Re: My swing video

golfinguy28,

The swing looks to have improved a lot since last year if I remember correctly. You appear to generate great width in the swing and it all looks to be in fine balance. You seem to be moving in the direction you are striving for - keep up the good work.

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."

Re: My swing video

gg28 - Your swing appears to have elements of the Mike Austin swing. Is this intentional?

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thanks greg, it is miles away from my old swing. The legs/feet/knees/hips are a hard beast for me to tame, that is the main difference.

It is funny you say "moving in the right direction", I don't think you realize that is a Mike Austin pun .

His thoughts on the traditional golfer is that they would clear their left hip (move it back away from the ball), where as he would drive the hips towards the ball, so yes, I am moving in the right direction in that sense as well .


kbp,

well, you can read above and that will answer you question . When I see that swing and hear of the epic distances and swing speeds that he attained and he is not gorrila-like as Fister and some of those guys are, I can only deduce that he had the most efficient golf swing and attempt to emulate it as close as possible and not to mention his accuracy and consistancy was top of the line as well.

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Another austinologist comes out of hiding.....

I think your weight might be too much on your toes, that is why your left foot comes up so much in the BS and the right foot lifts a bit early in the FS. You left leg also looks tense and that is why the left foot comes up, the muscles need to be relaxed in the BS and the turn will drag it up more than the lifting you seem to do.

Your right shoulder needs to drop more in the FS, yours goes out a bit more out, I think that will help with the right arm, as your seems to pronate a bit in the FS, but I think that is more from the early release than it is actual pronation.

You also seem to fan in open in the BS, try to keep the face looking at the ball longer, as this was one of the keys to Mike's accuracy.

Other than that, its not bad, definatley Austin inspired, free flowing and smooth, supple quickness.

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Perhaps you are aware of these sites, but if not, they may be of help.

http://mikeaustingolfsecrets.ning.com/forum

http://www.mikeaustingolf.com/phpBB2/

The poster named Squish is very detailed and descriptive in his posts. He interprets and explains a lot of the principles from a different perspective. IMO, he provides accurate info consistent with Austin.

I’m not an Austin expert, but I agree with the comments above about the fanning and the lifting on the backswing rather than the counter-rotation that Austin emphasizes. Shauger’s "catching raindrops"

Again, I’m not an expert, but you might want to look at your right side compression on your downswing pivot. It looks like your "pulling" from the front side versus detaching the right side (compressing, squishing, whatever) and letting the hips swing like a pendulum on the return pivot. Stepping with the right while throwing simultaneously from the top. This might also help maintaining your forward tilt spine angle versus a bit of jutting the hips out at the ball.

You should know that since we recognized this as Austin-esque that you are probably heading generally down the right track for this swing.

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lgs and kbp,

I agree the right shoulder needs to drop more, that is deffinatley something I am working on. I have never heard of a stepping with the right while throwing, just "step and throw". I always assumed this was with the left.... I will look into that more, do you have any video references for that?

And my weight is on my toes, that is an old habit I am still working on.

I am not on either of your pages with the left hand/arm though. I really don't like shauger or dang or bowden's teachings. Dunaway is the only student I like.

Some believe Austin changed his swing throughout life, and he might have I can't say for sure, though I think he just learned better ways to explain what he knew all along that he was doing.

He spoke of antagonist muscles (ie. tricep/ bicep) will return to the state of rest faster and more correctly than you could ever purposfully do. I pronate my left arm in the BS and put my left hand into half palmar flex and half radial flex (up and right) so that in the FS I can just relax and my hand will naturally pass through my adress postion and at the same time my left hand goes into ulnar devation (a must before and supination occurs) and then it can go through dorsal flex through the ball (an down, left, and up) around where the wrist meet the ulnar bone so the hand can freely swing and pendulum around that point. It is quite easy to do but hard to explain which is why I think he "changed his mind" as the years went on.

My right/hand arm does the same thing, but the opposite direrction.

I have seen squish's swing video, he has his own entupretation of Austinology and it really works for him. He loves the thought of the tiba and fibula and the ulnar and radias twisting around in a torsion force. Though I respect his philosiphy I would need to have lessons with him and him only as I think mixing a few of his swing thoughts (especially not in person) with Austin's could confuse. But I think he is right behind Dunaway in my scale of closest to Austin.