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in this analysis video we're going to

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take a look at the swing of Brookes

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Kepco the recent US Open champion is

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known for being a really long hitter

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he's currently ranked fifth in driving

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distance and fourth in club head speed

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we're going to take a look at what he

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does at the top of the swing and in

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transition in order to help him achieve

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that feat when it comes to hitting the

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ball a long way one of the goals is to

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use your total body to create speed now

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a sign that you're using more your body

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in transition is going to be having this

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good look of leg we're going to break

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down that look a leg just a little bit

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more because most people think that leg

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either comes from starting your lower

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body or having really good sequencing or

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from hinging your wrists a lot in

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transition but lag can really happen

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from anywhere from the feet all the way

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to the club it's a sign of good

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sequencing of using the legs first and

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then the the knees and the hips and then

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the core and then the shoulders and then

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the elbows and then the wrist the better

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that you have that sequencing the more

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you're going to achieve a powerful look

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just like Brookes now one of the places

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that I find amateurs really miss out on

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this lag is in the shoulders so what

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we'll see is Brooks does a really good

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job of getting that right arm in front

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and letting that left arm kind of drift

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a little bit across his body as he works

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in transition that's a sign that there's

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not a lot of tension in his arms and

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that his body is really pulling through

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his arms so as we look at it one more

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time you'll see that that right arm gets

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in front of his body very quickly this

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is a similar elbow look to another long

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hitter Dustin Johnson

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and one of the keys to making sure that

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that move works is to make sure that

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when the arm gets in front of you your

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forearms have enough relaxation in them

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so that the club shallows during that

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phase many amateurs that I've taught

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trying to get that arm in front of their

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body tend to steep in the club early in

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the downswing

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and that can lead to a whole host of

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contact path problems you name it there

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are two things that Brooks does in order

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to help make it easier for him to get

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that right elbow in front of his body if

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we back him up to the top of the swing

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you'll see that while he has a big full

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shoulder turn he has a lot of arm height

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you can see that that right elbow stays

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more or less in front of his PEC from

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this down the line you can see again

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looking at either the elbow space or

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just the relationship of the right arm

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to that pack you can see that it stays

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pretty much in front of body so that

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gives him a little bit more or that

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requires less of an adjustment move in

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order to get that right elbow back in

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front because it's already there it

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basically has to just drop and come in

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front a little many amateurs get that

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right elbow in that flying position or

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more behind their body that can work but

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it requires a larger movement of the

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right arm to get in front of the body

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and many amateurs don't like feeling

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that waiting during transition if you're

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going to go earlier if you're going to

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swing more aggressively from the top of

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the swing it's much easier to do that

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with the arms with that right elbow more

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in front of your body the other thing

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you'll see is that he has really good

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sequencing and pulls through his arms

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with his core so whether this feels like

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a rotation or this feels like a push

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from the ground or this feels like more

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of a spine tilt that's up to the

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individual but what we can see

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objectively is that there's not a lot of

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activity in straightening those arms

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until the left leg starts to straighten

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so he's pulling through and along the

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shaft of the club and then right around

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here you'll see that that left leg

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starts to brace and starts to straighten

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and it's that bracing and straightening

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of the leg that triggers the force going

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up this way and into the arms to get the

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club to start to release many amateurs

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trigger the release straightaway just

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from the arms instead of doing so from

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the body and that definitely costs you a

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lot of speed over here on the left is a

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great view for seeing that transition

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sequence as well as one as well as that

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trigger of the leg that left leg pushing

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to cause his arms to start to extend and

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they'll extend in the direction out in

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front of the golf ball instead of at the

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golf ball this trait of using his body

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as his main power source in transition

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and then using the arms later during the

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release is a trademark of most long

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hitters lining up to a big deal - for me

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I have to line up left for the target

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because I like to add a fade so Brooks

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likes to hit a fade if you're trying to

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get out of hitting a fade there are some

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things that you might want to not copy

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about his swing as you can see from

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these track command statistics he's got

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a downward angle of attack of over 3

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degrees with the driver almost 10

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degrees with the iron those could be

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problematic numbers for a lot of

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amateurs especially if you're have lower

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club head speed but what we'll talk

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about is how he actually creates that

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downward angle of attack you can see

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from this body position that his upper

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body is far enough behind the golf ball

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he could have a touch more tilt but he's

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got a good amount of access tilt to

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where a lot of players with this body

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position would have a flat worried or

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possibly even positive angle of attack

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so that tells us that the way he

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steepens the club must be coming more

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from the release what you can see is he

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gets his leftward path in his fade more

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from the lack of ulnar deviation or

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having a little bit more of a steeper

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pattern during his release where

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basically that left wrist doesn't fully

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unhinge he gets a little bit more of a

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roll movement in order to help him

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Square the face

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roll movement does move the path left

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and frequently causes downward angle of

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attack one other thing to note that role

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release tends to create a look in the

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follow-through has a bit more arm Bend

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so if you really hate the look of having

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a chicken wing then having a steeper

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movement of your wrist during the

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release might not be a move that you

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want to try to copy but if one of your

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goals is to create more speed then

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modeling what Brooks does at the top of

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swing and in transition will definitely

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help you accomplish that if you like the

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way we broke down

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Brooks's swing then please like

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so you can create a deeper understanding

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of how guys like Brooks are able to hit

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it as far as they do