My apologies for the time it’s taking to finish this video project, “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” – here is the thing that’s causing the delays, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I devised the pivot drills last summer when I thought that there might be an easier way to show and teach the optimal pivot action, but something happened along the way.
We’ve already been here, over 3 and a half years ago, when I mentioned that Will Zalatoris was going to miss the rest of the 2023 season following back surgery.
Unfortunately, he is continuing down the Tiger Woods Disaster Track, as he will now miss the entire 2027 following a spinal fusions procedure.
This is nothing new, and this won’t help Will any more than it has Woods.
This short clip of Seve Ballesteros hitting a drive at the Masters, and I had to grab it to show you all how it used to be done, and how it should still be done!
Now, Seve was a self-taught golfer who learned how to swing hitting stones on the beach when he was a lad growing up in Spain, and he was known for his brilliant ball-striking and remarkable short game.
As I’m working through the “MCS – Power Of The Pivot” video for release this month, I am at a point in the swing where I explain how the natural motion of a mechanically-sound golf swing doesn’t require one to “swing left” or to try to pull the club to the inside.
It’s very simple, but the Modern Golf Swing people don’t seem to realize that – they think that Ben Hogan’s “swing left” move was some magical move, when all it was designed to do was let him fade the ball rather than hook it like he was wont to do.
I’m finally getting through the video and preparing for the final edit after having had to re-shoot the pivot exercises due to my dissatisfaction with the original video footage.
One of the things I was able to add with the re-shoot is the adjustable nature of the setup itself – I have talked about a standard, high-heel pivot and my last video featured the low-heel-lift that Ben Hogan featured in the 1950s, and it’s all the same pivot action with a variation in the setup.
I’m editing video and have reached the part where the pivot drill shows how to properly transition from the top to the down swing – do you remember my post on how all of the Modern Golf Swing players are trying to replicate the Hogan/Trevino down swing “bump” but can’t?
Well, you’ll have it with the pivot drills I’ve devised to get you swinging with ease – in fact, while watching the down swing “bump” transition in my pivot drills – even while I was shooting that part, as a matter of fact, all I could see in my head was the difference between doing it properly and utterly failing.
The good thing about being unhappy about the pivot drills video that I had shot, if there is a good thing about it, is that I was able to further simplify them when going over the re-shoot.
Somehow, in the time since I shot the original video, I had kept working on the drills unconsciously so that I have an even simpler way to get the pivot working.
I am finally able to sit at the computer without major discomfort, and when I sat down to continue the editing work yesterday, I made a decision that I’ve been turning over in my mind for a while.
I have already contacted the WAX Nation members who took advantage of the advance purchase option and have advised them of the following: Continue reading
With apologies, there’s not much news on the video front this weekend due to a recurrent back injury I sustained the last weekend of August.
I attended two concerts (Mrs. DJ is in the music industry on the management side), one night being a show by a former Iron Maiden band member and, the the other night, the actual Iron Maiden concert.
While attempting to finish this video in a timely manner (I thought at the beginning of August that it would be completed in the next two to three weeks), I am more concerned with getting it exactly the way I think it needs to be for simplicity’s sake.
The problem I have run into is that, although the pivot drills are pretty basic (at least, I hope so), the explanations are more complicated than one would think.
