Tim Burke - Kinetic Chain
Tim Burke - Kinetic Chain
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Description
Tim Burke wins his 2nd World Long Drive Championship. In this video, I'll show you the keys to Tim's crazy clubhead speed and show you how to use the kinetic chain in your own swing.
Video Practice Points
- Internal femur rotation of the lead leg before the backswing completes.
- Post up on the lead leg.
- Release the club.
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Hey, what's up everyone? This is RST
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instructor Chris Tyler. And we are back
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with this week's tour analysis with now
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the two-time world long drive champion
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Tim Burke. So congratulations to Tim for
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getting his belt back. This week, We're
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going to be focusing in on the kinetic
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chain and how to use it properly. In your
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golf swing so that you can squeak out
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more power and more club head speed. So
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let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay gang, so this week we are going to
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be focusing on kinetic chain, What that
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means and how you can use it in your own
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golf swing to help develop some more club
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head speed. And the way we want to look
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at the kinetic chain is much like a
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baseball player. And Tim was actually a
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NCAA pitcher and you can see that he uses
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a lot of the similar style movements as a
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pitcher. With as far as being able to
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deliver power from the ground up. That's
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really what the the kinetic chain is all
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about. And if you look at the way sports
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medicine refers to the kinetic chain,
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it's just a sequence or a chain of
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events. That in order to take place for
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an athlete to be able to deliver power
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and be able to throw or hit.
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And that's what we're, that's we're going
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to be talking about today, and that's
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what Tim does really well in his golf
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swing.
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He's got an extreme amount of flexibility
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and he really motors his golf swing from
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the ground up. And that's really where it
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starts. Is being able to use your lower
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body not only as a power source, but also
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as a way to stabilize your body. And you
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can see here, even at 227 miles an hour
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of club head speed recorded. Tim has a
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exorbitant, exorbitant amount of balance
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in his golf swing, which is really
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unheard of for a lot of these guys that
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get out there and bash it. 400 plus
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yards. So you can see over here on the
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left hand side of the screen, how nice
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and balanced he is through the whole
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swing.
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So what we're going to be looking at here
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is from a downline perspective. Let's go
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ahead and load him up to the top here.
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What I want you to pay close attention to
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here is you can see that he's got a lot
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of separation between his hip line and
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his shoulder line here. You'll be able to
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see it a little better from a face-on
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perspective. He's got very much like a
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Jack Nicklaus style leg move here, so you
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can see how the leg really dives in here.
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Okay, so left foot comes up off the
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ground, that allows him to have a little
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bit more mobility in his hips. But in
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turn, he's going to use this as a good
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way to transfer his weight back over to
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his lead side, much like a pitcher.
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So you're going to see this external
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rotation of the lead leg,
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and for all you medical gurus out there,
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this is actually internal femur rotation.
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But you're going to see this first move
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as the club is still moving back. Okay so
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you can see the club head let me back it
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up a little bit here.
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So this is where he's going to start to
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shift his weight.
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So you see him starting to unload with
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that internal femur rotation.
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And now he's getting his weight back over
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to his lead side. And this is where he's
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going to start to drive his left heel
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into the ground.
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Okay and he's going to start to clear the
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hips out. You can see that he's got an
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extreme amount of lag coming down here
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and then as he gets his hands in front of
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his trail thigh here. Still, you can see
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that he's getting ready to start to
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release it. And he's not going to use a
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lot of old school leg drive. So you saw
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more of an old school move going back but
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he used that to his advantage. He used it
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to help get him some a little bit more
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mobility. I think he turns his shoulders
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right around 135 degrees and then, in
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turn, what he did is. He uses that as
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kind of a trigger point to go ahead and
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start to plant himself back into his lead
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side and then be able to post up and
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throw the club. So you're going to see it
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here. Watch this lead foot very closely.
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So you see how he plants it and then his
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hands and arms start to work down in
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front of him. Clears out the hips and
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then he fires the hands and the arms.
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Keeps the right heel pretty close to the
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ground here as well, which is also
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unheard of for a lot of these long drive
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guys. You see a lot of big right leg
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drive and this is why we think Tim's
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going to be able to do this long drive
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stuff for a while now because he doesn't
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have, He's not putting a ton of stress on
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his lead hip, and he's not putting a ton
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of stress on his lead knee.
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Which is really a big part of golf these
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days is we see a lot of those lead, knee
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and hip problems. So, with that being
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said, what I want you to be able to start
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doing is I want you to be able to start
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your downswing with your lower half. So,
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you want to try and feel as though you're
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actually getting your lower body to start
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moving to your lead side before your
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hands and arms start to finish the top of
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the backswing. And we got some videos to
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help you out with that. We've got build
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your swing from the ground up. All of
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these videos are going to be over here to
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the right hand side of video player, so
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just go ahead and click the Recommended
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Videos tab, all these videos will
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populate.
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Start your downswing before completing
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your backswing. And that's another good
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video that's going to give you a little
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bit of a drill in it and then the right
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knee drill. So if you've been noticing
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that your right knee is really collapsing
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in towards your left hard, which is
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causing you too much tilt. Or if you've
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maybe been battling with some lead knee
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issues or some lead hip problems,
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definitely try that drill out. You seem
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to get a lot of good results from a lot
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of players. So again the point of today
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was just to kind of showcase how Tim
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makes a ton of club head speed. Obviously
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his club head speed is at 156 miles an
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hour and ball speed at 227 miles an hour.
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He won his first long drive championship
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with a record setting 427 yards, which is
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obviously not too shabby.
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But I wanted to show you guys how it
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relates to the kinetic chain can be very
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relatable to the baseball, to a pitcher,
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to a pitcher's move. You'll see a lot of
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external rotation of the lead leg or
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again internal femur rotation. You'll see
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them plant, you'll see them, excuse me,
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drive off the foot,
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and then you'll see them. To transfer the
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power up through the legs, up through the
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torso and then out the arm for the
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delivery. And that's very much like the
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kinetic chain in the golf swing. So if
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you've been looking for a way to get more
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power, then definitely check out those
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videos and get to work. Now. Let's make
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it a great day.
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