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Mike Austin – Counter-Rotation

I have said in the past that I paid more attention to what Mike Austin had done regarding his theory on the golf swing when he was actually still swinging the club than on anything he had come up with after his stroke, when he could no longer swing but continued to think about mechanics.

Well, I have to admit that, despite my resistance in promoting or using the counter-rotation theory that MA came up with in the ’90′s, it works.  In fact, it works completely in how the body and joints function in the back swing when in the correct athletic pre-swing address position.

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