Here we go for the 2025 season, WAX Nation.
I have shown a swing gif before from 2015, which is what I am sure now is the best iteration of my MCS swing theory and model personally executed.
Yes, there are flaws – the grip was too strong, my stance was a whisker wider than required, the ball placement wasn’t optimal (the Driver shaft should be slight back-leaning and not vertical or forward-leaning with the driver), but the action… the action, my friends, is dynamic MCS all day long.
I know that I said a couple of weeks ago that I now had the model work done, but I’ve been relatively quiet since because I’ve been going through my extensive library of swinging from 2010-2024 just to see what it was I did over the years, and the thing about this 2015 model is, it was nearly all there.
Here it is in real time, absent new video to show the completed and current model – and I’ll be working on some actual video to display this:
I have made great progress with my own swinging since 2015, mainly figuring out that I was swinging left-dominant, my grip was too strong and that I was swinging outside-in at impact, needed to narrow my stance, but the essence of the MCS Swing Model theory is all in the motion you see above.
The power, the leveraging, the balanced finish… it’s all there.
I was 45 years old in that swing gif you see, so I’m only ten years older now, but I can still swing this way.
Because it’s a swing using the hips and legs, so until I lose mobility in my hips and legs, I can swing this way.
And so can anyone else.
Now, if you look at the slo-mo:
… you will see everything I talk about with regards to powering the swing with the hips and legs, and the leverage it creates when you get it right.
So, ten years after this, while working on the swing model that I will be releasing in a video this year, you might ask, “where is the swing model you’ve been working on all this time?”
I will answer, “It is right above, but with all of the necessary changes made to it that I’ve figured out over the years.”
I still have a few weeks before the outdoor season begins anew and I can get new swings on hand and of course, begin to shoot the actual new video, but for now, I am very comfortable with people seeing this particular action.
Down the line, things will look a little different from this due to the changes in setup resulting in a slightly different action with less “past parallel,” or so I predict:
But again, you can see the hip and leg action, the beautiful straightening of the right leg on the pivot, the downward leveraging and the quiet action, balanced finish…
This is a model with a sliding rear foot release rather than the step-around finish of Mike Dunaway, but when I fiddled around with the release in my last swing session, I didn’t notice any great difference in ball speed or accuracy/consistency, so it is evidently a matter of personal preference.
In my 2017 video “E = MCS,” I even said in the video that, depending on exactly how one sets up and on how one swings, you will get everything from the “short-stop slide” you see above to the step-around release.
That apparently will not change.
People are different, no two people will ever swing exactly the same way, but the model is the model and one will do with it what one will.
I’m working hard behind the scenes here to have everything ready for launch when the outdoor season begin, but as I always say…
More to come!
WAX Golf 
Hi DJ, Your post is the only golfing post I always read. Why? Your attention to detail, what you propose is evidence based & you are open to learning & refining your theories. I think there’s a humbleness to your work rarely observed with other “aficionados” of the game. Praise aside (but definitely warranted) am I correct in thinking that you are saying that the right leg straightens somewhat on the back pivot (for right handed golfers) ? Which in turn would mean that the right hip lifts up in the back pivot?
Neil
Thank you for your support, Neil – I am interested in one thing – the optimal way in which to swing a golf club, and now that my work on a right-dominant model has finished, I found that the model upon which I’m working to present in my next video already existed from years past. The minute I glanced at it in my archives, I knew that I was simply returning to the best swing action I’ve ever had, personally – and that is the one from 2015, before working with others took my focus off my own swing.
In the end, I’m not in this to be an expert or “guru,” only to present my research findings and help others play golf without risking injury due to improper technique, which is a definite risk with the golf swings being taught today.
Now, sir – as to your query, yes. When the hips turn on the back pivot, a proper hip and leg action will have the supporting or trailing leg straighten and the hip to lift. It is most easily seen in the view from the rear.
Just so no one thinks that this is something that only I do, here is a gif. of Ben Hogan’s hip and leg action from the rear: