If it isn’t, it should be, because you will see these triggers everywhere in athletics for a reason.
In track & field, you see it in athletes before they begin their run down the pit runways (long, triple jumps, pole vault), or their discus/shot put throws, etc.
I’ve broken that long iron swing of Jack Nicklaus’ from yesterday’s post down into the 2 separate components of the back pivot (loading the trebuchet) and the down swing weight shift (leveraging the trebuchet).
This weekend, you’ll be able to watch all you want of today’s pro players contorting themselves trying to generate power from every wrong way, and you can compare them to Nicklaus’ weight shift leveraging his power effortlessly.
Once you see the “vertical” nature of the swing, as I said I only see “up” or “down” with the swing action, you will spot it in technically superb swing actions.
Jack Nicklaus, at times, came so close to the optimal swing action, it’s why he was able to win 18 majors and snag 19 runner-up finishes (that’s 37 Top 2 finishes in majors, something you’ll never see again).
I have to conclude that the real reason no one has ever mastered the true intricacies of the swing model known as the “Austin/Dunaway” is not because it’s too complicated or difficult to learn.
It is simply, in my view, that it wasn’t explained in a way that people could relate to it.
Shot on July 20th, 2018 – I’d give this swing a C+ grade, as I have since fixed the grip (it wasn’t standard neutral here) and of course I’ve done yeoman’s work in optimizing my stance, back pivot and downswing.
I was chagrined at the time that I was only able to shoot video that day at 30 fps – my up-to-400 fps camera had broken and I hadn’t yet sprung for an iPhone to make the need of a camera obsolete going forward.
I’d like to thank M.L. for emailing me the link to the George Knudson swing highlights that I’ve never seen before.
The quality is amazing and I immediately could see so much more clearly just how MCS his swing was.
This is the concept that the Iron Byron uses, or any other hitting or swinging machine.
The Iron Byron does not “swing at the ball,” rather it just swings the club attached to its arm and the ball simply gets in the way.
Let’s discuss the concept of Leverage, Levers & how to produce optimal leverage in a golf swing.
Below, you see the picture of a swing model using the 3 Levers, a static “At Address” pose:
You may think it’s an odd question, but it’s a question for the serious, want to learn a proper swing person to consider.
The reason I ask is because you can play golf with ANY type of golf swing, good, bad, horrific, and you can play it very well if you’re prepared to practice endlessly to develop a repeating move with all of the flaws contained in an “anything goes” swing.
The “MCS” in the phrase “MCS Golf Swing” of course means “Mechanically-Correct Swing.”
Speaking from a teaching or instruction point of view, let alone deciding to swing using a certain model, the very first question about a golf swing model should be, “Is it mechanically-sound?”
The answer to that question with any iteration you choose to pick from the Modern Golf Swings out there is simply and concisely, “No,” which means it shouldn’t be used for the purpose of swinging a golf club.
