Question 495  Your comments on David Nevogt and his "simple swing" method.

From Nicetas:

What are your comments on David Nevogt and his "simple swing" method?  Is it a variation of a single-axis type swing?

Well certainly from the video that they have on their website he's in a single-axis set up.  It appears as if they've adopted Jack Kuykendall's left handed grip from his first iteration, and they have my address position with the upper body back and the lower body neutral so there isn't the transfer of weight back to the right hand side that you see from a neutral setup.  They're absolutely wrong however on their perception of the big muscles of the shoulders starting the downswing and also of their non-weight transfer of the lower body.

I will guarantee you that if I saw them actually hit a golf ball that their lower body wouldn't be working the way that they indicated.  As for the first move down, I highly doubt the shoulders would be the first thing that move, again if we see them hit an actual ball.  The thing about so many of the single-axis variations is that you can see improvement early on but because of the incorrect perceptions, you hit limitations where you fail to continue to improve.  It's not that way with my system.

The S.A.G.E.
Single Axis Golf Expert

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