[Mike O]

Great to see the Mike O swing. For some reason, I always had this image in my mind that you would look a bit like Homer Kelly...don't ask me why!

Few things that jumped out at me, but I'm not suggesting you should go and change it. You hover the clubhead before taking it back. Your shoulders are very closed at Address (espcially relative to the comparatively squared away position). Your right arm is very straight at Address. There's this slight jerk at the last part of the backstroke, where your hips and shoulders suddenly turn a bit more, and your pivot center sways a bit -- probably a flexibility issue combined with the fact that you are trying to get to the very End. The early Sweep Loading Action, which looks a bit "muscular" and rigid to me, might cause you to find it difficult sometimes to throw that sweetspot against your Lag Pressure Point for Drag Loading.

Ah! Here come my brothers in arms- not happy until every board is perfectly in place!

Hover the clubhead. Actually I never hover the clubhead- well almost never- I did it here. I recently worked on closing my shoulder line at address- since with my shoulder injury it's tough for me to take it on plane at startup unless I close that up. But I found it easier to close or get the feeling of closing that shoulder line at address by slouching, when I saw that I made an effort to maintain the closed shoulder line and have better posture at address. This is my first swing doing that and coincidentally I started with the clubhead off the ground- as you implied no biggie- but it's not more normal procedure.

The "slight jerk"- wow Bucket flashed before my eyes, I've gotta concentrate here! This idea could be a very helpful comment for me. I continue to try to shorten and simplify my swing. I'm not trying to get to the end, far from it,in this swing I am trying to just take my hands to hip high on the backswing- which produces what you see. (A side note here- you brought up a pet pieve of mine- if I understand the context of your comment properly- remember a swinger can go two feet back, 3 feet 6 inches back, to the TOP, to the END- doesn't matter- there is no reason to try to go to the END- nothing magical about END) That movement is feeling more and more normal for me- but your comment about "slight jerk" is an area that ties into - the area- that I am working on- and for me to dwelve into how long that has been there, why it is there, etc. are the areas that I will probably look at. It's my immediate guess that, that move has been in my game for 33 years now, since the beginning that's one way in which I was able to gain power when I was a kid starting out- extra stretch. It's probably tied into my transitional downswing move and many things that I'm not even aware of are associated with it. It's a WEB and it's not always easy changing one thing as the WEB has to change with it.

Finally, all in all- very good points. Something that was a major transition for me in my golf game- is I'm always working on my biggest problem. Early on in my golf game life if someone said Hey Mike! Did you know that your head was bobbing up and down 2 feet- I would immediately freak out and start working on that. Overtime, I've approached it differently. I know what I'm working on- and if I get some feedback- then I put that in the back of my mind (especially if I'm seriously working on something already) and make a mental note that at sometime in the future I might want to work or look at that once I'm done fixing (X) say sticking my tongue out on the downswing.

Not having that "slight jerk"- NOW, THAT'S GOING TO BE SCARY! Bring on the hosel rockets!! Fore Right!!