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This pivot drill is the shoulder blade backstroke.

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Um, so the shoulder blade backstroke is kind

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of an anti over the top anti steep shoulder movement.

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Now, many golfers who get over the top

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with the shoulder blades still come from the inside

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because of either slide or early extension.

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Um, so it may not necessarily be a big path issue as far

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as left right, but it could be a path issue in terms of,

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uh, low point control.

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Like you don't get a good enough flat spot,

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you don't get shuffling or things like that.

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So the classic version of getting steep

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with the shoulders is having

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that right shoulder blade get high

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and that left shoulder blade get low.

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So we're gonna work on trying to do the opposite.

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We're gonna start with a little bit of a,

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a tai chi or a homework drill.

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So I'm gonna have my arms out to the sides

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or out in front of me like this.

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And now I'm gonna do a backstroke

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where basically I'm gonna bring the shoulder up

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and then I'm gonna bring that right shoulder down

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and the left shoulder, um, up.

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So I'm gonna go back this way, kinda like this movement.

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So it's gonna feel like I'm doing

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a movement mostly with the shoulder blades.

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You'll see from below the belly button

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and the arms might be bending a little bit,

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but my goal is that the arms kind of stay straight

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and the shoulder blades are just doing a little

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backward bicycle move.

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Okay? Now when are we gonna fit that into the swing?

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When I make my back swing, I'm gonna go up to the top

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of the swing, and as I get to starting

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that transition is when I'm gonna feel like I'm doing

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that backward bicycle movement.

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Now, if I do that too much with my shoulders and my hip,

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or sorry, if I do that with my hips

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and my, my mid spine instead of my shoulder blades, then

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that's gonna get me pointing, uh, too shallow.

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That's gonna get me kind of coming in almost like this.

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So at the same time, I'm gonna try to do a little bit of

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that left side crunch and rotate.

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So if I have this down, kind of like this

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and I'm doing that movement there,

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but at the same time I am getting that left side down

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and uh, kind of covering the ball.

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So left side down

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and rotate to cover the ball,

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shoulders would be really steep.

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So I'd be doing that back stroke or the swim movement.

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So I'm gonna go up, this is similar to kind

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of doing the pivot dance

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or the scapular, um, kind of scapular alignment drill.

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So that'll often feel when I have the club on, if I go up

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to the top of my swing and I do that,

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that now gets me into this really good delivery position

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where the right arm is a little bit more, uh,

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tucked in the club inside like this,

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where if I did the opposite, if I got up here

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and swam the other way, then the club would be out there

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and that right shoulder would be high.

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That often is accompanied by the wheat grip

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and pulling in on the way through kinda the classic

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pull slice pattern where if we, if we can get this, um,

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shoulder blade, uh, swim move

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or backstroke move, then that's gonna tend to give us more

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of a extra shallow

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or a movement coming, um, from, uh, in like this

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that allows me to rotate my lower body, um,

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as a steepening movement, which helps get the, uh,

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the low point really long

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and flat out in front of the golf wall.

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So this can also feel kind of like the Zoro loops

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or, um, for some, this will even feel a little bit more

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of like a float loading type movement rather than a

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rapid pull down or,

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or, uh, the winning an arm,

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arm wrestling type slam movement.

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Okay, so let's do one more where we're gonna

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exaggerate that movement there.

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And now we're going to try

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and start that move as we're ending the backswing

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and going into transition.

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That gives us a nice long, flat, shallow

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good things related to, um, blending the lower body

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and the upper body without letting the shoulder blades get

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too steep.