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This video is designed to help you improve spine and body movement during your golf swing. Learn how negative torsion combines rotation, extension, and side bend for a powerful and efficient swing. Tyler demonstrates how to set up and execute this drill, ensuring you can practice and enhance your technique at home. Perfect for golfers looking to refine their release and achieve better control and consistency.
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This drill is band resisted negative torsion.
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Um, so negative torsion is one of those words
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that I've been thrown around for the, the spine
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and the body movement during the release.
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Um, torsion is a blend of rotation, extension, um,
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and a little bit of side bend,
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but primarily rotation extension.
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Uh, so I like it.
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I prefer it to saying the three individual movements
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of getting into rotation, extension side bend,
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because, uh, if I list out those three movements,
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then you'll start to think that you have
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to coordinate the timing of them all.
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And the reason I harp on the negative torsion is it's one
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muscle group along the spine that if you use that
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as the dominant, uh, spine rotation, uh, mechanism,
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it will give you all of these three movements blended
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together in one movement.
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Um, so students have been asking, well,
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how do I train it at home?
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Uh, here's a little band resisted exercise,
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I'll, I'll walk you through.
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Um, so I've got, um,
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ideally I would have an anchor pretty much on the floor, uh,
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just outside my left foot, kind of in this line here.
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Um, I'll talk to you through where you can move it around,
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but, uh, closest I can do for this camera is, uh,
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den caddy there, um,
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with a medicine ball to kinda hold it down.
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And it's still not enough. I wouldn't be able
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to do this exercise for real,
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but you'll be able to see the gist of it.
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So I'm gonna take the band
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and I'm gonna wrap it around my right shoulder.
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And then I'm gonna rotate so that the, the band is coming
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along my left leg kinda like this.
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And you'll see if I get too far away, I start
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to tip over the den caddy.
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So I'll guide it a little bit, um,
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or protect it from falling over with my hand.
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Uh, but basically what I'm gonna do is I'm going to
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do a combination of straightening the legs,
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extending the back,
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and rotating kind of like this.
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And I'm gonna play around so that I can get an angle here
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where I can get my lower body shifting my
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weight onto my front foot.
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But my upper body is encouraged to go a little bit
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back this, uh, away from the target as I'm going through.
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Um, I have done this in a pinch.
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If you have a long enough band that you're standing on it,
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um, the left foot will help encourage more getting stacked.
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Um, and if you put it more on the right foot,
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that'll encourage the, the leg straightening
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as it's rotating, um,
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which I think has some other benefits to it.
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Uh, but the best would be having an anchor somewhere
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around 30 degrees out in front of that lead leg.
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Just kind of like that. And you can,
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you can add some arm action.
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You'll see I'm a little limited here with my setup.
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And, uh, but what would happen is as I get into this full,
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uh, kind of negative towards,
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and if I have the, the band anchored, I could get into about
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a good follow through position.
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So about chest facing the golf ball.
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Um, this will help you feel a little bit more
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of this backside movement as you're rotating.
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The other thing that it does is while having, um, the band
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around your right shoulder, it'll help you pr, uh,
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prevent the throwing of that right shoulder
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and that, that kind of throwing of that right shoulder, um,
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going into internal rotation and,
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and protraction kind of this movement here tends
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to keep us more down in flexion.
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Either flexion of the hip, giving a little buckle
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or flexion of the spine, giving more of, of, um, a stall
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and more of a, uh, like a kyphotic look
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or a rounded look down at at impact.
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Um, so having the band here can help encourage this shoulder
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kind of feeling like it's back
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and being driven more
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by the body rather than just by the arms.
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Um, I recommend doing that a couple days a week.
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You can mix it in with your gym routine
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to encourage your training of your negative torsion,
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your body movement during the release.
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If you had it anchored, um, you potentially
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could get a little bit of rotation.
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I probably wouldn't do this as a ball hitting drill, um,
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but we'll see if it works.
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We'll keep it in there. Um,
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so I've got this a little bit on the wrong angle,
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but it's clear so that I can, uh, potentially make a finish
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and I hit the bag.
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So that would not work out very well.
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Um, but it did have a good feeling timing wise of of the,
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uh, negative torsion and the
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spine movement that I'm wanting to train.
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So I don't mind it there. Um, I would just have to play
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around with where to position the bag so I didn't hit it
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and I wouldn't do anything more than nine to threes.
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This is really a release
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body movement that we're working on here.
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So this would be the real quick setup.
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If you happen to have a ba, a band that is long enough
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that you can step on it.
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Um, and that one I really don't mind as far
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as a hitting drill 'cause the band isn't gonna get in the
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way, but it will slip.
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And hopefully we didn't lose audio.
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