[purehitter]

I have seen this before....can you share with us the experience...what were the swing keys that he was showing you in this lesson

I had my first lesson from Mike Austin in 1981 and would take many lessons for the next 14 years.

In 1994 I was teaching for Jimmy Ballard in L.A.

I was teaching not too far from the Studio City Golf Course so I would stop by often and see Mike or take a lesson.

I stopped by Mike’s house one day and he always like to show videos of his swing so we were watching videos of his swing and I asked him if he really had a secret power move.

I must have caught him in the right mood because I have asked this before many times and he never would talk about it.

This time Mike said meet at the range tomorrow at 10:00 am and I will show you the Mike Austin Secret.

Driving home I thought there can’t be any more to his swing.

What did he not show me in the 14 years of lessons?

I figured I had nothing to lose so I meet Mike at the range.

He demonstrated it as well as he could but I was just not quite getting what he wanted me to do so I said Mike, I will work on it and let you know how I am doing.

The most important thing he told me was you cannot see what he was doing in the videos of his swing but you had to learn the feel for it.

I worked on it and came up with a key trigger and feel for this power move.

In the next lesson I showed Mike I could do the power throw and I had a key trigger move I discovered you could teach.

Mike did not know what it was at the time and asked me if it would be easy to teach.

I said yes it would but it should be shown in a slow motion sequence of his swing for golfers to see it.

I then demonstrated it in slow motion and told him the feel I had for the key move of the power throw.

After the lesson Mike wanted to know if I would shoot a video in his skeleton costume showing this move.

I turned him down as I felt Mike should be the only one ever seen in it and also I did not want Jimmy to find out I was working with Mike. I had bills to pay and the pay was good with Jimmy.

I learned later Mike wanted to use this video for slow motion swing sequences in the Mike Dunaway videos.

He wanted to show this key move in the skeleton costume in slow motion like he did in the B&W TV video.

In the second edition of the Hammer Swing book which I am working on now I will explain more about to this key trigger move and feel I discovered back in 1994.

I use it with the Hammer Swing but you can use it in any swing.

When you do it the club head whips extremely fast through impact.

If only I did the skeleton costume video.