Tag Archives: MCS Videos

It’s About Controlling The Body, Not The Club

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A great deal of the time I spend thinking about the golf swing hasn’t got anything to do with the mechanics – I isolated the mechanics a good while back – it has to do with how to convey the golf swing concepts involved in swinging with mechanical correctness.

I have spent a lot of time doing pivot drills in the past, along with actual swinging, and the reason I believe I’ve come up with something that will illuminate everyone’s minds with the simplicity of a proper pivot is because I don’t practice the pivot anymore.

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Coming In August – “MCS – The Power Of The Pivot” – What The Progressive Drills Will Do For You

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I’ve been working on the progressive pivot exercises that are designed to teach the mechanically-correct pivot action, but I’ve been fiddling with them for the past weeks to try to get all of the concepts I feel are crucial for an optimal golf swing.

I have actually laughed out loud at times while doing them, because I keep thinking about Tai-Chi when I start doing the down swing pivot exercises.

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The Setup & The Pivot – I Wish I’d Thought Of This Sooner…

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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?

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I’ve Made One Change To The MCS Classic Golf Swing Setup

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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.

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The MCS Pivot Exercises Will Change Your View Of The Golf Swing

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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.

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MCS Swinging – It’s About Quiet Motion & Not “Turning”

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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.

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The Power Of The Proper Pivot – The MCS Models

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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.

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Return Of The “Leading Foot Stomp” – Classic Golf Swing

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If my Late Hogan or Transition Pivot and Post-Modern Swing people will bear with me for a few weeks, I am going to be focusing my posting primarily on the topic of the upcoming video on the first of the three pivot models in MCS – that is the Classic Golf Swing model.

I went back to look at my posting history from before the Frozen Shoulder injury, going past the point where I was branching off from the Classic Golf Swing model in search of the Dunaway-esqe Shift & Post action, and I found a nice post from December ’23.

It illustrates what I had figured out with regards to refining the Classic Golf Swing before I shifted gears to another model, and the principles are as relevant now as then.

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There Are Classic Golf Swings… And There Are Classic Golf Swings

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As the title states, there are Classic Golf Swings and there are Classic Golf Swings, when you are talking about models and technical acuity.

As you all know, I only ever really talk about swing mechanics here on the blog, with occasional side topics, but mostly swing mechanics.

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Dunaway Hits Balls Left-Handed – Look At His Grip & Pivot

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It’s funny that I’ve had the Mike Austin and Mike Dunaway swing videos for years, and have watched them all – the funny part is that, watching them now years later, things jump out at me that I never noticed before.

One thing about the MCS Golf Swing model theory that will never change, and can never change, is of course the “Leaning A” setup that mirrors Jack Nicklaus’ recommended setup from his “Golf My Way” book.

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