It looks crazy at first with all of the bouncing and shifting around before the back swing pivot, but if you look closely at the reigning World Long Drive Champion Martin Borgmeier’s swing action, it’s pretty solid.

You can see the swing I’m featuring below on YouTube and I’ll break down what I like about it, as well as the “flying foot” compensation that has taken over the entire golf world from junior tours to long drive:

I don’t know the reasoning for all of the manic fidgeting, but I’ll show you show I see, and that’s M.B. going from a traditional setup that you see with the Classic Golf Swing, to the more right-side weighted setup that I prefer and have built into my own model:

So, he goes from left-biased in the setup to right-biased just before the takeaway:

… and from there, it’s a pretty standard and mechanically-sound swing from the back pivot to impact, with that “flying foot syndrome” caused by the anchoring of the trailing foot through the entire swing:

It’s a mystery to me how today’s swingers insist on anchoring that trailing foot through impact and the follow-through to the finish, because the natural way to release a foot is to have the weight fully transferred to the leading foot (would you throw something with your weight staying on the back foot?) and to release the trailing, but that’s just me.

The amount of focus and timing it must take to swing this way, I wouldn’t even try – so much easier and more natural to shift to the leading and release the trailing foot.

It’s not a dangerous move, in fact it is required if you’re going to anchor the trailing foot and not have something in your lower body or back snap into pieces with the force of that swing.

So, it’s a body-saving move to have the “flying foot syndrome,” but it’s just not optimal, as the Father of Modern Long Drive, aka Mike Dunaway showed when driving multiple balls onto a 375 yard green with a stainless steel Callaway Big Bertha club back in the early 2000’s:

And seen down the line: