This past week has been very productive with regards to the upcoming “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” video.
I’ve been working on how to better translate or connect the pivot drill for the back pivot to the actual back pivot motion.
The reason for this is that the initial move is so important to getting it right that if one doesn’t do it properly, the entire back pivot becomes just your standard rotary hip turn pivot.
Here’s something interesting – I’ve spent years trying to change from a left-dominant swing (pulling the swing down with the leading arm) to a right-dominant swing action (pushing or throwing the club with the trailing arm), but the adjusted model of the MCS Golf Swing based on the Pivot Drills enables one to simply make a full-body swing.
I first had to re-build my setup with some slight changes, after which I began to make pivots, then to make slow motion back swings and down swings with a club.
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!
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.
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.
The secret to quiet power is in the proper implementation of the kinetic chain sequence – the leverage is created when you have successfully performed your back pivot and begin the down swing phase.
One thing you’ve never seen me do on a swing, no matter how hard I go after it, is jump around or have my leading foot flying about through the impact phase.
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.
As I said, I don’t have time to fully rehab and get back to peak swinging shape for a video, so I was waiting before swinging into production to see if I could do so – that didn’t happen as I wasn’t able to actually get out until a week ago.
Fortunately, I have seen enough from my comeback swinging to know that I have video in my archive that essentially looks like how I’d be swinging today were I in peak form – I had been planning on this video in the autumn of 2022, but I got sidetracked with other investigations and spent the next couple of years looking into various things swing-wise.
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.
