pivot action using the hips and legs should be quiet.
Alright, WAX Nation – I’ve been thinking about the pivot exercise for a couple of days, because I made a rather bold statement that if one can’t learn a proper pivot from this exercise, perhaps golf wasn’t for one.
I immediately came up hard against that claim when I took my college aged kids and tried to prove that assertion with them – they literally brain-glitched when trying to follow along with me.
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…
I deal with my title statement about other peoples’ swings, here is the thing about models.
From my experience in other sports like hockey, baseball, track & field, basketball etc., I know (outside of the golf world, apparently not so much inside it) that there is such a thing as kinesiology.
There is also a reason I am so harsh on the Modern Golf Swing and its proponents – they violate the principal tenets of kinesiology.
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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