I use to watch him give lessons at the driving range in Sherman Oaks. He was a big guy and could hit it a mile. He had a stroke but still taught in a folding chair. R.I.P.
This is an incredible teaching aid for any golfer or any age and generation. Just the segment on the gate and post is worth its weight in gold. Because it focuses the mind on stable legs as solid axis from which to swing.
this video is great. Especially the last few minutes where mike explains the swing while they show it in slow motion. Mike wasn’t the best at explaining his swing, but he certainly knew the body, and what he was doing(as evidenced by his results). Wish he was still alive or at least some living predecessors.
It’s a shame Mike Dunaway passed away at only 59. Jacob Bowden is still around, but he kind of went his own way and I think he relocated to Australia or something, I’m not really sure
i have a background in kinesiology, like mike, and i absolutely agree hes a terrible teacher lol he over complicates his description of many movements. When talking to someone uneducated on the subject id never tell them to “supinate” or dorsiflex” an extremity. I think he used this terminology to gain credibility- or just simple enjoyed showing off his education
@itssuperkyle I think it ultimately limited his ability to reach the masses. Mike Dunaway did a good job of simplifying it. Hopefully I took it a step further
This is an important video, what he says about starting down with his feet is overlooked, he feels like he's raising his trail foot heel and pressuring his lead foot heel into the ground then its an underhand throw into the ball also his compound hip explanation is so powerful for speed. Last he said you can't teach position you teach the swing. I 💯 agree.
Thanks, it is an excellent video. But as he mentioned, us mere mortal amateurs tend to try and think of all these many technical points during the swing which is impossible as it is so fast. That is the difference between Amateurs and Pros - the Pros don't have to think about all these swing thoughts, it just comes naturally to them. It is actually mind-blowing how many methodologies there are to the golf swing. What works for you, don't always works for the next guy.
Thank you for your comments and thoughts. If you listen, he says that you have to practice until it becomes second nature. I think it’s doing yourself a disservice to think that pros just do things naturally. They don’t, they put in the work. If you learn the swing in an orderly and methodical manner and you put in the practice time it will become second nature. When I’m on the golf course I don’t have 1 million swing thoughts I just have one and that is simply to perform the perfect swing properly just like I do in practice.
The point is there is no such thing as one right way to swing a golf club. Different theories for different body types. We haven't even talked about Bryson, Matt Wolf or Moe Norman! Austin is tall and thin and it obviously worked for him.
I think that’s Golfs greatest lie. I did a video on that. Just because there are so many swings out there doesn’t mean there isn’t one swing that will work for everyone. There is a way to efficiently and effectively swing an ax that will work for everyone. But that doesn’t mean that everybody swings an ax the same way. Telling everyone that there’s a different swing for everybody type will for keep people searching for that one perfect swing that will work for them.I have had hundreds of students of all ages, body types, heights, weights, genders, and I have yet to find one who didn’t have incredible success with the swing that I promote in my videos and my online course. My students have ranged from the early teens all the way to 80 years old. The reason people think that there are different swings for different body types is because they’ve never learned the perfect swing. I guarantee that the Mo Norman swing will not work for everyone. It’s because it’s not the perfect golf swing.
I don’t recall any mention of him playing in majors in Philip Reed’s book, but I’ll double check. I would find it hard to believe that he didn’t participate in at least a few US opens considering when his career started and how many decades it lasted.
@@yoursimplegolfswing He has the aura of a superman, almost like being from another world. To use a persimmon driver and end up 515 yards from the tee is beyond belief. That was 50 years ago.
So funny that we talk about technically analysis of the golf swing as if it’s a modern phenomenon and anything prior was woo woo feel advice. Mike clearly thinks of the swing through the mind of an engineer
Totally different to today's take on robotic teaching, hold the angle, lag, rotate the body, shame he had a stroke, still in the Guinness Book of records for a 515 yard drive, using a steel shafted persimmon wood and balata ball, in 1974
Yes, it’s sad that he’s gone, Dunaway too. It’s funny that modern teaching thinks it has a better way, yet nobody has matched with Mike Austin was able to do. Imagine how far he would hit the modern golf ball and modern driver if he were with us and in his prime. I still think his teaching method is unbeatable. And it’s also a method that the weekend golfer can actually learn and perform.
@@yoursimplegolfswing found the video accidentally, just scrolling, subscribed to the channel, actually looking at some of your videos now, as a 69 year old player, who's had injuries and various surgeries, need something easy on my old body, I used to throw when i started golfing years ago, then had it coached out of me by a PGA pro, went from 3.4 up to 15 handicap, lost my game, and confidence, then packed in playing all together, started again when I retired a few years ago, went back to throwing action, now back to current 3.6 handicap, scratch is my aim by the autumn, pretty much spend most of my practice time chipping, pitching, and putting now.
This is ridiculous. Too much information, too many things to consider, too complicated. Good luck trying to do 100 things in a 1-second swing. The only thing this video does is make money for PGA instructors.
