Mike Austin Swing Collection

Collection of Mike Austin footage from various videos.

[@TheBigtoilet]

It's poetry in motion like has never been done before. It's totally addicting to watch him swing. It's the ONLY swing you should emulate. Both for it's technical perfection (accuracy and power), and for it's resistance to injury.

[@MrCraigo64]

Call me old school but this is the purest swing Iv'e seen.

[@hosoiarchives4858]

It's the purest swing regardless of school

[@TheBigtoilet]

Amazing indeed!! I will be doing a Mike Austin tribute in Southland Golf magazine later this summer. What a guy he was!

[@dickmagee4887]

The sound when he makes contact. You don’t even have to look at the shot to know he hit it good.

[@blackie75]

I've been studying the golf swing for about 5 years now, i just came across mikes stuff by chance, went to the range tonight and hit the longest 6 irons i've ever hit in my life......and i anticipate it's only going to get better :)

[@hosoiarchives4858]

How is it going?

[@blackie75]

@@hosoiarchives4858 I'm glad someone asked lol. I can tell you that I didn't stick with Mike's method for long enough to be able to persist with it because I had flaws in other areas of my swing. I'd been practicing solidly for around 5 or 6 years at that stage and while I did make improvements, I really needed a lesson to steer me right. Anyway, a few years ago I started to really slow things down and get a feel for what was happening in my swing. I started to be able to hit the ball from the inside and draw it fairly consistently, which ended up turning into a nasty hook. Then I tamed that hook and started hitting some really nice balls but still something was missing, The final piece ended up coming when I watched Tiger and Rory doing some practice on odd angles and I noticed that they were doing something completely different in their takeaway than me, they were taking the club, arms and chest back as one unit, still keeping the wrists supple but it's like you don't break the triangle...until it gets to a point where you right arm folds naturally (for a rightie). It was like a viola moment, I practiced it at home and noticed that it completely transformed my swing path, and the club could literally just fall down through the ball if I wanted, it was on a very natural plane and was just brimming with power. So I worked on honing that and ended up with what I would call quite professional looking golf swing for the first time in many, many years of practice. I was getting a lot of compliments around the club and from my friends about how good the swing looked etc which was an element of nice reward for a lot of effort. Probably the most important thing I could say to anyone is that the first three feet of the swing is where it's won and lost. If there's a major error in there, it's going to be a life of very inconsistent golf and chopping and changing techniques and clubs etc unless you can fix that first. The other thing is that slowing your swing down so you can feel what's happening is also very important, rather than beating hundreds of balls one after the other and trying to correct the ball flight or misshits, that is one of the biggest wastes of time that there is. Particularly if you're doing it with a driver, I worked mostly with irons until I fixed my swing, because what was the point of training through clubs with a defective swing? Anyway, there's probably a lot more to it than that, but yeah... 10 to 12 years of on and off training, some very dedicated, to get my swing looking something like a pro. It was worth it, but I wish I'd gone to a decent instructor early.

[@TheAndrisyahriza]

THE BEST golf swing video EVER! tks

[@ElGolfeux]

wow. Takes a lot of guts to wear that skeleton suit! Mike Austin is my idol!!

[@bladnasternaster8607]

wow....that impact sound!!

[@ElGolfeux]

genius at work!! thank you for puting this up !!

[@mickeysloan]

Great video clip. Well done.

[@ryanintro]

Awesome video! thanks for sharing

[@h1e2x3]

If somewhen my studies go into the direction of finding the best biokinetic model for power and not accuracy, Mr.Austin motion will surely be taken into account. Thanks for posting this vid, mate.

[@djmonacella]

This video is amazing! Thanks a lot!

[@emomagica]

@BOATRIGHTGOLF Austin was a kineseologist, and he taught the swing via biomechanics. This allowed him to get away from instruction that was feel based, and more towards what is absolute. The skeleton outfit shows you what the bones are doing in the swing. The most notable example is what the hips are doing. Looks at his hips in the video.

