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This pivot drill is doorway slaps.
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Um, so this pivot drill is designed to help you blend
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rotation and side bend.
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So it's kind of a dynamic version of like a,
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a shoulder plane
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or merry-go-round drill, um, where you would put your,
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the club across your shoulders and you're going to try
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and get more of the shoulder tilt.
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So it's emphasizing, um,
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getting the shoulders pointing down in the general
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direction of the golf ball.
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Um, it can be helpful for golfers who when they try
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to get side bend, um, try to do it too much
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with just the bump of the hips.
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And as you saw when I did that,
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there was no real change in the spine.
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Um, so, uh, doorway laps here, we're gonna stand in a door
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or you could just use a hallway.
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Um, but we, you want something, um, kind of,
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that helps define the space for you a little bit better.
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Once you've done it a few times,
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then you don't really need the, the actual, um, framework.
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You could just do it out on the range.
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Uh, but what we're going to do is first version, it's kind
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of the, we'll call it the easy version.
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I'm gonna get down in my golf posture
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and I'm going to position myself so that I'm in the middle
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of the doorway and I'm going to, uh,
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put my hands up against the wall to my backside hip.
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And you'll see when I do this,
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the trail shoulder is higher than the lead.
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And then when I come through, I'm going to switch hands.
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So it's gonna look kind of like this
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and I can do it a little bit, um, kind of dynamically
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or rhythmically where there's a little bit
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of acceleration into the wall on both sides.
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Um, so what you'll see is when I do this,
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I get into a really good natural position
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of getting side bend, but while also getting
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more rotation for the pelvis.
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Um, so we've got kind of version one like, like this.
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Now, if I wanted to make it even more representative,
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I would actually switch my hands.
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So instead of being, um, more like this,
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I would have my hands in this position.
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And then when I came through,
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I would have my hands in this position.
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So basically the top hand is going to be, um, rotating so
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that the back of the hand is facing the wall instead
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of slapping it like this.
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So I'm slapping there, slapping there.
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And this can help you feel, like I said, this blend
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of rotation and side bend.
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Um, now the,
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the one caveat is if I'm staying really centered
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and stacked like this, this would be a little bit more
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of an iron based, uh, drill of the doorway laps.
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If I wanted to do a driver base, I would kind
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of preset a little bit of a hip light, uh, tilt like this.
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And so then when I hit it,
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I would hit higher into the follow through side
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and lower into the downswing side.
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So lower, higher, just like that would, would give us
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that natural, you know, 20 degree tilt
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that we try to do with the driver.
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Um, so this can be a really good drill, like I said, for,
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for blending this feeling of rotating and side bending
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and feeling a little bit more of a crunch.
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Once I have that feel, now what I can do is I can do
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that doorway slap.
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This is good for kind of at home training.
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And now when I put my hands on there,
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I'm gonna feel like, oh wow.
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Uh, I feel a lot more contraction
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or crunch on this side here.
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Um, where normally I feel like I turn
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and my shoulders would be level if I turn
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and my shoulders would be level, you could see
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what that would look like.
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Here would be more of kind of doing like this.
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And that would be more of an upper body dominant pivot
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where this doorway slap is gonna give us.
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With the side bend, we're gonna get a little bit more hip,
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um, and core are crunch dominant.
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So I highly recommend this as a little pivot drill.
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Um, if you're working on your overall, uh, centerness
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of pivot and the blend of getting some side bend, uh,
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with your rotation and extension.