Former long drive competitor Martin Borgmeier (peak speed: 168 mph) takes the stage at Open Forum to explain why the principles that make long drivers fast are the same principles that can make every golfer faster — but the key is finding your personal "92% effort" sweet spot.
Martin starts with a brilliant social media case study: his screaming 229.9 ball speed video got 6.6 million views, but his calm 231 ball speed shot only got 85,000. The lesson? What people think long drivers do (scream and max out) is actually just practice — the real performance happens at controlled effort.
He then breaks down three of the 15+ power elements in the golf swing — the trigger move, the upload move, and hand path length — comparing long driver Cassandra Meyer, "YouTube golfer" Bryson DeChambeau, and Jon Rahm to show how the same principles apply at different intensities.
The presentation transitions to XView, an AI-powered markerless motion capture tool that can reconstruct true 3D swing analysis from two iPhone cameras. David Choi (K.J. Choi's son and XView Director of Business Development) shares how XView helped his father identify and fix an early extension issue — leading to K.J. becoming the oldest Asian champion on tour and winning the British Senior Open.