I will have a stab
Optimally a human body will work at its most effecient manner in spiral motions

yeah i saw that . Another one who can't play to save himself yet knows everything about the golfswing

Shortened radius through the impact.
 

Mike said, "I have a six inch left arm", what he is referring to is the shortening of the swing radius through the impact interval which causes the rapid acceleration of the clubhead. A similar move can be seen in baseball, referred to as the "jut", when the bicept of the lead arm juts against the rib cage and the top hand passes the bottom hand.

I'd give you a clue but that's not my normal mode of operation - so I'll just give you an answer: There is no "secret"- when you realize that - you'll be closer to understanding the golf swing.

I do have a few questions for forum members that have expertise in a couple of different fields- What's the secret to building a commercial office building? What's the secret to driving a car? Or if it's just perfection that you are striving for then "What's the secret to driving a car perfectly?" Don't give me any long detailed answer or some wide principle- let me define clearly - what I mean by secret. It needs to be one specific isolated thing that I could implement immediately and get immediate results! (For example in golf- regardless of what else I was doing or had going on in my movement- although those things would be there and would influence the results - we are going to wipe those things out of reality and say that they have no affect on the result. We're going to take the real and make it unreal- that's "your secret".)

At this point I'm sure that greasy chicken fingers are making furious keyboard strokes or drewit is going to tell me to bend over more:happy3: Or since Mike O. is going off on "the secret" - that DG's ready and willing to post on the right arm swing- yet he can't because that would too close to thread jacking- something he has the conscience not to do.:eyes:

At the end of the day- "the secret" is nothing more than a "tip" dressed in king's clothing or with a better marketing department behind it.

Mike would say things even if you were not doing them.

This is why it was hard for most golfers to learn from him.

I had worked with Mike over 14 years and knew his way of teaching.

We were working on the right shoulder working more down than around.

He figured if I was pulling it was causing the around he did not want.

You have to understand that I was teaching a Jimmy Ballard swing and learning a Mike Austin swing. They do not mix well.

The real cause was the Jimmy Ballard right side pivot drive that I had mastered.

If I fired the right side a little early with the hand action of Mike’s swing I would come out a little.

That is it.

I made the change in the pivot and it was right on after that.

let me define clearly that what I mean by secret. It needs to be one specific isolated thing that I could implement immediately and get immediate results!

You hit the nail on the head it does just that.

Digging for secrets?
 

Greasy fingers? Bend over more? You have been bent over long enough. Check back with us in another three years for a follow up appointment.

I'll take secrets for $2000 Alex...
 

Mental or Physical?

Long Left Arm
 

Purehitter,

What kind of teacher would in clear conscience teach an individual (presumably with money changing hands) over a span of 14 years and NOT share the key ingredient that his entire career was built on ... POWER! It seems like built-in obscelescence to me. Keep the lemmings coming back for more! I am not sure if it was mentioned already (I think Pistol) mentioned it but I agree that a key to Mike Austin's length off the tee was an extended left arm, thus as wide of a radius as possible, a radius with a normal force in support (Extensor Action.) It has been around for a long time. Joe Norwood was probably the first teacher to emphasize it, but Homer Kelley coined it and explained it best. Joe Norwood has a drill where he asks you to stand facing a wall, then to raise you left arm to the horizontal plane so that your middle finger tip is 2-3 inches away from the wall, then take your right arm and pull the left arm without moving the left shoulder forward. It will magically touch the wall. For the math buffs out there what does 3 inches more radius give me if I can maintain it? Apprently Hogan worked on his left arm for several years. Some say he was "the long right arm through the ball" but Hogan thought it best to be the long left arm!

Hummm - where have I heard this before?
 

An active left wrist uncocking. :sleepy:

There are soooo many secrets and not enough time...
I'll just take the yellow book for $175 Alex. :)