Is Brooks Koepka's Swing a Classic Swing? (Video)

Although Brooks is clearly a power hitter, this video explains his move as extra of a conventional swing that is easy on your again. It's an unusual analysis... And it simply might be accurate.

Part of the key to this analysis is the emphasis on how Brooks makes use of a one-piece takeaway and focuses on using his shoulders to power the swing. In this method Brooks is creating his electricity with his shoulder coil and arm extension, whilst his lower body is just transferring and handing over response to his shoulders in preference to certainly riding the frame around to the end.

I know, it sounds like semantics. In fact, rotary power is being created by BOTH the shoulders and the lower body in any swing. It's simply a matter of how you think about the swing, whether you think of starting your swing with your lower body and consciously twisting your hips to pull your upper body around OR you think of consciously starting your swing with upper body rotation and letting your lower body move in response.

• Think lower body drive and you're in modern swing mode, complete with extra back strain.
• Think upper body drive and you're in classic swing mode, placing much less stress on your back.

And I'll be the first to say that the difference between the two is more about feel than appearance. Your lower body has to start first in both cases; that's just simple physics. The real distinction is in the violence of the flow. If you try to drive your lower body hard, your hips and lower back experience a much more violent stress. But if you feel as if you originate the move with your shoulder turn, you don't have to tense your back as much and there is far less stress on the hip and lower back muscles.

To me, this analysis has some actual benefit due to the fact Brooks would not appear to have the violent hip twist I see in a whole lot of different swings. I'm unwilling to call his swing a classic swing due to the fact I don't know precisely how he visualizes and feels this flow. But I can really see how this can be felt as a classic swing if it changed into visualized and approached that way.

In the cease, I suppose it depends on the way you sense your swing when you make it. And if it doesn't feel like a chronic back problem inside the making, I'm in favor of giving it a strive.