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This is a Mike Austin Blog
Posted on August 29, 2011 by DJ Watts

I assume it’s obvious to everyone who follows this blog and followed the previous “Smash Golf” blog that I am a proponent of the Mike Austin swing theory, not only through the theory but into the practice.

I have made a decision on this basis that Thomas from the Golf-Intelligenz blog is no longer welcome to post comments here. It was not an easy decision, and I have blocked others from Smash Golf when they began to insult the blog and the commenters, but this would be the first time for DJ Watts Golf blog.

First of all, if any of you haven’t watched the Mike Austin clip about “lag” from his GIMI video, I suggest you watch it:

Mike Austin on Lagging (auf Youtube)

Reading through Thomas’ comments here along with his emails to me, I began to get the nasty suspicion that Thomas is just an anti-Austin troll whose aim is to prevent people from changing their way looking at the golf swing.

That, or to draw traffic to his site by spamming the blog with book-length comments that repeat his own teaching philosophy. I don’t know if it’s one or both, but as I said, I’m having my suspicions.

For those of you who wonder why, I will share with you just a little of Thomas’ many, many emails following my “Forget About Lag” posting. Thomas left a comment which was, in my opinion, rude and dismissive of not only this blog but the excellent and knowledgeable commenters who hang out here.

When I emailed him regarding my reason for deleting his comment, he had this to say about Mike Austin and Austin’s theory and teachings;

This nasty guy does not have enough knowledge about muscle work and nerval reflexes and biomechanics of arms and hands, nor of weight shift and pivot and shoulder turn or shoulder angles and club head acceleration – so his analysis is wrong.

So. Sorry again: He does not know what he is talking about.

He may even though be a great player, but he will never be and he never was a great teacher.

So, it’s not any one comment from Thomas, it’s a pattern of dismissing out of hand anything that deviates from his own rigid theory of how the golf swing should work, including saying that Mike Austin didn’t know what he was talking about.

In his last email to me last week, Thomas had this to say after stating through numerous emails that I was too talented a golfer to appreciate the struggles of those who can’t swing as well as I apparently can;

Dear DJ,

I must admit a fatal error. The conclusion I took from seeing the photo in your blog titled “Forget About Lag” was right but not real.

So, yes! You are a hacker. The photo shows good lag, but in the driving vid about the two levers you show horrible casting and hacking.

So: yes again. Your hands are “stupid” and did not want to learn proper golf swing action yet.

And so, all you found out and acquired about body techniques was meant to compensate the bad behave of your forearms muscles which move wrists and fingers.

I’ve had my own disagreements with Austin’s theory in one place or another at one point. But I always subscribed to his theory, and I eventually proved mysef wrong and Austin right on every occasion where I disagreed. So simply disagreeing with Austin is not the reason Thomas is not welcome.

It’s one thing to disagree with something on a blog, but to impugn the entire blog and dismiss everything in it out of hand, as well as to state outright that Mike Austin was a fraud, is something that I find too disruptive to continue to permit on the blog.

I have my views, which I share on this blog. At the end of the day, Thomas has his own blog site, which I have generously linked to, and anyone who thinks Thomas is correct on the golf swing and that Mike Austin didn’t know what he was talking about, and that I am nothing more than a hacker, is more than welcome to hang out there.

Before you go, however, I thank you for visiting and hope you’ll find the answers to the golf swing over there if you can’t find any here.

If I can’t teach myself to swing left-handed, and to swing fairly well doing so, then I would have to admit that Thomas is correct in his assertion and that I am wrong.

I don’t like to be wrong. But even worse than being wrong, I hate thinking I’m right when I might in fact be wrong! I’d rather find out than continue on a path that smack of hubris, arrogance and ultimately foolishness.

Seit ist mir sage, dass der LAG ganz einfach automatisch OHNE aktives Zutun entsteht und ich mich zumindest darauf NULL konzentriere, fliegen die Bälle auch wieder konstanter.

Seit ist mir sage, dass der LAG ganz einfach automatisch OHNE aktives Zutun entsteht und ich mich zumindest darauf NULL konzentriere, fliegen die Bälle auch wieder konstanter.

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...über den völligen Fokus auf die technischen Dinge drängt man das Gefühl in den Hintergrund - und dann wird es echt gefährlich!

Mich hat TZ mit seinem LAG tatsächlich "geistig blockiert" und ich habe unmöglichste Bewegungen/Krämpfe vollzogen.

Seit ist mir sage, dass der LAG ganz einfach automatisch OHNE aktives Zutun entsteht und ich mich zumindest darauf NULL konzentriere, fliegen die Bälle auch wieder konstanter.

Was soll ich sagen - die ersten 15 Minuten dachte ich - "Was will der von mir" - das kannn doch nicht alles sein. Nachdem ich dann nach zähen "Trockenübungen" einige Bälle schlagen durfte - war es da - das satte, geile Geräusch, wenn der Ball auber und fett getroffen wurde - und das mit wenig Kraft - aber genial gerade und weit.
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