[@stevepising]

what a swing, reminiscent in a few way of sam snead with the slight re route of the club starting down and the power squat. 515 yds at 64 years of age is simply mind boggling - I'm actually having trouble processing that feat. When you bear in mind the ball and club he must have used in 1974 it only makes it more incredible. He had great technique, sure. But the guy must have been a super athlete with fast hands, well coordinated and strong as an ox. He is very well built.

[@sandman4224]

Hogan was great but this guy is the best.

[@barebarekun161]

For the real understanding of golf swing,Hogan was quite overrated compared to Austin. Hell Austin is the guy who taught Hogan to hit a cut shot. Hogan takes all the credit while the guy behind him never receive any credit,his swing is so effective that PGA people always tried to discredit him. Mike Austin out drive everyone in his prime man!

[@Jeff-tj4tx]

what's really amazing here is the video portion at 2:04 shows a timestamp of 1987, which would make mike age 77 at the time. he's generating incredible clubhead speed for a man of that age.

[@barebarekun161]

He still swinging the club around 130 mph at the time too,with a persimmon driver shorter than 45 inch!

[@alejandrohualdez5550]

The swings at the beginning remind me of how Jack Nicklaus swung in the early sixties.

[@BOATRIGHTGOLF]

With that swing he should have won majors he was obviously a great athlete.

[@Adamu98]

This is how I swing very powerful.

[@CaribSurfKing1]

All you ever need practice is short stop throws to first base as fast as you can!

[@tedmiller6450]

Haha, he rolls his eyes when talking about limiting the backswing for more accuracy.

[@austinlang6946]

Where did the footage of that clinic go I can’t find it anywhere

[@jcarr3687]

i like hogans swing too

[@blackie75]

yeah that craig norman was something else

[@amnonongus]

The whole concept behind "throwing" the club is great for players that want to come under plane and start hooking the ball. This kind of stuff is ok for high handicappers that slice the ball like crazy but will accentuate the problems of lower handicap golfers...the hang back reverse spine tilt under plane flip to square and hope you're not too far under or intuitively hang it open to block it out to the right. No one on tour is swinging the club like this anymore...they're all exiting left. Austin figured out what he could by himself, and maybe he made it work for him, but... The chain of events is as follows... - People pick up a golf club and learn to make contact and slice the shit out of the ball - They get better and learn how to square and get the path moving out the right, mostly by hanging back and reverse tilting the spine which sends the plane way under, producing flusher shots and the elusive draw that higher handicappers crave. - Player continues to get better and is sick of missing right and over drawing the ball, starts to learn how to pivot properly and stay more on top of themselves and feel like they are coming over the top again, zeroing out the path in effort to hit shots that start move on line and maybe tail a yard or two off to the right. You won't see too too many guys on tour with crazy right paths (outside of the super power hitters, whom because of speed which naturally creates a CF release of the club sending path to the right). Most of their pre-shot routines are exaggerated left exits to feel the club moving that way.

[@tomduke88]

