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This drill is pivot wall slides.

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Um, so I would consider pivot wall slides

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to be an excellent at home kind of tai chi style pivot drill

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for working on blending the centerness of pivots

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with pressure shift, uh, blending rotation with side bend.

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Um, and all you need is, uh,

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either some washcloths right here.

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I have some, uh, furniture sliders.

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You could all u also use frisbees,

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or you could even just do it with your wall

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or, uh, with your hands kind of tracing the wall.

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Um, so you'll see it has some similarities, some dr

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to some drills, but I think

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that the sliding mechanism kind of adds a little bit to it.

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So basically what we're gonna do,

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and you'll be able to see from this behind the view, um,

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is I'm going to put my hands up against these sliders.

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And you can see there's not a lot of friction,

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so they can slide pretty easily.

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Now, I don't wanna be leaning into the wall.

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I want to get into a, a good setup posture

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where if I pulled my hands off the wall,

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I wouldn't really fall or I wouldn't change my,

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uh, weight distribution.

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So I'm in this position here,

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and then basically what I'm gonna do is I'm going

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to make a pivot type movement,

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and my hands are going to rotate on the wall.

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So I've got it right here.

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Uh, so for a backswing, I'm going

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to bring my left shoulder down and my right shoulder up,

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and I'm going to rotate my pelvis

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and bring that right arm up and the left arm down.

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And then when I go into the follow through direction

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or through the downswing, I'm going

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to do the opposite right shoulder down, left shoulder up.

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And you'll see from this kind

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of down the line camera angle over there

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that it just looks like I'm rotating my body

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with my shoulders in a good tilt.

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Next, I could kind of have my arms just follow

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and f see if I can feel that same action.

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I often do this at the same time,

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or I'll do this in a little circuit

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with the doorway slaps where I'm coming here.

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Now from this, uh, back camera view, um,

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I want you to notice a couple things.

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One, when I do this, when I do this rotation, um,

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oftentimes I'll, I'll see a, a really obvious kind

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of lateral slide where there's not a whole lot

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of, um, rotation.

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It's more of a bump where it's slide of the hips.

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So, or, um, sometimes I'll see the upper body kind

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of translating like this.

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So make sure that your upper body kind of stays in line

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with your lower body and your belt is turning more level

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and your upper body is turning more on kind

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of a tilted angle or more of a vertical tilt like this.

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So this gives me a really good blend of this, uh,

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rotation side bend extension.

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And then I can add, like I did there,

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little freezes or pauses.

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So this would be kind of getting me into this follow

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through position right before I let go

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where this would be getting me all the way up to the top

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of the swing, kinda like that.

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Um, so, uh, this is one

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of my favorite just global pivot drills.

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Um, I think doorway slaps kind of adds a little bit more

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of a, of a speed component to it, where this one I do

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as more of a slow tai chi movement,

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and it really emphasizes the stretch on the,

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on the upper side, um, and the contraction of the obliques

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and the ribs on the, uh, ball side.

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So you'll feel a really big lat stretch, really big stretch

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of the kind of restriction muscles, um,

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for making a good pivot,

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which blends this rotation in side bend.

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So I highly recommend that for a lot

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of different pivot drills.

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Um, but especially for golfers who tend to fall into

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flat shoulder plane or early extension

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or, uh, upper body sway

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or lower body slide, it,

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it really helps emphasize the staying centered, um,

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but also blending this turning and tilting.

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So try that at home to help improve the quality

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of your pivot.