Lesson With Mike Austin

[purehitter]

Here is a short video of a lesson I had with Mike Austin back in 1994. If you have not seen a video of Mike teaching you will want to check this out. The student is a younger version of John W Rohan-Weaver of Rover Golf.

[hg]

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

[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.

[Mike O]

Power, Secrets, Legends, etc. - ooh exciting! Maybe someone else could jump in and tell us what Hogan really knew. I met Mr. Hogan's aunt and she told me something that she had me promise never to tell anyone- it was something Ben had told her that increased her distance by 75 yards and had every iron shot flying right at the flag............. better yet I'll just wait for your book to be published.

[pistol]

Power, Secrets, Legends, etc. - ooh exciting! Maybe someone else could jump in and tell us what Hogan really knew. I met Mr. Hogan's aunt and she told me something that she had me promise never to tell anyone- it was something Ben had told her that increased her distance by 75 yards and had every iron shot flying right at the flag............. better yet I'll just wait for your book to be published.

Ha Ha well funny she told me the same thing when she showed me how to twirl the baton so i am upset she told other people

[drewitgolf]

she showed me how to twirl the baton

AKA Finish Swivel.

[drewitgolf]

Power, Secrets, Legends, etc. - ooh exciting! Maybe someone else could jump in and tell us what Hogan really knew. I met Mr. Hogan's aunt and she told me something that she had me promise never to tell anyone- it was something Ben had told her that increased her distance by 75 yards and had every iron shot flying right at the flag............. better yet I'll just wait for your book to be published.

Quit thread Jacking "Big O". It's "Hammer Time"!

[purehitter]

Power, Secrets, Legends, etc. - ooh exciting! Maybe someone else could jump in and tell us what Hogan really knew. I met Mr. Hogan's aunt and she told me something that she had me promise never to tell anyone- it was something Ben had told her that increased her distance by 75 yards and had every iron shot flying right at the flag............. better yet I'll just wait for your book to be published.

I am use to this kind of reaction the minute you mentioned a secret in golf.

You don’t need to wait for the book.

Here is a clue.

The secret is in this perfect golf swing formula.

See if you can figure it out what the secret ingredient is.

A Perfect Golf Swing Formula

There are only two things you need for a perfect golf swing.

#1 accuracy (Control) and #2 distance (Power).

If you build your perfect golf swing on accuracy alone it will have some distance built into it.

If you build your perfect golf swing on distance alone it will have little accuracy in it.

Now to build the perfect golf swing we must understand how the muscles, bones and joints in the body work.

Here is the sequence. The muscles move the bones and the bones move at the joints.

Now select the muscles, bones and joints that work the best for #1 accuracy (Control).

Then select the muscles, bones and joints that work the best for #2 distance (Power) without reducing accuracy.

Enjoy

[pistol]

I am use to this kind of reaction the minute you mentioned a secret in golf.

You don’t need to wait for the book.

Here is a clue.

The secret is in this perfect golf swing formula.

See if you can figure it out what the secret ingredient is.

A Perfect Golf Swing Formula

There are only two things you need for a perfect golf swing.

#1 accuracy (Control) and #2 distance (Power).

If you build your perfect golf swing on accuracy alone it will have some distance built into it.

If you build your perfect golf swing on distance alone it will have little accuracy in it.

Now to build the perfect golf swing we must understand how the muscles, bones and joints in the body work.

Here is the sequence. The muscles move the bones and the bones move at the joints.

Now select the muscles, bones and joints that work the best for #1 accuracy (Control).

Then select the muscles, bones and joints that work the best for #2 distance (Power) without reducing accuracy.

Enjoy

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

[Mike O]

I am use to this kind of reaction the minute you mentioned a secret in golf.

You don’t need to wait for the book.

Here is a clue.

The secret is in this perfect golf swing formula.

See if you can figure it out what the secret ingredient is.

A Perfect Golf Swing Formula

There are only two things you need for a perfect golf swing.

#1 accuracy (Control) and #2 distance (Power).

If you build your perfect golf swing on accuracy alone it will have some distance built into it.

If you build your perfect golf swing on distance alone it will have little accuracy in it.

Now to build the perfect golf swing we must understand how the muscles, bones and joints in the body work.

Here is the sequence. The muscles move the bones and the bones move at the joints.

Now select the muscles, bones and joints that work the best for #1 accuracy (Control).

Then select the muscles, bones and joints that work the best for #2 distance (Power) without reducing accuracy.

Enjoy

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 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.

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.