I have talked about the no-turn down swing for a while, but let’s take a look at it from the down the line perspective.
When I say that there is no turn in the down swing until momentum of the arms and club pull you around, I mean precisely that.
I have paused the down swing in the slo-mo just past impact, a fraction of a second before my right arm reaches full extension, and you can see that at that point, my shoulders are still pretty square to the target line.
I haven’t done this before – here are 4 clubs (9i, 7i, 5i and Driver) in succession, in real time, with face-on and down the line views, so you can see and contrast the one swing with different clubs.
With the MCS Golf Swing, just as Jack Nicklaus instructed with his “Golf My Way” many years back, you have basically the same setup and swing for all clubs.
I have been holding off the swing part of the upcoming video since I completed the pivot exercise phase because I want to showcase exactly how the model and pivot work with the proper setup.
I went looking through my archives and found a day in October 2022 where my setup was nearly exactly what I would say is optimal face-on, and exactly how I would want to see it down the line, and today I’ll show the face-on.
I finally felt good enough with the shoulder to head over to my neighborhood simulator (Tracer Golf) to test things out, and I am pleased to have survived a half-hour swing session swinging pain-free.
I still feel tenderness in the shoulder when I move it or try to swing, but after I have it warmed up with some tension band work, I can swing without pain, or much of it.
We all know that Gary Player was a great golfer – he won 9 majors and was the first international golfer who jetted all around the world to play in tournaments back in the day.
His talent however didn’t translate to an ability to talk about the golf swing with any coherence, because the YouTube short I came across today was a study in “how can you swing so well and get it so wrong?”
As with so many great swingers, you’re better off watching them do it over listening to them talk about the swing, because even the greats like Player can be absolutely clueless about what they did in their swings.
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.
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.
