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This drill is the pivot dance. So the pivot dance is

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a homework drill that I've been giving a bunch of

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students to kind of feel what it's like to use your

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core and your shoulders and kind of connect everything that's going

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on so it can help you break your

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habits of a number of different transition power

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sources either pulling down

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with your arms or kind of spinning too much with the

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shoulders not getting enough lower body involved the

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pivot dances a good little rhythmic drill,

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you can do to feel how the

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shoulders and the core kind of integrate. So to do it. You're not

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going to need a club and we're gonna do a basic version

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which is not a hundred percent correct, and then we'll

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do an advanced version after that. So for the basic version

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First, we're gonna get a little awareness of our shoulders. So we're

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just going to rotate our whole

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arm so that we can feel a little bit of tension

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build in our shoulders when we go like this.

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So we're going into external rotation almost like turning two

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door knobs away from each other

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now at the same time that we do that we're going

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to try and keep our shoulders Square to the camera or to

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the mirror if you're looking at yourself at home, and at the same

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time, we're gonna try and rotate our lower body

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or our core towards the target. So it's gonna

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look kind of like this where the shoulders

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are rotating and the

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core is getting to the point where you get a big

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stretch up along this side and you'll feel kind of

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a contraction in your abs on this side.

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So this is the basic version.

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For feeling what's going on in the corner. Next

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we're going to do that in the golf posture. So we're

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gonna do the same thing and you'll see from the down the line.

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One of the big goals here is to get the

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shoulders to stay parallel and

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not move. So I want to avoid creating the rotation

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by pulling with my body instead. I'm getting the

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rotation more in my trunk and my core.

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So that's the beginning version that's usually where I

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start people but if you have a higher level

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awareness, we're gonna add the shoulder blades and even

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the wrist. So let's start with

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adding the shoulder blades. So now we're going to elevate and we're gonna get a little

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bit more awareness of what's going on with the shoulder blades. So

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first one we're going to do is just a little protraction retraction.

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Just going back and forth like this.

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And we're going to do that at a couple different heights. So

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up at about forehead level and then down at

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about belly button level.

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Now we're going to do the same thing, but we're going to stagger them.

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So we're gonna do one high one low.

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You notice I did the right arm first because I want to end with the

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More useful one for us which would be this one

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here for right-handed golfer. The one that I really want is the

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left arm up and the right arm down.

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Now you'll notice when I'm doing those motions that

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my spine isn't really moving a whole lot. So that'll

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be key. When we do this. Next part of

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this shoulder blade awareness where I'm going to pull back

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on the right side and reach forward with the

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left side or retract the right side and protract the

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left side while I'm in this staggered stance

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here or staggered arm position kind of

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like this. Okay. So that's now

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the shoulder blade movement that we're gonna add to

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that first version that we were doing with the lower body and

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instead of rotating this arm this way the

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lead arm. We're going to rotate the lead arm

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in the same direction as the trail arm.

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So that makes it a little bit harder to stabilize with

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the shoulder. So it's a little bit trickier for the core but

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it's more accurate and what's actually happening with the shoulders. So we've

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got the Stagger kind of like this and now we're going to

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rotate this side the trail

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arm retracted the lead

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Protracted and they both rotated to the right.

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So here we go.

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So this is the more advanced version

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of the pivot dance. And if

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I did this a number of times or really

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feel kind of this contraction all down this hole right side kind of

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the inside of the shoulder blade and through the obliques and

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I'll feel a stretch all the way through from the

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shoulder down to the hip depending on how

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far I rotate now. We're gonna try doing it in our golf

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Foster. This is where it gets a little bit more advanced. So split split

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arms left arm up right arm down.

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rotate

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just kind of like this and this now becomes what

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we're going to feel right there through transition.

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Kind of that movement there and you can see the rhythm of

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the lower body rotating as the arms are

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doing their thing rotating almost

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the opposite direction that's building up

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a bunch of slack or sorry a bunch of tension that

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I can then release down during the bottom

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of the swing.

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Combines a bunch of feelings like rotating my

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lower body leaving my

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arms behind keeping my back to the Target or

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don't spin the shoulders getting that trail

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arm wipe in front keeping that lead arm

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high. This combines a bunch of the really useful kind

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of feelings that you might have into one rhythmic

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movement that then we're gonna

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try to apply when we pick up a club.

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So let's

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just see if we can build a little bit more awareness of that

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movement in a little ten to two. So I'm

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going to try and feel this movement here.

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And now we're gonna go up to the top and we're

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gonna feel

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That movement smoothly as I'm starting down it'll

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feel maybe the the right arm is more in the left

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arm is more out the left shoulders more forward. The hips

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are more open. We got a lot of different feels we can play around with

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but one drill to keep dialing in those fields. So if

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you're working on your pivot and your sequencing, I highly recommend

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you add the pivot dance to your list of homework drills.