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In this analysis video, we're gonna take a look at the swing of Cameron Champ.

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Now Cameron Champ is the young hot rookie who is leading the tour in driving

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distance

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and swinging the club faster by about five miles per hour than number two in

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club head speed.

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So if there's anybody who's going to help us understand how to hit the ball

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further,

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it's gonna be analyzing Cameron Champ's swing.

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So in this video, I'm gonna talk to you about how to use your whole body to hit

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the golf ball

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and what are one or two things that you can apply to your own game

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when you're trying to add a little bit of extra speed to your swing.

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Now when it comes to hitting the ball far, I commonly hear two things discussed

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with Cameron's swing.

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One is look at how open he gets at impact.

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So basically uses his body very well rotationally for creating speed.

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And then two, look at the amount of lag that he creates during the downswing.

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And then how much lag he still has at impact.

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Well, I'm gonna talk about a few other pieces and why the rotational movement

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may be helpful for consistency,

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but it might not necessarily be all that critical when we're talking about

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actually creating speed.

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Because if those two things were really that critical for creating speed,

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then we wouldn't have Joe Miller here who swings the club at 150 miles an hour.

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So the fastest golfer on the planet right now demonstrating not getting open at

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impact

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and not creating a whole lot of lag or lean at impact.

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So we're gonna talk about what does Cameron do that creates speed

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and how he applies it so that he can have a little bit more consistency than

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someone like Joe Miller.

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But since this video is mostly about distance,

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we want to talk about what are the things that Joe Miller and Cameron Champ do

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similarly

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so that you can pick up one or two tips on how you can hit the ball further.

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Alright, as we get back to Cameron, let's talk about how to use your whole body

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to create speed.

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Because most of the time what I see is when golfers are on the lesson tee

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and they're trying, I asked them, "Hey, let's hit this one as hard as you can."

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Typically what they do is they try to max out what they're already using for

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speed.

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So most golfers either just use their legs or just use their arms

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or just use their shoulders and core rarely do they use everything.

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So as I blend back and forth here, you're gonna see some pretty dynamic

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movement

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happening from his hips as his legs work against the ground.

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You're gonna see some pretty dynamic movement happening here in his core.

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So when he goes to rotate his hips, you'll notice that his core and his spine

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and his lower rib cage is working with it.

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It's not getting totally kind of disconnected or left behind.

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You'll see that even more from the face-on view

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where when he goes and starts pushing against the ground with that right foot,

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you'll see that this part of his body is moving with it.

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It's not getting totally disconnected.

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Sometimes I see golfers when they try to use their legs for power,

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their core is pretty much relaxed, and you'll almost see their upper body

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not move at all as a result of them moving their lower body.

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And that creates some potential contact problems,

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but it also robs the ability for creating power, and it can lead towards

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injuries.

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So it's a move that we want to try to avoid if we can.

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Cameron does a great job of using his legs and his core,

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and what appears to be kind of pulling a little bit with the shoulders,

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but delaying when his arms and wrists are really applying a lot of speed to the

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club.

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You'll see that sequencing-wise, he gets the club down almost until

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shaft parallel somewhere around here before he starts using his arms and his

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hands,

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or his hands and his wrists to transfer all that speed.

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He describes that feeling of using mostly the body and then mostly the core,

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and then the shoulders as kind of this catapult move

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so that he feels this really tremendous whip of the club through impact.

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That's how he's able to create this speed while looking like he's not swinging

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very hard.

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But while he doesn't look like he's swinging hard,

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you'll see his lower body has a fair amount of rotation early,

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and then it has a fair amount of vertical push late.

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You'll see from right around here that left leg really push,

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and he's pushing hard enough so that his left foot is actually coming up off

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the ground.

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So turning the hips early and then straightening the legs late

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are two indications that he's using his legs for power.

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If you look up Joe Miller's swing, who I talked about,

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he won't rotate his hips quite as much,

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but he'll really use that vertical force late and using the legs even

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vertically

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helps create more speed in the handle and ultimately into the club head.

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When it comes to the core, we can see that he looks like he's rotating his

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upper body

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through there, but he's rotating his upper body without lunging forward.

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So without having the head really drift forward,

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a lot of golfers who I see who use their upper body and upper core to create

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speed

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will tend to have more of a forward lunge,

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where they're not really using their lower body,

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and they're creating this pull on the club with the upper body,

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but it puts them in a position where they can't use their legs

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and they can't use their arms very well.

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Then one of the keys is that the arms get involved late for power,

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but they still get involved for power.

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So he's probably starting to apply what feels like arm motion right around in

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here,

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but it was soft enough early on so that there was an increased stretch

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for creating this look of lag.

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Now I want one of my common messages is this look of lag doesn't come

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from holding the wrist angle as in radial deviation or hinging your wrist.

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It comes more from creating an extension of that trail wrist

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as well as what's happening with the external rotation of the trail shoulder,

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or basically getting the elbow more in front.

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You see that as a common move or power move for really good drivers of the golf

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ball,

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like Brooks Kepka and Dustin Johnson.

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But you'll see that when he gets down here, so he's used his lower body in core

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to get the club down to about here, and then you'll see the arms really

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transfer

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that power through impact with a really powerful push from the leg

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and what I consider or what I call on our website and in our program,

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a bracing move, and that bracing move helps whip the club head through,

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giving a little bit more club head speed.

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So now watching Cameron champ again, we've got the lower body, the core,

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and the upper body.

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Now he's creating 130 mile an hour club head speed,

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but you'll see that his upper body and kind of his,

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the height of his chest compared to the ground,

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stays pretty consistent throughout the swing.

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So when he gets vertical and pushing with the body,

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he does what I discuss on the site as kind of calibrating his spine rotation

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so that that doesn't cause his upper body to move up off the ball.

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Joe Miller, on the other hand, has a fair amount of upper body movement,

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especially if you were to compare it to setup.

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So he might not be quite as consistent,

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but, and he may, may use more force vertically instead of rotationally.

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So as a result, he gets a little bit more arm extension at impact

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than someone like Cameron champ, but you'll see there's some of the lower body

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movement

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and then he really goes vertical there with his lower body.

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And you'll see when his hips are moving, his core is moving,

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but again, his core is moving more vertically,

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so he's getting into a really pronounced crunch pattern to use his core or his

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trunk.

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And then you'll see his arm extension through the ball, just like so.

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So while these two golfers appear to be in totally different positions

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and they really are, they're going to have different consistency patterns

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and ball flight patterns, the way that they're creating speed by using their

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whole body

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is something that you can apply to your own game.

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So if you tend to swing mostly with your arms,

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then if you want to add a little bit more speed,

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don't try to swing harder with your arms.

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Try to figure out how to get your lower body more involved.

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If you tend to kind of chicken wing and really have a lot of arm tension down

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at the bottom,

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and you use mostly your legs and your body for power,

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then don't try to swing harder with your legs.

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Try to learn how to develop a more efficient release

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so that you can create more speed with the arms and transfer more of that speed

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with your arms.

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So whichever part of your body you're not using for power,

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that's what you want to learn to use if you want to increase your club speed.

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