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This drill is ballroom dance spine rotation.

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Um, so we're gonna use a exercise from a ballroom dance

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class that I took many years ago, um, that will help us

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with our spine rotation at impact.

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We know that if we want

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to get into a really good tore level impact position,

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that we have to have our spine somewhat rotated, kind

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of like this, um, in order to have the hips open,

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but the shoulders closer to square

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and get the arms in a really good, good spot.

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If your upper body is facing the same direction

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as your lower body, then either if both of them were open,

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your, your right shoulder would be too high

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and you'd, uh, be way on top of it.

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Um, or everything would be facing the target.

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Um, and you might feel like the club is passing

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and you have a little bit too much, uh, flip or,

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or timing issues at the bottom.

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So we're just gonna get used to moving

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with our spine in a little bit more closed position.

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So we can do this both directions,

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but I highly recommend the backswing direction.

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Um, so all I'm going to do is I'm gonna turn my upper body,

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and now while my upper body is turned, I'm just gonna walk.

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I would walk forward, but I'm limited here on the camera.

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So I'm gonna kind of like walk forward, walk backward,

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few steps forward, few steps backward.

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I would probably go more like 10, 15 yards at a time.

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Now if I really want to crank this, I can turn my lower body

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and I can try to bring my arms kind

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of in front as I'm walking.

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This is, I'm getting used to this feeling of my core

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and my spine being twisted as my arms are releasing

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and as my body is moving.

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Now, if I was to come into this position, I can recreate

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that feel and now I can do it kinda rotationally.

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So here I'm moving my lower body forward, backward.

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Now I'm gonna try to hold into this position

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and I'm trying to turn my hips

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and basically keep my, my shoulders

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or my spine kind of rotated to the right.

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A lot of people when they try

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to close off the shoulders the first time, they will tend

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to kind of side bend more like this,

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and that'll make you feel really off

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balance as you're walking.

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So one of the benefits of doing the walking is it tends

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to keep your, your weight more over the center of your feet.

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Now I get to this position, I still wanna keep

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that weight feeling like it's,

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or my upper body is more over my lower body,

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but my lower body is a little bit more forward.

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And now what I'm gonna do is at the end of this,

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I'm just gonna let those arms go

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and the letting of the arms go is going

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to bring me outta the rotation.

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If I did it this way, what would happen is I, I get

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to this position and then I bring my arms in front,

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and then once they get in front, then I let it catch up.

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So I've turned it to the right.

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Once my get arms get in front, then I let my upper body go.

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That's the, the white movement or,

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or part of the white movement.

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So now I've got this feel of lower

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of the ballroom dance thing where I'm holding it here

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and getting my lower body to lead.

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I'm gonna do this as a version of the pelvic punch.

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So I'm going to bring the club back, pump that

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until I feel like there, that's the same as

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that ballroom dance thing.

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So I'm gonna feel like I get my lower body

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to lead pump a couple times.

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That's the ballroom dance thing.

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Now I'm gonna get here, get to ballroom dance, and then go.

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So I'm gonna do one of my kind of favorite sequence drills,

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uh, the pelvic punch,

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but I'm going to build it off

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of this reference frame from this

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little ballroom dance move.

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So now I'm getting up to here.

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I'm gonna try to recreate that feel, bring it back,

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recreate, and then go.

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And that will help you with getting the spine rotation

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and keeping it long enough,

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keeping it all the way down to the bottom.

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That'll really help with the consistency

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and quality of our low point.