This is a fantastic video on the correct use of the hands and backswing. But, it's very hard to watch because of Austin's disability. To watch such a great golf icon like him struggling to move just kills me. He left a magnificent legacy. He's the one and only reason I'm still playing (well) today! 👍🍸🥃

This is an eye opener for me. 20 years ago i succesfully played on the europro tour for 4 years. I had an inside takeaway and rolled the club open ( how my swing developed as a teen athlete). I left the tour and gave up golf for several years. I cam back to it a few years ago. I got some leasons and first thing to get changed was the inside rolled takeaway to a more modern conventional outside the hands move. While im still a low single handicap my golf game feels super erratic and only works due to hand eye coordination amd athletic ability. The first part of this video talking about keeping the shaft on the same plane as the shoulders was like a lightb moment. Everythi g clicked as to what feels wrong with my swing.

This video (between 2:50 and 9:10 ) (about 7 minutes) has changed my golf swing, my ball flight, and my ability to swing the right hip "on a bias" (Austin's words) and "around the front leg post) has made a world of difference. Thanks Steve!!!! RIP Mike and Mike. John in Albuquerque

@Inmotion70

2 жыл бұрын

RIP.

Dunaway's respect for Austin is inspiring. RIP to you both.

I’ve been a ball beater for a couple of years, hitting anywhere between 500-1000 balls every day even in the winter. I’ve looked at and attempted to implement nearly every system and this is the first one I’ve used in which I hit it solid nearly every single shot and with hardly any effort and afterwards felt zero pain in my back or anywhere else. This is the only way to hit it really as it’s based around creating a circle and follows the laws of physics. Thanks for sharing this Steve!

@maxperry1635

2 жыл бұрын

Stephen Woods - Are you pulling the club to the inside and laid off like he is showing here?

Thanks to the two Mike's for a great lesson. I wish more golf pro's would teach like this in slow motion, bringing the camera up close and explaining instead of just showing off their golf swings.

Most powerful information any amateur or pro golfer needs to know ... I’ve seen pros for years and none of them have understood why I get the club so stuck at times (probate and supinate : hand /forearm & elbow control the clubface.. I’ve always only controlled it with my hands) I’m hitting the ball like never before #mikeaustin and co #thank you

Mike sure was passionate! Mr Dunaway did well having patience. I will change my swing to this method.

just amazing

Fantastic lesson.

At last I understand the turn many thanks

So very simple - but so very effective.

Thanks Steve best explanation and close up of Mike’s hand action ever.

I love the explanation of the hand action here. I think that flexion and slight bowing of the left wrist is so very important. There are some good exponents out there at the moment - Johnson, Rahm, Morikawa. Trevino in his day. It's the rolling of the forearms which gets me. If I swing my putter like I'd swing an iron (try this for yourself) , then it's easy to get a feel for this proper forearm action, but not with an actual iron itself, which is frustrating. And it's a tough thing to consciously practice. I think John Dunnigan's simple 'flat left wrist drill' is the way I really got a sense for it. You literally 'have to' roll the forearms open and closed in order to hit the ball, in the full swing version of this drill. Certainly when you get it, the rewards are there and the quality of the strike is incredible.

Great teaching

Great Advice tips

thank u Thank You THANK YOU for sharing us this footage！！！

FF's, just as I, after months of golf suddenly lost my swing and tried something new, namely keeping the club face towards the ball on the backswing like they say not to do in the first minutes instead of what i was doing (the correct way) i am npw hitting consistently and equal distance with the irons making that beautiful click sound every single time. Just to now being told that is not at all the right way to do it😂 i change my swing every time i am at the course or range, because i am so inconsistent and cant remember what i did the last time, but i actually wrote down what i did yesterday, which was keeping the club face towarda the ball at all times, raising the club more above me than behind me. I hit it so good, everyone around me started asking me how to hit that clean. I don't hit very far tho, my 7 goes 160 yards or something, but god damn.. watching youtube videos drives me crazy sometimes😂

2:47 Mike Austin’s swing plane backswing advice. Goes against most popular teaching. It’s what I’ve been doing (inside takeaway) but thought was all wrong…

Look at how fast he corrects him when he starts taking it back like today teaches you haha!

I get lost at the last part (regarding the left wrist/forearm)... but Mr. Austin is definitely passionate about the swing!

I've been studying Mike Austin a long time, but I still don't quite understand the raising of the left arm to the top of the backswing. In this video, he keeps saying the left arm turns with the shoulder turn - which would mean the arm would follow a plane that is angled back a bit, rather than going straight up towards the sky, but then Mike Dunaway seems to move his left arm vertically to reach the top of his backswing. If he only followed the shoulder turn, then the club would go back more rather that straight up to the sky. What am I missing?

