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    Posted: 02 March 2010 at 4:34pm

Looking at some video of Fowler I notice something that I think is a huge ingrediant to fowlers power and that is the mobility of his thoracic spine. Look at the lines I drew on his chest and back. The thoracic spine moves forward and backward in the rib cage and at the top of his backswing look at the extesion he gets and how expanded his chest is. This is what helps him to generate tons of speed.

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Does he create tons of speed? At the weekend his driver swing was clocked at 114mph when I was watching which surprised me it wasn't higher..Just  a little above average.
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i know he pounds it out there. very different type of swing. he definitley looks to be swinging faster then anyone else on tour. totally opposite RST.
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He averages 290 and is consistantly over 3 bills. T-mac...complete opposite I don't think so. I haven't studied his swing yet but he does most of the basics stays connected, gets into his right glute, keeps arms infront of the body, gets on his left then pulls.
 
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-FQbMWfok&feature=related What he does here is he turns his shoulders 90* then bends the right arm and extens the thoracic spine. I believe this is a move most of us are missing and that the SB glide is inteded to create the way he extends his Tspine which as you see really opens his chest this is a very athletic movement and provides him with that extra torque you can just see it.
 
I would change a thing in his swing. He has NO swing thoughts and will only get better and there is nothing in his swing that indicates he would would injure himself. I think he has a great swing.


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Have to totally disagree he keeps his arms in front of his body after looking at the vid below.
 
 
 
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I just did a 13 minute swing analysis of his swing that will go up in our new 50 minute long podcast coming out this week.
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He definitely lacks in shoulder elevation at the top of the backswing (top of right arm below shoulder level).  That would be closer to RS1 as he leaves his arms deep on the first move down.  To be fair, the 114mph swing speed that they commented on during the Sunday round was only one swing.  He may not have been swinging at full speed for that particular drive.  I also believe he was ahead of Camillo and the other guy they were playing with when he hit the lay up shot on 15.
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Originally posted by colin.earl

Have to totally disagree he keeps his arms in front of his body after looking at the vid below.
 
 
 
Are you saying he doesn't? If so I disagree with you his arms are in front of his torso the entire swing his hips are quick be he is not "behind"
 
I am not saying he is classic RST but I am saying that he does have a lot of the principle moves and nothing screams injury to me and this is whay I wouldn't change a thing especially since he has no swing thoughts now. RST is a great map but I still believe there is NO COOKIE CUTTER SWING. Everyones swing will have it's own DNA b/c everyone is different.
 
 I am interested to see what CQ has to say especially since Rickie has a tendency to leave his feet somewhat with the driver :-)
 
 
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arms swing across his chest. no shoulder elevation. super flat. im sure he clubs are bent upright severly. not saying hes screwed up and cant hit a ball becuase obviously hes on tour and competing! i just dont think he is a RST model. his downswing does have a lotta pull to it but other then that i dont think much else compares to RST. im sure chucks 13 min analysis will explain the goods and bads much better then any of us can.
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Ha! This is great, what perfect timing for the podcast! Pressure Josh into getting the editing done so you guys can see what's up. I will say this, somebody here has guessed correctly!
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