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The pivot chopsticks drill is a popular drill because it helps work on a couple of things in a simple way. To set up the drill, put one stick in your belt loops and hold the other stick across your shoulders. Then, do the merry-go-round drill and see where the sticks end up at impact. The pivot chopsticks drill helps you sequence your lower body first in order to hit the pelvis stick with the shoulder stick. The pivot chopsticks drill also helps with your position at impact. If you suffer from too much hip tilt and not enough shoulder tilt, this drill will reveal it.
Tags: Poor Contact, Drill, Beginner
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This pivot drill is the pivot Chopstick. So we're gonna
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take two alignment rods. We're gonna take one of them and place
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it through our belt loops. And then the other one we're going to hold across
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the the shoulders. And so this is a good drill that
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you can do at home. It's not quite as
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useful as a hitting drill because stuff gets in the way but the
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pivot chop space helps you work on the
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sequencing of rotation and side Bend. So
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it's kind of a sneaky little quality drill that
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helps you avoid a few big pivot problems that we'll
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talk about as we go through it. So done correctly if I got in
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this position and I just did the Merry-Go-Round. I'm going
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to turn my lower body and my upper body.
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Is going to strike the stick pointing roughly at the
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golf ball. So looks pretty easy
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while I said that there's some sneaky things that this can
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help clean up. We'll we'll talk through them.
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So a couple different pivot problems that
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people can have one if your upper body dominant, if
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you really turn that upper body then what will
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happen is your upper body will get ahead of the
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lower body and it will typically be high kind of
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like this. So it will never Strike the bottom
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stick and it will get ahead of it. When I
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do this correctly. If I exaggerate you'll
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see that the lower body leads and then the upper body catches up
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as it reaches impact giving me this really kind
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of audible click.
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The second thing that this really helps is when you're
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trying to get side bend a lot of golfers get
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too much kind of unity inside Bend
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kind of like this where the upper and the lower body are both
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side bending together and you get really behind it oftentimes.
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These golfers are really solid drivers the
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golf ball hit a nice little draw off the tee but have contact problems
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with their irons their
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Fairway Woods, sometimes even their wedges. So in
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that case, I'm having too much access tilt.
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I'm getting too much side Bend from the pelvis and not enough just
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from the spine. So in that case, I need to
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feel like the hips are while they're
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still getting forward because of that good kind of
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bracing or butt talk. They're more level.
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So the shoulders are on a bit of a flatter angle
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than the pelvis I can get here and kind of
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exaggerate some of those where I'm trying to.
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Do a little side crunch when I'm down in that position to help
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raise that right hip.
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so again, I can turn lower body and then
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kind of try to really hit it you
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can see this is similar to like the beat the drum exercise with
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a little extra feedback here where instead
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of hitting an object now I can hit this second stick.
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So now it becomes a problem when I'm going to try to
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add striking elements and we're
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so when I bring the the club in
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play.
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It's very hard to put both hands across your shoulders and hold
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on to the golf club. So what I'll do is we'll
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we'll demonstrate one or two where I hold on to the
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club with just one hand. And now if I
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get back into that position, you'll see I was close to
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striking the the sticks but there's
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a lot going on here. This is almost stimulus
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overload. Let's see if we can do do one where we actually
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help can't quite make contact. Maybe we'll try
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left arm.
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You'll see why I like this as more of a at-home drill.
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You can really emphasize some of these body positions, especially if you're using
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a mirror, but let's see if we can do this lead
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arm only.
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So we're trying to get.
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Kind of into that pattern there.
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I don't with very often but like I said,
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there is a lot going on in this drill. Let's take this a little
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bit further out.
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Yeah, so as I've
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Demonstrated before with this it's very hard to
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do striking while you're holding the stick. Even if you're pretty good
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at doing these one-arm Trails. So instead what I recommend is
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now we're going to keep the stick there just as
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a visual element.
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So if I did the latter one where
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I tend to kind of slide get too
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much access till I will actually get blocked.
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kind of by the stick
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and if I just go with the upper body the
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stick will be pointing way back there. So I'm going to try and
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point the stick just slightly.
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Ahead of or at the golf ball not quite
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horizontal but a little bit down but getting
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all the way pointing at the golf ball. So now I'm
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gonna feel again like my shoulders.
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Kind of get into that same position
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I had with the stick. So I like doing that
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progression more than trying to do it as a single arm drill. I've got
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one student who likes doing it as a single arm drill, but
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I haven't had too many others who like it. So I usually
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recommend this progression do it at home where you're
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practicing actually making contact getting a feeling of
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this core activation movement and then do it as a nine
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to three with the stick and then you can
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go through nine to three ten to two without the
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stick just kind of using that
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feeling more of a core activation
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awareness kind of feeling drill rather than kind of
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a restriction drill where it's actually getting
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in the way. So try that to improve your core sequencing and
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getting a little bit better shoulder compared to
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hip relationship in your stock golf swing. So real quick
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now, we've got a good feeling of these
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this pivot ChapSticks.
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Pretty solid there.
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Now let's go.
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a little bigger
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really solid there got some good feels for the week.