I have a face-on view of one of my Late Hogan pivot swings from 2022, and I think I’m going to look a good deal different swinging in this model when I get back into things.
Incidentally, I still haven’t been to hit balls – I felt some soreness in the shoulder joint and surrounding muscles Friday morning, probably just over-did the rehabbing, and decided to err on the side of caution – I don’t want my first time out in a year to be the last time out for a year!
Those of you who were around between 2009-13 will remember that I left the Mike Austin school of golf swing around early 2013 after deciding that my golf swing wasn’t working the way I wanted it to, and that I had grown disenchanted with the notion that Austin was infallible and had the “perfect” golf swing model.
I like to question things, always have, and I have never accepted “you’re not allowed to question this” as a valid answer to a question.
In going over the Post-Modern Golf Swing pivot and swing action, it suddenly dawned on me what should be or perhaps should have been obvious with regards to stability and machine-like performance.
The Classic Golf Swing, for example, is mechanically-correct and sound, because the body is moving the way it is designed to move when swinging from a certain setup.
Between doing more rehab on the shoulder and the pivot action upon which I’ve been working, I may be trying a swing session on Friday.
I’ve been extra-careful in making sure the shoulder muscles are strong enough to withstand the forces generated by full swinging, and since I’m able to swing the Momentus Heavy Iron now with full swings, I believe it’s time to test out the Post-Modern Golf Swing model.
The main reason I said many years ago, when Tiger Woods officially hooked up with Sean Foley (he’d actually been seeing him on the sly for at least six months before breaking with Hank Haney) that he was going to break his back was because of his changed setup.
He changed from his right-to-center bias that you saw in his early years to what Foley was teaching, which was a Stack & Tilt type setup by any other name.
Sunday thoughts.
One thing that has struck me, since I began to unravel the mystery of the pivot action and since I have figured out the optimal grip (Classic neutral), has been how unnecessary and literally obsolete “tips” and “drills” have become.
This is, I suppose, because proper technique eliminates the need for little special things that you find all over YouTube and in magazines.
I watched an analysis of 3rd World Ranked Cameron Young’s golf swing from a couple of years back and noticed that he’s performing the Late Hogan pivot (very good), but his down swing is all wrong (mechanically), as was the analysis of his whole swing model.
It’s amazing that, to today, they’re still going with the “using the ground” nonsense with the Flying Foot (Trevor Immelman calls it a “floating foot) and trying to call it a power-enhancing move when there are two reasons for Cameron’s Flying Foot.
Most people who began playing golf in the 90’s or 00’s probably only know Johnny Miller from his days as an announcer on television.
On his best day in the 70’s, he was one of the best golfers on the planet, hands down.
He was the first tour player to shoot 63 in any round of a major, and he did it in the final round to win the ’73 US Open.
We already know that Mike Dunaway was a powerful individual, as he had played football before an injury led him to turn to golf. So, he was always going to be a long hitter given he had sound technique.
The answer to the mystery of his prodigious length however lies in that technique, the swing model he used.
Yesterday for the first time, I was swinging completely pain-free with the Momentus Heavy Iron.
I still have to warm up by stretching the shoulder and doing some resistance band work before the pain goes away, and I am careful of over-doing it, but I am hoping to be hitting balls sometime this week.
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