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This concept video is rethinking the TPI

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torso rotation test.

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Um, so I, uh, just wanted to do this discussion for, uh,

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some of my coaches as well as some of my, my students

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who are kind of really into how the body moves, um,

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not just what the club's doing.

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Um, one of the, one of the default tests that, uh,

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TPI is used is the torso and the pelvis disassociation test.

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And, uh, for those of you who aren't familiar,

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um, you wouldn't use the sticks.

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I'm just doing that to kind

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of highlight and create a visual.

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Uh, but if I had club across my shoulders,

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club across my chest, um,

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or club across my shoulders, club across my hips,

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the first test would be the ability

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to rotate your lower body without moving your upper body.

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And then the second test would be the ability

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to rotate your upper body, uh,

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without moving your lower body.

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Um, and, uh, there's a number

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of different ways you could grade it

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and, and struggle with it.

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Uh, but what I demonstrated there was, was decent.

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I was able to move the lower body without moving the upper

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body and upper body without moving the lower body.

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Now, um, as I've really been digging more into the spine

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and the shoulder blade movement, um,

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it's got me rethinking the, the importance

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of especially the upper body, um,

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or the torso rotation component to that.

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Uh, so this movement here

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of rotating the torso is actually mostly

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rotating my scapula girdle or rotating my shoulder blades.

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And, um, it's one of my beliefs that that's one

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of the power sources that causes people

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to have a whole host of problems.

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Um, if I get up to the top of my swing

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and my upper body overtakes my lower body too quickly in the

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downswing or my shoulder blade, um, tends to go up

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and forward kind of like this.

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Um, as opposed to getting up to the top of the swing

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and rotating more from the lower body,

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keeping the shoulders kind of back and using my spine

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and my core to bring my upper body into position there,

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I still have a little bit of, um, closure compared

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to my shoulders, to my hips, even if my spine is back

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to a fairly, uh,

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or my lower spine is back to a fairly neutral spot.

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So as I'm rethinking it, um,

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I think a better test would be kind

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of looking at an ascending level of rotation.

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So I'm okay with the first part where we're gonna try

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to move our lower body without moving our upper body,

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but then now I'm gonna try to move that higher up

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and I'm going to try

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and rotate my chest

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without moving my shoulders

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and my hips are gonna move with my chest.

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Um, but you can see this is very different than that

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and it's slightly different than this.

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I'm trying to move higher up in my spine

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and that takes a lot more, um, kind of rib movement

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and shoulder blade disassociation and, um, core activity.

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Uh, so I think that that's a little bit more valuable

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'cause that relates closer to what we're trying to do, uh,

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with the spine and the golf swing.

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Um, so as we get up towards our top of the swing, we want

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to really disassociate the lower body

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and the core, um, while using the, the shoulder blades

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to help get the arms more in front, kind

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of into a delivery position.

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More like this where I'm spring road loaded

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and ready to go into more of this, um, negative torsion

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or extension combined with, uh, uh, rotation

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and side bend as I'm going through.

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That's kind of the hallmark of the pivot, uh,

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that I think really differentiates.

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Um, the, the elite level golf swings from

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the amateur golf swing.

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The classic amateur golf swing is a little bit more of hit

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with the shoulders kind of on top in a steep way.

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And the classic, uh,

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tour model would be more using the lower body and core

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and kind of letting the shoulder blades lag behind.

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So if you've, uh, if you're doing the exercises

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or if you've gone through these tests

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and you think it's a great sign

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that you can move your shoulder blades independently,

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but you're struggling with your lower body, um,

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that actually might be more of a warning sign.

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And you should really work on getting your rib cage,

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especially from about, uh, T six

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or like the shoulder blade level down, really getting, uh,

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control of that area of the spine.

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That's where the engine is

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and that's what separates elite level spine movement from

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amateur level spine movement.