I found a comment in a YouTube short that encapsulates the madness of the Modern Golf Swing in general, but also specifically the Flying Foot Syndrome.

Let me ask you, if you’ve been involved in any sports other than golf – as an “average person,” which I certainly am, what would you expect to be taught with regards to technique?

Take the simplest form of sport – running.  Would you expect to be taught proper running mechanics and to train proper mechanics, the same mechanics used by Olympic runners?

The answer is, of course, “yes.”

How about the High Jump?  What technique would you expect to be taught even as a high school high jumper?

The same technique employed by Olympic high jumpers?

“Of course.”

How about bowling?

Darts?

The baseball swing?  The baseball pitching technique?  Same as the pros?

“Obviously.”

Basketball free throw?  Jump shot?  Same as the pros?

“Duh…”

Swimming? The back stroke? Front crawl?  Same as Olympic swimmers?

“What’s your point, DJ?”

My Point Is This

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“The Classic Golf Swing has too many moving parts!”

Have you ever heard something so ridiculous when watching the Modern Golfers with their Flying Foot yard sale through impact?

Here is a comment from the comments section, with three replies:

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“Obviously a great swing,” says the commenter, adding, “the average person… should not be attempting to replicate that.”

One responder says, “…it’s a natural reaction to generating power…”

Another says that that the Flying Foot “will come automatically with time only after proper form and power are created.”

And a third chimes in with “it’s something that just occurs naturally…”

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These are all, unfortunately, ridiculously incorrect and hugely uninformed – these swingers may be great golfers, but the swing mechanics are horrifically mechanically incorrect.

As for it being “natural” and “automatic,” these are laughable statements.  If they’re so natural and automatic, why is there a cottage industry online explaining (incorrectly) why you need to do this and how to?

Do you all remember my assertion that this move is nothing more than a protective compensation to avoid snapping oneself in half because one is spinning in place and anchoring the trailing foot rather than releasing it?

Watch Bryson DeChambeau actually admit exactly what it is – it does not generate more power, it does not increase leverage, it does not provide vertical lift – Bryson explains succinctly that it is to avoid snapping his ankles because he doesn’t know how to pivot correctly:

“It’s Actually A Protective Mechanism…”

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Remember this video below, from all the way back in 2017?

That’s 8 years ago.

I had been discussing swing technique with Frank Nobilo during a golf broadcast, and I mentioned that Justin Thomas’ “Flying Foot” was a compensation to avoid hurting himself with his massive hip turn because he was anchoring his trailing foot Jamie Sadlowski-style:

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So, I’ve been saying what Bryson has discovered, for over 8 years.

There are two reasons for the Flying Foot – one is the anchoring of the trailing foot with a big hip turn (something has to give, or it will snap), and also Bryson’s issue of not knowing how to pivot properly through the down swing.

I have video of myself back in 2006, a year into my swing research, going through 2008, spinning on my leading heel like JB Holmes, because I hadn’t yet learned how to pivot properly through the down swing and had to do the pirouette to avoid twisting my right foot.

So, the lesson of the day is a two-fer – if the average person shouldn’t be trying it, neither should the best players in the world, because it’s not proper mechanics.

Second, beware taking swing lessons or advice from anyone who does it the Modern Golf Swing way, be it faceless YouTube commenters or pros like Bryson, whose technical swing knowledge is apparently equivalent to that of a novice trying to teach himself swing techniques.