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This video demonstrates how to use a simple rope setup to improve your bracing position and create a powerful, dynamic pivot. By focusing on body rotation rather than arm movement, you'll develop a stronger, more efficient swing. Perfect for golfers looking to enhance their core engagement and achieve better control through impact.
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This drill is rope pivot poles.
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Um, so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna use a rope
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to help, um, create a little bit of force to help us
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with our pivot,
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especially blending into a good bracing position.
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Um, so I've got a rope here, um,
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and it's just wrapped around a, an object that'll hold it.
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Uh, you can tie it around a sofa, um,
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or if you're doing it outside on the range.
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Um, the, the second option is you take an alignment
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stick and you put it in the ground.
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Now, I, I won't be able to pull as hard,
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but really the goal of this drill is not really to pull
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as hard as you can, um,
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but rather just to add a little bit of, of pull resistance,
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um, to help kind of, uh, channel what the direction
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that you're gonna be applying force
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to the club is gonna feel like.
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Um, so I'll move this and bring this kind in front of us.
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So the, the main focus here we're going to get
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so that we have some tension in it.
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So we're gonna get it so that it would be kind
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of on a rough angle of the shaft lane.
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Um, uh, and then what we're going to do is quite simply,
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we're going to pull one, one end of the rope like this,
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but I'm gonna try to do it without using my arms.
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So without bending my arms, keeping my arms pretty straight,
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I'm gonna feel like my right side opens up
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and my right shoulder, uh, pulls back
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as my left side goes down.
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And then this is the really important one.
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On the way through, I'm going
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to feel like my left side pulls outta the way.
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The left arm stays pretty straight
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and the right shoulder goes down.
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So in motion it'll kinda look more like this.
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And I can do it like a little bit more dynamically kind
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of feeling, almost like I'm getting a little bit explosive.
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But notice I'm doing it from the body.
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I'm not really pulling very hard with the arms.
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That's part of the goal of this drill is
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to feel like the arms are soft
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and just a continuation of this rope
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and that I'm rotating my body, um,
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on an angle down towards the golf
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wall, wall staying fairly centered.
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That kind of blends, um, the, the turns and tilt.
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And if I do it correctly, this will give me a feeling
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of using more of my, my core, um,
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and less of my shoulder girdles.
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So I really wanna make sure
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that I'm not spinning my upper body on top of my lower body,
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but rather my lower body
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and my bottom ribs, let's say from about chest down, um,
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is controlling this motion.
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So I'll use this in concert with a couple other pivot drills
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to help people feel, um,
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getting into a really good bracing position where I'm here.
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And then I would drop it and basically bring the arms out.
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This is where I want to be,
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where I've got a little bit of side crunch.
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So I'm, I'm in a certain kind of spine angle.
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My, my legs and my core have lifted,
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but my upper body has stayed down.
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Um, one question that frequently gets asked on the site is,
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how can I have my lower body going up
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and my upper body staying down?
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Um, that's, if I'm kind of blending things through my spine,
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uh, correctly, then I won't just be standing up, uh,
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with my upper body,
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although lift will be happening more from my
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core and my legs.
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So once I've done this a few times, then I've got a feeling
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that I can kinda work with.
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I'm gonna start with of course, nine to threes.
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And basically, actually, I might even just start
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with a push ball drill where I feel like, okay,
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there's my hands on the ropes.
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I'm going to basically do that motion
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where I'm gonna get into a good impact position,
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and now I'm just gonna feel like I use my body.
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And that felt like the club,
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the ball really stuck to the club.
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Um, 'cause I wasn't using my, my arms to do the push ball.
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I was doing more of my, my legs and my core.
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Um, but then I would progress it into nine to threes, up
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to 10 to two, and into full swings.
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The only trick is on a fuller swing,
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like you can see right here, I'm a little bit limited.
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I wouldn't make it all the way up to the top of the swing.
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I would run out of rope room.
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Um, so on a four swing, I have to have a, a little bit of a,
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of a loading or waiting.
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And then I would feel like the, the rope pull happens during
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that second half of the noun swing.
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Okay, so we got that timing in that feel.
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Now we're gonna see if we can Apply it in a swing.
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Pretty good like that. Um, so if you're struggling
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with either too much upper body dominance
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or too much lateral movement, um, too much up
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and down movement, this, uh, this pivot drill,
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using a rope can be really helpful
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for dialing in a little bit more dynamic center pivot.