Those of you who were around last winter will remember that I had been conducting research on the right-dominant swing model and that I had concluded around that time that I had already figured out the optimal golf swing model.

It is an ironic situation in which one may find oneself when realizing that one had actually accomplished one’s mission but lacked the knowledge or expertise at the time to actually recognize the accomplishment.

It took me ten years after I had basically nailed the optimal setup for the MCS Golf Swing model to sit down, look at the video evidence and have it leap from the screen at me.

“Hmm,” I said to myself, looking at my swings from May of 2015, “I do believe this is it.”

Even then, that was nearly half a year ago, and it took that additional time to break down why “this is it.”

It has to do with swinging “in the box,” which I’ve written about earlier in the summer.

Until I articulated this concept, I couldn’t explain why my 2015 swings using this setup were virtually optimal even as I knew that they were.

Once I came up with the “in the box” concept, I could see at a glance that these swings were “it.”

You’ve seen these swings quite a bit this past summer, so let’s recap with one in real time speed:

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Let’s take a look at one in slow-motion:

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And part of another swing, also in slow-motion, where I will show you the “in the box” swing action, first in the key positions:

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1. Setup
2. At The Top
3. Impact

I’ve drawn vertical lines that contain my shoulders, and this is the key – when I swing from the address position to impact, my shoulders never cross either line, meaning there is absolutely no lateral movement in my body.

The back pivot is simply powered by the hips & legs, with the upper body action consisting only of the flexing of the right arm to the top.

Notice how my body is nearly completely inside the lines at the top of the pivot (only the feet remain outside, as they don’t shift or slide).

From there, the down swing is like pulling a bell rope with the requisite weight shift – not the “harpoon that seal” action of the Modern Golf Swing.

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There is complete stability in the lower body parts, where the only action in the feet is in the pivoting action – the left heel rises to facilitate the full hip turn, and then drops, and the right heel rises as the weight transfers fully to the left into impact.

This wasn’t even a perfect swing – I would have had the ball a tad more to the target:

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… like here above, so that instead of the vertical club shaft at impact, you have a slight backward lean to it, but that ball was still hammered, long and straight.

In a golf swing, you want:

1. No compensations of manipulations,
2. No big changes in position, laterally or vertically,
3. Maximum leverage and power,
4. Accuracy, consistency, repeatability and
5. Minimal risk of injury (mechanically-sound, not just mechanically-correct).

Now, if you can show me another golf swing model that exhibits the same stability hallmarks (no lateral motion or big changes of head level up or down) and with no compensations or acrobatics to achieve this, with a fully leveraged down swing and explosive power, all with minimal risk of injury (I would swing for hours back then, hitting all clubs, and other than fatigue, never had any physical issues from swinging), then I would love to see it.