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This drill is the crossbody uppercut.

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So the crossbody uppercut is a great pivot drill.

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It's one of my current favorites for tying together a handful of key concepts.

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So there's sometimes where you're going to have to really isolate something

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like what's

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going on at the foot or what's going on at the hips or the spine or the arms.

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The crossbody uppercut is kind of a pivot drill that blends together a bunch of

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the key body

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pivot downswing parts.

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So we're going to focus on getting into a really firm bracing or a firm left

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foot.

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We're going to focus on getting that weight shift going forward, but we're also

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going

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to focus on using our obliques and going into some really good spine movement

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or getting

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your shoulders to turn on a really good tilt.

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So it's a really simple drill on paper, just kind of take some practice for

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blending it

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into a swing movement.

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So for the crossbody uppercut, I'm going to get in my golf posture and I'm

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going to

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imagine that there's a punching bag kind of vertically right here.

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So I've got a little platform here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to

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rotate around

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my body and I'm going to be delivering an uppercut across my body as if the

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punching

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bag was right there.

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So what you'll see is intuitively or naturally to do this, I'm going to be

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shifting into

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that front foot.

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So I'm getting my pelvis over that front side, but I'm not keeping my upper

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body flexed forward.

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I'm rotating it and going into extension.

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So when I finish into this kind of full body finish, my chest is pointing up

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and my back

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or my spine is in a little bit of extension just like this, but I'm forward.

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Oftentimes what will happen is golfers working on getting onto this front foot

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will tend to

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kind of stay forward or do too much of an upper body lunge.

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Some golfers working on getting into extension will kind of hang back and do

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movements like

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this.

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So the crossbody uppercut, if you were to take your arms out of it, gives you a

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really good

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feel of what your body should be doing.

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Once I've done a few where I'm feeling like that arm is involved, the big

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problem here

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is that's not really what the shoulders are going to be doing.

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So the next step to that drill is I'm going to put the arms across my body like

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this and

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I'm going to feel like I do that same movement.

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Now when I do it this way, I'm going to be able to feel like the shoulder works

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more

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in front instead of kind of coming around and driving the movement.

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So this is much more of a body driven movement rather than a shoulder movement

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as if I was

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throwing the punch.

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Although a good punch would be driven more from the body, but you'll see what I

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mean

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when you try it.

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So then the next step is adding the club.

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So now I'm going to do this little crossbody feel and then I'm going to put my

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arms out

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just above kind of a nine to three.

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So you'll see that they're still out in front of my chest.

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My chest is pointing upward.

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Second common issue with golfers who tend to have more of kind of a stall flip

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or chicken

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wing is that the chest stays pointing down too long.

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And so the arms have to pass the chest in order to go up and when they pass the

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chest,

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that arm is going to tend to bend.

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So if I do this uppercut feel, my chest is pointing more up towards the sky,

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but I feel

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my abs and my glutes supporting me.

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So I'm not kind of hyper extending my back.

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I'm in this good position trying to get there.

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So then I'm going to do some more nine to threes, ten to twos or kind of easy

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swings

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feeling like I get into that position.

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And then I can take it off.

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I'm a little bit behind right about there would have been, let's say, perfect.

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The other thing that this can be really good for comboing is if I tend to have

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a big upper

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body shift off the ball, this can help me feel like I can shallow it out while

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staying

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more on top of the golf ball.

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So one of the classic patterns for golfers who don't get a whole lot of

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extension on

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either side is they stay flexed and therefore the upper body tends to rotate or

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the lower

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body has to accommodate that upper body staying bent over.

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So what will often happen is golfers who don't have a whole lot of this

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extension on the

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way through, they're going to have more of an upper body drift when they come

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through.

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People they'll tend to have a little bit more of an upper body sway kind of

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like that.

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So that would be more like throwing a hook rather than an upper cut.

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So to feel this upper cut feel, I can exaggerate feeling like my upper body

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stays more on top

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of it or feel like I get a little bit more of that left side crunch.

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So you're mostly going to be using this in 93 10 to 2's where you can stop and

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check

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that finished position.

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So that was a little bit more back than I would want.

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Let's see if we can get one really good one where I feel like I let those arms

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lag just

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a little bit more kind of like that.

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That was a pretty good body feel there.

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So like I said, this is one of my favorites for kind of blending the rotational

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movement

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of the body with the movement of the spine, the only thing you have to then add

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is the

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arms.

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This is a great way to blend your overall pivot during the release.