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This drill is ballroom dance spine rotation.

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So we're going to use an exercise from a ballroom dance class that I took many

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years ago that

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will help us with our spine rotation at impact.

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We know that if we want to get into a really good tour level impact position

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that we have

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to have our spine somewhat rotated kind of like this in order to have the hips

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open but

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the shoulders closer to square and get the arms in a really good spot.

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If your upper body is facing the same direction as your lower body then either

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if both of

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them were open your right shoulder would be too high and you'd be way on top of

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it or

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everything would be facing the target and you might feel like the club is

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passing and

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you have a little bit too much flip or timing issues at the bottom.

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So we're just going to get used to moving with our spine in a little bit more

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closed

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position.

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So we can do this both directions but I highly recommend the backswing

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direction.

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So all I'm going to do is I'm going to turn my upper body and now while my

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upper body is

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turned I'm just going to walk, I would walk forward but I'm limited here on the

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camera

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so I'm going to kind of like walk forward, walk backward, a few steps forward,

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a few

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steps backward.

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I would probably go more like 10, 15 yards at a time.

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Now if I really want to crank this I can turn my lower body and I can try to

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bring my arms

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kind of in front as I'm walking.

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This is I'm getting used to this feeling of my core and my spine being twisted

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as my arms

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are releasing and as my body is moving.

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Now if I was to come into this position I can recreate that feel and now I can

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do it

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kind of rotationally.

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So here I'm moving my lower body forward backward, now I'm going to try to hold

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into

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this position and I'm trying to turn my hips and basically keep my shoulders or

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my spine

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kind of rotated to the right.

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A lot of people when they try to close off the shoulders the first time they

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will tend

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to kind of side bend more like this and that'll make you feel really off

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balance as you're

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walking.

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So one of the benefits of doing the walking is it tends to keep your weight

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more over

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the center of your feet.

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Now I get to this position I still want to keep that weight feeling like it's

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where my

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upper body is more over my lower body but my lower body is a little bit more

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forward

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and now what I'm going to do is at the end of this I'm just going to let those

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arms go

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and the letting of the arms go is going to bring me out of the rotation.

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If I did it this way what would happen is I get to this position and then I

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bring my

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arms in front and then once they get in front then I let it catch up.

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So I've turned it to the right once my arms get in front then I let my upper

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body go.

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That's the white movement or part of the white movement.

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So now I've got this feel of lower of the ballroom dancing where I'm holding it

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here

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and getting my lower body to lead I'm going to do this as a version of the

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pelvic punch.

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So I'm going to bring the club back pump that until I feel like there that's

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the same as

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that ballroom dancing.

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So I'm going to feel like I get my lower body to lead pump a couple times that

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's the ballroom

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dancing.

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Now I'm going to get here get to ballroom dance and then go.

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So I'm going to do one of my favorite sequence drills the pelvic punch but I'm

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going to build

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it off of this reference frame from this little ballroom dance move.

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So now I'm getting up to here I'm going to try to recreate that feel bring it

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back recreate

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and then go.

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And that will help you with getting the spine rotation and keeping it long

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enough keeping

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it all the way down to the bottom that'll really help with the consistency and

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quality

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of our low point.