Great

Hope if you do this you have supper hand eye coordination....never saw someone trying to teach a slice......

At 5:57 turning up? Is that lifting the arms up? I have an issue when I get to that point I’m flat. Do I hung wrist or have the arms go up ?

so his swing is the arms rotating against each other in opposite direction in backswing? looking down at arms in front of you right hand is flexing back at wrist then right forearm is twisting, rotating counterclockwise then right elbow folding in, while at same time left wrist is cocking while left arm is rotating clockwise and swinging in and around and up?

@Inmotion70

4 жыл бұрын

Makes my head dizzy sometimes.

“and grasp the golf club thusly....” Those were the days!

Great video but confused 😕 n your other videos. This clearly says get the club behind you. Other videos you seem to teach club outside more and not so inside on backswing? Please clarify

@MCGGolfaholics-gp9sm

2 ай бұрын

are you trying to reach Mike Austin? he died a good while ago

When do you lift the arms in the backswing? At belt level ?

@Inmotion70

2 жыл бұрын

Ideally the arm lift is blended and gradual, but many have been successful lifting them late.

@zacharydmoser

Жыл бұрын

In his skeleton suit on TV back in the day mike said start to bend your right elbow on the backswing when your passing your right leg . If you don't your head will move .

What is the value of the body turn when you're throwing from the top?? Wrists have unloaded their angles.

@Inmotion70

Жыл бұрын

No it takes a 1/3 of a second to straighten the wrists out. In the mean time you are pivoting and turning to create the illusion of lag.

Steve, do you know where these videos were recorded?

@Inmotion70

9 ай бұрын

Yes I researched it once. Somewhere near Bakersfield I believe. Course is closed now.

Thanks for sharing. From my own previous experimentations I need to agree these two movements mentioned give extra power to the swing: 1. Trail hand flexion. 2. That “inside” takeaway. But you need to be strong enough or athletic enough to come out of this position at the top and also sequence the downswing as such to avoid a big hook.😅

For a second I thought this was an outake from Weekend at Bernie's.

One hand works opposite of the other hand. Mike showing all the moves on the left hand and arm is very confusing to the viewer as the right hand does the opposite of the left.

Weird it’s like he’s rolling club face like any typical pro

@Inmotion70

4 жыл бұрын

It's a little more complex than that drill but yes the arms must roll or you'd leave the clubface 30 degrees open.

@hodgod1056

2 жыл бұрын

@@Inmotion70 With the clock 4 to 10 (8 to 2 as I'm left handed) and the rolling of the arm has changed everything. I've been practicing in the garden and the practice balls appear straight with more zip. Can't wait to try in the driving range. What an amazing guy.

@Inmotion70

2 жыл бұрын

@@hodgod1056 Be very careful with 4-10. It has screwed up more golfers than almost anything.

@hodgod1056

2 жыл бұрын

@@Inmotion70 Thanks for the heads up but to be honest It feels good atm. I'll be heading to the driving range in a couple of weeks, so I have time to practice in the garden. What is the result if the 4 to 10 exercise fails to execute correctly correctly?

why can't the guy get away from him so he won't hit the guy?

@sarge069

4 жыл бұрын

Is that what you got out of this video?

stays on plane stays on plane - ray Floyd yanked club inside on take away DOES NOT MATTER only thing that matters is impact and repeating it

@Inmotion70

4 жыл бұрын

Basically yeah. I did another video on this point. MikeAustin's point is simply this: You're making a hard game harder.

Uh....no disrespect but I don't think so!

Just in case some of you MA fans want to know, this is a "Rolling" release. In other videos, MA teaches the "Stable" release. He obviously taught both so don't take this video as the gospel truth.

@Inmotion70

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Anthony. Mike never taught anything but the rolling release. He never did anything but the rolling release. There is nothing else viable except for the rolling release.

@kd6507

4 жыл бұрын

@@Inmotion70 Now I'm confused. Maybe there is a need to define some terms. In this video it appears Austin is teaching a quick rolling of the forearms. But in one of your other videos it seems like there is no rolling of the forearms and his secret was in palmer flexion/dorsiflexion: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6KKuaetmNjegtI.html

14:00

Seems kinda over complicated...

mike austin wasnt ahead of his time, hes was just educated in the correct fields and used that education to apple logic. As someone education in kinesiology and physics, hes a terrible teacher lol seems he prone to using terms that were very foreign, even to todays educated folk. However his philosophy and approve is on point and truly simple, understanding physics and play then using your body to apply said physics the strongest way possible