Those of you who’ve been around for a while will remember that I began talking about the Iron Byron having the action that one can emulate with both arms.
I believe the first video in which I did so was in the “Kinesiology Of The MCS Golf Swing” video from the summer of 2015.
I found the video from Mike Dunaway in which he talks about an Impact/Release concept (if you still like and need concepts, they work ’til you don’t need’em!), and it’s very similar to the “Swinging Into A Wall” post from earlier in the month.
So, Uncle JJ mentioned it in the comments, but I couldn’t find it at the time, even though I agreed with him on the similarity.
I have got some good stuff coming when our spring that won’t come finally gets here.
We’ve had no snow on the ground for weeks now but the temperatures stubbornly refuse to climb above freezing, so we hold…
It was back in December, and ironically, it was about how Mike Dunaway produced so much leverage with such a “short” back swing.
The “short” part meant of course that his back swing didn’t produce a club shaft way past parallel or even pointing at the ground the way long drivers have.
It’s something to say about the late Mike Dunaway, because he was generally regarded as the longest driver human on the planet back in the 80s (even being hired as the Callaway club protot-type tester for their original Big Bertha driver).
However, I do think he could have been even more powerful and longer, but I’ll add the caveat that his college football career was ended by a leg injury, so I’ve never been sure that he wasn’t doing the best he could in later years when he took up long driving.
And it was a year ahead of its time – the gif. was from a sequence in the “MCS – Dropping The Hammer” video.
It was, as you’ll remember, a “Lesson With DJ” type of video working with friend and long-time WAX Golf reader David D., on the proper mechanics of the “Dunaway Downswing.”
I mentioned in my previous posting how I used to be a very high-trailing-heel impact swinger.
Now, I am a proponent of the low-heel impact, and if you can swing so that it is flat at impact, then you’re really onto something, but that’s also only if you do it properly.
Still under the weather with the flu & luckily have this piece I was saving for a rainy day…
I’ll tell you all what got me to the point where I can emulate Mike Dunaway’s near-perfect down swing leverage and low-heel impact position – it’s the Kettle Bell “One Exercise” that I gave you all in “EMCS2 – The Follow Up” video.
OK, I mentioned yesterday in one of my breaks from swinging and writing that I had found something in the setup that should be something everyone will or should have in their own swings when they find their optimal address position.
You’ll remember that I talked before the holidays about “Big Legs, Little Arms,” and that this is the key to developing the most efficient leverage for a seemingly effortless swing packed with power.
