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This drill is activating connection.

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Um, so, uh, connection is one of those terms we use

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for getting a couple of your body parts to work in sync.

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And in the classic cases,

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it's usually getting your arms in your chest or torso

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or spine to work in sync.

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Um, when you're disconnected, your arms have a tendency

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to kind of like do all kinds of stuff that looks very sloppy

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or independent from the body.

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When it's more connected, uh, it looks like the upper body

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and the arms are moving together.

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Um, so that comes from using some certain, uh,

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armpit muscles or shoulder muscles.

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Um, and so I have a, a bunch of different drills,

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whether it's using the towel

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or using, um, the sticks, the alignment sticks

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or, um, a ruler.

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Those things help to build this connection.

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But, um, I thought I'd do a quick little video on how

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to feel the activation of connection.

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So, um, we wanna get your shoulder blades to rotate down

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and slightly forward, um, in order to feel this connection.

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Now during the swing, they're actually going

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to have a little bit more of a left one going up, right,

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one coming down, and then continuing to go in that fashion.

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Um, but there's still this kind of downward activation that

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of that helps, uh, activate the serus anterior one

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of the really big key, um, uh, connection muscles.

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It helps blend the oblique into the shoulder, which is huge

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for getting your body to work at the same time as your arms.

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Okay, so the, the drill's gonna be really simple.

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Um, we're basically going to push down and then clap.

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Um, so we're gonna put our arms on our sides,

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almost like we were doing a dip,

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and we're going to push our palms down, kinda like,

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like Ironman, uh, getting ready to take off.

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So we're pushing our arms down,

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and then we're gonna bring our hands together

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so it's down and then clap.

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And now once I have that down

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and then clap, now if I maintain it, it,

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it shouldn't take a maximum effort.

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It shouldn't take like, like a strong, aggressive movement.

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It should just, I can kind of hold those together

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and I can still rotate my forearms.

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I can still move my wrists.

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I could still even bend my elbows.

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But you see, I'm maintaining this

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connection, um, in my arms.

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So then if I were to take a towel or a glove

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or something to kind of work on that, now, you know, I need

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to have a little bit down

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and then a little bit forward just kind of like that.

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So now I could get that connection feeling.

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So I usually work through the normal, um,

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cascades starting with nine to three.

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So here we go. We're gonna push it down and then clap.

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And in this particular case, um, if you're used

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to being really disconnected,

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you'll either feel like your elbows are really close

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together, if you're used to kind

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of disc disconnecting this way, um,

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or a lot of people get disconnected

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because if I exaggerate, the shoulders get more up

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and then they can kinda work independent.

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So you'll either feel more of the down

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or more of the narrowness in squeezing.

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This is where objects like the towel, like the rulers

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or things like the smart ball where you're, um,

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squeezing a ball in between those help

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to activate these muscles and work on the connection.

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So here we go. So we're gonna push down

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and then clap together.

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And then we're gonna do a, a nine to three

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where we basically feel like we maintain that connection

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or maintain the triangle.

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This is one of the, uh, the ways that we get the upper body

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to work with the arms as one unit.

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So nine to three, kind of like this.

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Now the tricky part I think

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for most golfers is when you start

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going above nine to three.

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So when we go to the 10 to two, the trick is being able

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to maintain the connection as you set the wrist

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and a little bit of the elbow, that's kind of the,

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the jazzy move

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or the jazzy Jeff move where we still maintain the width,

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the arm stays in front of the pec.

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Um, but there's still a little bit of this downward and,

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and inward feeling of the shoulder blades.

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So now we're gonna do more of that 10 to two.

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We've got the connection up to 10 to two,

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and basically feeling like we maintain

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that shoulder stability,

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the entire swing all the way into the finish,

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hopefully all the way until the ball lands.

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Hardest one is going to be now going into a full swing.

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Um, if you're used to it, there's often a very powerful feel

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and kind of like losing the shoulder stability up at the top

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of the swing, this often feels wide and stiff.

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Um, I have one student that kind of describes it

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as like Frankenstein swinging a golf club.

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Um, I think that's actually a more aptt, um, description of

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what width feels like rather than kind

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of this down snappy movement of the shoulders.

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So I'm gonna try to maintain that shoulder connection,

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but as I go up, you'll see that movement there is going

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to feel like I no longer maintain the width,

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at least in the, the hands in the club,

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but I am still gonna feel this width in my shoulders.

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So we'll do the full down clap,

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and now we're going to get it all the way up to the top,

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maintaining that stability

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and then trying to keep that stability as we come through.

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If you work on that, your upper body

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and your arms are gonna work more together,

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and that is what we refer to as being connected.