Charles Milano Charles, seems like you are pretty set in your understanding of the golf swing. But a few things you might want to give some consideration to if you remain open minded in regards to techniques: 1. Every PGA players spine angle at impact is leaning some 30 degrees AWAY from the target at impact. 2. Angular momentum takes an object on a radial arm AWAY from the turning force 100 out of 100 times, unless there is some type of torque or tension to shorten the radial arm....tension equals slow and creates compensations in the golf swing. So any conscious wipe it left move is a manipulation of the clubhead from where it really wants to go...away from you...tension removes the clubhead from its natural path, and reduces escape force out to the clubhead.. 3. What plane are you referring to??..the reknowned Hogan's plane? Austin, and my mentor Mike Dunaway believed if the plane of glass came off the shoulders, when the shoulder line tilted and turned, should the plane not rotate along with that movement?! Austin may have been under Hogans plane, but he was square to what we call the rotating plane. Club face remains square to the bigger circular motion system longer...big distance and high direct spin shots. 4. Super power hitters don't exit right because of their excess speed...its because they eliminate manipulating the clubhead to the left with tension forces--so just the opposite, speed doesn't create their path...their path helps create their speed. It doesn't matter whether the clubhead is going at 40 mph or 140mph...it wants to swing away from us. 5. Lever forces are extremely efficient at transferring energy. So the tilting of the three biggest levers in the golf swing...the spine, shoulder line and hip line...are required to maximize escape force. And from an anatomical perspective, the lateral bending of the spine is much more efficient and body friendly than the twisting of the spine, which is resulting in the epidemic of lumbar back injuries plaguing the game of golf at all levels....34% of injures on the latest PGA injury report...putting many senior golf enthusiasts out of the game, etc. The spine is not a spring or a rubber band, despite what the mainstream industry promotes. 6. There are many players on tour that still incorporate some of these techniques in their golf swings...and they happen to be the longest players on tour...Bubba, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Daly, Angel Cabrerra, Speith, Daniel Berger, Nicklaus and many past generation guys as well, to name a few. Stay open minded to these techniques of Austin and my mentor Mike Dunaway...put Austin and Nicklaus and Bubba side by side and they are mirror versions of each other ....Nicklaus, in my opinion, remains the best combination of power and accuracy ever, so don't hate to much on the techniques because Austin couldn't putt....feel free to email me at [e-mail] if you have any questions.

[@eldonspencer6278]

Your lower body knee movement should stop you from being able to come so far from the inside if you're unfolding your left knee enough.

[@mickeysloan]

Every single golfer still starts with the arm/shoulder figure 7. Including Mike and the current tour players, the difference with Mikes is simply that he doesnt have to lift the arms up and get them back in the slot on the way down, plus he doesn't have to turn the club over. But everyone uses the entire body to start the club.....

[@TheNYgolfer]

S&T AAAAAND TGM?? Moi? You figured that out by just reading ONE of my messages? :) I think if Mike was alive he would tell you that long before he was born man figured out the most efficient way to swing a lever. Using his background in human kinetics he was able to more clearly categorize, in a scientific manor,the movements used by many of the great power hitters in different sports. BTW Bobby Jones took some nice divots with those hickory shafts. Oh and BTW,,,,what the hell is S&T ?? ;)

[@hanscool26]

Yes, ian poulter use his swing :D

[@georgesmith4639]

I see a lot of Nicklaus in this swing.

[@Chris_the_golf_guy]

What's really upsetting about this is that is exactly how i used to swing - but i went to golftec and they said it was "all wrong" and i'd get more power by updating my swing.. I haven't hit the ball as far since, or as consistently.

[@MrBadassbuddha]

+Chris “Birdiexris” Embardino Agreed sir, im the same, used to swing like this until i had a golf 'lesson', free flowing but they said no, you have to hit this position and restrict that, game fell apart. Do my own thing now, we all don't walk the same, neither do we swing a golf club

[@barebarekun161]

I'm just the opposite,I used the modern swing for years but it wrecked my game and body so I forced to quit it until 3 years ago I switched to Mike's swing and never looked back,all these instructors tried to shove these "crap" in my body and they failed!

[@germainbesner3487]

MrBadassbuddha

[@mangravy2000]

3:18 "That dog will hunt" shot has an short finish unlike the rest why?

[@hosoiarchives4858]

Ed Floody age

[@BOATRIGHTGOLF]

Really a good swing but why the skeleton shirt?

[@MrDienerr]

Why not

[@TheNYgolfer]

guys who knowingly or not copied Mile's swing: 1.John Daly 2.Craig Norman 3.Payne Stewart 4.VJ Sing 5.Tom Watson 6.Bubba Watson and some chump named 7.Jack Nicklaus :)

[@emomagica]

I've been studying Austin since 2004: I don't like hearing how Pros copied him. You sound like a Stack and Tilt and TGM cult zealot. A more accurate thing to say is that they have elements of the Austin swing. From my understanding the Austin technique has roots in hickory shaft clubs and how you can't beat down with them like you can with metal shafts, so many people used a true freewheel throwing motion. Austin used his knowledge of the body to improve and make that swing efficient.