Tag Archives: Perfect Pivot

Great Ben Hogan Face-On Look (The “Leaning A” Setup)

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The main reason I didn’t choose Ben Hogan’s swing for the MCS model is that he was a feel swinger who practiced endlessly, and so his setup would vary almost day to day – he would get the feel of how he was swinging on a particular day and go with it.

That’s not going to breed consistency – Hogan could do so because he hit balls every day, every single day, when he wasn’t actually playing.  Most of us can’t do that, and even if we could, we can simply avoid having to by building a consistent and repeatable setup over the ball.

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Another Mystery Solved By The Pivot – Hogan’s Flatter Plane

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Something I noticed instantly when I began to make practice back pivots, now that my shoulder is improving enough to do so, was the much flatter plane I have at the top compared to my previous, more typically Classic pivot style.

I began to look into it, wondering why I didn’t have much higher hands at the top the way I used to, a la Jack Nicklaus, but the flatter plane is actually a feature of the “Late Hogan” pivot action.

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I Made This Nicklaus-Hogan-Dunaway Gif. Nine Years Ago…

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Earlier today, I posted about how I view the optimal swing to consist of the Jack Nicklaus setup with Ben Hogan’s pivot, and I mentioned Mike Dunaway as well.

I couldn’t remember exactly what I had named this gif., so I had to go searching for it month by month in my media archives, remembering that I had made it when I was producing the “MCS – Drop The Hammer” video in early 2017.

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Nicklaus Setup w/Nicklaus Pivot Or Hogan Pivot? (Ball Speed)

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Now, the thing to remember with all of my waxing poetic about Ben Hogan’s pivot actions, especially what I call the “Late Hogan Pivot,” which is the one he used in 1953 (when he won 3 of 3 majors played), you simply can not exclude Jack Nicklaus from the conversation on swinging.

This is because the optimal setup closely mirrors the exact same setup that Jack Nicklaus recommended in his book “Golf My Way.”

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My Frozen Shoulder Syndrome – Both A Curse & A Blessing…

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Let me be frank – it has been extremely difficult, bordering on depressing this past 12 months.

I have been athletically active virtually my entire life since the age of around 7, and when this Frozen Shoulder Syndrome struck me out of the blue last March, I thought little of it at first.

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Swing Videos Are Too Long – I’m Getting Brutally To The Point

I have come to suspect that the main reason people struggle to learn anything from golf swing instructional videos is simply that they are too long.

I have been watching more videos, mine included, on the swing, and there is just too much talking and digression – I’m being brutally critical here, and I’m not saying that they aren’t any good, just that they are too long.

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The Left-Arm Swing Action (To Go With Yesterday’s Right)

Here is the corresponding one-armed swing action to go with yesterday’s right-arm motion.

Again, you see that, with a stable swing-point, you take out a large degree of risk of mis-hitting the ball with a proper motion.

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The Right-Arm Swing

I have been going through the raw video footage from past projects which I discovered on an old hard drive packed away in my storage, and found yet another gem that I would definitely have included if I had shot a brand new video last summer.

As you all know, the only reason I didn’t was because I developed a mysterious and chronic pain in my left shoulder around March (I wasn’t even swinging at the time), which I discovered when I went to swing my training aid after a couple or few days off.

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Ben Hogan’s Setup Face-On – Perfect Illustration Of Why NOT To SWING Like Hogan.

I’ve already highlighted in previous posts how people claiming to emulate Ben Hogan’s swing are so far from the goal, they’re not even in the stadium, first and foremost being the way Hogan set himself up to the ball with his various clubs.

We know that Hogan placed the ball on the exact same line from Driver to wedge, and that he adjusted his stance to angle himself from closed with the feet to wide open with the wedge, something that no one you have seen every does.

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The Beauty Of The Neutral Setup – No Shifting Required

If you don’t notice much posting in the next couple of weeks, that’s just because I’m working on the upcoming MCS – The New Perfect Pivot golf swing video.

I’m calling it The New Perfect Pivot because I had already released a video titled “MCS – The Perfect Pivot” video back in 2016, but in that video, I was showcasing the still-great pivot action that Ben Hogan was using before his near-fatal wreck.

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